Creighton board adopts progress reports on math outcomes, backs instruction-focused guardrail

The Creighton Elementary District Governing Board on March 11 adopted progress monitoring reports for two student-outcome goals focused on middle-school math and approved a new superintendent guardrail that tracks whether teachers communicate learning targets and success criteria to students.

District staff told the board the eighth-grade math goal (Goal 1) is showing early improvement on interim measures and remains on track for the year’s interim target, while the separate equity goal focused on Black eighth-grade students (Goal 2) is not on track and needs additional, targeted supports. The board approved both progress reports and the guardrail after staff outlined inputs and coaching strategies intended to accelerate change in instruction.

Why it matters: The progress reports are part of the district’s Student Outcomes Focused Governance (SOFG) work, which ties board goals to concrete measures of adult practice and student performance. Staff said Guardrail 4 provides a leading indicator of whether classroom practice is shifting in ways that should produce later gains in state assessments.

District presentation and targets Dr. Dupin, a member of the district executive team, summarized Goal 1, saying “the goal is that the percent of eighth graders that score minimally proficient on AASA math will decrease from 73 percent in August 2023 to 48 percent by August 2028.” For the 2024–25 year, staff set an annual…