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Burlington officials present iReady assessment results, outline curriculum and college-credit expansions
Summary
District leaders reviewed iReady math and reading results showing growth in many grades, described plans to revise middle school math curriculum, expand literacy programming, and outlined dual-enrollment, internship and AI learning initiatives.
Burlington Public Schools administrators presented districtwide iReady reading and math assessment results and outlined next steps for curriculum revisions, interventions and postsecondary pathways at the committee meeting.
District leaders described iReady as a combined norm-referenced and criterion-referenced screener administered multiple times per year and used to track growth. Presenters said kindergarten through fifth grade math screening using I‑Ready is new this year and that the tool allows comparison to national and Massachusetts norms.
Why this matters: The district framed iReady as an instructional tool that provides more timely feedback than MCAS results, which arrive in October.…
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