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Um, my job as both the the gened side of things and the preschool programming, I feel like our curriculum is is really rich and we've done a lot of kind of that grassroots. Um, but working with Mike to really establish what opportunities can we get to make sure kiddos are are starting to get exposed to the language that they'll be using, especially in ELA and math. The social emotional is pretty well established because of our work already with Jen. Um, but that's something where I'd like to see us continue to grow and improve upon. Um, I think the next school improvement plan will be starting to look at assessment tools because TSG we don't love. Um, so we want to look and see what else is out there to help us better look at student progress across all content areas. Um, for the special education side of things, we've been working very closely with Britney um, especially with our specialized programming.
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So um so some logistics about the superintendent evaluation. So tonight or tomorrow you'll receive from me a link to an online evaluation form. Um you will in the past we have evaluated the superintendent on every single characteristic in that um form and that rubric that's been developed. Um but actually we are only evaluating the superintendent on these particular items that she reported on tonight. That's part of the agreement. We don't evaluate on absolutely everything. There's certain, you know, areas that we're we're evaluating her on. So, those will be the focus of the form. So, you'll notice who people have done it in the past that it may be shorter and hopefully will give you a time chance to go more in depth on the items that we actually contracted with the superintendent to evaluate her on. So, um the deadline for that is going to have to be pretty firm because the um collaborative will need about two weeks to compile the data and we'll need kind of a week to get it together before next month's meeting.
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So um so some logistics about the superintendent evaluation. So tonight or tomorrow you'll receive from me a link to an online evaluation form. Um you will in the past we have evaluated the superintendent on every single characteristic in that um form in that rubric that's been developed. Um but actually we are only evaluating the superintendent on these particular items that she reported on tonight. That's part of the agreement. We don't evaluate on absolutely everything. There's certain, you know, areas that we're we're evaluating her on. So, those will be the focus of the form. So, you'll notice who people have done it in the past that it may be shorter and hopefully we'll give you a time chance to go more in depth on the items that we actually contracted with the superintendent to evaluate her on. So, um the deadline for that is going to have to be pretty firm because the um collaborative will need about two weeks to compile the data and we'll need kind of a week to get it together before next month's meeting.
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uh members of the Connecticut Sun organization came and we had an assembly uh with them uh the Friday before uh break there. So that was uh for all students K6. That was really great. When we came back from break uh we had our kindergarten screener going. Um we had our April community meeting. Uh we focused on responsibility and Earth Day and then nothing else happened. um like six gallons of slaughter and in fairness I mixed it so it's all on me. Um uh we have been going through uh Smarter Bounce. So we started with uh so we started with ELA and then we did math um and we're getting through that. Our fifth graders have been taking the science assessment. Uh at this point we're really just in the finishing up and the makeups. Uh and so we're getting through that. As you heard, teacher appreciation I think was a huge success.
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Um, we also did the teacher versus students basketball game at Great Plane Elementary School. The teachers asked us for some help, so we had a few students go over there. It was a really fun day as well. We did ReadAcross America at Park Avenue Elementary School. We did lots of fun books. Braden Wolf is pictured in the middle picture on the bottom. He's in the Hatter's costume. Uh he really enjoyed that. Didn't you? It's a little silly afterwards, but he really did. It was a really good experience. All the kids loved seeing the Hatter go around. We really, you know, we we introduced that Hatter pride to them. Um they love taking pictures with him, high fives. It it was really fun. And then reading books. Um it and then they also they did some games in the gym, too. So everybody, that was another fun one.
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Um, oh, Super Eagles performing troop is the um, junior the OCI theater elective taught by Miss Vent. And so she she brings them over and um, so they presented an anal lesson to our uh, first and second grade students. You see the super squad up on top. And they taught our kiddos all about calming powers that they can use to calm down when they're feeling upset, like deep breath defense, quiet corner retreat, um moving mindfully, and counting down. And the kiddos loved it. It was fantastic. Um Eagles Esports have some new setups. Um they the new setups include new carts and gaming systems and controllers. The carts like store everything and keep it all organized neatly so they can just pull it out and get ready to go instantly. And um with the additional gaming sets, 24 students can play at once instead of 16.
