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Aberdeen board hears end-of-year update on district goals; literacy plan and safety trainings highlighted
Summary
The Aberdeen School Board received the 2024–25 year-end goals update covering student achievement, a new four-year elementary literacy plan, science-of-reading professional development, curriculum review, growth in internships, and completion of safety drills and ALICE trainings.
The Aberdeen School Board on May 27 received the district’s year-end update for 2024–25, covering student achievement, literacy work, curriculum alignment and safety preparations.
Assistant superintendent Melissa Dickey told the board preliminary state assessment results are unchanged from last year. The district established an elementary literacy committee and adopted a four-year literacy plan. Dickey said all elementary and preschool staff completed about a 60-hour science-of-reading professional development course incorporated across staff development days.
The board heard that the district completed a kindergarten–12 language arts curriculum review and purchased new curriculum aligned to updated state standards; initial training for teachers began the day after school ended.
Career and technical education and work-based learning also expanded this year. District staff reported growth in high school internship and job-shadowing participation from 59 students and 49 training sites in quarter 1 to 88 students and 76 sites by year’s end.
On safety, the district reported all schools submitted required documentation for tornado, fire and safety drills and completed new building audits listing shut-off locations and emergency contacts. The district has completed mandatory safe-schools training and conducted ALICE active-shooter trainings twice this year; district staff thanked Officer Olsen and Officer Kernan for scheduling and follow-up. New educational assistants completed Mental Health First Aid training, and staff received training on recognizing and responding to scams.
Board discussion included staff reaction to the science-of-reading training and the district’s plan to continue and to seek state-developed training courses through local institutions. No board action was required; the report was informational.
The meeting later moved into executive session on a separate motion.
