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Springfield presenters outline early-literacy gains and large tutoring expansion for fall
Summary
District leaders told the School Committee the district is trending upward on K–3 literacy screeners, described a successful tutoring pilot and said the district will expand high-dosage human tutoring and pilot an AI tutor for fall; staff offered to provide additional cohort breakdowns on preschool attendance.
Assistant Superintendent Terry Poe told the Springfield School Committee that early literacy remains the district's top priority and that screening and targeted instruction show improvement but also "an urgent need for improvement in instruction." Poe said the district uses the DESE-approved screener MCLASS (a DIBELS 8-based tool) and diagnostic data from i-Ready to guide instruction for grades K–5.
Poe and Laura Menz, director of elementary instruction, presented end-of-year screening and diagnostic results showing "about half of our kids are at grade level and about half are below grade level" and said most grades trended in the right direction from the start to the end of the year. "As it increases, it's not as significant as it should be," Poe said, adding that…
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