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003wanted to talk to the board just to get an overview as we're getting ready to prepare for schools. So, again, this year, for prayer, for the opening of schools, This year the theme is going to be equity. this year, the theme is going to be Equity, accountability and achievement. Raising a bar for all students. That's what all of our work is going to be about this year and this will be a theme that is articulated tomorrow at the open. opening day. so, So again, everything that we do is aligned to our mission and vision, we are centered on accountability, and centered on a continuous Improvement. in order to do that, as an organization, we have to ensure that all of the activity within the organization is aligned and this is why. When you looked at
004the present, and this is why when you looked at the presentations presented to you today, you notice 2 distinct features of each presentation 1. They started with the mission and vision 2 they both um incorpor vision 2, they both um, Incorporated. The newly adopted District goals because we want to make sure that all of the organization with all the activity within the organization is is aligned to the mission and vision so that we can continue to build that culture of continuous Improvement. Again, our vision is consistent with the state's expectations for a portrait of a graduate. We want to make sure that our students leave our uh, District prepared to engage with the world and think critically. Now, 1 of the things that And I'll talk a little bit about this work because some of
005this began last year, I really took a good look at the operations of the district as a as a related to the administrative Council and the way things were structured. what we did is we reorganized how we looked at the Personnel, within the organization so that we can have a within the organization so that we can have a constant feedback loop working with our administrators at boots on the ground going, all up to the superintendent. the ground going. All up to the superintendent's executive cabinet so that we can use that information to make. informed decisions about uh resource allocation. As you may may have noted with some of the, um, deck may may have noted with some of the, um, decisions we made with these cell phone up. Uh, Pollock. these cell phone up, uh,
006policy that we're working to add additional staff, the etc, etc. But all of that stuff in every decision comes from this constant feedback loop. however, I want to bring your attention to 1 distinct part of the organizational structure, which is the administrative Council. So, last year, we spent administrative Council. So, last year we spent a lot of time collecting information and working alongside our building administrators building principals because we know from the wall extensive research from the wall, extensive research with the Wallace Foundation, that principals are the Foundation. That principals are the key driver in the system in regards to improving. system, in regards to improving student outcomes 1 because they're lays on between the district and the uh, the building level staff. But also because they work to guide the work, the work of
007teachers and they have to who teach us whom have the closest proximity to students. So we really looked at the way we structured our admin Council meetings, and really redesigned that structure. So that it's a really redesigned that structure, so that it's a working model where we're working collaboratively by looking at data points, we're solving problems. And now we have a work workshop model. The, the consequence of that decision making is the newly adopted District goals. We took that format that we used all year long brought that into our admin Retreat and we were able to furnish 11 goals for our district. This year's based on the data. But also based on a prospective from the building and central office. So again we're talking about a constant feedback loop and this work does just that
008Now, in order for us to improve the system, you'll hear me talk about Urban reform, everything we do. talk about Urban reform. Everything we do is designed to enhance. enhance the system because in order to make our districts the the most premier institution, we have to ask ourselves critical critical questions now, previously, at the last board meeting meeting, we talked about those questions related to equity. We talked about the questions related to access and you'll see that pie chart there. I'm a little blind, so I'm going to look a little closer but Really, we thought about more broadly from a system level. How do we improve student outcomes? That was the work of the administrative Council when we came back. Most recently, recently, um, about 2 weeks ago, we looked at, how do we operationalize?
009The goals that was developed from the questions that were asking that pie chart and this is where where our work was centered on, what specific action, steps will be taking at the building level to meet stated goals, What specific action steps will be taken at the building level during the school year to monitor the progress. Because we have to look at to keep performance indicators, which are quantifiable metrics, that determine the system's efficacy over time to determine whether or not we are moving. moving in the right direction or we are sliding backwards and then the most important question which is which is consistent with that feedback loop is what assistance and support will. The building need in order to meet the stated goals within the current budget resources. And so we work with our administrators
010to really think about that question working. working in a confined to what has already been established, But we also use this question that the guide where we need to move forward in in a subsequent budget years. so, so again, we had a, a great So again we had a a great um administrative treat and beginning of the summer and we can we came back recently to meet again and we're really happy to talk and to furnish these uh newly adopted District goals because again these uh newly adopted District goals. Because again they're looking at 6 aspects of what it takes to have a quality organization systems and organization, there must be particular attention to the ways in which organizations are structured. We're looking at school leadership. We know it's a major component in educational reform.
