WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.770 --> 00:00:08.980 OK So the good news is the school's going in the right direction and when I show 2 00:00:08.990 --> 00:00:12.280 some of the statistics tonight and some of the goals and where we're heading with 3 00:00:12.290 --> 00:00:16.730 me ask I really truly believe that I think we have certain variables that we can 4 00:00:16.740 --> 00:00:22.160 control and with those ones that we can't control we're doing things to improve 5 00:00:22.170 --> 00:00:26.610 instruction curriculum and basically the student experience sometimes we have 6 00:00:26.620 --> 00:00:30.360 situations that we can't control and those variables we're trying to make sure that 7 00:00:30.370 --> 00:00:35.990 they don't impact our school as much as. You know as much as we can so just on this 8 00:00:36.120 --> 00:00:40.470 1st page the demographic data just 2 things A point out and you have this in front 9 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:43.700 of you so if you have any other questions later on you can ask or give me 10 00:00:43.710 --> 00:00:48.620 a call to 3.8 last year we stood here and we talked about L.L. 11 00:00:48.630 --> 00:00:51.670 And maybe adding a 4th the teacher in hindsight that was 12 00:00:51.680 --> 00:00:56.400 a great idea because that's moved up even this year believe the $3.00 is from our 13 00:00:57.040 --> 00:01:02.460 October 1st report and it's up to $4.00 now and it's growing and we had some we had 14 00:01:02.470 --> 00:01:05.500 a influx of students come in in January after 15 00:01:05.510 --> 00:01:09.540 a midterms So again looking back at that decision and I know it's 16 00:01:09.550 --> 00:01:10.740 a budget decision but it was 17 00:01:10.750 --> 00:01:15.890 a good decision so I just want to publicly thank you for that I drop out rate is 18 00:01:15.900 --> 00:01:22.000 another area. 1.9 I seen it in some some of the different stats as 1.8 It depends 19 00:01:22.010 --> 00:01:27.490 on how they round them up sometimes but point 91.8 of the state that that's 20 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:29.030 a lot of work there too and in 21 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:34.900 a system as complex as the high school all the moving parts just having the support 22 00:01:34.910 --> 00:01:37.340 obviously of the National Mall in the P.P. 23 00:01:37.350 --> 00:01:42.800 Learning Academy are paeans program at night has kept kids in school our school 24 00:01:42.810 --> 00:01:47.110 based health center with the uptick in the what we've seen with mental health 25 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:51.160 issues in the just even in the past few years trying to keep kids in school credit 26 00:01:51.170 --> 00:01:53.230 recovery all things that I know in 27 00:01:53.240 --> 00:01:57.420 a tough budget year these are things that you look at and say How's it working well 28 00:01:57.620 --> 00:02:01.700 I think there's proof right there with the dropout rate and again that's hard work 29 00:02:01.710 --> 00:02:06.380 with our teaches our council is our administration working with kids making sure 30 00:02:06.390 --> 00:02:11.490 the kids feel safe in school and trying to find some options for them when they 31 00:02:11.500 --> 00:02:18.320 have. Anxiety issues something where it is so helpful to some of our 32 00:02:18.330 --> 00:02:23.060 kids and we I know that Mr Dodd is graduating I believe 16 kids this year so this 33 00:02:23.070 --> 00:02:26.710 exchange kids that we may have lost along the way so great job by him. 34 00:02:29.991 --> 00:02:31.161 On the next slide is just kind of 35 00:02:31.171 --> 00:02:36.891 a summary here of our school was and there is good news there last year we looked 36 00:02:36.901 --> 00:02:42.751 at our our advanced we went from 26 percent advance to 35 percent in L.A. 37 00:02:43.331 --> 00:02:43.481 That's 38 00:02:43.491 --> 00:02:50.371 a 9 percent obviously increase in our advanced area the other area is if you 39 00:02:50.381 --> 00:02:56.661 look at. IT AND HERE WE ARE THE it Van superficial I was 40 00:02:56.961 --> 00:03:03.311 together is 93 percent the state is 91 percent So again we're still achieving 41 00:03:03.561 --> 00:03:10.454 it's this excuse me. Syria here that we're 42 00:03:10.464 --> 00:03:16.076 looking at too is that 5 percent that 8 percent in that 7 percent how do we reach 43 00:03:16.086 --> 00:03:22.296 these kids and what the variables that keep these kids maybe in that percentage is 44 00:03:22.306 --> 00:03:27.046 it is it attendance is it things at home is it mental health is it not connecting 45 00:03:27.056 --> 00:03:27.656 with with 46 00:03:27.666 --> 00:03:31.846 a teacher or with the right kind of classes for them should they be in you know 47 00:03:31.856 --> 00:03:37.666 a dance class or program or whatever it may be so we really kind of pick in that 48 00:03:37.676 --> 00:03:39.906 a pot and when we were doing that is we have 49 00:03:39.916 --> 00:03:43.766 a book study going on in poverty with our teach is they're reading about that in 50 00:03:43.776 --> 00:03:47.986 just trying to get a better understanding that when kids are walking into the 51 00:03:47.996 --> 00:03:51.316 a classroom that they're all if it's 25 kids in 52 00:03:51.326 --> 00:03:54.316 a class they're all walking in from a different background 53 00:03:54.356 --> 00:04:00.296 a different social social economic situation and to try to be compassionate and 54 00:04:00.306 --> 00:04:05.506 understand that you know math homework so important but maybe they didn't have the 55 00:04:05.516 --> 00:04:07.196 right you know food last night or there was 56 00:04:07.206 --> 00:04:11.756 a big blowout at home so that's what we're trying to to to look at and trying to 57 00:04:11.766 --> 00:04:15.016 pull those kids along and we have some kids that are working extremely hard and 58 00:04:15.026 --> 00:04:20.551 teachers that are working extremely hard. Now the good news is our math and 59 00:04:20.591 --> 00:04:26.531 performance level there we went from 41 percent to 49 percent in advanced math so 60 00:04:26.541 --> 00:04:32.651 in our graduating class of 2019 we're looking at not only an 8 percent increase but 61 00:04:32.661 --> 00:04:38.001 almost 50 percent of our kids are at the advanced level in math in the class of 62 00:04:38.011 --> 00:04:44.802 200-1000 which is great again in if you look at down here. Where 63 00:04:44.812 --> 00:04:51.662 the school is the student growth percentile is $53.00 if I can see that the state 64 00:04:51.672 --> 00:04:57.272 is 50 so we're ahead of the state as far as the growth there goes still we're 65 00:04:57.282 --> 00:05:02.632 looking at that 2025 percent is 19 percent needs improvement and 6 percent failure 66 00:05:02.642 --> 00:05:07.412 which has been the 6 percent failure has been unfortunately too consistent we need 67 00:05:07.422 --> 00:05:11.342 to push those people along we need to push that 1000 into that 26 into that 68 00:05:11.352 --> 00:05:16.092 proficiency area so again identifying that 25 percent and with math teachers and 69 00:05:16.102 --> 00:05:21.992 math people they love this stuff so giving them access to M.P.'s to some of these 70 00:05:22.002 --> 00:05:26.392 different. Data areas they're looking at and pulling that 71 00:05:26.402 --> 00:05:31.582 a pot of sand has some common ground now sometimes we find that sometimes we think 72 00:05:31.592 --> 00:05:36.352 we find it try things differently and you know they may if switch the questions on 73 00:05:36.362 --> 00:05:36.752 the test 74 00:05:36.762 --> 00:05:41.322 a little bit more than we thought they did the bottom line is that people working 75 00:05:41.332 --> 00:05:47.952 together math department and they are. Department meetings love going over this 76 00:05:47.962 --> 00:05:51.642 kind of stuff and I'll show you in the next slide that they were very excited about 77 00:05:51.962 --> 00:05:54.704 so I said I would put this in for them is 78 00:05:54.714 --> 00:06:00.074 a bath M.P.'s school is for the class of 2019 so if you look at this it's kind of 79 00:06:00.084 --> 00:06:07.050 the reverse color wise sorry. But. When you look at the other chart those are kids 80 00:06:07.060 --> 00:06:12.820 that are in our school so whether they've been in there since 1st grade or came 2 81 00:06:12.830 --> 00:06:19.000 weeks before and cast exam we're responsible for this chart here shows you kids 82 00:06:19.010 --> 00:06:25.980 that from the 3rd grade that took the 3rd grade in 2010 right up into 2017 83 00:06:26.410 --> 00:06:32.060 this is this is the area that blue area where you can see the advancement and how 84 00:06:32.070 --> 00:06:35.100 quick and where they're at right now so there's 85 00:06:35.110 --> 00:06:40.960 a huge huge movement there you can see that I think from even kids going in 86 00:06:40.970 --> 00:06:45.930 a year 3 quarters a so from the 8th grade to the 10th grade is seeing 87 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:52.451 a jump of almost double from. Yes it goes to 77 percent 88 00:06:53.071 --> 00:06:56.961 advance in profession which is pretty amazing as far as the advance goes it goes 89 00:06:56.971 --> 00:07:03.821 from 2027 to 54 percent doubling the 2 So again if you're in the 90 00:07:03.831 --> 00:07:04.091 P.D. 91 00:07:04.101 --> 00:07:08.281 Public schools you're in good shape you can see that progression and stuff and again 92 00:07:08.491 --> 00:07:10.051 I'm not trying to compare obviously 93 00:07:10.341 --> 00:07:16.051 a 3rd grade 6th grade I'm Casco to the high school. Assessment but you can see that 94 00:07:16.101 --> 00:07:20.581 we're we're not going the other way and that's what's important so we're very happy 95 00:07:20.591 --> 00:07:25.351 with that in the 8 percent increase in our advanced but still again looking for 96 00:07:25.361 --> 00:07:29.621 that that bottom have to move them up or bottom quarter I should say. 97 00:07:32.331 --> 00:07:36.481 The next slide is in science in probably like the middle school too there's not 98 00:07:36.491 --> 00:07:41.391 a lot of data here because of the changes with the state test the standards have 99 00:07:41.401 --> 00:07:42.581 changed so there's been 100 00:07:42.591 --> 00:07:47.031 a little dip and also coincided with the school district adopting 101 00:07:47.041 --> 00:07:48.171 a new science program K. 102 00:07:48.181 --> 00:07:49.911 Through 12 so it's going to take 103 00:07:49.921 --> 00:07:55.501 a little time to get that moving. But again it's not it's not you know horrific or 104 00:07:55.511 --> 00:07:59.491 anything it's actually probably good timing with the state changes in our new 105 00:07:59.501 --> 00:08:04.041 curriculum that teachers are excited they're very motivated to to look at those new 106 00:08:04.751 --> 00:08:09.761 standards and to re redesign what they're teaching in class which is also again 107 00:08:09.771 --> 00:08:16.311 good for our situation so moving along what's looking at the data and what's next 108 00:08:16.321 --> 00:08:22.091 for the high school. Need I ask is our focus this year it's our focus next year and 109 00:08:22.101 --> 00:08:26.481 it's going to be our focus in the fall of 2019 not that it isn't the focus all the 110 00:08:26.491 --> 00:08:31.561 time but neither has this kind of changed also and I think what we met with Bill 111 00:08:31.571 --> 00:08:36.791 Worley who's our liaison with me ask he was very happy with the work that's going 112 00:08:36.801 --> 00:08:41.851 on he's very happy he says you know you're kind of ahead of the game and we want to 113 00:08:41.861 --> 00:08:46.611 stay ahead because I think it takes the pressure off of the feeling of just getting 114 00:08:46.621 --> 00:08:50.511 this thing done getting it passed and getting it over with without looking at 115 00:08:50.521 --> 00:08:54.301 really true changes that could take place so I think this is 116 00:08:54.311 --> 00:09:00.341 a good thing I think it's great that they're coming in in 200-1000 the fall in 2020 117 00:09:00.351 --> 00:09:04.671 the standards are going to change even again but we talked about that with them in 118 00:09:04.681 --> 00:09:08.761 some of the things that we're doing actually address the standards in 2022 bottom 119 00:09:08.771 --> 00:09:15.021 line. Standards in the 2019 visit to the 5 standards in the 120 00:09:15.651 --> 00:09:21.775 2026. When we're trying to say 121 00:09:22.315 --> 00:09:29.280 the the the next wave of. Stand it's thank you so. The bottom line is what 122 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:33.320 21st century graduate look like coming out of Peabody high and that's what the 123 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:39.270 discussion in our. Learning communities are right now what we're looking at at some 124 00:09:39.280 --> 00:09:43.230 of the faculty meetings and discussion we're looking at you know our mission 125 00:09:43.240 --> 00:09:46.840 statement what we're doing with that and we were going with that and we're going to 126 00:09:46.850 --> 00:09:48.270 be doing hopefully taking 127 00:09:48.280 --> 00:09:51.880 a vote at the end of the year and when that does happen I'll obviously report back 128 00:09:51.890 --> 00:09:54.110 out to you about what we're doing it's 129 00:09:54.120 --> 00:09:58.610 a little bit different again the changes in the Ask it's not so much the big long 130 00:09:58.620 --> 00:10:05.220 paragraph all wordy. You know explanation it's short compact 131 00:10:05.610 --> 00:10:09.880 to the point type of mission statement so we've had 132 00:10:09.890 --> 00:10:13.270 a lot of good discussion on that and again the technology in the school allows us 133 00:10:13.700 --> 00:10:14.010 to do 134 00:10:14.020 --> 00:10:18.250 a lot of the stuff. Meeting in different groups around the school but then putting 135 00:10:18.260 --> 00:10:18.540 it on 136 00:10:18.550 --> 00:10:22.440 a Google doc and everyone's kind of sharing things and pulling the information together 137 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:27.330 . But we also look at doing it too is with our middle school one of the things 138 00:10:27.440 --> 00:10:32.620 we've looked at and discussed is is the transition for me to 9th grade and what can 139 00:10:32.630 --> 00:10:33.610 we do to make that 140 00:10:33.730 --> 00:10:39.250 a little bit of an easier transition for some kids some kids transition very easily 141 00:10:39.620 --> 00:10:44.640 the struggle with it so what we have done and I apologize I probably should have 142 00:10:44.690 --> 00:10:47.630 made some notes from what we're looking at we're going to try to pilot 143 00:10:47.880 --> 00:10:54.470 a semester class this year with all these different pieces of everything from where 144 00:10:54.480 --> 00:11:00.340 in what is available at the high school what the different programs to our media 145 00:11:00.350 --> 00:11:00.560 center 146 00:11:00.570 --> 00:11:06.770 a librarian what kind of resources of their. What kind of clubs we have whatever it 147 00:11:06.780 --> 00:11:10.260 may be of all the different opportunities that they have as far as making 148 00:11:10.270 --> 00:11:17.080 connections with adults possible community service time of that they could do or in 149 00:11:17.090 --> 00:11:20.440 turn ships along the way it's really going to be kind of like 150 00:11:20.450 --> 00:11:27.040 a very structured study skills type of class and to make sure that every kid we 151 00:11:27.050 --> 00:11:31.350 know. As certain standards so it could be a day or 152 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:36.240 a couple days on making sure that they can write good solid opening sentences for 153 00:11:36.250 --> 00:11:40.350 a paragraph or whatever just to make sure that we haven't missed anybody or that 154 00:11:40.650 --> 00:11:44.290 that other group there that maybe needs improvement hasn't fallen through the crowd 155 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:49.440 cracks so that we know that we can make sure that we're not finding that out after 156 00:11:49.450 --> 00:11:54.781 the exam also that's been successful this year we want to continue. Some of the CO 157 00:11:54.791 --> 00:12:01.201 teaching motto we had a very successful math one last year that we saw in the M. 158 00:12:01.211 --> 00:12:04.821 Cast school as this year what happened was we took down 159 00:12:04.831 --> 00:12:10.141 a fight about 20 kids that really were on paste needs improvement failing and we 160 00:12:10.151 --> 00:12:16.491 got 18 of those kids to pass and cast and I think the 19th one of the kids didn't 161 00:12:16.501 --> 00:12:20.911 even finish the exam so they're taking the make up so incredible job by the 2 162 00:12:20.921 --> 00:12:24.971 teachers that were working on that we had other teachers look at that and then this 163 00:12:24.981 --> 00:12:30.011 year we had a kind of a situation where a larger maybe E.L.L. 164 00:12:30.021 --> 00:12:34.251 Class in some other math students all mixed in what we did was we broke that out 165 00:12:34.261 --> 00:12:37.061 and we had a coach teach so we have an E.L.T. 166 00:12:37.071 --> 00:12:41.731 To really working with the vocabulary of math with the students and the math 167 00:12:41.741 --> 00:12:46.771 teacher going is amazing to see in fact I know that Mrs many of us went up one time 168 00:12:46.781 --> 00:12:47.231 to go take 169 00:12:47.241 --> 00:12:51.431 a look at that class and observe for 5 minutes and she was gone for about 40 170 00:12:51.441 --> 00:12:55.021 minutes and I said Where are you Ben because you got to go see this this is amazing 171 00:12:55.241 --> 00:12:58.871 so kids that sometimes are struggling or are not understanding and stuff it was 172 00:12:59.081 --> 00:13:01.471 there was a lot of enthusiasm there was 173 00:13:01.481 --> 00:13:05.301 a lot of action going on in the class when I went not only the kids but from the 174 00:13:05.311 --> 00:13:10.271 teachers too so great job by them would also like to incorporate this into some of 175 00:13:10.281 --> 00:13:12.341 our special ed classes we did dabble 176 00:13:12.351 --> 00:13:14.621 a little bit with biology this year too or we had 177 00:13:14.631 --> 00:13:19.181 a teacher going out on maternity leave and we had the option bringing the teacher 178 00:13:19.191 --> 00:13:22.681 that was going to take that class so 1st semester they kind of taught together too 179 00:13:22.721 --> 00:13:27.821 so we're doing things differently we're trying to do things that are going to 180 00:13:27.831 --> 00:13:33.951 improve the instruction and practices of our school so again we saw that with our 181 00:13:33.961 --> 00:13:38.911 math in school as this year and we're excited about what we're going to be doing to 182 00:13:39.271 --> 00:13:44.781 again this is the Peabody school systems mission and vision statement and again 183 00:13:44.891 --> 00:13:50.861 we're using that to build our other one as far as our goals for the school and in 184 00:13:50.871 --> 00:13:56.161 talking with teaches and parents and our students we've In these are really in no 185 00:13:56.171 --> 00:14:02.262 particular order just so you know. But this is kind of get off of some of the 186 00:14:02.962 --> 00:14:07.322 Ask verbiage so we change that around a little bit so to revise and implement 187 00:14:07.332 --> 00:14:12.732 a guaranteed and viable 21st century curriculum so I know we're kind of short on 188 00:14:12.742 --> 00:14:13.682 time and you have 189 00:14:13.852 --> 00:14:17.772 a copy in front of you sort of reading through everything bottom line is well we're 190 00:14:17.782 --> 00:14:21.622 looking for to make sure that our curriculum we're looking at the frameworks we're 191 00:14:21.632 --> 00:14:26.592 getting these things updated some need more updating than others and then hopefully 192 00:14:27.182 --> 00:14:33.102 in the bottom there where it says implementation of the curriculum by 2920 that's 193 00:14:33.112 --> 00:14:35.932 OK That's going to take a while even E.S.Q. 194 00:14:35.942 --> 00:14:40.652 Said you probably won't be done by the time we're in but you know it will be 195 00:14:40.662 --> 00:14:44.452 probably into our electives at that point and that's like they said it's 196 00:14:44.462 --> 00:14:48.092 a little different now with the US They said That's OK you're progressing this is 197 00:14:48.102 --> 00:14:51.702 what you're doing so you know if you look at some curriculum that has been worked 198 00:14:51.712 --> 00:14:51.922 on in 199 00:14:51.932 --> 00:14:57.162 a while we even change some of the books and some of the the way we teach things in 200 00:14:57.172 --> 00:15:02.912 use of technology technology so we're trying to incorporate that more into. You 201 00:15:02.922 --> 00:15:08.822 know. Curriculum and making sure that it's being aligned with the new framework 202 00:15:12.343 --> 00:15:16.403 and also says here the director of teacher in learning Jarrett he's been very 203 00:15:16.413 --> 00:15:22.133 helpful in working with our P L season in time when teaches we don't have 204 00:15:22.143 --> 00:15:26.373 a lot of collaborative time but the time that we do have we try to make sure that 205 00:15:26.383 --> 00:15:31.824 the teachers are using it efficiently and and Jared's been going in not only 206 00:15:31.834 --> 00:15:38.701 talking about me us but talking about this also I want to catch up. Our 2nd goal 207 00:15:39.201 --> 00:15:40.991 to analyze and this probably could've been offer 208 00:15:41.001 --> 00:15:44.681 a school if you really wanted to put them in order to analyze or instructional 209 00:15:44.691 --> 00:15:49.141 practices and again develop and implement high quality instructional practices so 210 00:15:49.151 --> 00:15:53.081 how we doing that we are meeting our instructional rounds team which is 211 00:15:53.091 --> 00:15:58.561 a group of teaches start in action today not so much with our teachers but we had 212 00:15:58.571 --> 00:16:03.271 our C.T.E. The de sac the C.T.E. 213 00:16:03.281 --> 00:16:04.501 The vocational it was 214 00:16:04.511 --> 00:16:08.601 a groupie and they were meeting today with some of our teaches but teaches from 215 00:16:08.611 --> 00:16:11.751 other schools and what they do is they go in they went into our medical assisting 216 00:16:12.041 --> 00:16:15.781 when I saw them and they go around and they're listening to kids and how they are 217 00:16:15.791 --> 00:16:20.361 learning and taking notes on your specific things that they're looking for in fact 218 00:16:20.371 --> 00:16:23.021 I saw even one of the teachers go over in the corner take 219 00:16:23.031 --> 00:16:26.631 a picture of the lock is and it's little things like that that they take back to 220 00:16:26.641 --> 00:16:28.161 the school and she says I'm just taking 221 00:16:28.171 --> 00:16:32.881 a picture of the lockers because this is exactly what we need to organize our space 222 00:16:32.891 --> 00:16:36.541 a little bit better so it's little simple things in trying to take those best 223 00:16:36.551 --> 00:16:41.501 practices out of out of the classroom so this is something that we've we've been 224 00:16:41.511 --> 00:16:45.781 working with the SEC instructional Rounce team we haven't got as much reporting 225 00:16:45.791 --> 00:16:48.091 back this year as we'd like because there's been 226 00:16:48.101 --> 00:16:50.681 a lot of knee asks but I think next year we're going to do 227 00:16:50.691 --> 00:16:53.531 a lot more of this instructional rounds and try to make it more of a 228 00:16:53.691 --> 00:16:57.491 a routine and stuff and again it 1st started as I'm 229 00:16:57.501 --> 00:17:00.801 a little nervous about this and people coming into my classroom I think now people 230 00:17:00.811 --> 00:17:05.371 are inviting people into this kind of see what these best practices are so we're 231 00:17:05.381 --> 00:17:09.941 trying to focus basically not only on the on the positive but again trying to see 232 00:17:09.951 --> 00:17:16.145 where we need some help. Then the 3rd goal. 233 00:17:17.499 --> 00:17:17.839 To build 234 00:17:17.849 --> 00:17:24.249 a data driven system that. Accesses and supports all learn is again the skits into 235 00:17:24.259 --> 00:17:25.429 that whether it's 236 00:17:25.439 --> 00:17:30.369 a high end kid in math that's advanced or the kid that's struggling trying to pass 237 00:17:30.379 --> 00:17:34.989 or trying to get into that proficiency area we're trying to develop and look at our 238 00:17:34.999 --> 00:17:39.839 common assessments not just the midterms not just the finals but other areas to 239 00:17:39.849 --> 00:17:45.359 make sure that there are benchmarks for our kids that they meet the minimum before 240 00:17:45.369 --> 00:17:51.009 we move on so that we have some idea again of what kids are learning what they 241 00:17:51.019 --> 00:17:57.659 should know. Really what the basics are and then go from there so 242 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:02.539 again we're working in discussing this with faculty meetings and on P.D. 243 00:18:02.549 --> 00:18:03.549 Day so we're trying to squeeze 244 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:08.970 a lot of things in. In this hopefully will lead to making some data driven 245 00:18:09.010 --> 00:18:15.090 scheduling decisions like with our C.T.E. Electives things like that R.C. T. 246 00:18:15.130 --> 00:18:18.970 Looks at the programming and how much time they need to get certain licensure 247 00:18:19.650 --> 00:18:23.720 licenses for the kids I know we have one teacher that's looking in so he's got an 248 00:18:23.730 --> 00:18:28.520 OSHA certified he wants to bring that back to his kids in the shop which is great 249 00:18:28.650 --> 00:18:34.130 also our electives how are we using the technology in our electives to kind of 250 00:18:34.170 --> 00:18:36.640 update those electives to so there's 251 00:18:36.650 --> 00:18:39.680 a lot of interesting things going on it's never 252 00:18:39.690 --> 00:18:43.650 a boring day at the high school and if you've been up there and I know some of you 253 00:18:43.660 --> 00:18:48.520 popped in obviously for Korea day and some of you that I talked with even during 254 00:18:48.560 --> 00:18:55.450 career day or after career day you saw some of this in action the 4th goal again to 255 00:18:55.460 --> 00:18:55.890 establish 256 00:18:55.900 --> 00:18:59.660 a tiered intervention support system to meet the academic and social emotional 257 00:18:59.670 --> 00:19:05.710 needs of all learn is. Again this is that 9th grade class to make sure that there 258 00:19:05.720 --> 00:19:10.910 is some kind of academic support class in place so that all 9th grade is semester 259 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:16.060 of their 1st year but we're trying to pilot this in hopefully this will make sure 260 00:19:16.070 --> 00:19:20.860 that we don't no one slips through the cracks or get gets behind on certain things 261 00:19:21.300 --> 00:19:24.750 and then we find out software you know well geez this one didn't pass you know 262 00:19:25.010 --> 00:19:31.090 English and it was close in math trying to cut cut that cut that off and this is 263 00:19:31.100 --> 00:19:34.090 one way of doing it we're also going to explore maybe 264 00:19:34.100 --> 00:19:38.940 a Saturday school. To look into because again with the state and suspensions one 265 00:19:38.950 --> 00:19:41.600 thing that we've done different this year is if we have 266 00:19:41.610 --> 00:19:46.890 a suspension in the handbook that says calls for 5 days we're trying not to be as 267 00:19:46.900 --> 00:19:50.970 punitive with the 5 days we've we're saying well maybe 2 days because if we the 268 00:19:50.980 --> 00:19:54.220 kids are 5 days what are they going to be doing are they really going to be doing 269 00:19:54.230 --> 00:19:57.320 the work now they probably have more access to the work than they've ever had 270 00:19:57.330 --> 00:20:01.450 through the Google classroom and their grown books but we don't want them out of 271 00:20:01.460 --> 00:20:04.700 school as long so we've been trying to work with kids and be honest 272 00:20:04.710 --> 00:20:08.320 a lot of our high school kids. As soon as they do something or get themselves in 273 00:20:08.330 --> 00:20:12.740 a bind to pretty honest and upfront that something else is going on in their life 274 00:20:12.780 --> 00:20:17.770 or they just fess up and they're like Yeah I messed up so again we're trying to be 275 00:20:17.780 --> 00:20:21.040 a little bit more compassionate on that end and try to get more out of it but the 276 00:20:21.050 --> 00:20:25.230 state is also saying that you know when you start at even in school suspensions 277 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:30.570 that becomes part of the suspension list so Saturday school might be an option that 278 00:20:30.580 --> 00:20:34.930 you can make up some time or do something there whether it's attendance tardies 279 00:20:34.940 --> 00:20:39.840 whatever it may be just getting caught up on work some kind of different option for 280 00:20:39.850 --> 00:20:44.480 kids again that will involve some training and some other things but it's something 281 00:20:44.490 --> 00:20:48.940 that obviously to look at but the big thing here is trying to to really support our 282 00:20:48.950 --> 00:20:55.783 students in this social emotional needs So again what just to recap 283 00:20:55.823 --> 00:20:57.073 what are we doing to get out 284 00:20:57.083 --> 00:21:00.463 a level 3 will one thing that's happening is that the state is going to reach 285 00:21:01.053 --> 00:21:03.033 reconfigure everything anyways so 286 00:21:03.043 --> 00:21:07.843 a level one through 5 is no longer going to be used that's good news you know I'm 287 00:21:07.853 --> 00:21:11.133 hoping that with next year's end Cason and explains We did 288 00:21:11.143 --> 00:21:14.113 a little differently this time with the English and we're going to do with math and 289 00:21:14.123 --> 00:21:18.743 science but hopefully we won't be in that situation but I think right now if you 290 00:21:18.753 --> 00:21:19.623 look at it this is 291 00:21:19.633 --> 00:21:25.413 a huge range of schools in that level 3 and you know where we are we're right there 292 00:21:25.453 --> 00:21:29.753 and we were really trying to get into that level to area where close to the 2 then 293 00:21:29.763 --> 00:21:30.263 we got to 294 00:21:30.273 --> 00:21:36.153 a 4 of 5 which is good but again that is all going to be re reassessed by the state 295 00:21:36.403 --> 00:21:42.451 and it's going to be new. Accountability in look to that that system so what are we 296 00:21:42.491 --> 00:21:45.301 been doing is we've been meeting with de sac they've been 297 00:21:45.311 --> 00:21:47.561 a tremendous help whether it's 298 00:21:47.571 --> 00:21:52.671 a leadership group math inclusive schools and I did apologise I left off the C.T.E. 299 00:21:52.681 --> 00:21:56.191 Group that was actually in our school today and that just is again 300 00:21:56.201 --> 00:22:00.811 a bunch of schools with leaders from the state talking about different issues that 301 00:22:00.821 --> 00:22:04.151 schools run into how they solve them how they're you know different ideas of what 302 00:22:04.161 --> 00:22:06.031 they're doing within their districts and 303 00:22:06.041 --> 00:22:09.681 a lot of times we're sitting with districts that are very similar to us some things 304 00:22:09.691 --> 00:22:13.331 we do very well and sometimes we take some pretty good ideas out of those again and 305 00:22:13.341 --> 00:22:18.371 we try to balance this taking people out of the classroom because it's good to send 306 00:22:18.381 --> 00:22:25.190 people to these different. Workshops and but the problem becomes I don't want to 307 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:28.240 pull math the same math teacher 4 times 5 times out of 308 00:22:28.250 --> 00:22:33.680 a class for 5 classes and then we have 5 snow days too so it's trying to find that 309 00:22:33.690 --> 00:22:37.090 balance but we have some teachers that have been very interested in going to those 310 00:22:37.100 --> 00:22:41.630 and really brought back some some great ideas again the CO teaching is really 311 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:47.730 working out and we hope to expand that with the special education and possibly 312 00:22:47.740 --> 00:22:51.060 English too when we look at scheduling I'm going to skip the 3rd one just for 313 00:22:51.070 --> 00:22:56.050 a 2nd again organizing our instructional rounds team which has worked in our day to 314 00:22:56.060 --> 00:22:57.650 leadership team they've gotten 315 00:22:57.660 --> 00:23:02.490 a taste of this now it's it's time to for them to really kind of take hold in 316 00:23:02.530 --> 00:23:07.650 really work on this I think that the the questions of well why we doing this is 317 00:23:07.660 --> 00:23:12.120 kind of been answered in it's about going out and actually doing this in the 318 00:23:12.130 --> 00:23:16.610 classrooms and really sharing some of the best practices. In the daily schedule to 319 00:23:16.620 --> 00:23:20.590 create an optimal educational testing environment for him CAS this was 320 00:23:20.600 --> 00:23:24.040 a huge undertaking I think I mentioned it when I was here with the kids last time. 321 00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:30.550 In the past we kind of ran our classes minus the 10th grade some of the split 322 00:23:30.560 --> 00:23:34.190 classes just had class so if you had 20 kids in the class you may have only had 12 323 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:39.270 that day because they were taking them cast. What we did this year it was isolated 324 00:23:39.870 --> 00:23:45.560 our M.P.'s up on the 3rd floor and it was in the back part of the building it was 325 00:23:45.570 --> 00:23:50.700 completely quiet they were with I think 95 percent of the kids who with for 1000000 326 00:23:50.710 --> 00:23:56.970 proctors that they knew in those practice stayed with those kids for the exam in 327 00:23:56.980 --> 00:24:01.450 the past we've had things going back to 3 years where kids finished and they went 328 00:24:01.460 --> 00:24:04.650 to the cafeteria so we learned from that that wasn't such 329 00:24:04.660 --> 00:24:09.910 a great idea because kids sometimes just enough to pass and off they went. By 330 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:16.480 isolating them it changed the testing area it changed the whole mood 331 00:24:16.870 --> 00:24:21.110 the feedback we got from teachers was that this is the best testing that we have. 332 00:24:21.250 --> 00:24:26.630 Add that you know the kids were working right up through what we consider 4th 333 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:32.010 period where other years they had finished up earlier they weren't the distractions 334 00:24:32.020 --> 00:24:34.830 of people going in and out maybe of the room with the bells going out we even shut 335 00:24:34.840 --> 00:24:37.540 the bells down and try to change kids throughout the building in 336 00:24:37.550 --> 00:24:43.740 a different way what we also did was run workshops for our 9th 11th and 12th grade 337 00:24:44.050 --> 00:24:49.690 which is was incredibly complex trying to keep track of kids where they were going 338 00:24:49.730 --> 00:24:54.400 what they were doing we had workshops everything from financial literacy to 339 00:24:54.660 --> 00:24:57.750 wellness in the field house we had 340 00:24:57.760 --> 00:25:03.750 a 9th grade biology review for the biology I'm cast coming up all these different 341 00:25:03.760 --> 00:25:10.340 things is it can make you Jared how many is the whole team did an 342 00:25:10.350 --> 00:25:16.760 amazing job putting this together and it was quite an undertaking it was for 3 days 343 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:22.070 everyone was exhausted after but I think it provided the best testing for us 344 00:25:22.080 --> 00:25:25.950 students that we've ever had and we're going to do it again for math for the 2 days 345 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:31.020 and then again and in June for the biology the good news is we're only going to be 346 00:25:31.030 --> 00:25:36.010 dealing with the seniors will be gone and so will it be dealing with the 2 classes 347 00:25:36.020 --> 00:25:40.090 and trying to coordinate them we're going to continue to try to with our math 348 00:25:40.100 --> 00:25:41.360 strategies try to have 349 00:25:41.370 --> 00:25:46.590 a class of 9th 10th slash and then 11th slash 12th grade class that again is just 350 00:25:46.600 --> 00:25:50.000 identifying those groups of kids that are struggling or may not have passed them 351 00:25:50.010 --> 00:25:56.090 cast yet and then are by monthly teacher leadership team meetings we've been 352 00:25:56.100 --> 00:26:00.330 meeting with Julie McGrath That's going really well we've done everything from 353 00:26:00.650 --> 00:26:07.490 going out in kind of an open area and meeting people off campus just 354 00:26:07.500 --> 00:26:12.460 to talk about other things besides school to really talking about where teachers 355 00:26:12.470 --> 00:26:16.850 can step up where people can there are leadership opportunities and bring 356 00:26:16.890 --> 00:26:21.580 information back to our. Other members of our staff to make sure the. The right 357 00:26:21.590 --> 00:26:27.090 message is being heard this is been also very helpful with our organization of our 358 00:26:27.380 --> 00:26:34.080 Ask steering committee and our different. 