Jamestown Public School Board members heard a progress-monitoring update Sept. 15 on the districtommitment to a guaranteed and viable curriculum and were given early indicators for chronic absenteeism.

The report focused on work teamsompleting priority standards and proficiency scales and on an outside consultant who will conduct an environmental scan of the secondary schedule and learning environment.

Mr. Gaylor, a district curriculum staff member, told the board that the district
sks teams across grade levels and subjects to self-report progress through team discussions and surveys. “Our metrics within this rely on self reported data from our teams that are really invested in this work across the district,” he said.

Mr. Gaylor presented percentages from those team responses: elementary courses were reported at 82.8% completion for priority standards, middle school responses showed 100% completion across 30 responses for priority standards and strong proficiency-scale completion, and the high school reported about 63% of priority standards complete with lower completion rates for proficiency scales.

Gaylor said science and social studies at the elementary level and some intervention courses and cybersecurity were among areas still in process; special-education teachers use IEP progress monitoring so the district did not require duplicative reporting for those courses. He also said some high-school courses can already produce proficiency reports by student and standard, while others have not started that work.

Board members asked about timeline and constraints. The presenters said a key challenge at the high-school level is time: teachers often have multiple preparations and the schedule provides less common planning time than at the elementary or middle-school levels. One board member asked whether group leads or department chairs completed the surveys; Gaylor said elementary team leads, middle-school team leads and high-school department chairs coordinated responses.

The board also heard that the district has engaged an outside consultant to conduct an environmental scan of the secondary schedule and learning environment, including classroom observations, interviews with students, department chairs and central office staff, and recommendations for professional learning and schedule changes. The consultantngagement is scheduled to run through September and early October and is intended to inform recommendations for maintaining opportunities and improving the working and learning environment.

On chronic absenteeism, the superintendent said state data have not yet been received, so the district used its internal EduCLIMBER portal for early indicators. “We haven't gotten that data from the state. We pulled that data from EduCLIMBER,” the superintendent said, adding that EduCLIMBER calculates absenteeism differently from the state metric. The district identified a goal of 12% chronic absenteeism and reported early indicators pointing to about 15% overall for the district, with increases anticipated at the high school and mixed changes across several elementary and middle schools.

No formal board action was taken on curriculum or absenteeism at the meeting; the update was presented for monitoring and will inform future work on schedule configuration and professional learning.