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The Alabama Literacy Act was created to help improve reading outcomes to ensure students are reading on grade level by the end of third grade. Students must demonstrate sufficient foundational reading skills to read and comprehend grade-level texts in English language arts, science, social studies, and even math.

Our district has developed an At Home Plan to support parents with activities they can do at home to improve reading proficiency. Increasing proficiency requires strong partnerships between schools and families. This is one way we are attempting to provide seamless support for our students. Paper copies of this plan will be sent home in the coming week to all students in grades one through three that are at-risk and have a Student Reading Improvement Plan. Parents, please take some time to peruse the plan and identify a few activities that you can do daily with your student. The work will pay off. If you have any questions, you may contact your child's teacher.

For more information, please click the document below.

January 2022 is Gifted Education Month. GEM aims to bring awareness and importance of Gifted Education and the dire need for the program to be fully funded in Alabama.
“Giftedness” is defined in Alabama as “Intellectually gifted children and youth are those who perform or who have demonstrated the potential to perform at high levels in academic or creative fields when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment.” Alabama is home to over 62,000 Gifted students, who can be found in all populations and across all economic strata. Gifted Education is mandated in Alabama but is not fully funded. In fact, Alabama is one of the lowest funded Southern states. Alabama school districts must use local funds to identify and provide the required services to eligible students, which are not ordinarily provided by regular school programs.

A fully funded mandate will:

Arrange for a universal screening/assessment for gifted identification Raise student achievement
Decrease Gifted students’ dropout
Decrease student exodus
Increase leadership potential
Increase job creations
Increase innovativeness and creativity
Employ certified Gifted Education Specialists
Provide training: preservice, classroom teachers, and administrators

To better serve Alabama’s Gifted students, contact Congresswoman Terri Sewell urging her to support a full funding of Gifted Education.

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Addressing the Urgent Need for State Funding of Gifted Education

For more information on Alabama’s Gifted Education, please visit

Our Peer Helpers are the catalyst to supporting a positive culture and climate in our schools by being focused on lending a helping hand when they see one is needed. They are working on leading a Kindness Campaign in each school that will last through the month of January. One of their activities is recording random acts of kindness that they are doing. They will record these on the attached document and their counselor will create a bulletin board to display all of these. Each school will have other activities to go along with their individualized plans.