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Superintendent cites attendance gains, SuccessMaker math rollout and 'science of reading' work; tsunami evacuation planning continues
Summary
Superintendent Dr. David Ainsworth reported incremental gains in attendance and math-adaptive minutes, highlighted the district’s adoption of the Oregon Early Literacy Framework, and described continuing work on evacuation plans after recent tsunami alerts.
Coos Bay SD 9 — Superintendent Dr. David Ainsworth told the board the district is seeing pockets of improvement in attendance and math engagement while continuing to pursue safety planning and literacy initiatives.
Ainsworth pointed to the district’s new sprint-goal process for tracking short-term progress. He said Marshfield Junior High’s failure rate is consistently under the district target and that the district has seen significant improvement in some elementary-grade attendance — notably a sixth-grade classroom at Sunset that increased from about 65% to 84% attendance since the last sprint. “If you look at that sixth grade class, it went from 65% to 84%. So it’s just tremendous progress,” he said.
Ainsworth highlighted the SuccessMaker adaptive-math software rollout at elementary schools and said it helps teachers differentiate instruction, which is one of the district’s academic priorities. He described SuccessMaker targets as “60 minutes a week” of math minutes and said the district will continue measuring software access and usage as part of its sprint goals.
On literacy, Ainsworth played a district-produced clip and summarized the district’s implementation of the Oregon Early Literacy Framework and the science-of-reading approach. “We’re starting to see our data change,” he said. “Because now we’re like, okay, our kids can do it. We can do it. We can do it.” He credited the literacy coach and cited classroom examples of phonemic awareness instruction.
Safety and emergency planning: Dr. Ainsworth said the district continued work this month on evacuation and emergency operations plans with Coos County and regional partners and announced a community tsunami and evacuation meeting scheduled for Marshfield High School Heritage Hall on the 30th at 6 p.m. “The first of those is going to be at Marshfield High School in Heritage Hall on the thirtieth…6PM,” he said.
Why it matters: The superintendent framed the reports as early wins within a longer effort to raise proficiency and attendance. He stressed that the district is not yet where it wants to be and described the sprint process as a tool for continual improvement.
Next steps: The district will deploy a student survey in late February or early March to capture qualitative feedback about safety and school climate, continue midyear assessments and data-dashboard rollout, and report back to the board on progress at future meetings.
