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Our mission of the G-E-T School District is to ensure that we are helping our students be successful learners by empowering our staff to have the skills to help all students learn and grow.
Through professional development of our staff we continue to grow as educators that are providing quality education to the students of our district.
We look to partner with our community to make sure that our district is a great place to grow, excel, and thrive.
In February 2020, the Wisconsin legislature passed Wisconsin Act 86 (Act 86). This bi-partisan legislation, with support from Governor Tony Evers, resulted in the creation of this informational guidebook on dyslexia and related conditions. Act 86 stipulated:
that the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), under the leadership of State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor, work with co-chairs and an advisory committee composed of equal membership from the Wisconsin Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA WI) and the Wisconsin State Reading Association (WSRA);
that the guidebook work from a specific definition of dyslexia;
that the guidebook includes information about screening processes and tools, instruction and intervention, and resources;
a timeline for the creation and on-going revision of the guidebook; and
that DPI host the guidebook on their website and that all Wisconsin school districts include a link to the guidebook on their respective websites.
Act 20 states that all Wisconsin schools are required to provide science-based early literacy instruction in both universal and intervention settings. Science-based early literacy instruction is defined as the following.
Instruction that is systematic and explicit and consists of all the following:
Phonological awareness
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Building background knowledge
Oral language development
Vocabulary building
Instruction in writing
Instruction in comprehension
Reading fluency
Phonics is defined as the study of the relationships between sounds and words; this includes alphabetic principle, decoding, orthographic knowledge, encoding, and fluency.
G-E-T educators that teach Kindergarten - 2nd Grade will all be trained in LETRS as part of the requirements of this law.
More information can be found on the WI DPI Website.
Interested in what is taught in classes or grades levels? Check out our Scope and Sequence documents listed below: