001to the Republic of which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you so much everyone seated thank you very nice great job okay we've got just a couple items of business before we turn it over to school the first item is our Bo annual calendar record request any questions I have like we're the staff meetings are also following because the template and we're doing the things like we we started staff meetings with an inclusive opener that we're asking uh teachers to do in their Pro we try to model work in the staff meetings that go then for kids in their LS had a lot of success with that we worked on it all year long I think teachers will tell you that there's a clear theme around structural
002practices hopefully like uh as a support just trying to offer you have it's a um standard practice in the entire District make you're getting student voice other stakeholders voice when we have is so we just would to ask kids hey what do you think about the instructional practices how they how they you engages aler and you can just see um interesting talking about it helps me understand just incorporating student books and I thought it was interesting to talk about the inry task uh exited my learning having a task to do right away gave them some insight to what the lesson is going to be about the the white one he talks about get to interact with my people is much better than just sitting and getting and that leads directly into our next that's going
003to talk about man and then all the checkins that happen in purple bot so I'm really excited about the way this going we got three teachers here that going to speak to some of those initiatives and how they look in the fast we're going to start with um our M teacher [Applause] wrting just one hi I'm uh after uh a students so one of the things that myself and handful of other school very recently is incorporating something called building thinking classrooms uh and it's basically uh kind of flips around how students are learning sitting and being on paper uh they're standing out a whiteb where they can easily eras any work that they do so it kind of takes the pressure off of them getting incorrect answers uh if they're in random person groups every
004today they're working with different students uh and we have sort of like rols that they have inside of their group uh so I'm going to pass it off through C to kind of a [Music] right now we need to work on so start [Music] the figure out we have to div something so while they're finishing up uh so a big uh part of what they're doing here is one person is on the calculator one person's on the marker and whoever's on the marker and whoever on the calculator they're not allowed to P the idea man uh whoever's not has doesn't have one of those materials is kind of like the idea person and whenever someone else wants to share idea they have to swap materials so there never just one person's kind of sitting back
005not really doing anything uh they're all kind of forced to participate and they get to kind of swap roles throughout the process and it really like uh allows everyone to get engaged in a way that kind of sitting at a desk and and inally sitting in a workbook does so we've seen a lot of success and a lot of improved engagement and a lot of the kids uh really enjoy it so guys thank you so much uh for the awesome super appreciate it everyone give it up a word [Music] thanks so much misss our amazing math students this point I am going to turn over to miss cash of our social study teachers and she has a couple we're going to talk about reading strategy that they really worked on as well as the goal
006a goal setting okay we were really talking to the mic um hi I'm Emma uh I've got two students this is no perfect uh and we're here to talk about the before during an after uh so really uh we met as a team because our uh students struggle with informational test and so we are tasked as both Ela and history to come up with informational test resource like what should a kid do as soon as they get it how should they read this text um and as a department we all just agreed that uh it needs to be for any text it can't just be for informational text because do you really know what informational text is right so it's like when you get a reading what should you do every single time just a
007deeper understanding um so this is what we came up with um as a strategy to help students every single time they get a reading in any class they're in what should they do even in math when they read story problems what should we do when we get it um soel how does this uh strategy help you understand text in class it helps me understand text in class because what I do before during after summarize the main idea answer question so [Music] I and how does it help you understand SE um El that helps like know what to right also [Music] know and would you both say that it helps you uh understand your reading and come there okay uh any questions with [Music] straty all right um and then this next part is doing self
008assessment so like this show do the instructional practices um it was like an intentional close like what should how are students reflecting on where they're at um cuz I can reflect and I can see where they're at but do they actually know daily uh where they're at in their progress towards the learning Target so every day this is what their entry task looks like uh the learning Target success criteria are always on the board all day and then the exit tick is really what we're talking about um where they reflect on a scale of 1 to four how successful they were so are they tracked where they're at and how are they able to communicate where they're at where are their needs on it and then I check those each week to see where they're
009at and their progress um I'll start with these so llin the exit ticket how does it help you track your skills and knowledge sucessful um it actually what makes me actually really on I do in okay I it like gives me to think about what I how I do it does it help you track your progress over a longer period of time Target yeah it does you want to add any questions from you guys [Music] a okay uh so one is that you I have sentence starters each day on the slide so I put the success criteria and just like a here's what a four means um and we use the language we use for our uh grading practices so four is Mastery three is per uh developing and the beginning and then it has
010starter so like I met 80% success criteria or that would be a per and then 70% or would be a three because I I met the first success criteria but I'm still working on the second one so that's kind of where those Reflections come in um does it help you address both criterias you think yeah any question these are rock stars so thank you thank you so much M cash and team up next Miss W is going to talk to us about Ela and how they're using IR already which I sure you have all it's been a big part of our school go this year and support for Success so right to talk about Morgan I'm going to talk about ready hello everyone um I'm Miss right I teach sixth grade ELA I'm also The
