001the meeting's being called to order at 6: PM we'll begin with roll call wenes John sa Olivas Jennifer Amy Engle jelita Martinez all right no public comment no public comment all right then that brings us to our first presentation uh the first presentation is the odonnell elementary school Improvement plan presenting on behalf of the school are Tanetta Davis Principal Paul muchler assistant principal and Mari wise assistant principle opportunity uh my name is Tanetta Davis I'm the principal of odonnell school and presenting with me tonight is are my APS Paul muchler and M ddy Weiss and so we're just GNA go through a couple highlights from last year so our daily average attendance last year was at 92% um we had over 60% of our pre- students um meet their language development or exceeded the language
002development um standard at least 50% of our kids met their projected growth in reading and math last year um which meant close two or over three 200 students participated in pancakes with the principal as a celebration for meeting that goal so our building wide data some strengths that come from our building wide data we have our kindergarten our second grade team our second grade students and our fifth grade students showed some uh strengths in map and cfas in addition our fourth grade math uh group um made exceptional uh growth for their for their math math goal and um for fifth grade we had um more students that had U meets and exceeds for the IR reading component um some areas of Target that we are looking at are would be our first grade and our
003third grade students um which this year they'll be going into second grade and fourth grade um but we definitely want to hone in on the math for first grade looking at some more intervention supports for them in addition to that for reading and writing for both first grade and third grade we also um talked about from our school leadership team is diving a little bit deep ER into language support for L2 in the math component of that and ensuring that there's more visuals and dual language strategies that are happening um speec specifically in math a lot of times we want to put those in the in the language component for reading and writing um but we want to carry those over for math to ensure that support is happening so anchor charts um dual language
004uh strategies such as um preview View and review and tpr strategies to be incor Incorporated in that in addition we're taking a closer look at I ready components the my path um and that is an individualized plan so once they take that diagnostic so we want to go a deeper dive into that and incentivize that to get more use of that so we get more data to figure out where those those deficits are and then for the CFA data we want to be consistent across the building and that means creating a schoolwide calendar to to show like when those assessments are going to happen so if we do our 1 everyone's going to focus on that so that can ensure that all priority standards are measured equally across all great levels before you move on
005I just want to say thank you for splitting it out by grade only because normally we see a combined or average type of thing for the school and um this really gives a good picture of of where you kind of need to prioritize so thank you hello um so our first goal is going to focus on uh just the educational Equity piece uh by May of 2025 Alana will decrease office discipline referrals by 10% part of our plan of action includes relaunching a comprehensive schoolwide initiative this will focus on intentional teaching of behavior expectations routines and protocols especially for the first six weeks of school but then we will revisit it throughout the school year um these will be schoolwide and classroom expectations uh in prek this will also be teacher monitored we will conduct
006frequent walk frequent walkthroughs on classroom environment and ter1 supports uh this will include a guarantee of consistent application of our ter one practices in alignment with our mtss process development of a walkthrough checklist uh in association with our student lead with our school leadership team to help Monitor and uh to utilize these data points throughout the school year we also Implement a system of positive office referal to encourage and acknowledge uh students that are consistently meeting or exceeding their behavior expectations within the classroom and overall School finally we'll track and monitor the 2x10 relationship building strategy so so the 2x10 strategy is for two minutes a day for 10 school days uh the teachers will focus on that one-on one-on-one relationship within their class this will increase the sense of belonging uh and we'll monitor
007this via teacher surveys as long as teacher reflections see how it's progressing throughout the school year our goal two is that odono school will maintain a cumulative monthly average daily attendance rate of 95% for the 24 and 25 school year we will be implementing a system for our two tier two and tier three students by providing a consistent personalized support connecting with a trusting staff member we are ensuring that students who struggle with their social emotional well-being are being supported by a nurturing and safe staff member we are going to China a spotlight on individual student achievements with weekly celebrations especially and the early grades who need immediate recognition instead of a longer recognition right for prevent losing steam we will also employ student input and ownership by encourage them encouraging them to design posters
008on the importance of being in school we are increasing the frequency and appeal of our attendance Raffles also including the recognition to the families for helping us meet the our our school goals and lastly we will encourage our staff to connect with families by writing positive postcards to recognize their efforts so for student achievement um the first one is focusing on reading so we want 55% of our students to meet or exceed their expected growth goals um and we are really strong highly believe in empowering students with data so back in the day we did like the data binders and they're really thick um once you collected all the data so we're going to like a more of a data folder type of thing and they will do goal setting um and track their reading
