Derry Area SD presents Title I schoolwide goals and TSI targets for 2025–26

Derry Area School District staff presented schoolwide Title I and Targeted School Improvement goals for the 2025–26 year, detailing building-level priorities and the district's plans for professional development and family engagement.

At Grandview Elementary, Lisa Dubich, a Derry Area School District staff member, said the building will concentrate math efforts on grades 3–5 using IXL diagnostics and small flexible groups. The building will also expand Enhanced Core Reading Instruction (ECRI) as part of the MTSS framework; staff said Grandview qualified for an $18,000 systemic-change grant to support ECRI rollout in kindergarten and additional grades in the following years. A family-engagement goal aims for at least 75% family participation in targeted outreach events.

“We have landed on three goals for Grandview this year, and the first being a math goal,” Dubich said, adding that ECRI implementation will include coaching and benchmark monitoring with Acadience and other measures.

For the middle school, Dubich said the building set three goals: improving ELA text-dependent analysis and associated writing assessments, achieving at least 50% of predictive proficiency growth or a year's worth of growth in math diagnostic measures, and ensuring eighth-grade students compile six pieces of evidence for career standards. At the high school, staff reiterated attendance and math achievement priorities, including using outside agencies and a truancy officer to address absenteeism and aiming for a 5% increase in math achievement for students with disabilities on the Keystone Algebra benchmark.

District leaders framed the presentations as part of federal ESSA communication responsibilities and as a transparency measure to inform the public about required uses of federal funding and required annual training for staff.