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Reading Recovery Early Literacy Intervention Program
Reading Recovery is a preventative early literacy intervention program designed to provide a second chance to first grade children who are at risk of failing to learn to read. Developed in the 1970s and used internationally since then, Reading Recovery is supported by an extensive research base and a history of success.
Reading Recovery in Western Massachusetts
The Collaborative for Educational Services oversees three Reading Recovery Teacher Training Sites in western Massachusetts. The sites are located in Northampton, West Springfield, and Dalton, Massachusetts, and serve educators in western Massachusetts, southern Vermont, and Connecticut. Teachers who are trained in Reading Recovery commit to an intensive training program, beginning with an initial one week session in August and continuing with weekly meetings throughout the year for in-training teachers, and monthly meetings for trained teachers. School principals and superintendents agree to support the training process through allocation of time and other necessary resources.
Schools in the following districts implement Reading Recovery as a Tier 2 intervention:
Agawam, Amherst, Central Berkshire, Conway, Deerfield, Easthampton, Ludlow, Palmer, Pioneer Valley RSD, Richmond, South Hadley, Southwick-Tolland, Sunderland, Supervisory Union 38, West Springfield, Westhampton, Westfield, Whately, and Williamsburg.
To discuss your school or district’s needs, contact:
Cecelia Buckley
Director of Professional Services
413.586.4990 x137
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To learn more about this program:
Reading Recovery Council of North America
U.S. Department of Education
Documents
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READING RECOVERY NEWS:
May 10, 2011
Bridging the Literacy Gap by Jenn Smith
Story on: Reading Recovery early literacy intervention program in Berkshire County schools, includes comments from Collaborative literacy consultant Laurel Dickey.
Berkshire Eagle
November 30, 2010
Federal Innovations Grant aims to help struggling readers through
expanded Reading Recovery training for teachers
NORTHAMPTON. The Collaborative for Educational Services (formerly Hampshire Educational Collaborative) is one of the approved sites for the implementation of a $54.7 million Investing in Innovations grant, for “Reading Recovery – Scaling Up What Works.” The grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to Ohio State University and fifteen other institutions in 40 states to help half a million struggling students and their schools close the achievement gap over the next five years. Four million dollars of the five-year project will be used in Massachusetts and the Collaborative will be partnering with Lesley University, located in Cambridge, to help implement the initiative in western Massachusetts.
Reading Recovery trains teachers to work one-on-one with first grade children who are having serious difficulty learning to read and write. The program provides intensive instruction to teachers in tutoring struggling readers over a series of one-on-one sessions in order to bring them up to grade level reading ability. Reading Recovery has been extensively evaluated in several states and results not only show dramatic gains in the reading level of participating children but that their literacy gains continue over time. This is critical to long-term school success and to a child’s resiliency.
The Collaborative has been a professional development provider for Reading Recovery for the past 17 years and is currently supporting fifty Reading Recovery teachers and training four more. Western Massachusetts districts currently participating in Reading Recovery include: Agawam, Amherst, Central Berkshire, Deerfield, Easthampton, Hatfield, Ludlow, Mohawk Trail, Palmer, Pioneer Valley RSD, Richmond, South Hadley, Southampton, Westhampton, Southwick, Tolland, Supervisory Union 38, West Springfield, Westhampton, Westfield, and Williamsburg.
“We are very excited about this new opportunity to expand our Reading Recovery program and train additional teachers over the next three years. We will be able to continue to benefit hundreds of our lowest achieving and most vulnerable children in western Massachusetts,” says Cecelia Buckley, Coordinator of the Reading Recovery Training Site at the Collaborative. Schools participating in the project will receive full funding for teacher training, materials and additional supports necessary to implement the program
Warwick educator advocates innovative reading program by Barbara Polichetti
Story on: Robert Bushell, Director of Elementary Education, and 'impressive' results of Reading Recovery
The Providence Journal
National Reading Recovery Teacher Leader Award
NORTHAMPTON. Cecelia Buckley, Director of Professional Development, Hampshire Educational Collaborative (HEC) and a resident of Northampton, MA, is the recipient of a national Reading Recovery Teacher Leader Award, given by the 2009 Teacher Leader Institute and North American Leadership Academy. The award, which was presented in Washington D.C. at ceremonies held on June 12, 2009, recognizes people who are committed to expanding Reading Recovery and maintaining its high standards and those who have had a positive impact on the implementation and success of Reading Recovery.
Reading Recovery is a research based program that orginated in New Zealand and started in the U.S. in 1984. The program’s goal is to dramatically reduce the number of first graders who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write and to reduce the costs of these learners to schools. It provides short-term one-to-one tutoring for low achieving first graders and is used as a supplement to good classroom teaching.
The Collaborative is the western Massachusetts regional provider of training to Reading Recovery Teachers, and has trained over 200 educators since training its first teacher leader in 1993. As the director of the agency's Professional Development Program, Buckley has championed the program for over 18 years. Joan Schuman, Executive Director of the Collaborative, noted that, “Cecelia Buckley has worked tirelessly to inform schools of the value of Reading Recovery and to create the path that led to the training of over 200 teachers who, in turn have helped first graders learn to read in Western Massachusetts. We are so proud of her accomplishment on behalf of the schools, teachers and students in the entire region.”
For more information about Reading Recovery:
www.readingrecovery.org
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