School Story Focus
This school year's focus:
| For the 2025 2026 school year, our school’s learning focus is: | In 2025/2026, Station Stretch Secondary will focus on increasing student confidence in reading through teaching reading strategies and providing engaging, grade appropriate texts. |
| The data that supports the need for this learning focus is: | This focus matters because gaining confidence through learning literacy skills and engaging positively with texts impacts student learning. |
| Actions that the school will take to achieve the goals of our school learning focus include: | Teachers will create shared literacy routines and expectations including: building common vocabulary, provide alternative media, use graphic organizers, chunk reading sections, model think alouds to show students how to engage with text. Teachers can do regular check-ins, regularly engage in reading or in being read to. Teachers can incorporate buddy reading. Students will get access to books that they want to read. |
| The intended impact of these actions: | We hope to build stamina, engagement and confidence in engaging with reading. |
| We will know that our actions are making a difference when: | We will see an increase in student engagement, skills and self-advocacy. |
Updated:
Tuesday, June 2, 2026