Essential Actions Resource Booklet

ESSENTIAL ACTIONS FOR DETERMINED COUNCILS

Proficiency Keys Tangram

SBDM Council Proficiency Keys — Updated 2020

School Councils were included in the 1990 Kentucky education law to give the people closest to students the tools to improve achievement for every student. KASC’s keys provide a guide for fulfilling that responsibility.

A PROFICIENT COUNCIL:

1. CREATES AN WHERE EACH STUDENT CAN LEARN, BY:

A. Empowering student MOTIVATION

B. Ensuring quality CURRICULUM and INSTRUCTION

C. MONITORING student mastery and responding to data

PERFORMS BEST WHEN IT:

2. USES AVAILABLE WISELY

a. Council and committee processes are efficient and effective

b. Actions are intentional with a goal in mind

c. School improvement planning addresses needs and guides school efforts

d. Policies keep the focus on school priorities

e. Policies maximize human resources

f. Policies maximize budget resources

3. FOLLOWS

The SBDM Council and Committees:

a. Follow school bylaws

b. Follow school policies

c. Meet the requirements of Kentucky’s open meeting and open record laws

d. Make decisions aligned with state and federal laws/regulations, and other applicable policies KNOWS COLLABORATION IS A FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS AND:

4. MODELS AND PROMOTES POWERFUL

a. Share consistent messages that all school *shareholders are part of the team

b. Recognize each shareholder’s humanity all have difficulties and vulnerabilities; each wants to feel respected, appreciated, valued, and happy

c. Engage school shareholders in school efforts

d. Acknowledge conflicts with curiosity instead of judgment; ask sincere questions

e. Monitor the psychological safety in the school to gauge improvement *shareholders include: students, educators, staff, families, central office, community members, etc.

CURRICULUM RESOURCES

KDE RESOURCES

Curriculum work (in partnership with shareholders, other schools, district office, etc.) should include a review of KDE’s Model Curriculum Framework and other resources available on kystandards.org/standards-resources/

KASC RESOURCES

Visit our website to learn more about KASC’s Standards Bundle that can support your school’s work! www.kasc.net

ALIGNED TO STANDARDS

1. First Grade Math Assignment

OVERVIEW

First-grade students create drawings and equations to solve addition and subtraction word problems, and discuss their work with a partner.

RELATED STANDARDS

We looked at how well the assignment aligned to the following standard:

KY.1.OA.1: Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart and comparing, with unknowns in all positions.

SOURCE: KDE Standards Resources kystandards.org/standards-resources/sal/m_sal/

KDE “ provides examples of student tasks that are weakly, partially and strongly aligned to standards.”

“The assignments can be used with the Assignment Review Protocol to develop a better understanding of the tool and how it can be applied to a teacher’s own work.”

2. First Grade Math Assignment

SOURCE: KDE Standards Resources kystandards.org/standards-resources/sal/m_sal/

OVERVIEW

First-grade students write the numerals 1-20 several times.

RELATED STANDARDS

KY.1.NBT.1: a Count forward to and backward from 120, starting at any number less than 120. b. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

Another KDE resource for alignment to standards:

KDE’s Instructional Resources Alignment Rubrics go through a process for determining how well instructional materials (current or future) are aligned to the Kentucky Academic Standards

kystandards.org/standardsresources/inst-mats-align-rubrics/

Set A

DRAFT

Washington Park School SBDM Council Meeting Minutes

Date: July 9, 2019

Members Present: Phillipa Soo, Chris Jackson, Jasmine Jones, Renee Goldberry, Betsy Struxness, Andrew Chapelle Secretary: Leslie Oldham

Others Present: Javier Munoz, Rory O’Malley, Lexi Lawson, Seth Stewart

Members Absent: none

OPENING BUSINESS

a. Welcome and meeting called to order Beginning time 5:02

b. Approval of the Agenda

MINUTES

Renee Goldberry moved to approve the agenda; second by Jasmine Jones. Passed by consensus.

c. Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting

Jasmine Jones moved to approve the June 2019 minutes; second by Renee Goldberry. Passed by consensus.

d. Good News Report/Celebrations

The Future Problem Solving Team placed 3rd at the national competition in Denver, Co in June.

e. Public Comment

None

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT REPORT/DATA

On behalf of the Curriculum and Instruction Committee, Seth Stewart presented a formal proposal for approval: The counselor will lead a comparison of student grades to student performance on state testing. The purpose is to see if school standards are consistent with the standards being assessed by the state test. Seth reported that the idea for this review has been discussed by the council and in committee since April.

Andrew Chapelle made the motion to approve the proposal. Betsy Struxness seconded it. Passed by consensus. The council also asked for a report by the September meeting.

More details on this comparison will be available on the school website.

BUDGET REPORT

The 2019-2020 budget was reviewed again so new members could be up-to-date.

Budget Committee chair, Rory O’Malley, explained district procedures for how the budgeted money is spent.

COMMITTEE REPORT

Javier Munoz, chairperson of the School Culture Committee, reported that the Back-To-School Rally registration has reached 105. The committee plans for 50 additional people to attend without registration, so the committee needs three more volunteers. Javier asked Andrew Chapelle to share the request on the school’s social media and the parent council members to share on their personal social media.

