001for e our workshop and we will move to agenda item uh 6.04 schoolwide Improvement plan midyear reflection and we welcome Mr Reynolds and all of our School principles so welcome good afternoon again Mr fur the board more um part of the schoolwide improvement process is to have a midyear reflection based off of data and progress and look at our current goals and our current progress and then make some adjustments and action steps as necessary to finish out the year and so we have brought all of our principles here to share about one minute of some update and some action steps and then we'll open it up with any questions based on the documents on so it looks like uh in my order here we have uh Bel Elementary and they're going to run in the
002order all right let's do that good afternoon board um chair F superintendent Moore our highlight is going to be on our BTS 3 through 5 Ela scores So currently um for Progress monitoring one which was at the beginning of the year 30% of our students scored on grade level which is to be expected as they had not been taught the grade level standards as of yet for Progress monitoring two we were up to 46% of students on grade level and with that projection um it's looking like 62% of students will be on grade level by the end of the year we are aiming for 63% of our students to be on grade level so for that 1% we have been working really hard with the teaching and learning Department of doing some strategic planning and
003um coaching with our teachers to make sure that we're hitting that additional 1% I really like on your graphs that you showed not just the students who are below proficiency but all of them so it shows your U attention to move all students um so that's really great I see that you're um and this is a common theme along all of many of the school Improvement plans is that there's this focus on the planning side right and your challenge was that you had some big groups so in your plannings are you um what are the strategies that you're trying that you're using that is clearly working for your school and do you see that any that would be appropo to maybe share across um to the other principles and schools so part of the district
004initiative if I may was the professional learning communities and that was where solution tree came in for the very specific planning one of the things that we did mid year um after our team went to the PLC the solution tree conference was brought back it's called the 15-day challenge where you break out the unit of study into approximately 15 days so that way the teachers really know where they're starting where they're ending where their tests are being done and then at the end of that 15 days they come back together we call them collaborative Team Planning they sit down with their data and they are planning out which students go to which teachers for that intervention and enrichment component I would love to say that it is running as smoothly as that just sounded but
005as we know when we're getting anything up and going there are some roadblocks so that is one of the things that we have started seeing a lot of improvement and growth with recently I like that so you know kind of these shorter Sprints essentially interesting I had some really good help with those GRS so thank you vanel Carrie Presley vanel Elementary um if we do a universal screener for gifted I'd like to follow here our school and I think we have the most gifted endorsed teachers in my school that in there real quick um all of our areas of focus kind of are around improving tier one instruction so um in improving our subgroup data for our students with disabilities that's an area where um we want to kind of continue to to move the
006needle um so we did make some midyear adjustment so that so this is our grow um for us of our three um areas of focus um we are utilizing the clsd grant with that we have hired several pair professionals to provide targeted small group instruction to students um but we also midye did pivot um to hire a teacher um for fourth grade reading instruction to just kind of improve the the tier one reading experience for fourth grade where we're seeing some we're not seeing the growth we would like to see out of fourth grade we have some really good grows in third and fifth in this particular area of focus but fourth grade is kind of a particular area where we're trying to do some additional supports and interventions um just moving down to the
007areas of focus we are continue continuing to move the needle with proficiency across grade levels um we are participating with fcrr to make sure we we are using our literacy leadership team intentionally um and progress monitoring with those folks and also a grow for us we are expecting to have big gains in our fifth grade science proficiency so I saw some of some of that was um highlighted in the district goals I I feel like we're really going to help you guys there um fifth grade science we're doing a lot of professional learning with our teachers with Hands-On instruction you know understanding standards Mastery and really just building the confidence of our fifth grade teachers in teaching science because that seemed to be something that came up was they just didn't feel as confident so
008getting them prepared and ready to to teach those standards as well so you see last year you identified that that was the largest um growth Year yes for S swd um have you identified what were maybe some of those items that were particularly impactful and are duplicating those are you yes seeing the same success yes so I think one of the biggest impacts was that targeted small group instruction so really utilizing our academic coaches to train those pair professionals to provide that instruction but also overall just improving tier one instruction ion you know Rising ties raise All Ships right so I think that's been a big a big factor in that as well thank you okay Jessica fre Old Kings Elementary our Focus um continues to be on Benchmark aligned instruction our SS sub group
009performance specific to Black African-American students and our differentiated instruction our midar data indicates that we are on Pace to meet our goal for differentiated instruction specifically relating to student with disabilities um however we are not yet on track to meet our goal for Benchmark aligned instruction and our ssf groups um however to address these needs we've taken intentional steps um with a strong emphasis on supporting our third and our fifth grade um students such as the realignment of our instructional resources across all tiers of instruction um refining our midyear pacing to ensure that the priority standards of each grade level are met and our are continuing to be intentionally spiral throughout um we've made enhancements to our collaborative team meetings um and have the support of our curriculum Specialists which has been um tremendous so
010we appreciate that and embedding um intentional professional learning opportunities we actually have already on campus today um running PL for our teachers on how to utilize their data to um Drive their small group instruction um and then finally we've expanded tutoring opportunities based on our medeor data to um intentionally address the um deficits in RPM to um data I will say that I'll give you a shout out the day that was with you and your uh students with disabilities class I did not know who the teacher was compared to who the par professional was I I want to give you a shout out for that I had no idea until I was told so they were they did a fantastic job that day that's we appreciate that I really like the format of your school
011Improvement plan where you're very specific around um the um the strategies that you guys are trying to implement and I was curious around this one that I have not heard before called child study so we are um digging into individual students and and groups of students just to see like if they are in the mtss process how long have they been in the process um what is their historical data looking like um are the interventions that we are implementing appropriate and are they making significant progress just so that we can ensure that all students are receiving the appropriate level of support for you all right Travis Lee from rire um our we're as Mr bars touched on we definitely pleased progression that we've had in ela and math overall as a school we we definitely
012have positive Trends um we have a focus for our students with disabilities um we had great growth last year 15% but we still wanted to meet that threshold of the 41% % um last year we ended at 36% proficiency with students with disabilities and this year we wanted to beat that and I'll we set a goal for 43% I'm looking at area Focus 3 um for us currently and so um as we progressed um and looking at students with disabilities in grades um three through five our our grade three is an area of need in both El and math as they are a little bit lagging from comparison from pm2 last year to pm2 this year and then also grade five math and so some of the things that uh we have done for students
013with disabilities definitely our support facilitators we've done Universal Design for Learning training making sure that we're providing interventions and we're also focusing on a grade level standard um we've also developed a student engagement walkthrough tool that's an area that we're having a re tool and make sure that we focused definitely in third and fifth grade going forward um as those are areas that we have a need um we've aligned our tutorin dollars in grades three four and five for tutorin and Ela um and we've seen great benefit from that and then we've also with parent buying um implemented um special area boot camps started in February with Ela and we'll be picking up in March as well um for Math and so we hope to have continued growth and continued gains across grades three four
014and five and definitely impact our student with disability achievement through tool that you've not had not successfully used this tool yet what are the um some of the limiting factors so we had an opportunity with um my AP and I went to Florida classes which is where we kind of developed that tool um it just came down to um just the implementation of getting into the classes and then providing that feedback to the teacher so we're relooking at the tools so that we can um better do that as a leadership team um now that's not say we're not going in the classrooms because definitely for that specific data point and then to go back and talk about it and and talk to the teacher specifically to what the students with disabilities are doing when we're
015in that classroom so U we hoping to not hoping we will definitely be doing that going forward so you're looking for more time on task for students and trying to especially small group that can be a challenge for some of the teachers right I to what what the student okay thank you Amy newfeld for Wadsworth Elementary School and our school Improvement plan is focused on the continual Improvement of reading and math Proficiency in which we are seeing much of the same Trends if not better for last year um our Focus goals of helping um students with disabilities which I think is probably one of all of most of ours is um just slightly below but um when Scott was talking he was talking about learning gains so when we calculate late where we currently are
016I am looking strictly at proficiency and not necessarily at learning gains so I'm hoping that it's even higher than what it currently is but we are trending higher than we did last year in which uh last year the Year prior to that was like 26% proficiency and we were at like 37 and we are trending that same way but we are not there yet to the 41 but we are going to make this strides and a lot of that is done through our professional learning communities one of the things that wattsw worth has done very successfully this year is all of our teams are working together for the common goal so our ESC teachers our teachers they are doing instructional walks of other people's classrooms they're doing audits of the standards to make sure that
017they're aligned to the benchmarks um their resources are being aligned and this year we implemented um Frameworks for reading and math blocks um their reading one is based on the science of reading and now we're putting in what we call instructional routines that we do K5 so they AB increase in rigor but through K5 these instructional routines are happening and it is really cool to see so I invite any of you who want to come see and read with our kids but I do want to highlight a celebration So reading proficiency has kind of been stagnant at Wadsworth we've kind of been same old same old staying at the same and um we have increased 15% just from pm1 to pm2 and um our third grade is already at 51% proficiency and so when you
018think about third grade and the ret attention year 51% have already met the requirement and most of them are at level twos so that is a significant increase so a big celebration for them and then we are going to continue to focus on our raised grade levels um it started in first grade and those Scholars are now in second grade so we're targeting first and second and making sure that they are ready for reading um and that comes from the science of reading um most of our teachers are now either at level one or level two uh letters trained um which is focusing on those uh five areas for the most components I have a I need some help with a comprehension item on here in your area Focus one for your Essa subgroup um
