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Cherry Creek presents midyear literacy update with specific targets, expanded coaching and targeted interventions
Summary
District leaders on Jan. 13 updated the Board of Education on year two of the Cherry Creek literacy plan, citing numeric targets for reducing individualized read plans and raising proficiency at key grades and describing supports including data‑literacy work, instructional coaches, and the Just Words intervention.
Cherry Creek School District officials presented a midyear update of the district's literacy plan at the Board of Education meeting on Jan. 13, outlining numerical targets for reducing individualized "read plans," specific proficiency goals at critical grades and a set of supports—data‑literacy coaching, targeted interventions and expanded instructional coaching—to help meet the district's 2030 literacy goal.
The plan sets a near‑term goal that each school reduce the number of students on read plans by 17 percent by February (a change the district says is the proportion needed to stay on the trajectory toward the 2030 proficiency goal). District leaders also identified grade‑level proficiency targets they said will move the district toward the 2030 objective: second grade 60 percent proficiency (STAR early/STAR reading benchmark) by 2025; fourth grade rise from 45.4 to 56 percent on CMAS; eighth grade rise from 51.4 to 61 percent on CMAS; and tenth grade increase from 75 to 80 percent on the PSAT.
"That 17% comes when you look at the number we need to decrease them by in order to reach that 2030 goal that's been set by the…
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