CHALLENGE: Accelerating intervention for students scoring below the 1st percentile nationally With 300 kindergarten students entering the ECC each year, the challenge of identifying, assessing, and providing intervention services to every student in need is a challenge. Principal Melissa Lentz notes each school year at the Early Childhood Center begins with the task of evaluating hundreds of students for services. “We need to quickly assess their level of comprehension in order to identify those in need of intervention, ” she says. Once assessed, attention quickly shifts to increasing math proficiency among a large group of students entering school with virtually no exposure to mathematics. Math Intervention Teacher Suzanne Farmer notes, “Each year we saw more student

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