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Everett Public Schools to link ‘essential practices’ to student outcomes, build Synergy dashboard
Summary
At a Feb. 20 special board workshop, district staff outlined a three‑year plan to define essential instructional practices, attach measurable indicators and publish district dashboards using the Synergy student information system to monitor effectiveness and guide supports.
Everett Public Schools board members on Feb. 20 heard a progress report on a district initiative to identify “essential practices” in classrooms, attach data measures to those practices and build a Synergy-based dashboard to monitor effectiveness.
The work aims to tie measures directly to the district’s student priority outcomes so leaders can spot where instructional supports or professional development are needed. Dr. Beckney, the initiative lead, told the board the effort is intended to create “actionable data” that is tied to the strategic plan and to build the system from the ground up.
District staff described the initiative as a three-year effort. Year 1 (current year) focused on refining the set of essential practices identified in earlier work and drafting the measures that could indicate whether those practices are in place. As staff collect those measures, year 2 will use Synergy’s analytics module to begin visualizing the…
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