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Board reviews Achievement Gap Reduction report, district adopts NextPath for data tracking
Summary
Superintendent presented the AGR program's purpose and funding uses; the board heard that NextPath replaced Educlimber to track subgroup progress and support intervention planning across K‑12.
Superintendent Steinbreth presented the district's Achievement Gap Reduction (AGR) report and told the board the AGR funding supports smaller class sizes, interventionists and instructional coaching in K–3 schools.
"It was established in 02/1516 and replaced SAGE at the time," Steinbreth said, describing AGR's formula as based on enrollment and free‑and‑reduced‑lunch data. He said AGR funds may pay for one‑to‑one tutoring by licensed teachers, instructional coaching and efforts to maintain classroom ratios.
District staff told the board they must provide AGR reporting twice per year to keep the funding: a winter report and a summer report before June 30. The district also said principals participate in strategic support circles and use AGR resources to focus on students in the bottom quartile.
The presentation described the district's recent switch from Educlimber to a commercial data tool called NextPath. "NextPath does everything we've wanted it to," the superintendent said, adding the platform pulls state and local assessment data and lets the district slice results by subgroup, grade and school to identify where interventionists are needed.
Board members asked technical and policy questions about targets and growth measures. Steinbreth explained the use of SMART goals and said stretch‑growth goals are intentionally ambitious; some students require multiple years of sustained stretch growth to close achievement gaps. He said principals push for 100% proficiency as an aspiration while setting attainable intermediate targets.
Trustees and staff recounted visits to DDI or data meetings at several schools and described examples of stretch growth in some buildings. The board heard that NextPath has been used across K–12, including to pull pre‑ACT and ACT data at the secondary level, and that it helps produce required state reports more quickly than prior tools.
No formal vote was required for the presentation; the AGR report was provided as part of the district's regular reporting cycle.
