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Rogers Elementary reports improved attendance, ELL gains; district survey finds high staff engagement
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Rogers Elementary staff told the board the school reduced chronic absenteeism and showed academic and social‑emotional gains; a district Humanex staff‑engagement survey presented separately showed strong, statistically significant improvements across many dimensions.
Rogers Elementary leaders told the Marshalltown Community School District board Monday that chronic absenteeism at the building has fallen significantly and that instructional and social‑emotional systems put in place this year produced measurable gains for students and staff.
Brooke Will (Rogers principal) and members of the Rogers leadership team described multiple strategies they said drove improvement: quarterly attendance incentives, weekly attendance review meetings, family communication and targeted interventions for chronically absent students. School resource specialist Suhei Alvarez reported chronic absenteeism…
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