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Webster Elementary

State of the School Meeting

Friday, October 31, 2025

Accountability,

Innovation, and

Research

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Agenda

Webster Elementary: WHO WE ARE

  • Mission and vision
  • Strengths
  • Challenges

OUR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

  • Goals and strategies
  • Sharing student progress

TITLE I

  • Overview of Title I
  • How we’re using our Title I funds
  • Title I and Family Engagement

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Webster Elementary: �Who We Are

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Who We Are

Mission

Webster collaborates to serve an inclusive and safe community and provide high quality, anti-racist and culturally responsive instruction fostering lifelong learning and curiosity.

Vision

Every child is courageous, inquisitive, engaged, growth-minded, persistent, conscientious, caring, autonomous, and self-aware.

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Our Core Skills:

  • Self Awareness: You understand yourself on many levels, from how you function to what nourishes and sustains you.
  • Empathy: You are in tune with the feelings and needs of others and willing to act for a common good.
  • Adaptability: You are willing to try again when you make mistakes and are comfortable navigating uncertain situations with flexibility and openness.
  • Agency: You understand the value of your voice and seek opportunities to support and advance your communities.
  • Collaboration: You are a relationship-builder who actively partners with others and facilitates belonging efforts across communities.
  • Purpose: Your decisions and interactions with the world are guided by a deep connection to your values.

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Who We Are

Enrollment

  • 250 students
  • ECSE – 20 students 2nd - 40 students
  • High 5 – 15 students 3rd - 30 students
  • Kindergarten – 35 students 4th - 39 students
  • 1st36 students 5th35 students

Demographics

African American – 119 students (48%)

American Indian – 13 students (5%)

Asian – 8 students (3%)

Hispanic – 54 (22%)

White – 46 (18%)

Two or more – 10 (4%)

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School Stats

  • English Language Learners - 60 students (24%), Special Education - 69 students (28%), Free/Reduced Lunch - 169 students (68%), Homeless & Highly Mobile - 47 students (19%)
  • Early Childhood Special Education, Developmental Cognitive Delay, High 5, School Based Program, Resource Setting
  • 2015 Building Open
  • Minneapolis Kids Program, Community Education / ALC, Reading Corps

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Our Current Reality

We continue our work to have Cultural Humility.

Cultural humility is a lifelong process that ensures that professionals learn about other cultures and are sensitive to cultural differences.

We are working to fulfill our obligations to our students and ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act

      • Targeted Support
      • School Improvement Planning

Strengths

  • Our diversity
  • Our dedicated staff
  • Our involved community
  • Our attention to developmentally appropriate work
  • Pedal Power
  • Friends of Webster

Challenges

  • Continuing to build supports to meet the needs of all learners.
  • Time available to address student needs.
  • Need to get more of our community involved and have better representation of our community.
  • ESSA Designations

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Our School Improvement Plan

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Our school improvement plan:

  • Sets the goals that our school community is working to achieve
  • Identifies the strategies or activities that will help us reach those goals together

Every Minneapolis Public School is required to develop, implement, and monitor a school improvement plan.

What’s a School Improvement Plan?

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Our School Improvement Plan

Strategic Goal #1: Academic Achievement

  • By 2025, Webster students will increase their aMath proficiency scores from 32% to 45%
    • From Spring 2025 to Spring 2026, Webster will increase the aReading proficiency rate for American Indian students from 17% to 22%.
    • From Spring 2025 to Spring 2026, Webster will increase the aReading proficiency rate from 23% to 28%.

Strategies to achieve our goal:

  • Staff Professional Development Plans
  • UFLI Phonics Professional Development
  • Bridges Professional Development
  • Multi Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)

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Our School Improvement Plan

Strategic Goal #2: Student Well-Being

By 2025, 80% of students will attend school regularly.

  • By Spring of 2026, all classrooms will increase from their fall baseline measure on Waypoints, the Wayfinder Diagnostic assessment.

Strategies to achieve our goal:

  • Wayfinder implementation
  • Webster Ambassadors
  • Morning meetings
  • Amaze Curriculum
  • Family Engagement Plan

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Our School Improvement Plan

Strategic Goal #3: Effective Staff

90% of teachers feel they have a voice in developing an engagement plan that works for webster students and community.

  • From Spring 2025 to Spring 2026, Webster will reduce the number of Level 3 and 4 behavior incidents by 25% from 269 to 202.

