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Superintendent outlines literacy, data and career‑planning initiatives in quarterly update
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Summary
Superintendent Dr. Golovski presented the district’s Q3 strategy: literacy acceleration (early‑literacy tutoring via a DESE grant), new CommonLit benchmarks for high school, partnerships for professional development, the Cascades student‑data platform rollout, and a myCAP pilot for college and career planning.
Superintendent Dr. Golovski gave the Methuen School Committee a quarterly update on the district strategy, highlighting three major objectives: accelerate literacy, reduce opportunity gaps, and strengthen family and student partnerships.
On literacy, she described an early literacy high‑dosage tutoring program funded through a DESE award that targets first graders who score below grade level on DIBELS, provides materials and coach oversight, and uses Springboard Collaborative for curriculum and family engagement. “This program uses DIBELS…we hope to have opportunity to continue this in the future,” Dr. Golovski said, noting that final program effectiveness awaits full data analysis.
For high school English, the district piloted CommonLit as a standards‑based benchmark; midyear results show gains in some cohorts and teachers reported using the data to focus instruction on specific standards. She emphasized the district will look to end‑of‑year results to assess progress toward grade‑level proficiency.
Dr. Golovski also reviewed partnerships (TNTP, PRISM, Learning Acceleration Network) that provide professional development and implementation supports. The administration described phase‑2 work on the Cascades platform to consolidate student assessment data into one teacher‑facing profile and the MTSS revisioning work to improve interventions.
On student planning, the district won a grant to plan transition from Naviance to myCAP for grades 6–12; counselors who piloted myCAP were favorable and the model is planned as a gradual rollout so as not to disrupt college‑application processes.
She encouraged families to attend district events — a district literacy night (rebranded Building Readers and Building Futures), an early‑college information session for rising juniors, a college fair and a new job fair for students — and noted Parent University resources and bilingual supports will be made available.
Committee members asked for additional data on seniors, bilingual options for workshops and asked about impacts on AP and early‑college students; Dr. Golovski and staff offered follow‑up and committed to posting more detailed data.
