Yolo County Grand Jury • 2021-2022 • Agency Response
Response to: 2021-22 Yolo Grand Jury Final Report "HELP! I NEED SOMEBODY Getting an Education: Winters Joint Unified School District"

Winters Joint Unified School District Response of the Board of Trustees and the Acting Superintendent

Published: August 18, 2022 4 pages
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The district has been unable to clarify, in publicly available data, the percentage of students who are underperforming in literacy skills. The Acting Superintendent disagrees with this finding. The District places a high value on communicating student achievement results to families and the community. As such, diagnostic and summative assessment results are routinely agendized and discussed at public meetings of the Board. On May 13, 2022, District staff provided a written document to the Grand Jury outlining recent presentations and publicly available literacy data. This information is outlined below including an additional presentation that has occurred since the District met with the Grand Jury. Data Presentations/Meeting dates ( Link to Board Meeting Minutes via the WJUSD Website ) : ● June 18, 2020 – SPSA presentation ● October 15, 2020 - Presentation on 3-Year Focus Plans ● November 19, 2020 – i-Ready Data Presentation ● December 17, 2020 – Educational Services Update; How the District is addressing EL assessment data ● February 4, 2021 – Presentation on revisions to reclassification forms/how the District assesses English Learners ● February 18, 2021 – Presentation on 3-Year Focus Plans ● May 6, 2021 – i-Ready Data Presentation ● June 3, 2021 – 3-Year Focus Plans and End of Year Data Presentations ● October 7, 2021 – Presentation on ESSER III Expenditure Plan and how the District plans to mitigate learning loss ● November 4, 2021 - i-Ready Data Presentation ● December 16, 2021 – SPSA and 3-Year Focus Plans presentations ● February 3, 2022 – i-Ready Data and SARC presentations ● June 23, 2022 - i-Ready Data presentation Winters Express: ● February 8, 2018 – Student data shows more consistent growth ● June 28, 2018 – Middle School test data causes concern ● July 20, 2020 – How the District will prepare for distance learning ● January 6, 2022 – Update on schools’ 3-year focus plans Other Publicly Available Data These documents denote when the Board receives formative and summative data presentations and is accessible on the District website. ● 2021-2022 Board Governance Calendar ● 2022-2023 Board Governance Calendar Response to Recommendations
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The district complete the CAASPP testing for the 2021-22 school year for grades three through five and report these literacy scores to the Grand Jury by October 1, 2022. Additionally, this grand jury recommends an annual reporting of these literacy scores to grand juries through the 2024-25 school year. This recommendation has already been partially completed, and the balance of the recommendation will be implemented as well over the next few months for the 2021-22 data, with reporting over the succeeding years as recommended. The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) includes the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments in English Language Arts and Math. These exams must be administered in grades three through eight and grade eleven. Winters JUSD implements state testing in accordance with California Department of Education (CDE) directives each year and did so in the Spring of 2022. Results within the CAASPP system are to be reported for two key purposes: ● to communicate students’ progress in achieving the state’s academic standards to students, parents/guardians, and teachers ● to inform decisions that teachers and administrators make about improving the educational program In continuation of our historical practice, Winters JUSD will report these results to parents, guardians, and the Board of Trustees in the coming months to provide information about how students are progressing in their education across all tested grades. This information will also be made publicly available and shared with the Grand Jury as requested.