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Meeting Date:
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12/2/2021 - 6:30 PM
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Category:
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New Business and Reports to the Board
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Type:
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Info
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Subject:
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Early Warning Indicators
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ACPS 2025 Strategic Plan Goal:
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Goal 2: Instructional Excellence ACPS will ensure that all students have access to and engagement with high-quality instruction. Goal 3: Student Accessibility and Support ACPS will ensure students have equitable access to and engagement with programs and supports that reduce barriers to learning.
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Funding Source or Fiscal Impact (where applicable)
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Agenda Item Summary:
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ACPS will develop and implement an Early Warning Indicator System (EWIS) as a division-wide monitoring strategy that utilizes key performance indicators to proactively engage interventions for students in grades placed at risk of experiencing poor academic outcomes. The EWIS represents
ACPS’ focus on innovative strategies to transform structures and systems that perpetuate racial and educational inequities that lead to marginalization and disparate achievement outcomes for certain student groups.
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Background:
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The EWIS is a national strategy adopted by high schools as a dropout prevention measure to identify students at risk of not graduating. EWISs are designed to identify students who are "at risk" of failing to meet basic proficiency in core coursework and other behaviors that lead to dropping out of school.
EWISs enable school districts to discern student achievement and school environment patterns that contribute to students moving "off-track" for high school graduation. The EWIS utilizes available division-wide academic and behavioral data to identify students at risk of successfully attaining crucial educational milestones—thus, allowing educators to customize interventions to ensure students are afforded a path to school success.
The central dynamic feature of EWIS is integrating updated student performance data at multiple intervals throughout the school year. Traditionally, early warning indicator models use similar data variables, including absence/truancy events, behavioral referrals, discipline data, course grades/failure, mobility, grade retention, and local and state performance assessments.
Some districts have expanded the early warning indicator concept to monitor student progress relative to "college and career readiness" benchmarks established across the elementary, middle, and high school continuum. This approach allows educators to continuously intervene to ensure students achieve milestones aligned to college and career readiness competencies as a high school graduate. The ACPS EWIS will identify readiness indicators for fourth grade and transitional grades to middle and high school.
Social and emotional learning are vital components of effective student engagement, well-being, and academic achievement. The ACPS EWIS model will evolve to incorporate additional social, emotional, and engagement data elements. Integrating these data could provide critical insights into monitoring and proactively addressing the confounding effects of academic and social and emotional competencies on future academic success.
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Recommendation:
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The Superintendent recommends that the School Board review the information on the EWIS.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Dr. Terri H. Mozingo - Chief Academic Officer
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Signed By:
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Dr. Gregory C. Hutchings, Jr. - Superintendent
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