001what it looked like when I was, you know, located in here. >> You right. >> Okay, we're good to go. >> All right, go ahead and call our meeting of the county board of education. Testing. Testing. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic with it stands. One nation under Gody. We'll introduce the folks that we have. We're just going to keep bouncing up here. I think there's a list of questions that you guys are wanting us to answer. So, we'll just bounce up here one or two at a time. Go for it. First, we have Mrs. Lisa Knots, our lovely assistant principal. We have Regina Craft, kindergarten teacher, Jamie Smith, a counselor, and Jesse Dials, CIS teacher. Before we get going, I was just talking to Missy just
002now. She was asking about the needs, and I think that's one of the questions that I don't really have any needs. I know these people will agree with me. Um well we have some needs but be we would like to say thank you all because we get despite the budgeting issues and everybody knows how the budgeting has been going in the state we get everything that we need and most of what we want and that's you know so we would like to say thank you guys for that. So we'll get started with our questions. I think Jesse's first and then we'll just go right down the line. Make it short and sweet. Good evening. >> Hello. >> How are you all? >> Good. If you look at your handout, it shows the progression of our
003chronically absent student rate. Of course, 2022 is 26.47. We're down to 17.3. >> Fantastic. >> Thank you. We think so as well. Um I think a lot of that is attributed to that's our main focus I feel like here as a whole making meaningful contact home to parent garden whether that's call text email home visit um and it's taken a long time to build that relationship with them to make them comfortable to come to us for us to reach out to them um make sure their needs are met so they explore I think we also have a lot of tier one supports that we have in place as long as as well as tier two and three, but tier one will really hit hard. Um, we started with a new attendance incentive this year and
004it was our potato head [laughter] attendance challenge. I don't know if you've heard about that. Miss Terry Lane kind of told us about it, right? I think um so if you have perfect attendance and tardies do count so everybody has to be there in a seat on time you get a piece of the potato head and put it on and um we were encouraging the teachers to have fun with it name your potato head make it a big deal and so we did that this year and that I feel like that's helped and um the incentives got bigger inflatables or something along those lines make you excited. So, and then um the check-ins we do a lot of we now we did move from check-ins with students in the red. I'll say this year we
005focused more on going to the yellow. So, instead of just coming home in chronically absent students already, we've started moving toward the the kids who are showing the signs and and working with him might have helped. So, at least in my eyes, I feel like it's helped out. So, um but those are formal. I try to do formal check-in with all of our chronically um absent students at least once a month. And then the informal check-ins, those happen a lot more frequently. Um so, gosh, I want to say once every week, once every two weeks, and that can look like a lot of different things. The formal is um conducting in a private environment and the informal could be playground whenever we see them. So they know that they can come to us for anything
006and we can try to help out. questions. >> Yeah, to be below 20% fantastic. >> Yeah, I was really proud of that. >> Yeah, we got a pretty big school, too. So, yeah, big population. >> I noticed last year. >> 20 students. That's right. As we're all getting ready to say current enrollment. Well, now this was I don't think that's as of today. That's probably as of last week we put all this together, but 4:14 student at some point. >> Yeah. >> We got a lot of students back from um not homeschool. We got some students coming back that were receiving the hope scholarship for various reasons. You know, the parents will call and tell us the reason that we're getting a lot of students back that we're receiving the scholarship and taking those that
007money to whatever you know whatever institution we're going to. I think that plays a big role in the reason why >> if you put it up to the bottom third of your paper, we have our results from our general sumitive assessment for the past three years and that is our prof proficiency rate and I'll give you a second to just look over that. It's a lot of information. Very proud of our fourth grade. They were they had significant increase all the way across. We noticed our third grade starting to go back up in math a little bit. I'm wondering if third grade part of our problem wasn't in the ELA. They had narratives last year and I think that was the first year for the narrative writing and I'm not sure they all got off
008the modules and things like that to start writing. So I think that's part of the problem. state equal and fifth grade for ELA. Um that we need to work on our math fifth and I think another part of that was we had a new curriculum math and as Mr. Hel and I were talking about it. I think it was pretty obvious we had trouble getting some people on board. Some people embraced it and went with it. you can see fourth grade did and some people everybody's on board now but there was there was a time trying to get everybody on board and I think everybody's a lot more comfortable with it now so hopefully these are going to be going up and then science we're we're slowly increasing there you have any questions about that
009on the next page what we're looking at is um our benchmarks. If you like to bring your focus over to the proficiency rate, it's the white column all the way close to the end. We were comparing like benchmark one of last year to benchmark one of this year in ELA. And last year they were at 8% in the fall. This year they were at 10%. So we have a 10 2% increase. Um, for fourth grade we had a 7% increase and in fifth grade we had a 14% increase on our benchmarks for the same time of year for the same test. And then down below is the math. Uh, again our math we had a 2% and that stayed the same. In fourth grade, it did go down a percent. And the only thing I
010can think of is where our fourth grade had gone up quite a bit last year that maybe they're already up there. So that might count for that 1% and then fifth grade they went up%. >> So with the new Yes. Our specialist. I mean, they're great. Anytime we call, they'll come in, they'll model, they'll get things, give you supplies. They're great for that. So, I definitely feel like we have the support we need. I think early on like she said the buy from some of the teachers a little change on that change a little scary now >> and sometimes you know your veteran teachers are not convinced and I'm thinking specifically in Port we have a relatively new teacher and the only thing she was used to using was that math curriculum. She did fabulous
