THE DRAKKAR THE DRAKKAR Opening Doors With 'Keys' to Literacy

As much of the country, and the world at-large, holed up in their homes in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, LaBrae Intermediate and Bascom Elementary schools moved forward with putting into action a plan to meet the literacy needs of their students.

The district began developing the initiative in 2019, started putting the pieces in place in June 2020, and, with the addition of a literacy coach, launched the initiatives of the LaBrae Literacy Plan in October 2020.

“With everything going on around us, with COVID and the school shutdown and all that was happening, we knew we still needed to focus on doing what we knew to be best for our students,” explained Kay Suzelis, Intermediate School principal. “LaBrae did not go into the ‘stay-afloat mode’ in those early days of the pandemic, and we haven’t since. We continued moving forward, and we will continue moving forward.”