Penn Yan has established a unified research-based curricumlum and a culture that uses formative and sumative data to inform their instruction daily.
- Elementary reading curriculum is unified and consistent, with all grade levels teaching the same research-based components within a 7 day period
- ALL students receive research based core reading program with small group instruction differentiated based on student need.
- Faculty use of multiple measures of assessment data is now a natural component of daily planning
- DIBELS benchmark assessments steadily improving from 47% to 99% reaching competency in fluency over three year period.
- SWD grade 3 ELA scores illustrate a steady growth trend from 62 (0506) to 92(0607) to 94(0708) to 104(0809).