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Board advances TeachTown and AIMSweb, approves MTSS partnership supports and classroom technology upgrades
Summary
The board reviewed and moved policy items that would allow TeachTown for life‑skills classrooms funded by access dollars, approved AIMSweb (funded by the IU for the year) for progress monitoring, and heard technology and MTSS partnership updates including an embedded IU staffer and added safety strobes.
Board members reviewed several curriculum and student‑support items during the July meeting.
Shelton (speaker 10) presented TeachTown, which she described as a curriculum geared toward life‑skills, MDS and autistic‑support classrooms that includes built‑in progress monitoring. Shelton said the district would use access dollars tied to related services (PT, OT, speech) to fund TeachTown licensing for K–12. “It is for our students in the life skills classroom ... it really meets the needs of our students with some significant disabilities,” Shelton said.
Shelton also said the Intermediate Unit will fund AIMSweb for the coming year to provide progress monitoring and to work alongside other district systems; AIMSweb was listed on the agenda for approval.
Traub (speaker 9) summarized an MTSS meeting with the IU and said the IU will provide an embedded staff member to support elementary teachers; the district expects the IU to cover some upfront costs and the arrangement is budgeted so it will be no net cost initially (speaker said the embedded person arrangement would amount to $25,000 and would be accommodated within existing budgeting for the year). Traub and other speakers emphasized that the embedded person model has been piloted in neighboring districts and could help scale supports earlier in the year.
The technology office reported adding eight strategic panic‑button strobes and provisioning new laptops and ViewSonic interactive boards to expand interactive classroom capacity ahead of the school year.
Several of these items were on the meeting agenda for approval; the board approved bundled personnel and fiscal blocks and moved forward with agenda items as described.
