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District recommends i-Ready diagnostic as universal screener, board to review contract
Summary
District assessment leadership recommended Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready as the districtwide universal screener after a district RFP and pilot; staff said a crosswalk to MAP exists for longitudinal tracking and that final contract details will be returned at the action meeting.
District assessment staff recommended adopting the Curriculum Associates i-Ready diagnostic as the Fayette County universal screener on March 9, saying the product was selected after an RFP, finalist presentations and a wide pilot.
Brooke Stinson, identified as the director of assessment, said the district began the selection process in October and used a diverse committee and rubric to identify three finalists. Stinson said the recommended vendor offers both norm-referenced and criterion-referenced reporting, a personalized instructional pathway for students, and family-facing profile reports that provide actionable information for parents and teachers.
Stinson described the pilot as extensive ("nearly almost all campuses" participated) and said i-Ready provides both scale/placement information and skill-level diagnostic results that align to Kentucky academic standards. In response to board questions about longitudinal comparison with the district’s long-running MAP Growth (NWEA) usage, Stinson said Curriculum Associates provided a "crosswalk" that can be used to map scores against historical MAP data and that the fiscal impact is expected to be "about the same" as current MAP costs, though final contract terms were still under negotiation.
Board members asked about disaggregation by school level and subgroup, how differentiated instruction would look across elementary, middle and high schools, and what family-facing materials would be provided. Stinson said the platform offers student profile reports and family resources and that professional learning and coaching support were part of the pilot implementation. She said the contract and final pricing would be presented for board action at the March meeting.
What’s next: The board will consider the formal contract and any negotiated fiscal terms at the March action meeting; district staff said they will provide the final contract and an implementation plan that includes professional learning supports and family-engagement materials.
