TCGIS receives 2022 Innovation Award from Minnesota Association of Charter Schools

TCGIS received a 2022 Innovation Award at last week’s annual meeting of the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools. We won in the category of “Creating different and innovative forms of measuring learning outcomes” for our German literacy assessments (or screeners) that were developed in-house. These assessments screen for German letter sound fluency (K-1) and German reading fluency (1st-5th) and are administered one-on-one three times a year.

The screeners help to distinguish whether a student is struggling with literacy more broadly or specifically with German as a second (or third) language. This distinction then allows staff to more easily identify which students need support and what the nature of that support should be. Because screeners happen throughout the year, needs can be identified on an ongoing basis, allowing for early intervention. Another innovative feature is that data have now been collected long enough to generate grade-level norms unique to TCGIS. 

This is a critical part of our work that helps us fulfill every aspect of our mission of innovative education of the whole child through German immersion. Congratulations to the assessment team for the award and most of all for their ongoing important work in this area that benefits so many TCGIS students.

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