Since 2003, R2LP has trained nearly 2,000 early childhood educators, most of whom work in Providence. The impact of this professional development is now readily apparent.
Using data provided by the Providence Public School Department, R2LP recently conducted several analyses that found children in Providence who participated in an R2LP program prior to kindergarten outperformed their peers on the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, or DIBELS. The DIBELS assessment is administered to children in kindergarten through third grade in the fall, winter and spring of each school year.
Figure 1 shows that R2LP children were more likely to exhibit grade-level early-literacy skills than non-R2LP children. These data present an average across three years of kindergarten assessments and provide compelling evidence of R2LP's impact on the early-literacy skills of kindergartners.
Figure 2 shows that within the same cohorts of students, R2LP children were much less likely than their non-R2LP peers to need intensive early-literacy support in their kindergarten year.
For more details on this analysis and the methodology used to conduct the research,
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