Academic Goal 3 Progress Monitoring Report | Sept. 2025

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.