001Good. Like to welcome everybody to the county board of education special call board meeting January 6th 5:30 in the central office. >> We need a nomination for board chair. >> And do we have a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Um Braxton Drew. Hi, >> Cody. >> Hi, D. >> Hi, >> Johnny. >> Hi. >> I'll turn the meeting over to the chair. >> At this time, I elect the board vice chairperson. It's either a motion or a second. >> Make a motion. Drew >> Hi, >> Cody. >> Hi, >> Pistol. >> Hi, >> Chair. This time, establish a voting seating order. You all just want to keep it as is. >> I make a motion. We keep it as is. I'll >> Drew. Five. set regular board meeting date, time, and location. >> I see
002that this I see it's got May on there. It's got a question mark beside the 19th. >> Is everybody good with the fourth Tuesday >> at 5:30 like we have it now? >> Except for he said it would be the third. July, November, December, May. Anyone want to make that motion? Tuesday. I make motion we keep on 5:30 August with the exception of July, November, December and they be on the third chair. >> Hi Drew. This time call to order in roll call. Braxton here. Drew >> here. >> Est communications. This time superintendent communications Dr. Taylor. Tonight we have our three elementary principles here that are going to present their annual report. So I think first up we have Miss Dr. Angela Loud Elementary. She's got about I think said four minutes for us. There
003you go. >> I will go pretty fast. And you're going to hear a lot of things that are repeated throughout this process. If you step through these before, by the time the three of us get done, people are like, I want to do something. Let's get through this real fast. But this is my staff, not all of them, but I always tell people that I can't do what I do without them. I mean, I feel very blessed to have the people that I work with within the building, and they're phenomenal. So, I'm very thankful for them. The next thing we had this year is we were an overall score of 81 which was a KSA rating of green. So we increased again and we had a reading and math indicator of 85.4. So we went
004up 5.8 and reading and math which is our four areas that are assessed and science social studies and writing we were an indicator of 73. So again we had another increase of 2.2. So, as you continue to climb higher on the the rating scale, an increase, you know, the first year we did this, we went up like 20 points, but we had a lot of room to grow. So, as you continue to get higher, you know, that's still a pretty high increase as opposed to, you know, if you're growing two or one, it's it's still really hard to achieve that unless you're truly, you know, dedicated and you're you're looking at your data closely to see what areas we need to be working on. So, I was really proud of all of that. Our climate
005survey is what our kids take and that's based upon how they feel at school and if they feel like you know their their needs are met and they have people there that they can go to. Our climate survey had an increase of 3.4 which put us back to 100% on that. So all of these scores I'm proud of all of them but probably knowing that our students feel safe at school that they know they have people they can trust and come to that's probably one of the things that I'm the most proud of. Um so if you look at our scores over a process of the several or the the past few years since I've been there we started at 48.4 As you can see down the chart, we continue to increase every single year.
006And you will see that that is our um score without the the bonus points or both points added. So what happens with KSA, you have a raw score, they look at what you were the following year and if you grew, they'll add that and if you did not grow and went back and they will deduct that. So but every year you can see in the past four years they went from 48.4 to 76.6. So if you look at our status here in reading the math, you'll see where we have the status score here, which is 73.8. The change is how much you're growing. So if you're growing, you have like bonus points. If you went back a little bit, it'll be in the negative. So as you can see, every one of these they're you're
007continuing to increase. So we're over here now 25, which gives us the rating indicator of all of those different areas. Again, you're going to be able to see the graph and it will tell you here what our status indicators are. So you can see it's a little bit easier to see the increase across the board when we do it as a bar graph. And where are we ranking? This is something I'm extremely proud of because we know that McCra County is one of the highest poverty areas that we have. But when you're looking at our scores based upon the state scores and you compare those, our students are still out performing kids in the state. So when you're looking at the rating in the state in the state of Kentucky with this elementary school is
008at 60 62% proficient distinguished in math we're at 56%. So we're still out outsc scoring the state percentages in Kentucky and I think that's that's a pretty big deal with our kids. They're extremely smart just because kids you know don't have everything that they may need. It's it's a high poverty area. I mean these kids are working extremely hard and they're learning and and they're showing it. You know they're outperforming the other students within the state of Kentucky. Um, reading the math status again, I've got it across the board for the past several years. So, you can see that increase and you can see it climb. And that's what our goal is. Our goal is to continue to increase. You know, every year we want to get better. Um, you know, every year it's is
