BROOKINGS (11-12-26) — Starting next year, the Brookings School District and the Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains will be collaborating on a literacy and dyslexia education program.
The idea is for everyone who interacts with students to be working from the same playbook when it comes to literacy teaching methods.
Superintendent Summer Schultz said the program is called Same Page… “An anonymous donor, along with additional funding from the Northern Plains — Boys & Girls Club of the Northern Plains — we have had a $50 thousand total investment into this program that allows us to build these modules, and the modules are just brief instructional modules on reading and reading instruction, and how to work with students who might be struggling.”
She said not everyone who works with kids has formal training in teaching kids to read… “We have certified staff members who are trained in literacy and instruction, but we also know that our learners, they encounter adults all day — and even family members — that aren’t trained in the instruction of reading, and this gets to the heart of all of those other individuals.”
Schultz said this will help everyone learn how to better help kids learn to read… “Those individuals will be able to go through these trainings and modules — and our substitute teachers, our paraprofessionals, our IAs, potentially those coaches who work with students. And we’re asking them to read things — but reading is hard, maybe, for some of those students — it allows them to have some basic understandings of how to assist.”
The program officially kicks off in January at both the Boys & Girls Club and the Brookings School District.
— Brookings Radio News
