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River Falls special education goal sets target: 80% of students with disabilities to show above-average growth
Summary
Special education staff presented a district-wide WIG (wildly important goal) aiming for 80% of special education students to demonstrate above-average student growth percentiles on universal reading screeners; administrators outlined measures, baseline data and implementation steps.
River Falls School District presented a new special education goal to the Board of Education: that 80 percent of all special education students will show above-average growth on student growth percentile measures from fall to spring.
Mark Inouye, the district's director for student services, described the WIG and the rationale behind it. "The special education WIG is essentially that 80 percent of all of our special education students will show above average growth as measured by ... universal reading screeners from the fall to the spring," Inouye said. He told the board the district will use a combination of measures, including AIMSweb Plus, FastBridge and STAR, and the student growth percentile (SGP) metric to compare growth among students with similar starting points.
Why it matters: The WIG expands the focus beyond students already in…
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