Little Red School House

The Little Red School House Award is presented to a school district that is selected for implementing the most significant, innovative and successful education program or project.

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The Little Red School House 2024 Winner

Woonsocket School District “Flight School”

The Woonsocket Elementary School set a goal to increase achievement scores in reading for the 2023-24 school year.  The idea was to create a reading intervention program called Flight School.  Woonsocket started the year with an assessment tool called FastBridge to evaluate all their K-6 students.  After the assessment, Woonsocket used the data to determine which students needed to receive extra reading instruction.  An intervention program was created where every start of the morning for 30 minutes, 40 plus students with the largest “gap” would go into small groups, in the small groups students would receive instruction on the specific skill that they struggled with.  The on-level students attended a Walking Club which gave them the opportunity to exercise for 15 minutes and to help the younger students with the remaining 15 minutes.  The teachers and staff at Woonsocket are committed to these 30-minute sessions to help the students improve.  The Flight School has been so successful that they have shared  this with other school districts.  Woonsocket believes that intervention programs like this one will bring more success to students, not only in reading, but across the board.