Introducing Total Learning Classroom
Our team works to research, launch, evaluate and scale new ways to help kids go further. The Total Learning Classroom Initiative of Reading Corps is an innovative model designed to bridge the opportunity gap and infuse additional resources into schools with high academic needs.
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Total Learning Classroom has served more than 4,500 students.
Scholar Coaches:
- Are embedded in a K-3 Classroom and partnered with a teacher
- Serve seven hours a day, Monday-Friday
- Work with students one-on-one or in pairs to provide targeted skills practice
- Track student progress and regularly meet with the schools on-site coach as well as one of our coaching specialists.
Driven by Outcome
Total Learning Classroom is a research-based and results-driven initiative that pushes students to reach their full learning potential. With direct, personalized support, our program is constantly adapting based on data for the greater good of the education system. Together, this program has proven to provide student, class, and system-level change based on the gains in student achievement, satisfaction among teachers, and improvements to school-level infrastructure.
Student-level
Students who received intervention saw accelerated growth and proficiency with Scholar Coach
Class-level
Class-wide intervention led to accelerated growth and proficiency among all students and an increase in teacher capacity
System-level
Total Learning Classroom produced a school-wide capacity for MTSS and enhanced the coordination of school resources
Our difference: we’re always adapting for the best results
8 years ago, school leaders and community partners at Nellie Stone Johnson Community School in North Minneapolis decided to embark on an “all-in” and truly collaborative approach to helping students reach their full potential. One of the main strategies was that in addition to using Reading Corps, they would also implement the Total Learning Classroom program.
Progress soon became evident – in the spring of 2018, data showed that third grade literacy proficiency more than doubled at Nellie Stone Johnson.
Judging from these remarkable results that stemmed from systematic changes in education, the Total Learning Program has since been committed to adapting to research-rooted methods so that students can tackle their educational hurdles with confidence and strength.
SCHOLAR COACH STORIES
Jodi Follina
“Seeing my students’ confidence grow from when I walked through the door to the end of the school year was truly incredible.”
Alexis Harrison
“I’m excited to come to work every day and excited to learn and try new things. The trainings were exceptional. The staff and management are exceptional.”
Tram Bui
“I want to do my part to help our students gain confidence through literacy and travel on a college-bound course.”