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given every nine weeks and show students’ progress
toward mastery.
Data analysis. Teachers and administrators review
student data frequently, monitoring progress daily
and weekly. Students who have not achieved mastery
receive more instruction in their regular classrooms
or are referred for tutoring or other interventions
offered through the school’s Response to Intervention
program (see page 18 for more information on the RTI
program). Teachers will often identify 10 students for
focused interventions to be certain they get the extra
attention they need.
Finally, the school has weekly grade level meetings
on individual students’ benchmark assessments and
monthly cross-grade level meetings to discuss each
grade’s progress in helping students master grade
level expectations. In the 2011