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Senate Education Committee Meeting 1 Senate Education Committee Meeting Official Minutes 151st General Assembly First Session Committee Meeting Monday, March 22, 2021 3:00 p.m. Virtual Zoom Meeting Meeting Attendance Committee Members: Present: Senator Laura Sturgeon [email protected] 302-744-4135 Senator Elizabeth Lockman [email protected] 302-744-4168 Senator Colin Bonini [email protected] 302-744-4169 Senator David Sokola [email protected] 302-744-4139 Senator Bryan Townsend [email protected] 302-744-4165 Absent: Senator Ernesto Lopez [email protected] 302-744-4136 Staff: Anthony Bernadzikowski [email protected] 302-477-4629 Attendees: Organization: Phone/Email: Senator Sarah McBride Senate Majority Caucus [email protected] Rep. Kimberly Williams House Majority Caucus [email protected] Rep. William Bush House Majority Caucus [email protected] Kelly Butler Barksdale Reading Inst. [email protected] Matt Weyer ECS [email protected] Laura Stewart The Reading League [email protected] Amy Lobst-Zunino Reading Assist [email protected] Minutes provided by Abigail Armstrong 2 Angie Alfano Parent [email protected] Anna Clothier Brandywine School District [email protected] Anne Hiller Clark DE DHSS [email protected] Annie Norman Division of Libraries [email protected] Barbara Johnson Delaware Readiness Teams [email protected] Brandon Williams House Majority Caucus [email protected] Bruce Orr DE SICC [email protected] Candace Roseo RS Artemide II Inc. [email protected] Cara Shelton Brandywine School District [email protected] Caroline O’Neal Reading Assist [email protected] Carrie Antonelli Decoding Dyslexia [email protected] Christine Eisenhauer Relay GSE [email protected] Christy Gleason [email protected] Cynthia Shermeyer Literacy Delaware [email protected] Dawn Alexander Colonial School District [email protected] Deborah DeGrosky Reading Assist [email protected] Deborah Ford Colonial School District [email protected] Deborah Gottschalk Division of Research [email protected] Debra Whitby-Norman Colonial School District [email protected] Diana Morello UD Early Learning Center [email protected] Dylan McDowell Senate Majority Caucus [email protected] Elizabeth Emerson Division of Libraries [email protected] Elizabeth Merrick Elizabeth.merrick@colonial/k12.de.us Erin Brenner United Way of Delaware [email protected] Gale Morrison John Catt Education [email protected] Gary Henry CEHD [email protected] James Spakola Read Aloud Delaware [email protected] Jamie Walko J. Walko Ed. Services [email protected] Jeffrey Taschner DSEA [email protected] Jenna Ahner State Board of Education [email protected] Jessica Peace UD ELC [email protected] Jetta Sargent Parent [email protected] Jim Lesko Lesko EL Systems Consulting [email protected] Jim Price [email protected] Joe Irizarry WDDE [email protected] Jori Edgington Reading Assist [email protected] Judith Graham Kane Reading Assist [email protected] Julia Mercier Route 9 Library [email protected] Julie Bristowe Tower Hill School [email protected] Justin Richards [email protected] Kathryn Brown Wilmington University [email protected] Kathy Kelly DOE [email protected] Kathy Seeman The College School [email protected] Katie Gutowski Colonial School District [email protected] Minutes provided by Abigail Armstrong 3 Kelly Harkins Red Clay School District [email protected] Kelsey Mensch Rodel [email protected] Ken Livingston United Way of Delaware [email protected] Kim Gomes ByrdGomes [email protected] Kimberly Phillips Retired Educator [email protected] Kirsten Olson children & Families First [email protected] Kris Deponte Wilmington Friends [email protected] Kristen Thornton Parent [email protected] Kristin Dwyer DSEA [email protected] Kristina Horton Delaware B-3 EIP [email protected] Kristina Najera University of Delaware [email protected] Kristine Mera Smyrna Public Library [email protected] Laura Axtell Decoding Dyslexia, IDA [email protected] Lauren Fox Colonial School District [email protected] Lauren Freemire ECS [email protected] Leann Wallett Rodel [email protected] Leigh Fairley Reading Assist [email protected] Linda Zankowsky University of Delaware [email protected] Linnea Bradshaw Professional Standards Board [email protected] Lisa Beamer Newark Free Library [email protected] Lisa Lawson Brandywine School District [email protected] Lori Davis Pod [email protected] Luana Spalluto DTCC [email protected] Madeleine Bayard Rodel [email protected] Malinda Caddle Reading Assist [email protected] Marissa Parker Route 9 Library [email protected] Mary Griffin DDDE [email protected] Matthew Denn DLA Piper [email protected] Meedra Surratte PIC DE [email protected] Melanie Obitz-Bukartek Unhindered Writing [email protected] Melissa Ford Ford Family Literacy Init. [email protected] Michael Pillsbury DDSA [email protected] Michelle Fillioe Red Clay School District [email protected] Monica Grant DOE [email protected] Nan Stidham Smart Summer [email protected] Nancy Jordan University of Delaware [email protected] Pam Alfaro DDOE [email protected] Patty Langley Division of Libraries [email protected] Pia Stokes Delaware State University [email protected] Rachel Autman Colonial School District [email protected] Rachel Karchmer-Klein University of Delaware [email protected] Rachel West NCC Libraries [email protected] Rebecca Calvello Delaware State Senate [email protected] Renate Cumming Bear Library [email protected] Minutes provided by Abigail Armstrong 4 Renee Schienner Parent [email protected] Robert Overmiller RDO Refrigeration [email protected] Roberta Golinkoff University of Delaware [email protected] Ruth Jones Office of the Cont. General [email protected] Sarah Beth Theaker [email protected] Sarah Stowens Rodel [email protected] Scott Businsky New Castle County Libraries [email protected] Sharon Sanders Reading Assist [email protected] Shawn Rohe DSA [email protected] Sheri Brown Division of Libraries [email protected] Sherri Brooks Red Clay School District [email protected] Stephany Pachowka Hockessin Book Shelf [email protected] Steve Amendum University of Delaware [email protected] Sue Sprague Brandywine School District [email protected] Susan Cordie Dover Public Library [email protected] Susan Day Reading Assist Institute [email protected] Susan Montney Newark Free Library [email protected] Tammy Croce DASA [email protected] Valerie Hall Red Clay School District [email protected] Valerie McCartan Delaware Senate Majority [email protected] Wendy Marvil Reading Assist [email protected] Senator Sturgeon convened the meeting at 3:05 p.m. and conducted roll call. Senator Sokola motioned to approve the previous meeting minutes and Senator Lockman seconded the motion. The Committee approved the minutes from the previous meeting (03/10/2021). Senator Sturgeon thanked everyone for attending the meeting. There is no better way to provide children a strong foundation than with early literacy. Decades of research have shown there is a science to teaching children reading, which is the key to academic success in high school and beyond. Delaware wants to ensure this science is implemented in schools and Delaware teacher preparation programs. As a high school teacher, Senator Sturgeon witnessed students who did not have the foundation and struggled in every subject. Our children deserve literacy education taught by teachers who know the science. Further, Senator Sturgeon is passionate about ensuring teaching is a respected profession. Delaware wants to attract the best and brightest, hold them to high standards that our students deserve, and give them the support they deserve. Teaching reading in a way that gets all children on level by second grade is achievable. If we teach our children how to read the right way, we will be one step closer to educational equity, narrowing learning gaps between high and low-income students, and between students of privilege and those at risk. Teaching reading the right way means fewer interventions and remediation. Teaching the right way means empowering children from all Minutes provided by Abigail Armstrong 5 backgrounds, taking away a source of shame, and a cause for acting out or giving up. Teaching reading the right way will mean fewer young people in Delaware prisons. The number of incarcerated offenders who are illiterate or well below the reading level by age in schools is staggering. There is a direct line between lack of reading skills and lack of opportunity and ending up in the criminal justice system. The science of reading allows students to be prepared to succeed from the start. Now that we are addressing trauma and mental health as it relates to academic outcomes, let us add this additional piece of the puzzle. Good readers make good, successful classroom readers, neighbors, workers, and eventually job creators. Senator Sturgeon recognized the co-host
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