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Moscow Middle School credits new curriculum and MathLab intervention for ISAT gains
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Moscow Middle School math teachers told the school board May 28 that switching to Illustrative Mathematics, adding a MathLab intervention and daily formative feedback helped the district outperform state ISAT trends in middle grades.
Moscow Middle School teachers told the Moscow School District board May 28 that changes to curriculum, classroom placement and a targeted intervention called MathLab helped reverse the typical state “eighth‑grade dip” in ISAT math scores.
The department’s presentation, led by Derek Sanders, math department head at Moscow Middle School, showed longitudinal ISAT data back to 2019 and attributed a large portion of recent gains to the district’s adoption of the Illustrative Mathematics curriculum and to MathLab, an extra hour of targeted instruction for students who scored low on prior ISATs.
The math department showed that the district’s current eighth‑grade cohort avoided a drop that usually appears statewide. “We were very excited. Derek and I are having nightmares about this class because of this joke. We are not sure how we’re gonna get above 73% in the eighth grade,” Sanders said, describing the unusually high proficiency levels the department is now…
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