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English 2025-2026

Overview

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Mission

NPS Literacy

Strategic.

  • Promote an equitable, systematic, and evidenced-based literacy framework as the foundation of a successful reading and writing program.
  • Foster a rigorous curriculum that ensures every student experiences high quality literacy instruction.
  • Deliver explicit, data-driven, differentiated reading and writing instruction that is rooted in scientific research.

Authentic.

  • Motivate students by building relationships and making reading and writing personally meaningful.
  • Facilitate  learning experiences that honor diversity and reflect culturally relevant instruction through reading, writing, and research.
  • Challenge students with complex, diverse texts that engage minds, capture attention, and evoke emotions.  

Engaged.

  • Cultivate classrooms where students are actively engaged in reading and writing.
  • Utilize authentic tasks, student choice, and collaboration as keys to active engagement.
  • Provide learning experiences where students read, write, communicate, and think critically in every classroom, in every school, everyday - no exceptions.

Contact

Lauren Seward

English Department Chair
lseward@nps.k12.va.us
757-628-3575