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stop doing may want to pause a recording good evening everyone thank you for joining us tonight Main Street Academy for our community date of birth will talk this year. Thank you for car have the time to dive a little deeper into our schools data and talk about interventions that are being applied as we round out the school year last month during the governance board meeting did the state of the school address and promised to go a little deeper into our school date and talked about current interventions and smoke with me night is a director of curriculum instruction and Innovation misses Revere and also on members of the admin and curriculum team at Dulce Buckley I also see assistant principal Avery and let me see if I see any other members of our team I'll be going to thank you again for participate and I'm meeting tonight as we go forward at the Main Street Academy on vision is to create a world-class School 2 pascals to be leaders in the 21st century at the Main Street Academy all students will receive a challenging and enriching education from a dedicated and student Focus staff and partner highly involved parents students will leave the Main Street Academy with high expectations of themselves as they prepare for further education to become contributing members of their diapers so our agenda tonight is the change will be conducted by mrs. Revere why will introduce now in Michigan if you would introduce yourself and please leave our community Through the agenda through tonight's presentation well good evening and happy Wednesday to everyone thank you for joining us I am tasty Revere and I currently serves as the Director of curriculum and instruction and Innovation at cmsa so as principal Abdul said We Will Rock You through our current data or our core content classes for school year 2223 and so after we've had an opportunity to introduce you to some of the other emsa numbers here I will give you some information about our school-based curriculum in addition to the supplemental programs and flatworms that we use also I walk you through it for about 15-20 minutes imma give you some highlights and snapshots of our student performance in English language arts reading math social studies and science there will be an opportunity for a question if you noticed that in the flyer on our website there was an opportunity for you to submit questions prior to the meeting and will also allow time for you to ask any questions during or after any information if anything comes up feel free Jack dropped a question in the q-and-a or the chat and will respond to those questions during this time then in the closing I'll give just a few tips and tricks for you to support your student or children during the remainder of school year so the purpose of this meeting really is just provide you an up-to-date scope of where I students are right now and we really want you to walk away being informed about our academic progress having more information about the curriculum that we have utilized the school year in addition to providing any feedback and or so questions and getting tips and tricks to help your child at home don't start with just giving you a snapshot of our school based curriculum East Canton area utilizes different vendors and Oracle plant resources these resources are required used by teachers however they have the autonomy in the way in which they utilize so for example it may be that is of interest to a teacher and social well they're allowed to use that sit outside of yellow page but it is highly encouraged that they utilize the gala paid resources such as the online version and or the consumable which is the hand handout or handbook at the students had that he was in class as well as take home Sulphur La for K through three we utilize two different curriculums music like two different directions for K through 8 4 through 8 Izzy leducation read what really focuses on getting our students those faces from the science reading Fanatics developing comprehension in the as well as learning to write Oreo education it is one of the top notch in the nation actually Kratom and so in this correctly May utilize very which not only just allow our students to dive in two different worlds because there. but it also is very text I'm having inside of the complexity and help support our students increasing levels for science we utilize them so just hang on baby gate and learning the science standard for mathematics all grade levels K through 8 utilize and vision and I'm you often see the consumable a hamburger at home and in class and as ice 4 gal of paint is used for K through 8 social studies in addition to these Benders and Kirkham sources we have supplemental resources supplemental resources are those that are not required but a highly encouraged to provide differentiated marketing opportunities to our students variety of platforms that we utilized in the purpose and which use them so I sell this adaptive learning me that it is start with the students what they know and it helps supports them through Higher Learning so for example your student just knows 1 + 1 it was. them at that level and it will help build their understanding if for any reason they get the question wrong it'll kind of backed them up to give them more practice so that they can then develop that skill level to a higher anuel a weeper science social studies and social emotional learning because we are definitely interested in helping to build and support a well-developed and well-rounded well-rounded student but it is also a play platform and so the beauty of new zla is that it is composed of the most recent current event that they play and these articles are differentiated based on the student's Lexile levels it provides an opportunity for them to have read along or read aloud and it's also a Spanish version in conjunction with the opportunities that opportunities to write as well but you answer I'm reading comprehension questions for Early Intervention Program will utilize read 180 and System 44 these two programs are used in