Battle Ground High School highlights Tiger Time intervention, freshman success pilot and assessment changes

Heather Ichimura, principal of Battle Ground High School, and assistant principals described an instructional shift focused on intervention and tighter assessment alignment during the district's school improvement plan work session.

Ichimura told the board the school's staff used a fall diagnostic to "quiet the noise," then implemented systems to address chronic tardies, single-period absences and cell-phone disruption so teachers could concentrate on instruction. She said staff developed a common approach to intervention—called Tiger Time—and a four-point formative self-assessment rubric to help students signal when they need reteaching rather than waiting for a grade to indicate failure.

Why it matters: School leaders said the changes are intended to improve on-track and graduation metrics by shifting effort from reactive makeups to proactive reteaching and by creating predictable intervention structures for students and teachers.

Tiger Time and…