Dillingham City School District awarded $3.4 million literacy grant to boost reading skills

The grant, “Innovative Techniques to Literacy” will be unfold out over five many years and made use of to fund a job that the district phone calls “LINKED.” That stands for Literacy Innovation for Community Kids’ Education Development.

The grant, “Innovative Approaches to Literacy” will be distribute out more than five a long time and made use of to fund a challenge that the district phone calls “LINKED.” That stands for Literacy Innovation for Community Kids’ Instruction Enhancement.

Superintendent Jason Johnson laid out quite a few objectives and actions in email messages to KDLG that incorporated a PowerPoint for the challenge.

In a statement, he wrote “The Linked undertaking will enable the district to expand upon our greatest educational precedence in education, by partaking with parents, guardians and the group, to substantially raise district and metropolis library companies for our students.”

Johnson did not answer instantly when asked to interview. 

Some of these functions incorporate a month-to-month e-book distribution support, household examining nights, an after school electronic literacy software and incentivized looking through applications like the “Million Phrase Club” and the “Wolvereading Obstacle.”

Other initiatives would contain a mother and father as educators’ literacy software via the Bureau of Indian Training. The district will make “multi-tiered” reading interventions for college students with distinctive discovering requires. And by 2026, it will apply a complete district literacy strategy for the two Dillingham Elementary and the Middle-Significant School. 

The grant also gives funding for experienced growth for personnel by way of Achieve Schooling Consulting, a group of educational consultants that function in the course of rural Alaska the district operates with Get to for reaction to intervention coaching, and Looking at is Essential, a non-income children’s literacy organization. 

In the assertion, Johnson wrote, “…as properly as by enabling the district to add staffing committed specifically to literacy progression without placing added burdens on our instructional staff. In brief, it is actually a get-earn for our college students!”

A few new positions will be created making use of funds from the grant. Two literacy specialists will carry out the

proposed things to do and applications, although a literacy coach will guidance implementation of the project. Johnson explained in an e mail that recent personnel will be inspired to use for these positions after they are obtainable. Assistant Superintendent Vincent Kane will provide as the venture director.

The administration ideas to discuss about the undertaking with the faculty board at a function session on Monday, Oct 18. It expects to get started utilizing the grant this faculty 12 months. 

The district labored regionally with the Curyung Tribal Council, the City of Dillingham and the Dillingham General public Library to safe the grant. The district also partnered with the Alaska Section of Training, Attain Schooling Consulting and Reading is Essential.

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