Board Member Sara Hacken
Wants to make us aware of things from the District and School Board level. They are doing a study on all special programs- ALL, DLI, preschool, Autism, etc. The District team is preparing a study and will present information so they can receive input from the public. They will have a place on the District website for people to submit feedback. One issue is equity and access to programs. Question from DCC member- Is there a limit from the state on the number of DLI programs allowed? Sara Hacken will check into that. There is a reconfiguration study happening right now. The company is MGT from Florida. They will receive that in January. That will be put online with an opportunity for people to give feedback. They will wait until after the legislative session to make any kind of decision. They will then decide if it should be on the ballot for November 2024. They want a cost per community for us to maintain the programs we already have. They’re a very experienced company.
DCC Member Grace-
They were just trained on PLC’s (Professional Learning Community). The teams and collaboration help the teachers be better and help the students learn more.
Alina-
Note from the district that we need to be very cautious about SPAM and hackers. Do not buy gift cards for anyone!
95% program.-
Email sent to Darrin from Reading Interventionist- They are teaching small group lessons to 68 students and 42 are ML. In addition, 28 students are working on fluency. The 4 kindergarten classes receive target lessons. In Sept and Oct they had 33 students advance in PSI and 8 advance out of interventions or into fluency help. They do push-in and push-out. Kindergarten does alphabet boot camp and they are also doing star trophies. The kids are retaining the information and maintaining their learning. As of Friday 9 have letter and sound fluency (not done testing them yet).
JoMarie Larsen- Coach- Presentation on Priorities
- School Wide Achievement
- Increase proficiency and growth in literacy. Increase the number of students k-6 who are proficient from BOY to EOY on the Acadience Reading Benchmark. We will increase the number of students making typical or better growth from BOY to EOY.
- We are at 64% proficiency. K- 45% 1- 64% 2- 76% 3- 62% 4- 62% 5- 57% 6- 80% (5th grade has the highest number of ML and newcomers)
- Increase proficiency and growth in literacy. Increase the number of students k-6 who are proficient from BOY to EOY on the Acadience Reading Benchmark. We will increase the number of students making typical or better growth from BOY to EOY.
- Focus Group Achievement (Ours in MLs. We have 140 MLs)
- Increase proficiency and growth in literacy. Increase the number of students k-6 who are proficient from BOY to EOY on the Acadience Reading Benchmark. We will increase the number of students making typical or better growth from BOY to EOY. (Comparing growth to national data to see if they increase similar to other students at the same level as them.)
- We are at 23% proficiency. For many ML students this is their first experience with English or even at a school. We have to build language and reading background. K- 0% 1- 35% 2- 43% 3- 24% 4- 17% 5- 5% 6-38% (5th grade has the highest number of ML and newcomers). The amount of newcomers impacts the proficiency. Some of these students are also not literate in their first language. Many of these families are also split apart.
- We have an ML coach and aides. Looking to hire more aides.
- Question- If you remove newcomers from the data does the level of proficiency improve over time (from grade to grade)? WIDA level 3 is a place where students tend to plateau because that moves from social language to academic language. K-3 focuses on learning to read and 4-6 focuses on reading to learn.
How do we accomplish proficiency?
Tier 1 instruction
Language support
Tier 2 & 3 instruction
- Increase proficiency and growth in literacy. Increase the number of students k-6 who are proficient from BOY to EOY on the Acadience Reading Benchmark. We will increase the number of students making typical or better growth from BOY to EOY. (Comparing growth to national data to see if they increase similar to other students at the same level as them.)
- Connections Goal
- We will focus on climate, culture, and connections. Focus on habits of teaching responsibility, remaining on task, working towards achievement and showing respect. (Data is in process through the school counselor.)
Other items for future meeting- Additionally we will discuss briefly the next items on the schedule as well as upcoming deadlines as indicated by the SLT.
Next meeting is Nov 27th at 1:00pm.
We will discuss cyber security and safety and statistics.
