001all right i'm going to call the meeting to order at six o'clock um i will need a motion to adopt the agenda i move to adopt the agenda second all in favor aye aye motion carries four to zero we don't have um do we have chad on okay i'm sure he will join us when he has service all right let's go ahead and do the pledge i 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 we have all of our meeting minutes now um so we can't is there any questions comments concerned on the meeting minutes from the last three yes no okay um i'll need a i need a motion do we
002need to do each one separately can we do them all as a group um because their agenda items i would do each one separately okay okay so i moved to approve the minutes from the regular board meeting on january the 12th of 2022. second all in favor aye so there you go um so motion carries five to zero i moved i moved to approve the minutes for the special meeting of february 1st 2022. second all in favor hi hi are we here chad hi hi oh he's and i okay okay motion carries five to zero and i move to approve the minutes from the regular meeting of february 9th 2022. second all in favor aye aye aye motion okay there we go motion carries five to zero okay we have the superintendent report thank you
003mr president uh madam president um on the consent agenda today is recommendation for new principal and assistant principal registrar at combs high school um just want to give you a little background on the process and on the individuals and if you'd like they can come up and and uh speak for a couple minutes or you can wait till the consent agenda whichever is your preference uh the recommendation uh for the well let me start with the process the process in terms of the assistant principal was a committee a committee that was comprised of district office personnel as well as high school staff including administration that would be individuals that are assistant principals interviews were candidates were reviewed prior to the selection of who would interview then they came in for the interview process a recommendation
004was made based on the interview process and then the appropriate [Music] background checks etc were taken taken place and then looked at experience and those kind of things to determine uh placement for the high school principle for principal positions we do a little bit more in the district so again the same uh vetting of all of all candidates and the selection process for those that would meet the criteria to be interviewed and a committee slightly larger committee because the high school principal included a parent of high school students as well as i think it was eight or nine individuals on the committee both district administration as well as as well as teachers and counselors from the high school of the six individuals that were interviewed three of them were brought back for a second round
005of interviews that consisted of discussions with ms hargis and myself and then separate discussions with the leadership team at the high school and then after that there was a community forum uh and then in those steps all three of those steps uh individuals uh that were involved in the interview process uh had forms to fill out and comments to be made about the individual candidates uh that that they'd listened to and then that information was uh uh moved on to me and for my review uh and then along with all other considerations um of what i believe is best for the for the district uh what we need to do to continue to move the high school forward in the district forward and then a recommendation was moved forward our recommendation for high school principal
006is miss tanya loftus miss loftus has 10 years experience as administrator with the majority of that experience i believe it's eight or nine years at the secondary level that secondary level would be both middle school and high school primarily high school but there was some time in the middle school level uh that experience was in a lot of it was in the apache junction district she's currently an assistant principal at skyline high school in the mesa district and has been there for the past three years she received her ba from asu and special education and her master's in educational leadership from the university of phoenix i don't know if you would like for her to introduce herself now or to wait that's up to you guys i think that we usually do it after consented
007okay that's fine we'll do that then for the high school assistant principal registrar i say registrar because that's the primary area of responsibility as opposed to athletics or operational uh areas is miss april kazzynski did i screw that up too bad april okay sorry about that she's currently dean of students at payne junior high school in chandler school district her teaching career has been in special education with the majority of her time at hamilton high school in the chandler district she received a ba from north central college in sports management and her master's in educational administration from grand canyon university and so those would be the two that will bring forward in the in the consent agenda uh other uh discussions for the report today if you look at the um numbers that we have
008i'm not going to go through all the numbers the one thing you may notice is that you will see a slight decrease in terms of the number of of students in comparison to last year that's in large part if you remember last year we did have a little bit of upswing right around spring break for uh students coming back that had been doing in person and so that's going to be reflective of some of the some of the changes in terms of the numbers but it still shows that uh year over year uh would still be 261 kids above what we had last year at this time and so we were starting to see an uptick in the number of kids that were returning from the covid covett stuff we have released you approved at
