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Board hears strategic-plan update: benchmark gains in reading, debate over adding math intervention periods
Summary
District leaders showed midyear benchmark results (reading and math) and outlined plans to deepen math instruction; the board debated adding intervention periods ("double dose") at the cost of elective time and asked staff to develop options that balance interventions with arts and family concerns.
Directors Evans and colleagues presented the district’s strategic-plan update focused on benchmark testing, OSAS alignment and proposed intervention strategies.
On reading, Evans walked the board through benchmark measures and box-plot results for oral reading fluency and accuracy, noting substantial midpoint gains. "We already have over half of our kids are at what last year would have been an end of the year standard," Evans said, and staff highlighted that differences between discrete decoding…
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