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Rogers Elementary principal presents unified improvement plan after DIBELS participation shortfall
Summary
Rogers Elementary principal Jennifer Morell told the District 11 board the school will intensify progress monitoring, coaching and family outreach after low participation in DIBELS growth measures and a drop in overall growth left the school off the district's performance threshold.
Jennifer Morell, principal of Rogers Elementary School, told the Board of Education on Oct. 15 that the school will step up progress monitoring, coaching and family outreach after missing growth thresholds used in the state's School Performance Framework.
The principal presented data showing Rogers fell below the district's performance target this year, in part because the DIBELS participation rules used by the Colorado Department of Education require a 95% participation rate and paired beginning- and end-of-year measures. David (district staff) explained the school's low participation in paired DIBELS assessments was largely an artifact of small cohort sizes and student mobility rather than the school's failure to administer the measure. "They did not meet the threshold, not out of lack of effort," David said during the presentation.
Why it matters: The School Performance Framework (SPF) and DIBELS participation rules feed state and district accountability…
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