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Board finalizes approach to strategic-priority scorecard; staff to refine indicators and add public-facing explanations
Summary
Trustees reviewed draft strategic-priority indicators for student outcomes, assessment measures and accountability; staff will refine language, select measurement windows (beginning-to-end vs. fall-to-fall), produce a shadow document with inclusion/exclusion criteria and create a user-facing summary and glossary for the scorecard.
Trustees reviewed a draft scorecard of strategic priorities and directed staff to refine indicators, clarify measurement windows and create user-friendly supporting materials before formal adoption.
Discussion focused on how to measure student growth. Staff outlined options available from assessment platforms (MAP, STAR and locally used tools) — for example, number or percentage of students meeting projected growth, median conditional growth percentile, and beginning-of-year to end-of-year comparisons. Trustees weighed the merits of fall-to-spring (beginning-to-end) measures versus fall-to-fall (beginning-to-beginning). Several trustees and staff recommended beginning-to-end for reporting growth over the year, while acknowledging fall-to-fall has value for long-term retention analysis.
Administrators recommended continuing to use the MAP national norms as a measurement source while ensuring reports focus on student-level growth rather than only normed comparisons. For early childhood measures staff recommended using the early-learning Circle assessment for pre-K (beginning-to-end) and the state kindergarten readiness assessment (Texas KRA) for kindergarten readiness at the beginning of kindergarten. Trustees asked that staff provide parent-facing links and a short glossary explaining assessment terms and acronyms, and to make clear where data will be reported in parent portals.
Trustees also asked administrators to develop a ‘‘shadow document’’ that lists inclusion and exclusion rules for each metric (for example, how retirements, transfers and long-term leaves affect turnover rates) so year-to-year comparisons remain consistent. The board expects the refined scorecard to be presented for approval at the May meeting with numeric baselines to be set after final data are available.
Ending: Staff will clean up indicator language, add a glossary and parent-facing links, prepare a shadow document with measurement criteria, and bring the revised scorecard and proposed baselines to the board in May.
