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District outlines reading screening changes and interventions; NextPath used to track Personal Reading Plans
Summary
District staff described new elementary screening under Act 20 (AIMSweb Plus), the Personal Reading Plan process and use of NextPath to track interventions; middle‑school workshop courses showed mixed gains with attendance a limiting factor.
District staff told the curriculum subcommittee the elementary schools implemented new mandated screeners under state reading legislation (Act 20), used AIMSweb Plus for benchmarking, and created Personal Reading Plans (PRPs) for students below benchmark. Staff also described NextPath as a district tool to aggregate assessment data and track the effectiveness of interventions.
Elementary screening and PRPs: staff said Act 20 required adoption of a specific early literacy screener; Waunakee used AIMSweb Plus for 4K through third grade. The screener includes measures such as initial sounds and letter‑word sound fluency in early grades and oral reading fluency (ORF) in grades 1–3. Staff reported the district set a benchmark (described in the meeting as near the 20th–25th percentile) that triggers a PRP. When students fall below the…
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