001hello Community Schools of Frankfurt family my name is Matt Roda and I am the community schools of Frankfurt superintendent each month I have a guest that joins me on town hall to shine a light on how each contributes to the great things happening in the community schools of Frankfurt for the month of February I'd like to share with the community schools of Frankfurt families and staff a message about fall enrollment as well as the pillars of Excellence first I'd like to share an announcement about how we will ask each returning family to participate in updating enrollment information for the 25 26 school year in the past student registration has only been open for new students because we need to get an accurate count of returning students to help plan for class sizes and programs starting
002this year we will request that all new and returning students will need to register for fall classes registration for all new and returning students is essential to get accurate numbers to help principles and teachers prepare for classroom spaces order requested materials gain up-to-date family information such as phone numbers and addresses and ensure adequate Staffing is in place for each classroom space and each student don't worry we will offer offer a lot of help either with instructions to register online or dates and times to come into buildings to enroll students where School staff will be able to help parents navigate registration in the upcoming months we will send information out to all Community Schools of Frankfurt families through parents Square which will provide you with a link that will allow you to enroll your child or
003your children for fall classes if you have students in multiple buildings you will be able to enroll each of them online if you would rather come in to school or you have forgotten your power school login information we will have two days at the end of July for you to go into a building and register your child or your children if you have students in multiple buildings you'll only need to go to one building get logged in and enroll your child or your children now we will break for fely's Frankfurt fun facts and when we return I will share a few words words about our community schools of Frankfurt pillar of Excellence many of you know that the community schools of Frankfurt once had five elementary schools prior to consolidating them into our three current
004ones Blue Ridge Primary Green Meadows intermediate and Suncrest Elementary today I'd like to share a couple facts about the remains of those buildings for those of you who attended one of the previous elementaries you may recall some of the special Limestone on on their exteriors well some of those Limestone entrances and exteriors have been saved Kyer had etched Limestone at each entrance labeled for boys and girls these are currently housed in storage with us at the community schools of Frankfurt some of the Riley Limestone with the etching James Wickham Riley school is also currently housed with us at the community schools of Frankfurt Woodside Elementary Limestone currently resides in the parking lot of Goodwin funeral home while Lincoln Elementary is heading with large eagle on it has been built into the walls of Suncrest Elementary
005just above the library finally although not Limestone the Southside placard Still Remains outside of what is now the extension of Wesley Manor in addition to the Limestone some of the original school bells also remain woodside's Bell is located in the lawn of a personal residence just off of Washington Street while Ker's Bell currently remains in storage at the community schools of Frankfurt Riley's clock which ran the Bell system is currently housed in the front office of Blue Ridge Primary we are exploring ways to honor the past of these relics so stay tuned hope you've enjoyed Farley's funf facts have a great day hot dogs welcome back hot dogs I'd like to take just a few minutes to share with the hot dog Community the efforts we here at CSF are doing to address academic achievement
006student Behavior student retention and teacher retention three years ago as a District administration building Administration and teacher leaders we read a book called districts that succeed by Karen Chen withth Karen worked with researchers from Stanford University to look at districts in the US that have that had high poverty High diversity and high achievement scores districts with high poverty and high diversity typically underperform on state tests and have issues with student discipline and student attendance the schools Karen and the Stanford team researched were the outlier districts with high poverty High diversity yet High test scores the outlier districts and schools each had a climate and culture of focused and student outcomes and developed systems to produce those student outcomes three common threads arose from studying each of these outlier districts literacy achievement was the number one
007focus in each district a culture of literacy was used to increase test scores in all of those schools high schools went beyond a focus on just graduating students rather they put systems in place to ensure students were ready for enlistment enrollment in a two or fouryear post-secondary institution or had credentials of value for the workplace employment finally each district established cultures in the buildings that retained and attracted kids and students in the community schools of Frankfurt we came up with three pillars pillar of literacy pillar of community and pillar of post-secondary expectations let me talk about our pillar of literacy and in several ways we use uh the benchmarks of I read and I learn uh to determine how we're doing in our pillar of literacy I read will be administered to second and third
008graders next month the expectation for our elementary schools is for 95% of her second and third graders to pass I we will attain this goal our elementary principles teachers and support staff are working diligently to ensure we reach this goal literacy will also be measured by The Benchmark of I learn students in grades 3 through eight take this assessment from mid April to miday yes it takes one month to administer every section of I learn to every third through eighth grader in the district starting next year I learn will be administered multiple times throughout the year the state passing average score for third through eth graders is 41% passing does this seem strange that 59% of students in grades 3 through 8 in Indiana do not pass I learn in Frankfurt as of 2023 2024
