001and we have no public comment so we will move on to uh the first presentation of the night Bardwell Elementary School Great hi [Applause] bwell good evening members of the board Dr nural and cabinet members thank you for the opportunity to speak with you this evening regarding our school Improvement plan I am Katherine C Moon proud principal of CM Bardwell elementary school and with me this evening are our fabulous assistant principles Michelle candle and Laura soval we begin with the review of highlights from the 2023 24 school year last year we continued with high expectations for our students with goals of 60% of students meeting expected growth Targets in both reading and math as measured by the nwaa map assessment we celebrate that we exceeded our goal in math with 61% of our students making
002expected growth 48.2% of our students made expected growth in English reading and 53.2% of our students made expected growth in Spanish reading this year we are going to continue to set rigorous goals for our students we maintained a daily average attendance of 93% 99% of our students receed two or fewer office discipline referrals demonstrating that the tier one supports in place for students are positively shaping student behaviors as a result of our efforts we maintained a summative designation of commendable we strive to make Bardwell a place for the whole child our school Improvement plan goals address student well-being attendance and academics our data from the 2023 24 school year shows that our proficiency on the map assessment aligns very closely to the CFA data for most grade levels Although our percentages of proficiency on the
003I assessment are low 46% of our students made growth in English language arts and 59% of our students made growth in math we know that the iar is a rigorous assessment and our goal is to enhance literacy instruction and strive for increased proficiency at Bardwell Elementary it is important for our students to be safe respectful and responsible therefore we would like 97% of our students to receive two or less behavior referrals during the 2425 school year in order to accomplish this the bardell staff will continue to teach model and practice schoolwide expected behaviors implementing the Second Step curriculum with Fidelity and using the monthly Focus areas of behavior to teach social skills Bardwell students will be recognized on a monthly and quarterly basis for demonstrating expected behaviors both in the classroom and schoolwide we will
004continue to use the mtss framework and Satchel Pauls survey to not only identify students needing additional support but to provide the resources and intervention interventions available for students well-being this year with the use of funds we will provide teachers with break boxes which contain sensory tools to use in calming Corners we will also create two sensory hallways to further meet the behavioral and social emotional needs of our students lastly we will communicate with our parents and Guardians regularly about the various resources available to further develop social emotional skills if Hardwell we want our students to be happy healthy safe and learning our operational goal number two is to maintain an average daily attendance rate of 95% our staff Works collaboratively each day to identify our students who are absent and to connect with their families
005by phone or School status to figure out the why to why our students are not attending but more importantly to make our families know that our teachers and our staff care and we want our students to be in SCH school last week was a big week at Bardwell we had our second parent coffee where we talked about attendance and there we Quantified for families what missing two days a month or being tardy five minutes up to 15 minutes how much learning is missed and I think it really struck a nerve with families when we showed them if their absence Tuesdays every month that's equivalent by the time they graduate to one whole year of learning that they're missing we've also set up our tier three attendance conferences with the Roe to formally Place students on
006Ki Glenn's case loads if they've missed 10 or more days and we start that next week the meetings as a building we found creative and meaningful ways to acknowledge students who show up weekly monthly quarterly and at the 100th day we like to celebrate with prizes certificates gift cards in schoolwide recognition to show our students that we appreciate and support their efforts lastly at Bardwell we're keenly aware of the world in which we live in and that school anxiety is real our building Specialists connect with our students and their families through the social emotional level to make coming to school achievable in a place that where kids feel encouraged Second Step lessons are also another tool to have conversations and have real life examples with students so that they know that they're not alone and
007they're supported at Bardwell we strongly feel that regular attendance at elementary school is important for our students to develop good habits build relationships and set foundations for future success for our first goal focus on student achievement we set high expectations again for 60% of our students to meet their expected growth Target in reading on the nwaa map assessment data analysis drives our instructional decisionmaking in addition we place focus on best practice strategies and professional development to support students teachers excuse me with implementation of those strategies for our student achievement goal in math we are aiming for 65% of our students to meet their expected growth Target on the nwaa maap assessment making datadriven decisions allows us to provide targeted small group and individual student support support based on student needs through student goal setting conferences
