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Committee hears ELA/Acadience year-end results and plans targeted PD
Summary
Staff reported Acadience-based ELA gains in several elementary grades (notably kindergarten and 1st grade) and outlined targeted professional development and use of 'pathways to progress' for intervention.
The committee reviewed end-of-year ELA outcomes measured with Acadience and diagnostic tools. The presenter said Acadience has been used in the district since 2020 and that kindergarten showed the best ending percentage the district has seen on that measure this year.
Staff reported early-grade improvements: kindergarten grew from roughly 50% to about 70% by year end in the presenter’s summary of the district’s Acadience rollup, and first grade recorded a high point (presenter: “63% said this was our highest, level of achievement thus far”). The presenter noted some grades (4th–6th in ELA) had only a single end-of-year data point because Acadience was new at those levels last year, so the team will track consistency across administrations.
Committee members asked whether subtest breakdowns (fluency, comprehension, decoding) were available for deeper analysis. The presenter said the district has not yet “dove into that per se this year” but that middle-school ELA staff will use the CAPT diagnostic and the new interliterature resource to map strengths and weaknesses and align professional development.
Staff emphasized using Acadience’s internal growth model and “pathways to progress” to identify students who are making expected or better-than-expected growth even if they remain below benchmark, calling that a key focus for fall professional development.
