Summary
In 2022, the Mississippi Reading Roadmap partnered with the Leland School Districtto provide an extended learning day program at Edna M. Scott for readers experiencing COVID-related learning loss. At the beginning of each school year, Leland tests all students using the i-Ready assessment. Those students who demonstrated the greatest learning loss based upon the assessment were recruited for the program. A total of seventy-five students, grades first through fourth, enrolled in the program. Students attended, on average, 77% of the available program days during both the fall and spring semester.
At the conclusion of the school year, the Leland District again tested children with i-Ready assessment. According to school testing, forty-one percent (41%) of the Reading Roadmap participants that initially tested in Tier 3—or significantly behind in reading—moved out of that Tier 3 by the end of the school year. Among third graders, seventy-eight (78%) percent fewer students tested in Tier 3 by the end of the school year.