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Seattle School Board reviews literacy and math baselines; staff to provide disaggregated data and fidelity plans
Summary
District staff presented baseline results for early literacy and middle‑school math using MAP, DIBELS and SBA measures; board members pressed for disaggregated reporting (IEPs, Native students, multilingual learners), clearer fidelity metrics and a deeper strategic-plan session in early 2026.
Superintendent Podesta and staff presented baseline progress-monitoring data for early literacy and for mathematics at a special Seattle School Board meeting that followed ceremonial oath-taking.
Staff said the district will use DIBELS (teacher-administered) and MAP (computer-adaptive) assessments for early literacy monitoring, with MAP serving as the top‑line second-grade measure. For the literacy baseline staff reported that 63% of the cohort met the grade‑1 MAP benchmark (reported RIT score ~171), while MAP growth analysis showed 66.2% of students did not meet the year-of-growth target. DIBELS results were higher in some classroom-administered measures: 74.2% of first graders met the DIBELS foundational benchmark and 66.6% of…
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