019in the supporting data it says the current proficiency rate for fourth grade is zero which is 8% lower than last year's pm2 and then in the next paragraph says the current proficiency rate for fourth grade math is 13 which is 5% lower so is that different subgroup in there because it's saying fourth grade math pm2 is one supposed to be pm1 supposed to be fifth on the second one oh Fifth Fifth yes sorry that was okay yes fifth allix in fourth grade when you say zero that's just that's not just but that's the Essa subgroup yes ma'am that are currently at 0% proficiency and one of the things kind of speaking to um Bell's fourth grade A lot of the content comes after Christmas so when you're looking at Trend data every year from pm1
020to pm2 fourth grade does not make significant growth so the foundation is laid from multiplication division so that when they start doing fractions in um the second semester that's where that Foundation is laid fourth grade tends to make this most growth from pm2 to pm3 I almost wish we could give pm2 just a little later for fourth grade to have a better indicator so you're you're not anxious because you've seen that Trend before yes and we've also looked at I which we didn't include in here because we were looking at State data and I is trending the same as prior year so that's kind of where we use it as a big bigger indicator but much of what they do for growth is pm2 to PM 3 okay great and we did put like some
021things we got creative with just making sure we're being successful we have two different recess times for fourth grade because we split it and so like our Math teachers we cover uh as admin and my office team lunch duty so that they can co- te like our brand new teachers and kind of support them that way and do additional small groups have you ever tried to do like a preview let's say in third grade of some of that fourth grade you know at the end of the year after the assessment is done uh we've tried that sometimes I mean it's a struggle but just curious and I think our third grade team does a great job of working on just the basic multiplication facts but when you're starting to look at fractions they may understand
022fractions but then it's adding oh yeah multiplying dividing and so it's it's new Concepts for them a lot of students who started in third grade like um those are things that parents teach at home and then you get refractions and it may not be a lesson that they've done at home so they're really learning new content right thank you well good afternoon everyone I'm Scott Bannon I'm the assistant principal for I Flagler and alternative program sitting in for Aaron Quinn today um our goal focus is in on student engagement but the way that we also have to look at our goals in a virtual world we really need to engage our parents as well especially to accomplish the goal that I want to emphasize today because I feel like this goal sort of spreads itself
023to so many other areas um we want a school grade this year so um we are striving for the 95% uh completion and participation in our state testing um that would be huge for us and the first time that we would be um receiving a grade so that's first and foremost for us um we also sort of tagged onto that um a completion rate for our courses of 95% as well um and we have used a variety of different strategies and I'll share some data with you as to how we are approaching this goal when we look at our pm1 and pm2 data we're proud to say we are hovering right around 89% participation um which seems to be up from last year um we have work to do to get to that 95% but
024we do have some strategies in mind as to how we will go about that um with the tools that are readily available to us such as the remind app but we plan on making personal phone calls and being very flexible with our pm3 testing meaning that most of the time we are testing in this building because our campus doesn't lend itself to bringing in um all the students but we are going to open up our small little portable canvas as well um with a focus on some students who traditionally have not been attending maybe they would be more comfortable coming to that setting instead of this large building that seems to have a lot of traffic as well so we do have some ideas in mind uh to get from 89 to 95 so you
025require them to be in person for this yes so uh like some of the um let's say college courses they have tools that allow students to be assessed you know not in a testing center uh you know like respondents or even you know um they monitor your eye movement through the camera is that just uh too expensive is that not an area you want to go down because I imagine people are choosing to to be in the valuable lessons to testing in person as well where our teachers are available Miss Quinn makes herself available exactly high stakes and we also we really want to gauge the students learning we don't want anybody else to give too much coaching we know that in those types of situations we want to help you know teachers want to
026help parents want to help but we really want to gauge where the students are at um so bringing them in is probably the best way to the state also requires them to be in person oh really they just finished a study um because they did some remote testing last year with military families and they just finished us study they haven't published it yet to see if that's viable for online students but even our fvs students have to come to Brick and mor to test okay thanks for that we also made a push for our I ready tests to be in person this year as well um but due to the amount of testing we have offered some virtual options for our I ready Diagnostics um we're very proud that we have become a PB School
027this year um we have taken the initial steps in our launch to share a matrix of expectations with our students um students also are sometimes trending on their teachers dashboards if they're doing all the things that are expected of him or her um we're really trying to celebrate the students this year um and we're we're starting small and some um academic areas lend itself more to this than others in Virtual Worlds uh but the live lessons are super important and um some of our Math teachers are doing that at this point in time um and a critical piece that that we added to our team this year is a K5 interventionist um I personally am grateful because we are able to give um time to our K5 students which traditionally was a tier one platform
