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Provo board to approve small amendments to Canyon Crest Elementary land‑trust plan
Summary
District staff recommended approval of three small changes to Canyon Crest Elementary’s school land‑trust plan: reducing a targeted language‑arts proficiency increase, replacing an older math growth measure with NWEA, and adding an NWEA attainment threshold tied to RISE predictions.
The Provo School District Board of Education reviewed a recommended amendment to Canyon Crest Elementary’s trust‑lands plan on Jan. 28, asking the board at the business meeting later to approve three minor changes to the school improvement targets.
District staff presented the amendment as three discrete edits to the school’s land‑trust plan. The first reduces the targeted proficiency improvement in language arts from a 5‑percentage‑point gain to a 3‑percentage‑point gain. The second replaces the previously used “into math” growth measure with the NWEA assessment. The third adds a specific NWEA attainment threshold — the 61st percentile — that district staff said correlates with a likely score of 3 or 4 on the state RISE assessment.
Jared Sykes, district assistant (presenting the amendment), said the committee approved the edits earlier in the month after a data review that showed “significant gains in their language arts,” and that the NWEA data allow the school to identify students who are “very close” to proficiency and target interventions.
Board President Jennifer Cartridge raised a cautionary note about lowering a goal. “I still don’t really feel comfortable with that. I think you reach as high as you can … but saying, ‘we’re not going to strive for it,’ it feels like we’re saying we’re not going to strive for it,” she said. District staff replied that the school community council considered current proficiency rates and aligned interventions to the targeted students.
District staff also said summary proficiency rates for Canyon Crest are “well over 60% in mathematics and scratching 70% in language arts” and that full figures are available in the board’s spreadsheet and packet materials.
The board packet lists the amendment for formal consideration in the business meeting that followed the study session.
Clarifying details: the amendments were described as committee‑approved and limited to measurement language (target percentage and assessment instrument); no classroom staffing or budget changes were described in the study‑session discussion. The district presenter said the NWEA 61st‑percentile threshold is being used as a predictor for RISE outcomes, and that interventions will be aligned to students identified by that metric.
The board did not take a formal vote on the amendment during the study session; district staff recommended the board approve the amendment in the upcoming business meeting.
