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Pioneer Elementary outlines goals to lift Hispanic and multilingual learners to 80% growth on STAR
Summary
Pioneer Elementary Principal Alicia Porter told the board the school aims to increase Hispanic/Latino students showing typical or high growth on the STAR assessment from 55% to 80% and multilingual learners from 67% to 80% over a multi-year plan; teachers are using strategies such as Building Thinking Classrooms and targeted pull-out blocks for math intervention.
Pioneer Elementary Principal Alicia Porter reported to the Quincy School District Board on Nov. 10 that the school is keeping multi-year targets to raise subgroup growth on the STAR assessment.
Porter said the school’s reading goal is to increase the share of Hispanic and Latino students showing typical or high growth from 55% to 80% and to take multilingual learners from about 67% to 80% over the course of the district plan. “We ended the year making some pretty good growth in ELA where we went from 55 to … 64%” for the…
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