028so now we have an interventionist on staff who's able to work with those students regularly through Google me um with the hopes of giving them better tools for not just better uh testing data but better skill set so when the time comes that maybe they want to transition into brick and M school they're better prepared thank you thank you good afternoon everybody Brian Andrews Indian Trails um so in in general our goals for our school Improvement plan are to maintain or increase in all of our academic areas um and I think the big thing that we're proud of this year is that currently right now all the data is trending in the right direction um some highlights our uh seventh grade reading is up from pm1 to pm2 uh % um and then our students
029with disabilities for math in 8th grade is up 11% from pm1 to pm2 um Civics is up 6% from uh last year and science is up 5% from last year um but one of the biggest pieces that we attribute the success to is our uh ongoing focus in our Mustang success class that's our intervention time that we have daily and we have strategically scheduled students into their um grade level and area of focus um specifically um eighth graders would take an enrichment for eighth grade science as the testing um required for eighth grader um seventh graders would take a Civics enrichment and then students that are needing additional support would be placed with a a math or an Ela teacher um and seems to be working so far car cross buddy Taylor Middle School um
030our Focus continues to be our students with disabilities we saw a great increase last year on the federal index um we're hoping that that is going to continue to Trend and get us to 47% um right now in math 21% of our students were with disabilities increased the level and 65% demonstrated growth from pm1 to pm2 in ela we had 20% that increased the level with 60% showing growth um for our 8th grade math cohort our math proficiency Rose from 135% at pm1 to 30% at pm2 which is exciting because that's about where that cohort left at the end of last year so they've already met that um our Ela proficiency improved from 133% to 36% and we're excited our students who are intensive reading students um 9% of them have already um scored a
031level three or higher and 20% have scored at least a level two which is exciting so I see your you're reporting your numbers as um moving based upon the median is that is that across the board everybody's is comparative to the median or were you guys using a mean average proficiency you're saying yeah uh so buddy Taylor is saying that 56% met or exceeded typical median growth as opposed to mean growth so I was just wondering they they specifically labeled that so is that across the board is it because to overcome outliers that was based on a new a new piece of State information that we received so that's why we plugged that in for that but you can see at the bottom we're looking at okay so I was just and I just wanted
032to be able to interpret we're all using median or average okay thank you I I just mine was percent students percent overall okay thank you percentage for students per think that was Elementary specifically was the doe released the document in January that based on where student tested in pm1 what the median growth Statewide was between pm1 and pm2 and pm1 and pm3 and they compared all of our students to those growth points oh I like that so overall you're not only taking a look at your own growth but you're comparing it to the growth of the state and so you know the nation's report card came out and everything so how um since you've already done that exercise where where's buddy Taylor sitting we we we're sitting in a good spot we were excited that
033we were meeting that meeting GR in most most of our areas there were a couple that we were not which um I think was seventh grade ELA um so but we're still focusing on you know what can we do to get better what can we keep this momentum going with and some things that we're doing is like schoolwise viral reviews um that are consistent and that our literacy coach and curriculum Specialists are creating so um also that strategic scheduling during Eagle advisory um some of our teachers like with math it's very fluid so they'll pull students in be testing them remediating them on standards once they've got those standards they're moving them out and they're moving different students in based upon the needs so that's how we're trying to move keep moving forward thanks for
034that I'm Bobby bardette from flly with Palm Coast High School uh the two goals that we're going to talk about just obviously improving ESC student performance and Ela is a major Focus for us um we are extremely excited that our midyear data showed significant progress in this area um our ESC Ela proficiency increased from 9% to 19% so we're moving towards our 22% goal um we've broken down our P pm2 data to help develop targeted intervention plans um which include differentiate small group instruction our teachers are super excited about our Lexia PowerUp it's providing our teachers with the data needed to determine student progress and improve individualized instruction with each of those students so all these factors are driving our student growth at FPC our next step include updated student intervention at list and we
035are very excited and and thankful to the district because they just approved additional tutoring opportunities uh that will be starting after spring break specifically for students with disabilities that have been identified through this um the other goal that I wanted to touch up on is our acceleration and graduation rate uh the data that we received in December gave us an acceleration rate of 47% uh for the class of 2324 our goal is to increase that by 5% with the class of 2025 um action steps we are having quarterly meetings with our CTE AP and all of our CTE where our CTE curriculum Specialists and all of our teachers and that's been going really well uh they're all discussing the needs and barriers to Industry tests and are currently in the process of developing individualized teacher
036planning because we got to really focus on that of all the things that we have offering our AP potential list continues to be utilized but we still require further execution we're going to try to develop list to identify kids that have not received uh a point in this area moving forward um we are really excited about the new plans that we have for our OJT and our DCT and our SLS classes because this is going to give our kids not only an opportunity for to earn that acceleration piece but these are also a group of kids that may not know exactly what they want to do um so we've put a lot of emphasis on what that looks like to prepare for those tests and we've increased the number of offerings that we have for