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So, every middle school choir and band performed. And now that we've been able to expand our music program, our elementary students not only performed once, but performed twice. They had uh two separate groups. Uh, they had the winds group as well as the strings group, and they were phenomenal. So, it was really great to see their talent out there and all the work that our music and choir teachers have done with them and lots of good parent support. So, I know we had a a new committee uh this year that put on that event. So, really would like to thank them for their hard work and um you know in supporting our school district uh throughout that event with the proceeds um in the future. So looking forward to hearing, you know, how much um donation uh that will bring for teacher grants in the future.
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So we do lots of multi-tered system supports within our classroom uh within our whole school and um it's it's just truly a benefit of the outcomes of the block schedule that that we're utilizing. Okay. So, as Damon said before, back in the day when we had the sixth period day, um we had certain grad requirements like we do now, but English learners um were pretty much destined to take EL as their elective, students on an IEP were destined to take an ACT support class to make sure they could get through academically. Um, so one of the effects of the block schedule is that now we have more equity of course offerings because the students that needs support classes can still take those, but they can still also take a CTE class or a dual enrollment class, an AP course. They're not they're not only their their elective choice isn't just their support class now, which is an amazing thing um that we have at both sites.
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Please know that in the uh when we get down to discussion section, we'll be doing section C for first read. And we just received section D. I think it was yesterday. That will come for first read in June. And it's the same thing. You're going to see a lot of deletion of policies or exhibits only because they've condensed them into fewer policies and policies and exhibits by doubling up so to speak. Um so unless there's a specific concern on one or the other, I would recommend approval as presented. And I'll also know that tomorrow morning uh the leadership team and the board will receive from me a memo with all the new regulations and exhibits uh just so everybody's aware what how they've changed uh in in policy. Okay.
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These strategic actions received positive feedback from both school psychologists and related service providers, particularly due to the value of having dedicated individualized support. In partnership with academic services, we've created intentional professional learning opportunities. ESS staff have participated alongside general education teachers in sessions like unwrapping the standards and differentiation trainings. We have conduct conducted weekly walkthroughs in ESS classrooms to provide feedback. and support around success criteria and learning targets. We've implemented systems to strengthen communication and customer service, increase our training opportunities, continuous feedback loops with site administration. This year, we launched the ESS parent advisory committee, which allows me to connect more closely with families. This group is beginning is in the beginning stages in developing of a district-wide ESS PTO to host events and build a community. In July, we'll reopen the application to welcome more families. We had 30 join this year. Many were unable to attend regularly, but we are excited to grow this participation.
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Um and so we've we had that's on the the municipal side. And we did hear that both of those grants are safe and that we did receive the funding for both of those grants, which is good because otherwise we would have had to figure out the the property, especially because we had already purchased the property. Um and on the school side it's going to be a little complicated too because there are grant-f funded teacher positions and um they rely heavily on um what's called the circuit breaker which um funds um in a year year in in a rears um the special education budget. So they are hoping that um those positions come through. they haven't there's there's no guarantee on anything which is also part of the problem. So we are as a community um we had to pass a budget. We had to pass a balanced budget and that's what we did.
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Um we have two specialized program rooms um that support a higher teacher to student ratio and uh a higher level of instructional and behavioral support that then moves into the Warren and Mendes kind of strands of the RISE programming. So really making sure that we're teaching kids the foundational skills so that they can be more successful as they continue to grow and the expectations rise. Um and that's been really great. Uh a lot of our staff have been participating in those vertical meetings um that uh Britney has been doing I think four or five times a year. I think there's one more meeting this year. So, it's great to have a seat at that table because we've got kiddos coming in at such a young age and we want to make sure we're providing as much support as we can. And I think that's that's it on us.