009a challenge. You know, you have to look at where you are and your goal is to continue to increase that. So, it is a challenge. This will show you by our grade level our percentages that we have. Constantly we are trying to reduce our novice scores because our goal is to kids of proficiency and then to distinguish which is the categories that we're aiming for and we've done a really good job in all of our elementary schools I think to reduce our novel scores and so now our goal is going to be looking at those apprentice marks and try to reduce those to continue to push those kids to proficiency. That's our map. So if you look here is the KSA percentages by school year. the ranking again and we just put them in a
010barraph so you can easily see that. So here you're reducing you know our apprentices here. So our proficient continues to increase and so does our distinguished area science social studies on demand mechanics. This year we did notice some differences with our science scores and I think that was across the state of Kentucky. We did we declined in science but they did everywhere in science. The test was really rigorous. extremely hard. Um, it was kind of a test that I think they were just kind of gauging to see where our students would perform at across the state of Kentucky. And if you look in the in the state of Kentucky, everyone kind of had a decrease there. But we continue to increase in all of our other areas. And that's just the same thing there. That's
011our social studies score. We've had a new teacher there for the past couple years. She's done a phenomenal job and she's really getting a grasp on our standard. So, it's really to show that trend across the across the board. But you can see like even your apprentice level here was extremely high. So that's our areas that we are focusing on target areas is what we're calling those. There's our science. Okay. So we also have special population which is our kids who have like accommodations for testing who have some special needs. So we also track them and you can see their proficient distinguished and how that's also increasing. And what we've done is we really become intentional with our students and building relationships with those kids. So when they are pulled to test, they don't just
012get a random person testing them. We make sure they know that person. That person works with them all throughout the year. They begin to set goals with them. They have that relationship with them. So the students begin to become comfortable for who's ever testing them. And it's made a positive difference for them and what their performance is. That's the same. You can see that the train is going upward. This is again our quality and climate safety status. So if you see our status has continued to grow every single year. This year and last year we were at 100% but that 100% is because you you cap out at 100. So they they allow you the bonus points of growth for that. Okay. So I always tell people that scores and more is what cannot be
013measured by a test. So to to sum that up, you know, it's like what are we doing? with our students. So, we're continuing to grow in all areas. We have focused areas of our apprentice kids this year. I've got a little chart in here that will show you like what we're planning to do to get that growth there. But, in spite of all the academics that we're doing and our kids are continuing to grow, they're they're mastering all these standards that are put before them. They're outperforming the state averages. I want to also show you other things within our schools that we're doing that you all don't always get to see. Um, makes me extremely proud because a lot of what we're doing with our students growth isn't just academics. It's building relationships. We're changing
014lives one student at a time. Um, there's times it's exhausting. Our teachers get tired, our A's get tired, our foods, our drivers. But when you look at the grand scheme of things, they're making a difference in this district. I mean, I'm extremely proud to be here and to be from this area because you can tell that our people love our students. And that's the the biggest thing that we can do. So, here's some things that we've done just from this year. In addition to all the other academics that you were just looking at, all the other scores we were seeing and and focusing on data, these are just a few things we've done. You know, we do our Macy's state parade. Um, we do um boosts to drugs. We have like Halloween celebrations. We try
015to bring our our families in. That's our real man cheese. I don't know why that's not all up there. That should have pictures with it. I wonder if all that. Okay. All right. So, this is what we had here. our kinder compliment that and what we do is we try to invite the community in. We try to be as welcome as what we can to them as well. We firmly believe that if we can get the community to buy in with our students then that also is going to make a positive change within our district. This is the real men read and technically we had to change that this year because the person who is over that has changed positions. So we are still doing that under chief's read. So we bring in men in
016our community important to our students because once they see that relationship with the men in the community coming in to read to them, it makes learning more important and it kind of makes it kind of cool. So our kids are loving that. So I've got some pictures there of Dr. Taylor coming in to read with our kids. On top of all that, we have our athletics that we do that keep everybody busy and and going all the time. This is something that I try to do every year with our students since I've been there. We partner with University of Cumberland and they do something that's called shoes for soul. So we go over to DC, they provide all of our fifth graders with a pair of shoes, they do a foot wash in there, shoes
017and socks, and then they they pair those kids up with a mentor, give them free ice cream. So it's pretty amazing to see our students learn how to serve others and how to be served because they they really don't know how to feel when someone's actually serving them. So that's another thing that they're learning. We partner with McDonald's for a teacher night, which is pretty cool. The kids love that. Did you not see that and all that? or PTO. We do cutting away bad habits. And I'm not saying just at Whitley, we do this at all of our schools. I mean, I want you to know that all your elementary schools are doing these activities all the time. Um, we have here something that we started new at our school this year. We call it
