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District 15 Receives National Reading Award
Community Consolidated School District 15 has won a 2003 “Leadership for Learning Award” from the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). The national award, the top entry in the ‘suburban’ school district category, showcased the district’s reading intervention/acceleration program. The Leadership for Learning Awards program, now in its 21st year, honors programs in education that increase student achievement and enhance learning.
The award will be presented to Superintendent John G. Conyers at the AASA Annual Conference & Exposition in late February. The award carries a cash stipend of $4,000 to the school district in support of continued efforts to improve academic opportunities for students as well as a Steuben glass sculpture recognizing the achievement.
“We are delighted to accept this award on behalf of our students across the district,” Dr. Conyers said. “We believe strongly that reading is critical to all other academic achievement, and we have worked hard to ensure that our program responds to the needs of all our students. While our results clearly show that we are achieving our objective, it is also gratifying to have our reading intervention program acknowledged by other school administrators as one of the top programs in the nation.”
District 15’s entry highlighted the documented success of its districtwide reading intervention program which has helped accelerate reading skills in low-achieving kindergarten through sixth-grade students. The intensive, grade-level specific program has a number of components: KIP (Kindergarten Intervention Program) and FLIP (First-Grade Literacy Intervention Program), both of which are also offered in Spanish; SAIL (Second-Grade Acceleration in Literacy); and “Soar to Success,” a reading comprehension program for qualified students in third through sixth grades. All these programs are integrated into the overall curriculum to support learning in every aspect of instruction.
Leadership for Learning Awards were given in three categories: urban, rural, and suburban school districts. The top entries were selected by validation panels appointed by AASA and finalists were chosen by a jury of AASA members appointed by the organization’s president.
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