District reports Rosetta Stone usage across 29 schools; plans surveys and data integration
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Chief Academic Officer Patty Hebert reported widespread Rosetta Stone access and rising usage across the district, with plans to survey families and staff and to work with the data team on student-level outcome tracking.
Chief Academic Officer Patty Hebert briefed the Lynn School Committee on Feb. 27 about the district's rollout of Rosetta Stone language-learning licenses.
Hebert said 29 schools currently have a license and that usage has increased since the program's phased rollout. The most frequently used languages across the district are English and Spanish; other languages with activity include Latin, Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Khmer. She said pre-kindergarten classes had not logged usage yet but that supports were in place to expand access to younger students.
Hebert described next steps: conduct district-wide surveys of families, students and staff to collect formal feedback; work with the data center to link Rosetta Stone usage to instructional outcomes such as MCAS and ACCESS where possible; and work with multilingual/EL teams to ensure required practice hours for English learners are supported. She said the Rosetta Stone platform does not easily produce student-level analytics without manual input, and the district is exploring whether its data tools (OpenArchitects/data center) can better integrate usage reports.
Committee members asked about metrics of success and languages offered; Ms. Hebert said a formal evaluation will take time and that the first-year focus was broad implementation and increasing student engagement with the tool. The committee did not take formal action on the program that evening.