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District reports academic growth and SEL gains, flags eighth-grade math plateau

Wilmette SD 39 Board ' Committee of the Whole · June 3, 2024
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Summary

Administrators reported most grades met or exceeded expected NWEA MAP growth and celebrated meeting an early-literacy KPI; SEL assessments (CELWEB, MESH) show high percentages in average/above-average categories while staff flagged declines in some climate items and a recurring plateau in seventh–eighth grade academic growth that will prompt curricular review.

District administrators presented spring academic assessments and social-emotional learning (SEL) data and highlighted both celebrations and areas for further attention.

Presenters said early-literacy changes for kindergarten and first grade (adding phoneme segmentation and nonsense-word fluency) are yielding improved information and helped the district meet its early-literacy KPI for the first time. Early numeracy measures and first-grade oral reading fluency results were strong, with staff reporting that roughly 90% of the earliest learners are at or above expected numeracy benchmarks.

On the NWEA MAP, district staff…

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