001[Music] great okay wonderful um we're going to begin our meeting with presentations from Baldo and Dietrich schools tonight um our first um school to present is Waldo Middle School the administrative team is here they'll be presenting on their continuous School Improvement plan welcome principal eileene Roberts assistant principal Sheila Armstrong and Walter oras and Dean Tama Gardner I have long legs I guess I sprinted up your good evening Board of Education superintendent Nell guests and of course our Waldo staff thank you for having us tonight I'm Eileen Roberts proud principal of Waldo Middle School this is assistant principal AR uh Sheila Armstrong assistant principle Walter orelis and dean of students Tama Gardner Waldo is a unique and wonderful place to learn as you can see from our 2324 summary highlights Waldo is raising the bar we
002were able to move from a comprehensive ISB designation uh in 2223 to Target it in 2324 Waldo is raising the bar by working on systems that are data driven that support student learning and achievement we have 58% of our English language learners demonstr rate growth as measured by access this was a 16% increase from the previous year we had 50% of our students meet our seed our their growth Target in Reading as measured by nwaa map and this was a 6% increase from the previous year 64% of our students met or exceeded their growth Target in math in as measured by nwaa map and that was a 133% increase from the previous year uh our attend landed around 90% last year but currently we are trending Upward at 92.4% as Walo continues to raise the
003bar we recognize that we still have room to grow and help our students to achieve we will share what we are doing to make those improvements throughout our Waldo Story upon reviewing the current CFA data it is evident that our sixth graders Sixth and eighth graders are performing admirably additionally there's a clear correlation between the CFA data of our seventh graders and their anticipated growth in NWA math Assessments in terms of the reading performance the data indicates that a greater number of students are meeting or exceeding expectations in IR reading compared to those in IR mathematics one of the initiatives uh we are implementing to enhance student Improvement and achievement involves collaboration with all staff members this year we requested that each staff member select a student to receive focused instruction and support aim that
004help them achieve their goals for our first goal educational Equity at at present the entire wdo staff is actively engaged in enhancing the overall climate and culture of our school in collaboration with our mtss coordinators we are implementing the Second Step curriculum and working outside our clinicians which has enabled us to visit classrooms um excuse me visit classrooms and integrate numerous seal um supports into tier one as part of our administrative effort we have conducted targeted visits with our newcomers and Bilal Educators this Academic Year we have been very fortunate to establish our mentoring program while fostering robust student leadership to assist in redirecting some of our students who are facing challenges so um in terms of attendance uh this year we're trying a different approach so we're trying to use a growth mindset so
005it's not about when you achieve the it's not achieving a goal it's when you achieve the goal sorry uh so we are celebrating students on certain Milestones so we decided to hit them with 20 days 44 days 64 days and 82 days and so an example of an incentive would be you have to have lunch lunching along with myself so we ate lunch this spring uh they're getting laptop stickers this week and they also have walking tacos um our attendance clerk displaced the previous day attendance and we read it daily in the morning to inform everyone of our status uh as of today we are performing a little bit better than last year like Sheila said so we're at 9244 per compared to last year 9135 per. uh we would like to thank Dr Ballard
006and Dr vanus for their guidance and being transparent with our data by encouraging the use of data walls for all stakeholders to view the visibility of our data encourages um conversations for student staff and parents all right goal three Waldo is committed to supporting all of our students I'm thrilled the shared leadership that has come out and revamped our reading initiative during this roll out it was like watching popcorn but it was staff popping up to share and talk about the reading strategies that we have going on they you could tell that they all spoke from the heart and they were invested in our reading initiative so many of our team leaders PLC facilitators and instructional coaches joined in this effort to ensure that students can read and comprehend the content that they are learning
007this collaborative leadership is what sets Waldo apart from their peers Waldo Rose together for what is best for students goal four as just mentioned Waldo has the reading initiative to help every child grow and learn we started by having a reading night called Waldo Camp read a lot there were s'mores and campfires and Tents in our library along with many fun activities to promote reading Dr angle joined us that evening to support us and find and celebrate successes with our families just recently we participated in the districtwide reading competition with light sale I am proud to say that Waldo is the highest average minutes read in English for the entire competition and we also had two teachers Miss the and Mr Magnus that both encouraged their teach their students to read a ton and also
008got some honorable mentions so we are reading and pushing reading and working on reading across the board at Waldo and we are proud of everybody's efforts thank you so much for all you do to support Waldo we wish you a happy holiday season any questions okay um our second um School presenting tonight is Dietrich Elementary School their administrative team is here they'll be presenting on their continuous School Improvement plan welcome principal Lauren Cunningham and assistant principal Wilson Morales good evening Dr school board members I'm Dr Lauren Cunningham the proud principal of dri Elementary School my name is Wilson Morales I'm the assistant principal thank you for allowing us to present this year's plan uh for our school Improvement team but first I want to highlight some of our achievements from last year uh we focused
