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BOYD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CATLETTSBURG, KENTUCKY
Flexible
"In our summer school we have students
in grades one through five who are achieving below grade
level," says Paula Burdette, teacher and computer lab administrator
for the Boyd County Schools summer school session. "PassKey
has so many options and lessons it meets the needs of every
student, whatever the grade level."
The 2002 summer school was a child-centered,
hands-on tutoring program designed to bring elementary school
students up to grade level by the next school year, Burdette
says. “We used the PassKey reading lessons for our
first- and second-graders and both the reading and math
lessons for students in grades three through five.”
| “PassKey
has so many options and lessons it meets the needs of
every student, whatever the grade level.” |
The
daily summer school program was intensive. There were ten
instructors for the 56 students; and the program featured
small group instruction as well as opportunities to use
PassKey. During a four-hour day, younger students worked
on Passkey 30 minutes each day, while older students received
two 20-minute sessions a day.
“Our study ran only three months,
and we were pleased with the results,” Burdette says.
“Using PassKey, our reading scores increased from
two months to two years, and our math scores increased by
nearly a year.”
Summer school will expand to two schools
this year and PassKey will be included in both computer
labs, Burdette says. "We use lots of different approaches,
including PassKey, during the school year, but for summer
school, PassKey is our choice."
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