Meeting Minutes from September 24, 2024
8:30am |
Welcome - Shelley Willott, introduced herself to the committee. This is the first meeting of the school year, we last met in April. Since We Last Met:
The 2024-2025 School Year Theme is We Partner, We Plan, We Promise The Way forward expires this year and the district is working on a new strategic plan. In addition to district employees, the strategic plan committee includes community members. Dr. Cain’s has been sharing the slide: Focus on Academics and Nurturing Learning. There are opportunities to do better, but we are moving forward. Shelley explained how the following pieces fit together - District Strategic Plan/ Comprehensive School Improvement Plan (CSIP) gives us ideas of where we're going. We then have Building School Improvement Plan (BSIP), PLC/TEI Goals, Classroom Instructional Goals and Practices. They are in a straight line because they all align. Hopefully help with the question of why we are doing certain things. Every job in the district has a role with the district strategic plan to help students. Shelley asked members to open their Classlink - The minutes, handouts and slides from this meeting will be housed here. Inclusion Activity - Keri Skeeters, Director of Curriculum and Learning, introduced herself to the members. Each member was given a piece of paper and five minutes to compete against each other at their table. Their goal was to use the paper to make the tallest freestanding tower only using one piece of paper. Members shared what skills and strategies were used in the process
These are all character building skills that can easily be used in the classroom. |
Dr. Shelley Willott, Assistant Superintendent of Learning & Support Services Dr. Keri Skeeter, Director of Curriculum and Professional Learning |
9:00am |
Guiding Framework - Guiding Framework was Introduced to students over the summer and you will see it at every RLC and other places as well. The three essential elements, safe, supportive and collaborative culture start at the district level, buildings and in the classroom. Layered on that is effective teaching practices in every classroom and end up with guaranteed and viable curriculum. The only way these happen well is if we have clarity, evidence and feedback on the base. We have a strategic plan so we are clear on where we are moving. We gathered evidence at committee programs that we use. Students need your feedback to grow and district needs information from surveys so we can grow. It’s not enough to just “think” or to “feel” that we have safe, supportive and collaborative cultures, or effective teaching in all classrooms, or a guaranteed and viable curriculum, we need to be certain. We need to have clarity of expectations for each of these, know what evidence we need to confirm it, and what kind of feedback we need to provide to keep growing in each area. John Hattie has done research on effective impact. Identify where you see clarity evidence and feedback in the shared video Clarity - dad shows him what to do and the child models Evidence - Trying to get hose to mouth then had to feel it splash on him, but keeps trying Feedback - Ahh - that he actually got the drink, smiled, getting feedback that the water was not going where it was supposed to, looked at parents for acknowledgement. Employee Experience - Safe Supportive & Collaborative Culture - Glenn shared a spreadsheet that Illustrated where we started in 2023 (1st employee experience survey) Here are a few things that we did after the survey
About the 2024 Employee Experience Survey
Glenn compared how 2023 and 2024 compared. Still work to do, but we learned that we are making progress. “Other” group is mainly made of adventure club and community education. Opportunities to learn from others as to what needs to be replicated or changed. Glenn gave members the opportunity to review the results. Copies were placed on the tables. They can also be viewed online by clicking on the QR code. We will continue, but need feedback. Glenn asked members to look through the information and add comments to the sheet. Also gave them a blank sheet to add things that may be missing on the list. Collected the lists and adding them to main list. Data Dive - Guaranteed & Viable Curriculum Members were asked to turn and talk to a partner about what you have seen so far.
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Dr. Keri Skeeters, Director of Curriculum and Professional Learning Glenn Hancock, Director of Research, Evaluation and Assessment |
11:30am |
Lunch (on your own) |
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12:30pm |
Effective Instruction - Effective Teaching in Every Classroom
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Dr. Keri Skeeters, Director of Curriculum and Professional Learning |
1:30pm |
Updates A100
A200
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Bob Deneau, Chief Information Officer and Team Dr. Shelley Willott, Assistant Superintendent of Learning and Support Services Dr. Paul Godwin, Assistant Superintendent Supervision of Elementary Education |
2:30pm |
Feedback/Building Time |