009and math and writing data through that we want to Monitor and have a better response of student progress on common informative assessments we want to use a common graphic organizer to increase or enhance executive functioning such as organization and that would be prek all all the way to fifth grade um our night activity family night activities we want to align that so that families can have something to take home we want to model that so that you know what do I do with my child for reading what do I do with my child for math they'll have those examples to take home and then we are um to help with um that we want to continue to improve um communication with parents through our student data profile sheets that we created um we actually launched
010that towards the end of last year and it was very useful um we send out map reports we tell parents about their FMP you know reading progress and things of that nature so it is housed on one sheet of paper so they can see I ready um map FNP all in one spot so that's something that would be useful for our parents um and then for math we are looking to have 60% of our students meet or exceed their expected um growth goals for math um we want to have students Master the tier 2 and tier three vocabulary words and those are words that are speciic specifically tied to math so like understanding what's a fraction and be able to Define that and those and those things um we want to monitor incentivize our use
011of I ready and the my path that I talked about earlier um and that can be broken down by domain so even as a building we can say hey we want to focus on measurement and data we can assess that through that program as well we want to incorporate math test prep um through the through uh for IR Ira on a weekly basis um again with the use of ir because those components are sitting in there and then we want to still keep math engaging and fun so with the basic math practice utilize District approved apps and websites to help them with that okay and that is the end of our presentation okay I oh thank you thank you so [Applause] much next up please welcome to the podium our friends from Benitas steam Academy
012they're here to share their school Improvement plan as well presenting on behalf of the school our Patricia ranel principal and Alexa Garcia assistant principal good evening members of the curriculum board Dr nurel Dr Engel and Miss Martinez my name is Patricia ranel and I'm the principal at vava steam Academy and with me is Alexa gar our assistant principal we would like to begin by sharing some of our highlights from the previous Academic Year that were achieved through a collective effort from teachers staff students and parents so we'll start off with a little bit of a recap from last year uh last school year we set six goals um aligned to our district strategic plan and we are proud to say that we met five of the six goals um we did fall a little short
013on our tenants goal coming in at 94 4.5% um but we're going to continue to work on that this year so that we can maintain that 95% Ada next we would like to share with you our building wide data from the last Academic School year so every Tuesday Morning our grade level teams come together for plc's and they come together to discuss student growth and goal setting so at our building our plc's alternate between focusing on a common formative assessment or an nwaa Focus each week our cfas are aligned to the district priority standards which include Reading Writing and math and the important component of the CFA is not necessarily the average each week but the dialogue between teachers to discuss next steps to bridge that learning Gap from here we can also look at
014our NWA um data for Kinder through second grade and we've identified in the components of reading um each of the strands in nwea that we have to focus on so for example for our kindergarteners we know that we need to do additional work around foundational skills for our English dominant students but language and writing for our Spanish dominant students if we look at our second grade group collectively we need to focus in both um languages on foundational skills let's take a look at our goals for the upcoming school year our first goal uh is focused around educational Equity uh we're going to continue to work to ensure that 95% um of our students receive one or fewer uh discipline referrals over the course of the school year our continued success uh with this gooal is
015um attributed to the consistent implementation of our acal curriculum um during morning meeting time by our teachers uh and the use of the levels of Engagement language to promote uh student ownership of their behavior and their learning new this year we'll be doing bangal character traits uh each month our students will read a story tied to a specific character trait and have the opportunity to write a personal connection to that trait uh we're going to be kicking off the year with kindness uh so this is a really exciting way to promote literacy and writing and positive behavior oh my prop our next goal is tied to operational excellence um though we fell short of reaching our attendance goal last year we're going to continue to strive towards that 95% average daily attendance rate in addition
016to our personal Outreach strategies we're going to incorporate a student ownership piece um so each student is going to have an attendance goal shed schoal setting sheet in their take-home folder uh we have intentionally placed this in the take-home folder to help build a homeschool connection um and promote a conversation around attendance so each month our little people are going to set a goal for how many days they're going to come to school they'll shade in the days that they're here and when they bring this home to Mom Dad whoever's at home they'll be able to have a conversation about if they met their goal if they didn't um in addition to this we have some exciting new incentives for our students um that we're looking forward to roll out um and continue to promote
017positive attendance behaviors so during the win block or the what I need block um our primary focus is providing targeted small group instruction designed to address individual student needs so this next goal is tied into um our students receiving reading intervention supports um either in small groups or Ono one um based on their data so an integral part of our goal setting as we talked about before is goal setting so they will also have a data folder where they are able to um track their growth from quarter one two three and four for their f&p levels and in addition to that then writing some action steps do I need to practice my site wordss more do I need to practice fluency um so we want students to have that ownership across the board and not
