![]() ![]() “I think with COVID, we want to do everything we can to help make sure our students are ready and fill in any gaps they may have,” Prenkert said. The district sent invitations to families of recommended students and enrollment closed this week. State legislation requires K-2 students to be screened for dyslexia, on areas including phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge, sound-symbol relationship, decoding, rapid naming and encoding. The district also looked at information from dyslexia screeners to help determine students who may be good candidates. Prenkert said principals and teachers in all elementary buildings, not just Title I schools, were asked to recommend students they thought could benefit from Primary Jump Start. Grants are administered by the Indiana Department of Education in consultation with the Indiana State Board of Education. Programs being paid for with grant funding target students who have fallen behind academically during the pandemic. ![]() ![]() The Student Learning Recovery Grant Program and Fund, created by HEA 1008-2021, provides grants to be used for learning recovery and remediation services for any K-12 students. The IU students will also be paid through that grant funding. While Jump Start is free for families, the MCCSC will use an estimated $90,000 from Student Learning Recovery grant funds to help support the cost of the program, including staffing and supplies. Jump Start program is free to MCCSC families Prenkert said the district believes personalized, small group attention and support will help benefit the students. MCCSC is partnering with the Indiana University School of Education to have six education students work alongside MCCSC teachers to support Jump Start. Twenty-one teachers were appointed to teach Primary Jump Start at the June school board meeting, according to the personnel report. “So it's not a whole day's worth of curriculum, but we think it will help kind of ease them back into the routines of school and learning, and there is going to be a focus on English language arts and literacy, and some of those foundational skills of becoming a reader,” Prenkert said. Title I schools receive financial assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to help make sure students meet state academic standards. Title I schools have high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families. ![]()
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