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Mineola schools outline literacy-assessment plan, emphasize targeted interventions and cautious AI use
Summary
District instructional leaders presented their literacy-assessment framework—Scarborough's Rope—explained how NWEA, EasyCBM and Lexia inform tiered interventions and progress monitoring, and described limited pilots of AI-generated decodables as teacher tools, not replacements.
Amaris Melendez, a new instructional leader for the Mineola Union Free School District, told the school board that literacy assessments are used to "see what is thriving and what are those areas that need a little tender loving care" and to guide instruction.
The presentation, aligned to the board goal of building professional understanding of the science of reading, framed reading as the weaving together of multiple skill strands using Scarborough's Rope. Melendez explained that the district uses a mix of assessment types—"universal screeners, diagnostic, formative, summative"—to identify which skills are strong and which need targeted work.
Dr. Smith reviewed the district’s primary tools, saying NWEA is used as the universal screener and EasyCBM…
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