Tandem and they are built to be adopted to help a struggling readers to achieve great level proficiency I'm in Leslie apologies for the graphic are we have our General Studies which is also didn't have it. I need to utilize USATestprep and USATestprep is a platform that saliva Georgia standard and it is designed to help support our students become exposed and experienced questions that are very similar to that they will see on the Georgia Milestone assessment super School your 22-23 will utilize last year's ccrpi Content Mastery data to help dzai an hour ago so the goal is to increase student achievement performance in English language arts math social studies and Science by 3% what does an initiative that we've had this year is to provide ongoing assessment so that we can determine what our students are learning and what they need to know and the best way to support them in class and auto glass SOS technisat the dmsa have been designed by the curriculum theme and will utilize these assessments as common assessments and summative assessment open sequence or pacing guides that have been provided the teachers with Emmys pacing guide in scope and sequence there are times in which they are to assessment to appropriate time and what they have learned assessment help teachers do designer instructional learning plans as well as provide remediation and a Richmond opportunities to students during school before school after school and drink. so these assessments are administer on animals so you will find that your students may not have a science and math that's on the same day it is completely based on the unit time frame these days I ministered by the bathroom feature breaker is actually the tests are designed to be alive through the Georgia Department of Education blueprint and I'll give you a quick nap. that looks like so here on the Georgia Department of Ed website they have blueprints as a blueprint outline what the Georgia Milestone assessment looks like so it looks the standards department number points Department of Mount the percentage of the test that these particular standards will be composed up so this document is used by the curriculum team to support aiding the assessments so that they are as similar to those that I students will experience this helps to alleviate pesticide Z test anxiety because when they get the Gmail not new and it also supports the law throughout the school year so we are on to the data so k-32 they are not gmass tested great levels however we do want make sure that we are tracking our student performance throughout the school year against providing the best learning experiences and so here we see our kindergarten and first grade and second grade percentage and the scores that you see as a student Performance Based on a midi your assessment and so the meteor assessment was given in December and it was to assess all standards talk from August to December our students will receive a end of year assessment as well and the kindergarteners will be administered gkids 2.0 as a state assessment I get up there any questions. you are more clarification that you need please feel free to drop your question and or comment in chat or the qna and it will be addressed at the end of the now third through eighth grade they are students that take PG math assessment in I wonder is April the end of April to the beginning of May and so what you see here is a snapshot of the year and most recent and so I documented it add most recent because I'll grade levels do not test on the same day at the same time so for instance our third graders recently took their unit 5 test whereas we may have our 7th and 8th graders that took a unit 3 or 4:10 so that's why I stayed as most recent and so here we see the scores in terms of the percentages that we have so I third-graders are now approximately for the most recent tests they took about 65% and 4th graders from it here or at actually about 26% growth in and they have that last that's in the end of February and so we see here there about 40% so we're writing we utilize right score what is a curriculum tool as well as an assessment tool I came through 2nd graders are administered assessment be a paper pencil our third through eighth graders use the once the wind devices to take there's and so here you see fall in the number 7 and 1/3 the number for let me give you some background about what this mean my score is a two-part test it is a reading test which is composed of a pair that means they have to set that they may read informational and narrative and they're asked several questions that will be multiple choice questions and then there will also be a constructive response which may present a problem or scenario and or a question for them to answer and then there's an extended construction response the extended construction response is similar to the constructed response and that they will receive a problem scenario or question to answer but it's expected to be a little longer our extended Constructor constructed response is scored with the highest Roscoe as the number for so that's what you will see the results I want your testing Parts Little bright score is an extended writing or what we normally call in sa and so park to also give up here but the students will receive a question they are expected to answer and this question will be scored on a high score seven and this gourd looking for students capabilities or the master levels of idea is the development the coherent as well as language and conventions I'm at this time we have not received the scores for the extended writing or essay for Cape 8 and John will fall before the winter testing because r k through 2 students tested paper and pencil we have not received those scores either so consider couple people that usually panel about seven to eight people each individual is expected to read at least two to three essays and they're having to score these so it takes a little time especially when it's paper pencil but what we see is but we're not comparing Apples to Apples what we do have is a snapshot of our students performance in