018an Indian tradition. Um, I have students in my building that have don't even have Christmas tree. I had a student this year come to me has half of the Christmas tree and didn't have lights on it. So, we purchased a tree to make sure that our students knew that they had a Christmas at school and they're all bringing in ornaments. Whether that's a new ornament, handmade ornament, something like that, a used ornament, they loved it. We take some time to honor our veterans. We do a pretty good program within. We do chicken and dumplings. We teach our kids about honor and respect and what it means to have service and sacrifice and what it means to have someone for that education. So you can see some of the voting booths and stuff that our teachers
019actually create. So that takes time. It's not easy for them to do that, but they're putting in that effort which is why you're seeing such an increase in our scores. That is again Halloween and Fallest. And then I have went through like some of our community helpers that partner with Whitley Elementary. So, we we do a pray for family giveaway. And this year, instead of just like having parents to come through our drive-thru to get up gifts, we actually did like a little shopping center for our parents. So, they come to our school, they come in, they got to choose the gifts that they wanted, and of course, they didn't have to pay for them, but they felt like they were truly giving Christmas to their kids, parents who were struggling. Um, so we had
020the pray for family to come in. We had 68 families who came in with a shopping experience, was able to service our kids. We have hope for Appalachia that comes in, FFA, the Bank of McQuary or the UCB bank, United Camel Bank, Highland Telephone, Christian Appalation, we have a 412 crew, Good Shepard crew, Sparks, Bluegrass Truck and Bus. I mean, there's so many different partners out here that are stepping up and helping our kids right here in county and it's really making a difference. Um, at Willis Elementary School and both Pont Schools, we do what we call PEIS program. We do check and check out which helps with some behavior and attendance, which also is why you will see an increase in our scores. Um, in doing that, something I'm extremely proud of is I've
021had a student that I've mentored and his parents don't mind me sharing for the past couple years. He really was having a hard time at school. He was really struggling was really struggling with academics and behavior. So, I just kind of took him myself and I'm like, "Here, let me be his mentor. The student now has been able to step out and mentor one of our kindergarten students and he's doing phenomenal in academics and behavior. So, now he's got another student that he's taken into mentor and that's what we're doing. We're we're pouring into kids and we're changing you know, one child at a time. This year we did a banquet of blessings. Um, we do that not just at Willis Elementary School. It's a community event. Again, this year we served about 1500 families
022on Christmas Eve dinner and gave the kids Christmas presents. So, this will show you what all our status was. Um, you know, 81 is extremely high. My goal was to get to blue. We were green and I'm extremely proud of that. But we always want to achieve more than where we are now. And I do believe that our students can get there. And I know that Our staff is willing to work to do that. Um, our mission at Whitly Elementary School is to ensure that all students receive a quality education. It's our objective to address the need of each individual child working to his or her fullest potential. Um, our goal is to develop learners who are actively growing and achieving. And you'll see a picture of me, a student who truly has changed. In
023the past three years, I've had this kid. He no longer comes to my office because of behavior or because he didn't do well on a test or he didn't try. He now comes to my office just for the posit because he's, you know, to to get that positive, I guess, encouragement because he's doing great. You know, it's a lot of praise with him now. And that's my staff. So, any questions on all that? So, we're addressing gaps. I know this that's a question that Clinton meet with us on again or Dr. Taylor meet with us on again, but how we do that is we do an RTI, which is a response to intervention. We give a MAP assessment three times a year. We target our kids. So, we look at where they're performing that. We
024look at areas of deficit and so then we target those kids. We build flex groups for those kids. So we place those kids in different groupings all throughout the day so they're going to get that extra instruction in reading, extra instruction in math. Plus they get their core instruction and that continues to make a difference. Uh we have tutoring after school that we offer to our students. We have our thoughtful class classroom trainings that we're doing with our staff that we're implementing with our kids for student engagement. We have constantly, you know, coming in like with our elder mentors, our elder groups, they're coming in and they're helping build assessments. We do nineweek assessments which are very similar to our KSA because we have found that doing a trial run of KSA has made a
025difference on the way the kids perform. You have to teach them to take the test for them to be able to show us what they know on the test. So we actually practice those things and we do mentorships with our kids. I mean we have save the children 21st century grants and so it's constantly all all day long. I mean our teachers are working, our aids are working, the entire staff is working finding those kids and the biggest difference is not just teaching a group. We find the individual needs of every student and we structure our classes and our grouping based upon that specific kids need. Takes a lot of work, takes a lot of time, but it's making a difference. >> Any questions? >> I'd like to say thanks for your hard work. That's
