Scranton SD recovery update: curriculum audit finished, district refines benchmarks and interventions

Scranton School District administrators on the recovery committee said the district has completed a K'12 curriculum audit and is moving to steady implementation and targeted interventions.

Anne, a district administrator who presented the committee's recovery update, said the audit was completed in 2021 and the district is now in year three of implementation. "Principals are ready to reorder all of their consumables, site licenses and tiered support materials for our special ed kiddos for the next three years," she said.

The administration has adopted Study Island as a uniform benchmark tool for grades 3'12 and will continue to use Acadience (formerly DIBELS) for K'4. Anne said an RFP yielded three proposals; the committee is vetting them and will reconvene in about two weeks, with a recommendation due in April. The requested benchmark solutions included vendor-selected intervention components, a change from the 2021 purchase.

To address historical underperformance in mathematics, the district expanded its Scranton Succeeds intervention window into core subjects, including reading and science. "We discuss and look at data," Anne said of site- and district-level data-team meetings. She described biweekly principal meetings, bimonthly Zoom check-ins across regions, and teacher checklists to track intervention fidelity and outcomes.

Anne also outlined ongoing professional-development alignment with recovery-plan and district strategic goals, Title I allocation oversight and school-improvement-plan monitoring. She said principals upload monitoring data to a federal programs file to document use of federal funds in support of school improvement.

The committee asked that Anne's presentation and accompanying PowerPoint be posted for broader access; staff said they would make arrangements to publish the materials on the district business office page. The recovery committee did not take a formal vote; the presentation will inform future agenda items and implementation steps.