011We're also looking at continuing to build upon the work we did in curriculum, and we're also highlighting, what's happening with an instruction. Then we have social emotional, which again, it's an initiative from the state that they're driving. And we're looking at, how do we develop a psychologically safe and warm learning environment for our students? students while paying a particular Attention to their social emotional needs. And then there is the parent and family and Community engagement spent a lot of time last year meeting with Community leaders meeting with people more widely to really find out who are the most influential members. most influential members in our community who have direct access to particular students when we're looking at the accountability status for our district, we have this broken down and subgroups. We need to be able
012to make sure that we are adequately educating all students but also making sure that those sub subgroup. that those stuff subgroups are making Market product academic progress. product academic progress. Now, 1 of the things just building on that I want to introduce. So I've been here long enough now, introduce. So I've been here long enough. Now I get these emails, they're usually 3 days 4 or 5 days before an event and again hearing And again, hearing that, I have 44 standing meetings a month, it's not adequate time to give me the opportunity to be somewhere, so, be somewhere. So this is for the community, if you would like me to attend to speak at an event, there is a form on the superintendent's page that you can click, and it will populate directly to my
013staff, who can see that we're going to continue to work to engage our community. Because again, we're building on previous successes. So we're going to utilize parents where we're going to utilize Wednesdays with Dr. Spence, the quarterly news. with Dr. Spence the quarterly newsletter letter rate of review Facebook and then the X account helped the superintendent, get his followers up. All right. That's my goal to the community. So these are our primary modes. goal to the community. So, these are our primary modes of communication that we're going to use, to make sure that we're aligning the activity. Within the organization with our external Community Partners. The. the goal is to make sure that everyone is aware of where the district is heading the district goals. We've made sure we've ordered the um, the posters we've
014ordered the um, the posture so that they can be placed in all of our buildings and we're also sharing that information with our Community Partners and our community more, broadly? So they understand what the district is working on. So they know how to better help and assist the district. Additionally, we're going to have a Breakfast With Champions with our Community Partners so that they understand those District priorities and they see themselves within that larger framework, every administrator that presents, we that presents, we need to connect our activity to those District goals, and we're going to monitor that progress And that's what the expectation will be. now along, now, along the same lines 1 of the things that we are working to do is to really highlight um our students and celebrate, you know, these post-secondary
015outcomes where our students going when they leave. So we've asked on our website. If you're a recent grad or a grad, that's returning or you're returning to college. returning, or you're returning to college or preparing to go. Please send us some pictures because we really like to highlight and feature our young people as they're moving on to the next phase of their life. Once a radar, to the next phase of their life. Once a Raider, always a Raider. And then lastly, I want to talk about the state and local leadership visit. So we are going to have uh we we've been we're fortunate and blessed enough to have the commissioner coming with. Um, commissioner coming with um, the from the state education department as well. department, as well as our district superintendent, our senator Senator
016Griffo and assembly a woman button, Sean Brian Miller and um, Robert smullen. They will be with us on the first week of school September, 4th. And we're really going to use this as a, um, critical time to talk to the commissioner while we have her Express with our needs. commissioner while we have her Express with. Our needs are as a district. She has questions for us. You have a question for me. I have a question for you once you're done. Oh okay. All right. And so we'll engage with them and really highlight the best aspects of our district. And so we're really excited and and, and, and happy to welcome. welcome all of these folks to come, um, hang out with us all of these folks to come, um, hang out with us for a
017little bit and That's it. Okay, so I I have a question. So you were talking about the administrative Council and you come up with a plan. Mhm. Is that going to manifest itself into like schools looking different, you know? different? You know? I'm I'm when I'm saying like operationally is there going to be some like how would we be able to identify it while it's happening or is it is it more intrinsic and Esoteric, so it depends on you. Esoteric. So it depends on, you're asking, if you have a trained, critical eye, you will, but let me let me say this. So 1 of the things we're looking PhD in education. Well, you know my my administrative Well, you know, my my administrative Council, these folks are Stellar. So we looked at 2 things, I'm
018going to answer your question. We looked at what are things that we Know, we should be doing but may not have been doing with Fidelity and we're going back to the basics like doing walk throughs and utilizing our district, walk through tool. Now we we've automate not autumn we we've automate not automated. We've digitized that walk through to the tool. So now we have a digital tool so that when administrator is going to classrooms, they can they have to look for us. We've agreed upon what to look. have to look for us. We've agreed upon what the look, fors are for our classrooms. And now, we can start to quantify the things that we're seeing across the district. So, yes. those results lead to better support better feedback for teachers because we need the information
019in real time so that we can make adjustments. So the district is moving toward a more data-intensive lens because we're using a lot utilizing that to inform decisions. So yes, if you're walking into a building where we see, um, walking into a building where we see um more evidence of student work or we look those are the types of things. student work, or we look those are the types of things that you'll see. So, yes, when doing a joint walk through like you'll see. So, yes on doing a joint walk through like we did. If we go back to Hold on. Let's beautiful picture of Tina. And I, as we Hold on. Let's beautiful picture of Tina and I as we did our walk through in buildings, remember that day. walk through in buildings. Remember
020that day? That's all. Yeah. Shout out to us. So yes. Yeah. Shout out to us. So. Yes, as we're going to do the walkthroughs, we can go on and walk through together and we can talk about the different initiatives and we can point them out to you along the way so that you can see. this in practice. so, and and I'm just So and and I'm just curious. What's your plan for the first few days of school? um, you know, in terms of building presence. If if you have a plan for that, Mr. You want to talk about our plan? Sure. So each year I think the people should know. Yeah. So each year each we assign administrators. each year, each we assign administrators to provide building support. Um, we are going to be support.