026awesome. I'm glad to be some stuff I don't see the little bit of extra stuff you show us. That's awesome. I'm glad y'all making this thing grow and make it better. That's awesome. >> And we appreciate you all. I mean, because your support a lot of people don't see what you all do either behind the table and what you all bring together to our district and the decisions that you make is what affects our schools. So, we appreciate that. I appreciate the the time and effort that you all give to our kids makes a difference. >> Thank you does a wonderful job over there. Pushes her staff to work hard. That's what it takes. She does a good job. Next we have Dr. Cindy Moore. over five minutes. >> Four minutes and 58 seconds. >>
027I'm joking. entertained. >> You all do a great job. >> I think my good like Angela said, you're going to hear a lot of the same things, but you know, before we start, you know, I want to say that, you know, the success of the district is because of the collaborative effort, not just from you all, but it's central office. I don't know of a time that we've ever had such a unified front as far as making a progress in the right direction and right down to just you know my angel staffing and we'll work together and you know we've been in this this district a long time you know some of you all have too and you know we've never been able to do that you know even Angel and I as teachers you
028know trying to work collaboratively you know, with other schools, it was always a an issue. And right down to that, I we've um it's amazing what you can accomplish when everybody's out for the same goal and right down to the people that work here at office and the efforts that they make to make sure everybody's successful. So, I want to thank you all and everybody here. Um so, looking at our scores, I'll kind of hurry. Um our overall score was an 80.2 Last year we were in 83. We were blue. We're really hoping to get there again this year. And and we were really close. We were within, you know, just what uh 2.8 points because you 83. But like Angel said, the the higher you get, you know, you have to obtain those bonus
029points in order to get that blue status. And um it's kind of sad because you know your staff works really really hard and it's not really about the color uh because at the end of the day there's school districts that have lower test scores than Angela and I but they're blue. So on the front of it it looks like they're outperforming us when they're really not. And um but anyway that's changing and and you know KSA's going away. But anyway, I I couldn't be more proud of my staff. staff, you know, because when you look at, you know, what we're able to do coming from a county that is one of the poorest in the state and our kids performing like they're performing, you know, not just academically, but you know, in sports and um,
030you know, music and things like that, you know, we we often times think that because of of socioeconomic status that, you know, our kids can't do and they can they can. Um, but in reading and math, our our raw 75.6 and we grew 6 and that left left us at a 76.2 which was a high status that left us green. In our science, social studies and writing we were at 79.1 and we grew 4.4 points to obtain a very high status of an 83.5. and then our quality school comment survey which are those questions that our students um answered about the safety like Angela said and that got us at 97.5. So all that together it was 80.2. So when you kind of break that down already said this so this you're looking at our
031school in the red over time and then the state is in the blue and you can see over time 2021 to last year's score. What you want to see for the proficiency is you want to see it move up. And that's what I told my staff, you know, regardless of looking at color, we got to look at proficiency. You know, moving these kids to proficient students more so than looking at a color. And and if we can look at and see that every year we're increasing those those numbers of students that are proficient, that that's our goal. And so this is reading. And so looking at some of our our globes we call them when we meet with the staff our reading proficiency is above the state by 11%. And Angelus is above the state
032probably about the same amount you know so when you're looking at our kids are performing that that much higher above the state average and that says something and that's something to be proud of as a district and you know it's not just us. Um something that another blow is our winter map data that we just completed. Uh one of my goals as a principal when I when I started when you when you take a MAT test they give you um it gives you your percentage of benchmark and with it being a nationally run test one of my goals was I'd never seen our school because test or like our special needs students don't get any kind of accommodation. So, it's it's raw data that we use to determine right where our kids are at right
033now without any without any support. And one of my goals was I wanted at least our kids at some, you know, to gradually get to the point where we were at at least 50% of our students were meeting benchmark, meaning 50% was on grade level, on target. And um I was so just overwhelmed when they took the the Math test this time. Compared to last winter in reading, we had 44% of our students meeting benchmark. This year, we have 51%. So, we've hit that 50% mark. And I I couldn't be more um pleased with that. And again, that's not proficiency because that's KSA, it's measured a little bit different, but when you're talking about meeting benchmark on grade level, so we're making those gains little by little, but grows. Um we still have approximately 40%
