Title and Board Action Requested
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Approve the Purchase of Sonday System Curriculum from Winsor Learning, Inc. and Authorize the Issuance of a Purchase Order for an Estimated Amount of $105,847.50
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Executive Summary
The Director of Elementary Programs, on behalf of the Superintendent of Schools, hereby requests the Board to approve the purchase of Sonday Curriculum from Winsor Learning, Inc. Winsor Learning, LLC is the supplier and publisher of this proprietary and copyrighted material.
The Florida Department of Education has recently received allocations under the Federal Government's American Rescue Plan. School districts throughout the state have the opportunity to apply for and receive funds for High-Impact Reading Interventions and Targeted Supports. Statute mandates that interventions are provided to students who have reading deficits. Sonday System is an intervention on our state approved K-12 Reading Plan. This grant can only be used for closing the reading achievement gap.
The Sonday System is an Orton-Gillingham based curriculum that helps struggling readers catch up to their peers, regardless of their age or current reading level, whether or not they've been diagnosed with dyslexia or specific reading disabilities. Each lesson is structured, systematic and multisensory reading intervention for students at all stages of reading acquisition. Each lesson plan uses proven Orton-Gillingham methods to provide effective intervention in small-group settings.
The curriculum has easy-to-follow learning plans and contains all the elements of Multi-Sensory Structured Language Education (MSLE) instruction. The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), and several Reading First offices have independently evaluated the Sonday System and found that the program contained the required elements for successful reading identified by the National Reading Panel (2000).
Each complete Sonday System Interventio...
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