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Humble Independent School District
Texas
Humble Independent School District recently celebrated 15
years of successful Reading Recovery implementation.
Humble ISD, encompassing nearly 100 square miles of land in
northeast Harris County, TX, is listed among the 25 fastest growing
school districts in Texas. Serving the communities of Humble,
Kingwood, and Atascocita, Humble ISD began over 100 years ago as a
one-room schoolhouse with 12 students, a teacher, and a 4-month
school term. Today with 35 schools, more than 33,000 students, and
over 2,300 teachers, Humble ISD is nationally recognized for the
outstanding education it offers to students.
Recognizing Reading Recovery’s solid research base, Humble ISD
trained its first teacher leader during the 1993-1994 school year
through Texas Woman’s University. Since that time, almost 70 Reading
Recovery teachers, 3 DLL teachers, and 6 teacher leaders on 13
campuses have served over 2,000 children of Humble ISD. Jean Ann
West, current teacher leader, trained at TWU during the 2005-2006
school year. Joni McEvoy, current site coordinator, also is Reading
Recovery trained.
McEvoy attributes Humble’s approach to literacy instruction to
key understandings gained from Reading Recovery research, stressing
that Reading Recovery is the cornerstone of Humble ISD's
comprehensive literacy intervention model. The intervention model is
based upon beliefs that interventions must
- include a systems approach vs. a program approach,
- be layered throughout a student’s instructional day,
- ensure that classroom instruction and intervention are
complementary,
- be designed to intervene early or at the first sign of
difficulty,
- Identify two system interventions – the intervention may
occur at the student level and/or at the teacher level, and
- provide strong administrative and teacher support so that
internal capacity is built and sustained over time.
Not only has Reading Recovery impacted Humble’s literacy
intervention model, but classroom instruction has greatly benefitted
as well. Humble ISD utilizes a balanced approach to literacy
instruction based on belief in an active, text-rich, supportive
literacy classroom.
To learn more about Reading Recovery and DLL in Humble ISD, please
visit Humble ISD's website.
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