009the last board meeting we have released contracts and work agreements to all the staff went out last week the the length of time to return the um contracts in two of the three cases is dictated by law classified staff have five days to return uh certified staff have 15 days to return that's 15 calendar days and that's per state statute administration and psychologists have 30 days to return again that's a state statute not quite sure who decided at some point time that that teachers would have 15 days and the others would have 30 but that's in the statute so we just we just go ahead and follow that at the schools uh probably the biggest thing coming up i know there's more than a few students in the room that are probably counting the hours
010the days the minutes until we get to spring break that will be coming up on [Music] on monday and it is a two-week spring break the recently the stuco kids up at the high school received a recognition as a platinum level in the areas of charitable contributions and service hours by the arizona association of stew student councils it's their highest award and i think probably um what that tells us more than anything else is is we we always talk about combs cares and the fact that our kids are going to get recognized for charitable contributions and service hours indicates the amount of time that their sponsor dr nelson has worked with them to make sure that whatever their experience is as part of student council that there's a portion of it that says we give
011back to our community and we help our community out and so for those kids to be recognized for that speaks highly of of what they do and how they help our community out it's one of those probably those quiet unsung things that most people don't see but it does make a difference in our community so we did want to recognize them and and let them know how proud we are for the work they're doing as as part of the student government also we've we're starting up with the spring sports at the high school note at the middle school uh we will be ending our third quarter sports here this week and then they'll start up the fourth quarter sports when we get back from when we get back from a spring break and that's what
012i have for reports all right any questions all right let's go ahead and do the school and staff recognition mrs dunker come on down i think i haven't used this before i'm going to stop you right there i made an error my apologies so i can go sit down for a few minutes no yep you can you can breathe for two minutes that's my apologies my apologies a few times over so uh the other thing that we do um every month we try to recognize different groups of employees that um based on what's happening in the country generally speaking we have a lot of employee groups that have either a day a month or a week that's recognized on a national level and this particular upcoming week march 6 through march 12th marks the celebration
013of national school social workers week and so we wanted to take a moment uh to go ahead and recognize some of the social workers or the social workers in our district uh governor ducey has issued a proclamation that declares the this week school social work uh week in arizona um and really what we talk about when we talk about social workers especially as we come out of covet 19 it's very similar conversation than what we had last month with our counselors with everything that's going on in our country and and all the things that kids face in schools today and our families are facing uh these are those unsung heroes that that go the extra mile uh to help our kids and help our families uh help them with what resources are available if people
014are struggling working with kids in school on a daily basis to help them out if they're having issues they're forming together as a team with our with our social worker excuse me with our counselors and with other individuals in the district to provide social emotional training for our teachers and for our staff and just providing a component that at the end of the day makes school a safe place for kids you can look at kids all you want at the end of the day when you talk to kids this is probably the safest place they have and that's in our school system and so we want to call up these individuals and and recognize them and and truly give them a thanks for all that they do for our kids so at the high school
015we have jessica doty she could come up [Applause] at the middle school we have lorraine schindledecker just have yeah have him wait up there [Applause] uh at ellsworth erin gomez at harman tanya thompson [Applause] at ranch lori mcrae [Applause] and at simonton angela alberts in many cases our employees burn the midnight oil on several different levels so we appreciate those that can make it they can't always make because they have busy schedules so thank you again [Applause] all right thank you man can come up yeah madam president members of the board dr wyman it is my pleasure to share with you what's been going on at ellsworth this year we have first grade here they are going to talk about writing and what they've been writing um they've also been they worked on unpacking their