7. Committees that 359 00:26:34.280 --> 00:26:38.932 people are also co-chairing to we're going to last year we offer that Algebra one 360 00:26:38.942 --> 00:26:42.492 on his class we're going to again continue to do that and hopefully with 361 00:26:43.342 --> 00:26:46.892 a drama tree class 2 this was just for those kids that are used to getting that 362 00:26:46.932 --> 00:26:51.002 a minus in and maybe math an 8th grade but then slipped to a B. B. 363 00:26:51.012 --> 00:26:55.132 Minus sometimes just that extra year of algebra you know the teacher that taught 364 00:26:55.142 --> 00:26:59.542 the one section of that that we tried said it was amazing and how we've basically 365 00:26:59.552 --> 00:27:03.482 finished the book that year so just strengthen their math skills and what we're 366 00:27:03.592 --> 00:27:09.792 obviously excited about that we addressed all the recommendations for the Quiney to 367 00:27:09.802 --> 00:27:11.422 program review with our C.T.E. 368 00:27:11.432 --> 00:27:16.782 Programs and continue to do that improve those programs which again can help 369 00:27:16.912 --> 00:27:21.672 improve some of our kids keeping them in school improving their school was and 370 00:27:21.682 --> 00:27:25.222 again I already mentioned things about reducing the number of suspensions and some 371 00:27:25.232 --> 00:27:31.452 of our intervention programs with the. Student health center budget considerations 372 00:27:31.462 --> 00:27:34.022 These are here just as a list just took on 373 00:27:34.032 --> 00:27:39.834 a couple of our project is in cameras. You know everything has to be updated in 374 00:27:39.844 --> 00:27:43.924 this is the way things go I don't mean updated our school but this is just the way 375 00:27:43.934 --> 00:27:45.314 technology works it's not like 376 00:27:45.324 --> 00:27:52.240 a book that has been here for 2030 years. One of the things with the project 377 00:27:52.250 --> 00:27:57.880 as an cameras is our smart bullets and math all have smart was there and getting 378 00:27:57.890 --> 00:28:00.310 near the end of their shelf life you know we've got 379 00:28:00.320 --> 00:28:04.440 a couple kind of die out so we're looking I've been working with Chris Mitchell and 380 00:28:04.520 --> 00:28:08.460 prank on enough of the high school to look at replacements for that we just put in 381 00:28:08.470 --> 00:28:13.300 a short throw down status and we're seeing how that's going to work out maybe we 382 00:28:13.310 --> 00:28:18.590 can replace that math obviously the permit alighting and you know again with with 383 00:28:18.600 --> 00:28:24.880 Allison with school security looking at those 4 locations I know I've been talking 384 00:28:24.890 --> 00:28:27.320 with Mr Healey and about maybe getting 385 00:28:27.330 --> 00:28:32.440 a dozen system or for teachers too so that those those are always locked anyway so 386 00:28:32.450 --> 00:28:37.050 we're going to go from all of those luck to maybe people having certain times that 387 00:28:37.060 --> 00:28:41.030 they can get into the building with or it's coaches whether it's teachers whatever 388 00:28:41.040 --> 00:28:46.170 it may be and that again makes it that much more secure but we meet huge strides in 389 00:28:46.180 --> 00:28:47.440 that our security team has done 390 00:28:47.450 --> 00:28:51.590 a great job of that and there's some other different things money wise that it's 391 00:28:51.600 --> 00:28:55.880 been up there for a few years our math books algebra one in geometry is 392 00:28:55.890 --> 00:29:00.760 a big consideration for this year to kind of keep the momentum moving forward and I 393 00:29:00.770 --> 00:29:05.430 know this isn't superintendent and the department head at the high school Gina 394 00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:06.110 Posterous done 395 00:29:06.120 --> 00:29:10.560 a great job looking in and the math department looking at different books and 396 00:29:10.570 --> 00:29:15.650 looking at different programs and we've also met with the middle school I was able 397 00:29:15.660 --> 00:29:19.160 to come down to meet with the middle school some of the math teachers and discuss 398 00:29:19.170 --> 00:29:21.910 some of those different programs so and some of their concerns which was 399 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:27.980 a great meeting again thanks to the mayor the superintendent system superintendent 400 00:29:27.990 --> 00:29:32.690 soon to be superintendent and all of you because I know that you're faced in 401 00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:36.700 looking at budget decisions and they're tough tough decisions and I know sometimes 402 00:29:36.710 --> 00:29:40.650 you don't always you know get the old pat on the back for some of the decisions 403 00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:44.140 that you make but I can say that the decisions that have been made by this 404 00:29:44.150 --> 00:29:48.530 committee for the high school have been very beneficial and it's worked out very 405 00:29:48.540 --> 00:29:53.860 well and. Again yeah my administrative team my parents although at the high school 406 00:29:53.870 --> 00:29:56.480 you know parents can tend to start to branch away 407 00:29:56.490 --> 00:30:00.420 a little bit but there are parents I know that you know have said to me if you need 408 00:30:00.430 --> 00:30:03.600 something just give me a call and that's always appreciated our students 409 00:30:03.670 --> 00:30:06.200 a great I just we just had 410 00:30:06.210 --> 00:30:10.060 a thing at the high school and I was walking somebody out of the building not 411 00:30:10.070 --> 00:30:10.510 a bad way 412 00:30:10.520 --> 00:30:13.800 a good way and I said you know they said this building is great I go I know it was 413 00:30:13.810 --> 00:30:15.420 built in 1902 in the floor as 414 00:30:15.430 --> 00:30:19.870 a shining and I said in this apply to study and even hit this this place so we're 415 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:23.440 very proud of the way our students treat our building and again I think that's 416 00:30:23.450 --> 00:30:28.790 because we set expectations that our teachers have expectations also so I don't 417 00:30:28.800 --> 00:30:32.490 know if you have any questions I try to go as fast as I can i didn't look at my 418 00:30:32.500 --> 00:30:36.510 notes and go over probably half the things I had written down I hope I made sense. 419 00:30:43.345 --> 00:30:50.175 OK. Well. You know I'm going to ask you 420 00:30:51.065 --> 00:30:51.685 actually it's a bit of 421 00:30:51.695 --> 00:30:58.375 a. I'm. Really. That data that you gave us 422 00:30:58.585 --> 00:31:02.975 so that we could see how those students who it was the the one we followed them 423 00:31:02.985 --> 00:31:08.695 from grade 3 on oh yeah and that was really really kind of interesting trysting it 424 00:31:08.705 --> 00:31:13.705 really was thank you for doing that and thank you for giving us all this 425 00:31:13.715 --> 00:31:15.605 information really is 426 00:31:15.645 --> 00:31:20.635 a lot going on up at the school between you and yes yeah asking every other initial 427 00:31:20.645 --> 00:31:24.115 going you know what it's a it's a lot there's never 428 00:31:24.125 --> 00:31:29.725 a boring day and some days you want to just one boring day and I know that you know 429 00:31:29.725 --> 00:31:35.110 . We're frustrated with the level 3 stuff too because you know I stand up here 430 00:31:35.340 --> 00:31:37.950 every year and we want to get out of that maybe with 431 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:43.210 a new state the reconfiguration stuff there will be some some things there I'm 432 00:31:43.220 --> 00:31:46.150 really excited about the way I'm cast went this year with our students and the 433 00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:51.750 feedback from the teaches So again I think there is another change there. That will 434 00:31:51.790 --> 00:31:57.040 we'll see results hopefully in when the when the schools are released in the fall 435 00:31:57.050 --> 00:32:03.110 of 2018 but yeah this was kind of some Someone had pulled this again it was one of 436 00:32:03.120 --> 00:32:07.140 the math math geeks looking around things they're great and they said hey you got 437 00:32:07.150 --> 00:32:07.840 as you got to use 438 00:32:07.850 --> 00:32:13.340 a so I said OK well so but it's really I think again too when you talk in advanced 439 00:32:13.350 --> 00:32:18.210 math you know I don't know about you but I kind of quit with my kids after 7th 440 00:32:18.220 --> 00:32:23.410 grade was like I don't know all this new stuff and I'm just being honest so for 441 00:32:23.420 --> 00:32:27.830 them to be advanced in math and look at some of the schools and then take put on 442 00:32:27.840 --> 00:32:28.850 top of that are A.P. 443 00:32:29.130 --> 00:32:32.080 Programs and some of the people that teach our programs we have 444 00:32:32.090 --> 00:32:38.230 a math teacher that you know it is summer time teaches at MIT so and loves being 445 00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:42.720 there and loves the kids there so and the kids love him so you know these are the 446 00:32:42.730 --> 00:32:45.980 things that are the positives and the things that you probably don't hear about as 447 00:32:45.990 --> 00:32:51.560 much but there and those of the things that are important. You did you did generate 448 00:32:51.610 --> 00:32:58.580 another question for me it was interesting to hear how you changed the setting 449 00:32:58.630 --> 00:33:03.430 for the for the M.P.'s and the way that you ministered it in the way the whole 450 00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:10.440 school shifted Yes. We heard evidence. When we were talking about 451 00:33:10.450 --> 00:33:14.840 changing the start times and one of the things was they did 452 00:33:14.850 --> 00:33:20.780 a study at Annapolis at the Naval Academy and they they split the Cleaves in half 453 00:33:20.790 --> 00:33:24.800 and they gave half of them their exams and the 1st thing in the money and then the 454 00:33:24.810 --> 00:33:31.380 others went 2 hours later and it showed an improvement and we talked about maybe 455 00:33:31.390 --> 00:33:33.390 being able to shift your impasse 456 00:33:33.570 --> 00:33:39.300 a little later we're able to do that this time you know if we can't shift this week 457 00:33:39.310 --> 00:33:44.800 or we could do anything I should say here. By shifting it later then you get into 458 00:33:44.810 --> 00:33:50.260 watches and all that and then that becomes solutions for the right course and then 459 00:33:50.310 --> 00:33:54.570 I think that that was one of those areas that we kind of stay away from because of 460 00:33:54.580 --> 00:33:57.530 that however you know you do say. 461 00:34:01.861 --> 00:34:07.011 We are looking into that in making those changes you know this a lot of schools do 462 00:34:07.021 --> 00:34:13.961 a early. Said called they come in they come in later and yeah and 463 00:34:13.971 --> 00:34:19.051 we discuss that even to with the superintendent and he had strong feelings on that 464 00:34:19.431 --> 00:34:25.831 yeah he's writing right now but he's right and we went about this and we said to 465 00:34:25.841 --> 00:34:29.171 the 2 things to the faculty this kid with this could be great it's going to 466 00:34:29.181 --> 00:34:34.911 a lot of work could be a complete disaster and it wasn't and it was it was 467 00:34:34.921 --> 00:34:36.441 a lot of organizing and 468 00:34:36.451 --> 00:34:39.891 a lot of you know we don't think we've lost any kids we're still you know looking 469 00:34:39.901 --> 00:34:41.941 for a few but it was it was 470 00:34:41.951 --> 00:34:45.711 a lot of moving parts and in fact to just even thinking about it coming up again 471 00:34:45.721 --> 00:34:50.201 and in the end of May with math you know we only have 2 days we we have one less 472 00:34:50.211 --> 00:34:54.351 class it's making it at least manageable I think if we had to redo it again for 3 473 00:34:54.361 --> 00:34:56.891 days and 3 classes I mean lose 474 00:34:56.901 --> 00:35:01.611 a few people to the hospital cells but it was it was it was it was 475 00:35:01.621 --> 00:35:05.941 a good thing to an end kids the feedback from some of the kids was it was really 476 00:35:05.951 --> 00:35:10.941 interesting that they liked it they like the change of pace actually they did some 477 00:35:10.951 --> 00:35:15.783 stuff some kids and I you know how interesting it was not just the ones who took 478 00:35:15.793 --> 00:35:18.153 the M. Cast a yeah they just you know it was 479 00:35:18.163 --> 00:35:22.153 a test they took the test but the other kids see of the grades were really enthused 480 00:35:22.163 --> 00:35:28.004 about just having. You know really interesting class those the seminars that you 481 00:35:28.014 --> 00:35:29.214 walk to work you know 482 00:35:29.224 --> 00:35:32.754 a quick one thing that they really enjoyed it was nice it was 483 00:35:32.764 --> 00:35:38.704 a nice thing to do and it was teacher driven Yeah and then the next step was you 484 00:35:38.714 --> 00:35:42.134 know we do this again there's some suggestions and we're going to use some of the 485 00:35:42.144 --> 00:35:46.344 suggestions for the next one thank. You. 486 00:35:52.727 --> 00:35:53.017 Thanks. 487 00:37:44.057 --> 00:37:45.917 Final one I was told to get extra time. 488 00:37:56.612 --> 00:37:59.892 I had to start off with our demographic data couple of the points that I want to 489 00:38:00.762 --> 00:38:04.992 emphasize from our demographic data this is from October and you can see the 490 00:38:05.352 --> 00:38:10.282 percentage of students for 1st language not English in limited English proficiency 491 00:38:11.052 --> 00:38:16.152 has risen pretty significantly from last year's data the number in parentheses is 492 00:38:16.162 --> 00:38:21.632 last year's day that's it we've gone from 8.7 to 12.2 of kids that are their 1st 493 00:38:21.642 --> 00:38:26.922 language at home is not English that has increased over the course of this year too 494 00:38:26.932 --> 00:38:33.873 as we've had new students coming in throughout the year many of whom are. Not 495 00:38:33.883 --> 00:38:38.013 students whose 1st language is English so that number continues to rise one of 496 00:38:38.023 --> 00:38:38.503 things I'm always 497 00:38:38.513 --> 00:38:45.244 a little surprised but is it's still not near the state percentage. But we are 498 00:38:45.464 --> 00:38:49.144 again growing in that population every year the other are economically 499 00:38:49.154 --> 00:38:54.394 disadvantaged and special ed populations have remained relatively. Similar over the 500 00:38:54.404 --> 00:39:01.046 years so as I'm sure you've heard through the elementary presentations is that 501 00:39:01.556 --> 00:39:05.466 the next generation in caste which we took last year in all subject areas except 502 00:39:05.476 --> 00:39:11.146 for science is completely new or was completely new last year and the D.E.S.C. 503 00:39:11.156 --> 00:39:17.016 Stressed that it none of the data can be compared to previous years 2017 was 504 00:39:17.026 --> 00:39:17.546 intended to be 505 00:39:17.556 --> 00:39:22.600 a baseline so you really couldn't look at. There really wasn't anything that you 506 00:39:22.610 --> 00:39:28.320 could look at to compare 2017 to any of the years prior with the exception of the 507 00:39:28.330 --> 00:39:29.350 growth score which we'll talk 508 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:33.910 a little bit about throughout this presentation new achievement levels and you can 509 00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:39.190 see there in that. Second to last column they've changed from Advance proficient 510 00:39:39.200 --> 00:39:43.850 needs improvement in warning to exceeding expectations meeting partially meeting 511 00:39:43.860 --> 00:39:48.420 and not meeting but they the state wanted to make sure to emphasize that the 512 00:39:48.430 --> 00:39:53.220 numbers of proficient in advance that you would have seen in past years is not 513 00:39:53.230 --> 00:39:56.690 going to in any way correlate to the numbers that you see for exceeding 514 00:39:56.700 --> 00:40:03.400 expectations in meeting expectations. Some of them for example grade 8 will be far 515 00:40:03.410 --> 00:40:07.870 lower in 2017 And they ever were before because there's no there's no real 516 00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:12.790 correlation between the 2 as they've changed the testing the scoring everything 517 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:17.711 about it one thing that is new this year is that skill score you see in the upper 518 00:40:17.721 --> 00:40:22.511 right hand corner is an average skill score that they do. For each grade level and 519 00:40:22.521 --> 00:40:27.131 test which is again something that they've not done before and it allows us 520 00:40:27.141 --> 00:40:30.691 a little point of comparison because we can compare that to the state and we can 521 00:40:30.731 --> 00:40:35.511 compare that to neighboring cities and towns so for our Grade 6 L.A. 522 00:40:35.931 --> 00:40:41.951 In overall it's their grade 6 students as much as we can tell by the data performed 523 00:40:42.681 --> 00:40:48.861 probably the best of the 3 grade levels. That 50 to the state average still score 524 00:40:48.871 --> 00:40:53.641 in pretty much every grade level every subject area was for 98 so you can use that 525 00:40:53.651 --> 00:40:58.561 number in your head to think about comparisons between how we performed last year 526 00:40:58.801 --> 00:41:02.681 in the state some surrounding numbers for this grade 6 the L.A. 527 00:41:02.691 --> 00:41:09.491 Danvers was at a 495 Salem was at a 496 and I took a look at North Andover to see 528 00:41:09.501 --> 00:41:11.601 a typically higher performing school and they were at 5 529 00:41:11.611 --> 00:41:18.521 o 4 so. At least in this test if we wanted to try to figure out how we did in terms 530 00:41:18.531 --> 00:41:24.641 of some other towns and in comparison to something we were able to use that data 531 00:41:32.464 --> 00:41:38.014 we switch over to math again keeping in mind that that average skill score was 532 00:41:38.024 --> 00:41:44.504 a 498. We were right in line with the state average 533 00:41:45.094 --> 00:41:51.264 again even with the state average they wanted to stress that the data from 2017 is 534 00:41:51.274 --> 00:41:55.524 really baseline they can't even compare the state to previous years with the state 535 00:41:55.564 --> 00:41:59.764 but some numbers that will eventually over the years mean 536 00:41:59.804 --> 00:42:06.534 a little bit more to us in grade 6 math just for 537 00:42:06.674 --> 00:42:12.164 another point of comparison the exceeding expectations in meeting expectations 538 00:42:12.594 --> 00:42:18.714 combo was 49 for the state 7 exceeding and 539 00:42:18.724 --> 00:42:25.605 42 meeting so we had 5 exceeding and 42 meeting in the 540 00:42:25.645 --> 00:42:32.507 not meeting expectations state average is 11 so we're again not being able to 541 00:42:32.517 --> 00:42:37.287 put a whole lot of faith in the data itself but those comparison points give us 542 00:42:37.297 --> 00:42:42.958 a little bit to base it upon to base it on great 70 L.A. 543 00:42:44.011 --> 00:42:46.181 Again that average skill score for 98 544 00:42:50.921 --> 00:42:53.941 you know I feel like I should be saying more about the numbers but there really 545 00:42:53.951 --> 00:42:57.931 isn't a lot to say because we know what it means but you can take 546 00:42:57.941 --> 00:43:03.920 a look at it and. Next year we'll have some some more to compare it to 547 00:43:06.190 --> 00:43:12.750 and Grade 7 math for 93 slightly lower than the state average which is again for 98 548 00:43:16.992 --> 00:43:18.232 for point of I mean 549 00:43:18.892 --> 00:43:24.552 a point of comparison for Danvers was for $92.00 for their skill score Salem also 550 00:43:24.562 --> 00:43:27.482 for $92.00 north and it was $510.00 551 00:43:36.172 --> 00:43:39.512 grade 8 where they warned us that those numbers would be significantly different 552 00:43:39.552 --> 00:43:46.053 than the numbers we're used to seeing I think is is pretty accurate. With that 553 00:43:46.063 --> 00:43:47.823 average skill score for $97.00 554 00:43:53.913 --> 00:44:00.573 exceeding expectations and meeting expectations for the state was 49 percent 555 00:44:00.873 --> 00:44:04.223 as compared to our $46.00 a little were 556 00:44:04.233 --> 00:44:06.583 a little lower and exceeding expectations and in 557 00:44:06.593 --> 00:44:13.424 a notch higher in meeting expectations great math 558 00:44:15.396 --> 00:44:19.966 skills score for 98 this is where it really if you were looking at numbers that 559 00:44:19.976 --> 00:44:25.036 were comparable you'd see the 2004 advance from last year meeting for exceeding 560 00:44:25.046 --> 00:44:31.546 expectations for 2017 but the state average was only around and 9 so it's not 561 00:44:32.196 --> 00:44:38.658 as drastic as that seems to be a shift it's. Again 562 00:44:38.668 --> 00:44:44.398 a totally different scoring system and they had mentioned the grade 8 was affected 563 00:44:44.408 --> 00:44:51.120 the most by that scoring system science was the 564 00:44:51.130 --> 00:44:56.710 same last year was the same old paper based test so there are numbers to compare 565 00:44:56.720 --> 00:45:00.780 and I the numbers to compare are the same as they've been in years past I think 566 00:45:00.790 --> 00:45:04.280 probably going all the way back to in science and get started the light at the end 567 00:45:04.290 --> 00:45:06.550 of the tunnel for us and we'll see it in 568 00:45:06.560 --> 00:45:12.470 a few other slides is that where we're are currently in or will be going into year 569 00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:19.230 3 of our new science curriculum our. Spiralling science curriculum in which. 