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Riverton High administrator says targeted instruction linked to year-over-year gains on YTOP
Summary
Riverton High School administrators told the Fremont County School District #25 board that targeted instructional changes and incentives produced measurable year-over-year gains on the district’s YTOP summative data, with improvements in math, English and science noted across ninth- and tenth-grade cohorts.
Riverton High School administrators presented fall analysis to the Fremont County School District #25 Board of Trustees showing gains on the district’s YTOP summative data, and outlined instructional changes used to drive that growth.
At a board meeting, Mr. Jasmine, a Riverton High School administrator, described a year-end building review and follow-up work in October that led departments to align curriculum timing to the YTOP sequence and to add academic skill emphasis across exploratory classes. “We’re not gonna take no as an answer,” Mr. Jasmine told the board, describing the school’s push to increase rigor and instructional consistency.
Why it matters: The presentation tied classroom strategies — guaranteed viable curriculum alignment, vocabulary initiatives, and embedding YTOP-style questions across classes — to measurable movement on the summative results. District and building leaders said the changes were schoolwide rather than isolated to English, math or science.
Administrators highlighted several specific results from the ninth- and tenth-grade comparisons the building compiled for 2023 vs. 2024. For ninth-grade math, the school reported the share of students scoring at the “advanced” level rose from 8% to 17%. In ninth-grade English the school reported a drop in students scoring “below basic” from 37% to 29%, and increases in the shares at “proficient” and “advanced.” Science (tenth grade) showed movement from “below basic” toward “basic” and an increase in students at the “advanced” level.
Administrators said the gains followed several specific actions: fixing curriculum sequencing so content was taught before assessments, increasing grade-level academic vocabulary instruction during designated school times, adding YTOP-style questions into daily lessons, and incentivizing student participation on test days. Mr. Jasmine said teachers also used professional development and instructional-facilitator support to implement changes.
Superintendent Eibaugh and board members praised the work and encouraged sharing the results with the community. "I just appreciate what you've done," a board member told Mr. Jasmine. Mr. Jasmine said the PowerPoint and underlying data are not confidential and that he is open to sharing the results with parents and local media if the board wishes.
What was not decided: The board received the presentation as informational. There was no vote to change district policy or curriculum at the meeting.
