Improve reading and writing outcomes for all students: Increase the percentage of all students who meet or exceed state grade level in reading across all grades from 35% in August 2022 to 50% in August 2027.
- San Antonio ISD Board Goals & Guardrails introduced during Oct. 11, 2022, Board Meeting.
The San Antonio ISD is an inclusive familia that is the destination for transformational learning that makes the impossible a reality by demonstrating an urgent and relentless commitment to love, nurture, and teach all our students as if they are our own so that they realize their power to shape the world. Learn more below about how two of our schools are instilling a love of reading across ages and campus locations.
"Reading is at the foundation of everything we do! It is important for our kids to be able to feel accomplished and happy and to take themselves to new places through reading. The kids are so excited." - Jennifer Soto, Green Elementary School principal
Last month, third, fourth and fifth grade students from Green and Riverside Park elementary schools switched places, with older students traveling by bus to their "buddy campus" where they read to younger students.
In addition to the students mentoring the younger students, the event served as a Blending the Familia event for the campus. Due to San Antonio ISD's Fall 2023 rightsizing decision, Green students' new home campus for the 2024-2025 school year will be the current Riverside Park Elementary School campus.
"These two communities have always wanted to be together, but we just happen to be in two different buildings. We have always worked together and collaborated together, and this is really an opportunity to bring the kids together. This is a blending event for all our kids, students in our ALE units also read to each other." - Jennifer Soto, Green Elementary School principal.
Above, Green Elementary School students received books to read to their younger counterparts before they boarded buses that took them to Riverside Park Elementary School, which is located less than a mile down the road from the Green campus.
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Above, third, fourth, and fifth grade Riverside Park Elementary School students read to second-grade students in the hallways of the Green campus, with teacher supervision.
"Reading is the foundation for their whole academic career. If they struggle with decoding and reading fluency, then they are going to struggle with comprehension which is required for higher learning across all subjects. It's important for kids to develop meaningful connections and develop a love for reading. First kids learn to read, and then they read to learn!" - Rachel Campos, inclusion resource and dyslexia specialist.