570 00:45:21.031 --> 00:45:25.861 Everything is instead of being separate subjects taught at separate grade levels 571 00:45:26.201 --> 00:45:31.491 the topics are taught throughout in 6th grade 7th grade 8th grade built upon each 572 00:45:31.501 --> 00:45:36.661 other throughout the 3 grades which will help in not only the standardized testing 573 00:45:36.671 --> 00:45:40.211 but will help students as they progress beyond middle school and don't have to 574 00:45:40.221 --> 00:45:44.201 revert back to something they learned in the 6th grade when they jump into biology 575 00:45:44.211 --> 00:45:50.711 class in high school it's it will build upon. Their learning as they go through and 576 00:45:50.721 --> 00:45:57.301 this is 280-1000 will be your 3 of that so all of our kids at the end of next year 577 00:45:57.311 --> 00:46:01.061 will have gone through that spiraling curriculum in WILL BE ABLE TO THE YEAR AFTER 578 00:46:01.071 --> 00:46:07.824 pick up like we're starting brand new so some of the 579 00:46:07.834 --> 00:46:13.397 areas of strength because we can still use growth numbers because that isn't 580 00:46:13.407 --> 00:46:17.810 changed the way they score is in just 581 00:46:17.820 --> 00:46:22.750 a just to mention what growth is the student growth percentile it takes 582 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:28.230 a kids score and it measures it against students in the state at that grade level 583 00:46:28.390 --> 00:46:34.231 with similar scores in prior years so it's good to get to 248 in in prior years ago 584 00:46:34.241 --> 00:46:36.673 to 248 they take 585 00:46:36.683 --> 00:46:40.133 a look at all of the kids across the state they got that same score and it looks at 586 00:46:40.143 --> 00:46:44.973 how they then performed in the test in compares them to each other so they're 587 00:46:45.153 --> 00:46:51.713 comparing kids against their cohorts that scored Similarly before anything between 588 00:46:51.723 --> 00:46:55.603 $40.00 to $60.00 is considered moderate growth from $60.00 to $80.00 is considered 589 00:46:55.613 --> 00:47:01.251 high growth anything 80 plus is very high growth. The good news is that the growth 590 00:47:01.261 --> 00:47:06.111 scores are going to be used to. Determine accountability in the next generation 591 00:47:06.121 --> 00:47:10.281 accountability system they're changing that is Eric mentioned in his presentation 592 00:47:10.671 --> 00:47:15.281 the changing pretty much everything about it but one of the things they are using 593 00:47:15.781 --> 00:47:21.081 starting next year our growth scores going back I think 5 years so it'll deal take 594 00:47:21.091 --> 00:47:24.841 the average math S.G.P. In the average Las G.P. 595 00:47:25.221 --> 00:47:28.061 And our overall Mathis cheapies you can see on there is 596 00:47:28.071 --> 00:47:34.171 a 57 which is close to. Being considered high growth our 8th grade math if you 597 00:47:34.351 --> 00:47:38.181 think back to the slide that you saw the achievement levels and be achievement 598 00:47:38.191 --> 00:47:42.431 levels did not look to be that impressive the math S.G.P. 599 00:47:42.441 --> 00:47:42.691 Was 600 00:47:42.731 --> 00:47:47.531 a 62 so it was in the high growth range and you can see that little bullet on the 601 00:47:47.541 --> 00:47:52.871 bottom we had 398 students that took that test 207 of them scored either high or 602 00:47:52.881 --> 00:47:57.961 very high growth so that means in terms of their comparison to other students of 603 00:47:57.971 --> 00:48:02.121 similar performance in past years they did very well in fact we had more kids in 604 00:48:02.131 --> 00:48:05.401 the very high growth percentile than we did in the high growth percent last year 605 00:48:06.331 --> 00:48:13.192 it's more than half of our kids in grade 8 math. Showed that growth is 606 00:48:13.202 --> 00:48:20.110 very high higher very high rate. Some areas we need to grow in generally speaking 607 00:48:20.780 --> 00:48:27.250 we are we still have that group of kids that we need to get from which would now be 608 00:48:27.260 --> 00:48:31.720 partially meeting expectations up to meeting or exceeding So in the old days it 609 00:48:31.730 --> 00:48:34.800 would have been for those kids that are in that needs improvement in getting them 610 00:48:34.810 --> 00:48:38.960 to proficiency or up to advanced it's that same little bucket of kids that we need 611 00:48:39.010 --> 00:48:40.600 to move we need to move 612 00:48:40.610 --> 00:48:45.260 a level our warning or what now will be not meeting expectations is always lower 613 00:48:45.270 --> 00:48:50.000 than the state it's that next bucket up that next group of kids that we need to 614 00:48:50.010 --> 00:48:52.600 continue to push in the in in 615 00:48:52.610 --> 00:48:56.990 a new direction another good piece of the accountability system is coming up is 616 00:48:57.000 --> 00:49:01.260 that they're going to identify your $25.00 most at risk kids every year as part of 617 00:49:01.270 --> 00:49:06.890 a another little piece of your of your accountability status in we'll be able to 618 00:49:06.930 --> 00:49:10.920 focus on those kids that we will need to to move that need 619 00:49:10.930 --> 00:49:17.412 a little bit. Always looking to move those kids into exceeding expectations are 620 00:49:17.422 --> 00:49:18.362 las she was 621 00:49:18.372 --> 00:49:23.532 a little bit low certainly lower than we've seen in the past and specially compared 622 00:49:23.542 --> 00:49:25.502 to the overall Las G.P.A. 623 00:49:25.512 --> 00:49:31.535 Of 521 of things we want to make sure is that taking math taking 624 00:49:31.545 --> 00:49:35.345 a math test of any kind of math test is certainly a standardized math test on 625 00:49:35.355 --> 00:49:36.975 a Chromebook is 626 00:49:36.985 --> 00:49:39.915 a lot different than taking it with pencil and paper I mean they're still allowed 627 00:49:39.925 --> 00:49:43.845 to use the pencil and paper to do their computations but getting that from the 628 00:49:43.855 --> 00:49:46.875 paper on to the chrome book it's just it's 629 00:49:46.885 --> 00:49:51.526 a whole different kind of for especially for all people have been around 630 00:49:51.536 --> 00:49:54.466 a while it's seems like a natural thing to do math on 631 00:49:54.476 --> 00:49:57.166 a computer without being able to write or fill in 632 00:49:57.176 --> 00:50:00.606 a little bubble so we have to make sure that we make kids as familiar as possible 633 00:50:00.616 --> 00:50:05.046 with the Test Test nad which is the name of the testing program to make sure that 634 00:50:05.056 --> 00:50:11.927 throughout the year they're using it they're familiar with it because. We feel 635 00:50:12.027 --> 00:50:18.651 that there was probably some some of the. Some of the test 636 00:50:18.661 --> 00:50:22.111 results that we got last year because of the 1st time we ever did any sort of 637 00:50:22.121 --> 00:50:25.481 computer based testing which is why we opted in this district to go with that pilot 638 00:50:25.491 --> 00:50:28.031 last year so that we give kids 639 00:50:28.041 --> 00:50:34.843 a chance to participate in testing. With that computer based platform as I 640 00:50:34.853 --> 00:50:40.093 mentioned science we are coming up on your 3 of our realignment and some of the 641 00:50:40.103 --> 00:50:44.893 questions that we have going forward is as kids become more familiar with testing 642 00:50:44.903 --> 00:50:44.993 on 643 00:50:45.003 --> 00:50:50.013 a Chromebook will that increase our achievements course and how will we be affected 644 00:50:50.023 --> 00:50:54.823 by the next generation some of those pieces that we look forward to being in that 645 00:50:54.833 --> 00:51:01.113 accountability system perhaps will be to our advantage but we'll find out next year 646 00:51:04.484 --> 00:51:09.714 looking ahead to our school improvement goals 420-1819 we have 4 kind of 647 00:51:09.754 --> 00:51:16.646 overarching goals the 1st one is our teaching in. Well it's 648 00:51:16.656 --> 00:51:19.836 more of the teaching than the teaching and learning goes to teaching an assessment 649 00:51:19.846 --> 00:51:26.096 goal I would call it which would be for assisting our teachers in strengthening in 650 00:51:26.106 --> 00:51:29.836 sharing good instructional practices in some of the bullets that I want to 651 00:51:29.846 --> 00:51:33.056 highlight especially going into next year we're going to put 652 00:51:33.066 --> 00:51:39.956 a focus on on blended learning for for next year the last 2 pages of the of your 653 00:51:39.966 --> 00:51:42.786 packet are. Sort of 654 00:51:42.796 --> 00:51:46.906 a little overview of blended learning and how it's going to be utilized in his 655 00:51:46.916 --> 00:51:53.266 middle school next year it's 420-1819 out it's something that we haven't still 656 00:51:53.276 --> 00:51:57.106 finalizing it and will be putting it out next year but blended learning basically 657 00:51:57.116 --> 00:52:00.636 is a personalized in student centered way of learning it's 658 00:52:00.646 --> 00:52:05.166 a mix of face to face and online all in the same classroom with the same teacher 659 00:52:05.176 --> 00:52:07.226 with same kids it includes 660 00:52:07.236 --> 00:52:11.936 a variety of assessments and choice of assessments that kids can can choose between 661 00:52:12.526 --> 00:52:17.850 and it gives teachers more information more data at the time that they need it. We 662 00:52:17.860 --> 00:52:22.290 have piloted it this year with one cluster who are the 6th grade sharks cluster and 663 00:52:22.300 --> 00:52:27.980 they have been. Keeping detailed notes about it they've been keeping journals and 664 00:52:27.990 --> 00:52:29.470 logs and they've had 665 00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:32.740 a great time with it kids have responded well to it teachers of loved it more than 666 00:52:32.750 --> 00:52:36.430 they expected to I think they did a presentation to our faculty 667 00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:42.400 a couple of months ago and we were expecting. The Sharks to do it this year and 668 00:52:42.410 --> 00:52:45.900 then next year gradually roll it out to other clusters but there are teachers that 669 00:52:45.910 --> 00:52:49.540 jumped right on it as soon as the Sharks the of their presentation of started to 670 00:52:49.550 --> 00:52:53.540 use it this year and it's something that it really makes us 671 00:52:53.550 --> 00:52:58.810 a true $1.00 to $1.00 because it instead of just utilizing the the technology as 672 00:52:58.850 --> 00:53:02.900 sort of an add on to the technology piece will be utilized as something that 673 00:53:02.980 --> 00:53:08.571 changes instruction within the classroom so that's our focus next year is that 674 00:53:08.581 --> 00:53:14.041 blended learning initiative and I made expanding the pilot program may be 675 00:53:14.051 --> 00:53:17.871 a bit of an understatement maybe something that is even wider more widely used than 676 00:53:17.881 --> 00:53:23.704 that helping us with that is that helping us with that is we have 677 00:53:23.714 --> 00:53:26.404 a daily collaborative time in the built in P.D. 678 00:53:26.414 --> 00:53:32.634 Time within our schedule so being having teachers have that time to meet with their 679 00:53:32.644 --> 00:53:38.644 cluster colleagues 2 days out of 5 I'm sure there cluster colleagues every day 680 00:53:38.684 --> 00:53:42.694 their department colleagues one day out of 5 in a in a built in P.D. 681 00:53:42.704 --> 00:53:47.174 Time with our digital learning coach who's been fantastic when it comes to the 682 00:53:47.184 --> 00:53:53.461 blended learning and all other aspects of her role. That's one day out of 52 that's 683 00:53:53.471 --> 00:53:57.831 built right into our schedule. Another little pieces are pineapple charts that 684 00:53:57.841 --> 00:54:01.851 we've done this year we're rolling out slowly and it's been something that the 685 00:54:01.861 --> 00:54:06.521 teachers have had some fun with it's very informal teachers when they have 686 00:54:06.531 --> 00:54:11.201 a lesson that they want to open their classroom and have and have other teachers 687 00:54:11.211 --> 00:54:12.421 community to look at if they put 688 00:54:12.431 --> 00:54:17.691 a pineapple on their window or their door and that is the hospitality the 689 00:54:17.701 --> 00:54:21.381 international sign of hospitality it lets teachers know that their room is open and 690 00:54:21.391 --> 00:54:22.201 people can commune and take 691 00:54:22.211 --> 00:54:26.681 a look and see what they're doing we have an online form that allows teachers to 692 00:54:26.691 --> 00:54:28.651 then look in see what it is that 693 00:54:28.661 --> 00:54:33.641 a teacher is offering before they go in it could be something. A topic it could be 694 00:54:33.651 --> 00:54:37.061 a teaching style it could be anything teachers can drop in for 695 00:54:37.071 --> 00:54:41.801 a few minutes and in check it out we did an open house on one of our one of our 696 00:54:41.851 --> 00:54:46.031 days this year before professional development where we instead of our 697 00:54:46.271 --> 00:54:48.351 collaborative P.D. Time I'm sorry 698 00:54:48.361 --> 00:54:53.381 a collaborative Department time we had teachers use that time to go and visit other 699 00:54:53.391 --> 00:54:58.131 classrooms and they