011last year and I see that had a lot to do with it. Plus, it also helped her get everybody in her team on board. So, I think that's where you can see it. And then on the next page, you can see the science. Um, we're slowly getting there. We are up five percentage points from last year's benchmark in the fall. So, going up slowly but surely. We have quite a few things that we're working on. We have our teacher leadership groups like you have across the county, your ELA cadre, your math cadre, our data team. Um, we our walkthroughs, your 10-minute feedback meetings. I find this to be really helpful just to go in and say, you know, why not this? What do you think? And it really gets them thinking about things. again um
012our partner school walkthroughs I know that's been super helpful with me especially with walkthroughs because I can what did you see what did you think about this and here's the way I looked at it so that has really helped me a lot and then it's something I'm not sure how would you approach that and they've been really helpful to me on that our administrator data meetings and our PLC's I kind of noticed in the past that I mean yes I think our teachers do plan together, but then you hand them an agenda and you say, "Do this." And it's like they're checking the box. They really just want to be like, "Okay, got to get that agenda in." I know they're working together. I mean, we have teams you can just tell they're you go
013in a classroom, they're all doing the same type of thing. They're at the same place, but when you have them put it on paper, it just they're throwing something down to get it out. So, this year, last year, I thought about it and I thought, "We need specific agendas." And so that's what I've been doing, going through and making specific agenda and having them turn in examples of, you know, I want concrete examples of where did you do this? How are you using this? I know one was tested this year. I want to make sure they're using that because I think some of it they we have teachers that use it all the time, but we have some that I don't think use it the way they should. And so this way I'm trying to
014just hold them accountable to make sure that, you know, I can get in there, but I want you to print me off the copy. Show me score. Show me the test. Show me something. I want to see where you're doing it. So, I think that's helped them this year. And our professional CDNPL days, we do the same type of thing there. We have Kelly, Rhonda, and Tanya. They've been I didn't add that on there, but they've been a great help to us. And um another thing we did is we noticed that our special education subgroup was coming an issue. It was really getting pretty far away from Virginia teachers and that was going to be a problem. And I spoke with Mr. Hel and I said, "I really think it's time we need to try
015to push them back into the classroom." I felt like, and it's nothing against the teachers. They were wonderful, but it seemed like the expectations of the students, they weren't there. And it wasn't the teachers not having the expectations, but then if you see this student not doing it, this student thinks they're getting by with it. And it really I I'm excited to see what's going to happen this year. I can see a big difference in the work and the expectations of how those kids are working in the classroom. I watched in went in and watched um one of the students that was in a pullout classroom last year in a co- teach classroom this year get up and do her little box simulated cereal box record and I mean she comes in she doesn't have
016an ounce of nervousness you know she and then I watch the Jenna appears and they're in nervous records she was just putting it on and doing a whole commercial and all this and I thought I am amazed but you know sometimes I think they see everybody else do it they kind of have to do it and Then another thing I'm thinking might help with our third grade is we have interventions this year in third grade. So hopefully that's going to help us get some of those scores back up to where they need to be. Anybody have any questions? >> How many interventions do you have >> in third grade? >> Yeah, >> we have one and a half. >> One and a half. [laughter] >> We split one with pre. >> Okay. And the last
017the last three things here, the disciplinary rates, we don't we we we've only suspended one student so far this year, we we try to stay away from out of school suspension. Um that number seven, what supports are needed from the from the board to address these items? Everything that we've spoken about so far or everything that we're going to speak about and Jesse is tied to that. our CIS that that CIS position is very important and I and you know I think it's a grant funded position. I don't know how it's funded but you know the attendance and every everything that we've spoken about is she has she's affected she's she's got her hands into that. Um, so we would like to have that position around for as long as possible. And I again, we
018don't know what the plans are, but those positions are very very important. You know, with boots on the ground, people she she's dealing with these people um daily and it's amazing and and the results are coming in. So, if we did have one as that would be a huge she those positions have been a huge support for the schools. Facility improvements. We're in line to get a new building. So, is what it is. We'll maintain until we can get there. And we've been doing a good job. Our custodians are great. They, you know, they've been the best hand with the whole building. We'll maintain until we get there. >> Is there anything that uh needs addressed over the next year or so? Any significant problems facilities wise? >> No. I spoke to Missy earlier. I
019don't know if you could see out there some people been parking in the grass. I spoke to Matt today. Um it's going to come put some post down through there to keep people from parking in the grass. Other than that, the improvements have made over the last few years. Um the exterior window film um we've had several I don't know how many. We've had several new exterior doors. The doors on this place were old and almost push push them in if you you tried real hard. So we've got several new exterior doors over the last few years. Our custodians got a new floor machine. Um, I've never seen two grown men as happy as those guys were when that when they brought that thing in. Uh, our camera system. Uh, for years we we we
020had no camera system here. So, over over the last two or three years, we've got new security system. And then hot water. Hot water was always an issue here. I've been here nine years, I think, and it's been an issue. That's now taken care of. We're doing hot water lines all throughout the building. So, it's all taken care of. Thank you guys. Again, at the beginning I said we we get everything we need and most of what we want. So, thank you guys. Any questions? >> Yeah. Was the drain issue that was in the cafeteria to fatten up? Was that taken care of? >> It has been. It has been taken care of. Now, um we we were utilizing Rotorooer a lot. Um they came in and um flushed it out or jetted it out
021or whatever it was. Yeah. from from the outside of something that we we couldn't do and since then it it has taken care of the issue for the most part and it it doesn't back up in there anymore. Occasionally we'll get it we'll get something backed up down there in the bathrooms with our custodians and guys take care of that. So it's for the most part it's it's all taken care of. >> Thank you all so much. It's a recess. >> Sorry. How are your second? >> Yeah, you know, we speak to others. But we are very lucky. Our our first and second grade are very good. >> They they're just like they're just in my opinion they're an additional teacher and every one of ours are