Overview / Tutoring / Mission, Principles / Results

Powerful Schools places an organizational emphasis on creating strong evaluation and assessment tools. We evaluate the work of tutors on a monthly basis, using a checklist of instructional criteria, including accurate and effective lesson delivery, level of preparedness, behavior management, and positive modeling. Students participating in Powerful Readers are assessed every ten lessons with mastery tests developed by Washington Research Institute. After successfully passing each mastery test in letter sounds, sight word, decoding/segmenting, and fluency, students are eligible to move on to the next level of instruction. 

Student Results for 2004-2005

• Goal: 75% of our original first grade native English speaking children reach or pass lesson #70 (this is considered at grade-level reading according to Washington Research Institute).
• Results: 83% of this group reached our goal.

• Goal: 50% of our original English as a Second Language (ESL) students reach or pass lesson #70.       
• Results: 88%of this group reached our goal.

• Goal: 90% of returning second grade students (two complete years in the program) will meet grade-level reading according to Seattle School District Direct Reading Assessment Scores.
• Results: 90% of this group reached our goal.

• Goal: 100% of Special Education students will show some gain in reading skills.
• Results: 100% of this group reached our goal.

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