both our extended writing and our St constructed response and gmass actually contain both types of questioning so here were able to see where we need to provide more support and or interventions for our students the next line is going to give you a grade level snapshot or the most recent assessment which is the extended constructed response and so here are the scores 04 and that's what you will see the percentages of students that have scored for that particular raw score so now I'm moving along. bacnet sell the beauty is that we've had a practice gymnastics gym session for our mathematics classes and so this is my opportunity for us to really get down to the nitty-gritty so what is it that we need to do to support our students and Performing the very best as we approached gmax and so we'll talk a little bit more about our initiative called March Madness so this particular data that has been utilized to design some of the initiative and support they were utilizing or March Madness science for the state of Georgia 5th grade 8th grade and physical science are the only grade levels and or continents that are tested So currently our fifth grade not taking the second semester summative assessment yet they are completing that instructional cycle and it ends at the end of March however we see the really good data in terms of weather Arch from what they have been taught from August to December our 8th grade we actually are working for Argo So based on the Content Mastery from last year assessment we're looking for a 3% increase and so we are headed towards that and social studies eighth grade only grade level and content area which is Georgia studies or course that is tested for G mass and so here we have our mid-year again this was a comprehensive that's it all the standard stop from August to December the most current assessment that the students took about 2 weeks ago was simply on two of the standard history standard Android study history is about 43% of the GMAT Georgia thanks. So this gives a snapshot how will I Stephen Swift perform in this particular domain what are business challenges for this for us this year when we talked about curriculum instruction animation all personnel father is a teacher shortage and so we've experienced having to start some of the year off with substitute teachers do the different life events we've had to have some long-term sub and so it really has been the goal all the curriculum Department to create action plans to support substitute teachers as well as new teachers as they transition into the classroom at tmsa another not necessarily a challenge negative connotation but it is something that we've had to really consider and all of our Ela classrooms that we've had new curriculum for the entire school and so there was training during pre-planning also follow-up training throughout the school year additionally Miss Buckley who is the reading Ela lursa coach has been very Hands-On he's had an opportunity to really delve and it's alarm for 3:12 a.m. eat a legend case and extremely well support the teachers and learning and implementing in their classrooms what the new curriculum also has some glitches with some of their support such as a platform music so kill them which is provided by e l a g a wife watching a gray they utilize killed them as the assessment platform and so due to some hiccup we've decided that the best way to ensure that we were getting the best created the best fasting app fireman or student was to move to one platform which was the same platform illuminate that we utilize for math science and social studies testing and again as our teachers learned the new curriculum writing Fidelity having to learn how to navigate the scoring rubrics the timing of the assessment and appropriate And Timely feedback for our students has been something that were working on to ensure that the data is not lagging and that were actually utilizing the data to make immediate instructional decisions another challenge is attended you're making sure that our students are at school day today any day mr. school is in apa I need to learn and engaged and all this business that the teachers have designed and created for them another area that we are really looking for lots of support in and Saturday's Saturday school as an opportunity to provide intervention and Remediation to our students that may be having some difficulties and or just need a little bit more I'm 11 Hands-On support from the teacher and so we encourage all of you if you can to get your students in Saturday school during upcoming sessions so that we can support them another challenge has been wanting one device each student give me a device and it it's there that sounds responsibility do not only keep up with it but also to maintain and sustain the divisive that is in good working condition and to have it each and every day but by any chance 1 or any of your children have a device at home please make sure that they bring it to school daily and that they are keeping it in working condition do challenges we also make sure that we have by boss Solutions and so we make sure that we had some follow-up training with our curriculum representative or read well in addition to a Miele education and if peaches request any other shiny and oh so we seek to send them out to professional development of professional learning opportunities outside of tmsa we have literacy and we have a literacy and math. It's cold and they're both joining us today miss Buckley and Mr adebisi AR at school each and every day and available to teachers at their desire and after need I'm work constantly and I'm creating action plans and touching bases to make sure that we not only support our new teachers boss wife again as I said it for our Ela it has been I go with you to like one platform for assessment so that I students are familiar with it at alleviate any test anxiety in English this is for them to have to navigate between many different kinds of platforms and additionally it helps them to become familiar with the device and a similar popcorn but they will be utilizing for