011English Department head here I'm here about I ready um so I actually have this as a little artifact to show you kind of pass it around so when the students took their I ready assessment in the fall we realized that a lot of the times when students take tests they don't ever get the feedback it's a lot of the times for the teachers to look at but students never really get to see how they're doing um and so we decided to print these scores pass them back to students talk about them and have them do a reflection so what you have in front of you is that reflection students can see where they're at they can see what growth they should be reaching for they get to set their own goal for that growth um
012and also talk about ways that they're going to achieve through their scores after that point we used I ready my path lessons for students to be able to reach those goals so for I ready it actually autoc creates lessons exactly at the level the students are at and they can do lessons that are tailored into what they need and what we did in ela is track that on a star chart so for every lesson that students completed they got to earn a star and every week or so I would check the lessons that students were doing and pass out those stars um and at the very end of it we got to see at who was in the top star chart of the um competition and more in here was actually in my top 10
013for star chart earners which was so amazing I'm going to pass it off to more [Music] you was amazing um and so I'm going to pass it to Morgan so she can tell you about what that experience was like for her and what she learned um I'm and and my score in the fall was 547 and my score in the spring was 5 all because of my I already my my path L are just stuff that you that you because of Stu that didn't make sense on your fall school and the typing lessons so in case so in my case most of my lessons were reading comprehension and V and because of these lessons on my I ready my diagnostic score increased by points I appreciate the oring school district for have using helping we
014use these tools thank you guys so much already have wi difference for lots of students not just Morgan there's plenty of students who we haven't done our second reflection yet um but there's so many students who have experienced to grad especially those who really leaned into the process of the start thank Youk you right and for the rest of the meeting we're really going to talk about our goals two and three um goal number two earlier at Community Partnerships and connections we have student L conferences twice a year and that's our best way to get feedback from families because at the end of the presentation they're given a survey and we get like 300 responses and so we identified three questions that we really wanted to improve on and a lot of that is around
015building increasing our trust with households and increasing communication their understanding of their students grades so one of the things we do is we send postcards home at every meeting just to give parents some positive feedback we're up to over 500 postcards that we've sent all these year those Falcon appreciation notes we've also been really intentional about parent calls we try to give those positive calls and then we dedicate some staff meaning time occasionally to reaching out to household for students to be strugg and then finally our student conference process will really TR we have over 300 perents in the fall and we have that coming up again next week and it's just been a really brige conversations between students and parents about how the academic goal number three for a full child goal it's really
016around improving attendance and we're doing a whole number of things we really believe that it's really important for students to be here in order to BU academically so those goals ties really closely the goals R forward as well and so we're doing so many things um really we believe that if we create a positive School culture we will have group attendance um but we also have an attendance team that really examines data each month we have and then identifies what can we do for those students who are struggling um we have as part of that attendance team we put out some positive messaging on social media and our our Weekly Newsletter see we included our students in that positive message and just letting people know you miss over 2 days a month you are considered
017product C that can add up so a lot of it is around positive messaging we got a second step to our SE curriculum this year which students get from kindergarten to fifth grade so it just Builds on that I'm really building a positive dring mindset in students so have that positive self image and SCH and then we have integrated the behaviors of dignity this year to that theme together with sore and I'm going to turn it over to Mr MC right to talk more about that while we believe that strong strong instruction is the way to move on stand outcomes we also are aware that culture and strategy for breakast so the five recording midle school is something that we value we spend a lot of time building it and not just putting it the
018adults but also putting the students so just like the instruction we just ask the kids how does the culture know us support you as a person and the answer is that this is a cross-section of students that represents you know all walks of life that come in our home but I love the light I feel like teachers know me the blue one says I feel connected the green one says uh the contest made me want to get class on time and then you know things that seem like they're not instructional but really have an impact on the way School runs I love the contest I love the events I love the scavs and one the seems like if R away I love having sports sports balls at lunch well that's an unstructured unsupervised time in
019a lot of schools where a lot of misbehavior happens and you drive by you're going to see 100 kids outside 60 of them playing with and 30 of just talking with your friends and the atmosphere is just very very positive and we don't take that for granted we really work to Foster what that means additionally like principal Collins mentioned uh the concept of dignity and the behaviors of dignity are becoming embrained in the way that just do school stared with one person's voice in the district office and then uh Kevin and I tried to make sure we understood it and give it to the building leadership team then the staff and now year four we we really of and fun but it just what it means to treat humans with dignity and especially students who
020sometimes feel like they don't have a voice and how been treated as people or been treated as someone who has an opinion that matter we worked so hard at this this year we were to get staff voice and student voice so in August the staff uh created the words that make the ionm sore together with sord with our Mantra this year so in this room in audence the staff chose uh supporting others owning our behaviors accepting of others and recognizing positive behaviors and then we did advisory lessons over 2 days of per the school where the students identified what the look for we compile the look fors make consensus each letter and this these posters are posted all over there're some on that wall they're in the hallways they're in classrooms they're in the office
