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�鶹��is in the initial stages of an exciting initiative that will invest quite heavily in our libraries over the coming months and years. As part of a partnership with Apple, this library redesign initiative, titled Project R.E.A.D., will see libraries evolved into exciting learning laboratories for students to engage in research, exploration, application, and design. While these evolved library spaces will serve as a hub for experiential learning, they will remain firmly grounded in the core mission to spark academic curiosity through cultivating a love of reading.

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�鶹��is optimizing the implementation of the Texas Reading Academies, a state legislative requirement, to drive long-term growth and target closing the achievement gap for its Black and Latino students. The Reading Academies equip teachers and administrators with the evidence-based methods that best support the science of teaching reading. By developing skilled and effective educators, we ensure students have access to high-quality reading and writing instruction, thereby positively impacting student literacy achievement.

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The district’s summer school programming, Summer Breeze, has been redesigned with a strong focus on literacy instruction. Through Novel Engineering, students are reading a book where they will work with peers to create a solution for the problem the character is experiencing in the book. This interdisciplinary approach to instruction starts with an interesting and relevant book and centers reading as the base for all Science, Social Studies, and Math learning.

�鶹��will build in foundational and critical reading and writing skills across all content areas, including math and science. This will teach students how to read, write, think and discuss in ways that are particularly to those different content areas.