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Volunteers and interns caught and counted
1,777 summer chum salmon between Aug. 15
and Oct. 15 entering the Union River in Belfair.
Canal Salmon Enhancement Group
conducted the count at the salmon trap on state
Route for the 20th year. Last year, 1,887
summer chum were counted on the Union River,
compared with in and 5,810 in
The fish trap is monitored at the site around the
clock during those two months.
“While the number is slightly less than the
past few years, it is still an above-average
return when compared to the past years and
Volunteer Michelle Fisher displays a chum salmon caught in the trap last
month on the Union River in em..- 7. e .— M-
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North Mason schools set goals forprogress
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kbofleitner@masoncounmcom
Although COVID-19 has changed the landscape
of public education in many ways, when Assistant
Superintendent Lisa Roberts preSented the
District Success Plan to the North Mason School
Board on Oct. 15, she asserted that one way that
has not changed is the district’s commitment to the
Multi-Tier System of Supports (MTSS).
Roberts summed up MTSS as consisting of five
essential components:
I Team-driven shared leadership.
I Data-based problem-solving and decision-
making. '
I A layered continuum of supports.
I Evidence-based practices.
I Family, school and community partnering.
While MTSS is intended to involve activities in-
cluding core instruction and standard-protocol in-
terventions with fidelity, schoolwide planning and
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intensifying interventions, Roberts told the board
she believes the district is making the most prog-
ress in its use of progress-monitoring tools and uni-
versal screening. ~
“The problem—solving model that we’re doing is
being applied in a different way than we thought it
would have to be,” Roberts said.
According to Roberts, the district’s primary
problem is determining how to ensure that all of
its students are connected and engaged with school
despite the restrictions imposed by COVID.
' “That’s how we started our year,” Roberts said.
“That’s how we decided our first cohorts who would
came back.”
Roberts said this school year would be marked
by the district’s increased focus on assessment lit-
eracy, how it uses data to make decisions regarding
students’ current status versus their expected prog-
ress, and creating “as robust a distance-learning
opportunity” as possible for all of its students.
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prospective innovations in “ways that we can offer
choice and voice for students” to aid in their suc-
cess, in ways that would hopefully reduce the in-
terventions that would otherwise be required for
struggling students.
Roberts reported the district is also continuing
its AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determina-
. tion) work to support grades 6-12.
“It’s really focusing on those skills that students
need to be college and career ready,” said Roberts,
who added that family engagement is “so critical”
as teachers reach out not only to students but also
to their parents, guardians and caregivers “who are
playing the roles of learning coaches at home.”
“In the MTSS work that we’re doing, it’s a robust
I instruction, determining ways we can intervene
for those students who are struggling,” Roberts
said, while also acknowledging its focus on ensur-
ing at least 80% of its students reach this spring’s
see GOALS, page A-27
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