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Press Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Tina McGovern 415-749-3600 ext. 19, outreach@gatewayhigh.org
U.S. Dept. of Education Highlights the Work at Gateway
December 18th, 2008
Thanks to the great work of Gateway staff, specifically in the Humanities department and in the Learning Center, Gateway has been selected by the US Department of Education to be featured on their website, "Doing What Works: Improving Adolescent Literacy." Gateway classrooms will be videotaped (9th and 11th grade humanities and our reading development program) and Principal Sharon Olken will be interviewed talking about the ways we work to support struggling readers systematically across the school. This is a great honor for us, and another way that we are being featured as a model for other schools. I am really proud of our teachers for their amazing work and the recognition they are receiving!
Excerpted from a letter from the U.S. Department of Education:
On behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, we want to thank you for your interest in the Doing What Works Adolescent Literacy project. We have talked with many wonderful schools around the country who exemplify the recommendations of the IES Panel who developed the report “Improving Adolescent Literacy.” We can only highlight a small number of sites, and we are pleased that Gateway High School will be one of them.
This means that practices at Gateway will be highlighted in the “See What Works” portion of the U. S. Department of Education’s Doing What Works Adolescent Literacy website. If you visit the website (http://dww.ed.gov/), you will see examples of schools that have been featured for other topics.
The U.S. Department of Education has had tremendous response to this website. We are very eager to post examples related to adolescent literacy instruction. Gateway High School will be one of about 6-8 schools nationally to contribute material for this featured topic.
We very much appreciate your willingness to contribute to the Doing What Works Project. You are doing a service to the many educators across the nation who are working to improve the literacy outcomes of adolescent students.
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