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Numerous school celebrations were shared at GRE's School Accountability Meeting Thursday. Gold Rush proudly received a total of 90.1 points out of 100 on the state approved School Performance Framework. Gold Rush students also exceeded achievement and growth measures in English Language Arts and Math.
Regardless of our success, Gold Rush is committed to continuous improvement. The school’s current goals focus on increasing the overall number of students meeting and exceeding state standards as measured in grades 3-5 by the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS). While the percentage of GRE students who met and exceeded stated standards was higher than the state, District and almost all neighborhood and charter schools, GRE continues to strive to increase these numbers overall.
Gold Rush has several action steps that will ensure students attain these goals, including implementing the Benchmark Reading and Phonics resource (K-5). As you recall, Benchmark Reading and Phonics Workshops are the school's new literacy resources that align to state standards. Teachers will prioritize opportunities for students to write about what they read in Benchmark. Students in grades 2-5 will also have multiple opportunities to demonstrate what they are learning in reading on standardized unit assessments.
In math, students will be given additional opportunities to model and reason. As was stated in the last principal message last week, modeling and reasoning are word problems that require more complex thinking. We are fortunate that our Envision math curriculum has numerous opportunities to practice reading complex problems, representing their thinking and explaining their process.
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