Leticia Roffe, 10, is all smiles in her 4th-grade classroom, answering questions from her teacher, Erica Stein, together with her classmates, about the elements of a graphic novel.

Leticia is so involved in the discussion, it’s hard to notice the cheery instructional assistant poised to help prompt her, just in case. But no need. It’s March 2023, seven months into a new program at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School called Sulam@JDS. That the instructional assistant is perched with students, and that Leticia can answer on her own demonstrates the results of the program.

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