001thrive in the present and carrying a powerful legacy for generations into the future with this acknowledgement the creighton school district formally recognizes that the traditional care in keeping of these lands by indigenous people is an aspirational model of community stewardship that we are committed to honor with practices policy and human relations all right who can i make through the pledge of allegiance i will ask um new principal mccaleb to do the honors tonight pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all so tonight in attendance i have myself heather ayers we have mr campos and miss mccaleb we are missing ms mcsheffrey and miss creo doll we want to welcome everyone to tonight's meeting
002and remind the audience of the request to address board cards that must be completed and submitted to the board secretary if they wish to speak to an agenda item board policy provides for two cards white cards to be submitted in order to speak to an agenda item and blue cards to be submitted in order to speak during public comments due to the open meeting law board members are not allowed to address items that are not on the agenda hilda do we have any okay i have none either so we are going to move into approval agenda i move the governing board approve the agenda as presented i second all those in favor aye aye aye superintendent and board report dr lewis well good evening everybody back to the beginning of august it's our welcome back
003week it always just sends chills up the back of my scalp to see everybody i know how excited we are to see our 90 new teachers 90 new teachers we added 130 positions this year and it is unbelievable to me the amount of work that's gone on by our hr department i know we still have 15 to fill but we've added 130 positions and so i just can't get over it i want to thank all the teachers who are preparing for a role change and some leadership shifts and interventions and supports with our kiddos who still need intensive support but they're going to help us make sure those classrooms get started off so thank you to our principals for their passionate efforts to hire and make sure our schools are ready thank you so much
004for plan b and plan c as we make sure we move and adjust schedules in anticipation of getting each and every position filled but a big thank you to dr lugo please [Applause] uh i also want to thank and say that we in our in our 90 new teachers in our welcome back uh uh orientation called camp creighton uh gina uh clark just deserves a major round of applause along with all of michelle's team the cni team did an amazing job yes and these teachers know what we're about they know that we're about adventurous thinking collaborative learning and kind-hearted leadership and they saw it on many levels as they unpacked their curriculum and prepared for their pedagogy to work enthusiastically with our students and seeing where our students are and starting authentically with where they
005are there was just tremendous excitement in the room we also loved working hand in glove and in partnership with cea as they hosted a lunch for us on the first day and we really appreciate the creighton education association and they had a gift day at the last day and they had t-shirts and a bunch of guests that came it was really fun to see the collaboration there we have our big welcome back rally tomorrow at the shriners it's been two years since we've gathered together in person i went there today to feel the room and i was just jittery with happiness it was so bizarre to envision six to eight hundred people together being happy to be together and excited about a school year that we we anticipate just going beautifully while we focus on
006our kids learning and i want to say thank you to the sponsors who have helped fund the food and the use of the facility and and we're going to just enjoy great speakers some awards uh i i know on hell i hope you'll be there for the invocation um and i know lindsay you're gonna stop by in the morning are you able to stop by great so we'll have everybody at least stop by and sophia's gonna read our first uh land acknowledgement at the at the welcome back rally so just a lot of wonderful shifts happening i also um want to go a little bit into the summer we had almost a thousand kids participate in summer school this year that deserves a huge round of applause in the past we've just had 130 at
007max usually we focused on our third graders trying to get their reading up to snuff we were so grateful for the number of teachers who wanted to work and the principals and all the staff who made the building facilities available uh i want to thank our cleaning team our super cleaning teams who are short staffed scott thank you to your team the buildings are looking marvelous and i know we're short staff like every industry but you guys are doing an amazing job to get our schools ready thank you so much to scott and the facilities team i want to also thank our nutritious nutrition service they had meals all summer long and our bus drivers and transportation team partnered beautifully with our food nutrition team to get food into the homes and bellies of our
008kids and and families we had a little bit of a surprise with our nutrition federal program this end of this summer and we're going to talk more about that later but we're making sure that every family who qualifies does qualify for free and or reduced lunch i've got to try to make the paperwork as seamless as possible i also want to acknowledge that we continue to enroll kids every single school is saying yes as any and every kid walks in the door there is no we're full there is no the fourth grade is full every single one of us is opening our doors for the enrollment and i think mackin just took in 20 more last week is that right 20 more last week congratulations we're going to keep those kids coming in i know
009that this summer we had 80 teachers working on our design studio so thank you curriculum team for getting those 80 teachers together who will share the wealth of their excellent expertise and really learning about our math adoption and then any of the details we were able to work on our literacy program i also want to introduce you and thank you to our creighton education foundation another 501c3 partnership that we have that is part of the creighton family also that is already just jumping off the cliff with hopefully a parachute uh offering two events coming up they're gonna have their kickoff august 18th and they're going to have a fundraising bowling event november 3rd so we're grateful that the creighton education foundation has begun the funds that they're going to generate are going to offer classroom
010grants to teachers just to get the kinds of things teachers want in their classroom for adventurous learning off the ground uh and then uh let me make sure i've done all of my yep yep yep okay and then if you see a beam in the room that's bigger than mine a smile that's bigger than mine it's right down here congratulations to lindsay for being selected as the principal of the virtual learning program in the bald school [Applause] um yes i'm a principal as of today i signed a contract so i'm super excited also because i am a board member who taught here and actually did my principal internship in the creighton school district i'm thankful to my previous leaders some of which are here in the audience who mentored me to get to this point
011so i really appreciate it um and i'm super excited um enough about me welcome back tomorrow to all the teachers and um it was really great to stop by the new teach orientation last week made me kind of laugh because some of the decorations i made like five years ago are still there pinterest for the win um but it was really great to see everybody see the energy and see all all of the teams and current creighton staff who made that possible we really appreciate it um we know that that that first day that first impression for those new teachers goes a long way to assuage their their anxieties and and to make them feel welcome so um and then tomorrow yes i hope i'm gonna stop by and then run out the door because