037that one of the barriers that we have for that right now is we had a teacher relocate um in that area but we're very excited because we are in the process of onboarding right now to take that place that's great excent no questions for Mr sa them all for you okay hi I'm Christ Tas high school so just GNA highlight two of our areas um first being the College and Career acceleration so we are very proud that we increased our College and Career acceleration rate by five percentage points um this is a tricky one to put on your school Improvement plan because it's a lagging indicator so by the time we had written on our school Improvement plan that group of kids had already graduated but we view this as a two-year goal at our
038school so we're pleased with our work from last year and we continue it this year um our counselors worked really diligently over the summer to ensure that all of our 12th graders are sitting in a class in their senior year that gives them the opportunity to potentially earn that acceleration point in their senior year so we do expect and anticipate that the we'll see a significant increase once we get the graduation rate for this year's seniors we also added a 10th grade course that's going to let some of our 10th graders start to take a bite of that um a little bit earlier on so we're um cautiously optimistic about that one and excited about the result results we already have um also looking at focusing on improving the performance of our students with disabilities
039um looking at our midyear data um I want to give a shout out to Scott Reynolds because um just looking through all of these I'm seeing a lot of the data that's on here and I know where it came from which is this fabulous spreadsheet that Scott provided for a lot of us um and in particular it helped because he broke down last year where our students were on their midterm assessments which is District assessments or state assessments and then compared that with where we are this year which is helpful perspective to know are we you know we know where we ended the year last year so how do we feel like we're doing for this year so from metanis looking at our students with disabilities we're really pleased um our students with disabilities are
040running ahead of where they were last year except in two areas that's helpful because now we know where we need to focus the second half of the year so for us that was geometry and 10th grade English um it's notable that we did have teaching vacancies in our ESC staff in those areas it's probably not a coincidence um so now that we have those positions filled we're really going to focus on those areas in particular with our math science coach for the second semester um we're very pleased because our algebra for our students with disabilities was actually up 25 percentage points compared to last year um and that's where we had a consistent teaching staff consistent ESC staff so we feel optimistic um we feel like the strategies that we've put in place um are
041working and now that we have all of those positions filled we feel really good about making a run here second semester awes just to clarify with your supporting data when you say like for example for math um pm2 27 is that percentage or those yes so that's right now that's students with disabilities yes compared to last year or no uh oh okay year over year so it's a different group of students that you're comparing what's the um what's the comparison to pm1 though I don't have we don't have a well it would be District that um I don't have that on hand I can get that to you yeah that would be awesome to take a look and see that you know the growth from the beginning of the year we have it for ELA
042because the state of course gives that assessment Apples to Apples to see yeah super thank you good any other questions no I just like to make a quick comment um I think some a common theme that I continue to hear too uh seems like is individualized coaching things of that nature and I think that goes into parts of how important it is for like our PA professional and things of that nature and the lack thereof that we have to be honest with you and I just want to recognize the the work that I know that put that you all put into this but the teachers who were doing this day in and day out to make these numbers happen and to show the growth that we're doing also as a district trying to find ways
043to really focus on what I've heard you all say today is individualized coaching small groups and how do we do that how how do we do that better because it seems like to me that's areas that we need to be focused on as a board and as as a district because that's going to make some big differences as we move forward and trying to get to where we want to be as a district so again thank you all for what you do and I want to reiterate that to our teachers that are doing this day in and day out too thank you very much yes thank you all for com any other upates on this agenda item we do not and um we we do um ask that they be allowed to return back to
044their respective locations I'm sure they would love to just stay here with us the rest of the evening but um we appreciate them and their time and um we can't wait to see all that they continue to accomplish over the year thanks for not giving up you guys are I mean it's you guys are awesome good [Music] J how many you nobody's sitting in you're s you're leaving and that's your seat so just leave it here okay so now we will move on to 7.01 uh special leave application still that good afternoon chairman board member superintendent I am here to share with you um a unique leave of absence that we don't come across often um we have uh one of our outstanding Chiefs that uh um is uh going on the operations version of
045a spaical to go hiping the appal agent Trail um for a good cause and um uh through a special veterans group um this is the first of what you would see for two U leave of absences since it crosses the fiscal year uh this portion of leave absence would take him through um mid-march until July 1st then I will see you again in June as long as is uh God willing he's still hiking um and um we would uh process a second part so what is the plan to provide support for his duties um while he is enjoying the trail he's agreed to take a phone and talk you know Google me I think they got Wi-Fi on that trail myself and the other Chiefs along with u Mr San filipo are to just spread
