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Board reviews assessment trends, goal‑setting efforts and plans to track English‑learner growth
Summary
District leaders presented fall assessment trends and goal‑setting efforts across schools, noting cohort gains in early grades, revised NWEA norming for 2025, a 'summer slump' pattern and plans to disaggregate results for English‑learner students in the winter MAP test.
District administrators and building principals reviewed instructional assessment results and described steps to engage parents in student goal setting.
Presenters told the board that NWEA (MAP) norms were re‑evaluated for 2025 using 2022–24 national data; that change affects direct comparisons to prior years but the district still observed measurable local growth in several grades. "The last time that they had relooked at their norms ... was back in 2020 pre‑COVID," a presenter said, explaining how the organization re‑normed assessments using more recent data.
Board members and principals urged tracking fall‑to‑fall cohort data so the district measures year‑over‑year growth for the same students. A building representative noted kindergarten fall proficiency rose from about 16% to 52% in the following fall for that cohort, underscoring the effect of cohort tracking and early literacy focus.
Principals described using goal‑setting sheets at the start of the year in K–12 classrooms and sharing those with parents at conferences to enable mid‑year and spring check‑ins. The board also heard that the district will run the winter MAP test and repeat EL (English Learner) cohort analyses to determine whether EL students are making comparable gains; administrators said they will report back after winter testing.
Officials framed summer learning loss as an expected factor — "summer slump" — and said stronger continuity, parent engagement and targeted phonics instruction in early grades helped reduce that effect in some cohorts.
The board heard parent‑conference attendance reports: elementary contact rates were reported at or near 100%, middle‑school attendance ranged from about 68% to 84% by grade, and the district is mailing information to families who did not attend to ensure they receive goal‑setting materials.
District leaders said the next substantive data point will be the winter MAP administration and pledged to present disaggregated EL figures then.