034of our students and proficient. So like Angela said, you know, we're doing a phenomenal job moving those kids from novice, but we're our our problem right now is moving these kids from apprentice up to proficient. So it's a whole another ball game. So kind of the same thing in in math. Math is our target area this year and I'm going to talk a little bit about that here in just a second because as you can see those trend lines again, we're in the red. We in math the last three years we have plated to 535 53. So we knew this was an area of work. Now while we're still above the state, you know, we want to still grow. So I didn't like that we were trending kind of, you know, the same. So that's
035been our our working area this year. So math proficiency at low was above the state by 10%. But our math winter benchmark students, we went from last year winner was 42% this year is 57%. We're we're almost at 60% of our students scoring that benchmark this year in in that. And I I attribute to some of the changes that we've made um at the beginning of the year. So some of our growth still we have 47% that score below proficiency and a lot of those are apprentice kids. We're getting them out of office, but we've got those those apprentice kids that we've got. Our science, social studies, and writing is is, you know, an area that I'm proud of. Like Angel said, um, fourth grade science did drop just a little bit across the state,
036but look here. you know, when you're having 6% of your students novice. But here's our problem right here. Notice that large number of apprent was 66.3. Um, if you all have ever seen a fifth grade social studies test, you all would be um You all have trouble taking it, too. It's It is It's one of the hardest things I have ever ever seen. But anyway, they're doing well with it, but um our fifth grade writing is is an area that I'm super proud of. We had an index of 94.5 and I think in the state, I think we fell at 18th in the state of Kentucky. Our riding, we only had and we only had about 100 students. So when we're talking percents, that's only two students that were in office in writing. So I
037was super proud of our fifth grade and our fifth grade writing teacher. Um, so I tell myself a lot of times because I taught writing, I know how hard it is. I said if they can write, they can do the rest of this. So we we've got to figure out what we're doing here that we can implement in other areas and talked about that too. But some of our gloves um we continue to be above the state in every content. uh our percentage of novice remains below 10% in both science and writing which you know that's one area we wanted to keep it below. Social studies grew from that was one of our areas that we focused on last year was growing our social studies. We did grow our proficiency from 38 to 46%. So
038we did have a good jump there and our riding continues to be our strength and we did grow in riding and he's really worried this year thinking how in the world am I going to you know do better than 94.5 but um you know it's doable our grows though again we have a large percentage of students in science that we need to proficiency and reduce that number percentage of novice in social studies. So some of the things that Angel has said that that we have done for years that has reduced reduced in all this. This is these are things that we do to address those gaps. Um I'm not going to read each one of these and and talk about each, but she's talked about how we do for flex grouping. And these are things
039that we've done for years. Once our kids take the math test, we regroup and um you know, we have our target students and um some of the things that I've highlighted are things that we we've done this year because as you all know, you know, we want to grow, but if you continue to do the same thing, you're going to get the same results. So, we have to figure out what what we can do better to get these kids, you know, to proficiency. And so, math being one of our areas, um, you know, we've really focused on that. So, we changed our math master schedule. We've always done three days reading and two days math for our flex schedule. This year we changed it to three days math and two days reading. And you saw
040the difference in the the math um proficiency or the benchmark number of students that have had reached benchmark this time. So that's made a huge difference. It's added 150 additional minutes of math instruction and then 100 minutes of additional reading instruction. So that was one of our changes. Another change that that we've made is in the past we had We've always done math, but we had I Ready was a a platform that we used and when when they took the Ready Diagnostic, it gave us students in groups along with their skill sets that they needed and it gave them an opportunity to to work on that. Matt doesn't do that. It gives us, you know, their score, but they they give us something called the learning continuum and their rip maintenance where the kids like
041the skills within that band, what how they're performing on those. Long time ago, Angela probably remembers this, but when they would take the MAT test, we would look at those those ribb bands and those um areas that the kids scored well in and we would group those kids based on that. And we kind of got out of that when we when we started using our ready. And so when we come back to just having math, we kind of got away from that. I don't know if you did, but we did. We got away from it. And I I told the teachers, I said, "You know, we've done a really good job working on on um moving these kids out of novice by doing all these things, flex groups and such." But now it's coming down
042to instructional practices. And so, if we want to move these apprentice kids, we're going to have to figure out what skills are missing. And so, utilizing our MAP scores and looking at that learning continuum with math to know what each as each kid, we look at each kid um and we put them in groups and we know what what they're what they're missing. And so when they are in that flex group or in that core group, those are the skills that they're working on. So that's one of the big changes. And so another thing that that we're doing, uh, of course, our rotation teachers, they implement when they go to when they go to music, they start their class off or or um art, they start their class off with real quick geometry because you