046out some um the great thing is that uh operations does have some amazing directors and so those directors will continue to lead um their areas and then um myself and the um Chiefs and Mr San filipo we're going to SP spread out and we will divide and identify areas specific areas that we will oversee while in his absence yeah yeah and U you know the day-to-day initial contacts we've sat down and kind of cobbled out the division of Duties so a lot of the day-to-day initial conf contacts may come through me and then I'd Farm out to the different folks is kind of the the thought process we initially worked on and uh it's a fluid and uh like you know Miss Moore said um none of our our directors are are newbies they they
047are you know well versed in what they have going on in the Departments so um we're in good this does bring up a interesting point especially with um uh another another turnover that we've had releas recently is a progression plan right um I know that you've have some in place for let's say like your role and and other things but do we have progression plans for those critical roles yes uh as far as succession plans when when folks are are are headed off to you know greener pastures either retirements or or or they're leaving um we do have you know those kind of pieces of the puzzle this is a unique situation uh where we didn't want to uh have our directors take the eyes off of of their particular departments in this case as
048we kind of you know uh finish the year move forward um so uh um in for example my department um I have uh two folks that are willing to step up and jump into it and uh and I say most of the Departments of Finance for example has the same kind of um you know succession plan okay I think some of those to prepare them to take over when that time comes for them as well when hopefully that H you know doesn't happen but you know it does prepare them for what the future lies ahead of them but I do think she brings a great point of having that succession planning for you I know we talked about that in the past of making sure that we're able to feel these critical positions all the
049way from the county office but you know more important how we're going to fill these teacher positions as well too and and um just specifically to the to this role um we have very very capable individuals that I do believe would be able to step up but when we look at the the the larger picture of um some other moving pieces that we had um we have happening um for us it was best that we disrupt as little as possible people in in in their roles and so what we are um asking for our directors to do um like they are currently doing is to lead at the highest level possible in their area and then um Mr ulette he will come in and support from there and then the rest of us myself along
050with um Dr O'Brien Marcus sppo and the other Chiefs we will have specific areas that we will also be able to support if they need a little bit more handson um one of the things I've shared um I'm sure with each of you is that this organization have we have experienced a lot of U turnover over the years and so we're working extremely hard to make sure we have standard operating procedures in place um for for our departments and our way of work as well as to um really build up our secession planning so that when positions become available those individuals within our organization are able to step up and assume those roles and so um lots of mov in pieces when we have amazing Chiefs um that have been doing this work for the
051name of education for a very long time um we we thought it was best for for this that we don't disrupt as much as possible right now um but we look forward towards the future as to what um will um the next chief of operations look like who would be the next chief of um you know any other department or the next director and all of that so lots of moving pieces especially this time of year and so we may come back to you um well we it wouldn't be coming back this way we will be communicating with you as a board as we end the year if we begin to shift and go into a different direction to say we're going to elevate one person to kind of take it um for the start
052of the year we would be communicating that to you but for this first half of the St to close out the year it's going to be us spreading out and making sure we we continue to great work that is happening operations that makes sense so uh one area that's super important for uh his role is keeping an eye on the developers the mitigation plans and stuff so is that going to be centralized with one person or are you spreading that out and so we actually have a planner um that is H and you will have an opportunity to meet that individual I think tonight at the at the meeting tonight uh she will be available and presenting her first piece so now Mr Freeman is he is now in the supporting role of that person
053who that's their main piece so you'll have an opportunity to meet her tonight as she begins coming before you and bringing those um um forward and she's very experienced so um I just in the brief interactions I've had it's like she's a wealth of knowledge and and you know comes from uh a place where she's been doing this for a little while good yeah and uh I don't know if it was mentioned but just for the benefit of the public that this request for leave is without pay correct well it yes well he will exhaust benefits um and then then it will go without pay so you know we all get a benefit package and so he has leave time and sick time and um according to Schoolboard policy you exhaust your your your leave
054time and then you go uh without passion right okay thanks for that any other questions than okay thank you okay so that moves us on to 10.01 school safety coordinate compliance record and that is me in the transition and so um state statute does require that the superintendent and the board be briefed on um non-compliance of of our safety uh laws and rules uh I would like to inform you that this year and our last quarter quarter two report uh we did have three schools inspected by the state of Florida um office of safe schools um which is 30% of our schools um all three of those um schools were 100% in compliance so we do not have any deficiencies um noted for those um uh compliance uh reviews those schools were Wadsworth buddy Taylor
