Fundations training for teachers at Edna Louise Spear Elementary School
In an effort to share best practices and enrich teachers’ understanding
of new educational strategies, Port Jefferson’s Edna Louise Spear
Elementary School’s pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first-grade
teachers recently took part in a Fundations training workshop with Kerry
Leo from Da Vinci Education and Research Center.
Fundations helps to lay the groundwork for lifelong literacy as students
learn to gain enjoyment from reading. The program emphasizes phonemic
awareness, reading fluency, vocabulary and comprehension among other
strategies. Pre-K through second-graders at the school are engaged in
Fundations activities and lessons within their classrooms daily. During
the workshop, the teachers shared their ideas on the
diagnostic-prescriptive instructional approach, which focuses directly
on the student and helps to establish a teaching method for each child.