for the grading Fidelity we have tried to support our teachers and making sure that they have peer support whether it is the instructional coach myself and Order College action plan to support a long-term sub in addition to our new teachers we've also implemented a protected time for writing instruction so we have writing Wednesday's Miss Buckley Works Hands-On with teachers to create learning experiences and utilizing right score materials and curriculum to implement in the classrooms what had a practice Georgia Milestone test things that a nap and there will be another I'm coming up so that our students can also participate in other evening and other content areas and lastly March Madness March Madness is a school-wide initiative each grade level has an opportunity to design an individualized and specialized plans to support their students during Flex time and during the instructional. I definitely miss Avery and Mister Mitchell be brave and assistant principals have also created initiatives such as black in to help build our students stamina or having the most appropriate testing environment and it will be other small yet impactful initiatives and support that will occur during the month of March so that was definitely a lot of information and it may have been extremely quick so I see there about four questions in the chat and so I will take a look at those questions and while I do that I asked that the instructional coaches can you jump on the mic and it's available on camera to introduce yourselves to our participants good evening is Adam at a b c I'm in driving so I can't go to camera on but I am the math instructional coach glad that you ought to join us to be hi everyone this is Charity Buckley I am the reading instructional coach at Main Street and I'm glad to see so many of you on tonight thank you severe let me also take the opportunity for the admin tuning your system principles to introduce themselves this evening as well good evening this is d'marco Mitchell I am them 528 Middle School Upper School Academy assistant principal I am so excited about what Miss Revere has revealed to us the work has basically just directed us for March Madness and getting prepared for the gmass and for my eye ready assessment so again thank you Miss Revere and we're here for it that's lock-in and good evening I am Miss Avery I am the system okay through for I'm so excited to see that there's so many parents interested in to know how our community have our school is doing academically our curriculum has done an amazing job said that's up for Success this year and I appreciate them thank you guys so much this evening I miss you bae let me also underscored the great work of your system principles and working hard that you know part about school so is that we are Leader in Me school and part of the difference being a school leader as a scholar as a student is that they understand their goals and objectives independently and I want to thank them for leaving that objective by having each student to recognize their roles As Leaders of setting up our team leaders and having those assemblies and creating a culture of leadership that transition that not only is evident in the classroom what is evidence in our Sports as we want titles or do you want to share that we are champions even in sports will also and academics and so that come from establishing a strong culture of leadership students can buy you two want to thank them for helping to establish the closer thank you everyone so there are a couple questions and so I will address those that I can those questions that I cannot answer I will defer them to our friends will Abdul and I do know that's one question in particular that's better when another staff member who isn't present I will be sure that we get you a response so the first question reads so how do we compare because it looks like the writing score Belgium matically so I'll share my screen in review. scores with this response so what we have here again father went through we have during the fall what we see is or are the scores for the extended writing the extended writing is an essay and it is scored with a highest raw score up 7 so we see that this is an average score for our it's based on the grade level what winter the score is for the extended constructed response so the extended constructed response is not an essay but more so words to that of a paragraph and so here the highest raw score is for so again it's not Apple the apples but it is a snapshot of where our students are in two different areas so are we looking at the blue with the highest highest score of 7 we do see that our third graders were it's about 18 and a fourth grade about 1.3 5th grade about 1.5 Nicholas maybe he is like 1.56 is actually our sixth graders were about 3.0 not quite 3.1 and again this is an average score about our students for seventh grade it was a little bit over 2.5 and 4/8 grade what rate and that is out of seven so when we what we've done is really been Hands-On and when I say we miss Buckley has been handling with support in the teachers with writing Wednesday writing Wednesday's the focus is the extended writing the essay so we've utilized race in addition to other best practices that are why didn't the rights Core Curriculum to support students in developing their paragraph and really extending their ideas I'm being creative and unique so that their answers are not and paste from VTech and wish their bread winter again was the extended construction response again what we see what was considered more of a paragraph and so what we are doing is asking our social studies teachers science teachers and Math teachers to do is to embed opportunities for our students to write and so giving students more feedback about the right I will help you assistant and being more reflective and consistent about using best writing practice practice the bows are the two specific support that we are doing to address the writing score the next question was can you discuss the interventions employed as a result of the difference the score in the fall vs. winter