Director of Teaching and Learning Katie Grundahl presented findings from early childhood literacy screening data for 4K through 3rd grade students to the School District of Jefferson Board of Education.
“This is the required assessment by the state of Wisconsin under Act 20,” Grundahl said. “You’ll see all the different assessments in the grade levels (and) the amount of time it takes to administer.
“One thing that’s really important for everybody to understand when they’re looking at last year’s early literacy screening data to this year’s early screening data is they updated the norms.”
Due to the changes, Grundhal wanted to take more time to explain to the Board how the differing standards are interpreted.
One graphic depicted the early literacy scores for a combination of kindergarten and first graders.
“You’ll see a higher score in spring or in fall, like we predicted would happen,” Grundhal said. “It fell in winter, and then we threw it back in. Right now, we’re sitting at 55% of students who are proficient…Not proficient, they’re above the 25th percentile.”
To continue to work with students, letters are sent home to encourage parents to send their children to summer school. It is not required to attend, though it helps in the long run.
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