Implementation of Reading Recovery in Langley School District #35 2009-2010 Introduction School District #35 (Langley) includes the City of Langley and the Township of Langley located in the central Fraser Valley 45 kilometres southeast of Vancouver, B.C. According to City and Township staff, Langley has a population of approximately 130,000 people. The district extends from the US border, north to the Fraser River and is neighbour to the communities of Surrey to the west and Abbotsford to the east. Total area of the district is 313 square kilometres. The district serves over 18,000 students. Langley has 29 elementary schools including two Fundamental schools, two Fine Arts schools and one school that houses the Montessori Program. Ruth Hodgins and Irene MacKenzie have been Langley’s Reading Recovery Teacher Leaders since September 2007. Grade One Population School District # 35 (Langley) maintains a strong Reading Recovery implementation. District-led initiatives encourage schools to provide adequate coverage based on their Grade 1 populations. This is the first year in the school district’s history that all 29 elementary schools offered Reading Recovery intervention. A few schools have more than one Reading Recovery teacher. Since January 1997, 74 teachers have been trained and approximately 3,010 children have received extra literacy instruction through Reading Recovery.
Introduction
School District #35 (Langley) includes the City of Langley and the Township of Langley located in the central Fraser Valley 45 kilometres southeast of Vancouver, B.C. According to City and Township staff, Langley has a population of approximately 130,000 people. The district extends from the US border, north to the Fraser River and is neighbour to the communities of Surrey to the west and Abbotsford to the east. Total area of the district is 313 square kilometres. The district serves over 18,000 students. Langley has 29 elementary schools including two Fundamental schools, two Fine Arts schools and one school that houses the Montessori Program. Ruth Hodgins and Irene MacKenzie have been Langley’s Reading Recovery Teacher Leaders since September 2007.
Grade One Population
School District # 35 (Langley) maintains a strong Reading Recovery implementation. District-led initiatives encourage schools to provide adequate coverage based on their Grade 1 populations. This is the first year in the school district’s history that all 29 elementary schools offered Reading Recovery intervention. A few schools have more than one Reading Recovery teacher. Since January 1997, 74 teachers have been trained and approximately 3,010 children have received extra literacy instruction through Reading Recovery.