Category: High School Learners (9-12)

Years of Academic Failure Reversed for Troubled High School Student

The Reading Challenge: A troubled teen had fallen through the cracks in learning to read. Darcell’s Story: When six-foot-four, 220-pound Darcell first entered the doors of the Carpe Diem Northwest Innovative School in Indianapolis, IN, he brought along with him an impressive record of arrests for battery, robbery, break-ins, and gang activities – not unusual […]

High School Learners (9-12) Testimonials

Middle and High School “Critical” Readers Succeed on MVRC

From Carrie O’Donnell Students from our inner city school come to us missing a lot of reading skills. I see approximately 49 percent of our sixth through eleventh grade students. If students are at 190 or below in their Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) scores, they automatically come to me. These are the lowest reading students […]

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Students Achieve Outstanding Reading Gains Using MVRC – An Interview with Brandie Genske, Program Support Teacher, Bonduel School District

“About 20 percent of our student population needs academic intervention,” stated Brandie Genske, a Program Support Teacher for the Bonduel School District in Bonduel, WI. “Using the Response to Intervention Approach (RTI), we have over 100 students in tier 2 and tier 3. Last year, our tier 3 students gained 6 to 40 points of […]

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