Current Studies
2004 – 2006 AYP Gains for Below-Proficient Readers in a Top-Ranking High School
School Characteristics (2007)
Approximately 1,500 students: 53% African American, 22% European American, 16% Latin American, 8% Asian American; 40% free or reduced-price lunch.
History with SLI
Since 2004, Woodrow Wilson High School has made Reading Apprenticeship professional development a schoolwide focus, first with assistance from the Strategic Literacy Initiative and now as an internally delivered program. By 2007, 8 faculty members had been trained by SLI as Reading Apprenticeship leaders, and the school had added the position of literacy coach. As the staff’s Reading Apprenticeship capacity increased, so did students’ reading achievement. From 2005 to 2006, AYP reading proficiency rose 24%. Proficiency for European American students, already at 88%, held steady, and all other subgroups increased substantially — showing gains ranging from 13% to 80%.
[Data for this report compiled by Nicole Chilla, literacy coach and teacher at Woodrow Wilson Senior High School.]
