Children come to school each year with so many different reading abilities. Our staff at Greenville Elementary come to school each year equipped with different teaching strategies and new training to support those children. The literacy coaches at GES work collaboratively with the classroom teachers and intervention specialists to come up with a plan that makes the students most successful. In their weekly meetings with one another they produce schedules, they coach one another, share ideas, and reflect on students’ progress. 

I sat down with one of our three literacy coaches, Tammie Riffle, and talked about what her day looks like. Mrs. Riffle has been trained by the Ohio State University on Literacy Collaborative where she then coaches classroom teachers and intervention specialists on a daily basis. She begins her day by practicing High Frequency words with small groups of first graders and then meets with teachers in between her morning and afternoon small intervention groups. Mrs. Riffle meets with at least two teachers and/or intervention specialists each day and talks about what strategies they are using in their classroom, how they are collecting evidence, word work they are using with students, and reflecting upon their teaching. 

This fall on Election Day, our school district will have a renewal emergency operational levy on the ballot.  This levy will have no new taxes but is simply the renewal of an existing 4.15 mill tax levy that has been in existence since 2012.  Again, this renewal levy will appear on the November 2, 2021 ballot as approved by the board of education and it represents no new taxes, just a continuation for another ten-year cycle for what exists in our current operational cycle.  This renewal levy would also allow the homestead reduction factor to continue for qualifying residents.

 

The election day renewal levy will appear on the ballet as issue 17.  This levy was first approved in March 2012.  This levy represents no change in taxes, since it receives no inflationary increases with values.  It brings approximately $1,640,000.00 to the district annually and supports education within our district. 

 

The levy is for general operations.  This money has always been spent for district maintenance, school buses, school books, technology, salaries, and daily operations.

 

Some additional facts to consider: