Jennifer Gerdes

The Fulda Independent School District 505's Comprehensive Achievement and Civic Readiness Plan focuses on enhancing student achievement and preparing students to be active members of their community. The plan addresses goals such as ensuring all children are ready for school, closing achievement gaps, preparing students for career and college, ensuring all students graduate, and preparing students to be lifelong learners. It involves strategies for improving instruction and curriculum, assessing student progress, and utilizing various committees and roles to support these goals.

The literacy plan for Fulda Public School District focuses on ensuring all students read at or above grade level, particularly by Grade 3, aligning with the Minnesota READ Act. It details screening tools, intervention strategies, and professional development plans aimed at improving literacy outcomes. The plan emphasizes data-based decision-making, a multi-tiered system of supports, and the use of evidence-based curricular resources to enhance phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension across grades K-12.

The 2023-2026 Achievement and Integration Plan for Fulda ISD focuses on reducing disparities in academic achievement and equitable access to effective teachers, while increasing racial and economic integration. Specific goals include improving 3rd-grade reading scores, increasing cultural competency training for educators, enhancing comfort levels among out-of-school-time participants in interacting with diverse peers, and increasing the number of staff of color. Strategies involve employing interventionists, providing cultural competency training, implementing integrated out-of-school-time programs, and offering teacher pathway scholarships. The plan emphasizes collaboration with partnering districts to create efficiencies and eliminate duplicative programs, particularly in summer day camp offerings and cultural competency training.

The 2023-2024 Literacy Plan for Isd 505, Fulda Public Schools, focuses on ensuring all students read at grade level by the end of third grade. Key strategies include a comprehensive assessment plan using FastBridge for screening, diagnosing, progress monitoring, and measuring growth; a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) providing core instruction, interventions, and intensive support based on student needs; ongoing professional development for teachers on structured literacy, assessment, and data-driven instruction; and strong family engagement. The plan emphasizes structured literacy, the five pillars of reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension), and the use of evidence-based interventions. Specific assessments include FastBridge and the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs). The plan also addresses the needs of English learners using WIDA and ACCESS assessments.

The Fulda Independent School District 505's 2023-2024 World's Best Workforce Plan is a comprehensive, long-term strategic plan focused on improving teaching and learning to create a high-quality workforce. The plan's four core beliefs are that all students are ready for school, achievement gaps are closed, all students are career and college ready, and all students graduate high school. Four focus areas—Student Growth and Achievement, Student Support and Well-Being, Family and Community Engagement, and Effective Resource Management—guide twelve goals and objectives. The plan details strategies for assessment, curriculum improvement, teacher development, and resource management to achieve these goals. Specific initiatives include improving reading proficiency, closing achievement gaps, increasing college and career readiness, and boosting the graduation rate. The plan also emphasizes formative assessment, instructional scaffolding, career and college readiness programs (concurrent enrollment and PSEO), and professional learning communities.