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Sperry Middle principal outlines student growth plan, shift to I-Ready and new "WINGS" values
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Sperry Middle School Principal Dr. Lauren Boga presented a learning report highlighting a move from NWEA to I-Ready, cohort gains in ELA and math, a schoolwide WINGS core-values rollout, Panorama social-emotional gains, expanded instructional coaching and plans for field trips and student-led initiatives.
Sperry Middle School Principal Dr. Lauren Boga told the Lindbergh Schools Board of Education Tuesday that the school will replace the middle-school NWEA assessment with I-Ready this year and has set a goal that 80 percent of students be at grade level or above on I-Ready.
In a presentation to the board, Boga provided cohort achievement data from prior NWEA windows for the current freshman cohort (class of 2029) showing progress in the top three performance quintiles: ELA at 65%, 77% and 82% across three successive measures, and math at 66%, 71% and 75% across the same periods. Boga said the district has already completed a fall I-Ready assessment window and that teachers and students are using individual goal sheets stored in Google Drive to guide instruction and goal setting.
Boga also described a new schoolwide character framework the students helped design. The "WINGS" values stand for growth, community, perseverance, integrity and respect. The principal said 100% of Sperry students have completed a WINGS commitment form and that a high-school intern, Ella, is helping measure implementation and impact.
On social-emotional measures, Boga told the board that Panorama screener participation continued to exceed district goals and that the school recorded notable gains in learning strategies as a category after targeted interventions during "win time" lessons delivered by counselors. Boga credited health and fitness teachers for high participation in the Panorama survey and counselors for targeted interventions that produced gains in learning strategies.
Boga highlighted professional growth work: the school completed professional growth plans (PGPs) for all teachers, ran 57 instructional coaching rounds and 14 coaching cycles last year, and plans to increase coaching participation further this year. Employee well-being measures in the presentation showed roughly a mid-90s favorable response rate to staff well-being questions.
Boga also described personalized field-trip plans: eighth graders will again visit the Holocaust Museum with reflections tied to curriculum, sixth graders will attend a Forest Park ecology trip, and seventh graders may have a Topgolf outing. She said the district implemented AI-supported planning tools for field-trip integration developed with staff including Rob Zielinski and the district's AI director, Colin.
Special recognitions during the presentation included support staff of the year Andrea Hendrickson and teacher of the year Courtney Sprague, and the school honored outstanding eighth-graders Evan Bailey and Evan Kupferly. Boga closed by encouraging board members to attend an upcoming grade-level assembly and noted the school's student board representative advisory activities.
