is East Bakersfield High School’s second year being involved in
R.I.A.P. The teachers who attended the training sessions are
fortunate to have a fantastic foundation to build upon, and an
administration and colleagues who are supportive of developing
students’ content reading skills. Great things are happening at
East, including the implementation of the CSU Expository Reading
and Writing Course into the 12th grade curriculum. Foundational
Literacy Program East is in its tenth year of a literacy program
and was the first in the District to address this need by
creating a separate class for those in need of reading
acquisition. In past years of the program, 9th graders,
identified through testing, were placed in both a literacy class
and an English class. This school year, East piloted the Read
180 literacy curriculum, and the freshmen were placed in two-
hour blocks of Literacy and English. Students work on reading
acquisition, in addition to writing, reading, and literature
studies. East also offers Literacy