012i have to go to my job as well but um very excited to all of our teachers in creighton welcome back welcome back we are so excited to start the new school year and that's all i have thank you thank you mr kayla's mr compost hello i'm happy for you really happy for you and are excited for the for the new school year that is just about to begin uh i was watching a movie with my children yesterday and it's called the terminal i haven't seen it before from 2004 it has to do with immigration a guy who arrives new york and the same day that he arrives he wasn't looking for a silo he wasn't looking for refugee he was just trying to to go and get a a card like his father before
013he died he left him a car to be signed by a a jazz player and and he just wanted to go in and to new york and get designed and go back to his country however the very same the day before that when he was flying there was a uh uh a war started in his country the president was killed and his country disappeared so his passport and everything was good for nothing he couldn't come he couldn't be deported because his country did not exist and he couldn't be accepted because he's his country wasn't but he was from nowhere it it was very funny it was a romantic movie also me and my children were watching it and as you know we work with migrants and and uh my kid said that everything that is
014going on is ridiculous i go uh to me it's very normal to see that i see that everywhere i see that everywhere a young a family coming with a 17 year old minor and dude because they were kidnapped in mexico by the time he crossed the border he became 18 the very next day that he came in so he gets deported and the family gets in things like that so uh it was very touching to see my children watch the movie they liked the romance in the movie i have my daughter who has a boyfriend in the world like age watching you get a vibe don't get too romantic and anyways uh uh it's amazing and it just reminds us reminds us when when we were taking the pledge of allegiance and and uh and
015every time i do after i became a u.s citizen in 2016 before i do it because they will do it in the school i will do it i memorized it but it did not have that much of a meaning other than i have i know by memory the mexican one the mexican one i did for years in mexico you don't know the rest but i do and but when i became a us citizen and and then i started doing it in a different way it has more meaning to me and then when we went to new york it was a few uh in june and we we got a boat that goes right there by the oh yes my kids go why are you crying that i go i don't know i thought i've been
016telling that uh the pledge of allegiance ever since i've been looking at that lady and he goes around it and i keep on saying it because i i really embrace especially the last part the liberty and justice for all and and uh i just wanted to say that because uh i don't know when when we were doing that right now i said man he's like if i was it wasn't only the the the banner right there but i could see the statue of liberty because that's exactly what what it means to me it means to be in a nation that many many were born here and sometimes oversee the real meaning of being in a free country and i just want you to know that we live in africa beautiful free country and and i
017congratulate you for being born in this country i'm a naturalized u.s citizen and i already enjoy it and love it thank you mr compost um miss creo dahl is not here tonight but she has written um her boar report so hilda will be reading it tonight okay this message is from miss korea doll evening hey y'all first i want to thank all of you for sacrificing your time during election day i am disappointed we did not think about this beforehand i am absent today because i take our civic engagement seriously many things such as public education funding voucher expansions abortion rights and many more things that directly impact creighton's community are at stake and i am out in the community translating giving rides and door knocking today to make sure our community has the opportunity
018to have their voice heard in this primary election as president it is an honor to serve and today that is exactly what i am doing serving our community i want to give an update on the welcome back rally i attended with cea which is our teachers union in the district to all new or returning teachers there is nothing more powerful than a union it is the best way to bargain and negotiate when you feel you are not being heard join cea and i want to make it clear that cea is a part of creighton and they should never be seen or made feel like an outside organization i denounce any treatment of that sort cea is a part of us and our family and its advocacy is imperative to our district lastly i am so
019happy to see everyone back i know my kids are eager to go back to be with their friends and not be stuck at home thank you to all the staff for getting everything ready for them and can't wait to start going to the schools and welcoming our kiddos and community back i also want to remind all staff we have a partnership with go with the flow any teacher counselor or staff member who needs menstrual products in their classroom nurses office or wherever please make sure to let us know if you are getting nowhere email me we have free menstrual products for all student staff in the community in the u.s one in five students misses school due to a lack of access to menstrual products that is insane we have created a solution and have
020free menstrual products that is what the reproductive justice framework looks like at an elementary school age level and i am proud creighton leads in this aspect have an amazing first week back i'll see you all around soon sophia career adults thank you hoda welcome everyone um our schedule usually comes out in february for board meetings so i think it was overlooked that this was an election night and hopefully in november it does not fall on a tuesday um so we can change that beforehand i want to thank everyone all the new teachers at the new teacher in luncheon it was fabulous to see people and it was nice to see that a few teachers that would actually return they just love it so much here that was that was awesome um i serve in two
021capacities when i go to this event because i am a union leader and i am a board member so um i got to speak at the beginning and then i got to go join mac and table and got most of them signed up um and then um joined afterwards the oc our oc jeff is um really good and we had a lot of help there a lot of help and most of the executive team was there and afterwards we always talk about you know ways that we can improve and so i'm sure the executive team will take that into consideration on how we can improve next year thank you cea for hosting this the delicious food i love that that taco place you guys i got food from i go there all the time and
022it was so great that we support local i'm looking forward to the rally tomorrow i also have my rally tomorrow um but now i get out of doing our walk so i don't know if you guys know but in isaac we do this like walk in the morning and we take like door flyers and have to like leave it at the kids places like their houses to make sure they know school is coming and it's like the worst thing every year because it's so hot um and the dogs are always after us so it's it's just like i was like oh i have to miss it tomorrow because i have to go be a board member so i'm really excited about going to the rally tomorrow um and then i just want to say um
023this year i've decided to have a theme in my classroom i normally don't but i think it's just so important that i've seen lately of just to be kind and i think if being kind is something that you can do that i think that your kids in your classroom and your schools will turn out to be the best that they can be so thank you all right approval of consent um i move the governing board approve consent agenda items i'm going to pull n is anybody you mean oh i think no i think it's internet is it the landscaping yeah is it n no it's oh sorry i'm going to be pulling o not n um is anybody else wanting to pull before no okay so um i move that the governing board approved consent
