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NMUSD highlights DIBELS rollout and early-grade reading gains

Newport-Mesa Unified School District Board of Education · November 19, 2025
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Assistant Superintendent Shields and Dr. Lori Hernandez described the district—s switch to the DIBELS digital literacy screener, parent reporting tools, and reported that measures like nonsense-word fluency and oral reading fluency exceed national averages.

Assistant Superintendent Shields and Dr. Lori Hernandez presented the district—s elementary literacy assessment and intervention plan, focusing on a transition from Acadience to DIBELS and changes in intervention scheduling.

Hernandez explained that DIBELS replaces Acadience with an updated digital platform that provides real-time scoring, parent reports in English and Spanish, and an…

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