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Instructional: World's Best Workforce annual report
Every year, the Anoka-Hennepin School District publishes a long-term strategic plan to support and improve teaching and learning. Its main goal is to close the achievement gap between student groups by making sure all students reach the following milestones:
- Ready to start kindergarten;
- Proficient in reading by grade three;
- Prepared for a college or career path; and
- Set to attain their high school diploma.
Anoka-Hennepin reviews and evaluates their progress by:
- Each student's gains in state and local academic standards, including college and career readiness; and
- The effectiveness of instruction and curriculum.
As noted in the report, Anoka-Hennepin continues to create:
- Clearly defined district and school goals;
- Strategies for improving instruction, curriculum and student achievement;
- Practices that integrate high-quality instruction, rigorous curriculum, technology and a collaborative professional culture supporting teacher quality, performance and effectiveness; and
- An annual budget aligned to implementing the plan.
The district receives input for this work from the World's Best Workforce Advisory Committee, which consists of parents, students, community members and staff. For questions or information on how to get involved contact the district's curriculum, instruction and assessment department at 763-506-1066.
Additional achievement reports can be found on the research, evaluation and testing page.
Other district plans
Other plans help Anoka-Hennepin reach the milestones set forth in the World's Best Workforce report including:
- Compensatory revenue pilot
- Local literacy plan
- Technology plan
Minnesota Department of Education report card
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) has "district report cards," which is a tool designed to provide parents, educators, schools, districts and citizens with easy access to district and school information, test results, revenue and expenditure data, demographic information and other critical data. Visit MDE's website for Anoka-Hennepin's report card. School report cards can also be viewed.
Full reports, evaluations
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World's Best Workforce
World's Best Workforce report
The full plan is available in a print-friendly format.
The following goals are part of the 2022-23 WBWF report looking forward to 2023-24 outcomes.
Goal 1: All students ready for kindergarten.
By the end of the 2023-24 school year, 66.2% of all students in kindergarten will score at or above grade level proficiency benchmarks on the letter sounds task from the Formative Assessment System for Teachers earlyReading (FAST), an increase of 1.1% from the proficiency of the 2022-23 cohort of students. (The 2022-23 cohort of students scored a 65.1% proficiency rate.)
Goal 2: All third grade students reading at proficiency.
By the end of the 2023-24 school year, 51.9% of all students in grade three will score at or above grade level proficiency benchmarks on the All-Accountability MCA Reading assessment, an increase of 1.0% from the proficiency of the 2022-23 cohort of students. (The 2022-23 cohort of students scored a 50.9% proficiency rate.)
Goal 3: Closing the achievement gap(s) among all student groups.
Anoka-Hennepin chose to focus on the gaps between current MCA math and reading proficiency rates for students of color and their pre-pandemic proficiency rates as the subject of our “closing the achievement gap” goals.
By the end of the 2023-24 school year, to close the gap between current and pre-Covid-19 pandemic performance levels, 41.0% of students of color will score at or above grade-level proficiency on the All-Accountability MCA Math Assessments, an increase of 2.0% from the proficiency of the 2022-23 cohort of students. (The 2022-23 cohort of students scored a 39.0% proficiency rate.)
By the end of the 2023-24 school year, to close the gap between current and pre-Covid-19 pandemic performance levels, 43.9% of students of color will score at or above grade-level proficiency on the All-Accountability MCA Reading Assessments, an increase of 2.0% from the proficiency of the 2022-23 cohort of students. (The 2022-23 cohort of students scored a 41.9% proficiency rate.)
Goal 4: All students career-and-college ready by graduation.
By the end of the 2023-24 school year, 87.3% of all students completing their senior year will have taken at least one potential college credit earning course by graduation, an increase of 0.4% from the potential college credit earning course enrollment rate of the 2022-23 cohort of students. (The 2022-23 cohort of students had an 86.9% potential college credit earning course enrollment rate.)
Goal 5: All students graduate.
By the end of the 2023 school year, 86.4% of all students in their fourth year of high school will graduate, an increase of 0.4% from the rate of the 2022 cohort of students. (The 2022 cohort of students graduated at a rate of 86.0%.) This includes all students, including students in traditional, alternative and special programming across the district.
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Achievement and integration plan
The full plan, 2020-2023, is available for download.
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Local literacy plan
Reading proficiently no later than the end of grade three
Every Minnesota school district is required to adopt a local literacy plan to ensure a systemic approach so that every child is reading at or above grade level no later than grade three as defined by Minnesota Statute 120B.12.
Reading proficiently no later than the end of grade 3 is a key academic success milestone in Anoka-Hennepin's Building Futures strategic plan. Third grade reading proficiency is important because it sets the stage for future learning and school success. Many steps are being taken to ensure grade three reading proficiency for our students.
The School Board has committed to a major strategic investment in expanded Pre-K and kindergarten programming. "Children who participate in high-quality aligned PK-3 systems perform better on third grade reading and math test scores" (Grant Makers for Education, 2006, p. 9). This is supported by the report, Assessing the Validity of Minnesota School Readiness Indicators (2011) which concluded that kindergartners who met the benchmarks in math and reading were twice as likely to exceed standards on the MCA in reading and math.
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Technology plan
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Financial budgets
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Financial reports
