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Christina School District workshop narrows one-year goal to boost 5th-grade multilingual learners' Smarter reading scores
Summary
The Christina School District Board held a live-streamed workshop on Sept. 30, 2025, to develop one-year student-outcome goals and practice a monitoring cadence required under the superintendent's contract. With only three board members present and no vote taken, members agreed to bring a single one-year goal to the board's October business meeting for formal action.
The Christina School District Board held a live-streamed workshop on Sept. 30, 2025, to develop one-year student-outcome goals and practice a monitoring cadence required under the superintendent's contract. With only three board members present and no vote taken, members agreed to bring a single one-year goal to the board's October business meeting for formal action.
Superintendent Dr. Joyner presented two candidate goals she and her team had workshopped: raising third-grade I-Ready reading proficiency for multilingual learners from 44% in July 2025 to 48% in July 2026, and raising fifth-grade Smarter Balanced reading proficiency for multilingual learners from 12% to 14% over the same period. She also offered a secondary proposal to increase the percentage of 12th-grade students demonstrating college- and career-readiness from 55% to 60.5% by July 2026.
Board consultant Mister Jordan read the contract language that framed the…
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