1. Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Center School District Joe Nastasi,President Beverly Cunningham,Vice President Steve Stricklin, Member Charles Quinn, Member Dennis McCulloch, Member Laurie Dolezal, Member Cecelia Ball, Member Dr. Sharon Nibbelink, Superintendent

2. Who is Center? South Kansas City PAT program, Early Childhood Center, 4 elementary schools, 1 middle school, 1 high school, 1 alternative middle and high school building Total students = 2,500 Free-reduced lunch = ~75% African American = ~70% Hispanic = ~8% Small town feel in the heart of a big city

3. Current Comprehensive Curriculum Collaborative process Partnerships – PREP-KC Targeted resources Benchmarking – 8 th grade Algebra District and Building Improvement Plans

4. Strong Instructional Leadership and Effective Instruction Highly qualified staff 65% of staff have advanced degrees Leading Educators – development of fellow teachers into effective classroom teachers Instructional Rounds – walk-throughs to see what quality instruction really looks like Consistent leadership – Board of Education, administrators, promoting from within

5. Data-based Decision Making Regarding Instruction and Programming District and Building Improvement Plans (CBIP and CSIP) Board of Education and administrator collaboration Data teams at schools Monthly data review at Board meetings (Program and Data Evaluations) Data drives decisions – the Board of Education reviews the overall performance, thus seeing overall systemic success.

6. Balanced and Comprehensive System of Student Assessment Communication Made Smart and communicating expectations to parents and students From early childhood to high school graduation, multiple opportunities for measuring student success Assessment committee – collaboration between all different stakeholders

7. Access to Educational Programing and Resources Comprehensive Birth – Grade 12 approach Closing the achievement gap No excuses approach Educational triage – how do we help fill in the gaps?

8. What Success Looks Like Almost perfect rise in growth trends in both math and language arts from 2008-2014 Annual Performance Report (APR) risen from 85.4 to 92.5 in 2014 Dropout rate – 2.5% Graduation rate – 93% Attendance rate – 90% In overall APR score, the subgroup achievement category earned 12 of 14 points – making the percent earned 85.7% This subgroup achievement outperforms the state