and I really apologize if I am mispronouncing your last name is it Miss reckner recasner recasner Casper thank you my apologies recasner is this in reference to the writing or any specific content about employee intervention but she didn't say specifically what was the scores for and that you're working with teachers to employ interventions to work on the areas where they were but I need a little more help the students okay so again the images of the writing Wednesday so we have a designated protected writing time and that's in the English language arts reading class and for the constructive response really just providing I'm Edition writing opportunity so that students can receive additional feedback to support them and then reflected and more practice to get better and other content areas as some other practices or strategies that are occurring in the classroom includes I'm writing conferences so teachers are pulling small groups based on this data and when they are asked to write the teachers are helping them and supporting them and giving 121 be back in addition to 12 121 support with those riding the next question here is how many students in grades k through eight are in you're too and your 3rd Eye for reading math and both how many students have been recommended for special education evaluations Academic Year so this is a question and it is Miss Parker Market thank you and in for transparency we have a special education director and this is her will house I will and she's not present in the meeting today and so wanted to make sure that I provide the most accurate information I will provide this question instead of question to her and if you would like to private message me your information your email address I'll make sure that I get this to you in addition to this the recording of the Abyss meeting and a question-and-answer document will be provided about Monday I don't want to promise it to you on Friday Vidant so the response will be there as well thank you for your patience with this the next question does each 7th grader have their own device I was told that they have to share uterus with eighth graders also they no longer bring them home right Subway Saxon one of my challenges this year has actually been students taking good care of the devices on for only we'd have had instances where students have returned damage devices and or taking devices home and have not returned them at all and for this reason for I'm seventh grade we've had is happen more often in the night and so 7th graders are utilizing devices are all shared devices and those share devices should be amongst their grade level and occasionally eighth grade or second grade teachers to allow students in seventh grade to utilize the or a lot of teachers borrow those car and devices when necessary so it is really I am on a case-by-case this in terms of what grade level or which feature may allow 7th grade to utilize their devices so again if you see a device that your house can you please stick in your kids back and send it to tmsa I will run all devices returned as soon as possible as we need to update them to prepare for testing the next question what sport shared what is the goal for each for Saturday who are the students / Gray are the students aware of what subjects the students need help my middle school has shared that her home teacher has changed from March how does this tie into into Matt is a paying for testing last we what can we do at home to help support the plan Miss Smith these are some wonderful question I will answer the very first question and then as that Miss Avery and Mister Mitchell support by responding to the additional questions so with the data that has been shared the goal is to improve each continent area by 3% from last year ccrpi Content Mastery so go back in I will share that snapshot again as a review and then we'll move to the next question and I'll ask Miss Avery and Mister Mitchell hop on it so when we're looking at here tmsa is highlighted in red for reading third grade the percentage was 5.9% and so we're looking to improve 3% there for real for ELA 28.3% there so far each area for each grade level when looking for a 3% increase that's the goal but we are definitely working toward its eating our own goal set for this year I thought questions again I'll read them and Miss Avery and your sister do you want me to thank you so miss miss for Saturday school what I do it was I took the content wait and those heavily weighted standard you know I know it's a short time so we're focusing on those as much as you can I created a pre and post test for each grade level so first day of Saturday school the kids took that and we utilize that data to determine how deep we need to go with the standard to the teachers are following that each week and then at the end the last day we'll take a short post just to see if we made some progress they are divided by grade level and then if I have enough teachers I've even been able to make some of the groups smaller and because we haven't had a lot of kids to come we have been able to keep the group small so there's a benefit to the children who to come but we do want it more kids to come we have two more sessions though I'm encouraging everyone if you want to sign up email me I'll send you the link so that you can register them Readings By Miss Revere to reiterate Avery has just stated we are taking any and all comers just register for ELA with focusing on writing writing writing writing and then in math as from the per directive of our method this adebisi we're focusing on our power standards Meeting those standards that are heavily weighted on the gmass so and this time we'll inside of a school that is the focus we would love to have as many students as we can can get so if you're on here and call the friend of a friend bring them on up with the doors open we going to receive we have to jump in and divide some students up it's all hands on deck at this moment it is thank you Miss Avery Mr Mitchell also let me also mention that tutor tutoring takes place week during the school week as well