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Superintendent presents early literacy and math baseline, cites gains and continuing gaps
Summary
Superintendent Jason Berg told the board the district's shift to FastBridge assessments and new curricular resources produced initial gains—about a 12-percentage-point rise in early-reading proficiency—while noting 14–17% of students showed flat growth and math remains largely flat pending new investments.
Superintendent Jason Berg presented the board with an initial read of district literacy and math measures, describing a multi-year shift to FastBridge assessments and new curriculum resources. He said the district introduced FastBridge in spring 2024 and used that year as a baseline; since then, early-reading proficiency has improved. “So as you can see, we've done a nice job and and and had some pretty good growth there. So we're about, you know, 12 percentage points higher than where we started,” Berg said.
Berg outlined how the district uses FastBridge to track fall-to-spring growth and proficiency across grade spans and described plans for additional professional development and a new data warehouse, EduCLIMBER, to make data more usable for classroom teachers and interventionists. He said about 80% of K–1 students showed at least modest-to-aggressive growth and that in grades 2–8 roughly 84% made modest-to-aggressive literacy growth, leaving 16% with flat growth. “About 80% of our kids have made at least modest to aggressive growth,” he said. The superintendent and board members discussed the need for building-level breakdowns and the district will present deeper data later in fall and as part of its comprehensive civic readiness review.