043can do that in art. Um, but even our rotation teachers implement some of these standards. Um, our Elgen coach, the literacy coach, she does walkthroughs and and provides feedback. I think that's been a huge asset to us. Um, One of the things that that we've done this year talking about really honing in on our instructional practices, I have a lot of new teachers and so if that if you don't know the standard, you're not going to be able to teach it to the rigor that that is expected of that student when they take that end of the year test. So, we started over the summer developing our own um we got our own little hub of curriculum And the teachers went in and they went ahead and developed their learning targets for the entire school
044year, their success and the activities and vocabulary that go along with that standard so that while they're working, they can look at third grade can look at fourth grade and fourth grade can look at fifth grade so that they know that we're not missing something. And I I'll give you kind of a a highlight of something that happened. They were working in groups and there was a particular reading standard about linear and circular um um reading like passages and and what that boils down to is you know is it sequential? Is it a story that happens in sequence of events or is it cause and effect? but it used different vocabulary, circular, linear, those weren't being taught. And while they're sitting there in working on this, they figure out that I didn't really know what
045that meant. And so fifth grade didn't understand it and that's assessed at fifth grade and it was a a actual test question. So when they're able to work together and go through those standards like that, they're figuring out what how they're missing the boat. And those are the things that we when we talk about getting those apprentice kids to proficient, that's where it starts. If they don't know the standards, they're not going to get them there. And so that that's been one of our our biggest areas that we feel like that we've are heading in the right direction with and they revisit those in PLC's. Um we continue to develop those common assessments and and go and look through those. Angel and I both are going to start next week on the KSA scrimmage, not
046with test. Uh we analy our our released items. Uh the race riding strategy Karen has been a big um influence on that. I think we started that last year was that year four last year pretty much cross content area. Um one of the biggest things izing AI for our scoring. That's, you know, as much as I hate AI, uh it it's here. It's what the state uses for scoring. And I think that's why our writing scores were so high because that's what um our writing teacher was using. The students really got into that. they would um put their writing into the the AI platform and it would score for them and give them feedback and it was almost like a game to them like how can I uh if they're giving me this feedback I'm
047going to make this make this adjustment here I put it back in and see how it scores then is it going to be better and I think that's why our writing scores were so much so much better this year like Angela said we talked about RTI um I lost I lost a right hand and Teresa Kid retired and but she's been our RTI person. So that's going to be a huge loss for us. So So we're in the process of of trying to fill in some gaps there with her. But um this is huge. I want to give a shout out to primary for their implementation of youth because I want to tell you I do believe that that's probably why I don't have our our third grade math scores up here but uh I
048think They're in the high when we talk about benchmark on the max test they're in the high 50th like 58 percentile and I truly believe it's it's attributed to the primary building because these kids are coming to us with those foundations to read and that they hadn't had that in the past. So of course we have in school save the children uh ESS uh during the day and small group instruction and ESS in the evening. Um it takes like Angel said it takes everybody. There's no down time. Um but we try to have fun with it and you know we talk about building those relationships. you know, we had PLC today and I was teaching the staff because I brought donuts and I said, "It's it's no different than me me encouraging you all or
049bribing you all with donuts to come in and sit and listen to what I've got to say. You all got to do that with the students." And um so anyway, we're we're making progress. Um it may not always be as quick as we like, but um we're super proud of of our dragons. Um even I told them I couldn't be more proud of the the job that they've done. Angel went through a lot of the different things that they do at Wheatly. We stay busy. >> We stay extremely tired, but but at the end of the day, it's worth it. And but again, I appreciate you all. You all have any questions? >> Thank you. >> Dr. Moore does a wonderful job with her staff, too. A lot of hard work. everything you all do
050every day. >> And don't you all do an experiment to give us a fifth grade social state. >> That should be the next the next one we do. No, >> we could give them >> I'll miss that. >> I really don't have to know any social. Okay, I'll go ahead and get started. Again, I want to thank you the board for your leadership in the district and what you do for this for this county as far as our students and our staff is concerned. been been four hasn't been four long months since I started, but u it's been uh it's been enjoyable working with the central office staff. Anything I've ever needed, it's just a phone call away and I want to let them know I appreciate everything for me and Cindy and Angela there.
