KSDE has allocated a portion of the State's ESSER funds to address potential learning loss that resulted from the shift to emergency remote instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This shift disrupted instruction of foundational literacy skills of young students in Kansas and leading to a potential learning loss. To help recover from this KSDE is offering free LETRS® training to any educator who works in an KSDE accredited public or private elementary school or provides reading instruction to struggling learners at all grade levels. This opportunity covers the cost of the online course and training days; there is no cost to the school nor teacher for this training. To ensure that all teachers, including teachers just coming out of college, will be able to help students this training opportunity is also available to higher education faculty who teach literacy courses in Kansas teacher preparation programs.
KSDE will continue to make LETRS training available covering the cost of participation for educators in KSDE Accredited Schools and Kansas higher education teacher preparation programs. Additionally, KSDE is making LETRS Local Certified Facilitator (LCF) training available to districts with 500+ students allowing districts to organize their own training. LETRS training will continue to be available through:
Due to the small number of participants for LETRS for Early Childhood additional statewide trainings will be offered.
Lexia does not provide a Local Certified Facilitator model for LETRS for Administrators so one additional statewide training cohort will be offered.
LETRS
Contact one of the regional education service centers: ESSDACK, Greenbush, Smoky Hill, ORION, or Southwest Plains.
As a district, or collaborate with other districts/buildings to create a training group of 35-44 and select your own training dates.