12/5/22

Agenda

• Voting on SLT Positions
• Going over End of Unit Assessments

Attendance

• Royce Henry (PTA President)
• Toya Cox (SLT)
• James Lin (Secretary)
• Hayley Eisenhardt (3-5 rep)
• Arielis Javier (UFT Rep)
• Angelique Ray (K-2 Rep)
• Sarah Kamya (Counselor)
• Erica Rubin (Teacher)
• Chris Burns (Teacher)
• Ankur Goyal (Pre-K Parent Rep)
• Jeminah Russell (SLT Grade 2)
• Steve Hernon (Principal)

Notes/Minutes

• End of Unit Assessments in Math for K-8

        Creating Unit Plans based on standards most repeated in EoY State exams

        Vocabulary/Phrasing of Questions are highlighted for students/teachers

        EoU Assessments are used to review/practice standards most important

        Every classroom uses “I can” statements to demonstrate what students are            focusing(Student centered)

•  Weekly Learning Checks which are used to assess student growth/proficiency

Questions about EoU Assessments

• How are Scope/Sequence created?

• Looking at State Standards/State exams, we add specific vocabulary/tasks to help prepare/exposing students to the relevant material
• EoU assessments are used to inform teachers about student proficiency and how to progress

Weekly Learning Checks throughout the Unit

• Remind messages for families/students that are math centered

• Family Remind Messages show examples of what students are learning and how to best support them at home
• Teachers use CGI to help build mathematical understanding, thinking, and number sense in student centered discourse
• Last year’s stats show a 4th Grade 18% drop in Math Learning across the City but was only a  3% drop for RSMA. In 5th grade, there was a 19% drop citywide but  7% improvement in RSMA.

• SEL Goals

• Students anonymously take a SEL survey every first week of every month about their safety and rigors of class

• Our goal is to have SEL Survey results increase from 63%->70% for students feel safe in the school
• 83% Positive for “I am happy at this school”
• 59% Positive for “Students who are different from each other get along well at my school”

• Having conflict resolution with students rather than conflict avoidance
• Talking it out/resolving it vs “Stay away from each other”

• Question:

• Do students have outlets for their energy and a way to safely channel any negative energy?
• Students have MAPs time which is a student elected recess and have Reflect and Recover for any teacher-led reflection

• Attendance Goals

• 56% of students are chronically absent(10+ days) which is equivalent to to a months worth of learning
• Dire need of SLT-led to help decrease to 46% chronic absenteeism
• Attendance Team currently sends out calls/attendance reports to families to highlight days missed/late

• Doctors note/illnesses are NOT excused absences

• ELA/Math Goals

• Our goal is to show an increase of 2% proficiency in ELA/Math

Next Steps

Writing and Reading will be shown in January SLT meeting

Positions are temporarily held until we can vote in January