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Owens to visit Bessemer Elementary today
By Peter Strescino

December 6, 1999

Gov. Bill Owens often uses the academic successes at Bessemer Elementary as an example of what public education can be. Today, he'll have the chance to see firsthand what he's been talking about.

Owens is scheduled to visit Bessemer at 2:30 p.m.

"The governor is pretty excited," said his press secretary, Dick Wadhams. "He talks about Bessemer in every speech he gives on education."

There's a lot to talk about at Bessemer. Two years ago, when the first Colorado Student Assessment Program results were released, just 12 percent of its fourth-graders read proficiently, and a miniscule 2 percent wrote at that level.

The teachers at the school banded together, they said, and instead of wallowing in failure, they determined to fix the problem by working harder and smarter, putting aside "fun" activities and substituting on-task lesson time.

It worked. The next year 48 percent of Bessemer fourth- graders wrote proficiently on the test and 64 percent read at that level. The scores represented the greatest increase in Colorado.

"The governor has wanted to visit Bessemer for quite a while," Wadhams said. "He has praised Bessemer's dramatic improvement and wants to speak with the principal and teachers.

"He likes to visit schools," Wadhams said, noting the governor has visited schools recently in Springfield, Greeley, Burlington and in the San Luis Valley. "He likes to interact with parents and teachers."

Wadhams said that Owens is familiar with the Lindamood-Bell reading concept that is employed at several District 60 schools and at a reading clinic located at Bessemer. The clinic has been established to give slow readers from throughout the district intensive, small-class Lindamood-Bell reading and learning skills. Early diagnostic scores have shown that some students made dramatic gains in just six or seven weeks.

"The governor feels the clinic concept is a good one," said Wadhams. "It gets kids up to speed, and remedial learning is at the nucleus of his reading achievement program.

"He's pretty obsessed with reading, because you can't learn much in school if you can't read."

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