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Sauk Trail principal: assessment changes, two-way immersion and chronic absenteeism shape school priorities
Summary
At a March board meeting the Sauk Trail principal described how recent state assessment changes and enrollment patterns in the two-way Spanish-English immersion program are affecting instruction and goals, and said chronic absenteeism is a rising school-improvement priority.
Sauk Trail Principal Chris Dahlke told the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District Board of Education on March 10 that changes to state assessments under Act 20 have made this year's data harder to compare with prior years and are shaping how the school approaches reading instruction.
Dahlke said the new literacy item includes a "cold read" format that presents short, grade-level passages with minimal supports and counts words read in one minute. "With a change of data comes just that learning curve," Dahlke said, adding that students and teachers are adapting to the different presentation and format.
The principal also reported that Sauk Trail is the district's only two-way Spanish-English immersion site and that approximately 54 percent of the school's students are enrolled in immersion while 46 percent receive…
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