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Dr. Bramble presents proposed changes to Granite School District strategic-plan measures
Summary
District staff proposed revisions to academic, social-emotional and talent-development metrics, including a more ambitious K–3 reading benchmark (5% annual increase) and new early indicators for on-track-to-graduate measures; board members asked for crosswalks to prior goals and level-by-level coaching data.
Dr. Bramble presented proposed changes to the Granite School District strategic plan, urging the board to reassess the measures used to track progress after roughly four years of implementation. He said the district will keep its long-standing 1% annual improvement targets for proficiency and graduation but recommended several changes to the measures that track those goals.
On early literacy, the district’s academic subcommittee proposes increasing the percentage of kindergarten through third-grade students scoring at or above benchmark on end-of-year reading assessments by 5% annually. "This is really in light of some of the new goals that are set by USBE," Dr. Bramble said, referencing the Utah State Board of Education target for 80% of students reading on grade level by 2030. The subcommittee also recommended that 66% of K–3 students make typical or above growth in reading and math as measured by Acadience and math growth measures.
To identify students at risk earlier, the district proposed tracking the percentage of ninth-grade students passing core classes and maintaining that rate into 10th grade, and monitoring annual credit accrual in grades 9–11 as an early indicator of on-track-to-graduate status. "If we can have them successfully complete those core classes in 9th and 10th grade, that seems to be a good measurement of whether or not we're going to have kids graduate," Dr. Bramble said.
In talent development, the district set retention and staffing targets: retain at least 90% of nonretiring licensed educators and fill 98% of contract positions at the beginning of the school year. The staff also proposed measures for professional learning (95% of contract employees completing required compliance training) and a goal to increase educators participating in full coaching cycles to 35% (up from 31% in 2526).
Board members asked for more granularity and context. One member requested a crosswalk showing which measures are carryovers and which are new, and suggested the committees provide reasoning for changes so the board can judge whether resources are aligned with the new, more ambitious targets. Dr. Bramble acknowledged that some items (for example, junior-high advanced classes and gifted programming) were not fully captured in this draft and said committees will continue to refine action steps.
The board did not take any formal vote on the measures during the session. Dr. Bramble said the subcommittees will next align action steps with the revised measures and return with more detailed proposals.