055belte elementary school we will come back before you again and provide another upate um for you each quarter thank you job any other questions on this agenda item okay uh well then that now moves us to uh public comment is there anybody signed up I didn't think so so uh we will close public comment uh and we will now move to 13.01 uh board member requests are there any board member requests this time a couple okay you want to go first oh go ahead are you sure yeah go ahead good um no just something Miss uh superintendent more and I talked about and I believe she also talked to Miss Ramirez about um I don't know if I want to call it like Town Hall but all each of us making the time to be
056present at our schools like specifically setting time and coordinating with our principles so that we can be available to teachers and staff um not everybody wants to send an email or um you know come to speak at a meeting but um just setting aside time where we can each just be there to just say what are your concerns come talk to us we we want to communicate with you and um and be on your level so just kind of wanted to put that out there um and see how we can kind of coordinate that um just make it easy you know maybe even just bringing donuts and I'm here in the cafeteria you know come talk to me you know you know we've had several board members that have wanted to go out and what
057I just uh suggest um to um Miss Chong um as we were discussing it to say let's bring it up let's you know if the board is interested in doing it even if everyone isn't let's just identify a structure that we would put in place so that we can communicate um that out and move forward with that I you know I recommend that you would go and be be available at the schools that you um are assigned for your liaison um and and set that up again it doesn't have to be organized and um organized through me I just want to be able to communicate to our leaders what to exp yeah I think that's great encouragement um but again we we have that individual ability without any structure if there was any uh U
058procedure to put into place for um if the for setting up if the school if if a group of teachers want to meet with a board member for a specific thing maybe something along those lines and then the the district would coordinate with our schedules for specific meetings I that could be a good way to to do that but making yourselves available I think that that just is a a given we we we we no we we are present there but this is just I just kind of wanted to collectively just say you know let's make some time available to teachers and staff um so they know that we're here absolutely absolutely so um what what I will do I will communicate to um the schools that this is something that will likely happen over
059the course of the um the uh this last quarter of this last um quarter of the school school year as we move into a fourth quarter and and what I ask is the day that you're you're going to go whenever you select that day if you could keep lorine breast of that so that we have that um on the calendar just let her know which date but we will communicate this to our school leaders um at our leadership meeting on next week I appreciate that um second thing is I know we've briefly talked about Guardian but just kind of wanted to know where we're at with bringing that information and I know you've had staff changes as well and I don't think public understands that but um so as of right now one of the
060things that we're really waiting on as discussed is our um third calculation to identify the dollars that are available um to us that um really is going to guide a lot of the work that we needed to do initially um for Staffing um for some of our bargaining person um uh bargaining um um areas and so we will continue to bring Guardian forward so the next steps with guardan Guardian would be for this team to go back into executive session um to um discuss Guardian um again um the board has submitted some questions that you have around guardian we will compile those questions and then we will have executive session that will be inclusive of um time with our our Sheriff's Office um that's where we are with Guardian I think that it's something that's
061still moving um our executive sessions just the um bargaining piece took priority as those were just um time sensitive in making sure that we could continue to move forward the operations that we needed to move forward so I would say right now with um guardian we will definitely get that schedule right now we're just trying to make sure that we can we can wrap up our compensation and our bargaining um related to Insurance um as well for our staff m m okay um and yeah so on my list it's the town hall stuff um and I think it's just a different opportunity you know there all the campuses are having lots of events and I I know a lot of us are trying to go to them but I think it may be it like
062something new for parents or staff or students because the students they when you introduce yourself and they're they're like oh you're the school board member like they kind of like wait is this cool you know they just I think they have things they want to say I think this will be great um so I'm I'm glad you know if we can start doing that and then obviously Communications team I think it would be really nice to involve them more with if we're going to do that just communicating that I'd like to see that communicated more with like I know the social media that they do I know we do a really good job on that but um just more of that um so yeah so that same exact thing on my list and then I
063wanted to see if we could follow back up with the master Schoolboard training because the deadline's coming up and I know we we're going to talk about it at the potential retreat but that date is unknown now and um just to kind of remind everybody we need at least three school board members to be on board it's 20 hours within 12 months so I think it would be very doable I've been to you know I went to the training last week in Stark I just keep hearing such great things and what it can do for not like the board but the community um you go through a really great training you get acknowledged by the state so I think it would be great so just to address I actually have right here in front of
064me the masterboard signup sheet so I I know that there was one floating around uh earlier that I think we did get I think it's online learning so uh this this was handed to me today um Miss Lor so you need to get everybody's signature on this one right so if you areed if you're interested in participating so I have it here so just come see me at the end of the meeting and see who signs on yep so just want to remind everyone because I know we were going to try to do the retreat date but now we don't know the date and this deadline's coming up so if we're going to do it I don't want to miss the opportunity thanks for sharing that I have a couple of requests um I would
