1. World’s Best Workforce SPPS Annual Report
Regular Board of Education Meeting
November 17, 2015

2. Purpose
The purpose of this presentation is to present SPPS’s World’s Best Workforce Annual Report for school year for approval by the School Board.

3. World’s Best Workforce
The World’s Best Workforce (WBWF) Plan is required by Minnesota statute, section 120B.11
The aim of the statute is to ensure every school district is making strides to improve student performance
Ultimate goal is to ensure Minnesota’s students in the future will become the “world’s best workforce”

4. WBWF – Five Goals The WBWF Plan must address the following five goals:
All children are ready for school
All third graders can read at grade level
All racial and economic achievement gaps are closed
All students are ready for college and career
All students graduate from high school

5. Strong Schools, Strong Communities 2.0
SPPS is in the second phase of our strategic plan, Strong Schools, Strong Communities 2.0
Three overarching goals:
Five Focus Areas:
Racial Equity Transformation
Personalized Learning
Ready for College and Career
Excellent PK-12 Programs with Connected Pathways
Systems that Support a Premier Education
In addition to our WBWF plan we also have our strategic plan, Strong Schools, Strong Communities 2.0
Three goals
Five Focus areas

6. VisionCards
System for monitoring progress towards reaching the goals of SSSC 2.0
Over 80 performance metrics organized on six VisionCards
Throughout the year, each card is presented to the Board annually
As a part of SSSC 2.0, we have the VisionCards
Critical
Concern
Stable
Progress
Vision

7. How much farther do we need to go?
Three Components
So how are these three components tied together?
SSSC 2.0
is the destination
Road trip analogy
VisionCards
are the odometer
WBWF
is the route
Where we want go?
So to understand how these components are all tied together I’ll use the Road trip analogy that I used last year.
SSSC 2.0 and the goals of Achievement, Alignment, and Sustainability are where we want to go.
WBWF is the route. The plan is organized according to our SSSC five focus areas
VisionCards are how we regularly monitor our progress
How far have we gone?
How much farther do we need to go?
How will we get there?

8. Racial Equity Transformation - Programs
Programs/Initiatives
WBWF Goals
All Children Ready for School
All Third Graders Reading at Grade Level
All Racial and Economic Achievement Gaps Are Closed
All Students are Ready for College and Career
All Students Graduate from High School
Racial Equity Transformation
Racial Equity Professional development x
School-specific work led by school Equity Teams
Racially equitable curriculum
Joint racial equity training
Parent Academy
Parent Advisory committees
The first area we’ll discuss is Racial Equity
This chart lists the programs under this Focus Area, and which of the WBWF goals that the programs address.

9. Racial Equity Transformation - Metrics
Presented last January
Numbers for completing foundational racial equity PD
% of central administrators who have implemented racial equity dept wide

10. Personalized Learning - Programs

11. Personalized Learning - Metrics
Presented last June
Student perceptions on how personalized learning has allowed them to make decisions about WHAT and HOW they learn

12. College and Career - Programs

13. College and Career - Metrics
Metrics – presented last March
CTE – Career programs and internships
Proportionality ratio by race of passing advanced courses
FAFSA completion rate

14. Programs and Pathways - Programs

15. Programs and Pathways - Metrics
Programs and Pathways was presented in April
ECFE participation
KG choice
Continued enrollment in SPPS

16. Systems - Programs
Systems

17. Systems - Metrics Systems metrics were presented August
Performance reviews for school and district leaders
PAR program
Unassigned balance

18. Growth and Proficiency - Metrics
End with the Growth and Proficiency Metrics – these are from the VisionCard that was developed last month
School readiness as measured by Mondo (Fall 2014) results.
Oral language: 71% at benchmark target
Phonemic (PhaNEEmic) Awareness: 53% at benchmark target
Print concepts: 66% at benchmark target

19. Growth and Proficiency - Metrics
Gaps in proficiency across race/ethnic groups

20. Growth and Proficiency - Metrics
Graduation rates
Latest results (2014)
76% of students graduate in four years
Disaggregated by race
American Ind 52%
Asian 78%
Black 69%
Hispanic 69%
White 84%

21. Growth and Proficiency VisionCard
The full Growth and Proficiency VisionCard can be found in the Board Book and will be posted online at:
Growth and Proficiency VisionCard
At the Board meeting last month,
Joe Munnich, assistant director for our Research Evaluation and Assessment department gave a presentation, with helpful illustrations, regarding the difference between proficiency, proficiency gains, and growth as it relates to our annual MCA tests.  
Also, Principal Christine Vang from Como Park Elementary, along with two students, addressed us all.  
Como Elementary has seen tremendous and consistent high growth in both math and reading every year for the last four years.  
They discussed some of the strategies and tactics that are used there that are resulting in strong growth for Como students.  
Given that much of the VisionCard information was discussed last week, and I just presented it as part of this World's Best and Integration presentations tonight, to avoid redundancy we won't do another full presentation on the VisionCard.  Instead, I would like to direct you all to the Board Book, which includes the VisionCard on page XX.  

22. Questions?
Full report can be found at: Office of Strategic Planning and Policy (651)