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School committee hears quarterly update on literacy, inclusion and family-engagement work
Summary
District staff updated the committee on year-one strategy-plan objectives including literacy acceleration (LAN/TNTP walkthroughs and a K–4 ELA pilot), Blue Engine co-teaching work and expanded family engagement and mental-health monitoring.
Assistant Superintendent Gosselin and district staff reviewed the district’s first-year strategy-plan objectives at the Jan. 27 workshop, focusing on accelerating literacy and language acquisition, reducing opportunity and achievement gaps, and enhancing family engagement.
On literacy, staff described the Learning Acceleration Network (LAN) walkthroughs conducted by a TNTP coach: 23 classrooms were observed during the coach’s second site visit and staff reported increases in student engagement measures compared with the first visit. Staff said site-visit data track core actions such as use of high-quality texts, standards-aligned questioning and student ownership of thinking;…
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