009on Behavior English language Learners attendance and academics um our overall office referral was reduced by 60% with only 125 referrals for last year um we reduced this by really focusing on student Behavior our average daily attendance was 93.4 two% our goal was 95 so we were pretty close to that goal as well for Access 49% of our English language Learners met or exceeded their proficiency Target scale as measured by access on our I ready diagnostic 53% of students met their annual typical growth and 24 met their stretch growth goal for our map results 40% of our English dominant students and 27% of our Spanish dominant students met or exceeded their target growth goal in reading and 44% met or exceeded their expected growth in math when we look at the common formative assessments and map
010data and I data we can see that there's some alignment between the common formative assessments and the map data but that map and I did not align so our leadership teams look at the I sample questions that are available and compared that to the rigor of the cfas that are currently being used in their plcs and that's been a focus of us this year to really make sure that students are able to build on their stamina so that they can answer the rigorous questions on the IR also we've identified the students who were close to meeting IR so we can really Target our support and focus on them so that way we can make sure that they achieve uh for this school year jene I mean going back to that slide drilling down back to
011fourth grade um you know with that 4% for the CFA I mean what's the do we know what the cause of that was or we really looked into that um in terms of just that level of rigor if you see that their common formative assessments compared to their I data was much more aligned a lot of writing um one of the district Focus goals is that MP3 which really focuses on explaining their answer um and they have a very uh rigorous rubric that they're using so I was okay with because it really does show where our students are at and what we need to do to move keep moving them okay uh one of our goals um for the May 2025 is with our El students to have their scores go up and notice we
012kept it at 70% even though the previous year we were at 49 um we did we feel we can hit that so we kept it at the 70% um and our action plans include administrators we keep pushing our year-long plans with staff throughout the year um we do have the PDS of course um the teachers we push on the wedita standards the can do statements um Dr Cunningham and I do walkthroughs like crazy so we have actually a schedule of focus points and we go out to the classrooms um daily um we give the feedback there's different forms that we use and give that feedback back to the teachers and then during our staff meetings and other meetings we have focused discussion on these items and the teachers are enjoying the feedback they're getting back
013as for the other is reduction of students reaching the three or more referrals and um first of all the teachers we doing the universal expectations with the students we make sure we cover that and in the mornings we have um seal um section of time frame that we talk about ver uh very subject matters um that's includes the Second Step there and then we have the ntss process where we have the check in and check out where students go to person they feel comfortable um as a IG groups the school Behavior Support um we just got a bcba that's now in our school on a regular basis daily who's also supported thank you for that yes thank you very much and we do communicate with the parents of what we're asking from our students one
014of the things I want to point out is we had to revise our Behavior Uh goal this year because we just 60% reduction our goal last year had been 5% and we did it was 60% so we really wanted to Target our High Flyers um right now with these supports in place we haven't had any students receive three or more referrals um sorry the attendance sorry we um look at the we have the new centergy program but we have taken the centergy and looked at past Infinite Campus data to analyze um we do have our incentives um the kids really enjoy the one we have they enjoy the popcorn and they have to spell out perfect attendance on the door and once they do that the whole class gets um a popcorn party that's usually
015on Fridays um we do make daily phone calls by our attendant secretaries um Dr caham myself the teachers we make calls our data analyst um she looks at all the students information and reports out to us especially the High Flyers um as said it said there the teachers make the phone calls there is a high priority list that we keep going as admins we call them in and we have meetings in our office with them parents uh parently on set those meetings we have been doing a lot of more um wellness check and home visits um making sure everything's at at home is pretty good and we found out some other situations where we had a student for example their house burned okay so they're there to help them out and so on so and
016we're currently at 94% yes 055 we're getting close good um and again our goal we kept uh 60% of our students uh with meter exceed uh their growth Target article on maap um both in reading and math again Mr Morales mentioned we do walkthroughs daily we give feedback immediately to our staff we use that feedback to um focus on some targeted professional development either by plc's or by whole faculty um students also have their own uh data finders that they track their data they have their goals that they set um and they monitoring their progress and with our I ready or the I ready diagnostic data showed us that we're definitely on track for this right now um about 62% met their winter goals so we're hoping that that transfers over to map also thank
017you thank you [Applause] any awesome um our next item is um the after school activities yeah and we will start with Dr nural yes so I just wanted to share that um this is an item I placed on the um agenda one of our board members um inquired about this item and I don't see him here but he will be able to see the presentation and be able to see um all of the information um one of the after school activities that we had traditionally had was our 21st century and the state made every single School District go back back out we had had that since 2013 and this year it was um scored a little differently and there was some some um movement around partners and um the state tended to fund those who
018aligned with one partner in particular a little bit more um and so um this again was scored um not necessarily I don't think in the is office but in the governor's office so there was some um different um things that were going on with the scoring so we wanted to list and share with the board all the after school activities um so that not only the board of education is aware but also all of our families are reminded um of all the wonderful things that we have for the students um across grade levels after school so I will pass it back to you because I know you have a couple people that are experts at this thank