008we give students ownership of their data so that they are aware of where they are and what their targets are we monitor instructional practices through regular data analysis observations and classroom visits by setting ambitious goals for our students we are confident they will strive to reach their full potential thank you I do have a a question um just going back to that third slide with I I um I know that the percentages are are quite low I mean I and you kind of briefly went over but is there anything additional that we can do just to kind of I know that with the map testing I know I saw for I think it was yeah this one right here um I didn't know if there's anything else that you know the board can provide or
009anything else that we can do to kind of see you know bigger bigger increase there one of the things that we know is that the I assessment is very rigorous with writing oh both on the English language arts assessment and in math students have to do a lot of writing to explain their thinking um and and for the ELA there's a whole writing section on the test so that's something that through our literacy instruction we're targeting this year more than we have in the past is the writing and in K2 making sure that those foundational skills are strong um and working with our third ERS who are going to be taking the test for the first time so that they're ready to to answer the kinds of questions that the I test has it's different
010than the map test oh no right yeah no no I I get that it's different and second graders for the most part they they're looking great so hopefully you know maybe those numbers would be a little bit higher for the third graders so knowing that we have to focus on writing is really okay what we're we also do a structured after school like program the the month before I where we're doing practice tests and we're really learning how to read like what a question's asking and then going back and finding text evidence for it and this year using Subs that are in the building and some of our teacher assistants we're going to try to Target a little bit more some of the kids were like the cfit kids that you know need that bump
011to get over as well okay perfect thank you I think um that's a good point ju I think for me um I took IR last year for the first time in thir grade which was interesting to see coming from first grade um but it was a lot rigorous right um and now coming back again to first grade I think we need to start young and showing them how to annotate and going back to look for the answer because that's definitely going to help him in the long run and I don't think I think sometimes we forget that we can start them a little younger and show them those strategies before they get to third grade is the first year they take it um but I hope you know we can continue to do better and
012continue to increase that percentage going higher um but again just making sure that we hitting their rigorous and then if there's anything else we can help just please let us know right thank you most definitely thank you so much thank [Applause] you righty I was just there today good evening board members Dr nurel and cabinet members thank you so much for having us here today um I'm elizabth Viano and I'm the principal of Brady elementary school and I'm Paul mler assistant principal at Brady so we'd like to start our presentation by highlighting some of our accomplishments from last year so in map math we had 65% of our students meet their projected growth in breeding we had 55% I'm sorry 50% of our students meet their projected growth our um attendance was at 93% average
013daily attendance and on access we had 60% of our students in grades three through five that scored at or above a level three in Reading um and that is an increase from 53% in the previous year in addition to that taking um the whole child into consideration for social emotional needs we focused on the Satchel pulse results to create groups in order to Target those students that either identified themselves as having social emotional needs or that the teachers reported that they needed a little extra support for building my data I want to highlight the growth that the kindergarten made in math especially and I just want to say that you know the same I is rigorous and so we definitely have plans um to have the grade levels work on creating um uh sample test
014questions and doing that during their warm-ups that's something that um fourth grade has been doing uh and that's something that we want to continue with the other grades as well we had a schoolwide emphasis on reading for the last two years to really build on their reading skills their language skills and we um have been measuring our math progress using I ready Diagnostics our first goal is by the end of February 2025 Brady will reduce major odrs which include fighting physical aggression bullying and harassment by 10% from the previous school year a couple of the steps that we're taking this year to help with that is to We Will We Are identifying seal needs based on daily check-ins odrs and second step lessons along with our satal pulse results we are implementing a 10-minute cooldown
015after lunch and recess period for additional SEO we have uh built schoolwide and individual Behavior incentives one thing to highlight was today was one of our first grade classrooms reached their goals for class pause and had a pajama day um and then we're also going to recognize end of the year students with no odrs we would like to maintain an average daily attendance of 95% for the school year and we are tracking daily attendance every morning on the announcements I say what the previous school days attendance uh percentage was to kind of encourage students to reach that goal of 95% um we have shared that attendance data with parents not only uh through our monthly bulletin that we send out but also through the chats with the principal and having conversations about how we can
