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Salem School BOE Report

Climate and Performance

October 6, 2025

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  • Special Guests
    • Salem School Leadership Team
      • Danielle Bucci-Nardozza
      • Naomi Swider
      • Danyel Ferrari
      • Sheila Miller
      • Tricia Edgar
    • PTO Leadership Board
      • Nikole Zis, President
      • Renee Lisenby, Vice President
    • Library Media Specialist
      • Eileen Hosey
    • Grade 5 Math and Science
      • Amanda Brodaski

Empowering Environment:

Cultivating a School Community Where All Stakeholders Contribute Meaningfully

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  • Highlights
    • PTO
      • Mrs. Nikole Zis, President
      • Mrs. Renee Lisenby, Vice President
    • PTO Back To School Bash
      • Most well attended thus far
      • Over 20 staff and their families attended as well

Empowering Environment:

Cultivating a School Community Where All Stakeholders Contribute Meaningfully

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  • Highlights
    • Open House
      • Incredible vibe throughout the building
      • Feedback from survey very positive
      • Best Fall Book Fair to date; Third overall behind Grandparents Day Sales

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Empowering Environment:

Cultivating a School Community Where All Stakeholders Contribute Meaningfully

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  • Innovative Teaching Practices
      • Innovation Hub
        • 3-D printing
        • STEM activities
        • Staff diving into the space
      • Sea Perch Program
        • Staff recently attended PD
        • Grade 7
      • Boats for Kids
        • Grade 5
      • Project O
        • Expanded to grades 5 through 8

Empowering Environment:

Cultivating an Empowered and Engaged School Community

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Empowering Environment:

Cultivating an Empowered and Engaged School Community

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Student Attendance Data

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Empowering Environment:

Cultivating an Empowered and Engaged School Community

Year

K-8 Enrollment

Absent students

(Through 10/1)

22-23

376

327

23-24

368

318

24-25

367

287

25-26

370

149

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  • Student Volunteers
  • Music
    • Chorus - 55 members
    • Band - 110 members
  • Sports - 59 members
  • NJHS - tbd
  • Super Cougars - 22 members
  • Yearbook - 10 members
  • Broadcast - 22 members
  • Journalism - tbd

Empowering Environment:

Strengthen School Climate by Expanding Student Leadership Opportunities

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Educational Innovation:

Increase the Integration of Innovative Teaching Practices and

Improve Learning Outcomes Across All Grade Levels

SBAC Growth

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Average Percentage of

Target Achieved

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SBAC ELA Growth

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Grades 3-7

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67.1%

Educational Innovation:

Increase the Integration of Innovative Teaching Practices and

Improve Learning Outcomes Across All Grade Levels

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Educational Innovation:

Increase the Integration of Innovative Teaching Practices and

Improve Learning Outcomes Across All Grade Levels

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SBAC ELA

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Grades 3-7 at or Above Goal

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2023/24 - 48.3%

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2024/25 - 53.6%

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AIMSWeb - Reading

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Educational Innovation:

Increase the Integration of Innovative Teaching Practices and

Improve Learning Outcomes Across All Grade Levels

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SBAC Math Growth

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Grades 3-7

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60.25%

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Educational Innovation:

Increase the Integration of Innovative Teaching Practices and

Improve Learning Outcomes Across All Grade Levels

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SBAC Math

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Grades 3-7 at or

Above Goal

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2023/24 - 48.3%

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2024/25 - 53.6%

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Star - Math

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Staff Key Takeaways:

  • Progress is happening across the building:
  • Cohesive Curriculum in both ELA and Math
  • Data Driven Consistent Intervention
  • Focus Areas:
  • Middle School Math
  • Continuation of Data Based Decision Making
  • Vertical Curriculum alignment across all subject areas

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Educational Innovation:

Increase the Integration of Innovative Teaching Practices and

Improve Learning Outcomes Across All Grade Levels

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  • Collective Teacher Efficacy
  • Intervention/MTSS
  • Science of Learning/Building Background Knowledge of Students
  • IAB work/implementation throughout the year
    • Targeted data dives into growth data
  • Innovative Teaching practices
    • Critical Thinking
    • Problem Solving
    • Purposeful discourse
    • Innovation lab being well utilized already

Professional Development

Educational Innovation:

Increase the Integration of Innovative Teaching Practices and

Improve Learning Outcomes Across All Grade Levels

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  • Student Data
  • Survey 9th graders
  • On going cross district meetings

East Lyme Collaboration:

Educational Innovation:

Increase the Integration of Innovative Teaching Practices and

Improve Learning Outcomes Across All Grade Levels

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2024-25 School Day SAT ~ Grade 11:

  • 91.9% proficient in ELA
  • 67.6% proficient in Math

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