College Access Readers
Leadership Public Schools (LPS)
is a network of four urban charter high schools in the California
Bay Area. The majority of LPS students enter 9
th grade reading far below
grade level but all participate in college preparatory
courses.
Given this reality, LPS leverages
CK-12 not only to develop low-cost, tailored textbooks, but
also to scaffold these to provide better access for our
students. Specifically, LPS is embedding literacy scaffolds
directly into CK-12 Algebra, Geometry, and Biology materials to
create flexbooks called
College Access Readers.
Students with higher-level
literacy skills use the original CK-12 content flexed to our scope
and sequence. The lowest readers will soon access the materials
through text-to-speech versions or Spanish translations.