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Students and staff say notebooks, Walks and Top Score are driving gains at two CSI schools
Summary
At the Mercer County Board of Education meeting, Bluefield Intermediate and Mountain Valley Elementary presented classroom interventions, community partnerships and CSI-funded plans — including student 'data notebooks,' a four-day Walks intervention and the Top Score writing curriculum — and shared multi-year test-score gains and budget requests.
Bluefield Intermediate and Mountain Valley Elementary presented to the Mercer County Board of Education on March 9, 2025, detailing classroom interventions, community partnerships and proposed uses of Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) funds.
At Bluefield Intermediate, students and staff highlighted so-called "data notebooks" — described by fifth-grader Chloe Gore as "brag books" used to "track our ... progress and our testing progress" and to share work with parents and teachers. The school also described a Walks intervention in which students rotate to targeted small-group instruction four days a week for about 40 minutes. "Walks intervention is 4 days a week and 40 minutes long. I like Walks intervention because it helps me with the things that I might struggle a little bit with," fourth-grader Asher Anderson told the board.
Bluefield staff said the…
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