021and we talk about the behaviors of commity and you when I'm doing discipline it's really fun the friend that conversation is what do you think of the behavor to dignity we could have done a little better we might have fallen short it just takes the personal attack on of conversation it builds up what the school wants to uh one other thing come on up uh my Coles that are here that we're super proud of is the second year of the col fell program just in middle school I think the school president has been a female all four of my years and girl Pro girl power but I also want to see more male voices step into some roles leaders so I've got uh three current members and two from last year that are going to
022speak to you um's going to start with what the program means cor going to tell you some things we do Jo is going to talk about our P pure Mentor program and then um Ryan and Kobe are going to mention how they have uh stayed connected to the program from last I want you to talk as loud as you do when I'm trying to get your attention one more me all right because we get to help the school the cus and the cers my name [Music] is I'm to experiences my name ising so that we've done at for the future is we've done a t challenge [Music] and've CH challeng all together [Music] as we picked [Music] up my name is Kobe and I was a part of it last year and uh me and
023we meet once a month with them we talk about their grades like we each have a person we talk about their grades and like parties and how they've been doing and their odrs and we also know the elementary schools like uh every other Tuesday we read the B second graders and stuff out class now we just IDE [Applause] thank you Mr mcre you an amazing work uh last thing we wrap up as I mentioned we're just really proud of our participation at OMS last year we keep a record of all the students who are in clubs Sports and in music programs we had 80% of our students in those programs last year and so we really pushed that hard keeping up that participation we think it it helps students stay connected to school it really
024enhances our community and we're just really proud it takes a lot of adults to make S too so our staff really give up a lot of time and sacrifice to uh finally you know we started off the year in August with this message of hope that hope is the believe at the future we better to better than today and you have the power to make it so and we really try to instill that in our kids cuz they need that they need that going into high school and Beyond and the way we build both of them is by helping them see them having success and so we just want to continue to build on that and together we sore and continue go on that the rest of this year and and final thing you this
025is our our last time with Mr debrite as you know he took a position and sent to the kids out he's been such an integral part of our school and done so many amazing things so I just want to give a thank you to all the work he's done as you see in these meetings these four years just an incredible part I'm not ready to say my goodbyes yet but with the school board here I just want to give him that shout out huge thank you to our teachers who sacrificed evening and our students get them around all right with that I will turn it back to our questions we be happy to answer them thank you parents for putting your kids here sure them to support us as well principal call in I approve
026you to go to another Lister still looking for an answer for that yeah not saying um I would just like to know the board has comment um I really truly appreciate your work elevating student voice and doing it creatively through their voice like working with them to know what's important to them what's what they value uh getting them engaged activity so it's more just classroom more your creativity in the classroom to try teaching differently to connect with kids it's just evident in their work so I want to thank you for that and also for extending your impact in students your leadership into p and with other students that's really important we're setting an importantance stage to winess schillers thank you for bringing you back home next job I usually um at these meetings these are
027my favorite meetings all years when we get to come to the schools we get to see some of the students and some of the teachers that are in the building and I'm always try to be really deliberate about taking not things touch me um and don't ask a lot of questions during I don't want you that attention but um you started tonight with the super is the choir and I'm always reminded when I get to hear the choir for some reason especially here at the middle school um just again how sweet children's voices are and they are stinking good I um this gracious I don't think I ever heard a choir in a midle school sounding like that good um and then we get to hear uh the Woodland content um I never learned how
028to play in like that phenomenal um you have the together sore and you describe what means and out the acronym um I'm going to go back and a little bit closer uh just fascinating I love that you have both one or about gr here not for the academics part um but on the heels of that one of my favorite thingss here at Orton Middle School was when you brought in the Falcon fellas and the reason for that and I just to that that program is still here I'd love that the um the boys that were first involved in it are now mentoring the next group and I'm sure that this group this year are going to go back and Venture the next group and that you're taking that down to PTR to do that as
029well um you guys have great hearts and wonderful personalities that you make that so much fun for me I just love that um there's a whole bunch of other stuff too m had a math class where you could actually talk to your peers you were recommended for that when I went to school and so and therefore I didn't really work out very well so I like that we are challenging the status quo and changing how things are done um and giving the students a voice in that along with high ready results being able to give those test results back to the students so that they can actually engage in their own learning that way and I think that's part of that advocacy their own read and they to do that um I have a lot
030more some else ising just thanking thank you so much first of all thank you for Fells I still want to see I want to give a thank you Mrs thank you oh yes thank you so why culture here say and earli this year some boys let say out to say hi JJ and he went over and he talk to them and I actually said boys never seen him said how do you know how do you a class with them they said no he just two our school so he's our friend and I there it's it's really changed now he say a back [Music] question I just want to say thank you to um students and staff it is it also lot students to get up there and talk in front of you focus and you
031guys did a great job hang onang translate can't here she's thinking music and our students well our we've got a little bit of Mind trouble today so it's not projecting through the room so I'm just translating so what's next fellas she really likes her program and she's all right did I get it okay awesome thank you Jo in middle school thank you so much parents thanks for coming and supporting your students and being here to hear all about cour Happ really appreciate it okay that uh for the last comment uh just a quick update the bom pass for T the high school and elementary school this week so they got to see [Music] firstand Contin to next and meeting all right I all Jour meeting at 657