Board reviews three‑year comprehensive plan with focus on ELA, MTSS and intervention hires
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The district presented a three‑year comprehensive plan due to the state by March 31 that prioritizes curriculum review (starting with ELA), structured literacy, and an MTSS rollout with planned intervention teacher hires over three years to raise grades 3–8 proficiency toward a 65% target.
Boyertown Area School District leaders presented a three‑year comprehensive plan that the district will submit to the state by March 31. The plan centers on a curriculum review aligned with state standards (ELA to be reviewed first), expansion of structured literacy practices and a phased roll‑out of a Multi‑Tiered System of Supports (MTSS).
Missus Petrie, who led the data presentation, said the district’s current proficiency for grades 3–8 has hovered in the mid‑50s percentile range in recent years and that the plan sets an aspirational target of roughly 65% proficiency by the end of the third year of implementation. She told the board the curriculum review process is resource‑intensive and that ELA will be prioritized in the current cycle while math curriculum review is slated for a later year.
Administrators described a staffing plan to support MTSS: the budget request for the coming year includes two additional elementary intervention teachers and one middle‑school intervention teacher; additional intervention hires would be requested in subsequent budget cycles so that, over three years, each elementary school obtains added intervention support.
Board members and others raised concerns that formal curriculum review timelines may delay more immediate math interventions. One board member noted that a full formal math curriculum review is planned for a later year and asked what interim supports exist; staff said building‑level intervention teams and new proposed intervention hires will provide supports while curriculum adoption work continues.
A public commenter, Dania Savage, urged urgency and said the board should treat low proficiency as an "urgent all hands on deck situation," adding that she supports recommended staffing increases to avoid further decline. The administration said it will bring slide‑level personnel and budget details back to the board and has already included some staffing requests in the budget development process.