016standard as well as a success criteria for their writing so they're going to share with you their journey and then they will read their writing to you they did opinion pieces so they're actually very excited about that so i'm going to call up mrs schweikert our first grade teacher jeffrey buckingham and jayde palafox [Applause] all right hello everyone thank you for inviting us tonight um in first grade we have a roadmap for each subject that we're learning about it looks like this all of our students have one and in our ela journey like miss dunker said um we're currently learning about opinion writing so ms dunker's going to show everyone our unpacked standard here and this is our new standard that we've happened upon and when we unpack it what we do is we look
017for what we have to know in the standard and we also look for things that we're going to have to do so essentially we're picking out the nouns and the verbs in the standard and we're making sure that the students understand what's expected of them and let's see jeffrey and jayer do you want to come over let's take a look over here at our unpacked standards is [Music] very good jeffrey that's excellent and then we also talked about reasons and we also include a closure and we know that a closure restates our opinion in a different way thank you boys [Applause] and then along with our unpacked standard we develop success criteria so the teachers are in charge of this but it's really more for the students as well it's a list of features that
018our first grade team wants the students to include in their work during their practice but it's also for the students to know what's expected to that of them and it also helps them to extend themselves throughout the course of our unit or our module so here are some of the different ways you can see right here these students are proficient they are a three they are agreed because they can introduce their topic they can restate their opinion they can add a reason and then add it so we don't always start at a three sometimes we start at a one or two but that's okay because as we learn more we know that we can move our means up throughout the level and when we're agreed we don't stop learning we keep going for a four
019please yeah would you guys like to share yeah come on over come on over okay all right let's see mr jeffrey come on up here oh and you have yours come on up that uh like guys a little closer yeah a little closer there are many fruits sold at the supermarket i think bananas are the very best they have healthy vitamins that are good for you everyone said love bananas very good and mr jayed go bud there are there are many amazing presidents my favorite one was george washington he is on the dollar bill that's why i like excellent job [Applause] thank you very much great job boys [Applause] we all love bananas we better all right oh miss schweikert don't go anywhere you can put your stuff down but i want you to come
020back up so now for our staff recognition and she didn't know she's like oh i see nicole here i see jenny here they are they being recognized tonight like well nicole is but um rachel has been at ellsworth for how many years rachel where'd you go come over here for nine years and i don't know how she maintains um this level of i think a lot of coffee um this level of pep and calmness and patience that she displays throughout every single day she really does um build a love of learning in all students she builds relationships with the students she really tries to bring out the best in them every single day and she is a leader on campus people turn to her for ideas and for suggestions and she is so reflective she's
021always trying to find ways to improve her craft even though she's been teaching for so many years so i want to present rachel with a blue apple [Applause] we'll have to get some blue for rachel oops sorry i can't i can't i'm embarrassed now i know i'm so sorry rachel i broke your apple [Laughter] and i have a plan for you that i'm not gonna breathe there you go all right and then could i have miss nicole horsley come up here please so nicole started with us last school year as a playground aide and that means that she did a lot of lunch duty and when we had an opening for one of our resource paraprofessionals she loved us so much that she wanted to join us full time and one of the things that
022i love about nicole is that she is always looking for ways to help students last year she she created some different games for the students to play on the playground she really took ownership over that she made a little red light green light card for them she really um she bought playground chalk she has a little sprayer that the kids like to be sprayed with when it's hot out after their their lunch recess and today is an example of she was with a student who was upset and she told the student she's like you have a right to feel the way that you are but i need you to be safe and it was just it was so reassuring to see that you know allowing that student to have those strong feelings but and letting
023him know that it was okay to show them but in a safe way so she is loved by many on campus she does crosswalk duty she gets to know not only the families that come to pick up or walk every day but also the community members that may drive by the school every day i know that you've built a relationship with the guy that drives the mustang and he revs his engine every day for you um so we are really lucky to have her and we i just wanted to recognize her with the silver apple and i'm not going to touch it [Applause] thank you and lastly and josie couldn't be here she had an another um function tonight so josie carpenter is the admin assistant at for ellsworth and she has actually worked at
