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Everett board approves OSPI-required academic and student well-being recovery plan
Summary
The Everett Public Schools Board voted to approve Resolution 1254, the Academic and Student Well-Being Recovery Plan required by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction; the plan sets diagnostic assessments, equity review steps and monitoring deadlines and must be submitted to OSPI by June 1.
The Everett Public Schools Board on May 25 approved Resolution 1254, the district's Academic and Student Well-Being Recovery Plan, a framework required by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).
District staff told the board the plan is largely prescriptive in format and must be posted publicly and submitted to OSPI by June 1. The plan lays out three phases, requires an equity analysis tool and specifies monitoring updates in November and April. "This is a plan that we have been asked to complete by OSPI, and... it's very prescriptive," a district presenter said during the meeting.
Dr. Matthews, who described the equity analysis component, said the district adapted an equity tool to examine program enrollment disproportionality and to analyze disparate impact on outcomes. "When policies appear neutral but result in different outcomes for student groups, we dig deeper to determine root causes and create remedies," Dr. Matthews said.
The plan requires the district to identify diagnostic academic assessments and a schedule for administration across grades. Staff outlined multiple tools the district will use, including WA-Kids for kindergarten readiness, grade-level math and reading diagnostics, new dyslexia screening for K'K2 under recent state law, and other secondary-level assessments. Staff also described the Panorama well-being survey (grades 3'12) as the district's comprehensive measure for social-emotional indicators used to target tiered supports.
Presenters emphasized that the district will use a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) to combine universal instruction with targeted interventions for student groups identified by data. The district will monitor progress through Performance Matters and regular instructional reviews and provide a report back to the board in November, with another update in April.
During board discussion, directors pressed for clarity about whether targeting groups by ethnicity or program would omit universal supports. Staff reiterated that MTSS provides universal tier 1 supports for all students while earmarking federal and other resources to close identified gaps.
A motion to approve Resolution 1254 was moved, seconded and approved by voice vote. The board did not record a roll-call tally in the meeting transcript. The resolution will be posted on the district website as required by OSPI.