051I've uh served under both of those. They mentored me. So, I appreciate you guys. I appreciate the board and all the central office staff. Uh we're a little different at the primary. We don't have KSA data. We just have to have it. But, uh I I am honored to be able to work with a great staff. I often say I'm the odd man out and pretty much the only man in the building. Anyway, uh with our our mass data, we we chose this to do this year compared to this year's from our fall to our winter scores. And to set the stage beginning the year, we had we call them specials called special still. >> Uh we have their special classes at at rotational classes which are your art, your PD, library, music and all
052that. Beginning of the year we didn't have the staffing for enough rotation classes to where all of our classrooms could all our teachers could be together. We split them in half. Three went one time, three went another and what that did is it gave us no flexibility within our schedule. And but with Dr. Taylor and central office, we we got two of those positions back. One right off the bat, we got the hire for then we hired for the other one and that fell through. So it took us a while to get that one. to rehire so that we can change our schedule. I'll get to that in a minute because we've done some stuff over Christmas break to address some of these issues that we have. Okay. Um, if we look at our reading
053and big shout out to our our kindergarten class, our teachers because they've been phenomenal on this in fall for uh kindergarten. They they dropped their by 28 students. And again, this is what with the KSA, you want to see these two two areas drop. These two increase and they they dropped 28 students from novice and 11 students from their proficient distinguish. And they went from one student distinguished in the fall to 23 students in the winter 8 to 22 for their profession. Um first grade um we didn't we didn't do as well as we we could have our Our novice only dropped 2% apprentice 5%. We dropped 5% on our proficient but we gain 15% on our distinguished first grade. So those students are moving back and forth in that second grade three students in
054novice. We dropped those three novice and apprentice and added seven to our proficient in We dropped one more but overall we are at kindergarten from our fall to our winter we went from 34% benchmark to 62%. First grade 51 stayed plateaued. Second grade up on benchmark overall 32% on benchmark for the whole I'll get to this these are right here and when I get after I finish with our math our math was similar with our our kindergarten bl you You can see there they dropped 40 students from apprentice and move them up first grade again students. Let's go over to the from kindergarten from our following winter they went from 36 to 63% on benchmarks. First grade went from 46 to 51 which is awesome and second grade went from 46 to 47 overall from
05543 to 54 shows the same thing. to get back to these scores. Like I said, our our schedule was tight. We had no flexibility and once we got once we looked at these scores with the addition of the fifth person for our rotation, we are now at liberty to have five rotation classes. And what that does for us is it frees up our schedule to where we have our rotation teachers have three classes a day instead of having six. So what does that do for them? That allows me to pull them to do these to do the flex grouping. I have been pull small groups go in and collaborate with teachers and it gives me more freedom with with that that group that there's so much more I can do with the schedule and with
056those teachers that help classroom teachers out and with that too it allows our teachers to teach I mean to all together and that's one of the concerns that we had at the data retreat in November that they they said hey we're not being able to collaborate with each other or two more like two separate groups in the same so that allowed us to do that and I feel like with the changes that we made and that frees up those rotation teachers to give additional support to the teacher classroom teachers that we're going to see an increase in these because we'll be able to pull those to group those say for instance in sixth grade or second grade is in flex. I've got four five extra teachers to pull small groups out of that whole group
057instead of having zero. So now your your groups go from 15 to 16 maybe eight or nine or maybe even lower. So that allows them to be more direct instruction to be able to help those students. Um again we work our our goals going forward to address these gaps is to collaborate with intermedi to ensure smooth transition and to strengthen our reading and our math because we feel like we're a feeder program for their success or our success is their success if we we don't send them students that are benchmark every year, then it's going to be harder on her to bring those kids up. So that is our goal is to bring those kids up to benchmark so that they can be successful. We utilize walkthroughs along with the LG coach. We've been written
058yet using labs to drive our instruction creating flexible groups. We did construct standards and success criteria. We want we want to be more standards driven. Like she said, we want to be able to do construct those. We want to know what the vocabulary is that goes along with it. be able to teach them. We do have saving children in after school in school and after school programs. ESS tutoring we have it for second grade at the moment after school open that up to first grade also. Uh K2 students are exposed to pair assessment that mimics the KSA. When we do our mass test, we want we want to try to do we want to mimic just like they do set up our schedule the same way we pull our special population out and test test