024and gen agenda items a through n and then p and q in accordance with policy b-e-d-b-e second all those in favor aye all right so oh um i just had a question on this one um i just wanted to know more about um about this particular one mr man if you can explain it a little bit yeah madam president members of the board this is outsourced services for things like mowing weed treatment bush trimming small trees up to eight feet we typically have a team of four landscapers we currently have one we also have some additional needs as dr lewis alluded to in her board report we're short on our custodial side of the house and so in order to try to meet the needs of the district and maintain we're bringing this item forward
025you know the amount is always if you if you look at the line under the amount in the board item it always says these commodities and commodities and services will be purchased on an as needed if needed basis so this is you know to make sure we're covered for the year but if we are able to get our staffing levels back up or something else changes we certainly won't procure services beyond what we need we just want to make sure that we're in a position to not have an interruption in service as we move forward so okay thank you there was also a question by another board member not here tonight just to kind of put it out there was any of this going to go towards our gardening efforts and this is not to
026be confused with that uh so i just want to clarify yeah this is our standard maintenance of facilities mow the lawns and tree branches okay which is also a safety concern too so all right thank you then i move revenue the governing board approve oh second all those in favor aye aye all right um it looks like we are up to the resolution okay so i moved the governing board adoptive resolution approving the governing board's argument in support of this special maintenance and operation budget override election second oh i was supposed to read it huh was i supposed to read it do i need to read it well you may read it just because it's in the title but then if you want um mr man to go over anything or if you guys why
027don't you read it yeah i'll read it i i put on there that i was going to read it all right the creighton school district governing board has called for a 15 maintenance and operations override election to be held november 8 2022. the governing board is encouraged to submit a pro statement for the election pamphlet the deadline for such statements is august 12th attached is a copy of the resolution that includes a draft which we got based on the statement used in the successful 2018 maintenance and operations override in addition to the resolution of reviewing the statement um the certificated meeting for the pro statement is also attached so we got the pro statement which goes into the voting guide correct yeah it would go in the in the voting guide along with um up
028to nine other pro statements and up to ten con statements if any are submitted all right thank you does it does any other board member have any questions we need a motion in a second do i read that again did she made the motion i mean the governing board okay then we can get a second okay second all those in favor aye aye okay yes we are at educational services state test corps so we have a new test and uh and it's been vetted to some degree by the state department and we're going to have a team of people share with you how we did on this first administration of this new test so really quickly this is kind of a longer report right so if you have any questions i i would encourage you
029to ask while we're doing this just because it's long [Laughter] good evening members of the governing board it's a pleasure to share with you this evening um our test score passage rates we're con conversing this evening about the passing rates what we've learned so far uh in this the first year of the new assessment so michelle he could give us the next slide we all lived through the context of last year so just some key points that we want to highlight about last year's work are that we as you know we're continuing to focus on the safety family connections needs and continuous enrollment with our children and their families we were impacted by pandemic related staff shortages as well as student absences and we learned that we learned how to utilize the ade's new testing
030platform which was implemented spring and we are aware that our aggregate passage rates are lower than those aggregates statewide however despite those challenges creighton's overall increase in passage rates from 2021 to 2020 to 2022 was greater than the increases across the state overall which suggests or indicates that our students were able to grow in most grade levels at most every school at a rate faster than their peers statewide which is encouraging news for us as we think about our action steps for the coming year so we're going to summarize those increases as well as any areas where there were challenge dr berg and then our principals are going to come up and share a brief a bit of the insights gathered at their schools dr berg good evening governing board executive team thank you so
031much for the opportunity to share this with you this evening um i'm going to go ahead and just jump right in so um as you can see um here on this slide um what we are trying to show is we are that um we have our english language arts scores district-wide it's their passage rates so how many students passed um this state test and then the change um by grade level and by change how how did how to what degree um was the passage rates either higher or lower than the previous year um so in general the district-wide passage rates increased from the previous passage rates in most of our grade levels in grades three four seven and eight there was an increase of passage rates of five percent or more and in grades five
032and six those passage rates were relatively stable meaning that the change from the previous year was minimal in mathematics district-wide passage rates what the increased from the previous year as well in most of our grade levels in grades three four and eight there was an increase of passage rates of more than five of five percent or more and in grades six and seven those rates were relatively stable on this slide you can see the english language arts school level passage rates and their changes from the previous year on this slide we've also included district-wide passage rates and changes as well as the state level passage rates and changes for comparison as you can see all of our schools passage rates increased from the previous year's passage rates while the change in passage rates in a
033in arizona remained relatively stable as compared to the previous year creighton's passage rate increased by five percent additionally in six of our nine schools the passage rates increased by five percent or more over the previous year on this page you'll notice that it says n a for crane virtual academy because creighton virtual academy was in their first year we do not have a previous year to compare to therefore we don't have that change on this slide we show the mathematics school level passage rates and changes again we've also included the district wide and the statewide changes for comparison again all of at most nearly all of our schools um passage rates increased from the previous year and overall creighton's the district's passage rates increased by six percent in six of our nine schools the increase
034of passage rates was equal to or greater than the state change in passage rates over the previous year and additionally two of our schools increases and passage rates were greater than 10 percent again creighton virtual academy does not have previous years as a comparison i think it's always nice to have a visual right sometimes it can kind of take a look at it in a different way so on this slide we're using a line graph to compare the percentages of change in passage rates from 2001 to 2022 sorry 2001 2021 to 2022. um the yellow line represents creighton and the blue line represents the state so in english language arts which is the slide to the left you can see that most of our grade levels the yellow line floats between three and six percentage
035points above the blue line this means that our district's increase in passage rates from the previous year was greater than that of the states at those grade levels when the state's change in passage rates is greater than ours you will see that that blue line intersects the yellow line um you can see an example of this in sixth grade where our passage region rates in english language arts were um where the state's change and passage rates were was greater than ours at that grade level in mathematics in grades three seven and eight the yellow line floats between three and nine percentage higher rates above the blue line again indicating that in those grade levels our district's change in passage rates was greater than that of the state at those grade levels when the blue line
