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Blackstock Junior High credits daily fluency and math practice for winter-to-spring gains
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Blackstock Junior High reported gains on fall-to-spring screeners after implementing school‑wide repeated‑reading routines and a daily RTI math practice; administrators flagged social‑emotional dips and declining enrollment.
Miss Homestaff, presenter for Blackstock Junior High, told the Hueneme School District governing board Wednesday that the school saw measurable reading and math improvements after adopting school‑wide Tier 1 strategies.
The presentation summarized fall, winter and spring benchmark results showing increases in students scoring in the Tier 1 (green) band on aimswebPlus reading screeners and reductions in the share of students scoring in the “critical” range on math screeners. The gains followed a January rollout of repeated‑reading routines and a daily RTI math practice using Amplify.
Miss Homestaff said Blackstock’s current enrollment is 1,240, down about 200 students from the previous year, and reported 352 current English learners. She described “Ever ELs” —…
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