TY FOR TCAPS

The responsibility must be shared when it comes to student achievement and helping all of our kids succeed.

Shared between our schools, teachers, students, families, community members, elected officials, and law/policy makers.

We’re lucky to have many community members (people who don’t have kids or grandkids in TCAPS) who consistently show up to tutor, mentor, coach, and read to our kids.

People like Mary Van Valin.

Mary has built a team of community members who tutor math twice a week (every week) at Traverse Heights.

Thank you, Mary and team.

Traverse Heights Elementary School – TCAPS

LATEST EQUITY AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT POSTS

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  Supporting Our Mavericks
  A really encouraging story in today’s Traverse City Record-Eagle about Traverse City High School. Over the past three years, the school’s on-time graduation rate has nearly doubled, from 23.9% in 2023 to 46.7% in 2025, while the dropout rate fell… Read more: Supporting Our Mavericks
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  Assessments Should Help Us Teach, Not Just Tell Us What Happened
  I appreciate the Traverse City Record-Eagle‘s willingness to put education and Michigan’s literacy challenges in the spotlight in today’s paper.* It’s an important conversation, and one I think all of us – educators, parents, school board members, legislators and community… Read more: Assessments Should Help Us Teach, Not Just Tell Us What Happened
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  August Newsletter
  ​August’s newsletter is out – have a great ​rest of the summer, everyone! • ​2​026 elementary school math/literacy outcomes • 2​026 secondary school math/literacy outcomes • Looking beyond the classroom: Lessons from the Kids Count report • ​C​ommunity partnerships: Creating… Read more: August Newsletter
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  Keeping Our Promise: Reporting on the Outcomes We’ve Chosen to Prioritize
  One of the promises we made as a Board was to be transparent about the outcomes we’ve chosen to prioritize—and to report our progress along the way. At last week’s Curriculum Committee meeting, we reviewed several of our secondary strategic… Read more: Keeping Our Promise: Reporting on the Outcomes We’ve Chosen to Prioritize
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  Measuring What Matters: A First Look at TCAPS’ Progress Toward the 2030 Vision
  One of the commitments we made in our new 2030 Vision* was to measure what matters—and to share our progress along the way. At yesterday’s Curriculum Committee meeting, we reviewed our latest elementary reading and math outcomes using the NWEA,… Read more: Measuring What Matters: A First Look at TCAPS’ Progress Toward the 2030 Vision