024the middle school um for a number of years left for a little bit found out the grass wasn't greener came back to our district and i got to tell you that it is she really does help me keep my head on straight had she been here i wouldn't have broken the apple that's just one example that i can give of josie she takes care of the front office the school today she was up i was um she was with the student tomorrow's twin day for school spirit and she was trying to find out what hoodie her and the student had that match so that they could be twins tomorrow for twin days so it was she just she really does a great job and is a great part of our community and so i wanted
025to recognize her unfortunately she couldn't be here tonight but that was the office personnel for our blue apple award thank you so thank you for letting us share about elsewhere thank you okay so that goes the student of the month yeah madam president members of the board dr wyman and also our honored parents and guests and our colleagues the pleasure again the best part of my day is the recognition of students of the month could i have from combs center of success austin bethel we will recognize austin at the next board meeting could i have from combs high school claudia pinkerton [Applause] claudia shows great responsibility when it comes to her schoolwork by making sure everything is turned in on time and done at a certain level of excellence there have been multiple occasions that
026claudia has shown responsibility by getting work completed before having an excused absence she's always looking to find new resources to learn and help learn economics in her class with mr hoagland mr hoagland nominated you and claudia he feels that you're a great example of what it means to be responsible both as a student and as a person congratulations claudia could i have kaelin moss come up from combs middle school [Applause] there you go good job kalyn comes to class every day with a smile on her face and as always and always a good morning she comes prepared to work and she works very hard even when she might find something difficult with the content she's polite when she is asking for help and she even says thank you when i'm passing out the work and
027that's mrs wooten she works very well with her classmates and no matter who she's working with she treats them with kindness and respect and that is what responsibility is all about congratulations caleb could i have reagan diaz from cta [Applause] you ready when we think of a responsible kindergartner we think of reagan diaz this amazing kiddo comes to school every day with a smile on her face and is excited about learning she always comes prepared with homework completed a positive attitude attitude and ready to work hard and to learn every day even when the work is hard she perseveres reagan listens follows directions and shows quiet leadership to her peers by always doing what she is supposed to do her kind heart and helpfulness to all of her classmates shows them what it truly means
028to be a good friend we can't be more proud of her academic and personal growth reagan has shown this year congratulations reagan [Applause] could i have logan champagne from ellsworth logan is an excellent example of our character trait of responsibility he takes pride in completing his work and makes sure that he is accountable for all of his assignments and some that may be missing we can always count on logan to do the following expect follow the expectations around our school with a great example for those who may need to be reminded of what's right thing to do we trust logan to be respectful at all times to everyone he comes in contact with even in difficult situations we deeply appreciate all that logan does to be responsible student and adding to our positive classroom culture
029at ellsworth congratulations could i have easton schultz come up from harmon [Applause] we will celebrate easton next month could i have kyler meyer come up from ranch [Applause] we would like to present kyler meyer as our student of character representing the trait of responsibility kyler is an extraordinary kindergarten student he can be observed doing the right thing at the right time he's trustworthy and dependable kyler takes care of his belongings and is always kind and caring to his friends and peers congratulations kyler [Applause] and last but not least could i have ella hopes come up from symington [Applause] i was asking her if i said her last name practice ella is an extraordinary student who exemplifies responsibility in everything she does she's always proactive in her school work and ensures that her work is completed
030on time and is finished in its entirely entirety she is trustworthy and a leader in our classroom who knows and follows the classroom and the school sops at all times when given a test she completes it in a timely manner if she's unsure of something she asks questions to make sure she has clear understanding of the expectations and directions congratulations ella this concludes this portion of the of the board meeting if you would like to take pictures at this time parents and then if you want to stay you can stay if not you will continue with the board meeting we'll go for about five minutes one two three go [Music] you need these [Music] tell them confidence that's good it makes me feel good i was glad she picked two boys [Music] well because they're
031in there so tight you can just touch it sometimes so and that's the first time we've had break so if i call him tomorrow good job thank you okay and then there was five he said then there was just five lisa to come back [Laughter] okay we're gonna go ahead and move on so um governing board members do you have anything that you would like to report um yes i have one thing i'd like to share each month we get an update from evit the east valley institute of technology and in the most recent update which either came out yesterday or today there was a information about even hopefully in the future being allowed to offer associate degrees and apparently that's something before the arizona state legislature and they're considering that now that community colleges
