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River Falls School Board hears mixed literacy benchmark results; administrators outline interventions
Summary
District leaders reported ambitious proficiency goals and new buildingwide ACT-like assessments; middle- and high-school staff said winter benchmarks showed strengths in some standards but notable weaknesses in 11th-grade summarization and argument-evaluation standards, and described expanded literacy electives and plans for targeted interventions.
River Falls School administrators presented building- and district-level literacy goals and assessment plans to the school board, and described both progress and areas of concern in winter benchmark results.
At the middle-school level, administrators described a districtwide goal that "100% of my middle school students will be achieving the target standard" (where a target is rated a 3 on the district proficiency scale). Mr. Chapman and other staff explained the data protocol teachers follow — "visualize, observe and analyze, infer and act" — and said teachers are calibrating scoring across classrooms so a…
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