1. Opening Day Faculty Meeting 6 October 2014 8 – 8:45

2.  Reports  Leadership Teams  Professional Learning  Strategic Intents  Grade Levels  NWEA Fusion Conference – Matt Cornacchio  High Quality Instruction

3. Minutes/Agenda for Leadership Teams are online  Building Leadership Team  District Character Building Plan (DASA)  Rossi Symposium  Dismissal Procedures  Mentoring Program  Action Teams ▪ Parent/Student Handbook

4.  SEMT Team  Safety Documents online  Updated Safety Plan & documents  Securing Classrooms & Teacher Keys

5.  Inquiry Team  Continue to Develop Professional Learning for staff Meetings - HQI  Review of student achievement data  Building Improvement Plan  District Strategic Intents

6. Strategic Intents 2014-2015 Strategic Intents-ELA 2014 Results 2015 Target % of students in Grades 3 - 5 will achieve Level 3 or higher on the NYSTP ELA Examination. 36%40% % of students with disabilities in Grades 3 ‐ 5 will achieve Level 3 or higher on the NYSTP ELA Examination. 3%7% % of students in Grades 3 - 5 will achieve a Level 4 on the NYSTP ELA Examination. 10%11%  NY State averages for ALL Students: Grade 3- 32% (exceeded) Grade 4- 33% (exceeded) Grade 5- 30% (exceeded)

7. Strategic Intents 2014-2015 Strategic Intents-Math 2014 Results 2015 Target % of students in Grades 3 ‐ 5 will achieve Level 3 or higher on the NYSTP Math Examination. 48%52% % of students with disabilities in Grades 3 ‐ 5 will achieve Level 3 or higher on the NYSTP Math Examination. 9%10% % of students in Grades 3 – 5 will achieve Level 4 on the NYSTP Math Examination. 23%24%  NY State averages for ALL Students: Grade 3- 42% (exceeded) Grade 4- 43% (exceeded) Grade 5- 40% (exceeded)

8. Strategic Intents 2014-2015 Strategic Intents-Science 2014 Results 2015 Target % of students in Grade 4 will achieve a Level 3 or higher on the NYSTP Science Examination. 94% % of students will achieve a Level 4 on the NYSTP Science Examination. 64%65%  A curriculum review window will remain as part of the 4 th grade pacing plan.  Field trips aligned to support relevance.  Field trips have been enhanced through communication with community partners to increase rigor.  Participation in the district science fair is strongly encouraged and supported

9.  Outcome from Cross-Grade Level Meeting  Common Themes/Standards  Building Improvement Plan

10. CLARIFICATIONS TO NWEA SCORES- *SEASONAL GRADE LEVEL RIT SCORES STAND FOR SCORING AT THE 50 TH PERCENTILE WHEN LOOKING AT A SPECIFIC GOAL STRAND / LEARNING CONTINUUM, THERE WILL BE THREE COLUMNS. Skills and concepts to advance 161-170 Skill and concepts to develop 171-180 Skill and concepts to develop 181-190 Understanding Place Value, Counting & Cardinality Understanding Place Value, Counting & Cardinality Understanding Place Value, Counting & Cardinality Specific skills Students should be able to do these skills with a 75-85% success rate. Specific skills Students should be able to do these skills with 50% success rate. this is the RIT band where your student scored Specific skills Students should be able to do these skills with a 25% success rate.

11.  Change OUR Thinking- not students At Risk, but students At Opportunity  Class View - now groups students based on skills and concepts they need to develop to meet their learning goals. -This will allow you to group students by standards. -You can now filter by standard and grade level.  A Principal at The American School of Tunis, and MAP presenter shared: There will ALWAYS be 1 or 2 students who will not do well on this assessment due to uncontrollable circumstances, and it will be difficult to figure out the why. (A little alarming for us since we use it as an evaluation tool.)  STAFF Meet and Greet- I had an opportunity to ask this question: “ How do we know this assessment shows a valid measure of students ability when students click it and go on? How do we know they are truly engaged? -This is where I met a “Gamer”. He mentioned an idea he pitched to the NWEA Association and is currently working on a project to make the assessment more engaging to all students. He is putting a Zelda meets Mario Brothers twist on it where children may have an opportunity to control which board they go to and t hey can collect coins for correct answers. He plans on it being in the “works” for several years though.

12. My BIG QUEST- search for technology, since we place such a heavy emphasis on an assessment with very little practice on the computer to prepare children to know how to test. We also need to find ways to teach ALL of the skill deficits when the curriculum doesn’t always, and the amount of time to teach on the side of our curriculum, RTI, is vanishing. How can we teach smarter and not harder? *Free Online Tools with MAP *Classworks.com- This is an interactive program that is individualized to each student. This is a program that teaches skill deficit mini lessons, using a head-set, followed by questions. If the student shows a solid understanding they advance to the next skill deficit level. More than one child could be doing this at once. A Hampton County School District 2 (SC) utilized this program along with incentives, and students were able to excel their learning by having the capability to use Classworks at home. This school district climbed out of a deficit, in need of improvement situation *check out the Khan Academy Resource by RIT when looking at student and class data.

13. Norms for High Quality Instruction 1. Include A Clear and Explicit Purpose For Instruction Every Class 2. Teachers Facilitating Active Engagement 3. Demonstration of Student Understanding 4. Purposeful use Technology 5. Data Driven Instruction

14. Many 3 rd Party companies are providing academic support using data provided by NWEA. Khan Academy example http://support.nwea.org/khanrit https://www.khanacademy.org/commoncore Technology Resource page

15.  November – Review of HQI 1-3  Data Walkthroughs  Expectations of Implementation  Share Out