How can a one-minute kindergarten test help teachers tackle the ‘Covid slide?’

Thousands of Texas students were missing from pre-K and kindergarten classrooms because of the pandemic. Quick assessments can help teachers get them on track.

Davis, a longtime educator, says the techniques she’s learned during graduate school have changed how she approaches early literacy.

She assesses her students with the Spanish-version of a series of tests, widely used across the country, called Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, or DIBELS, from the University of Oregon.

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