S P R I N G
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Texas Woman’s University Reading Recovery
Reading Recovery: Scaling Up What Works
i3
Recruitment for
Year 3 Underway
Teachers in Training
Successfully Completing Year 2
Even with budgetary challenges in many school districts,
TWU was able to exceed our goal of training 50-80
teachers in the 2011-2012 school year, with a final total of
99 teachers currently completing their second semester of
training! Combined with the Year 1 total, TWU has
reached 47% of its 5-year goal!
Additionally, TWU is currently training three teacher
leaders under the provisions of the grant! These
additional teacher leaders will play an integral role in
scaling up the implementation of Reading Recovery.
Important Dates
June 15, 2012
Deadline for
signed
Memorandum
of Agreements
for 2012-2013
to be filed.
June-July
Registration of
participants
underway
August
Training begins
with Assessment
Instruction
A preliminary count of interested
districts indicates that year 3 will be
another successful year of meeting or
exceeding the training goal of 50
students!
Districts who participated in 20112012 and have indicated they will
have a class in 2012-2013:
 Dallas I.S.D.
 Deer Park I.S.D.
 Dumas I.S.D.
 Eagle Mountain-Saginaw I.S.D.
 Fort Bend I.S.D.
 Lewisville I.S.D.
 Northwest I.S.D.
Districts interested in hosting and/or
participating in a class:
 Boerne I.S.D.
 Broken Arrow (OK) P.S.
 Cedar Hill I.S.D.
 Corpus Christi I.S.D.
 Corsicana I.S.D.
 Crandall I.S.D.
 Fort Worth I.S.D.
 Gainesville I.S.D.
 Judson I.S.D.
 North Lamar I.S.D.
 Pasco (WA) S.D.
 Rio Rancho (NM)
 Temple I.S.D.
 Union (OK) P.S.
Research Projects
Underway
Three research projects have been approved to support the i3
Grant:
Good News about
Funding Partners
The following groups/individuals
provided matching funds for the grant
for this year:
o Dollar General Literacy
Foundation
o Verizon Foundation
o W P & Bulah Luse Foundation
o Former Reading Recovery
teachers
o TWU Reading Department
Faculty and Staff
Representatives from the Long
Foundation will be visiting the Denton
campus in April as part of the final
review/approval for funding.
The Office of Institutional
Development is continuing to actively
pursue additional donor support.
 Reading Recovery Teacher Learning: Blended
Environments – The study of training for new
Reading Recovery teachers through a blend of faceto-face and online delivery methods. The study will
include applicable teachers participating from year 2
through year 5.
 Shared Classroom Implementation – Analysis of the
effectiveness of teaching in a shared classroom
implementation versus other implementations.
 Descubriendo la Lectura – Extending the research
methodology utilized for Reading Recovery grant
participants to include the study of Descubriendo la
Lectura participants and sites.
These projects are being supported with research funds
provided through the Indirect Costs allocation.
Recruitment Activities
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January 20, 2012 - Awareness meeting on TWU
Denton Campus – attended by representatives from
five districts in the DFW area.
February 27 – Awareness meeting in White Oak ISD
– attended by representatives from 2 districts in the
East Texas area.
March 1 – Awareness session with Teacher Leaders
March 15 – Awareness meeting at National-Lewis to
inquire about potential DLL sites
March 26 – Planning meeting with Dallas I.S.D.
April 2 – Grant flyers distributed at Coalition of
Reading and English Supervisors of Texas
(C.R.E.S.T.) Spring Conference in Austin.
April 12 – Visited Temple I.S.D. to plan future
training under the grant.
April 16-18 – Visited Fort Bend I.S.D. to plan future
training under the grant.
A detailed 3-year training and implementation plan
was provided to Fort Worth I.S.D. utilizing the
grant.