021Um, we are going to be very present, especially at the secondary schools to ensure they have the support that they need with a new cell phone uh, collection and distribution. So that's probably collection and distribution. So that's probably going to be the focal priority for the first couple weeks of school. But we do have building administrators assigned. But we do have building, administrators assigned to each school, to provide them guidance and support on site. Is the pig cheese going to be there. The cheese will be there. Yes. Yes. So we we'll be there because it's twofold. We did this last year but we want to really look at. Okay. What are the things that we're doing? This is a new initiative. So we want to progress monitor that so we can. look for any gaps,
022you know, right now we've we're look for any gaps, you know, right now, we've, we're hiring 2, security guards that are going to work to help. 2, security guards, that are going to work to help assist that we're adding staff there. we've also developed a system for these cell phones specifically, but not that we are taking the cell phones away from the students out of the classroom. That means we need to be even more impactful even more need to be even more impactful, even more engaging with our instruction and our curriculum, as it relates to educating our young people. Because now they our young people because now they don't have that added distraction. So we're really excited about this year because again, we are going to be working um, lockstep and key with the building.
023Administrators with our teachers, with this I sent the uh, with this, I sent the uh District priorities out through email today. We'll talk a little bit about it tomorrow and we're going to also utilize all of our committees that we have. We have a PDP committee. We have a CAE committee committee for academic Excellence as we're incorporating them into the into the broader work. So this is this is going to be a really good year for instruction. Okay, okay. Anyone else have Okay. Okay. Anyone else have any questions? um, do you want to recommend your? Oh, I'll do it for the morning. I would like to recommend my superintendent's report to the board for acceptance and it's my understanding that you're withdrawing s50 page 12. understanding that you're withdrawing s50 page, 12. Correct. Not not
024for consider. correct? Not not for consideration. Does anyone else need any Pages pulled? I believe it's my understanding that the superintendent is also adding pages to the superintendent report, correct? report. Correct? Yes, we are also adding page 36. And then where's the for? No. Yeah, I'm going to I'm going to number that. Just make sure they can't get some. So it'll be paid. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. so, with those pages, added Can I have a motion? I have to pull. Okay. Which ones do you want to put s 43 page 4 and 5? S. S 44, Page, 6 and 7. 43. 5. Okay, 4344 and 45 is 8 and 9. That's 5, okay, 4344 and 45 is 8 and 9 that's 4445. Okay. That's page. 4 and 5. 67. 89. 89. Okay. Anything else
025in those 3 to be considered together? Okay. so, is there any other pages that need to be pulled? So, So pulling Pages would drawing s50 on page 12. Pulling. Pulling s43. S. S, 44 and s45. Pages 4 through 8 um, at 4. Pages 4 through 8, um, at 4 through 9. Adding pages 36 through 41. can I have a motion to adopt the Superintendent's report? Will that second? Any discussion all in favor. opposed motion passes, can I have Opposed motion passes. Can I have a motion to take? Collectively s43 s? collectively, s43, s44. S45. Pages. 4 through 9. Okay. Any discussion. Okay. All in favor. Opposed, no. Motion carries. um, Um, any new business. I'm sorry, any continuing business, just 1. Um the last month that we talked about cell phones was with in regards
026to both these with the students going to make a decision on that. Yes. So so just for the record again, we that. Yes. So so just for the record. Again we added 2 additional security guards and for the record we are allowing students as they travel to both these to keep their phones. I have a I have a question on that. Not necessarily on that. uh, is the same 5 or like any other Uh, is the same 5 or like anytime the kids are going to be down at bus. and, And then from our property, they say in the cases. So the law states if it's considered law states, if it's considered belt the Bell, if it's a field trip within the belt the belt and they don't take their phones with them, okay? Are
027we having any counselors or anything to assist students that may be having a hard time? Being separated from their phones. All right. Any uh, any other new business Okay, any communication? We did it. I page 36. Okay, need a motion to adjourn. All in favor. We are. And go there.