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Organizational Updates:

Strong School Opening Overview

October 27, 2022

Organizational Dashboard

School Readiness -Enrollment

Seidy Pacheco, Director of Enrollment

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Enrollment Recap - As of 10/3/22

Highlights:

• Recruited and retained 647 new scholars for the ‘22-’23 School Year compared to 532 for the ‘21-’22 School Year - an increase of approximately 22% and the highest number of new enrollees to date in one year
• Average new scholar conversion across sites was 36% - an increase of 10% from last year
• Network conversion (from applicant to scholar) stands at 51%

Site Enrollment & Retention - As of 10/3/22

* Scholars who started the ‘21-’22 School Year and stayed through the end of the year

** Scholars who started the ‘21-’22 School Year and returned for the 22-23 School Year

Looking Forward: Recruitment

Start of School Readiness-Talent

Jessica Edelman, Talent Director

Cristina Lowry, Director of People and Culture

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Teacher Hiring- Highlights

• Insight Survey: 92% of Equitas teachers stated that “The hiring process was efficient” (Compared with 77% of the top quartile nationally)
• Overall candidate interview experience rating average: 9.2/10
• 96% of core content teachers hired before the start of the ‘22-’23 School Year
• 54% of new teacher hires identified as BIPOC (30% of teachers in CA identify as BIPOC)
• Positive feedback from new hires:
• “I couldn't believe how fast onboarding was! I've never experienced anything like that. There was a good sense of urgency.”
• “Everything in the interview process was so efficient and moved fast! I had an offer from Equitas while I was just hearing back from other schools about scheduling a second round interview. I knew that this school had it together and it made the decision easy.”
• “The level of teamwork and grace shown the candidate went a long way to giving a positive impression of what work must be like on campus.”

Hiring Update

Network Hiring Dashboard

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Total Positions

Open Positions

School Hiring Dashboard

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Looking Forward: Talent

Student Learning Data

(Academic & Strong Start Data)

Robert Spencer, Chief of Schools

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Academic & Strong Start Data Summary:

1. Network Smarter Balance Achievement Consortium (SBAC) Data for English Language Arts (ELA) & Math - slides 16-24
2. 2021-2022 Reclassification Rates - slide 25
3. Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Data for ELA & Math - slides 26-31
4. SBAC, MAP & Subgroup Academic Highlights - slide 32
5. 2022-2023 Strong Start Data Highlights- slide 40
6. Overall Data-Driven Next Steps - slide 41

What is the “SBAC”/ “CAASPP” Assessment

• Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments (SBAC)
• California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP)
• Could this say "These terms are often used interchangeably because the SBAC creates / administers the CAASPP
• CAASPP: once a year, grades 3-8, English Language Arts & Math
• Scores include: (Did Not Meet, Nearly Meets, Meets & Exceeds)
• Proficiency includes Meets and Exceeds (i.e., 32% of scholars got either meets or exceeds in subject area

SBAC Year to Year English Language Arts

SBAC Year to Year Math

English Language Arts Year to Year by School

Conditional Formatting is declining from Dark Green = Highest in a school year to Dark Red = Lowest in a school year

Math Yr to Yr by School

Conditional Formatting is declining from Dark Green = Highest in a school year to Dark Red = Lowest in a school year

2021-2022 Students with Disabilities (“SWD”) SBAC Meets/Exceeds

2021-2022 English Learner SBAC Meets/Exceeds

2021-2022 Non-English Learner & Reclassified English Learners SBAC Meets/Exceeds English Language Arts

2021-2022 Non-English Learner & Reclassified English Learners SBAC Meets/Exceeds Math

Reclassification Data for English Learners

Fall 2022-2023 Measures of Academic Progress (“MAP”) 50^th+ Percentile

English Language Arts

Math

Fall 2021 to Fall 2022 Projected Measures of Academic Progress (“MAP”) Growth Met

*This data indicates whether or not scholars met the predicted growth target year over year in each core area.

