Robbie Casteel

This Foundational Literacy Skills Plan outlines Cumberland County Schools' comprehensive strategy to improve literacy outcomes across grades K-5. It focuses on implementing daily foundational skills instruction using high-quality curricula, providing targeted academic supports and interventions, offering extensive professional development for staff, and strengthening family engagement. Key priorities include aligning instruction with the science of reading, improving writing, ensuring consistent curriculum implementation, and fostering data-driven practices. The plan aims to enhance student achievement, strengthen instructional rigor, and support teacher capacity and retention.

This document outlines the Cumberland County Schools' public plan for utilizing remaining ESSER 3.0 funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The plan details strategic allocations across academics, educators, and foundational areas, focusing on initiatives such as tutoring, summer programming, and interventionists to address learning loss and accelerate academic achievement. It also addresses professional development for educators, facility upgrades, and robust monitoring and reporting of fund utilization. The plan emphasizes meaningful public consultation and engagement with diverse stakeholder groups for its development and revision.

This addendum to the Cumberland County Schools' Safe Return to In-Person Instruction and Continuity of Services Plan, developed under the American Rescue Plan's ESSER 3.0 Fund, details ongoing stakeholder and health department engagement. It outlines current health and safety policies, including accommodations for students with disabilities, hygiene protocols, facility maintenance, and optional mask use, while noting the absence of contact tracing or COVID-19 testing. The plan also describes strategies for ensuring continuity of services, addressing students' academic, mental health, and nutritional needs through interventions, counseling, school nurses, and food support programs.

This Parent/Family Involvement Plan by Cumberland County Schools emphasizes the shared responsibility of school and family in a child's education. It outlines six key standards: welcoming all families, communicating effectively, supporting student success, speaking up for every child, sharing power, and collaborating with the community. The plan's objective is to foster active parental/family participation and partnership in student learning, decision-making, and advisory roles to enhance educational outcomes.

This Foundational Literacy Skills Plan, approved by the Tennessee Department of Education, outlines strategies for daily foundational literacy skills instruction across grades K-5. It details the use of Amplify's Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) curriculum, emphasizing explicit phonics, synthetic phonics, and intensive practice, for students in kindergarten through second grade and an integrated ELA block for grades three through five. The plan includes the implementation of universal reading screeners to identify at-risk students, a comprehensive intervention structure utilizing research-based materials, and a parent notification plan to foster home literacy engagement. Additionally, it specifies a professional development strategy for teachers, incorporating early literacy training and ongoing instructional support.