October 17, 2026
Dear [Hiring manager's name],
Twenty-six second graders walk into my classroom at Maple Hollow Elementary each morning, and by the state's growth measures, they leave each spring averaging 130% of a full year's expected reading progress. I'm applying for the Elementary School Teacher opening at [School name] because your building serves a similarly high-poverty population, and that's the setting where I've built my strongest results.
Nine of eleven students who started last year below benchmark on our math screener reached grade level by spring through daily twenty-minute small-group rotations, and office referrals from my classroom dropped from 14 to 2 in the first year after I adopted Responsive Classroom morning meetings. I also host two family learning nights each semester that draw more than 70 families, with newsletters translated into Spanish and Somali.
I hold an Ohio PK-5 teaching license with a reading endorsement, LETRS certification and Responsive Classroom training, and I serve on my building's literacy team, which selected and piloted our district's new K-2 phonics curriculum across nine classrooms. I plan differentiated small-group instruction daily and use running records every two weeks to keep groups current rather than fixed at September levels.
I'd welcome the chance to bring that same growth to [School name] and to talk with you about your current reading data and family demographics. I'm glad to share my most recent growth scores or a sample small-group schedule. Thank you for considering my application.
Sincerely,
Nina Hernandez