July 9, 2019

OLD BUSINESS

STAFFING REPORT

As shared by previously by email, art teacher, Daveed Diggs, had to resign his position on July 2 because his wife has been transferred to Louisville. We will miss Daveed. The council will begin interviews the week of July 15, so be on the lookout for a survey with possible dates/times to conduct the interviews.

NEW BUSINESS

a. Meeting Calendar

Phillipa Soo proposed the regular meeting schedule for the year: Second Tuesday of each month at 5 PM in the school library. Betsy Struxness motioned to accept the proposed schedule; second by Renee Goldberry. Passed by consensus.

b. Council Training

Chris Jackson reported that all six council members had completed their training on 06/24/19. Phillipa Soo submitted verification to the district SBDM Coordinator on 06/25/19.

ONGOING LEARNING

Chris Jackson showed the first four minutes of The Learning Scientists video about the six study strategies academic researchers say are the most effective. He asked everyone in the meeting to watch the last four minutes of the video, www.learningscientists.org/videos at home and would like the council to start discussions of how this research might help their students learn more.

ADJOURNMENT

There was a motion to adjourn by Renee and seconded by Betsy. Meeting ended at 6:15 July 9, 2019

NOTE: The school minutes in this activity have some exemplary characteristics, but are not a model of quality, because some elements were intentionally removed for the learning experience.

Set B

Dunder Mifflin School | October 10, 2019 | 4:00 p.m. | Regular SBDM Meeting | Room 206

DRAFT MINUTES

Members in Attendance

Pam Beesly, Jim Halpert, Stanley Hudson, Holly Flax, Oscar Martinez , Dwight Schrute

Review/Amend Agenda

NA

Approve Minutes

September 12, 2019 | Motion: Jim Halpert; 2nd: Holly Flax

Training Verification

These members have certificates to verify training: ALL

Budget Update

Pam Beesly shared the current budget status. (Report is on the school website) Setting Budget Priorities Th council agreed that the number one priority for 2020-21 is technology Discussed technology for next year. We will have KETS funding for next year.

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

Pam Beesly reviewed June activities completed; July activities in progress; and August’s upcoming activities. Pam asked the council to consider finding additional funding for providing student representatives with a revised version of Standards Alignment training the teachers did. The goal would be to provide students who could speak the Standards Alignment language with teachers, parents, and students, and have students help improving future assignments. Council members were interested in the idea. Holly Flax asked Pam and committee to bring specifics of time and money back to the council in September, along with feedback from a wide range of school shareholders.

POLICIES

The following policies were reviewed:

1. Principal Selection Policy: 2nd Reading Motion: Stanley; 2nd: Pam

2. Budget Policy: 2nd Reading Motion: Stanley; 2nd: Pam

3. Extra Curricular Policy: Review process is starting Jim Halpert asked council members to review on Google Docs. Oscar Martinez asked if any concerns have been brought up already. Jim has received a concern that the policy discouraged student participation. By October 15, Jim will invite students, staff, families, and district leaders to provide feedback on the policy.

Adjournment

1st: Stanley; 2nd: Pam

Ending time 5:00

Dunder Mifflin School School SBDM Minutes October, 2019

NOTE: These minutes are not a model of quality Some elements were intentionally removed for the learning experience.

Intelligence Redefined

“Many people don’t know much about intelligence and how it works. When they do think about what intelligence is, they believe that a person is born smart, or average, or dumb and stays that way for life. Research shows that the brain is more like a muscle it changes and gets stronger when you use it. And scientists have been able to show just how the brain grows and gets stronger when you learn.”

The brain forms new connections and "grows" when people practice and learn new things. The more you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain cells grow. Then, things that you once found very hard or even impossible, become easy.

Carol

Dweck, Stanford University professor and author of ===Growth Mindset====

Definition agreed upon by 52 academic researchers “Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to:

• reason,

• plan,

• solve problems,

• think abstractly,

• comprehend complex ideas,

• learn quickly, and

• learn from experience.

It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings ‘catching on,’ ‘making sense’ of things, or ‘figuring out’ what to do.”

Mainstream Science On Intelligence: An Editorial With 52 Signatories, History, and Bibliography, Linda S. Gottfredson, first published in the Wall Street Journal www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997mainstream.pdf

Read “Intelligence Redefined” (above) on your own. How is this definition different from your perception of intelligence? Your students’ perception?

SOURCE of Ky focus on evidence-based practice

Federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires school improvement efforts to be rooted in "evidencebased activities, strategies, or interventions."

That means practices need to be backed by quality research and evidence showing student achievement Improvement.

STANDARDS for quality of research and evidence

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) leads the nation in “rigorous, independent education research, evaluation and statistics,” and their What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/,reviews the existing research on different programs, products, practices, and policies in education.

WWC GOAL: Answer the question, “What works in education?” and enable schools to make evidence-based decisions.

To request assistance on Evidence-based Practices from KDE: Complete the “Technical Assistance Request Form” from education.ky.gov/school/evidence.