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Another busy week ahead for your school board
Another busy week ahead for your school board: • Board Study Session (tonight – Sep 28 at 5 p.m.): TCAPS Capital Projects Planning. • Curriculum Committee (Sep 29 at 8:15 a.m.): 2026-2027 TCAPS District Course Catalog, Special Education Updates, Whole Child Updates, Celebrations & Successes • Finance and Operations Committee (Oct 1 at 8:15 a.m.):…
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3rd Grade Reading, 4th & 8th Grade Math, 11th Grade College Readiness: A Sampling of TCAPS’ 2026 Student Achievement Outcomes
Our state assessment outcomes for 2025/26 were released to the public last week. Below you’ll find a snapshot of how our students performed in reading, math, and college readiness. I’ve included years of data for context (as well as outcomes for our economically disadvantaged kids and their peers)—and connected these outcomes to the goals in…
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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 from 23.9% to 13.0%. That’s what can happen when we build pathways around students’ needs.…
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TCAPS Board Committee Meeting Agendas for Week of August 31
Another busy week ahead for your school board before school starts next week: Curriculum Committee (today – August 31 at 8:15a) – 2026/27 TCAPS District Course Catalog update – Summer school at Traverse Heights Elementary and Traverse City High School updates – Traverse City High School update – Sex Education Advisory Board Co-Chair recommendations Finance…
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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 members – need to be willing to have honestly. Michigan’s literacy outcomes are not where…
