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Oklahoma Funded Program Case Study

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Oklahoma funded program 9: Lead to Read. LTR had 36 AmeriCorps members serving schools in Lincoln, Osage, Logan, Creek, Pawnee, Okfuskee, Payne and Carter counties. LTR members were assigned to local districts and provided one-on-one and small group literacy instruction to k-3 students in need of remediation (OCSC, 2015).
Through the OCSC. the LTR program was established. Public School programs and in particular literacy programs are one of the most prolific areas for AmeriCorps service (Simon, 2002). According to the CNCS (2010) strategic plan, Learn and Serve America program runs through state education agencies and provide K-12 schools, community-based organizations, Indian tribes, and U.S. territories and institutions of higher …show more content…

Members are assigned a site supervisor for them to report to and look towards for support. Members are then placed in classrooms and work with students who do not benchmark on initial assessments. Members utilize their training and other resources to provide individual and small group intervention. Members track the time spent with students throughout the school year and report using time sheets. Students are assessed two other times throughout the year for progress monitoring and that data is sent to the LTR director. For the LTR program, members are provided a living allowance of $6,525 for ten months. Members can serve up to four years at 900 hours per year and an education award of $2,865 for continuing education each year. Members have seven years to use their education award and for those over 55 years of age, they can gift their earned award on to their children, grandchildren, or foster children. There has been limited research conducted on AmeriCorps programs in schools, and for schools to continue to utilize members as interventionists, research needs to be completed on AmeriCorps programs to evaluate program effectiveness. The LTR sites utilize two of the state adopted assessments. Half of the sites use STAR or STAR Early Literacy and DIBELS to collect student outcome data (M.Parnell, personal communication, September

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