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District outlines student-engagement strategy and expands career pathways with skilled trades center and apprenticeships
Summary
Administrators discussed improved student-engagement measures, chronic absenteeism gains and a push to expand work-based learning and registered pre‑apprenticeship programs; the district also gave an update on its skilled trades center, which has temporary occupancy and will host four of five pre-apprenticeship programs.
District leaders briefed the Southeast Polk board on student-engagement efforts, progress on chronic absenteeism and expansion of career and technical pathways through registered pre-apprenticeship programs and the new skilled trades extension center.
Attendance and engagement: administrators reported increased attendance metrics in March, with 86% of students meeting attendance goals — a 9 percentage-point improvement from the same month last year — and said 658 fewer students are now chronically absent compared with the prior year. The superintendent framed engagement as behavioral, emotional and cognitive, and staff highlighted strategies to…
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