Dramatic Student Growth Follows Focus on Data, Small-Group Tutoring, and Collaboration

Principal April Shackleford, back right, reviews student reading data with her third-grade teaching team.

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Lucama Elementary, a rural, Title I school in Wilson County, North Carolina, implemented several Opportunity Culture® roles in 2021–22. Following a focus on data-driven, small-group tutoring, instruction based on the science of reading, and greater educator collaboration through Multi-Classroom Leader® teams, the school dramatically increased student learning growth. Principal April Shackleford and Lucama educators explain their success, and why it led them in 2022 to expand to schoolwide Opportunity Culture® roles.

Dramatic Student Growth Follows Focus on Data, Small-Group Tutoring, and Collaboration

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