Idaho educators set students up for success
Gramer
Sometimes you hear that Idaho’s educators are “failing” our students, but don’t believe it. You can look across Idaho and see educators who are working hard and smartly every day to set students up for success in school, work, and life. These are not the “industrial style” schools that critics so often describe to hurt our public schools.
Two school districts where educators are knocking it out of the park are more than 400 miles apart but aligned in the way they are intelligently teaching kindergarten students how to read.
A new case study by the State Board of Education shows that Central Canyon Elementary in the Vallivue School District, which has 54 percent low-income students, and Greensferry Elementary in the Post Falls School District, where one out of every four students are low income, have devised effective strategies in transitioning from part-day to full-day kindergarten. Those strategies are resulting in significant reading improvements among students.
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