At the September Governing Board meeting, the Board received an update on the progress being made towards achieving Academic Goal #3 and interim goals 3.1 and 3.2.
Seventh-grade ELA made significant improvement on AASA from 24.2% in 2024 to 27.7% in 2025. The Student Growth Percentile in 7th grade was also a relative strength at 54.71. Still, seventh-grade was below last year’s goal of 30% and, like Goal 1, will need to make significant proficiency gains to catch up to this year’s proficiency goal of 35%.
Key Inputs
Curriculum and Instruction
Planning and pacing aligned with the district’s Essential Standards Curriculum Maps and Unit Plans; “The Essential 5” guidance for
daily lesson planning
ELP standards and learning targets, along with EL scaffolds, embedded in Essential Standards Curriculum Maps and Unit Plans
Adopted Tier 1 and Tier 2 curricular resources, including: – HMH, SIPPS, UFLI Foundations, iXL
Use of success criteria and exemplars during daily instruction for checks for understanding and student feedback
Intervention Teachers at 12 campuses
Instructional Support, Professional Development, Collaboration, and Feedback
Observation/Feedback protocol utilized by site principals and instructional coaches for teacher coaching
Get Better Faster tool utilized by site principals and instructional coaches for focusing teacher feedback
2 district ELA coaches, 1 ESS coach for curriculum and instruction
Common District-wide PLT template, incorporating the Weekly Data Meeting protocol for analyzing and responding to student
formative assessment data
Planning with exemplars for daily instruction
Monthly content PLTs for collaboration and planning across campuses
RSD Professional Learning Team rubric for feedback to school Instructional Leadership Teams
Monitoring and Evaluation
District learning walk tool used for weekly learning walks by both site and district leadership in order to capture data on instruction to inform feedback and action plans
Day-long site visits to each campus to observe instruction, capture observation data, provide feedback to instructional leadership teams, and inform action plans (September and February)
Academic Goal #3
The percent of seventh-grade students who score at Proficiency or higher on AASA ELA will increase from 22% in Aug. 2023 to 45% by Aug. 2028.
Interim Goal #3.1
The percentage of students performing at Proficiency or higher on the fifth-grade STAR Reading Assessment will increase from 21.9% to 30% by May 2026.
Interim Goal #3.2
The percentage of students performing at Minimally Proficient on the fifth-grade STAR Reading Assessment will decrease from 59.5% to 45% by May 2026.