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Absecon district lays out 2025–26 goals and credits targeted intervention for student growth
Summary
Absecon Public Schools District leaders on Monday described three district goals for 2025–26 and highlighted targeted instruction programs — a middle‑school Reinforcement and Intervention Teachers (RIT) model and the elementary WIN block — that the district says produced above‑expected benchmark gains and a drop in discipline referrals.
Absecon Public Schools District leaders presented the district’s three goals for 2025–26 and summarized early evidence that targeted, data‑driven supports have improved short‑term benchmark performance.
At the middle school, Principal Kevin Burns described a multi‑phase Reinforcement and Intervention Teachers (RIT) model that assigns certified specialists in math and language arts to small groups of students for the full school year. Burns said the program uses short pre‑ and post‑assessments over 5–6 week windows to measure impact and that, in comparison with similar middle schools, his students showed higher growth on those measures and on the state growth metric when the district’s preliminary results were returned. "You'll see that…
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