Dear Dr. Ramsey,
I am writing to apply for the Third Grade Teacher position at Oak Grove Elementary. I currently teach a self-contained third-grade class of twenty-six in a Title I school, and your posting's description of a grade-level team that plans intervention together is the reason I applied.
Last year I ran our grade level's reading intervention block. The change that mattered was not the materials — it was moving to a common assessment calendar, so all four third-grade teachers screened in the same week and could group students across classrooms rather than within them.
Oak Grove's posting says the intervention block is protected in the master schedule. In my experience that single decision does more for a struggling reader than any program choice, and it is not something a teacher can arrange on their own.
I hold a North Carolina Professional Educator's License in Elementary Education, kindergarten through grade six, and completed Letters Foundations training last year.
I would like to hear how the grade-level teams at Oak Grove use their common planning time, and what the intervention block looks like in practice. I am available to meet at your convenience.
Sincerely, Priya Raghavan