001Good evening everybody. Welcome to our citizens advisory committee. I am very excited to see such a nice full table here. I feel I feel like every time when you guys have the name tags out it's it's awesome. Um, so Um, we are here tonight to discuss our results and next steps for portrait of a graduate. Thank you to everybody who took the time to complete the survey that was sent out to the community. Um, I am just going to turn over to Dr. Leyden and just sort of do a brief introduction and then we'll get into >> Yeah, I would say we're not totally getting into the results. This is more of a work in the progress piece. We we're still gathering information. We actually met with uh uh one of the student advisory groups
002today to gather information uh about what they view in terms of their ideals and thoughts and uh about what a graduate of Monsey uh should look like. Um, but I'm going to kick it over to Mr. Sutovic and Mr. Marolda to kind of pick up on some of the work we're going to do tonight. Hi everyone. It's nice to see you all again. We were here last last uh meeting just to introduce what was going on and what our next steps were with portrait of a graduate. So, as Dr. Leyden said, since then um we have had a um focus group of staff. Today we met with student advisory group and we surveyed them. Uh you'll get to see a little bit of their thoughts tonight. Those of you who are here are going to
003do some work with it. Um, and then what we prepared for you here is just kind of a very brief synopsis of one data point. So, this is a really a snapshot of kind of what we've received. Um, there were 214 responses to the survey that we have received. The survey is now closed. Um, and this gives you the breakdown of respondents. And then we took There was a section, if you recall, on the survey that was about general questions. This is the first general question and we're giving you the data for that. We're going to dig into that a little tonight. So, what the best looks like is the question is, what are the skills, experiences, and personal qualities you believe are most important for success beyond high school graduation? And it was select
004up to five. So, this is the raw data response to that. So, you can kind of see where that breaks down. But then when you look on the subsequent pages that follow, and we'll have some discussion about this, we broke it down by respondent type. Okay. So, you see the different counts for the respondent type. And then, all of the indicators Sorry. It's okay. All of the indicators that are here in this first question have been broken out on the subsequent pages by respondent group, so that we can see what it actually looks like, and we can start to draw some conclusions. So, while everyone's looking over this, I'll just kind of briefly describe kind of the mechanisms that we used to distribute the survey. Um we had two direct mailings to everyone that was
005registered on our system. Um we delivered we successfully delivered greater than 16,000 emails to students, staff, and community members that are registered in our system, and we did that twice. In addition, we posted the survey link on social media, so make sure that everyone even they weren't in our system did uh had access had the ability to take a survey if they chose to do so. Um that said, uh still only had about, I guess, 200 plus responses. Um we but then I think the important thing is is that we have been able to successfully get in front of district stakeholders uh with uh students, staff, and administrators. And here through the committee and the survey we can then hear back to the community uh the community and they can offer contributions to what we
006wrote together. I do find it interesting just looking and it may not 100% honest, but it looks like pretty much every respondent type put communication skills as the top category um which, you know, obviously is really important um if you're graduating. But some of the others are a little bit varied, but seems like that was definitely the out frontrunner for most respondents from what I can see. And another point that I just took note of was interesting is, you know, the the daily life skills. When you look at the data for that, parents, community, caregiver, that is a a high priority. Then when we look at the other groupings, it's a little bit further down than than it is for the parents. Yeah. Yeah. Parents definitely want their kids to be independent. So in terms
007of the structure of digging into this, are we going to uh break into some groups and say So yeah, I think we should break into some groups and I would like to sit have us really sit down and kind of talk about like what we say. Um how many of us are there too? I think we need to So we can It's Lisa and CC together. Well, you got Yael and I having a whole conversation about it. Sorry. I was going to go home and I said, "Okay." So I'm thinking if we could bring it to four groups and kind of take a look at it in our small groups and come back with some commonalities and some things that we see that maybe are trends that we notice and I can go around and
008answer some questions for you and you know my laptop would like you have any other questions and then once we're done with that and we kind of debrief that one of the other pieces of evidence that I'd like to share with you today came out of our meeting with the students. And those are the posters that you see on this table. So when we're done with this we're going to dig into that maybe spend like 5-10 minutes looking at those responses. So when I was you know talking with Miss Miralda our family sort of been to just turn off the cameras after this part I guess we can do it for that part as well. I just figured if there's anything else that we want as part of our public part of the meeting we
009can just go over that now if not we are going to do something we have done in this committee it's been a little while but just sort of working in our small groups to sort of look into some of the information have discussions but we can't really do that on screen because people aren't going to really care what we're saying so we're not trying to not be transparent we're just doing this as a working meeting and it's hard to capture everything if we're separated into groups so I just wanted to explain that a little bit. Um and then I do think if we're breaking up it would be good I guess to sort of have a variety in each group so like couple staff members I guess there's I mean there's four board members so
010maybe one board member in each group and then community members maybe we just count off. What are the three board members three board members? Yeah I was thinking that too but I don't want to do that. So we can start on the end. One two One two One two three So yeah we can turn off one. Two Like the bird >> Three But there's a lot of one All right Yeah all the threes go together Four One two three Four One two three four Oh my gosh So one two three four one two Three Not four I'm sorry. Really quick, I'm just going to thank everybody in the community if they're watching for watching this part of this. Stay tuned as we continue to develop our portrait of a graduate. And for those that are
011watching or watch this later, have a great night.