016increase those numbers we also um have monthly perfect attendance rewards for students popcorn is always very popular uh with along with a sticker and a pencil that we added this year our mtss team monitors not just academics but also attendance and behavior and we have our attendance buddies again this year which is when we pair up students that are showing success in coming to school uh some of our older students are fourth and fifth grade students and we pair them up with those students that maybe are having trouble coming to school and so they have this connection where they meet up in the morning and they encourage them to come to school and they have you know um something to look forward to every day and really give them a sense of belonging in the
017school um in addition to that we're continuing our in-person parent meetings to forge that schoolto Home Connection to see what is it that we can help with in order to um maybe find the root cause of any of those attendance issues our third goal is for uh reading so by winter of 2024 65% of students will meet or exceed their expected growth goals and reading measured by the NWA map our action plan includes teachers will use and administer dist District created cfas we'll do data Dives twice per year to provide strategies for interventions teachers will use at grade level curriculum and differentiated small group instruction for reading will'll track the use of curriculum through our weekly administrative walkthroughs in those walkthroughs we also provide individualized feedback for teachers about instruction and provide reading professional development
018during the second staff meeting of the month our goal for math is again for 65% of students to meet or exceed their expected growth and we have a similar action plan um as for reading um one thing I want to highlight is monitoring the I ready my path requirement of 50 minutes a week for that individualized practice where students can really Target the areas where they need some growth um and need more practice also we're targeting foundational math skills and centers which is our small group learning um and definitely um that's something that we're monitoring through our walkthroughs thank you so much I do have just one thing I know that for math NWA math um I think you ended at 65% last year and you're leaving the goal to be the same um I
019think it should probably we raised up to 70 just to kind of have something to look forward to my opinion sorry no thank you thank you for that like where's the gr um I just have a quick question um for I know last year you had the opt out uh students house what grade were those students in from last year uh so it was kindergarten through third grade thank you um they were uh students that opt out of the Dual language program so I'm new I'm learning okay thank you so much thank [Applause] you did you announce them yeah um the next agenda item is an update for our literacy pilot with a presentation by um alelia Valdez presented here by Dr Rita Gman and Teresa vemer Dr um good evening um committee and uh
020Board of members thank you for allowing us to present today we'll go ahead and start with the product selection process just to give you guys a little bit of an update the curriculum Council met with the vendors and they used the rubric to score um focused on the Dual language uh principles as well as the Illinois comprehensive um literacy plan um survey um they surveyed the teachers they surveyed all teachers K through five um they received over 55% response and need to continue and basically what the re the results of the survey indicated was for that they wanted a strong for us to continue um a strong emphasis on the foundational of literacy in writing as well as the availability of digital components in both language and easily accessible in both languages um and making
021sure that um many of the components were not just uh translated but authentic translation was there no adaptation translation they really pinpointed and honed in on what they were looking for from the survey from our curriculum council members we landed on two different products into reading arur by hoot Mifflin harcord and Benchmark benchmarks advance in adalante the highlights from those two vendors are listed above as noted by our curriculum council members one of them for into reading was the existence of micro interventions an easy to use digital platform including Amira which is an Adaptive and personalized learning um AI source and one of their biggest pieces was that they do now own nwaa so they uh integrate the map data as well and they're looking forward to um that partnership in the future with Benchmark
022one of benchmark's highlights included having routines and Foundations being the first two weeks of the school year they included tiered vocabulary which was a big Focus that we had last year and their skills are spiraled which incl include not just within the grade or the unit but between the grades and those were highlights brought To Us by our curriculum council members that continuously that continuous being um definitely present and it was over uh five vendors obviously it started the number started with like 12 then nine and then seven and then five was what was presented to the curriculum Council and from there we sent out surveys as well to our teachers to invite them to Pilot the two resources we ended up with 60 different teachers volunteering to Pilot which included teachers from all buildings
