Harris County curriculum team briefs board on Cognia accreditation and CCRPI scoring
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Doctor Denny told the board the district has completed a year-long Cognia accreditation submission and walked members through the CCRPI scorebook, flagging the state—riteria for content mastery, progress, closing gaps and readiness; a final presentation to Cognia is scheduled Thursday at 8 a.m.
Doctor Denny briefed the Harris County Board of Education on the district—ognia accreditation submission and the newly released CCRPI materials, summarizing a year-long effort with principals and instructional leaders.
"So tonight, I have 2 topics, the Cognia accreditation process and the CCRPI results have been released," Doctor Denny said, describing work that began "one year and one day ago" and includes principal-completed standards ratings, Elliott walk-throughs and a five-year artifact collection. He told board members the team will present findings to Cognia on Thursday at 08:00 and invited board attendance.
Denny walked the board through the CCRPI booklet format, explaining the four scoring components the state reports: content mastery (achievement on Georgia Milestones assessments), progress (student growth, typically ELA and math), closing gaps (subgroup improvement) and readiness (course-taking beyond core, attendance and Lexile scores). He explained the state—lag system: green for meeting targets, red for missing targets and yellow for near-misses, and described how baseline-setting and cohort shifts can produce large year-to-year swings in closing-gaps measures.
Board members asked clarifying questions about the document—ormat and next steps; Doctor Finney, who encouraged board participation at the Thursday presentation, described the submission as "a culmination of everything we've done over the last several years" and congratulated Denny and school leaders for the work.
Denny emphasized the CCRPI single-score addendum provided to the board is not yet public and asked members not to post comparisons to other counties. He said the district will provide additional context and will accept follow-up questions via email to staff.
The presentation closed with Denny offering to answer follow-up questions and to provide the board with the Cognia presentation link. The district will proceed with planned communications while reserving county comparisons until the single-score data are released publicly.