032can offer four-year degrees it's kind of trickling down so they're very excited to be able to offer that for some of their programs and we'll just keep an eye out and see if that becomes law thank you anyone else okay do you want to have public comments no we don't none okay um we'll go ahead and move on to the consent agenda any questions no does chad have any questions he does not okay then i'll need to i'll take a motion so i move that the governing board prove the consent agenda as presented second all in favor um that's five to zero emotion we got it from chad so with that we did um approve uh tanya loftus as the principal for the high school so if you miss loftus if you would like to
033come up and say a couple words that would be great first off i wanted to take this opportunity to thank the governing board as well as dr weinman for giving me this opportunity to come and lead combs and then secondly i wanted to commend combs unified school district in regards to the process that i went through the interview process to become the principal at combs high school i think it speaks volumes in regards to the dedication of this school district and ensuring that the students have a good safe um leader uh who's dedicated to them you the it was the most humbling experience that i've ever had and i learned so much from the experience i learned a lot about myself and i also learned about combs i also want to thank mr farabe for
034having already have combs high school to the point that it is and that i get to come in and continue that work that he has done thus far and so i'm very appreciative of of what he's done and i'll be honest i've tried for many years to come out here and work for him and now he's leaving so but i do commend him and appreciate what he's already done at combs and again thank you governing board for allowing me to come and work at clemson thank you thank you thank you along with that we have an assistant principal at um the high school and it's april april i'm gonna go ahead and let you tell us your last name i'm not going to be as brave good evening everyone um my name is april kuczynski
035so it was close i just want to thank you guys for having me here tonight and for allowing me this opportunity thank you dr wyman and the board for this great opportunity to be a part of the j.o combs family it has been a great experience going through the interviews the number one thing that i said when i left was how professional everybody was i still have the goodie bag so i appreciate that i'm really looking forward to being a part of this district and to becoming a coyote next school year thank you thank you oh do you guys have any questions for them no i will let you know that they will be uh on campus tomorrow uh with chris uh doing a number of different things and a chance to meet students staff
036and be introduced at uh at a faculty meeting at the end of the day so they will be there tomorrow we are we are sad to see mr fairby and mr sheldon go but i'm sure you guys will fill their shoes um okay so we have uh 8.1 is discussion and consideration of approval of the 21 22 staff growth stipend uh this was part of the uh budget recommendations from uh from last year if you'll recall we had indicated if uh if we had uh a hundred or 200 kid growth 280 m growth over the course of the year when we get funded for that we would go ahead and provide a stipend this is not permanent it's a one-time uh uh stipend uh and we did in the comparison you'll see four zero uh
037it's two hundred and five eighty m a little over 205 atm uh and so we're going to go ahead and move with the stipend as we presented as part of the budget the attached uh list has all the individuals in the amount that they receive i think it's approximately two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars uh last year if you recall i believe the number that we used uh and this was more in the neighborhood of 265 000 but uh just given the number of staff members we have that met the criteria we've had any number of positions we haven't been on phil this year the number is a little bit less than what we'd anticipated any questions on that bob you have no questions wait all right um so i'll take a motion then i
038move to approve the 2122 staff growth stipend as presented i second look at lisa all in favor aye hi perfect all in favor uh five motion carries five to zero all right uh 8.2 discussion consideration to approve estimate oh wait a minute estimate of access capacity for open enrollment acceptance for 2223. yes uh the state statute and governing board policy require that the the board establish uh capacity and anything up to meeting capacity school districts can't accept open enrollment students anything above capacity when we reach capacity then there would be a process that you have to put in place to put people on a or students on a wait list and then select off that wait list so the purpose of this agenda item is just to give you that um those numbers and what
039you're going to see is school based that is based on the sfb calculations for the size of the school you also have a grade level based and a ratio as well as program specific when we talk about special education i will note that the grade level is starred only because we may be two part portions of that we may be above a specific grade level uh ratio so let's just say we had two kindergarten excuse me two first grade classes and they had 28 and 28 kids if you had a kid from the outside coming in we could place them on a wait list if you had a student that moved into the district then you have to take them by loss so you just because we use the number 27 that does not automatically
