Milepost Program

Academic Success

The Milepost program redefines how the education partners (students, parents, and staff) will ensure your child's education success through:

Setting academic targets or Mileposts;

Intervening early when your child is struggling; and

Monitoring every child's academic success through the student database.

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Accountability Agreement:

Beginning with the 2004-2005 school year, all students, parents, staff, and administrators sign a compact delineating what each partner brings to the equation to equal your child's academic success. Your child's education should be so much more than just what occurs between school walls from 8:30 to 3:30. And your child's success can actually be maximized when we all reinforce and build on each other's efforts. This compact validates the role each of us plays.

Identify the Targets:

We have set targets or "Mileposts" that all Blaine County students are expected to meet in the areas of reading, language arts and mathematics. These "Mileposts" are reachable, meaningful and measureable academic skill levels specified at the end of grades 2, 5, 8, 10 and 12.

Team to the Rescue:

If at any time your student is in danger of not meeting one or some of these Mileposts, we all come to the rescue - teachers, parents, administrators and of course the student - to devise a multi-year plan to ensure your child's future success. This plan delineates the skill areas to be addressed, the strategies we will use, and what each member of the child's Milepost team will contribute. The team meets at least once a year to determine if your child is making adequate progress, if the interventions and programs offered are appropriate. These meetings allow the team to make mid-point adjustments if needed.

Electronic Access:

Each of your child's teachers has access to an electronic student database at their fingertips. Essentially an "electronic" student file, this file enables our teachers to have ready access to your child's academic performance to date. Information such as how your child performed on state and local assessments, as well as list of different school programs and interventions your child has participated in, allows your child's teacher to more clearly focus their instruction on what your child needs.