Reading K-8 Success for All

Lorain City Schools has instituted a bold new reading reform program, Success For All (SFA), in grades Kindergarten through Eight Grade.
The goal of this reading reform is to ensure that our students achieve at the highest levels, as SFA says, “not just children who come to school well fed, well rested, and ready to learn, but everyone, at all levels, whatever it takes”.  Lorain City Schools believes all students can learn, will learn, and all students deserve an education filled with rigorous instruction and learning.   Lorain City Schools embraces, takes responsibility, and accepts as its duty the obligation of educating to a high level any and all of its students including its gifted students, disadvantaged students, students of promise, later blooming students, special education students, English as second language students.

Lorain City Schools join with The Success For All Foundations in the following beliefs:

All children can learn.
It sounds trendy, but the Success for All Foundation was founded on the notion that every child can and will learn, although not always in precisely the same ways. As educators, it is our responsibility to be relentless in the search for what works with each child, accepting no excuses and no failures. The Success for All Foundation assists schools in identifying and implementing strategies designed to reach every single student, and is dedicated to providing the full array of supports that will help every child reach his or her full potential.
Schools can make the difference.
Because schools have contact with virtually all of our nation’s youngsters, they also have the power to make a tremendous difference in the lives and futures of these children, and they deserve all our thanks, praise, and support for carrying out this important work. The Success for All Foundation is committed to working with schools and administrations, not at cross-purposes, and to providing services that help them meet their goals of a quality education for all students.

Family and community involvement is key.
Schools can have an impact on their students’ lives, but that effect is made even stronger through the involvement of family and community, creating a web of support that sustains children both inside and outside of school hours. Because not every community needs or wants the same solutions, the Success for All Foundation believes in working with sites to identify areas of particular importance or potential influence, and helping them develop solutions that fit their unique setting.

Research tells us what works.
Education is not about guesswork or shooting in the dark. It’s about expanding the use of proven solutions in classrooms and schools. At the Success for All Foundation, everything we do is built on a solid research base, with products and practices that are extensively tested in the field. Each program has also undergone rigorous study by outside reviewers. And we encourage schools and districts to pursue a similar focus on using data to make daily and long-term decisions. We don’t have time to waste on guessing games - our children’s education is at stake.
We must all be relentless.

The future of our children depends on their knowing how to think, read, write, and compute. The future of our country and our world depends on our children. That means we must all be relentless in our pursuit of what works. At the Success for All Foundation, we pledge to do everything in our power to help schools make a difference in the lives of their students. We ask that you do the same. Together, with a relentless sense of personal responsibility and a focus on the individual child, we can work wonders.