018only their attendance but also in the content areas then our next goal um is around uh math intervention so last year was the very first time that we included math intervention is part of our goal um our students did really well we had 37 students who participated in math intervention from Fall to Spring we obviously had additional students in between but maybe they only needed six weeks of intervention or 12 so we track the students that were um receiving support for the whole year so those were the 37 students um it's important to know that we set this goal now but we still need to administer the NWA math assessment to get that Baseline data and um adjust our goal accordingly once we know how many students are going to be in math or reading
019intervention um our last set of goals is aligned to student achievement uh last year we increased our reading and math goal from 60% um to 65% so that was a big jump for us um and we were super excited and proud of the growth that our students made last year um students were also really proud of themselves um as we've mentioned with their data folders they did have a piece for map as well um so following the winter Administration they were really excited to see how much they grew um it meant a lot to them to see that growth even if they didn't necessarily meet their goal they were able to see that growth um so really cool tool that we um started using last year with them and continue to use this year um
020following our fall administration of maap we look forward to getting our tutoring groups back together we had 70 students participate in map uh tutoring so we had both reading and math that was offered of those 70 students that participated in our tutoring uh 54 um which is 77% match or exceeded their growth goal so we will kick that off um following the administration of map this year we will also meet with our SLT to disc discuss our goal um once we have that new set of data and that's it any questions for us no I I had a chance to review this um earlier this weekend and I I saw good things happening so congratulations on all of the the things that have happened over the last year I think you guys are on the
021right path so continue doing a good job thank you thank you I I had a question for you guys I see I saw that you guys had a huge grow um when you with your map end of year um and then when I saw your goals kind of I was surprised that you guys kind of lowered them a little bit so we kept our goals the same as last year only because we don't have Baseline data yet so once we administer map we're thinking in September we can reconvene with our SLT and then be able to adjust those goals um onethird of our building is brand new every year so we have to wait for those 120 kindergarteners to come in and and gather some data from them thank you thank you so much our
022next presentation is all about updating our preschool curriculum presenting on this topic our Rosary horn director of early learning and educational grants and then aalia Valdez executive director of curriculum and instruction good evening I'm Rosary horn good evening vales there we go um in your packet for this evening you received information on what our current EA units and resources were as well as um supplemental materials that were previously purchased from creative curriculum I want to share with you that um all the materials requested this evening um were vetted by prek staff from all four sites including teachers from halfday and full day classrooms engl English and Spanish dominant classrooms as well as our coaches service providers administrators and a parent representative um in addition to vetting the materials they all unanimously asked to update them
023and the teachers involved um did also volunteer to be in phase one so when we're taking a look at Phase One what this involves is the purchase of the created curriculum as well as the cloud access with that we are uh including professional development for the teachers that are going to participate in Phase One the um cost associated with phase one would be Grant funded taking a look at phase two phase two will once again take a look at the implementation of the creative curriculum the cloud access as well as providing professional development for the teachers that are participating as well as administ rators and instructional coaches this would bring um the implementation to a full implementation and the anticipated cost for phase two would also be Grant funded and then the last slide you
024find a breakdown of the proposed total cost for phase one that would be funded through the Early Childhood black Grant Ida idea preschool and the sr3 funds does anyone have any questions I have a quick question um when looking at this um proposal um when you say that the Early Learning team reviewed current material whates what do you mean by that did somebody pilot the curriculum what what does that mean so the Early Learning leadership team came together and we looked at all the materials that we're currently using and we compared them to the district expectations as well as um our grant expectations and found that um some of the materials that we were using for Creative curriculum for instance didn't quite meet that but the updated materials provided by the company did thank you
025and we are asking for this to go to action the same night so we just want to let you know y thank you thank you thank you so much next up is our parent engagement update for 2425 Dr Luis Gonzalez executive director of Elementary School leadership is presenting good evening committee members Dr nurel and superintendent cabinet members as mentioned I am Dr Luis Gonzalez and I'm proud to serve as the executive director of Elementary School leadership uh this year I will work with the various East Aurora parent groups and parently Aon to Foster strong parent engagement and increase Student Success now my goal is very simple um to share the various events we plan to bring families together and to share various opportunities for parents to get involved here you can see the big events
