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District literacy council unveils strategic plan, reports winter gains on I-Ready screener
Summary
District literacy leaders presented a strategic literacy plan and winter-screening results showing movement from red to green on several foundational-reading domains. Staff emphasized parent-friendly communications, progress monitoring, common entry/exit criteria for Title/tiered supports and a parent packet with at-home strategies.
The Crook County School District literacy leader reported to the board that the district’s literacy council has drafted a strategic literacy plan to guide interventions, progress monitoring and parent communication for the 2025–26 school year.
Staff said the plan describes tiered interventions (Tier 1–3), universal screening (I-Ready this year, with DIBELS referenced), diagnostic follow-up, and standardized criteria across elementary schools for entering and exiting Title/tiered services. The plan also includes a parent-communication package intended to explain where a child is performing, why a student may have been placed in Tier 2 or Tier 3, monthly progress reports while in intervention, and specific at-home activities parents can use to reinforce literacy skills.
In a presentation of fall-to-winter I-Ready data, staff reported a shift toward higher percentiles in the districtwide placement bars for K–8 and reductions in the lowest-performance (red) bands across foundational domains including phonemic awareness, phonics and fluency. Staff acknowledged that I-Ready reports are framed against end-of-year benchmarks (which can be confusing for parents) and said they will provide clearer, parent-friendly progress reports and a read-at-home plan tied to the district’s intervention decision tree.
Board members asked how handoffs between grade levels and placement discussions will be handled. Staff said they have already held meetings with fifth-grade teachers and will schedule placement/transition meetings as the year closes, and they plan to build alignment time into next year’s professional-development calendar.
District leaders described the current year as a “cleaning-the-garage” stage — inventorying assessments and resources, removing duplicative materials and standardizing best-practice interventions across schools — and said the council will return to the board with spring data and ongoing implementation milestones.