went in pairs they went in groups and visited other classrooms 700 00:54:58.361 --> 00:54:58.581 and got 701 00:54:58.591 --> 00:55:03.621 a chance to see so how other in this case grade levels sometimes the same topics 702 00:55:03.631 --> 00:55:10.271 sometimes not subjects and sometimes not in they really had. An opportunity to see 703 00:55:10.281 --> 00:55:13.591 other teachers but you don't often have in this profession and sometimes 704 00:55:14.411 --> 00:55:18.031 a job where you're in your classroom and don't really get to see others so we're 705 00:55:18.041 --> 00:55:24.463 going to continue with that next year as well goal 2 is that students centered so 706 00:55:24.473 --> 00:55:24.713 this is 707 00:55:24.723 --> 00:55:28.663 a more of the learning goal and that's to give our students the skills and strategies 708 00:55:28.673 --> 00:55:33.603 they need to become the 21st century learners problem solving innovation 709 00:55:33.643 --> 00:55:39.185 adaptability we will we're still full $1.00 to $1.00 with that blended learning 710 00:55:39.195 --> 00:55:39.735 will be more of 711 00:55:39.745 --> 00:55:45.565 a full and true $1.00 to $1.00 we use the Google Apps for education in all that we 712 00:55:45.575 --> 00:55:49.395 do here and kids are very familiar with it it's something that is just it's just 713 00:55:49.405 --> 00:55:54.690 part of the the whole routine here. If you jumped on 714 00:55:54.700 --> 00:55:58.950 a couple of bullet points we've got we participate The Hour of Code we have 715 00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:00.580 a coding club we have 716 00:56:00.590 --> 00:56:05.770 a box club you can see the maker space all around you in this room that this is 717 00:56:05.780 --> 00:56:09.750 smaller is very very involved in make sure that she gets as many kids as possible 718 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:13.302 through here we've used my path which is 719 00:56:13.312 --> 00:56:20.042 a function of edge annuity to. Work with our students who are in need of some 720 00:56:20.052 --> 00:56:22.192 remediation it's a. It's 721 00:56:22.202 --> 00:56:27.225 a program that all that it takes and the kids do take 722 00:56:27.235 --> 00:56:29.877 a test and it. Gives them 723 00:56:29.887 --> 00:56:33.457 a baseline for grade level for each day in math and it creates 724 00:56:33.467 --> 00:56:37.247 a path for them hence the name my path and they're able to follow along at their 725 00:56:37.257 --> 00:56:43.297 own pace to get to where they need to go and it works for grade levels in terms of 726 00:56:43.297 --> 00:56:48.877 . Student's ability wise from grade $3.00 to $11.00 so right now we use it more 727 00:56:48.887 --> 00:56:52.957 radiation but we could also in the future use it as more of an enrichment piece 728 00:56:52.967 --> 00:56:57.767 because our 7th graders who for example who are performing at 729 00:56:57.777 --> 00:57:04.097 a little higher level can use that to do some higher level math or. Our Start 730 00:57:04.107 --> 00:57:10.407 Program which is our student technology assistance resource team has taken off was 731 00:57:10.417 --> 00:57:11.367 created by Jared Haas 732 00:57:11.377 --> 00:57:15.547 a few years ago and Emily Moore who is our digital learning coach now it is taken 733 00:57:15.557 --> 00:57:20.547 off they presented at Mass Q The mass computer using educators conference down in 734 00:57:20.557 --> 00:57:21.897 Foxborough they had 735 00:57:21.907 --> 00:57:26.377 a few schools who after seeing the program came to visit us here and see it in 736 00:57:26.387 --> 00:57:30.587 action and that is continuing to provide 737 00:57:30.627 --> 00:57:36.607 a lot of students some some great strategies in preparing some 21st century 738 00:57:36.617 --> 00:57:40.069 learning including also including digital media. 739 00:57:43.639 --> 00:57:46.469 And we continue with our math and Ellie labs and seminars. 740 00:57:50.570 --> 00:57:54.750 Goal 3 is our overall how do things work in the building our policies our 741 00:57:54.760 --> 00:57:59.730 procedures making sure that they reflect our needs because that's ongoing it's it 742 00:57:59.930 --> 00:58:01.530 you always need to take 743 00:58:01.540 --> 00:58:04.980 a look at what you're doing and evaluate whether or not it's something that needs 744 00:58:04.990 --> 00:58:09.040 to can be approved upon improved upon rather we're always look at our schedule we 745 00:58:09.050 --> 00:58:13.350 love our schedule in terms of the fact that it produces those collaborative times 746 00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:17.670 which are so important to teaching and good instructional practices but we also 747 00:58:17.680 --> 00:58:22.710 want to make sure that it reflects the needs of our kids and is equitable So we're 748 00:58:23.200 --> 00:58:28.310 looking at that. And making sure that is equitable equitable across the board in 749 00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:35.312 terms of teacher loads to we are in the midst of hard just about wrapping up we 750 00:58:35.322 --> 00:58:35.452 had 751 00:58:35.462 --> 00:58:41.302 a homework task force this year which was comprised of teachers administrators students 752 00:58:41.342 --> 00:58:47.362 and parent and the job was to look at our homework practices in the school in see 753 00:58:47.812 --> 00:58:53.302 whether or not there are meaningful and meet that home school balance so we sent 754 00:58:53.312 --> 00:58:59.142 out surveys to all stakeholders parents students teachers we had some focus groups 755 00:58:59.152 --> 00:59:04.352 this year of students to talk about some aspects of things that came up during the 756 00:59:04.362 --> 00:59:09.482 surveys and we are in the process of coming up with some recommendations in terms 757 00:59:09.492 --> 00:59:15.793 of best practices for homework that we will then implement for next year we are 758 00:59:15.803 --> 00:59:19.883 also planning to conduct surveys next year that take 759 00:59:19.893 --> 00:59:26.753 a look at the various parts of our of our school and how it operates we opted not 760 00:59:26.763 --> 00:59:29.673 to do that just because we do the homework surveys and we don't want to over survey 761 00:59:29.683 --> 00:59:34.930 people but we are going to do that next year. We're always looking at the traffic 762 00:59:34.980 --> 00:59:40.520 the safety the security plans here and making sure that they're up to date in there 763 00:59:40.850 --> 00:59:44.170 they best reflect our campus we are meeting in 764 00:59:44.180 --> 00:59:48.970 a couple of weeks to realign some of our cameras inside with the security team to 765 00:59:48.980 --> 00:59:53.240 make sure that after living here for almost 2 years now there are some spots that 766 00:59:53.250 --> 00:59:56.360 we might want we want to tinker with to make sure that we get full coverage with 767 00:59:56.370 --> 01:00:00.380 our camera systems and those those are the types of things that we're continuously 768 01:00:00.390 --> 01:00:07.351 doing in moving over to Goal for which 769 01:00:07.361 --> 01:00:13.261 is our. Emotional environments goal to make sure that our kids here have 770 01:00:13.271 --> 01:00:20.101 a healthy emotional environment of safety support and engagement. One of the things 771 01:00:20.111 --> 01:00:23.401 to hire a few of the things to highlight on there and there are 772 01:00:23.411 --> 01:00:28.961 a few things that are not on there that. We've entered into a a little bit 773 01:00:28.971 --> 01:00:34.801 a pilot program with the career center the North Korea center who is working who 774 01:00:34.811 --> 01:00:38.581 are working with about 25 are kids who are high risk we identify them or for 775 01:00:38.591 --> 01:00:41.921 attendance purposes so we have a they have a little pilot program with 776 01:00:41.931 --> 01:00:47.243 a commune and work with them in the morning about the importance of being on time 777 01:00:47.823 --> 01:00:51.233 being at work what it's going to mean to you if you don't show up to where you're 778 01:00:51.243 --> 01:00:55.843 supposed to show up on time that's been something that has been helpful over the 779 01:00:55.853 --> 01:01:02.385 past few months our focus on community service and in various acts aspects of what 780 01:01:02.395 --> 01:01:05.255 we do here. At this this is 781 01:01:05.265 --> 01:01:09.525 a late edition on the bottom. Represent of molten actually just tweeted that I 782 01:01:09.535 --> 01:01:11.505 think yesterday in quoting 783 01:01:11.545 --> 01:01:16.925 a tweet about our. Project 351 clothing drive market in the here 784 01:01:16.935 --> 01:01:21.735 a couple of weeks ago once again they they you know outpaced everybody in the state 785 01:01:21.745 --> 01:01:22.435 with over 786 01:01:22.445 --> 01:01:29.015 a 1000 years of 1200 and something 55 gallon bags of donations to cradle screen on 787 01:01:29.025 --> 01:01:32.155 so something we're very proud of here is our community service. 788 01:01:36.021 --> 01:01:39.831 Budget considerations for 2019 the fact that we are still 789 01:01:39.841 --> 01:01:43.771 a brand new school means that most of the our budget considerations are our 790 01:01:43.781 --> 01:01:47.781 personnel and don't really have anything to do with the physical plant or any sort 791 01:01:47.791 --> 01:01:54.142 of technology. And if you look at our enrollment to projected for $2819.00 we are 792 01:01:54.152 --> 01:02:00.442 at the point where 4 cluster grade level is not going to cut it anymore class size 793 01:02:00.452 --> 01:02:06.912 wise so we will need if you see the incoming grade 6 classes for 78 the classroom 794 01:02:06.922 --> 01:02:13.375 losing is about 440 which has allowed us to have 4 clusters in grade 8 and now is 795 01:02:13.385 --> 01:02:18.845 the the time for the last few years we've been able to maneuver some positions 796 01:02:18.855 --> 01:02:24.895 around in order to keep that for clusters but at this point we will be in need of 797 01:02:24.905 --> 01:02:31.280 that 5th cluster next year I think I think you slide 798 01:02:34.713 --> 01:02:35.573 so I think there is 799 01:02:35.583 --> 01:02:40.593 a school council members on there and thank you as always for your support of 800 01:02:40.603 --> 01:02:45.163 everything we do here we're very proud of it and we couldn't do it without without 801 01:02:45.173 --> 01:02:45.783 your support help. 802 01:02:55.510 --> 01:03:01.602 Oh Jared Oh. Thank you. 803 01:03:17.879 --> 01:03:23.739 There's really. A need it's going to be hard for. 804 01:03:26.429 --> 01:03:31.709 Me as well. You know and that's information and it's. You know it's 805 01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:38.089 a new new norm. That I'm sure is very good when they 806 01:03:38.859 --> 01:03:41.669 want it today and that is. 807 01:03:54.160 --> 01:04:00.120 OK. When you scheduled during your class you. 808 01:04:02.030 --> 01:04:07.880 Said. Yes that's really good. Yes So we have there the 809 01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:13.221 content area teachers have 2 blocks 810 01:04:13.231 --> 01:04:18.274 a day that are not teaching blocks so they have one which is their contractually 811 01:04:18.284 --> 01:04:23.976 required prep period and then the other one is the collaborative time of we have 812 01:04:23.986 --> 01:04:24.276 run 813 01:04:24.286 --> 01:04:29.256 a 5 day rotating cycle some of the 5 days 3 of those days are cluster days so that 814 01:04:29.266 --> 01:04:32.666 either a parent meeting or and I E P meeting or just meeting as 815 01:04:32.676 --> 01:04:35.237 a cluster one of those days is 816 01:04:35.247 --> 01:04:39.557 a grade level department so the entire grade level math department will meet that 817 01:04:39.567 --> 01:04:42.627 day for example and then the other one is that P.D. 818 01:04:42.727 --> 01:04:48.017 Time where Emily Moore our digital learning coach she really is the person who's 819 01:04:48.027 --> 01:04:52.287 responsible for that time most of the schedule she may have something that she's 820 01:04:52.297 --> 01:04:57.359 going to present during that time when that during that collaborative time our kids 821 01:04:57.369 --> 01:05:01.529 are at their exploratory so the kids have 5 exploratory each so they're an 822 01:05:01.539 --> 01:05:07.389 exploratory while the teachers are at the collaborative time so that's how we were 823 01:05:07.399 --> 01:05:11.589 able to design that schedule what it doesn't provide is the same level of 824 01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:15.269 collaborative time for the exploratory teacher so that's what we're trying to be 825 01:05:15.279 --> 01:05:21.399 able to adjust to next year and hopefully do it within the same. Structure of our 826 01:05:21.409 --> 01:05:25.591 schedule because it works so well in terms of providing that time so we're hoping 827 01:05:25.601 --> 01:05:31.354 to be able to do that. Thank you. 828 01:05:42.158 --> 01:05:45.779 But. That will take. 829 01:06:11.751 --> 01:06:18.681 It is my pleasure to introduce. You to the best and brightest. I would like to 830 01:06:18.691 --> 01:06:23.461 introduce from Mrs goal worthy in the Rose Co teaching last 2nd grade Molly limber 831 01:06:23.471 --> 01:06:30.231 it only is 8 years old. And her favorite food is pasta Molly I like that 832 01:06:30.241 --> 01:06:37.181 myself OK he said that. Mommy is an amazing great 833 01:06:37.191 --> 01:06:42.201 sister and her passion is dance she is also one of the company dance team for the 834 01:06:42.211 --> 01:06:42.731 in studio. 