040and mean that every single class is no more than 27 the law is what the law is relative to kids moving in the other portion of it is you may also have let's just say 27 or 28 kids in one class and in the other class you only have 25. technically speaking then you have room in that other class before you get to 27 so you would go ahead and allow kids in that class we do have excess capacity in our elementaries or actually all of our schools and so this has not been per se an issue we run into it every once in a while at a specific grade level and then we would go ahead and move on to the wait list and the priority for waitlist so i would recommend approval as
041presented any questions on that i do when i look at the numbers and i add them together you get close to seven thousand so what the fsb is saying is if if every one of our schools was at capacity we would be close to a seven thousand student population yeah and part of part of the issue that comes up is one smb calculates capacity they take into account gyms cafetoriums libraries and big spaces and so in many cases you're probably going to be at capacity before you hit here but this is the calculation we use there are other factors that would come into play if you're getting to the point where you're growing you know mr ray and and and queen creek is growing uh and so when you get into some other issues you
042may be already working with the smb for additional classroom space and or additional buildings but this is what they use for the the numbers to start but it is bigger because they take into your hallways differently than if there were no interior hallways it was only exterior so the numbers a little bit inflated uh and then actually in some of your older schools not here but in other districts is probably greatly inflated just because of the way they do the calculation any other questions okay i'll take a motion all right i moved to approve the estimate of excess capacity for open enrollment acceptance for the 22-23 school years as presented a second all in favor motion carries 5-0 okay um discussion eight eight point three discussion and consideration of approval of community use of district
043facility fees for 2223. again this is uh annual uh approval from the board that's needed and so this is a fee schedule for 22.23 has not changed from last year's fee schedule uh and so it is what people would pay if they want to rent our facilities there's some also some other requirements that that needed they just don't come in and pay and rent it they have to have the million dollars worth of liability insurance in order to rent the facility and they have to go ahead and make sure they they uh conform with any of our rules and regulations obviously covet as an example we had some extra uh specifics about what could be used and how many people could attend if we move away from covert a little bit and get back to
044quote unquote near normal then they would they would still comply with anything else that we needed within our rules so i would recommend approval as presented any questions on that okay i'll take a motion okay i moved to approve the community use of district facilities fee schedule for 2223 as presented i second all in favor hi all right most thing carries five to zero we have a discussion item uh 9.1 on information on student achievement mid-year fast bridge results good evening madam president member of the board dr wyman have a clicker i need to define it first let's see if it works i am here tonight to talk about our mid-year screening uh results for uh fast track in both reading and math um and share with you the progress or how our students are
045doing in terms of that screening a reminder that we're looking at our comprehensive assessment system the screening tools that we employ help us to identify students for additional support that are monitored through short cycle classroom formative assessment through those plc data team cycle formative assessments and really the goal is to use all this data to ensure that students are able to to get the support needed to access the content that we're going to be assessing at the district benchmark and state summative assessment level so the first tool that we're going to be looking at is the fast track reading screening those are computer-based measures are curriculum-based measures as well as computer adaptive test measures k1 is what's called early reading 2 3 is cbm reading and a reading and 4 12 is auto reading and
046a reading early reading is a one-to-one test administered by the classroom teacher it's looking at things like onset sounds letter sounds and word segmenting and nonsense words and something to keep in mind with early reading especially is that the subtests that kids are given change from fall to winter to spring so in the fall the kindergartner students had a subtest on concepts of print which they did not get in the winter and they also had a letter name subtest which that's dropped for the winter and then they have word segmenting and nonsense words in the winter that that are separate um the first grade uh for early reading they're looking at word segmenting nonsense words sight words and then in the fall they had sentence reading that drops off and in the winter they're doing
