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Board hears plan to shift student social-emotional survey to FastBridge SABER, with pilots and privacy safeguards
Summary
District counselors told the board they will replace Panorama surveys with a SABER instrument housed in FastBridge, pilot the new survey at three grades this spring, and use results to guide interventions. Board members raised privacy and historical-data concerns.
Kristen Brownell, lead elementary school counselor, told the West Allis-West Milwaukee School District Board of Education on March 10 that the district will replace the Panorama social‑emotional surveys with the SABER instrument, hosted inside the district’s FastBridge platform.
Brownell said the change will make the survey shorter and more developmentally appropriate — 20 items for student self‑assessment — and will let teachers and counselors view survey results alongside reading and math data already in FastBridge. She described plans to pilot mySABER this spring at Walker (third grade), West Milwaukee (seventh grade) and West Allis Central (10th grade) and to use the results to target interventions and refine the district’s multi‑layered system of student supports (EMLSS).
The move, Brownell said, follows staff and teacher feedback that Panorama’s two surveys (described in the meeting as a…
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