835 01:06:50.913 --> 01:06:53.123 3. And Molly is also 836 01:06:53.133 --> 01:06:59.983 a wonderful student reflects So this is. The only. I would also 837 01:06:59.993 --> 01:07:05.653 like to introduce Brayton Marie great lineup. Great is in great form they were 838 01:07:05.663 --> 01:07:11.793 something this man is interested like football he loves to embers and possible all 839 01:07:11.803 --> 01:07:12.863 that up with less than 840 01:07:12.973 --> 01:07:19.683 a. Mediocre conflict between you and be very 841 01:07:19.903 --> 01:07:26.413 slightly and right away to the. Fun factor is the great list 3 houses away from 842 01:07:26.423 --> 01:07:32.903 school really number theory but let's not go. There are born and they came out of 843 01:07:32.913 --> 01:07:36.703 hospital. And Jason is also 844 01:07:36.713 --> 01:07:41.553 a wonderful student and that's really so this is was very nice to hear. 845 01:07:47.283 --> 01:07:53.643 So. Great in Mali if you would face the flak along with all the others who won't be 846 01:07:53.653 --> 01:08:00.591 on. TIME You're really. And what ways do you. 847 01:08:02.131 --> 01:08:08.991 See. The real holdings. In the. 848 01:08:10.811 --> 01:08:17.471 Us as. Well 849 01:08:17.481 --> 01:08:19.001 somewhat like this. 850 01:08:28.051 --> 01:08:29.731 Thank. 851 01:08:38.404 --> 01:08:44.144 You. For. 852 01:08:47.664 --> 01:08:50.984 Voting to approve minutes of people making 853 01:08:50.994 --> 01:09:09.518 a. Second. Yes 854 01:09:10.560 --> 01:09:15.592 PRESIDENT Yes. Yes yes. 855 01:09:20.242 --> 01:09:23.202 Thank you I'd like to make a motion to approve warrant 856 01:09:23.262 --> 01:09:30.112 a number 3787 in the amount of 43794 857 01:09:30.122 --> 01:09:33.692 dollars and 86 and subject to on it 2nd. 858 01:09:39.212 --> 01:09:45.982 Yes yes yes yes yes I like to make 859 01:09:45.992 --> 01:09:50.832 a motion to approve war and be number 3788 in the amount of 860 01:09:50.842 --> 01:09:55.992 658485 dollars and 39 cents subject to write it 861 01:09:58.154 --> 01:10:04.151 2nd. Yes 862 01:10:04.931 --> 01:10:10.861 yes yes. Yes yes. I. 863 01:10:16.061 --> 01:10:20.831 Think you missed going to. Actually I just would like to announce that the next 864 01:10:20.871 --> 01:10:26.771 scheduled to begin school building committee meeting will be Thursday May 17th it 865 01:10:26.781 --> 01:10:29.321 will be at City College 345 that's 866 01:10:29.331 --> 01:10:35.601 a Thursday and Chris that's open to the public. There is some work that has already 867 01:10:35.611 --> 01:10:39.381 taken place on the grounds of folks noticed we've conducted 868 01:10:39.421 --> 01:10:46.241 a seeding of the field so we have signs posted at asking people to stay off 869 01:10:46.911 --> 01:10:52.061 the fields because of the seeding in Congress and the irrigation is all working as 870 01:10:52.071 --> 01:10:55.791 well so we'll see some very nice changes of 871 01:10:55.801 --> 01:11:05.853 a young married couple with. It 872 01:11:05.853 --> 01:11:08.023 . You. 873 01:11:16.023 --> 01:11:21.363 Know. When. You get excited. 874 01:11:24.463 --> 01:11:28.163 With. The remote from the calendar. 875 01:11:31.663 --> 01:11:37.573 You know. And the other the. Other One of the 876 01:11:38.543 --> 01:11:45.363 recommendations. Well we. All know that 877 01:11:45.463 --> 01:11:51.543 anything will do. So without that I'll be. 878 01:11:52.563 --> 01:11:58.996 Gone and the other. Motion motion of all the recommendation of the superintendent. 879 01:12:00.416 --> 01:12:00.756 Second. 880 01:12:15.857 --> 01:12:21.097 Yes yes yes. Yes yes. 881 01:12:23.107 --> 01:12:29.567 Thank you the only other. Things under different countries what items of interest 882 01:12:29.857 --> 01:12:32.707 you have a job with a high school 883 01:12:33.437 --> 01:12:37.317 a listing of the musical The writing talent show at the on the school 884 01:12:37.847 --> 01:12:43.427 a listing of the science careers I have known both young guns were at the birth one 885 01:12:43.497 --> 01:12:48.957 today and you'll see that they are spaced out this week and next week if you can 886 01:12:48.967 --> 01:12:49.287 make it 887 01:12:49.297 --> 01:12:56.197 a great chance to actually talk to. Who have done wonderful projects it's 888 01:12:56.477 --> 01:13:03.227 a wonderful experience. I will turn the song to. Gary if you 889 01:13:03.237 --> 01:13:09.987 haven't done one on the free one the weather the sun the lonely and they were the 890 01:13:10.187 --> 01:13:17.107 only other. Wall regarding circuit breaker. The last bit of information you 891 01:13:17.117 --> 01:13:21.687 want to bring with this here however we are about to start. 892 01:13:24.168 --> 01:13:29.118 Young business. As we did the last time the last process was 893 01:13:29.128 --> 01:13:32.038 a good one. To give us 894 01:13:32.048 --> 01:13:38.748 a wonderful manager. Leaving us. We have 895 01:13:38.908 --> 01:13:45.498 brought up work with us here. As we begin that I would recommend that 896 01:13:46.088 --> 01:13:51.838 at least one. Of the members. Of that story has 897 01:13:51.848 --> 01:13:57.558 a good job or one so we are recommending the search will be recommended also. 898 01:13:58.818 --> 01:14:03.768 For our interview section. At least to be 899 01:14:03.778 --> 01:14:10.070 a great candidate we would ask her who she. Yes you. 900 01:14:11.640 --> 01:14:17.790 Know. This goes this. One 901 01:14:18.650 --> 01:14:23.780 number. 3 we're trying to get this. 902 01:14:27.630 --> 01:14:30.560 May. Be. 903 01:14:34.901 --> 01:14:41.571 That we try to get this done. One by. 3 and. 904 01:14:48.731 --> 01:14:52.551 I thank you Dr Levine I'd be happy to discuss with the finance committee if they're 905 01:14:52.561 --> 01:14:57.761 interested in. Conducting any part of that search I believe you're on it before 906 01:14:57.771 --> 01:15:01.971 both of you are just dogs so when I was you know would you be happy to do yeah 907 01:15:01.981 --> 01:15:07.901 Dickens or like you have to say you got. Yes I do not have an answer you know I 908 01:15:07.911 --> 01:15:13.631 just thought here the negative I think do you have all enjoyed so I think yeah. You 909 01:15:13.641 --> 01:15:17.411 know the 1st thing you did very well. With. 910 01:15:35.550 --> 01:15:35.720 If. 911 01:15:46.770 --> 01:15:52.860 You go. To the. 912 01:15:54.110 --> 01:15:54.700 Motion you see. 913 01:16:05.570 --> 01:16:05.980 The boat. 914 01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:17.440 And she says 2nd. It will. 915 01:16:22.250 --> 01:16:27.720 You. Let. It. Go. 916 01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:36.190 All the way to go away. Motioning scene to. 917 01:16:40.120 --> 01:16:41.660 Go. It would. 918 01:16:47.680 --> 01:16:51.970 Thank you Mr Mayor and the education subcommittee met last night we had 919 01:16:51.980 --> 01:16:58.880 a. Room where Miss provided us with an update on. The curse of 920 01:16:59.620 --> 01:17:06.300 writing and reading. Program that we're hoping to. Integrate into some 921 01:17:07.180 --> 01:17:10.760 grade levels here in the body and we also had 922 01:17:10.770 --> 01:17:17.360 a beginning initial conversation regarding genocide studies and inclusion 923 01:17:17.650 --> 01:17:22.300 of those in the middle school curriculum it's something that we're going to 924 01:17:22.310 --> 01:17:24.010 continue to work on there's 925 01:17:24.020 --> 01:17:30.980 a. Fellow from the from sales the university group. I've been in 926 01:17:31.280 --> 01:17:35.300 communication with who is going to meet with us and. Right of some assistance with 927 01:17:35.300 --> 01:17:40.300 . Putting Mr Bucy and some staff members here at the. 928 01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:53.700 Thank you the finance subcommittee met tonight with the asked meaning and I'm happy 929 01:17:53.710 --> 01:17:57.870 to report out of the 6 unions that we're currently negotiating with we do have 930 01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:04.000 a tentative agreement with them and so we will be forthcoming with the paperwork 931 01:18:04.010 --> 01:18:08.000 and everything that you need to see to review that but it was very productive and 932 01:18:08.010 --> 01:18:09.400 we are extremely pleased. 933 01:18:15.550 --> 01:18:18.110 With our schedule was I will be post in 934 01:18:18.120 --> 01:18:23.930 a meeting or on May 22nd that's Tuesday 6 o'clock they'll be right before our 935 01:18:24.360 --> 01:18:26.500 regular school committee meeting and. 936 01:18:33.070 --> 01:18:39.240 Nothing to report. Nothing this time. 937 01:18:44.360 --> 01:18:50.210 Actually 2 things to report last night the parrot advisory board met and 938 01:18:50.410 --> 01:18:51.980 unfortunately because of 939 01:18:52.050 --> 01:18:58.540 a change in the dates. The attendance was low. But we did 940 01:18:58.910 --> 01:19:03.350 have discussions and we spoke we had it actually was really interesting discussion 941 01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:10.020 a lot about demographics and the changing face of you and how people are moving 942 01:19:10.030 --> 01:19:14.780 here and wanting to stay was it was a very enjoyable discussion as well as 943 01:19:14.820 --> 01:19:19.530 a question that came up the P.T.O.'s are still interested in information about the 944 01:19:19.540 --> 01:19:25.950 insurance required we require MIT so innocent and you know to Dr Levine they want 945 01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:32.950 to try to clarify what the requirement is and looking at the timing it 946 01:19:33.030 --> 01:19:39.510 affects the air. Budgets negatively and really crucial time so the next meeting 947 01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:44.080 will be the 3rd Monday of May and it will be except when you. 948 01:19:48.650 --> 01:19:51.250 Think Miss May through the chair of the committee I'd like to schedule 949 01:19:51.260 --> 01:19:57.940 a meeting on May 22nd either before Mr Winfield safety meeting or after so it'll be 950 01:19:57.950 --> 01:20:01.040 a $530.00 or $630.00 so far going to just check the schedules 951 01:20:01.050 --> 01:20:02.940 a novel report out on that thank you. 952 01:20:07.930 --> 01:20:12.010 Right. On the post and meet in real some of the. 953 01:20:16.320 --> 01:20:21.390 If I may just wanted to state again I did at the last meeting the Education 954 01:20:21.400 --> 01:20:28.000 Foundation was having legacy award presentations and dinner at city hall on May 955 01:20:28.140 --> 01:20:33.360 17th tickets are available online at their website or I'm sure you can purchase 956 01:20:33.370 --> 01:20:34.110 them through city hall. 957 01:21:22.065 --> 01:21:28.136 If. We do. 958 01:21:44.388 --> 01:21:47.458 Not take well. There either.