047cbm reading and what cbm reading is is that's a fluency test students are given three passages they have to read that passage they're given a minute to read those three passages and then we're taking the median score from that a reading is a broad reading abilities test so it's very similar if you're familiar with star test it about 30 to 60 questions computer adaptive students start at their grade level and then it adapts as they answer questions correctly or or incorrectly and then auto reading is a automaticity with select reading skills so that that's looking at are they recognizing letter names and sounds decoding identifying the correct spelling word synonyms and detecting difference in word meanings both auto reading is a timed test so students will have very short amount of time to answer each
048of those questions so these are results for kindergarten and first early reading you're going to see that there are i have dibbles in the graph from last year dibbles is the tool that we used to to screen kids previously we are we're now using fast track um reading they are two different assessments um so uh in talking to ms bates our early literacy specialist [Music] she believes that the fast track reading is a much more comprehensive test than dibbles was and believes it's a stronger assessment but you can see that kindergarten we typically do see an increase in students that are are at what consi is considered to be at core um but compared to last year we saw a huge increase in our students at core in kindergarten uh between our beginning of the
049year and middle of the year testing first grade um historically we do see kind of a decrease from the beginning of the year to the middle year again remember they're getting different tests and the cut scores tend to increase so the expectation is that students are improving over time so the good news here again looking at our fast track results is that our first grade the percentage of kids that are considered to be at low risk in increased as well second and third grade uh with cbm reading that is very similar to what we had with dibbles dibbles was a had three passages that students had to read they were timed in a minute historically we have always seen second grade decrease at the middle of the year and a lot of that has to
050do with the what the cut score is asking of kids in dibbles they went from a 75 accuracy to like a 90 accuracy in the middle of the year and this is the first time that these kids are really um expected to be reading fluently um so similar track with the cbm reading and fast track third grade um we did see a decline this year in our third graders performance at the middle of the year uh compared to what we had last year with dibbles i also have the ability through fast fast bridge they do have some norming that they've done and so i'm able to give you a national growth percentile typically what you're looking for there is anything between 35 and 65 a 65th percentile would be typical growth anything below the 35th
051percentile is considered below growth anything above 65th percentile is considered to be high growth the way a percentile works is basically they line up every kid in the nation that's taken the test and the kid that had the highest growth that's the 99th percentile the child that had the lowest growth that's your first percentile so you can see our second and third grades they're on the low end of that growth but they're they're close to being that that typical growth area second through 12th grade this is our a reading and remember this is our our abroad spectrum it's standards-based adaptive test um you can see beginning of the year is the the column on the left middle of the year this column on the right again remember our the cut scores increase at each time
052they take the assessment um so it gets a little bit harder um to to be on track um the good news is looking at our high school especially uh ninth tenth and eleventh grade uh some very good numbers right there and again you can see this is uh the they're able to give us growth percentile for a reading as well um and you can see especially ninth and tenth grade they're sitting at above the 50th percentile that's the average for for that grade level so very good growth happening in terms of that that general reading skill happening at the high school level this is the auto reading again this is the automaticity those fundamental skills uh it's timed which a lot of kids aren't aren't used to having to to do this under pressure and
053then a timed basis again though you can see that 8th 9th 10th 11th all of those had improvements that those kids considered to be at low risk in that that fluency and for most of our kids 4th 5th sixth seventh are still above the fiftieth more than fifty percent of our kids are are considered to be low risk which is very very good questions on the the reading side of it just one quick question i'm sure that all the teachers that are involved in this can see these results and it's reviewed with them okay yes actually teachers get the results and then what's great about fast track is they will get they have access to a report called screening to intervention and it basically identifies for the class here is as a teacher what i
054should be doing in terms of class-wide intervention and then for each individual student it also identifies this is the need that this student has and provides some guidance as to what they should be doing in terms of tier two intervention with that student in the classroom so it um that is something that we never had with dibbles so so it provides a lot of guidance and direction uh to really tell us what to drill down to for an individual student to support them any other questions i don't have a question but i do have a comment i think it's great that it's timed because it's going to help our students preparing for upcoming state testing that is timed in those areas so the automaticity especially is timed just because you're trying to determine can they
