MCPSD board hears detailed student assessment results, staff outlines next steps on curriculum and interventions

The Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District Board of Education heard a detailed report Oct. 27 on statewide student assessments, including Forward (grades 3–8 and grade 10 social studies), Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) for students with alternative standards, the preACT for ninth- and tenth-graders, and the ACT for eleventh-graders. Assistant Superintendent Jan Chenoweth introduced the presentation and said staff would review metrics disaggregated by student group and race and noted small group suppression rules for groups under 20 students.

Marybeth Talis, director of elementary curriculum, instruction and assessment, told the board that district results remain generally above statewide averages across subject areas, and that most grade-level trend lines were stable or showed slight increases from last year to this year.…