036approaches the yellow line the difference between the change of passage rates for the district decreases meaning that in those grade levels our rate of change in passage rate is nearly the same of that as the state and you can see an example of that in the mathematics graph in sixth grade where the change of rates is exactly the same so it means we have the same the same amount of change i'm going to go ahead and invite dr demar to come up here to talk to you a little bit about biltmore prep good evening members of the governing board executive team at biltmore prep last year we had a focus on helping our teachers understand the standards task and analyze the standards writing objectives and success criteria as well as language acquisition strategies and with
037that focus we are while there's a lot of room for growth still we are proud that we saw growth in most of our grade levels in both ela and math when we look at our cohorts of students again we saw growth with almost all of our grade level cohorts of students and higher than state average in third fourth fifth seventh and eighth grade for ela and higher than the state average in third seventh and eighth for math some of our challenges um it was just it was a rough year last year attendance wise for both teachers and students and definitely that posed some challenges for us we see that um math specifically in fourth fifth and sixth grades continues to be a struggle and we were just talking about that today as a team of
038the language and the content and that needs to be an area of focus some of our strategies going into this new school year we're really excited about the new math adoption and for the first time with the materials will be made available in spanish for both students and teachers so teachers will not have to be doing translating for math material so we're excited to support our teachers with that we're continuing our focus on k2 literacy instruction and have spent some time this summer really looking at the alignment between english language arts and spanish language arts we're also continuing to support our students with bridging the language between english and spanish and the focus on ensuring that our teachers have an understanding of the essential elements of effective instruction including continuing what we had last year
039and building on with student engagement and assessment this school year any questions thank you hey everyone success hi creighton virtual academy opened up last year and it was really exciting it was there were there were times where we just couldn't believe what was happening on a daily basis and and it felt fun it felt exciting and exhilarating it felt like we were in a little startup in northern california cranking out software it was just weird the whole year but it was so much fun and i can say that one of the greatest things about our district was that every department chipped in everybody was there i mean michelle was there early on we were tyson was there all the time technology was there food service was there for us everybody was there for us all
040the departments and and everybody collaborated on on crane virtual academy the other principles to make it successful and it was i was really proud i still am proud to be part of this district but last year when when we could have just been kind of ignored a little bit in our little closet over there at tca everybody jumped in and helped creighton virtual academy take off one of the biggest sources of pride that we had last year was kind of out of necessity but communication two-way communication with the families they weren't in front of us very much the kids and the parents were there when they got the devices but after that we didn't see them very much and it was imperative that we remained in two-way conversation with them every single day so we
041sent home newsletters we went to their homes we had them come to our office we did robo calls and robo techs we did webex with them day and night and we stayed in contact with our families to help them navigate this new you know this new form of learning all these different webex addresses and all these different ways of logging in with the teachers at different times of the day we had to stay in contact with them and we had to inform them of all those new schedules and and we did a good job with that and the parents told us about it and they still tell us that our communication is strong that they know how to find information they know how to find the resources that they need to help their kids it
042kind of translated later on in the year during in-person testing we had 98 of our kids show up for the state testing in april which was higher than we thought we would have we thought we'd have somewhere in the 80s but it was 98 100 for isella so it was really it was really um kind of a shining point for us to have all those kids come in for in-person testing and it led us to start thinking about blended learning and one of our goals this year is to have those kids in more often you know coming in april was okay but we want to have them more often we have some tax credit money we can have some field trips with the kids we can have them come in uh you know a couple
043times during the quarter for learning in the school we're at creighton the creighton academy and we have learning spaces there and we have furniture and so we'd like to blend the learning have them come to school i see a new principal taking a lot of notes over here sorry i've just had a teaser oh that's great that's great um would have been really easy last year to say oh we're we're a virtual academy and we're new we can't do this or we can't do that or we can't do that but we were really determined to try to align ourselves to district initiatives and district systems and structures and so we stayed involved in committees we ran all the curriculum instruction assessment that the district puts out we ran plc's and professional development we collaborated with
044the other schools we stayed on a schedule that's very similar to the other schools and so for any kids that moved to our school or away from our school back to a sister school kind of felt that continuity and that was really important for us challenges we had an enrollment surge in about mid july last year we had about 30 to 40 students and that changed a lot over the next few weeks by the time we got into august we were well over a hundred we had two teachers and we were figuring it out as we went and it was kind of fun but it was also kind of terrifying so human resources stepped in and we started hiring and we started finding new staff members and shifting people around and we had at one
045point well we got a little over 200 we got up to about 215 students at one time we actually enrolled 308 students last year we averaged about 170 but we had a 308 students who enrolled with us so there was a lot of mobility and that's always challenging and i know the in-person sites kind of experienced that too but with us it was just trying to get their ipads back or get ipads out to them and it was just a constant it was it was a surge and it hit us all the way through thanksgiving and then it sort of leveled out we also had a lot of novice teachers last year we had six novice teachers and one veteran so we had a lot of ground to make up with teachers who were learning
046how to be teachers but also learning the creatine curriculum and learning our students and learning how to navigate and get the kids learning this year as i said before we want to increase the amount of blended learning we have we want to get the kids on campus for events a little bit more often we also want to set goals with our students and our parents and our teachers and we want to publicize those goals in a respectful way and monitor them as we go through the year and we also want to maintain that communication that i was talking about you know this year we have parents who are with us last year and it might be kind of easy to say oh you already know how to do time tracker you already know how to
