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Adrian Samara outlines expanded assessment strategy to target student supports
Summary
At the Dec. 18 Meridian School District board meeting, Adrian Samara described a district-wide shift to more frequent, targeted assessments — including English-learner diagnostics, math formative checks and high-school reading screening — intended to identify students needing intensive supports and to align measures with the strategic plan.
Adrian Samara told the Meridian School District board on Dec. 18 that the district is moving from isolated data checks to a more systematic set of baseline measures and frequent classroom assessments aimed at identifying students who need intensified supports.
"We're looking at how we're determining whether what we're doing is having the effect we wanted to have, sort of seeing where individual students are," Samara said, explaining that the goal is to use assessments both to evaluate district initiatives and to spot students who are not progressing.
Samara described three concrete examples from across grade spans. At Irene Rider elementary, three English-learner teachers compared students' scores…
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