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North High outlines SAIL-driven lesson-clarity work and reports early gains
Summary
The Eau Claire Area School Board heard a presentation from district teaching-and-learning staff and North High School leaders on the SAIL (ASSA) professional-learning program, the school’s 100-day improvement cycles and early indicators of reduced credit recovery and higher test participation.
The Eau Claire Area School Board on an unspecified April evening heard staff from the district’s teaching and learning office and North High School present the school’s work with the ASSA SAIL (School Administrators Institute for Transformational Leadership) program and a district instructional framework aimed at improving “lesson clarity.”
Manny Vanbleed, executive director of teaching and learning, told the board the district sends three schools per year to the two‑year SAIL program and that North High is in year two of the work. He described SAIL as one component of a larger district strategy that pairs a guaranteed and viable curriculum with coordinated professional learning, coaching and principal classroom observations.
Kim Koehler, principal at…
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