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District presents I Ready baseline data; staff proposes acceleration blocks and monitoring cycles
Summary
Deputy Superintendent Dr. Dylan and academic leaders presented beginning-of-year I Ready results showing most students below grade level, early literacy momentum in K', low grade 8 proficiency, and a 90-day plan to protect acceleration blocks and run four- to six-week acceleration cycles to move students toward grade level.
Deputy Superintendent Dr. Dylan and central-office staff presented district beginning-of-year I Ready results and an initial plan to accelerate learning.
Staff emphasized the data are an early, imperfect snapshot because last year's start-of-year testing occurred after several weeks of instruction (a prior data-breach delayed assessments), while this year many students were tested right after summer break. Still, staff identified early literacy and elementary numeracy as relative strengths and flagged middle grades, particularly grade 8 reading, as urgent focus areas. Dr. Dylan reported district-wide day-one proficiency near 14% for many grade bands and said roughly half of students are two or more years below grade level in several key skills.
To address that, staff proposed short-term steps: protect a daily acceleration block in grades 6— for reading and math with strongest staff and no pull-outs; run 4—-week acceleration cycles in K—; adopt universal design for learning practices; and pilot a new classrooms-for-mathematics program to support personalized acceleration. Staff said interim, student-measurable targets will be prepared and brought back to the board for monitoring.
Board members asked for concrete examples of acceleration blocks and clarification of terms (acceleration vs. remediation); staff described acceleration as building on students' existing assets and focusing on tier-1 instruction to move students further, faster.
No formal vote was required on the presentation; board members requested staff return interim targets and examples of classroom practice to support monitoring.