so teachers and students can take advantage of tutorial hosted by the teachers on their grade level we also want to state that the program that we have IXL it's a great too for students to get practice in on telling my recommendation for the parent it's to support your student to do at least 30 to 40 minutes I excel in reading and on math daily at least an hour on the on the weekend because it does serve as a as a a a I tutor and does allow them to have a current in live diagnosis of their performance so my recommendation is that they practice daily leading up to the Chivas and that will help develop their proficiency that only has text takers but also in performing on their level as they go into other team thank you from spell Abdul I see that there is a question also asking about how to sign up for Saturday school I just dropped that registration Link in the chat so please feel free to share it with any families parents that you know that were unable go to attend tonight and there was another question any considerations for extending Saturday school past the end of the month I'll let the people run the money answer that that we can consider that what we have to do is look at whether the you know look it up budget and also look available staff that are available to keep Saturday school but thank you for that question that's something we can bring to the table right away and come up with an answer shortly to add to another one of our interventions to extend the program thank you printable Abdul I did see also in the chat a question about what can we do at home that was Miss Miss last question and so that's how we're going to end the meeting today by giving a few tips that you didn't have access to and which they can use at school as well as at home additionally on the Georgia Georgia Department of Education there are GMAT study guide these study guides are composed of very detailed information about what each test consists of their also example question in addition to an answer key and so having your child to practice those questions and the top 10 best questions would be so how did you get to this answer why do you think this is the answer if the answer is correct what can you do some early or differently if you have a question that you don't know answer to or I'll for those for ELA they're also have example extended writing responses as a question and extended construction excuse me extended constructed response and constructed responses and so there will also be in the study guide and it's simpler to those and so just having your child practice writing at home small things that you can do with your child day today when you're asking a children's questions required them to respond to you in a complete sentence that helps to build a vocabulary that allows you to hear how their processing information and how much they understand give me the directions I specifically which state what I said but allows them to build their attentive listening skills as well as again to develop their communication skills speaking skills transitions in writing skills other things that you can do make day-to-day activities fun so during our literacy night that was sponsored by Title 1 I miss Pearson our family engagement liaison we gave some tips about when students are practicing their vocabulary allowed to use flash cards to gamble or unscramble words or allow them to do things like what rhymes with this work it builds their critical thinking skills other things that you can do at home to support your children not just an Ela but also math please take your kids to the store let them check out the change and you're asking to do mental math say for instance I gave the cashier 50 bucks and I thought it was 20 20 to what change would they give me allowed to do do things like while you're walking into the store hey count how many feet will walking from the car to the store what other measurements could we transfer an orca kids love video games allow them an opportunity to actually talk about some of the science they see in video game so I see that you're playing this matter is the football player doing is any gravity involve any force and motion allowing them to practice and utilize the vocabulary content and academic that they're learning in school when they're doing things that they enjoy and so that way they can see the connection between what's happening at school and what I'm doing at home and these are just some small easy tips and tricks to help support us at cmsa I just want to say thank you all for joining us I am really I'm amazed by the crowd and greatly appreciated by the enthusiasm and questions again I work with the communications team to get the recording posted as well as the spices to the questions that were provided posted in addition to ensuring that the question that we were not able to answer is also available to the community again thank you and I'll leave from any other administrators that may have some last-minute and or ending remark I just want to say thank you Miss revered for providing such a well-prepared Precinct tonight you and the curriculum team especially mr. adebisi the admin teams to Mitchell everyone thank everyone as well as the teachers that are in the trenches every day are supporting we definitely support as well when I say thank you to all the parents who get our Scholars to school daily let's get them there on time let's make sure that we reach out to other parents and see how we can use the great power of our parents to leverage student achievement so we appreciate you who came out tonight want to thank you. Do you want to say thank you for your support supporting art functional program with looking forward to Great growth and progress during this testing season and hey I just want to say thank you to everyone and please look forward to our follow up sheet that will give more areas of how you can support and a what are the next steps forward for further student achievement and engagement thank you very much and I hope everyone has a good night thank you

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