CAL School Improvement Advisory Committee recommends 2016-17 goals to school board

     The CAL School Improvement Advisory Committee convened last week to create goals for the 2016-17 school year.
     Improvement Advisory Committees are mandated by the Iowa Department of Education as ad hoc committees that run independently from the school board. The committee reviews school data to make curriculum recommendations to the governing board.
     Led by shared Curriculum Director of Hampton-Dumont, Jen Koenen, the committee was primarily focused on the use of testing as a measure of the district’s success, and where it leaves CAL among other schools in the state. The committee’s primary focus has typically been around math, reading and science.
     These ad hoc committees not only allow for the evaluation of a school’s testing results and data, but are also instrumental in the recent state law that requires all students who underperform in reading and literacy to repeat third grade.
     Read the full article in the October 5 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.