065like us to um develop uh and make transparent the process being that we're in school choice right now if in this year or in a future year that there is um uh the number of applicants for a particular School exceeds their capacity to accept um that number that we make it clear what the decision criteria is then uh and and make transparent that rubric to decide well what from that group uh we can honor the school choice request from um so that's one item the next it item is and I'm not sure if this would be are you are you um asking about specifically um if we were to have to get to a lottery um system for Choice yes I I would like to make sure that essentially what is the protocol if we
066have an extra number of it of applicants than capacity um that it is advertised that it is made transparent that that process is as public as it can be absolutely you can definitely bring that forward uh the next item is that when we Workshop items and then we take them to the school board meeting to vote on them um I would like us uh or the information that had been modified in the interim to be highlighted and or called out specifically um uh in order to make more efficient the review for those changes that maybe we've discussed at the workshop or other items that changed just organically um but really make that highlighted um so that it's very clear when that new agenda comes out for the school board meeting and those votes need to
067take place may I ask a clarified question um so there's a presentation here we're at the agenda meeting um the board has given some directions for some changes to be made we take note of those changes you're asking that at the 6:00 meeting prior to you voting on it we just make public this has been Workshop um since that meeting we have done these things that you asked us to do at at that agenda where there are items um and I can share with you that have perhaps changed that were not at a workshop item or an agenda meeting specifically so any changes yeah uh the other item is obviously the universal screener I would like a uh some proposals for what that model would look like for um the gifted students as um as
068well as recommendations on uh research-based curriculum uh as opposed to enrichment which has a broad um definition um and the last item is that I would like us to designate a a team member uh uh on on the leadership uh for the district um to be set as the um um the the designated individual to work with the amp president and to create the clear processes expectations and and profile of students who would be best served for that program uh there seems to be uh as we pick up from Co and we get back into this uh swing of things there's maybe some um different understanding of the program its utilization as well as being able to efficiently process those requests ensure that that's happening consistently between the schools and I can make that much
069more specific if we we can definitely have um have those conversation I will tell you um two individuals that are point of contact for amp at the district level um Marcus San filipo Marcus San filipo supports any um organization that is coming into our our school um so Marcus sanfilipo and then Mr John Finelli out of student services those are the points um of contact for um amp specifically um uh few few years ago I mean few is relative um but um several years ago we did have a different um structure set up um with with am and other programs um we had individuals within the organization that did have much more of a lift in some of their um organizational clerical items um and uh many years ago the district began to shift that
070to say you know here here's our role in um this relationship and here's your role in this relationship and I know that many organizations are still um recovering from that and and saying you know well in the past you know there was a person who did all of these things um for us and now that person is no longer here because a lot of it has shifted and so um we can definitely make sure that um those those two gentlemen reach out um to the president of amp to make sure that they have what they need and we have some consistency um across schools and then you and I can also um speak for any details that I need to need to know along with that we do need to have that um the website
071updated um it still has old contacts and it doesn't have the clear um um process information and so that would be super helpful like just for our community who want to participate we'll definitely do that awesome thank you I just have one that's Mr bars um is today's um presentations by the schools I thought was very helpful I'm not saying that we have to have bring all nine of them in here like that but I would like to see maybe have some sort of presentation or some one of the schools to come in at least kind of talk a little bit about what they're doing um when it comes to uh some of their strategic goals and things of that nature just to get a better understand I know we all try to go to
072their school as many schools as we can and learn from them um but I think that's helpful not only for me personally but also think it's good for the community to be able to see this and the things that are going the challenges that they have um from the good and the bad um so I'm not sure exactly what that looks like right now but I thought today was very helpful in looking at kind of the progress that we're making and to highlight that again you know the positive and the negative thank you okay so that uh concludes board member request so we'll move on to closing comments do you have anything I'll save everything for tonight thank you everyone for all your work anybody else have any closing comments okay well then uh just
073again thank staff for uh all their efforts today and our uh wonderful principles that came today we're really grateful for their presentation and um just uh it just to add on to the availability I I just want all of our uh schools to know um our teachers our support staff that if you uh would like me or anyone to to come to the school for for for any reason uh just feel free to reach out because uh we will we will make time available for you and um you know uh you can do it through the district office or you can contact us directly however you feel um you'd like to do that so and super tend Mar do you have anything to close today uh see you tonight all right all right this meeting
074is adjourned