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Fall 2022-2023 English Learners v Non-English Learner Students 50th+ Percentile - English Language Arts

English Learners

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Fall 2022-2023 English Learners v Non-English Learners 50th+ Percentile - Math

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Fall 2022-2023 Students with Disabilities vs Students without Disabilities

50th+ Percentile - English Language Arts

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Fall 2022-2023 Students with Disabilities vs Students without Disabilities

50th+ Percentile - Math

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Academic Data Highlights

Celebrations:

• Historical SBAC Data shows we can replicate student achievement in ELA & Math - slides 17-18
• Reclassified English Learners SBAC Math & ELA scores - slide 21-22
• Reclassification Rates highest in past 3 years - slide 23
• Designated English Learner Development supports are benefiting these Emergent Bilingual Students
• MAP Growth Data, majority of students met Fall 2021 to Fall 2022 Growth Targets - slides 30-31

Growth Areas:

• SBAC: LAUSD outperformed Equitas for the first time in ELA & Math - slides 17-18
• California State Data pending, and the trajectory is above LAUSD & Equitas Schools
• Increasing the percentage of students with disabilities and English Learners who meet or exceed targeted outcomes - slides 21-22
• MAP Scores:
• % of ALL students scoring at 50th Percentile - slide 24
• Students With Disabilities and English Learners scoring at the 50th Percentile - slide - slides 28-31

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Strong Start Data - School Readiness

Robert Spencer, Chief of Schools

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Strong Start: Week 1-9

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Setting the stage for a school staff and the leadership team to urgently attend to every detail and lead in symbolic ways. A “strong start” plan for the start of the year serves as a road map for focus and excellence. The first weeks of school set the foundation and trajectory of the school year.

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“Strong start” ensures that foundational excellence is defined, measured, monitored and adjustments are made bell to bell in the first 9 weeks of the school year.

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Attuned Education Partners © 2022

Start with the End in Mind: Define Excellence

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“Our first job as leaders, is to ensure EXCELLENCE has been clearly defined,

is measurable and observable”

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Why:

• Deepens Collective Ownership: Gives everyone involved a stake in ensuring individual and collective success.

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• Harnesses Diverse Perspectives: Creates synergy and direction to filter diverse voices and perspectives in achieving success.

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• Improves learning: Creates reflective muscle to view strengths and opportunities through clear success criteria.

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• Improves Intentional Action: By always focusing action on shrinking the gap between “ideal” and “real”.

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Strong Start Weeks 1-9

Establishing a campus wide vision of excellence for classroom environment and scholar learning is a positive lever in creating the following:

● Clear and measurable baseline vision of excellence in classroom environments focused on how we expect classrooms to feel for scholars

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● Clear and measurable baseline vision for the conditions that foster academic rigor prioritizing scholars’ engagement in cognitive work the majority of class time

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● Serving both to establish and raise the collective bar around what we want scholars to experience class to class, day to day, year to year

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● Provides common language for teacher training and faculty coaching

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Strong Start Walkthrough Tool

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5 Weeks of Strong Start Data

Strong Start Progress Monitoring & Goals

• Site level:
• All Coaches have scheduled Strong Start Walkthroughs (Green)
• All Coaches are inputting data by End Of Day Thursday (Yellow)
• All Coaches have a scheduled time to analyze data and determine next steps (Green)
• Organization-wide:
• All sites are collecting and inputting data on time (Yellow)
• School Directors are prepared to share their analysis and next steps in following O3’s (Green)
• Chief Schools Officer facilitates successes to replicate and opportunities to learn and grow (Green)
• Strong Start Ends November 4, 2022!

