What’s Right With Our Schools: Cloud Springs Reading Gains
ROSSVILLE, Ga. (WDEF) – Cloud Springs Elementary School recently welcomed Georgia Superintendent Richard Woods to campus. That visit came after third graders increased their reading scores by more than 20 percent! A strong foundation in reading is a rock-solid example of what’s right with our schools.
Lori Welborn is the Principal at Cloud Springs.
She says, “We’re very excited. Superintendent for the state of Georgia, Richard woods, came to visit our school today. We, along with Westside Elementary School, were the two schools in Catoosa County that received the banner today. From him. We actually had 21.5% growth in our third grade reading scores last year. I don’t think there’s any one magic bullet for reading. I think the secret is that our kids read. They love to read, and our teachers are rock stars.”
Michelle Allmond is the Assistant Principal at Cloud Springs.
She adds, “I’m so excited about our progress at Cloud Springs Elementary School. Over the last several years, we’ve taken strides to really focus on our reading improvement. Our interventionists are hard at work. We’ve worked hard on extending reading opportunities for students, too. So, today’s reading award just recognizes the accomplishments that we’re making at Cloud Springs, and it charges us to keep going.”
Allmond continues, “Over the course of the last five or six years, we were steadily improving and making great gains. Covid hit us and kind of took us back a couple of steps. We’re putting focus on attendance and making sure students and parents are used to being back in the regular routines of school and incorporating the regular routine of reading daily and making sure it’s high-quality reading and reading on levels that are going to push students to achieve greater levels and then also just entertain them and get them excited and give them a love for reading.”
Principal Welborn concludes,” What is next for us? I say we’re just going to continue with the science of reading. We’re going to continue our phonics and our letters instruction. We’re going to continue reading good quality classic literature, and we’re just going to keep reading all day, every day.”