009only 29% of students in grades 3 through 8 passed High School sophomores take the I learn biology in 2023 24 the Statewide proficiency was 44% of students passing the iearn biology at Frankfurt High School 21% of students who took the exam as sophomores passed our high school juniors take the SAT the the state average in 2324 was 52% proficient for reading and writing 24% of Frankfurt High School juniors were proficient the state average for SAT Math math was 25% 11% of Frankfurt High School juniors were proficient we are aware that this is not acceptable these scores we also make no excuses for the poor State Testing performance we are working together through curriculum mapping rigorous common formative assessments School accountability for best instructional practices and the use of a guaranteed and viable curriculum we as
010Community Schools of Frankfurt staff are collectively working together to meet not only meet the state average but to exceed it our next pillar is the pillar of community we have two goals for the pillar of community the first goal is to attract and retain their certified sta teaching staff our goal is to retain 85% of Staff each year I'm happy to report that we met this goal at the beginning of the 2425 school year and retaining 85% of our staff we also have the Benchmark of increasing our student enrollment by 1% each year unfortunately enrollment has been declining in CSF for the past 15 years and continues to decline our students and staff are doing great things each and every day you can witness these great things by all the awesome social media posts that
011are made for CSF we know that in order to maintain an increase our student enrollment we need to increase our academic achievement we need to improve our Sports programs and we have to excel in our Arts programs and our facilities must be top-notch we also know that schools need to be safe each school has put into practice Positive Behavior Support Systems that have made impacts in decreasing student discipline our middle school for example has put a system into place called the house system that has reduced student dis discipline in all areas we have hired Behavior consultant Kevin Dill to work with each building's principal and staff to learn more about creating safe respectful and responsible School climates we know parents want their kids to go to school and be safe and learn Community Schools of
012Frankfurt have made great gains to ensure each child comes to School each day and has the opportunity to work in a safe and orderly school and classroom environment do we have to room to improve uh at some schools yes but we are doing great things regarding schools that are safe and orderly our last pillar is our pillar of post-secondary expectations we are excited to have a lot of great programs in place and on the horizon to ensure that students who leave Frankfurt High School will have the advantage ages that will allow them to be leaders in College employment or the armed services Frankfurt high school has put in place this school year the Indiana college Corp the Indiana college Corp or IC will allow students who meet the Criterion by taking targeted dual credit classes
013to have one year of college paid for before leaving Frankfurt High School Frankfurt High School is currently working on programming to allow students to achieve an associates degree ree while yet in high school no other High School in the county offers 24 Career and Technical education Pathways from engineering to nursing Frankfurt high school was one of the top schools in the state to graduate students going into the Armed Forces you may have seen the Blackhawk flying around town last spring to re reward these students for serving their country while we have a lot to live up to and change the trajectory of our student achievement our Sports achievement and Performing Arts achievement we have principles teachers and support staff and central office staff who are up to the challenge to make the community schools of
014Frankfurt a destination district for students and staff we want to show you in future Town Halls how we are moving the needle so as future Town Halls come about I will be bring bringing people to the town hall uh or programs or or grade levels to show how we are moving the needle in all of our three pillars from pillar of literacy pillar of community and pillar of post-secondary expectations thank you for tuning into this February superintendent Town Hall next up enjoy roaming with Roa where I spent some time at Green Meadows on Valentine's Day doing the cupid shuffle line dance with kids as they entered the building in the morning thank you hot dogs welcome hot dogs to February 14th this Valentine's Day here at Green Meadows this is roaming with Roa we're going
015to do a little special edition today usually I'm asking questions to kids today I'm going to see if how many kids I can get in to do the Cupid Shuffle with me so hopefully I'm not the only one out on the Dance Floor enjoy this special Valentine's edition of roaming with road at Green Meadows Mr dab let me know when the kids are hey how you doing on my tur Skiby hey how's it going there it's going coart well I'm having a little bit of identity crisis today I don't know which exactly what role to fill I am excited about dancing today and hopefully I won't break my hip all right well I hope not either Valentine's Day today coach art what could go wrong I don't see any problem with it good seeing you
016again I got headbands nice seeing you too and hey I've got a little identity crisis here too so so we're looking forward to the day all right have a good one everybody's starting to come in so we'll see we'll see how this goes [Music] today to the [Music] right and kick and Shake to the right to the left kick to the right left kick handshake to the right to the left and kick Shake legs to the right to the left and kick spul it to the right to the left kick Crazy Legs to the right to the left kick Crazy Legs to the right kick Crazy Legs to the right a kick Crazy Legs to the right to the left and kick Crazy Legs to the right to the left kick Crazy Legs to the
017right to the left kick Cy legs to the right to left kick Crazy Legs to the right nice job everybody all right thank you good [Music] job hey hope you enjoyed that session of roaming with Roa we had a great time time have a happy Valentine's Day when you look back and see this hopefully you had a great day thank you