CCPS reports spring I-Ready gains and outlines summer interventions; board presses for clearer parent access and middle-school supports

Charles County Public Schools presented spring I-Ready assessment results and accompanying district data at the June 23 work session, showing year-over-year gains in several elementary grades and describing plans for targeted summer interventions.

Chief of Teaching and Learning Kevin Lowndes and assessment staff summarized how the diagnostic test is used three times per year to measure reading and math progress and explained the district's emphasis on 'stretch growth.' Lowndes said typical yearly growth is the baseline for expected progress but that the district is asking teachers and students to achieve stretch growth (described by staff as roughly a year-and-a-half of growth in one year) so students who start below grade level can catch up in multi-year sequences.

Assessment staff reported increases in the share of students in the higher proficiency…