Editor's Note: This article is part of a three part series about the May 11th School Board Meeting. To see more visit our website maroonechoesnews.weebly.com Liam HalawithMaroon Echoes News Editor's Note: This article is part of a three part series about the May 11th School Board Meeting. To see more visit our website maroonechoesnews.weebly.com During the regular school board meeting on Monday, the Mount Pleasant School District Administration Team discussed statistics involved in their Continued Education Through Distance Learning initiative. They examined the student use of applications and discussed trends in the data they saw.
MPCSD Director of Curriculum Katie Gavin, spoke on the data from the elementary schools. Elementary students are using a program called I-Ready which focuses on Math and Reading learning and enrichment. The program plays to the child’s strengths and helps them build essential skills. The application of the I-Ready Reading was only brought into full last Wednesday, May 6th. The program has 481 students enrolled in the software with 454 being active on a regular basis. According to Mrs. Gavin, “There could be a myriad of reasons why the kids aren’t using it; from they aren’t quite comfortable with the software, to they don’t understand the program.” The data coming from the program however is quite exciting. 72% of active student’s receive a 70% or higher in the modules. Essentially 72% of students are understanding the material successfully. For a building by building breakdown; Harlan who has 122 out of their 229 students active in the software, they see 75% of their students passing their lessons. At Lincoln we see 156 out of 246 of their students are active with a 74% passing rate. At Salem we see 79 out of their 107 students active and a 79% passing rate, and finally at Van Allen 123 out of their 243 students are active with a whopping 86% passing rate. Mrs. Gavin signals that this is just one piece of the puzzle to show how well our elementary schools are adapting, “This...is talking about how hard our student’s family, students and teachers are working at the elementary level and we’re proud.” They have similar levels in the Math version of I-Ready, although there is much better participation and proficiency at many schools because they have used the program throughout the entire year. The district has 545 students enrolled in math with 82% of them passing their lessons. Here are the passing rate breakdowns for the elementary level. At Harlan they have 82% passing, at Lincoln they have 86% passing, at Salem they have 88% passing, and at Van Allen they have 85% passing. Overall, the program is a success as the elementary kids are just now transitioning into heavy technology usage. At the secondary level administration is tracking student use of Canvas, Zoom, Google Drive, and Google Docs.. They are seeing a steady usage of the online software. Including a surprising number of Zoom engagements considering the software is new to the district. “I am really proud of the Zoom number from the kids, considering it is a new program they haven’t been introduced to before,” said Middle School Principal Nathan Lange. They did see a decline in participation after the governor announced that we would not be returning to the school building’s this year. Now that there has been new guidance released involving grade’s the schools are seeing an increase to their usage data. The new guidance from the Iowa Department of Education dictated that schools could open up their gradebooks again and enter their grade’s from before the shutdown. This also means that students can turn in missing or makeup work so they can now raise their grade! “On April 30th the D.E. released new guidance on our gradebooks. Before that we were told we couldn’t open our gradebook’s or put anything in because we we’re closed, and the guidance changed that,” said Superintendent Henriksen.
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