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Board adopts Multitudes as state‑required K–2 reading screener after staff recommendation
Summary
After reviewing four state‑approved options and weighing tradeoffs between cost, professional development burden, and intervention supports, the board voted to adopt Multitudes (the UCSF‑developed screener) as the district’s Reading Difficulties Risk Screener for K–2.
After a multi‑part presentation and extended board discussion, the Auburn Union School District adopted Multitudes as its state‑required Reading Difficulties Risk Screener (RDRS) for kindergarten through second grade. Superintendent Britney Meyer explained the district’s screening review process — staff compared Multitudes, DIBELS, HMH (Learning), and ROAR for cost, training needs, language availability, and intervention alignment.
Meyer said staff initially favored DIBELS for its intervention library but that follow‑up review highlighted the extra professional development and repeated testing lift DIBELS requires. "When we talked about that, staff said, ‘oh, now we can kinda fill all those buckets that we have questions about,'" Meyer said, describing how i‑Ready and SIPs could be used for progress monitoring and interventions to complement Multitudes. She added, "Our recommendation is actually to move forward with Multitudes."
Board members asked about contract terms, screen time, device compatibility, costs, and how progress monitoring would be handled for students who screen at risk. Staff replied Multitudes is free currently and is available in English and Spanish; the district plans to administer the screener once per year with ed‑services staff and reading intervention teachers doing the one‑on‑one administration to reduce teacher lift. The motion to adopt Multitudes carried on a unanimous vote.
