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Kirby Morrison

How Data Sharing Can Help Struggling Readers

Assessment and EvaluationClassroom PerspectivesReading and LiteracySpecial Education

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Originally published in TEACH Magazine, May/June 2017 Issue

By Kirby Morrison

“Mr. Morrison, I want to take a reading test today. I know I’m going to get a green. Let’s go!”

These words still catch me off guard. It’s not that I don’t believe my student (we’ll call him Elias). In fact, I know he is going to get a “green”—the colour code I use when students pass a reading test. What shocks me is that he wants to take a reading test at all.

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Kirby Morrison is a 7th and 8th grade Special Education Teacher at Chavez Elementary School in the Chicago Public Schools district.

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