047get onto webex but we want to make sure that they still have access to the tools and resources that they need plus the new families that are joining us from outside of the district or within the district we want to make sure that we maintain that communication it's fun to communicate it's fun to bring stuff out to their cars in the parking lot and fun to go to their homes and fun to have them come into the office and now we're upstairs having to come upstairs right by the waterfall it's just kind of neat to communicate with parents like that and have them be so involved in our school so i'm really proud of creighton virtual academy and it's been a fun year this past year and we've got some great goals for this year
048any questions feeling deja vu thank you good evening bobby if you would go ahead and advance your sled at excelencia our teams are very encouraged at the significant growth that we've experienced in our test scores this last year our third grade passage rate and growth rate out paced both the state as well as the district and that was very exciting for us our school-wide growth is above district and state averages as well and we haven't had a chance to savor that yet but we're getting ready to really enjoy and to celebrate what that meant for us in our third grade it was especially important because we recognized that our classes that showed the most growth these were homerooms and classrooms that had tightly refined their procedures their systems their routines and especially for a third
049grade this cohort was three veteran teachers they were unified in purpose and vision they had gone through they planned together they looked at their data they made decisions based on that and that created this synergy of growth for their students it also meant very little time it was not based on instructional time so there was no off kilter there was no wasted time it was really centered about instruction from start to finish and i'm going to tell you they had a lot of fun too it was just a great place to be in that hallway our challenges last year we had especially in our fifth grade transition with two brand new teachers to excelencia one brand new to the content curriculum of grade level we lost one of those fifth grade teachers mid-year and had
050a new teacher new teacher coming in at mid-year and so we recognize what that was like trying to get back to routines and procedures and that team is this year refocusing what that looks like as we move forward we also had a large new teacher cohort as we invited and welcomed 12 new team members last year so it was a big group to get acclimated but the biggest factor here really was the constant rotation and revolving door of the quarantine both of kids and of our teachers so looking forward to this next year we spent a lot of time focusing last year on learning intentions success criteria it netted tremendous value as our growth shows but we're going to continue to refine what that is as we expand our professional learning communities into true learning
051communities we turned our pathways and our professional development on wednesday afternoons into a half and half of half of our time was talking about data as teams the other half was looking at our professional development and we did them in small groups so our pathways were really focused on very specific things for their three week or four week whatever the quarter was at that time and then we were rotated and so they found that our professional development became more meaningful conversations questions and application was much more in-depth in the classroom and so we will continue that this year as well as our data discussions and incorporating that with our new um benchmark system as well as our dca's we have rededicated one of the rooms in our campus and it is now the it's called
052mission possible so we're really able to take the data and really focus on what is possible for our students moving forward with that teachers identified this last year in our comprehensive needs assessment that one they didn't feel like feel like they understood multiple ways to assess student growth and they didn't feel like they knew how to use the data well enough and so both of those things are issues and areas that we as a leadership team have embraced and said okay we can answer to that and so as we continue to develop the fullness of what a professional learning community looks like and how to equip our teachers to better meet those needs of their students i think um your third grade team is much like my team that i have in my school it
053shows that when you have a team that works well together and they care about all of their students and they're all working towards that goal what kind of improvements you can make and um i really applaud the third grade team at your school thank you thanks it really they embody our concept of ubuntu which is it it literally means in the muslin language i am because we are and because we are i am and it's that all of our contributions together as a whole and that team in particular lead to the best benefit and the growth of all of us makes us all better thanks thank you yeah good evening we'll be sharing about gateway as you can see definitely some areas of increase and unfortunately some areas of decrease the nice piece uh like
054dr damar talked about we really looked at our cohort data because that's another area that you really want to look at because that shows the group of kids and in that we saw quite a bit of growth in those areas so that shows that we're doing some good things over a gateway some of the strengths that we had last year is obviously providing in-person learning for kids and they needed it we provided a lot of social emotional learning a lot of community circles we worked with our teachers to really focus on best first instruction with giving feedback on lesson planning and they enjoyed it the scaffolding of providing them standards base learning targets and success criteria we were giving them feedback and they really enjoyed it which is nice to see the teachers want that
055support and that feedback some of the challenges has been discussed already it was absences a lot of kids absent having to quarantine staff members and it just made it very very challenging the other area that we want to really work on it's been a challenge is we want to continue to push our kids sometimes you know we don't push the rigor on our kids because we're afraid to and we talked about it as a leadership team and even sometimes we do the same thing to the teachers we don't push them enough and so we've talked with them and we said we're going to push you and we want you to push your kids we're going to provide the scaffold with it but we're going to push and it's going to be a good push some
056of the strategies that we're going to use for sustaining the growth that we've been making is student data tracking folders it's something that we wanted to implement last year last year was not a year to put new things on staff members so we decided to hold off but all of our kids are going to be tracking all of the data that they have throughout the year so that way they can see the growth and or if they're decreasing we can make sure that we have some interventions for them in place we saw an increase in participation in teachers that are in the design studio and this is great our teachers that take place at the design studio they just have a much better understanding of the curriculum documents and can help our new teachers our
057teachers that have been part of the math cadre and the literature literacy cadre are amazing their scores when you look at their scores compared to the peers that are not part they outshine them and so our other teachers are noticing that and they want to be part of it as well so we're looking to continue to increase that and find ways to sustain it internally as well hiring the right staff the little joke at us is we're now becoming the built more south built more south of the prep built more prep of the south excuse me because we were able to hire some people from stephanie over at biltmore prep and so we're excited that we're getting some teachers that have experience uh as is critical right now so uh we've also moved several teachers
