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District proposes data walls and reports fall assessment snapshot; Act 20 PRP rollout underway
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Summary
District staff outlined a proposal for local data walls to monitor progress between state report cards, shared fall FastBridge/STAR assessment results and discussed implementation of Act 20 personalized reading plans (PRP) with 10-week interventions and weekly monitoring.
District staff presented a draft framework for district "data walls" intended to provide regular, comparable local metrics across elementary, middle and high school levels and allow the district to monitor progress more frequently than the state—s report cards.
Staff said the data walls will track a limited set of repeatable measures by level (examples include attendance, behavior/self-regulation, core-course success, co-curricular participation, ACT performance and early college credit pathways). The intent is to run multiple internal assessment windows and report visually-usable dashboards midyear to show trend lines across windows.
Staff also provided a fall assessment snapshot. Lincoln High shifted from FastBridge to STAR this year (STAR provides high-school norms and national comparisons), so direct year-over-year comparisons between some buildings are imperfect. Staff reported mixed building-level results in the first window: several buildings showed positive growth (math generally stronger) while others showed declines; the district will analyze differences in test conditions, online-test familiarity, and local practices to inform instructional responses. Staff emphasized that online-test navigation and practice opportunities can materially affect results and that building-level professional learning communities will examine practices behind changes.
On Act 20 implementation and personalized reading plans (PRP), staff described the district—s first formal PRP rollout using AIMSweb (AIMSweb Plus) for diagnostic identification. Staff explained PRPs include 10 weeks of intervention, weekly progress monitoring and weekly family communication, followed by re-assessment to determine ongoing need. District literacy staff will continue reporting PRP counts and outcomes as windows close and interventions conclude.
Staff intend to present midyear dashboards that visualize the chosen indicators and show movement between the fall and winter testing windows. Committee members recommended selecting a focused set of indicators and measuring repeatedly to demonstrate growth rather than attempting to measure too many outcomes at once.