026we plan for the school year uh I'm most excited for the family festival hispanic herit celebration in September um and we also have monthly weekly or quarterly opportunities for parents to connect with principles and staff members as listed on the bottom parents can get involved support the efforts of the district through the African-American parent Association the bilingual parent advisory Council East Aurora dads parent ambassadors and the superintendent parents advisory Council this year the African-American parent Association will meet multiple times and their goal is simple to get parents involved and to build Partnerships with parents and community members their kickoff meeting is September 12 I'm looking forward to that one I'll be present uh we celebrate bpac they have been recognized by ISB for their exemplary board work and for being a model for the state
027um they have multiple workshops planned to equip parents and provide them the skills they need to help their child be successful socially emotionally and academically parent ambassadors will focus on strong parent involvement in parent training eor dads will focus on strengthening the critical role of fathers and the parent advisory Council will focus on culture and climate strategic planning and quarterly updates in Q&A and that is my presentation any questions I do yes um just on the dates do we have a date scheduled or calendar for bpack already um just because I know last year most of the meetings were in the morning um and I don't know if there's a survey or something that we give to the parents to see when they're available I would like to see that kind of more open to
028all parents and not just morning because I know we do have a lot of parents work in the morning might not make it so maybe make it a little more flexible for them because I know sometimes I try to just bump in or jump go into some of but you know you can't because you got to work so I'm assuming if we look at our schedule and kind of look around and see if we are able to kind of open it up to the evening I know that I I spoke at the school fair I spoke to the uh the leader that was there for that event and she did say only because I've attended the uh y in the past I've attended some of the meetings and she said that they are going to
029have some evening dates um I don't know what the dates are but she did say that they were going to have some evening dates because I she said well when are you g to come again and I said I can't come I I work so um that was the answer that I got sorry no thank you so much for the feedback um I will connect personally with Dr Gman and we will make sure that we provide that flexibility for parents that they can attend yeah I are we doing for appearance with all of the new student information platforms because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there have we developed some you know some videos or things that you know self-help type things because we have got a lot of people very confused
030on how to use the new system and obviously the parents need to use the new system sogy this into all of this training right for Synergy is going to be a topic that is ongoing all year um and I can look to Andy for this because I know Andy has launched this and right now they're I know they're heavily working and all summer have been working on staff um has there been a parent component I'm not sure I can ask um Andy is there a parent component yet I know the new app is the thing that everybody's working on now with the parents correct that is what we sent out to both students and parents uh I believe last week for them to get their account registered so they can see schedules Transportation routes all
031that piece uh there's there's more to come with using it um but so far the success rate has been pretty well but we've also had a lot of questions so as you expect so yes so that's a good point we need to bring um have at least a table at all of our different parent meetings so that they can get some one-on-one if they struggle with still adding the app and utilizing the new platform the new student management platform so I we'll say that we'll put a table at all of those all of those different meetings did you one of the things um I don't I know I know that's what I mean so um I know that my kids and this is I'm being honest they are the ones that did it for me
032because they they were quick you know I'm not gonna lie I'm I'm I'm Savvy with it too but they were like I I got it and I'm like okay um but there was a flyer that was attached I believe to one of the uh the emails yeah that kind of showed you step by step no video but there was a flyer that said how to do it so yeah and then I will also like to piggyback that on that plan is that make sure that the teachers have that flyer because most parents are going to reach out to the teachers to say Hey how do I do this so make sure that they're also aware and how to do that as well oh yeah yes they now they have been through the training yeah being
033maybe a YouTube video because now we fix everything on YouTube yeah that's how we've been um that's what they've been doing to train our staff is the videos so they can do one for parents that's a great idea um I did get confirmation there are two evening um date schedule for bpac I know most of the bpac board um unlike the other committees I know they have their own board um which is tied to how they operate is tied to um grant funding but they did that is what worked best for the board members during the day but they are honoring and listening and and definitely have two dates and we will get those dates out soon right Rita just Shar yes I can finalize those first okay thank you any other questions no thank
034you so much thank you [Applause] our next topic is a review of our summer professional development work and our curriculum work and I have the opportunity to share that information my goodness did we have an amazing summer over the summer we had 280 professional development opportunities and 5,904 participants wow the sessions focused on four different personal professional learning St strands to support the staff including new curricular resources dual language offerings technology platforms and block scheduling staff attended powerful sessions focused on the tools instructional strategies student supports and more so what did they say about it attendees shared feedback from their experiences and some excerpts from the staff are included on the slide there uh in addition to the Great great experience they had during the sessions the staff had access to a Google site where