058around in different positions like jim collins book you want to not only get the right people on your bus you want to move them to the right place and so we've made some internal moves that are going to be more beneficial for our students and then the last piece is we knew that we needed to complete do a complete relaunch of our pbis system because the students were in a different place the culture and the climate kind of went backwards a little bit from when i took over five years ago and so we decided to go back and so we're almost back to what we were doing five years ago when we started making some positive growths with climate culture and then obviously student achievement so we'll be doing that again so any questions just
059a comment on the last part because i think that's a struggle with a lot of our schools we kind of all had this cloud of like we go back to normal and our kids are not feeling back to normal and i think it's it can be hard to say we need to go backwards five years to when we first started whatever systems we had in place and and we need to start back like we're in year one and i think that's important and takes strong leadership strong commitment by the teachers so i appreciate that good evening so i have the pleasure of actually um sharing our data and talking about our school from both kennedy and loma linda so i'll toggle between the two screens so you can see the data a little bit better
060um but when we first started this year we realized that we had to really focus on how do we do school how do we be around each other and people and the adults and kids because you know the last couple of years have been complex to say the least um so we went back to basics we focused on writing solid lesson plans writing clear objectives putting check for understandings into place really focusing on our pbis and our systems that we needed in um especially after merging two schools because this was really our first year together we were in the honeymoon period the year before in the that last little fourth quarter um but we really had to learn like how do you take systems from one school systems from another school and make your own
061systems in place um and so we definitely are seeing some growth with our with our students um for specifically with um kennedy we saw in any in sorry we saw an increase in all grade levels and math um for kennedy so i said i'm going to go back and forth and try and designate between both schools we saw uh in loma linda we saw an increase in fourth and four grade levels in both ela and math is this the combined no they're separate okay so you're going back and forth so i just wanted to point that out to the board you see how she when it's highlighted loma linda when it's highlighted kennedy thank you um these are things that i know in my head but i sometimes don't say out loud um and so
062we saw um we saw in loma lindo we saw four grade levels increased in both ela and math i'm going to go back to kennedy um you can see there was a huge increase in our third grade ela um and then there was also a huge increase in our ela and math at loma linda so we definitely have some really really bright spots and that um honestly that was really coming together and working hard and really focusing on those back to basic things and i also attribute to some of the growth that we'll continue to make as to a lot of our returning staff and like everyone that we already talked about with the challenges um last year was really just the contact tracing the cohorting of kids the quarantining the absences of students and
063stuff and having a very large school is a tremendous thing and you can do wonderful things but when you start to have i think we were at one point forty percent of our staff out in three weeks with kovaid at one and like a three week period um it is what it is and we put we we managed and we made it through but it was not easy um and so just i know just like a lot of uh the other schools shared those same concerns um and we had we on we know that there was high emotional needs of our students over staff of the principal at times um but we know that we are stronger together we are one family which has really been our message throughout this whole time and really where
064we're moving forward and you'll see that knowing that 84 of our certified staff is returning that's huge um we have a cohesive and consistent leadership team although one of our members is now going to district office congratulations um and but we are really focusing on those building those relationships um it's something that's going to be incredibly important to us and we're doing that through conscious discipline which i'm very excited for and a lot of some of our staff has been trained in it as well but it really focuses on that starting with that school family and we're one school family and that that's the biggest part of it is start with your class family you build to the school family so that all of our students all of our staff are feeling appreciated are feeling
065loved and aparted are apart and know that they're supported as a an entire community we're going to continue building those relationships through positive phone calls home to all of our kids with our pod cycles um specifically centering around thinking maps for fifth through eighth grade and early literacy uh kindergarten through fourth and i'm just really fortunate and thankful to be working with such amazing and talented people i want to point out the discrepancy in the two schools when you in fact had the children fully integrated so a third grade class was absolutely combined kennedy and loma linda students so this was not treated as two campuses on one campus and so we're un curious and perplexed you know why wouldn't there be an attribution to a grade level shift that would have shown across the
066board and we don't have to answer that because i'm not sure it's simple but i wanted to point that out we dive deep into that data so for example if you look at the third grade reading at kennedy you can see an increase of 21 from the scores when you look at loma linda students it was decreased by three percent and reading and but the thing to understand they had the same teachers they were dispersed so half of the kids were kennedy half of them were loma linda even during the walk to reads they were fully integrated they had the same lessons the same tutoring the same and so when we looked at it we dived deep and they were spread across all classrooms um so and the kids that were met the benchmark growing
067kids that were struggling they were sprinkled in all all five of our third grade classrooms um so we're looking at now is like was there higher absences on one end we're trying to figure out and we may not have the answer to that um but we know our third and our um our third graders that are going to be fourth graders this year we're going to continue to support and that's why we're focusing on k4 literacy with our elite teachers um and our other grade level that we're going to be working with specifically is our eighth graders um our eighth graders that are really struggling in math for the last two years i'm glad you asked that because i was going to ask the same thing i was like because i thought they were it's
068a phenomenon we don't fully understand interesting yeah he did see that in a few other grade levels but not to that significance yeah and it's just something to watch as we target for the coming year and i appreciate the k4 focus on literacy and basic foundations thank you amy good evening um as you can see by the state testing before us macan has some strengths and some challenges um four grade levels had an increase in english and language arts and three grade levels had an increase in math and after a month of starting this position in mac and as a principal and having conversation with my leadership leadership team and staff members parents it was failed that meccan has a strong k3 program and this is based on i-steep scores state state scores and portfolio
069data in a kinder through a grade strength includes writing learning targets that include success criteria and will remain focused with all of our staff members um challenges that make and experience in the past school year were very similar to what we heard tonight from the other principles one of them was the absenteeism rate in both teachers and students due to the pandemic and four through eight novice teachers that were learning to lesson planned and the constructed standards and create an enviro environment of positive behavior any final challenge was a lack of shared knowledge of test results and data analysis this year we're very excited to implement the following strategies in order for us to sustain academic growth and they include fidelity to the new math program empowering the leads the grade level leads to prioritizes
