Steve Gag

This document serves as the 2022-23 Combined World's Best Workforce (WBWF) Summary and Achievement and Integration (A&I) Progress Report for New Ulm Public Schools. It details the district's performance against strategic goals for the 2022-23 school year, including student readiness, third-grade literacy proficiency, achievement gap reduction, career and college readiness, and graduation rates. For the three-year A&I plan (2020-2023), it specifically reports on achievement, integration, and teacher equity goals and outcomes.

The strategic plan for New Ulm Schools is guided by the vision to "Inspire, Engage, Innovate. Soar." and aims to foster an inclusive, student-centered learning environment focused on critical thinking, excellence, and deep community investment. It outlines five strategic directions: Engaged Learning for Every Student; Embracing Growth for Every Learner; Exceptional Staff, Exceptional Student Impact; Engaging Families, Empowering Students; and Efficient Operations, Enhancing Learning. These directions are intended to guide the district's action plans and projects, forming a Strategic Roadmap and Operational Plan.

The strategic plan of New Ulm Public Schools aims to provide educational excellence through partnership with students, families, and the community. It focuses on fostering an inclusive, student-centered learning environment that promotes critical thinking and community involvement. Key strategic directions include engaged learning, embracing growth, exceptional staff impact, engaging families, and efficient operations. Core values emphasize community, progressiveness, integrity, transparency, and compassion.

The literacy plan for New Ulm Public School District focuses on increasing student growth in state and national assessments, advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion, and strengthening community engagement. Key goals include improving student performance on academic accountability tests, enhancing data-based decision making, and implementing multi-tiered systems of support. The plan also addresses dyslexia screening, parent notification, and professional development for educators.

The New Ulm Public Schools' Local Literacy Plan for the 2024-2025 school year aims to ensure every student reads at or above grade level by focusing on three strategic goals: increasing student growth in state/national assessments, advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion, and strengthening community engagement. The plan details universal and dyslexia screening using FastBridge, outlines parent notification and involvement strategies, and provides data on student reading levels. It also describes core reading instruction curricula (Super Kids and Read Side by Side for K-5, and HMH Into Literature and myPerspectives for 6-12), professional development plans (LETRS and CORE), and a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS) framework for literacy interventions. The plan emphasizes data-based decision-making for continuous improvement in literacy instruction.