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Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1

Cortez, CO

Located in Southwest Colorado, Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 is a school district driven to help all students reach their learning potential. The district is proud to serve a diverse population of students, including Native American students from the Ute Mountain Tribe to the southwest and the Navajo Nation to the west.

Montezuma-Cortez’s partnership with Lindamood-Bell began in November of 2005. Now in its fourth year, the partnership has expanded to all five elementary schools and Cortez Middle School. During the 2008-09 school year, 270 students received targeted intervention to address reading and comprehension skills. Hundreds more received direct Lindamood-Bell® instruction in their regular Tier 1 classroom instruction, with a focus on the early elementary grades.

Key highlights of the ongoing Lindamood-Bell® Partnership with Montezuma-Cortez include:

1) Seeing Stars® and Visualizing & Verbalizing® instruction in all three tiers of the district’s Response to Intervention (RtI) model

2) Seeing Stars® and Visualizing & Verbalizing® workshop attendance for all elementary instructional staff and on-going support by district staff certified by Lindamood-Bell

3) Lindamood-Bell® Consultant Certification program to ensure sustainability of the initiative

4) A positive learning environment designed to celebrate student success and problem-solve challenges

5) Consistent use of achievement data and progress monitoring tools to guide instruction decisions

For the 2009-10 school year, the Montezuma-Cortez school district has pursued comprehensive implementation of Lindamood-Bell® process-based reading instruction at all elementary schools and Cortez Middle School. The district expects that over 1,200 students will benefit from instruction during the course of the school year.

	"The Lindamood-Bell program was a wise investment." Phil Kasper, Manaugh Elementary Principal "Finally we have a way to meet the needs of our students that delivers as promised that is completely research driven and is implemented with all the support necessary to ensure success." Classroom Teacher "No student in the Lindamood-Bell® classes fell into a high-risk category at the end of the year." Elementary Principal

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Manaugh Celebrates 1st Time to Meet AYP Standards - or read online
Response to Intervention: Lindamood-Bell's Process-based Educational Model