035we maintain links to those resources all the recordings and more so that they can refer back to those in the future as well uh and staff really shared how useful it was to have access to see those things later in addition to our professional development we had a Summer full of curriculum work as well our staff spent time uh writing to support work for the upcoming school year we had a total of 186 teachers who spent over 8,500 hours this summer writing curriculum to support our students and strengthen our programs the most popular writing categories were about block scheduling and prioritizing student engagement common formative assessment and then preparing for our new courses and on this slide you see a word cloud that showcases some of our most often referenced keywords for our curriculum writing
036projects the larger the words the more projects completed within that category uh you can really see that important work was being done um and shared then across the district and in order to accomplish that task of sharing we have a Google site that we've created and we're starting to build out with all of those curricular materials and resources that were worked on this summer and it'll be available across buildings and it has a breakdown by grade levels and courses so it's really good stuff what questions can I answer about summer professional learning or curriculum writing no it's great to see that you know so many teachers participated I mean 186 is is quite a bit and I think that's an increase probably from last year or maybe close to it but you know we can't
037do it without you guys so thank you yeah we're really lucky that we have such dedicated staff that jump in that's amazing I just want to say thank you to all those teachers that were writing or improving the curriculum for the district I know it's hard work um and sometimes people don't see the hard work that you you're putting into it so I was doing that the summer as well so again thank you to all those teachers that were working on curriculum writing as well yeah absolutely thank you so much okay the last thing on our agenda is the enrollment and registration update and just so you know as of the 14th of August we had 94% of our students registered and um although I don't have any numbers for the last week we have
038seen an abundance of friends here to register so it is clear that uh we are doing a great job getting all of our friends ready to go for the first day tomorrow awesome um I would like toj a quick request um for our next uh curriculum meeting if possible um I would like to see like the total number or deal students that we have in our in our school district just I think we're K through four well if we got fourth and then we got seventh grade at carts seventh right seventh I believe um so I would like to see how many students we have currently in our district dual language um how many from K to Fourth have kind of opt out and where we have those located at just to kind of see
039those numbers if possible I can answer that now you want this opt out well it's up to you oh yeah no um we can answer that now and I'm gonna call on Rita because know you have this number optt out um numbers are very small in fact they don't have pure grade levels attached to them we combine them um and so right now I believe we have opt outs um Rita do you have I didn't to put you on the spot but I know you have those numbers 31 opt outs K through four that's it and where are those students attending still at Brady no they're at Bardwell yep we shifted based on utilization of programming and space and Staffing of admin yep thank you excellent well I'm so glad we could answer that and
040oh one more sorry um the adventures program so we only have 21 students in and only one in what first grade are we not identifying those kids because we keep you know hearing about discipline and all of those things so how are we doing with Adventure Advent sorry I'm not on am I on now okay um and I will um also allow um delita I know you're just taking the realm but also allow um Megan to to speak to this as well but many of the students um that either go over they're um they co go over during the year at different times and then based upon their success um at Adventures they are then afforded an opportunity to go back and so so um at these lower grade levels that means that there was
041lower numbers coming in from kinder that would go to first um from last school year so we have worked to identify because for years I had been saying what is our clear process and do our teachers know the process and so that is something that the team was able to work on and clearly Define as far as how you get there and then what are what's the data points that we're using to bring them back because that was something that's been missing which would account for the lower numbers I know our teachers certainly want have 130 students out placed U does that U is that a lot of it is with hope wall or is that just a lot of other places uh no um they're placed everywhere that's total I Believe by grade level
042across the across the district so and these out students listed as outplaced primarily are outplaced based upon their IEP I know I sign the paperwork every year for their placement and most of those students have more severe needs and they're outplaced based upon the IEP for services that can be provided elsewhere and not here because of the level of um Services okay I would just be curious to see what outsite outplaced organizations we're using oh yeah we can definitely I could rattle them off because they're on the forms that I sign but we could actually give a listing of the outplay and how many kids are are at each one yeah that would be great we could bring that back Mr SW has put it on there okay all right and this year we have
043buy with fifth grade students right so I see that we have a 36 uh ler they I think they had two so I'm kind of happy to see that there's that has now build up to fifth grade yes for B they had a gap year coming through the year we did the grad ban project yeah okay those kiddos are all righty good luck to all the teachers tomorrow yeah all right excellent uh well with that uh we are calling our meeting to a close and it is 63 636 sorry so tiny I can't even see it so thank you so much all right