Richardson ISD previews campus improvement plans and beginning-of-year MAP results showing gains
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District leaders presented 2025-26 campus improvement plans (CIPs) aligned to the boards North Star goal and reviewed beginning-of-year MAP K— data. Presenters said fall MAP scores for several grades and subgroups were at or above national norms and described instructional responses including MTSS, PLCs and lesson internalization.
The Richardson ISD board reviewed campus improvement plans and beginning-of-year Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) results Oct. 9, and district leaders described how the CIPs connect to the boards North Star goal that every student and teacher will meet or exceed academic growth targets.
Miss Brandon opened the CIP presentation and invited area superintendents and principals to highlight how each campus aligned strategies to five district priorities: individual student growth, recruiting and retaining staff, curriculum and learning systems, community engagement, and fiscal stewardship. Area superintendents explained site-based decision-making committees, which include principals, teachers, parents and community representatives, and said committees meet quarterly to develop and refine campus priorities.
"We ask our principals to make sure that they are aligning those priorities with our instructional priorities as well," Jenny Bates said, summarizing CIP structure and the districts Year 3 strategic priorities.
District assessment leaders presented beginning-of-year MAP Growth results for kindergarten through eighth grade. Presenters reported that fall 2025 MAP scores were above the national norm across the district for reading and in most grade levels in mathematics, and that several student subgroups showed double-digit gains compared with the previous fall: roughly 10 points for African American and Hispanic subgroups and about a 12-point gain for emergent bilingual students in reading. For mathematics, staff reported subgroup gains, including an 11-point increase for economically disadvantaged students and a 13-point increase for emergent bilingual students.
"We had all of our fall 2025 scores above the national norm," one presenter said, calling the results "something to really celebrate." Staff noted some technical changes in MAP re-norming for 2025 (an updated algorithm and fresh national norms) and said the district would report fall-to-midyear growth in the January update.
District leaders outlined next steps: campuses will communicate individualized student growth goals to families, provide parent "growth goal" sessions and artifacts via Schoology/Seesaw, continue MTSS meetings for targeted interventions and enrichment, and maintain professional learning community cycles and lesson-internalization work to help teachers plan and adjust instruction.
Several trustees asked for clarification about supports for principals and teachers; presenters described differentiated leadership cohorts with Region 10 partnership, coaching rounds, and fidelity checks for evaluation processes on Teacher Incentive Allotment campuses.