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South Mountain Elementary highlights goal-setting program and winter literacy gains
Summary
South Mountain Elementary presented its 'WIG' goal-setting system and reported winter benchmarks showing 93% of students reading at or above grade level and 52% of students improving by at least one percentile band on literacy measures.
South Mountain Elementary told the board it uses a focused goal-setting system called WIGS (Wildly Important Goals) and daily lead measures tracked on classroom scoreboards to drive academic and behavioral targets.
"We set our goals using things called WIGS," Principal Deb Heilman said, describing how classrooms select one primary goal and two lead measures and then combine classroom scoreboards into a school scoreboard used to monitor progress.
Students gave concrete examples. Second grader Lila described tracking completed math lessons on a class tracking sheet and earning class rewards. Fourth grader Owen said his class’s WIG aimed for "100% of fourth graders to improve literacy" and that students completed a daily comprehension passage and targeted small-group reading interventions.
Heilman told the board that at winter benchmarks 93 percent of students were reading at grade level or above and 52 percent had moved into the next percentile band; staff also reported using the Leader in Me assessment and set a staff confidence target of 80 (current score 78) with results to be taken in May.
Board members asked whether instructional methods had changed and how district initiatives (such as Wit & Wisdom reading materials) were being incorporated; staff said the school aligns goal-setting with district curriculum and uses lead measures to target specific reading skills like comprehension and inferencing.
The board thanked the South Mountain team and students for their report; the presentation required no formal action.
