The College and Career Readiness Committee reviewed a package of instructional and student-support priorities the committee expects to pursue this school year, Board member Becker said during the Aug. 11 West Allis-West Milwaukee School Board meeting.

"We looked at some of the happenings over the summer, what the teams are working on, had a little bit of a touch on what to expect for the fall," Becker said. He described four focus areas: "First is planning guides, so kind of developing benchmarks, what we expect our fourth graders to learn, eighth graders to learn, and on and on and on. Having a responsive system, so that involves unit testing and assessment and progress monitoring. So as opposed to a few times a year, we're gonna have more checkpoints basically to have a a quicker identification of kids who are struggling, building strong collaborative teams, the idea being that we we we work better when we're working together as opposed to working independently in silos, making sure we're pulling in the same direction. And then finally, on the adult learning framework, part of that, it it kinda falls into the theme of, the teacher coaching that, that we've been working on the last couple years, where we're making sure that our educators are are thinking about how to use things like small group instruction versus individual instruction and being able to use, being able to assess student achievement and understanding, by taking a couple different approaches."

Becker said the committee also heard from district staff about operational supports. "Connie was kind enough to to to join us for the first time as 1 of our directors, and she filled us in a little bit on some of the things she works on, include including, enrollment, open enrollment, working with kids who are, in transition or unhoused, working with foster care families, working on transportation for, every type of transportation that we need for our students across the district, The attendance, census, just a whole lot of areas that, support the the operations in our buildings," Becker said. Becker also said the committee discussed public-health preparedness: "For new, for the fall, we were looking at, some immunization, some possible concerns with the measles outbreaks that are happening across the country. And I believe we've got 9 cases in Wisconsin right now, so we were hearing a little bit about, what kind of strategies we might use were an outbreak to occur in the district."

The remarks were a committee report to the full board; no board action was taken at the Aug. 11 meeting on the committee's curriculum proposals or operational responses. Becker framed the items as continuing work for the fall, with additional planning and monitoring expected by district staff and administrators.