1 of 50

Summer

Leadership

Summer

Leadership

July 30, 2024

Day 2

2 of 50

Agenda

1

3

2

4

Welcome and Community Builder

Building Data Literate Teams

Community Circle and Evaluation

6

7

Lunch

Math

8

Nuts and Bolts

5

ILT Decisions

Understanding Community School

3 of 50

  • Be Student Centered (asset based)
  • Communicate Effectively and Honestly
  • Be Solution-Oriented and accept non closure
  • Respectful of other viewpoints and ideas.
  • What is decided, is supported
  • Share Responsibility by being Present, Prepared, Respectful of time.
  • Use Technology Intentionally
  • Equity for students and staff

ILT Norms:

4 of 50

Meeting Roles

Who would like to serve?

Time Keeper

Note Taker

Taskmaster

Bin Items

1

2

3

5 of 50

Four Corners

6 of 50

What are the strengths of your style?

What are the limitations of your style?

What style do you find most difficult to work with and why?

What do people from the other “directions” or styles need to know about you so you can work together effectively?

What do you value about the other three styles?

7 of 50

Framing our Meeting

8 of 50

Mission & Vision

Vision:

Meadow Hall is a community school that fosters respect, relationships & equity to ensure success for all.

Mission:

We will collaborate to create a safe learning environment to support achievement & emotional well-being for everyone.

9 of 50

Visioning

10 of 50

4-PILLARS

  • Continued Focus on Tier 1 Instruction
  • Restorative in our Practices and connections with all stakeholders
  • Community-Centered in our approaches to programming
  • Prioritizing well-being of students and staff

11 of 50

Establishing a Data Culture

  • Have we established a culture where data is a part of who we are to inform our practices?
  • How are we monitoring these structures and processes to ensure that this is working?
  • Have we regularly established data monitoring protocols that supports frequent check ins and allows us to reflect on our practice and support to students and staff?

12 of 50

13 of 50

14 of 50

Break

15 of 50

Jessica Jackson, MSW, LCSW-C

Community School Liaison

16 of 50

What is a Community School?

“A public school that establishes a set of strategic partnerships between the school and other community resources that promote student achievement, positive learning conditions, and the well-being of students by providing wraparound services.

17 of 50

MCPS has fifty-three schools that have been identified as community schools as determined by MSDE (Maryland State Department of Education). These schools receive additional funding and services in order to increase the academic success and well-being of families.

FY 25 Newly Identified Elementary Schools

Brown Station

Cannon Road

Carl Sanberg

Flower Hill

Galway

Lake Seneca

Christa McAuliffe

Meadow Hall

Rosemont

Harriet Tubman

Waters Landing

18 of 50

Community schools work in collaboration with community partners, local governments, and other stakeholders to identify, address, and leverage structural and institutional barriers to achievement.

Wraparound Services

Enrichment

Medical Screenings

Wellness & Mindfulness Practices

Resource Coordination

Family Engagement and Support

Behavioral Health Services

19 of 50

Community School Positions

Community School Liaison

Track: Family engagement, distribution events, academics, partnerships,

community needs

Assess: Surveys, data collection, resources

Implement: During and after school enrichment programs, wraparound services

Wellness Trainers

Track: school climate, mindfulness, well-being

Assess: needs, wellness deficits, restorative justice

Implement: Well-being programs, self-regulation techniques, events and workshops for mindfulness and well-being

Wellness Team

20 of 50

Community School Liaison (CSL) Roles

Part of the school's leadership and support teams

Develop a comprehensive needs assessment for the school

Develop a strategic and intentional implementation plan to be approved by MSDE

*All of the MCEA teacher contractual requirements apply to the Community School Liaison positions.

21 of 50

What is a Needs Assessment?

    • A collaborative process for gathering information on the needs of a school

    • Aims to determine what assets exist, what needs exist, and what stakeholders want from a community school

    • Critical step in developing programming in a community school - without data and input from stakeholders, programs and partnerships might not have the desired impact

Guidance from

22 of 50

Administration of the Needs Assessment

The needs assessment should:

    • Be done in collaboration with the school principal, school healthcare practitioner, and parent teacher organization/ school family council

    • Include an assessment of the physical, behavioral, and emotional health needs of the students, their families, and their communities

When does the assessment occur?

    • HB 1300 (2021) states that community schools must administer a needs

assessment within one year of becoming a community school (or receiving the Concentration of Poverty grant)

    • Once every three following years

23 of 50

In the immediate future…

  • Meeting community
  • English classes
  • Food and basic needs distributions
  • Utilizing existing knowledge of community resources

24 of 50

I can’t do it without you!

