The Perry School district made progress in several areas this past school year, as evidenced by the improvement made on the Iowa Assessment.

Superintendent Lynn Ubben attributes the success to a unified effort by staff in the district.

“The staff has worked really hard this year and I know the elementary staff especially on reading strategies, there’s an instructional coach.  They’ve really put in some hours and worked hard.  That doesn’t mean we haven’t always done a good job and we haven’t always worked hard, because we have.  That’s not it at all.  But what they’re trying to do as a group is become more focused on the assessment and more focused on, ‘what is it that we want all children in each grade to know and be able to do in all classes?”

Plus Ubben adds that this process is teaching not only the students, but the staff as well.

“Whether you’ve taught one year or twenty years, we’re all learners.  So they’ve worked hard, done a great job and seen some real success so I want to commend all our teachers.”

We’ll wrap up our conversation with Superintendent Ubben on today’s Let’s Talk Dallas County during the 9am, noon and 5pm hours on AM 1310 KDLS.