Meanwhile, support staff allocation targets student needs directly. “We’ve also made sure that we’ve invested in things like making sure we have counselors in all of our schools, we have reading interventionists at our elementary buildings,” she notes. “As our budgets have gotten tighter, we’ve continued to prioritize those areas.” CAREER PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION Northern Wisconsin’s educational attainment rate of 38% trails the state average of 53%, creating workforce development challenges for local employers in manufacturing, healthcare, and retail sectors. Superior addresses this gap through comprehensive career preparation that begins in elementary school and augmented through strategic partnerships with higher education institutions. The district implements systematic career exploration across all grade levels.“We do start that conversation at the elementary level as part of academic and career planning work in our district. We call it a scope and sequence, so it’s some expected lessons and conversations that we have across all of our grade levels, K through 12,” Dr. Starzecki explains. 346 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 08
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