McNeely Elementary School

December 2025 Action Post

An action that we have taken to support our school’s learning focus is:
  • Professional development for teachers with the Pillars of Literacy (Spring 2025 and Fall 2025)
  • Class Reviews
  • Curriculum Consultant support with implementing instructional practices and different reading assessments
  • Collaboration and co-teaching in class teams (classroom teacher and resource teacher)
  • District Literacy Collaboration Time where teachers met in grade alike groups to collaborate and plan next steps for common goals/skills being targeted in reading instruction
This action supports our school’s learning focus in the following ways:
  • The above actions are all aligned to build capacity and encourage alignment in literacy/assessment practices and strategies within grade groups
  • Our Class Review conversations revealed the common literacy focus of reading comprehension in both Primary and Intermediate groups (with differentiated objectives)
    • Primary Reading Comprehension Objectives: retelling, story elements, making connections, responding, and inferencing
    • Intermediate Reading Comprehension Objectives: making predictions, main ideas, making connections
  • The District Literacy Collaboration time made space for intentional conversations about literacy instruction and support within grade groups
    • This time also allowed for mentoring between teachers, sharing of effective resources, and planning of actionable next steps for meaningful literacy instruction based on the literacy goals and objectives discussed at our class reviews
    • Collaboration groups recorded and shared their thinking in the following areas:
      • Specific reading skill(s) being targeted in your grade group(s)/classes
      • Instructional practices, methods, programs, routines, resources, etc. that will be used to address the skill(s) being targeted
      • How will we know what we’re doing is moving learning forward/making a difference? What informal/formal assessment practices will be used (aside from Spring RFRA and SPARK)?
      • What supports would be helpful for you/your team?