Superintendent outlines 2025–26 priorities: mentor program, DIBELS targets and iLearn checkpoints
Summary
Superintendent Schaeders presented district goals for 2025–26 including a mentor‑mentee program for new teachers, a master planning process tied to the high‑school renovation, a schoolwide DIBELS target for early grades, and adapting to new iLearn checkpoint assessments.
Superintendent Schaeders presented district goals for the 2025–26 school year at the first regular August meeting. She highlighted a mentor‑mentee program aimed at supporting new teachers and developing mentor teachers as leaders. The superintendent said she has begun work on a master planning document that will dovetail with the planned high‑school renovation and other priorities such as parking‑lot projects; she described a 2–3 year planning horizon for smaller projects. On assessment, Schaeders said the district will set a schoolwide DIBELS goal for primary‑age students to emphasize growth and performance. She noted that the statewide iLearn system has added beginning/middle/end‑of‑year checkpoints that will give teachers interim data in addition to the summative test at year end. The superintendent also emphasized reading comprehension as a district literacy priority and said she will work with principals to align school goals. She described a superintendent self‑assessment rubric she is developing and offered to share that working document with the board. These items were presented for discussion and planning; no formal board action was taken on these goals during the meeting.
