Title I Parent MeetingOctober 6, 2015

Welcome/Sign In Ice Breaker UIP Innovation Timeline and Plan Report Cards, Parent Conferences Great things happening at Boston

◦ Fund Raising ◦ Anything else

PTO Meeting◦ Sign In◦ PTO Meaning and Why it is important◦ Vision and next steps◦ Closing

Agenda

Turn and share: What has been the highlight of the year so

far for you and your family?

Ice Breaker

Our UIP is due to the district on Nov. 1st, the major components are:◦ Observation Feedback, focused on growth and

support for teachers’ effectiveness ◦ Data Driven Instruction, focused on making

decisions in the school and in the classroom based on what students understand and what they don’t understand

◦ Culture, focused on establishing and creating a positive culture for students, parents, and community as a whole

UIP Unified Improvement Plan

We are creating an Innovation plan for Boston’s future.◦ What can we do within our school to be more

effective in helping our students’ academics?◦ What will be our focus?◦ We are visiting other schools in Denver and New

York to get ideas of schools that are effective.◦ The School Design Team will do the initial leg work

and communicate information over the next few months.

Innovation Timeline and Plan

Principal 5 Teachers

◦ Kinder◦ 1st grade◦ 4th grade◦ 5th grade◦ 7/8 grade◦ 7/8 grade

Classified Staff Community Member/Parent Meet weekly for the next couple of months

School Design Team

School Design Team ScheduleSept 17 ILT Selection of School Design Team & Root Cause Analysis

Sept 18   Send home SDT Community piece.Call parents who were interested and have them fill out application

Sept 22 Ruth Finalize Community member of Design TeamSept 30 Staff Meeting Share findings of SRAOct 1 School Design Team Meeting Overview, process, calendar ,SRA info, applications, Zone and pillars

Oct 6 School Design Team Meeting Prepare for Vision and Mission facilitation -Homework, look at other innovation schools and plans, what has worked (from Mass Insight). Mass Insight arrange innovation school visits for individuals/small groups and provide a information “catcher” to bring back to SDT.

Oct 6 Parent Meeting Share SDT Process and Innovation Zone processOct 9 Teachers/Staff Vision and Mission for Boston’s future (what do we want this school to be and what are our values that drive

our vision)This work grounds the process of Innovation

Oct 12-16 School Design Team Individuals and/or small group visit innovation schools

Oct 22 School Design Team What if – brainstorm possibilities, Mass Insight will help plan facilitation for this meeting with Ruth prior to meeting. All staff invited to get all ideas down.

Oct 29 School Design Team Narrow possibilities more, Pros and Cons of possibilities. Generate prototyping list

Oct 28 Staff Meeting Share out what occurred in SDT meeting, solicit feedback from staff

Nov 1 Innovation Application Writer Prepopulate Innovation Application sectionsNov 5 School Design Team Narrow possibilities more, Pros and Cons of possibilities. Generate prototyping list

Nov 10 Parent Meeting State of the School Design processNov 11 Staff Meeting Share out Innovation process and updatesNov 12 School Design Team Waivers needed to support the plan. Superintendent Munn, Mass Insight will share how to remove barriers

that may exist as district or state level.

Nov 19 School Design Team Refine plan for successDec 1ish Community/Parent Meeting Public Hearing UIP & Innovation Plan

Dec 1 Innovation Application Writer Send electronic draft to SDTDec 2 Staff Meeting Share out Innovation process and updatesDec 3 School Design Team Review Draft and revise/refineDec 10 School Design Team Review Draft and revise/refineDec 11 Innovation Application Writer Send new electronic draft to SDTDec 17 School Design Team Review Draft and revise/refineDec 20 Innovation Application Writer Send new electronic draft to SDT and District for FeedbackJan 4ish School Design Team Review Feedback and make revisions to planJan 6 Staff Meeting Share out Innovation PlanJan 8 Innovation Application Writer Send “final” draft to SDT and DistrictJan 12 Community/Parent Meeting Presentation of Innovation planJan 19 APS Board Meeting Presentation of Innovation plans to School BoardJan   APS BOE submits Innovation plans to the State

November Parent Meeting ◦ We will share what has been happening◦ Discuss possible structures that could be

effective. (creative time to think about what is posible)

Community Input

School Design Team◦ Oct 1, first meeting◦ Oct 12-17, visit other schools◦ Oct 19-23, list all ideas and possibilities◦ Nov, gather ideas from community◦ Nov-Dec, refine and create a plan◦ Dec, submit plan to district◦ Jan, submit plan to state

Innovation Timeline

Parent Teacher Conferences are scheduled Oct 20th, 21st

◦ K-5 individual appointments◦ 6-8 open conference style

Report Cards◦ Standard based grading

https://sites.google.com/a/aurorak12.org/aps-elementary-resources/report-card-revision-info

Report Cards will be given out to parents at conferences.

Report Cards/Parent Teacher Conferences

Fun Run!

Great Things Happening at Boston!

Bikes and Bikes and More Bikes◦ Tuesday

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◦ Friday

Great Things Happening at Boston!

Great Things Happening at Boston!

Movie Night

Anabel – share out what about the Believe program

Fundraiser

Questions?

◦ Sign In◦ PTO Meaning and Why it is important◦ Vision and next steps◦ Closing

PTO Meeting