070strong and rich data conversations empowering our students to set goals and take ownership of their learning and their behaviors and maintain open communication with the community and families that call mackin their home do you have any questions now that you're two weeks on the job a lot [Laughter] i was just thinking i'm like good for you you've been here a month yeah thank you thank you i'm thinking we're alphabetical so good evening uh so monte vista we had some things to really look at as far as our strengths and some of the challenges that we had um some of the things that we were pleased to see in the data were increases in scores in ela in fourth seventh and eighth grade some by double digits in growth so that was that was affirming to
071see also third grade and fifth grade math saw some growth over the previous year there are of course some store scores that stand out as needing additional support so if we look at sixth grade in particular there were struggles in sixth grade last year i don't think anyone on our campus would deny that we had some challenges there were shifts in staffing there were shifts in teaching responsibilities there was a lot of absences and that sel piece the behaviors that came through really impacted that sixth grade group in a way that was different than some of the other grade levels having said that however the conversations today and yesterday with the sixth grade team two of whom have returned uh and the incoming seventh grade teachers that are going to bring the rising seventh graders
072uh sixth graders into their classes we're all very committed to the work of making sure that they're going to dig deep into the data in those data discussions to have an opportunity to really support the students that have been struggling in those grades i would say ditto to everything about the challenges with the other schools that they've noted with high absentee rates and the effect of covet and the impact of that on the learning we also know that there was some inconsistency in how we evaluated lesson planning and how we were able to support teachers in that when your instructional coach teams are becoming classroom teachers multiple times in the month and not being able to get into classrooms do observations uh when as administration we also had those still struggles because of 13 teachers
073being out in one day etc so the the growth opportunity is for us to really refocus on getting into classrooms being hands-on with the teachers in ways that we just weren't able to do as effectively as we wanted to last year in our conversations with our team this morning we talked a lot about the equity focus of these scores so we talked about the fact that our students can do and can be compared to the state average and above we just have to get them there you know your zip code does not determine your ability to be successful so that's a really important focus for us as we go into our conversation around equity diversity and inclusion we also know that we have opportunities to improve our pbis system which we've been working on some
074big changes this year for that and inclusion of our self-contained special education classroom students so they have an opportunity to be with their peers summer school was a great test ground for that so to speak we had six seven students from our self-contained classrooms that were part of our summer school program and it was beneficial for everybody teachers students the families we're so appreciative of their children being able to have that experience this summer we will continue to work on success criteria and learning targets we're going to continue to work on universal design for learning strategies it's part of our integrated action plan to make sure that we are using our arts integration strategies in ways that support the learning and content and we think that's really critical as well as an opportunity to assess
075in different ways so that we are making sure that students possess critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities but can also do that in an expressive way and created way and i think that's it that's where i'll stop thank you good evening everybody i'm here to share a little bit about what happened at papago last year and highlight some of on the successes and some strengths that we were able to see we definitely because you can see on the screen that in mathematics every grade level made growth and that's something we're really proud of and also especially in third seventh and eighth grade we saw significant growth and if you look at the ela side we mean significant growth also in the same grades third seventh and eighth and we looked a little bit closer at those
076cohorts as well because even in the grades where there was no change um the previous year those same students made an increase in their progress and achievement as well we wanted to note that and really celebrate that and we spent a lot of time supporting students and staff last year with the social emotional learning taking care of each other we as a staff experience some challenges with some loss and grief and some major staffing changes along with other illnesses and so it was and a leadership change a major leadership change on our whole team and so with all of those challenges i think we really came together stronger and we built a lot of relationships and today as we were sharing um as as we brought all the staff back together we recognized that we've
077come a long way and we are able to bring some new team members on board and they're really excited to be a part of that continued growth and development so we did notice though in some areas that we can focus especially in third sorry fourth through sixth grade the middle grades is where we can get a little boost and some support and so some strategies around those grades are in all grades really are to uh support the planning and the data meeting process and supporting teachers there and getting in those classrooms even more as well as we have departmentalized fourth and six fifth graders so that teachers can focus and narrow in on subject areas and students and so they can work together that way and we have two fourth grade teachers who looped up
078to fifth grade to continue the relationships that they built the students and families from fourth grade so those are some um strategies we've added this year in addition to that we will continue the adult seo that needs to happen that's it that came out in our um sorry our needs assessment and our iap that we needed to work on that so that this as we work together as the adults the students and families film it more supported but that's an area of strategy we're going to implement this year and we want to make sure that we provide as many supports and structures for good math and ela routines in all grades but especially like i said fourth or sixth grader is an area that we know want to work with i really want to highlight
079though we had a teacher in sixth grade who was out on maternity leave and she had other family things happen but her students from fifth to sixth grade it looks like there was sixth grade personally i wanted to highlight that says negative six and i think that was going to be a personal thing for her but to say no no no those kids from the previous year made growth so those were some examples of ways we wanted to encourage and highlight the highlight the successes and make sure that we're not focusing it on on the number itself but looking at the whole story and making sure we understand that so thank you thank you and we see home of the panthers is the name of your slide i think you're tipping your hand a little
