El Centro, CA, October 25, 2011- Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, a leader in literacy instruction, played a critical role in helping El Centro Elementary School District fourth graders, to significantly improve student achievement. Seventy-three percent of the fourth grade students who received Lindamood-Bell® instruction in decoding, comprehension, or both, increased at least one proficiency category on their 2011 California Standards Test (CST). These fourth graders also improved on other assessments, including receptive vocabulary, where the average student gained 4.8 standard score points.
In 2010, only 33 percent of these students scored proficient or advanced on the CST. In 2011, that number increased to 61 percent. The data were collected from those fourth grade students throughout the district whose 2010 and 2011 CST scores were available and who received Lindamood-Bell® instruction during the 2010-2011 school year. “Lindamood-Bell has been instrumental in the development of our Response to Intervention (RtI) model, especially in Tiers 2 and 3, and has helped us make significant improvements with our most at-risk students,” says Renato Montano, Assistant Superintendent of El Centro Elementary School District.
This year marks the 4th year of a partnership with the El Centro Elementary School district and Lindamood-Bell. Last year, Lindamood-Bell certified 9 district staff members as Instructional Leaders in its Professional Learning Community (PLC) Model. Teachers provide intensive remedial and developmental support in small groups, as well as classroom instruction. The focus this 2011-2012 school year will be on support for those teachers who have been certified as Lindamood-Bell® Instructional Leaders and those staff members who are in the certification process.