023and programs including our dual language program our optout our special education selfcontained as well as resource teachers we have coming up for them next week we have two training days for the different resources to get our teachers ready for our pilot that will take place on November 4th through December 20th and this once again it's just a timeline of where we find ourselves moving forward um obviously the teachers are going to go ahead and have an opportunity to Pilot the material provide feedback throughout multiple meetings throughout as well as um following the pilot recommendation and then bringing it to you guys based on the feedback that we receive uh materials need to be ordered professional development will begin and obviously professional development will continue uh for all stakeholders and uh material distribution by the summer
024thank you do you guys have any questions yeah you do okay yeah so I'm learning um this is new to me um but I just leared when um I know Dr mentioned about students can opt out of the classes um so just I kind of want an idea of this program is that going to encourage or provide additional support for teachers to be able to really do that cross learning for those students who are my priority English speaking students and um mixing that with Spanish speaking students so that there can be an equal access of learning in that particular programming is that the purpose of this yes and that was actually one of the guiding principles that we used to review the different resources to make sure that there were cross linguistic Connections in between
025the two languages and the resources that we presented there there were vendors that were discluded because they did not offer that okay so there is a mechanism to evaluate to see if that is a successful this is a successful tools for the teachers as well as the students correct absolutely we made sure that the components and pillars of literacy are present obviously for their students all one to make sure that it's very strong you know foric awareness phonics comprehension vocabulary um all of those components we made sure that they were present that was part of the rubric where we even had vendors say you I'm gonna step out of the stop step out of it yes last one I promise yeah so when students um um families say that they want to opt out what
026is what is in place to make them feel a little bit comfortable so if if this is a program for all students yeah that they can be successfully successful in that particular program they would still use the same curriculum it's the same rigorous curriculum for all students that's their core okay thank you no you're welcome um I just have a well I have a few questions um and a few comments as well I know last year um when we were I was talking um to Dr Dela about the uh uh about thinking about piloting new curriculum because of ready genen um and then we purchased some books for fourth and fifth grade and and I know we made a purchase of over I think $660,000 for fourth books and fifth so I'm hoping that we're
027going to be able to utilize those fifth grade books somehow so they are not just collecting dust um but also um I'm looking at the pilot taking place for from November 4th and be done by November 20th how many units are you guys planning on piloting I mean it's December right November 4th to December 20th but there's Thanksgiving breaking there and then so I'm just concerned about the timing um there's a lot of resources available for both programs that I don't think teachers will have enough time to really dive into other the resources in that time frame well I I we're following what we usually follow six to eight weeks pilot implementation what we have done in the past for any other Core Curriculum but if that is part of the feedback that is part
028of what we're collecting so we need to go a little bit longer than we will depending on the feedback that we collect from the teachers questions no questions okay any more questions you thank you [Applause] okay the um next agenda item is um a request for a proposal quote for teachstone so we've worked with them prior they are the um platform that we use for the class observation walkthrough tools in the buildings um this tool is a tool that all of our coaches have been trained in and certified in and um it streamlines the data collection um their coaching and PD um within the buildings and also our administrators were trained last year and are also using the classroom or the class tool for um walk through observations so we do have um a group
029of new administrators as well as some new coaches and we just wanted to make sure that they also receive the same training to use the um class observation walkthrough tool so this is something that we currently have in place already Yes okay just getting everybody up to date the new staff that we have thank you and we're hoping that it goes to action next board meeting okay okay all right um the next item is the resolution for disposal of outdated and expired chemicals from Fred Rogers Magnet Academy and the um documents and the list of chemicals were provided are there any questions no okay the um last agenda item will be the updated enrollment and attendance that you received in your packet current enrollment is at 12,324 any questions is that there is that what
030we started out uh this year and the enrollment number um I believe actually it's gone up okay yeah since the first day of school okay we have no new business there's no nothing else on the agenda so at this time we'd like to thank you all for joining us uh the 21st of October for our curriculum committee meeting and we will now adjourn at 6:28 p.m. thank you thank you