080there yes all right good evening governing board members and executive team i will wrap us up on school conversations so we did see some increases in many of our areas we also saw increases in many of our cohorts which was exciting i appreciated what miss mccaleb said as far as making difficult decisions on where you put your focus because that really was kind of the highlight of our struggles last year it really was our first year in person with a school that had so many different concepts um and almost every single teacher was in their first year of teaching so there were lots of struggles um that we were faced and i think one of our biggest successes is that we stayed the course um there were so many different times that we questioned are
081there too many components to this school is it going to work and we truly believe that we are doing what's best for kids but it takes time to lay strong foundations so we made tough decisions and we decided to lay those foundations in terms of social emotional support school-wide systems basic instructional pedagogy and teaching our teachers and learning together what is multi-age and dual language and project-based learning in this open learning environment and so we felt a lot of successes in that area we also had to make difficult decisions as far as which teachers needed our support the most and which grade levels and for us that ended up being kindergarten and first grade because we lost some teachers and it was a really unstable grade level when that happens just like all of my
082colleagues stated that moves are instructional coach and we go to kind of a fire putting out mode however one of the benefits is that where we put our efforts we usually see more payoff and so we did see a lot of positive growth with our kinder first and second graders in the area of reading which i know isn't displayed here but we're excited as they move up into the grade levels some of the things that are we are doing this year is having a multi-age school can very quickly become combo classes when you don't know too much about multi-age which is what we kind of did last year my former instructional coach who i still get for 10 hours a week thank goodness she did over a hundred hours of work to create curriculum maps
083that truly were meeting the needs of the creighton academy so marrying together the curriculum maps that we had with creighton school districts so that we could teach multi-age classes so we're excited about that we have a strong cycle laid out for our professional learning communities and really having conversations about data with students and with teachers using data folders with both teachers and students so that we can have that deep and personalized learning for our students finally we are adding in academic parent-teacher teams so that we can really engage our families in academic conversations and we're starting professional development around language acquisition strategies any questions wow any questions it's a lot of layers a lot of layers thank you well thank you so much and thank you to my colleagues for their deep reflections about using
084this data and about the next steps that they're going to make um just to you know kind of close things up do you guys have any questions for us in general i'm just looking at the numbers uh and i like them so congratulations to everyone yeah i just no questions but comments um i appreciate the way the data was presented not just to show achievement but also to show the past passage rates over time um by no means am i going to say well all of these numbers are amazing we know they are we have work to do um so you know we do need to state that we do need to push through but having that kind of growth is tremendous and if we can stay on that trajectory um you know with the
085math adoption i saw i i felt like overall as a district even without breaking it down we're struggling in math which to me validates we are adopting a new math curriculum um that that can be a huge turning point it's not the only variable but it is we have already taken action that we'll hopefully we'll see results from um i heard a lot of you know we went back to basics and that's okay focus on what your staff needs focus on what your students need and i also got a sense of and this has kind of been the for some this is unpopular opinion but you know we've used the word grace a lot the last couple years and i'm all for it however we need to be careful about when grace becomes excuses right
086um so i really appreciate how everybody acknowledged the challenges you had and a lot of those were out of your control right we experienced the same thing when you have 40 50 of your staff out there is only so much you can do to avoid that you are just trying to get human bodies in the room and that absolutely is not what we all want our classrooms to look like that's not the ideal classroom and we know that um but you know here's hoping next year we will not have as many absences or they at least won't all fall in the same days right um and we know that there's things that will be out of our control but i really appreciate that everybody focused on what is in our control and maybe what are
087some plans proactively that we can make moving into this year how are we going to push to increase that rigor level um you know and work to those solutions so um an extra shout out to excelencia again that's awesome thank you miss mccaleb i always dread these um i dread them as a board member i dread them as a teacher because they never tell the complete picture teachers know the complete picture principles know the complete picture of what's going on at school and i feel like it always brings us down when we see these we always feel depressed and down but we know i know as a teacher and i know the teachers here probably feel the same way is that we made it through last year and we did really great things and the
088kids made really great improvement and this may not show that but we know they did we know there are students that made one to two year gains possibly even three this just doesn't show that data so once again of course i think test scores are important we have to take them but this is that one little snapshot in time and it's not what our kids did all year and i wish that we had a way to show that i wish we had a way to show that to the community i wish we had a way to show that you know to our parents that their their children are doing amazing things and so um yes we do have work to do we can always improve i mean that's the life that we live as educators
089as improving things for our students and our families so um i just i'm proud of everyone for getting through last year um and i hope this is a better year thank you you just wanted something at the end she mentioned that there was a wish that we could show the parents well the parents know we know because i have my kids and i know another they do not only struggle with math they struggle with their own with their fears with their changes with their growth with their hormones and they struggle with everything so and we know that so uh uh as part of the community as a parent i know i mean i i i don't have parents come to me as a pastor and say pastor please pray for the school because i'm not
090doing a good job they should come pray for my family pray for my marriage pray for my job pray more find my finances so there's a lot of things involved so we know thank you very much great job everybody [Applause] final thank you to principals because i know that right now is the 11th hour and you had to come present data to us and be prepared for that on top of everything else all right we are moving into future agenda items are there any future agenda items that you would like to add caleb not at the moment no mr compost okay i have two um this year when schools are doing their overall reports principles when you're doing your reports out to us i really want to encourage you to make it student-centered this year
091instead of you just talking i would like to see the student sharing their information and what's going on at their schools um so that's the first one and then the second one is for dr dupin i would like to request that you organize the student artwork to be in the boardroom from our art our art teachers and our wonderful children that we can have our walls decorated i think it's boring in here and i would love to see our work from you don't like the board member artwork over there well particularly not mine but um i think children are way more creative than i am so i would like to see that right i move the governing board adjourn second all those in favor aye board and i got members