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Superintendent details year‑end progress on literacy, AI and alternative pathways
Summary
Superintendent Allison delivered a year‑end update to the Westborough School Committee summarizing progress on the district strategic plan, rollout of new literacy curriculum and assessments, work on generative AI guidance, development of alternative high‑school pathways and a new data dashboard for longitudinal student metrics.
Superintendent Allison told the Westborough School Committee that the district’s primary focus this year was on teaching and learning, and she highlighted several initiatives now underway.
“All of these things I’ve mentioned before, but I will kind of storm through them again quickly,” Allison said as she opened the update, citing a new writing curriculum, K–6 coaching and new literacy assessments that she described as “a very successful start.”
The superintendent said the district formed an AI working group and provided professional development for educators in grades 4–12 to “understand what AI is, what it can do for you, and how to kind of use it both professionally and thinking about using it to enhance learning in the classroom.” She emphasized that work on AI guidance is in…
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