District presents first-year state test results and formative-assessment rollout

Tessa Hstead, the district’s data and assessment coordinator, presented grouped monitoring reports on literacy, math and science under the district’s new strategic plan and the statewide summative rollout. Hstead said the state’s new summative test was administered statewide for the first time last spring and that the district is still establishing baseline comparisons.

Hstead described Nav'i formative checks as a primary tool for weekly-to-monthly standard-level checks and said teachers had administered thousands of checks districtwide last year. "Nav'i has begun this past school year. It is worded exactly like the questions on the interim and on the summative test," she said, noting that the platform provides glossary terms and that teachers are adjusting classroom vocabulary (for example, using the term "product" in multiplication problems).

Interim-assessment data showed growth from fall to winter in multiple grades; Hstead highlighted nine-point gains in kindergarten and a 22-point fall-to-winter gain in fifth grade on district interim measures. She also flagged that some high-school grades showed declines statewide and that sample differences (students taking fall vs. winter administrations) complicate direct comparisons in certain bands.

Board members asked about teacher workload and adoption challenges. Hstead said platform usability is strong but teachers need time in PLCs to analyze results and adjust instruction. The board moved to accept monitoring reports R3–R6 as "interpretation reasonable" and "evidence supports compliance" in a series of roll-call votes; the motions carried.

Hstead and board members said they expected clearer trend lines next year as more norming and repeated administrations build a stable baseline.