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So, you have one week from whenever it is issued to um to complete that. Um and then we will um have our our evaluation of the superintendent at the next meeting. Secretary Denive, just to confirm. So this time we're doing it online and the collaborative is collating the results. Yeah, I think they did it last year too. Um, in the past, school committee members have been responsible for collecting these hard copy forms and like tabulating everything. And I thought if we're taking this seriously, it's uh the collaborative has a very reasonable rates to have a professional evaluator gather our data and summarize things for us and also kind of leaves um gives it maybe more credibility credibility because it's not someone with an agenda who's compiling the data, I guess. So I greatly thank you for that. Yeah, sure. Any other questions about the process?
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So, you have one week from whenever it is issued to um to complete that. Um and then we will um have our our evaluation of the superintendent at the next meeting. Secretary Denive, just to confirm, so this time we're doing it online and the collaborative is collating the results. Yeah, I think they did it last year, too. Um, in the past, school committee members have been responsible for collecting these hard copy forms and like tabulating everything. And I thought if we're taking this seriously, it's uh the collaborative has a very reasonable rates to have a professional evaluator gather our data and summarize things for us and also kind of leaves um gives it maybe more credibility credibility because it's not someone with an agenda who's compiling the data, I guess. So I greatly thank you for that. Yeah, sure. Any other questions about the process?
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Again, thank you to the PTO. Um we had a wonderful lunch from them. Um and then a treat cart. They kind of bookended the week which was really wonderful. Uh we had plant sale. Uh third grade had their field trip to the science center. Uh and then as you heard, we had our parent academy. And um well, it's kind of purely anecdotal. I feel like we're starting to get more and more. We've had some that had kind of very few folks here and I think as we're going I think it's both um I think you know we've got some regulars who come to a lot but also I think you know as people are requesting things we're trying to really you know align with what people are asking for and I think that's something as well. Uh BCS Kids is still going strong. We're just kind of finishing out the year.
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We also did March Madness at Mill Ridge. So we split up into three groups. We did math games, we did basketball, and then we read books. Um we did like a little throw uh the we did like math problems, talking fractions, little throwback moment. Uh we also really appreciate our teachers because we would be unable to play the sports that we love if we didn't have them. Um so every month we kept track of two to three teachers. We all nominated um we sent it out to the school and each month we nominated two and three teachers that made a large impact on our lives and we put it all together into a big slideshow and last week we put that on for during the faculty meeting. We gave them little gifts, read them a little quote that were written by the students. Um and I think that they they really did appreciate being noticed and I think that that it they need to be noticed because without them we wouldn't be able to do things that we love.
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So they are excited to have that um additional capacity at the Q conference. Mrs. Mrs. Hston and Mrs. Burton learned um a new style of tournament play and so the students basically battle each other for ranking numbers and uh it's really spiced up the competition. They enjoy it. So you can see them playing like on both sides of the console and there's some other ones like behind in the picture that you can't like that the picture didn't capture. But yeah, they love it. It's very very engaging. Um, this was I I could not believe this when Mr. Mac shared it with me. Uh, 100% of his third grade class are reading at a third grade level um or higher. So, yeah, it's it's pretty amazing. I just Yeah, I'm blown away. So, good job. Um, we had our regional spelling bee um at West Suma Elementary School on April 28th and 29th.
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And then finally, um you know, we've talked a little bit here about the uncertainty at the federal level. um you know with reductions of grants and resources coming through the federal administration um just recently the most recent executive order reduces um or eliminated the mental health school-based grants. So, those are things that we're monitoring and um you know, and advocating to continue and hoping that our elected officials here in California will continue to advocate the importance of those funds to our schools. I did want to share uh this Saturday there is an opportunity uh statewide um being sponsored by CTA. It's called Fights for Schools. It's happening in Sacramento in San Francisco, which is our nearest location, as well as Los Angeles and San Diego. It'll be at noon in the Embaradero um Plaza area in San Francisco. So, not just for teachers, but for all allies in education that really want to continue to support our schools amid the uncertainty of um the federal current federal administration.
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