Strategies to achieve our goal:

  • Wayfinder lessons / activities & student summative assessment
  • Professional Development centered around Webster Engagement Plan
  • Social groups, affinity groups, relationship building

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Our School Improvement Plan

Strategic Goal #4: School and District Climate

  • By June 2025, 90% of parents/ caregivers/ families will indicate feeling welcome & included at Webster measured the school survey.
    • From Spring 2025 to Spring 2026, we will increase the percent of parents/ caregivers/ families who indicate feeling welcome & included at Webster from 87% to 90% as measured by the school survey.

Strategies to achieve our goal:

  • Webster Weekly Newsletters
  • Webster Family Events (Festival, Walks, Culture Night, etc)
  • Friends of Webster
  • Family Involvement Initiatives
  • Volunteer opportunities

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How We Measure Student Progress

Assessments help us answer questions such as:

  • Are we teaching what we think we are teaching?
  • Are students learning what we intend for them to be learning?
  • Are all students improving and being appropriately challenged?

Some of the assessments our students will take this year are:

  • FAST: Kindergarten – 5th
    • aMath and aReading - Grade 2-5
    • earlyMath and early Reading - K-1
  • MCA: 3rd – 5th Grade Reading & Math (Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment)
    • Science MCA for 5th Grade
  • ACCESSL English Language Learners

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We want to make sure our students are learning as much as possible, so we use state and district assessments to determine their strengths and areas for growth. The results of these assessments help us figure out how we can better support our students in the classroom.

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Throughout the year, we’ll share information with you about how your student is doing in the classroom.

We’ll do it in the following ways:

  • Parent-Teacher conferences on October 9 & 14, and February 13.
  • Quarterly report cards sent home with students shortly after the end of each quarter.
  • Teachers also correspond with families through email, newsletters, and phone calls.

How We’ll Share Student Progress with You

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Data Points for Co-interpretation

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Title I

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What is Title I?

Title I supports our School Improvement Plan, and the funding we receive helps us reach our goals.

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Title I is a federal program that provides money to schools and districts to help them ensure all children have an equal opportunity to get a high-quality education and achieve proficiency on our state’s academic standards and assessments.

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We are required to use Title I funding to improve the academic achievement of all students and engage YOU, our families, in that process!

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Webster is a schoolwide Title I program, which means all our students are able to benefit from the services we provide with our Title I funding.

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How We’re Using our Title I Funding

Curriculum and Instruction Support

    • Transportation Support AE
    • 2 Interventionist AE
    • Intervention Teacher
    • High 5 AE
    • Teacher (.FTE)

Family Engagement

  • $ for family involvement
    • Family liaison work

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  • Request information from the district about whether your student’s teacher meets State licensing approval for the grade and subject being taught, is teaching with a waiver, and/or has certification for the field being taught
  • Request information about the qualifications of any paraprofessional providing instruction
  • Know how your child’s school is rated on its state test scores
  • Expect regular communication with your school in a language that you can understand
  • Work with other families and staff to develop a compact between our school and our families
  • Help plan how money for family involvement should be spent
  • Work with teachers, other families, and the school principal to develop a family engagement plan
  • Ask for a meeting with your school principal or your child’s teacher at any time

As a family member in a Title I School, you have the right to…

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Opportunities for Families to be Involved!

We want your input on our:

  • Our School Improvement Plan
  • Our Family Engagement Plan
    • Family Engagement Goals: Increase attendance at family conferences AND Increase connection between and among families.
  • School-Family Compact
  • Planning for our next school year.

  • You can find all these documents on our school website!

We’d love to see you at the following school events:

  • Parent-Teacher Conferences
  • Winter Wonderland / Book Fair
  • Sharing Night
  • Parent Involvement Days
  • Field Day
  • Friends of Webster
  • And we may get more scheduled in the spring, keep and eye on the newsletter.

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  • Participate in Site Council! Our Site Council meets around the last Friday at 9:00am during “Coffee with the Principal”. All are welcome!

  • Your Homework: Checking backpacks.

  • Visit your child’s classroom or volunteer at our school!

  • Talk to your child’s teacher about events and issues that may affect your child’s work or behavior.

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School Staff Information

Principal

Rob Rand, 612-668-1210, robert.rand@mpls.k12.mn.us

Admin TOSA

Jody Lazo, 612-668-1210 jody.lazo@mpls.k12.mn.us

School Secretary

Ka Xiong, 612-668-1210, ka.xiong@mpls.k12.mn.us

Volunteering / Family Liaison

Mary Mochinski, 612-668-1210, mary.mochinski@mpls.k12.mn.us

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We appreciate you! We are so glad to �be partners in your child’s education journey!

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