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If you had asked one of Lisa Hepburnâs fifth-grade students to pronounce the word âpandemicâ not too long ago, heâd try âpandora,â âpandemoniumâ or âjust kind of guess whatever.â But more recently, Hepburn, a reading specialist at Randall Elementary School, watched that same student âwhoâs reading at a second-grade level as a fifth-grader chunk out words like âtranquility.ââ She credits the âscience of reading,â a literacy teaching method the Madison Metropolitan School District is shifting toward as it confronts low reading proficiency rates among its students. Itâs a move away from the âbalanced literacyâ approach the district has had in the past, in which literacy is taught through a variety of readings and word studies, to a more phonics-focused format of teaching students how to read. ....
As a member of the Madison City Council, Ald. Shiva Bidar sat through all-night meetings to vote on controversial developments, played an integral role in police reform efforts, advocated for the Latinx community and even organized an event to meet with the Dalai Lama. But she recalls renovating the Randall School playground as an example of the concrete â and to her, rewarding â effect local government officials have in the community. âThat is what I have always thought about local government is that itâs really tangible, and if you explain it to the average person what decision you re making and why that decision makes a difference in the city or in their lives, they can understand it because it s not five steps removed,â Bidar said. âThat s what I have found really rewarding in local government.â ....