1. State of the School Meeting
Andersen United
State of the School Meeting
Thursday Sept 13th 2018
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Accountability,
Innovation, and
Research

2. Agenda Andersen WHO WE ARE OUR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN TITLE I
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
1 min

3. Andersen: Who We Are

4. Who We Are
Mission To prepare students to be high school, college, and career ready, academically, socially and emotionally.
Vision We will support our student's growth by creating welcoming classrooms that are language rich with high expectations. We will instill the Phoenix P.R.I.D.E. values in our students to develop them into motivated learners that reach their highest potential.
School Stats
75% English Learners ( predominantly Spanish and Somali speaking )
95% Free or Reduced Lunch Eligible
Pre –K- 8th grade as of this week 887 students.
We specialize in working with students who are new to learning English
Community Partners include Project Success, Allina, the Family Resource Center and Wells Fargo
3-5 min

5. Our Current Reality Strengths Challenges
Service and programming for English learners.
Collaborations with Community Education and the Family Resource Center.
Service for students considered to be homeless or highly mobile.
Service for students qualifying for special education.
Highly collaborative teachers.
AVID Programming
Technology
Challenges
Proficiency on the MCAs
Consistency in making high growth on state assessments.
3-5 min
Your School’s Current Reality
Share strengths about your school’s programs, your progress from the previous year, and what you are looking forward to this school year.

6. Our School Improvement Plan

7. What’s a School Improvement Plan?
Our school improvement plan:
Sets goals that our school community is working to achieve
Identifies the strategies or activities to get to goals
Every Minneapolis Public School is required to develop, implement, and monitor a school improvement plan.
2 min

8. Our School Improvement Plan
Goal:
Increase proficiency on MCA in reading and math.
Strategy to achieve our goal: Our focus strategy will be Multi- tiered Systems of Support with a focus on strong core instruction with differentiation.
10 min total for all goal/strategy slides
Complete one slide for each goal (you can copy and paste this slide if you have more than three goals)

9. Our School Improvement Plan
Goal: Increase self awareness and self care practices with teachers and students.
Strategy to achieve our goal:
Social Emotional Learning, with emphasis on building community and Self Awareness strategies starting with teacher practice and strategies.
Complete one slide for each goal (you can copy and paste this slide if you have more than three goals)

10. How We Measure Student Progress
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.
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:
Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment in Reading, Math and Science (grades 5 and 8)
FAST as a school wide screener
Benchmark Interim assessments
STEP or Fountas and PInnell
5 min

11. How We’ll Share Student Progress with You
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 and February 7 and 13.
Quarterly report cards Sent home in backpacks.
ON the Parent Portal for middle school students.
3 min

12. Title I

13. What is Title I?
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.
2 min
Mention: Title I programs are available to schools with the greatest concentration of low-income families. If appropriate, you could reference the Application for Educational Benefits form and its role in this.
Title I supports our School Improvement Plan, and the funding we receive helps us reach our goals.

14. Andersen 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.
For the school year, we received $689,077 in Title I funding, which makes up 6% of our school budget.
We are required to use Title I funding to improve the academic achievement of all students and engage YOU, our families, in that process!
2 min

15. How We’re Using our Title I Funding
Curriculum and Instruction Support
We hired 2 full time teachers to provide intervention support in reading and math.
We hired 4 teachers to provide part time intervention support directly to students and part time instructional support and coaching for teachers.
Family Engagement:
We hired two full time people (Latino and Somali to serve as family engagement liaisons.
We set aside $34,000 to support family engagement activities.
5-10 min

16. As a family member in a Title I School, you have the right to…
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 involvement plan
Ask for a meeting with your school principal or your child’s teacher at any time
5 min

17. Opportunities for Families to be Involved!
We want your input on our:
School Improvement Plan goals and strategies
Family Involvement Plan
School-Family Compact
You can find all these documents on our school website!
We’d love to see you at the following school events:
Parent-Teacher Conferences on October 15th and 16th from 2:30-7:00pm
coffee with the Principal September 18th.
Field Day September 28th.
Latino Family Involvement Day October 12th.
Native American Parent Involvement Day November 16th
Family Game Night November 29th.
Participate in Site Council! We meet on Tuesdays from 4:30-6pm about once a month.
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.
5 min
Say that families can give input on the SIP, FIP, and Compact at site council meetings that will be advertised
Talk about your school’s policy for families visiting and volunteering

18. Contact our School Staff!
We appreciate you!
Contact our School Staff!
Principal
Denise Wells
Assistant Principals
Eric Loichle
Kate Beesch
Family Liaisons
Miriam Laureano
Takara Bradley
Mohamed Abass