  • Respond!
  • Join steering committee
  • Team Planning
  • Share your thoughts

25 of 50

26 of 50

ILT Decisions

27 of 50

  • Keep extended planning - lunch/recess/specials
  • Keep transition times in the schedule
  • Keep recess before lunch (except K)
  • Keep staggered recess/lunch and different grade levels
  • Keep A/B schedule for Media and Counseling

Staff Says “KEEP”

28 of 50

Mustang Morning

  • Need more guidance/structure on Mustang Morning agendas
  • Data
  • Not all staff want to keep Mustang Morning
  • Could make time shorter? Or need
  • Specifically use it for “missed Mondays”?
  • Avoid curriculum study day

To Consider…

29 of 50

Mustang Morning

  • Use for Missed Specials Days for the Quarter as much as possible
  • Agenda created by Binder with Team and/or Team Leader Collaboration
    • 8:30-9:15 - Data Dive with Ms. Gan
    • 9:15-9:45 - MCAP plan (grade 3-5) OR _____ (grade K-2)
    • 9:45-10:30 - Team Needs
  • Split time between 2 specialists? (Hines, Kohler, Blakley)

Proposal:

30 of 50

Professional Development

  • Focus on new literacy curriculum
  • Equity - being consistent; think about format
  • Keep rotations and smaller groups for mtgs; hearing from other staff members and outside speakers
  • Plan for less is more; focus; consider smaller PLCs

To Consider…

31 of 50

Professional Development

  • Equity PLCs - small groups; teacher choice. Switch at second semester
  • Staff meetings - focus on Engagement/SIP

Proposal…

32 of 50

Media/Counseling Schedule

  • Counseling - able to be in a different space?
  • Keep A/B schedule
  • Coming to CS (media did every other week, possible for counselor to come for kid discussion?)
  • Book checkout on off week

To Consider…

33 of 50

Media/Counseling Schedule

  • Counseling - in classrooms (lost 3 portables)
  • Kept A/B schedule
  • Media - able to come to CS biweekly
  • Counseling - Monday KidTalk
  • Book checkout on off week - Blakley Schedule with Ilana

Proposal…

34 of 50

Curriculum Study

  • SPED/ELD - schedule to be a part of CS (balance - planning vs seeing kids)
  • Consider focus of CS and how it may be different between math and literacy CS
  • Set time for “Admin” items

To Consider…

35 of 50

Curriculum Study

  • SPED/ELD - scheduled as possible.
  • New agendas discussed ILT summer day 3
  • Admin Items - end of Math CS

Proposal…

36 of 50

Curriculum Study

  • Two 70 minute blocks set in schedule (math/ELA)
    • 50 minutes - curriculum study
    • 20 minutes - team time

37 of 50

Team Time Options

  • Admin Items
  • Field Trip; class party; logistical discussions
  • Social Studies/Science
  • Individual work time
  • Material preparation
  • Additional Data Review
  • Kid Talk/Think Partners
  • Creating following week’s agenda
  • FIT discussions

38 of 50

LUNCH

LUNCH

39 of 50

Math Curriculum Study

40 of 50

GLEAM Game

What does GLEAM mean?

ROUND 2

Most Buzzworthy

ROUND 1

Funniest

ROUND 3

Actual Meaning

41 of 50

GLEAM: Grade Level, Engaging, Affirming, Meaningful

Instruction that is grade-level nurtures students’ learning by:

Instruction that is engaging nurtures students’ roots and their aspirations through:

  • Using high-quality instructional materials
  • Providing purposeful, consistent student access to tasks aligned with grade-level standards
  • Utilizing formative assessments to ensure multiple, meaningful entry points into grade level learning
  • Utilizing students’ funds of knowledge
  • Embracing productive struggle
  • Teaching cognitive routines explicitly
  • Creating collaborative, student-centered learning partnerships with all students
  • Engaging in discussion and problem-solving

Instruction that is affirming nurtures students’ identities by:

Instruction that is meaningful nurtures students’ agency by:

  • Validating students’ funds of knowledge and assets that they bring to the classroom
  • Providing opportunities for student leadership
  • Encouraging collective learning and agency
  • Supporting student identity development
  • Affirming linguistic diversity and identity
  • Addressing local or community based issue or topics
  • Providing applications to the real world in ways that connect students’ lived experiences, embody anti-racism, and challenge inequity
  • Adapting lessons from an aligned curriculum based on students’ background knowledge, community, and cultures

42 of 50

3 Components of Curriculum Study

Study the Standards

Effective math teaching requires teachers to know the math and know their students. In schools, teachers and teams must study the standards in order to more deeply understand the math that is expected in each major unit of study and each daily lesson.

Do the Math

When adults deeply understand the standards they are expected to teach and the degree to which students are expected to know, they know the math. Doing the math is an important step in preparing to teach, as it allows for teachers to see how the standards are taught in the curriculum and to determine potential misconceptions that can inform instructional practices.

Plan for Engagement/ Provision for Scaffolds

Equitable teaching and learning is instruction that is effectively differentiated to meet student needs while holding all students to the same high standard. All students actively engage with mathematics instruction daily through discourse and productive struggle.

43 of 50

Know and Show

4.OA.2: Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparisons, by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.

  • Multiply or divide to solve word problems
  • Multiplicative comparisons

  • Use drawings
  • Use equations with a symbol to show unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison

44 of 50

Know and Show

Critique a Flawed Response

4.OA.2: Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparisons, by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.

What is your critique?

How would you respond to a teammate who shares these ideas?

45 of 50

How do you envision using this document at Meadow Hall?

How can we routinely incorporate these processes and questions into our CS?

46 of 50

Break

47 of 50

Nuts

& Bolts

1

3

2

4

Arrival/Dismissal

Changes

48 of 50

Closing

49 of 50

One Word Method

  • Stand in a circle in the center of the room
  • The person who traveled the farthest already this summer will start.
  • Each person will say one word until we’ve created a sentence that summarizes our day.
  • If needed, we can create more than 1 sentence.

50 of 50

Evaluaton

Day 2