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District pitches PLC data hub to show growth, disaggregate results and report quarterly to the board
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Summary
District teaching-and-learning staff proposed a PLC data hub to aggregate formative assessment results across buildings, show growth in windows, and provide quarterly, disaggregated reports to the board; the administration plans a second-window rollout to allow training amid staff reductions.
District leaders presented a proposed PLC data hub designed to consolidate common-assessment results at the building and district levels and to emphasize growth during four PLC windows each year.
David Kennedy (introduced in the meeting as executive director of school improvement and speaking as speaker 10) described the tool as a way to turn teacher PLC work into visible results. The hub will allow building and district leaders to see pre‑, mid‑ and post‑window formative assessment results across PLC teams and produce disaggregated reports (by grade, multilingual/EL subgroup, special education, economically disadvantaged, gender and ethnicity). "At the end of each window, we'll be able to come to you and share the growth data as a result of the efforts of these teams," the presenter said.
Kennedy and other presenters said the district plans to start the rollout in the second window next year to allow training time and to avoid overburdening staff during the current reduction in district office capacity. They argued the tool will help the board and the community see the impact of waiver days and early‑start PLC work: example slides showed hypothetical windows where a building moved from 2% to 82% proficiency on an assessed standard across a PLC cycle.
Board members asked about the relationship between PLC assessments, I‑Ready and Smarter Balanced (state summative assessments). Presenters said PLC common assessments should be tightly coupled to standards and Smarter Balanced item types to make gains meaningful on external measures; they acknowledged the alignment work is ongoing. The presenters also said the PLC hub is intended to replace a variety of ad hoc systems and make growth easier to celebrate even as district office staffing is reduced.
Next steps: delay rollout to allow training, pilot the tool in initial buildings, and present quarterly results to the board after the first implementation window.
