'Academy' helping close performance gap: Dixon
An "intervention tool" implemented in Carmi-White County schools during the school year just ended has shown promising results, the Unit Five school board was told Monday night.
Dr. Amy Dixon, principal at Jefferson Attendance Center and the district's director of instruction, brought the board up to date on AutoSkills Academy of Reading & Math, which the district bought last summer and put into effect, after teacher training, in most of the district's buildings this school year.
"The program is computer-based and provides individualized instruction in reading and math," she said, calling it "easy to use" and asserting that it has strengthened the district's intervention to help struggling students.
Teachers have been receptive, some teacher training has been done and more is planned, she added.
"The most important part of the program is the teacher intervention component," Dixon told the board. "Teachers monitor student work via a computer screen. When a student is struggling with a skill, the teacher intervenes and provides a mini-lesson to help the student grasp the new concept. The student then progresses through the program."
The results so far have been impressive, Dixon said, and she provided board members with a statistical analysis that showed that many of the students who used "Academy" significantly closed the performance gap in math and reading that had divided them from other students.
The program will be offered to more students in the year ahead, she said, adding that it has shown to be valuable in teaching students for whom English is not a primary language (and there are often six to 12 of those each school year).
The program has been used at Jefferson, Crossville, the middle school and the high school.
"We're super excited about the gains we're seeing," Dixon told the board.
Dr. Keith Talley, the unit superintendent, was also enthusiastic about the program, which until recently has been used primarily by large districts.
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