055do it automatically and if they're given time they can they can usually figure it out but it's for those those automaticity pieces have to be timed in order to to really see do they have it the math again are curriculum-based measures and computer adaptive measures in k1 they're taking something called early math for the kindergarten they're looking at match quantity number sequencing numeral identification in the fall is the match quantity that drops away in the winter they do decomposing which is basically breaking apart the number and first grade they're looking at decomposing number sequence in the fall they did numeral identification this time around they did place value as their subtest second through 12th grade they're doing cbm math and a math cb and math is similar to the auto reading in that it's measuring
056automaticity for students so it's math fact mastery it's timed and really looking at how well do they do with those basic math facts can they can they really process quickly and and do those a math is similar to the a reading and that it's looking at broad math abilities and it's aligned to standards so with the early math uh and with all of these for the math side of it i want you to keep in mind the window for administering these expected window was at the very beginning of the school year those first four weeks because of the amount of training that we had to do related to illuminate dna and getting the fast track reading up on on on up and going we did not administer the fast track math until the the two
057weeks prior to um fall break so we were way outside of the window so the results that you're seeing in the in the fall at the beginning of the year those are going to be a little skewed uh because those kids had almost nine weeks of instruction prior to taking the beginning of the year screener which typically we would want to look at it without any instruction at all so keep that in mind as you're looking at that at this is that they're the beginning of the year is probably higher than it should be so that was our uh and with the math they don't have the same norming uh some of these are still brand new and so they don't have enough data to be able to give us those percentiles like i did
058in the with the the reading fast track the cbm math for second through 12th grade again you see that automaticity is a lot higher scoring at the beginning of the year and it's gone it's significantly lower at the middle of the year i truly believe that's because of when we administered it and then this is the a math the general math ability and and probably the same thing we do with a math have a national growth percentile so you can kind of see that still those growth percentiles are high so so our kids are in that average that that typical growth range on average but obviously we'll have better data next year so [Music] questions about math before i go on to next steps okay next steps so our title one sites uh all of
059our sites that have lexia they have been working with our customer service um customer support manager to uh have additional training that they do that dives into you've got data in the system what do you do with it now one of the anecdotal things i can tell you is that when i look at our lexia progress kindergarten started out the year at about 35 percent of our kids that were below grade or actually 35 of our kids were at grade level uh 65 of our kids were below grade level the same growth that i saw on in in reading um on that early early reading for kindergarten i'm seeing the same growth in lexia so i whether it the the it's chicken or the egg are they just reflecting our teachers doing a great job
060or is lexia having an impact on those kindergarten performances i don't know that's something that i want to sit down and look at this summer and do some correlation studies but i do believe lexia especially at the primary grades is having an impact on the literacy with our kids title 1 reading specialists have been working with ms bates to identify additional training and support while looking at all of this our district content coaches have also been collaborating with sites for additional training support st math we're working on setting up training uh by grade band to provide some additional support with that on how you've got data now what do you do with it again we've at the district level we've been working with sites regarding gaps and then also looking at our instructional resources and
061what other professional learning needs do we have related to that and the last piece is i've been meeting with site leadership to basically walk through how do we look at this data and depersonalize it and make it about how do i improve and what do i need to do in order to to meet student needs so we've been doing a lot of work with that any questions all right thank you very much okay so we'll move down to 10.1 um future agenda items and does anybody have anything that they would like to add to the agenda for next next uh i have one um we have a beautiful performing arts center maybe we could have someone from there come and tell us about it what kind of programs are being offered both for our high
062school and elementary school students as well as outside groups that are using it and i think it would be a way to get some more publicity for it and maybe get some more revenue coming in as well anybody else any gin what about chad what's he's got any burning desires to have something on the agenda no okay all right well that being said i am going to make a motion to adjourn this meeting at 6 59. a second all in favor aye aye aye motion carries five to zero