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Strong Start Data Highlights

Glows:

• Consistent week over week growth across multiple metrics (approaching 3’s):
• Systems/Routines, Cognitive Engagement & Lift, and Net Affirmations
• Increased Application of the entire SS Rubric across all Teachers
• 3 sites at 100% Fidelity
• Rich learning and growth discussions surfacing in O3’s, Instructional Coaching Meetings
• Data Driving Professional Development for Leaders and Teachers
• Strong Start Walkthroughs (5 Weeks) led to increased (slide 39):
• teacher and classroom support
• improvement in classroom environment and curriculum implementation

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Growth Areas:

• School Director complete Collaborative O3 Walkthroughs and Debriefs
• Site Leaders norm on Strong Start application and resulting grade-level and site coaching and professional development responses
• Differentiate and increase support for teachers who are consistently struggling
• Shifting from Strong Start focus to Annual Initiative implementation and progress monitoring

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Overall Data-Driven Next Steps:

• Using academic achievement and Strong Start data?
• Fall MAP Data, Reading Fluency Data, and Attuned Expeditionary Learning Walkthrough Data are baseline student and teacher data, and they collectively inform teacher and leader professional development opportunities
• Surface opportunities to increase differentiated support for Emergent Bilinguals & Students With Disabilities
• Next steps?
• Site level data dives during professional development :
• Focusing on data analysis and lesson internalization expectations for Expeditionary Learning and Achievement First Math Curriculums
• Teachers creating student group structures for differentiated Reading and Math supports, and Leaders facilitating and monitoring implementation
• School Directors differentiate teacher and leader support in achieving Strong Start goals

Strong Start Facilities

Cecilia Melgares, Managing Director of Operations

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Facilities Readiness - 1612 Project

Facilities Readiness - 1612 Project

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Strong start for the Network Team has included:

• Network Leadership Meetings - Bi-Weekly on Thursdays
• Full Network Team-Building - Monthly, Final Friday of each month
• Network and School Directors collaboratively learning within the context of the National Equity Project training - six times per year

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Questions

Enrollment: Where did we underperform? Was it specific grades and schools; recruitment vs retention? How is our go-forward plan focused on the areas of underperformance?

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• Overall strong recruitment, slight dip in Kindergarten applications but overall increase in new scholar enrollment relative to last year. Dip in Kinder apps was counteracted by increased enrollment in TK, 1st and 5th grades.
• Currently trending 12% above pace for 23-24 recruitment
• September-June retention was strong across sites, but we lost more scholars over the summer than we expected. EQ and EQ6 saw the most drastic of these decreases
• EQ retained 91% of their scholars from last year to the start of this year compared to their 95% average historically
• EQ6 retained about 55% of their scholars from last year, losing about 3 full classes

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Student learning data:

• Are the strategies to drive outcomes for SWD & ELs different than the plan to drive outcome for all students? If so, what's key differences?
• Intentional Steps: 1) Disaggregated Data Driven Decision-making, 2) Full Designated ELD Rollout Network-wide, including training, 3) Curriculum Implementation Focus for ELs & SWDs 4) Three School Psychologists working across six sites (serving 2 sites each)
• Slides 15-18 are really helpful. The FY22 results are disappointing vs district. That said, are we outperforming nearby demographically comparable district schools? (I view this question as a key question that the district would ask at the time of renewal.)
• New Slide 46
• How does our performance on Strong Start School Readiness compare to where we want to be?
• For a Year 1 Rollout, YES, and high leverage opportunities surfaced too! (see new slide 47)

EQ 2 Comparison School Data 2021-22 SBAC (2 Mile Radius, MS only)

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Strong Start Data

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Quality Goal = 3.0 Fidelity Goal = 100%

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Questions

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• Is there a threshold or trigger point where our testing performance will raise red flags?

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• Note, our comparison data is not apples to apples, it is:
• Our TK-4 compared to TK-5
• Our 5-8 compared to 6-8’s
• We need to determine if this level of analysis is necessary - pending question

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Questions

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I understand that the academic declines we are seeing are going to take a few years to rebound, but I wonder if it would be helpful to set some shorter term goals that are tied to metrics. If we hope to get ELA scores to above 50% (or whatever the long term goal is), could a goal of a 5% or 8% increase in scores worthwhile to demonstrate growth?

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• Slides 17-18 and our historic and current instructional practice suggest recovery in 2-3 years, at or above pre-pandemic SBAC scores
• Yes, now that we have state data, adjusting site level goals to at least out perform LAUSD is the short-term goal
• Providing a December MAP Target and local school and similar schools data to schools to help assess progress towards new goal

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