From Dr. Cohen's post: Elementary teachers all across the district will soon be conducting early literacy universal screening for students in grades K-3, and communicating the results with parents. Although MURSD has been using the same universal screener for years, new regulations from DESE require that, similar to vision screening, each young student participate in this screening to assist in the detection of possible reading difficulties. Universal screening will only be conducted by elementary educators, but it impacts everyone who has or supports early readers. Leah Hagen and Brianna Zalusky presented at the last School Committee meeting and their presentation which includes DESE resources can be accessed here. Last week, Maria and Brianna came to many of your grade level team meetings to talk about the early literacy screenings. Sorry 3rd grade...I wasn't able to get to meet with you on Thursday. But Maria and Brianna can update you. While DESE's new guidelines went into effect this summer, the good news is we were already doing a lot of what the guidelines suggest. We will continue to use DIBELs and will begin those assessments in the next few weeks. Brianna has offered to give some tutorials on administering the DIBELs. While tutors will also be available to administer the DIBELs, it's important for teachers to have an understanding of this screening tool and to know what it is telling you about your readers. Especially because a change that is coming from the guidelines is that every parent will be notified as to the results of their child's early literacy screening. We will be talking more about what those conversations look like with parents and supporting you to have those discussions either during parent conferences or over the phone. A big thank you to Brianna, Maria, and Leah for the work they did this summer organizing resources and planning! They will be our go to people for all things early literacy screening. I have had a hard time focusing on anything at the moment, so I haven't really been able to read. But a good friend shared this quote with me from an author that I love. And reading it has been helping me.
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