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Erica's Story
Student Success Stories - First California Student Now In College
Erica's Story: First California Student Now in College
by Kathy Presnell-Best, Reading Recovery Teacher, Riverside Unified
School District, Riverside, California
 The
first year for Reading Recovery in California was 1991-1992.
California State University at San Bernardino was the site, and
Riverside Unified School District sent me to be the first teacher
from Longfellow Elementary School. Erica Tenorio and I were the
first in California to go behind the glass. Her parents brought her
to the university campus.
Erica had been one of the lowest students in her first-grade class,
but she discontinued at Level 12 midyear - even with my newly
learned, shaky skills. She moved to a solid Level 16 by the end of
the year with her classroom teacher.
As she continued to University Heights Middle School and John W.
North High School, Erica participated in the Advancement Via
Individual Determination program for four years and the
International Baccalaureate program for one year. She is currently
enrolled in the University of California at Riverside as a liberal
studies (Spanish) major and an education minor. She hopes to be a
teacher.
Erica Tenorio, now enrolled in University of
California at Riverside, was a Reading Recovery student during
1991-1992. She is pictured above at her high school commencement
ceremony in 2003, and on the left at six years of age.
This article first appeared in The
Journal of Reading Recovery, vol. 4, no.2 (February 2005) |
