Wayne-Westland Community Schools has increased their streak to 8 years performing below the state average in elementary math scores as a district, scoring 22.3 percent below Michigan’s state average during the 2023-2024 school year.
Since 2015, schools at Wayne-Westland have unanimously sat behind the statewide average for 3rd grade M-STEP scores. Schools like Taft-Galloway and Thomas A. Edison Elementary have stood out as consistently way below average — only 5.8 percent of Taft-Galloway’s students scored proficient in 2020-2021.
Administrators have begun addressing the disparity:
In a plan published in February by the Wayne-Westland Community Schools Team, the administration cited assignments in elementary schools that didn’t match learning goals and learning targets not being revisited, among others as causes found through formative assessments that some teachers conducted in classrooms.
The plan mentions the adoption of FAME, a formative assessment training for teachers to increase student learning and motivation through the use of learning targets and formative feedback to show evidence of student learning.
According to FAME, or Formal Assessment for Michigan Educators, their program claims to focus student learning through self-guided proponents, empowering them to take a more active role in their school journey.
The district has also implemented FAME to help across all subjects at the high school level.
