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Tea Area presents summer 'Ready to Start' and Frontier bridge programs; early assessments show strong gains
Summary
District staff reported outcomes from the Ready to Start kindergarten readiness program and a Frontier kindergarten→first-grade bridge program: both were grant-funded and produced measurable pre/post gains on classroom assessments and NWEA checks.
Tea Area School District administrators and teachers reported that the district’s Ready to Start summer program and a new Frontier bridge program produced measurable gains in early literacy and numeracy, district staff said.
Administrators said Ready to Start enrolled 41 students this summer in three 15‑student classrooms and ran 20 four‑hour days (five weeks, Monday–Thursday). Staff presented pre/post classroom assessment data showing growth in early math and phonics skills: one‑to‑one counting rose from about 50% on the pretest to 100% on the posttest; writing…
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