059them separately although they do not get their accommodations. We do implement race on all levels starting at kindergarten. Again, we changed we changed our rotation schedule. I think that's going to be I think seen gains from that going forward. And we do utilize our RTI interventions. Also, some of the programs that we have in place to help out with our vision math. We've got simple solutions math for our flexibility. We have of course we have we've implemented that. I think it was the first year I was at and like Cindy said, it's shown a lot of growth. and we're going to continue that librarian. She progress monitors our reading and region plan. Of course, there's our you fly right there. Also, the the reading coach comes in, Donna comes in and helps out. She helps
060train get staff up to date on the course. Simple solutions block social simple solutions. Also we are going to implement a STEM curriculum with our librarian. She had asked about doing that earlier. Now the schedule up she will pull some students for STEM. STEM is science, technology, >> engineering and math. It's now it's STEM or some call it ste. But so that's that the main thing that I wanted to express was we didn't grow as much as we wanted to, but we're targeting those students through and grouping them. Second grade as of now is going We have the weather on our schedule this morning and we want to group those ability group those kids according to those schools. Some of the things that we do at Library, we have our Veterans Day program. We celebrate
061Thanksgiving. We did have decorate some a lot of the stuff we do at primary we do also but again I want to thank you for allowing me to be here to present and thank you again for all your leadership and support. One thing that I will add too as far as being a community partner, you know, trying to bring the more the parents into the school, one thing that we want to try to bring back years ago is the Red Festival. I remember that I was there all over it. We're going to work hard to bring that back. That's some things to look forward to. We got our car next Friday. Thank you. Any questions? I think Mr. Stevens is doing a really good job with Pine Hobby. He came in, hit the ground running,
062got a new counselor, new assistant, lots of good things going on at Pine. Looking forward to seeing what happens. changes. >> You can tell you all work together >> in time because you all have pretty well set the same. >> We usually carve out at least we try to once a month at least we try to carve out time where we just meet together and talk about things and Like I said, if you stay if everybody sees that everybody's on the same front and has the same goal because at the end of the day, they're all going to be raiders one day. So, we try to carve out that time that we we sit down, write down our questions and work together. So, >> excellent. Sandy, I want you to know I didn't we're trying
063to single Angel out. You all do a great job. Always have done a great job. >> I have I didn't say nothing. I was like I didn't want to make it sound like I was single out. >> No, I didn't. >> The scores don't lie. You've always done a great job. >> I actually didn't realize >> you all done, you know, doing great. >> We're lucky to have y'all. >> I want to commend you all as well. I know that it takes a lifetime for y'all to be prepared to do what you're doing. And u it's it's uh to hear you all talk about working together. You can speak probably three hours a piece and not encapsulate all that you're all doing, your staff is doing and you're professional in what you're doing. Uh you
064know what you're doing and it's obvious you all talk to us. We're sitting here in these seats as through elections and and we're we're glad to be a part of in the sense that we get to be involved in policy and procedure, but you are the ones that actually are doing the work with Dr. Taylor and on the staff here and it's exciting to see and hear what you have to say especially the working across and working with each other because that means when they do get to whatever next group they're they're on the same page. So it's very encouraging and I commend you all for what you do. Thank you. At this time, discuss or take action on accepting athletic field house bills. Sam and I along with Tiffany met with the architect today
065and three different companies and they brought bids and u we opened the bids and they were well exceeding our budget. Um so I talked with the architect and um what I would like to is just ask for this to be tabled at this time. Uh we're going to explore options of letting our maintenance staff do some of the work and that's permissible and the architect said that there's no weightbearing walls. So everything that needs to be done internally there can be done by our maintenance staff which in turn would save us a substantial amount of money. The bids came in about $200,000 more than we have budgeted. So at this time that would be my recommendation. We need to make a motion table. >> Hi Drew. >> Hi Cody. >> Hi. >> Chair discuss take
066action to accept the SFCC offer of assistance for $1,743. >> Basically what that is every year the which is part of KB will give us an offer a certain amount of money but they are willing to pay part of our bonds for future projects if we accept this offer. So it's nothing we have to use. It doesn't cost us anything but we accept it our next big project that would require BG1 by architect we could use that money toward that. So over the life of that offer, it would pay approximately $150,000 for loans for us. >> That's 11,743 a year. >> Per year motion to accept a motion to accept SFCC offer assistance for 11,743. I'll take >> a motion and second to adjourn. Next meeting will be January 27th central office at 5:30. I'll
067second. >> Thank you all.