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School District of Oconee County
Walhalla, South Carolina
Since 1992, the Oconee site has served and trained teachers in eight
school districts in South Carolina as well as two districts in
Georgia and has provided training for teachers at the School for the
Deaf and Blind.
Oconee Reading Recovery site presently has 14 Reading Recovery
teachers serving 7 of the 11 elementary schools and delivering the
program to approximately 160 students each year. Since 1989, Oconee
Reading Recovery has served over 3,000 of the district’s most
at-risk students.
For the past 9 years, Reading Recovery students at the Oconee
training site have achieved above-average results for the percent of
children moved from reading below grade level to reading on or above
grade level. For the 2007-2008 school year, 86% of Oconee County
Reading Recovery students who had a full series of lessons achieved
grade-level standard.
Background on the Oconee County Reading Recovery Site
John Kelley, assistant superintendent for instruction, is
credited with the vision to initially implement Reading Recovery in
Oconee County. He was supported in this effort by Superintendent of
Education James Brown and Director of Elementary Curriculum Anne
Stafford. Subsequent superintendents Buddy Herring, Valerie
Truesdale, and Mike Lucas have endorsed Reading Recovery as a
valuable intervention for struggling readers in Oconee County since
1988.
The first cadre of Oconee Reading Recovery teachers was trained
in 1989-1990 at the Clemson University training center. The district
was established as a training site in the fall of 1992, with Anne
Cooper as the teacher leader and Ann Stafford as the first site
coordinator. John Kelley assumed the responsibility of site
coordinator upon Ann's retirement and served in this capacity until
his retirement in 1999; followed by Kay Powell until 2002, Dick
Ellenburg until 2006, and Kim Nicholson. Upon Anne Cooper’s
retirement in 2002, Susan Turner was trained as teacher leader.
Alisa Spearman gathered all her
Reading Recovery
students for an end-of-year photograph. Students
celebrated their progress and upcoming vacation by
making silly faces.
 The
teaching class of 2009 (front row left to right):
Teresa Garrett, Anita Stancil, Annette Morrah, Connie
Covone, teacher leader Susan Turner, Wilene Cohen,
Rebecca Purcell, and Rita Norman; (back row left to
right): Alisa Spearman, Marian Stillwell, Amy Harvey,
Susan Hulsey, Susan Conover, Sandra Earhart,
Melinda Arrington, Janice Cox, and Amy Holland.
Amaria shares a book she likes with
her
teacher Susan Conover.
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