New Richmond receives training grant

The New Richmond Exempted Village School District has received a $45,750 grant from the Ohio Department of Education that will be used to help train the district’s K-6 teachers in reading and math initiatives.

“The grant comes from excess stimulus funds that had not been spent and it comes at an opportune time for our district as we roll out our new math program,” said John Frye, director of pupil and staff services for the New Richmond Exempted Village School District. “In reading it will be used to continue our work with the DIBELS program and our early literacy initiative.”

DIBELS is a set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade.

“In addition, the grant will be used for training for teachers in K-3 who will be returning to Smart Board equipped classrooms which is one of the components of the delivery of our new math program,” said Frye. “We will have a lot of professional development going on this summer and into the 2011-12 school year.”

The grant money must be spent by September 30.