October 6, 2015

 Welcome/Sign In  Ice Breaker  UIP  Innovation Timeline and Plan  Report Cards, Parent Conferences  Great things happening at Boston ◦ Fund Raising ◦ Anything else  PTO Meeting ◦ Sign In ◦ PTO Meaning and Why it is important ◦ Vision and next steps ◦ Closing

 Turn and share:  What has been the highlight of the year so far for you and your family?

 Our UIP is due to the district on Nov. 1 st, the major components are: ◦ Observation Feedback, focused on growth and support for teachers’ effectiveness ◦ Data Driven Instruction, focused on making decisions in the school and in the classroom based on what students understand and what they don’t understand ◦ Culture, focused on establishing and creating a positive culture for students, parents, and community as a whole

 We are creating an Innovation plan for Boston’s future. ◦ What can we do within our school to be more effective in helping our students’ academics? ◦ What will be our focus? ◦ We are visiting other schools in Denver and New York to get ideas of schools that are effective. ◦ The School Design Team will do the initial leg work and communicate information over the next few months.

 Principal  5 Teachers ◦ Kinder ◦ 1 st grade ◦ 4 th grade ◦ 5 th grade ◦ 7/8 grade  Classified Staff  Community Member/Parent  Meet weekly for the next couple of months

Sept 17ILTSelection of School Design Team & Root Cause Analysis Sept 18 Send home SDT Community piece. Call parents who were interested and have them fill out application Sept 22RuthFinalize Community member of Design Team Sept 30Staff MeetingShare findings of SRA Oct 1School Design Team MeetingOverview, process, calendar,SRA info, applications, Zone and pillars Oct 6School Design Team Meeting Prepare for Vision and Mission facilitation -Homework, look at other innovation schools and plans, what has worked (from Mass Insight). Mass Insight arrange innovation school visits for individuals/small groups and provide a information “catcher” to bring back to SDT. Oct 6Parent MeetingShare SDT Process and Innovation Zone process Oct 9Teachers/Staff Vision and Mission for Boston’s future (what do we want this school to be and what are our values that drive our vision) This work grounds the process of Innovation Oct 12-16School Design TeamIndividuals and/or small group visit innovation schools Oct 22School Design Team What if – brainstorm possibilities, Mass Insight will help plan facilitation for this meeting with Ruth prior to meeting. All staff invited to get all ideas down. Oct 29School Design TeamNarrow possibilities more, Pros and Cons of possibilities. Generate prototyping list Oct 28Staff MeetingShare out what occurred in SDT meeting, solicit feedback from staff Nov 1Innovation Application WriterPrepopulate Innovation Application sections Nov 5School Design TeamNarrow possibilities more, Pros and Cons of possibilities. Generate prototyping list Nov 10Parent MeetingState of the School Design process Nov 11Staff MeetingShare out Innovation process and updates Nov 12School Design Team Waivers needed to support the plan. Superintendent Munn, Mass Insight will share how to remove barriers that may exist as district or state level. Nov 19School Design TeamRefine plan for success Dec 1ishCommunity/Parent MeetingPublic Hearing UIP & Innovation Plan Dec 1Innovation Application WriterSend electronic draft to SDT Dec 2Staff MeetingShare out Innovation process and updates Dec 3School Design TeamReview Draft and revise/refine Dec 10School Design TeamReview Draft and revise/refine Dec 11Innovation Application WriterSend new electronic draft to SDT Dec 17School Design TeamReview Draft and revise/refine Dec 20Innovation Application WriterSend new electronic draft to SDT and District for Feedback Jan 4ishSchool Design TeamReview Feedback and make revisions to plan Jan 6Staff MeetingShare out Innovation Plan Jan 8Innovation Application WriterSend “final” draft to SDT and District Jan 12Community/Parent MeetingPresentation of Innovation plan Jan 19APS Board MeetingPresentation of Innovation plans to School Board Jan APS BOE submits Innovation plans to the State

 November Parent Meeting ◦ We will share what has been happening ◦ Discuss possible structures that could be effective. (creative time to think about what is posible)

 School Design Team ◦ Oct 1, first meeting ◦ Oct 12-17, visit other schools ◦ Oct 19-23, list all ideas and possibilities ◦ Nov, gather ideas from community ◦ Nov-Dec, refine and create a plan ◦ Dec, submit plan to district ◦ Jan, submit plan to state

 Parent Teacher Conferences are scheduled Oct 20 th, 21 st ◦ K-5 individual appointments ◦ 6-8 open conference style  Report Cards ◦ Standard based grading  elementary-resources/report-card-revision-info elementary-resources/report-card-revision-info  Report Cards will be given out to parents at conferences.

 Fun Run!

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 Anabel – share out what about the Believe program

◦ Sign In ◦ PTO Meaning and Why it is important ◦ Vision and next steps ◦ Closing