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Alma School District approves curriculum and discusses ATLAS screeners, OLLI grant and curriculum updates
Summary
The board approved continued use of the district curriculum and administrators discussed adoption of ATLAS K–2 screeners, results from recent ATLAS testing, an OLLI grant application for grades 6–12, rollout of OpenSciEd for fifth grade, and a new K–5 agricultural offering.
The Alma School District Board approved the annual continuation of the district curriculum and heard administration updates on assessment, grant and curriculum changes.
Superintendent and instructional leaders described the district’s move to ATLAS for K–2 screening and noted results from last year’s eighth-grade ATLAS math administration: 190 students took the test and 170 met or exceeded their projected growth (reported in the meeting as about 90%; the speaker contrasted that with a cited state average of 52 percent). The board heard that one teacher (Miss Wells) had 50 students take an end-of-course algebra exam and that all 50 scored proficient, reported in the meeting as a 100 percent proficiency result.
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