The board interviewed a potential Board Candidate. 

Updates:

• Orientation Week was great this year

Upcoming Events:

• Board Breakfast- Nov 7th at 7:30AM
• Roots & Recipes
  • Staff and families bring food and we have judges choose the best dishes
  • Board members are welcomed to attend 

School Wide Goals

• Becoming HRS Certified Levels 1-3 by June 2025
  • The first school in NYC to receive certification 
• Successfully launching the elementary school by August 2024
• Earn a five-year renewal by June 2025

School Wide Goals:

• Academics:
  • NYS Exams - Math +18%, ELA - +2%
  • Algebra 1 Regents +30%, English Regents +10%
• 80% of students in grades 5 - 12 in reading intervention programs (Just Words and Wilson) will meet end of year benchmarks (Just Words) or increase their score by 30% (Wilson)
  • Just Words is a course on its own 
    • Whole School average- 81%
      • You have to have 80 or above on the unit to move on 
    • Many students on average scored 80% or above on their end of unit assessments which allowed them to move to the next step. 
    • About 50% of the students in Wilson were able to complete the first Step in the program. 
    • We increased instructional days from 4 days a week to 5 days a week for reading intervention programs
    • Looking Ahead:
      • Elimination of the Wednesday half days allows for an extra day of reading intervention. 
      • Provision of more homogenous reading intervention groupings - a more personalized schedule for all MS students to address reading gaps 

Culture

• HS and MS has kicked off with a primary focus around Social Emotional Learning. 
  • 1 to 2 days per/week of advisory is dedicated to academic and behavioral advising along with student goal setting. 
• MS & HS increased their use of the Kickboard platform to report positive and negative interactions. 
  • Teachers didn’t always understand how to log incidents into Kickboard correctly. 
  • Moving forward we will have a SY 23-24 suspension goal
• 70% of students will say that students never or rarely harass, bully or intimidate other students.
  • IAL students responded more favorably than the district in most grades. 
  • 10th grade was an anomaly, and we are investigating the outcome of this data. 

Remote locations of board members were noticed properly as locations the public could join the meeting.