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The new 4 Day Schedule allows us to minimize leaving school for activities. We continue to work on tweaking our athletic schedule so students don't miss instructional time.

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This data may be skewed because these are only unexcused absences. Kids are gone more than this. No matter the reason they are gone they are missing instruction.

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Can we track excused and unexcused and compare?

How do we stress to parents that kids need to be in school?

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Bus majority of students in.

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What are we doing to incentivize coming to school?

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Looking at the data, most of the students are coming to school.

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We believe that the semester test exemption incentive has been an effective tool in encouraging students to maintain consistent attendance.

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We have started out strong, but right now we don't have enough data to draw conclusions.

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Staff seems to be positive this year. They are happy to be back looking forward to a great year and new administration.

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We still have considerably higher scores than the state average.

Generally, have consistent growth from 6th to 7th grade.

Our 11th graders did considerably better as 11th graders than 8th graders.

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Our concern is getting students to stay engaged and take the test seriously. ( Take ownership)

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They are middle school students (age) has an impact on testing. Emotions are taking control.

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There is a significant drop from 5th to 6th grade.

Decrease in level 4 learners across the board.

We see less knowledge of basic facts (sign rules, fractions, decimals).

Lack of perseverance-easy way out.

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Some classes are maintaining.

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Can we dig deeper into longitudinal reports at our individual levels at MS Team levels, HS team levels, PLC Levels?

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We should look at possible incentives for students who show growth in testing.

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Student engagement with the testing. "Taking it seriously."

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We effectively instruct ELA across all curricula in our classrooms.

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3-year trends were encouraging for the most part.

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Focus areas of concern from last year, are the same this year. Looking at the data for 7th grade, they are below average in many areas. Need to follow up.

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We are always close to the state average.