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Wolfpack grant brings strategies
BY AMANDA BUNCH
Bertie County Schools
WINDSOR - A total of
eight K-2 teachers in
Bertie County Schools
are benefiting from the
advantage of having
intensive support from
BCS Literacy Interven
tionist Robin Ventura
and Literacy Coach
Leah Dias, through a
unique partnership be
tween North Carolina
State University and the
K-3 Literacy Division of
the North Carolina De
partment of Public In
struction.
“Wolfpack WORKS”
stands for “Ways to Op
timize Reading/Writing
for Kids Statewide.” As
the name of the grant
suggests, Ventura and
Dias visit schools to
provide regular profes
sional development for
teachers, to model les
sons, and provide re
sources such as “book
boxes” and guided
reading level books so
together, teachers and
struggling readers can
dig into existing data to
individualize instruc
tion, based on each
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Robin Ventura
child’s needs.
This all translates
into applicable strate
gies that often take the
form of games, activi
ties and other tangible
tools for K-2 beginning
teachers to use in the
classroom.
“Many teachers these
days blame the kids or
parents when students
do not achieve,” said
Ventura. “My job is to
help every teacher re
alize and to show them
that it is entirely in their
capacity to make chang
es and help every child
progress... The small
est of successes show
the teacher that he/she
can effect change.”
To that end, Ventura
said further that her
favorite quote is: “Suc
cess is like a vitamin
we have to have it (ex
perience) it in order to
grow (have more suc
cesses).”
Ventura, having
worked extensively
with our K-2 teachers
and students, she has
seen a number of those
successes.
Since she joined the
staff as a contracted
employee in January,
all books in every K-2
classroom are now
leveled; she and Diaz
covered the first grade
classes at one school
so the teachers could
participate in profes
sional development at
Aulander Elementary
ScTiool; there is more
small group instruc
tion, centered upon
data; and students are
performing better as
the teachers become
more responsive to
their specific needs.
“We progress monitor
with Reading 3-D,” said
Ventura. “One specific
example of success
is an autistic student
who was non-verbal
and could only identify
eight beginning sounds
when I first came. Well,
that student can now
identify 23 (sounds).”
“The whole point,
though, is for the teach
ers to learn the ways to
bring about these small
successes AS beginning
teachers,” she said ,
“so the will continue to
teach and to grow.”
BertieCounty Schools
are fortunate enough
to have been able to
expand the services
through the grant, so
that EC teachers, and
even some principals,
have benefited from
the professional devel
opment that has been
provided.
Through the Wolfpack
WORKS partnership,
our beginning teachers
in K-2 have been sup
plemented with:
1. Blended profes
sional development via
in-person workshops
and online modules,
focused on evidence-
based early literacy
classroom instruction.
2. Literacy-specific
coaching with expe
rienced early literacy
teachers (both in-per-
son and online).
3. Resources to
implement effective
classroom literacy in
struction, including
one or more LEA-based
interventionists to sup
port the teachers in the
classroom and with in
structional tools.
North Carolina State
University is the chief
investigator, and all
relevant data collect
ed from the Wolfpack
WORKS program in
Bertie will be shared
with the university for
research and evalua
tion purposes.
This one-year grant
will technically end on
June 30.
However, Ventura
stated that efforts are
in the works to reautho
rize the grant so that it
may be sustained for
three additional years.
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