The team members told the group a personal or professional goal they would like to achieve by 2025.

Curtis has oriented all to the leadership 

 Eva is going through the SLDS 

Preevaluation/ goal setting conference Oct. 29, 2024 6:30 pm -self assessment and goal setting meeting.

Middle school design: Kedra wants to take on middle school apprenticeship. Calendar time to do a call for design scope and sequence with Jocely, Kedra, and Mesha. May create a survey for parents who may not be able to attend the meeting.  Oct.29, 2024 at 2:00pm

Kedra shared data:

• Enrollment tracking positive
  • 1st grade fluctuation: brought in more kids
  • 2nd, 3rd, 4th stayed steady
• Staffing:
  • Maintain a fully staffed school
  • Biggest staffing vacancy is in special education dept.
    • Want to make sure they have qualified individuals
    • 2 assistant teacher roles and lead teacher in special education due to a staff termination. Back filling for the position
    • FMLA for staff member in Oct. 
      • Interviewing to replace the teacher.
      • Filled currently by EIP teacher
    • One teacher left to teach upper grades
      • Has a long term sub teaching music class
  • Student attendance:
    • Q1 95%
    • Q2 90% school regularly
      • Colder weather impacting attendance
    • Chronically absent students  in Oct. was 21 students
      • 2nd graders mostly
  • School culture surveys will be available the next meeting
    • Staff survey created by Kelvin
    • GaDoe survey 
    •  families survey pulled from Panarama questions 
  • Discipline
    • Have tools to stop behavior
    • Less than 5% suspension rate
    • Q1 0 suspensions in kind, 3 in 1st ,0 in 2nd,3 in 3rd ,2 in 4th, 1 special ed
• Benchmarks Nov.11-18, 2024, Nov.18-22, 2024 retake Dibels
  • Internal interim assessments will be given as well

• Reading progress
  • Trending goals
    •  70% accuracy proficiency in kinder
    • 85% in 1st gr
    • 75% in 2nd
• Tighter data analysis to work toward growth
• Concerned about 3rd and 4th who are learning to read to transitioning to reading to learn
  • Ensuring on weekly basis to review student data
    • Where are the students still struggling
    • Have teachers plan robust reteaches
    • Bringing in stronger intervention process
      • EIP teachers looking at data too
      • Increase digital literacy
• Special ed team is getting training on how to work with the population
• Data loops:
• Look at Special Ed compliance
  • Get case managers to check progress toward goals

Next Steps:

• Curtis and Mesha meet with Jocelyn to go over committee goals
• Present in board meeting:
  • Quarterly and monthly color coded dashboard
    • Jocelyn will send to the members
• Update goals in powerpoint  for the board meeting
• Board meeting on Monday Oct. 28
  • Approve the audit and commitment letter for the building
  • Board will give feedback on dashboard.