Milton Public Schools presents winter diagnostic results; I Ready and DIBELS show consistent midyear patterns

District curriculum leaders presented winter diagnostic results and described how teachers and intervention teams are using I Ready (math) and DIBELS (literacy) to guide instruction across Milton Public Schools.

Kat Durosh, literacy director for kindergarten through eighth grade, and Brian Seelig, district math director, walked the committee through assessment types, how the district administers each diagnostic, limitations of the measures and how results are used to form instructional groupings and interventions. "Formative assessments are assessment for learning," Durosh said. "Teachers use formative assessments to see what they need to teach next."

Seelig described I Ready administration: elementary students take the diagnostic three times a year; middle school students are assessed in fall and spring and only…