Across Florida, students are succeeding with SIPPS®, an evidence-based, systematic decoding program that helps K–12 readers quickly develop the accuracy and automaticity needed for fluent, independent reading.
Florida district-wide SIPPS implementations include Alachua, Broward, Charlotte, Clay, Hendry, Hillsborough, Lake, Manatee, Marion, Orange Pasco, Polk, Putnam, Santa Rosa, Seminole, St. Johns, Volusia, and Wakulla.
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Explore SIPPS (K–12)
Every new and striving reader deserves effective, evidence-based, and differentiated instruction in word recognition and fluency that puts them on the path to grade-level reading success.
Learn how the K–12 SIPPS program is:
- Highly supportive of educators, easy to implement, and well-suited to tutoring and expanded learning settings
- Aligned with the science of reading
- Proven effective with young readers (K–3), older readers (4–12), multilingual learners, and students identified with dyslexia
- Flexible, adaptable, differentiated, and MTSS-aligned for use across all tiers of instruction
Florida Success Stories
Pasco County School District
A quasi-experimental, ESSA Level 2 study found that students who received SIPPS for intervention achieved significantly greater reading growth than peers who received a different intervention.
“SIPPS provides teachers and students with strong and concise routines that help students focus on the learning and acquire new skills. The program accelerates learners through a systematic scope and sequence that utilizes research-based best practices for literacy instruction.”
—Danielle Varcardipone, Senior Instructional Specialist, PCSD
Orange County Public Schools
OCPS’s Read2Succeed tutoring program chose SIPPS as its curriculum to support kindergarteners and their tutors in providing explicit reading instruction.
“SIPPS has made a huge impact… Progress monitoring data showed that 97.3% of the kindergartners who participated in our OCPS Read2Succeed Program utilizing SIPPS showed growth from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.”
—Elizabeth Conrad, Senior Administrator, Read2Succeed, OCPS
Hillsborough County Public Schools
In 2020 HCPS began implementing SIPPS across all elementary schools. SIPPS is currently used as a Tier 3 intervention in K-2, as part of 3rd grade reading camp, and as an intervention in several 4th and 5th grade classrooms.
“When I saw this student’s results in the spring, I cried like a baby! This sweet boy had spent his entire time in elementary school unable to read and was finally having success as a fifth grader.”
—Kimberly Lee, District Resource Teacher, HCPS
Florida YMCA Reads
Florida’s YMCA Reads utilizes SIPPS as its early intervention program at after-school sites in 17 public schools and 9 participating YMCAs in 13 counties across the state.
“SIPPS was an easy choice because of its systematic approach to teaching that helps our striving readers. Since many of our YMCA Reads staff and volunteers don’t have a traditional teaching background, we love working with Collaborative Classroom to deliver SIPPS because of the resources and built-in support that the curriculum offers.”
—Katie Croland, State Director of Literacy, Florida State Alliance of YMCAs
How a District-Tutoring-University Partnership Serves Striving Readers and Preservice Teachers with SIPPS
Read about an innovative, four-way partnership between Orange County Public Schools, the OCPS Read2Succeed tutoring program, the University of Central Florida School of Teacher Education, and Collaborative Classroom.
“The Read2Succeed program — in collaboration with UCF and Collaborative Classroom — supports our reading goals in many ways... SIPPS has become our main intervention resource for reading for all grade levels.”
—David Gorham, Director, Elementary Curriculum and Instruction, Orange County Public Schools
“The partnership with Collaborative Classroom and the UCF School of Teacher Education has supported Read2Succeed by tremendous program growth in terms of quality of instruction and number of students we are able to serve.”
—Elizabeth Conrad, Senior Administrator, Read2Succeed tutoring program, Orange County Public Schools
“Collaborative Classroom’s commitment to continuous, job-embedded professional learning was evident from our earliest planning meetings as we outlined a professional learning plan that would support our preservice teachers at various stages across their first year of tutoring.”
—Taylar Wenzel, Elementary Education Program Coordinator, Senior Lecturer, University of Central Florida
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