Our Impact

 

 

DEEP currently partners with schools, attended by over 1,000 students in grades PK-3—and they are out performing their demographic peers in the neighborhood.​

These schools are a proof point of what is possible, and while there is still progress to be made, we believe it is time to stop outperforming other schools, and time to start expanding the impact of what we’ve learned.

DEEP coordinates a Professional Learning Community among the principals and leadership at our four partner schools

• They align on what needs to be true in classroom literacy instruction and then work to coordinate resources and materials to make that happen
• They all implement the same formative assessments in their schools throughout the school year to inform instruction and monitor the success and efficacy of our work together

DEEP coordinates professional learning for teachers at our partner schools

•  All K-3 teachers (and others as funding and interest allow) receive foundational training from the California Reading and Literature Project
• Ongoing professional learning is designed to meet the needs of the teachers at these schools so that students are being taught in ways that evidence and research have shown to be effective

DEEP advocates for resources

• Teachers can’t teach in effective ways if they don’t have the materials they need to deliver the instruction. DEEP has advocated for and delivered the decodable text that students need to practice their new skills independently

DEEP coordinates programs for students who are identified by their teachers as needing extra help:

Results from 2022 indicate that students who attended afters school and summer programming made significantly more growth between May and November than students who did not. This should not be surprising—as the programs are designed based on research that shows what methods work​, but it is affirming.

Teachers say:

•  I just love seeing the improvement from week to week.
•  I loved to see how my students are more interested on reading books every day!
•  The one on one is really nice, with these students getting some extra attention. We also sing and play word games that the students really enjoy at the end of the day.

DEEP works with families of young children to develop the habits and skills that will set them up to succeed in school before they get to kindergarten

 

•  Kindergarten students at DEEP partner schools who participated in 1000Books before Kindergarten outperformed their non-1000Books peers in letter recognition, and First graders who participated outperformed their non-participating peers on the Irregular Words test. (These are literacy assessments administered three times throughout the year at all DEEP schools. The results noted here are from the assessment administered in October 2023).