John T. White Elementary is part of five schools jointly run by Fort Worth ISD and Texas Wesleyan University that are seeing success with reading.
Making sure schools are performing is the name of the game in education. John T. White Elementary struggled with that, failing their state assessments.
Now, it's part of five schools now jointly run by Fort Worth ISD and Texas Wesleyan University. They call it the Leadership Academy Network and what they've done with reading is pretty impressive.Teachers say getting students to want to read was such a struggle. "You say read for 15 minutes and you see kids with a timer and they said I read for 15 minutes. I'm done," said teacher Zaida Johnson."Do you really understand what you were reading about? Do you enjoy what you're reading about? And that changes with book clubs."
John T. White got some help from the folks at Texas Wesleyan, to re-imagine all aspects of how they're teaching and get kids who struggle to thrive. They tackled reading with book clubs, and friends out of desks, however, they want as long as they're working together to not just read, but comprehend.
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