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Andersen United Community School
State of the School Meeting
Sept 26, 4:30-6:30
Accountability,Innovation, andResearch
Andersen: WHO WE ARE
• 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
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Agenda
Andersen United:Who We Are
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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.
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Who We Are
School Stats:• 70% English Learners (predominantly Spanish and Somali speaking)• 95% Free or Reduced Lunch Eligible• Pre-K – 8th Grade. 816 students currently enrolled • We specialize in working with students who are new to learning English• Our Community Partners include Project Success, Allina, Junior Achievement, the Family
Resource Center and Wells Fargo
Strengths:• Service and programming for English
Learners
• Collaboration with Community Education and the Family Resource Center
• Service for student considered to be homeless or highly mobile
• Service for students qualifying for special education
• Highly collaborative teachers
• AVID Programming
• Technology
• Bilingual Programming
Challenges:
• Proficiency on the MCAs
• Consistency making high growth on state assessments
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Our Current Reality
Our School Improvement Plan
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Our school improvement plan:
•Sets the goals that our school community is working to achieve
• Identifies the strategies or activities that will help us reach those goals together
Every Minneapolis Public School is required to develop, implement, and monitor a school
improvement plan.
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What’s a 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.
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Our School Improvement Plan
Goal:
English Learners will make adequate progress towards their target on the WIDA ACCESS assessment
Strategy to achieve our goal:
Teachers will collaborate, meeting on a regular basis to plan instruction. Teachers and their co-teachers will utilize student data to inform instruction and respond to student needs.
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Our School Improvement Plan
Goal:
Promote Social Emotional Learning around Self Awareness and Relationship Skills
Strategy to achieve our goal:
Social Emotional Learning through Professional Development, with emphasis on building community and Self Awareness and Relationship Skills strategies, starting with teacher practice.
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Our School Improvement Plan
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
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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.
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 14th and 15th.
• Quarterly report cards mailed
out at the end of each quarter.
• Parent phone calls home to report
• on student progress.
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How We’ll Share Student Progress with You
Title I
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Title I supports our School Improvement Plan, and the funding we receive helps us reach our goals.
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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.
For the 2019-2020 school year, we received $627,302 in Title I funding, which makes up 5.37% 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!
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Andersen United Community School 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.
Curriculum and Instruction Support
• 3.6 FTE to support for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
• 0.6 FTE Professional Development for Social Emotional Learning around Self Awareness and Relationship Skills
• 1.0 FTE Counselor to support Middle School Relationships
• 0.5 FTE Licensed teacher to provide professional development and secondary support for MTSS
• Differentiated learning materials to support MTSS and SEL
Family Engagement
• 40 hour Bilingual Family Liaison
• $9,422 to support family Involvement activities
• Fall Festival/Latino Family Involvement Night• State of the School Presentation
• Flu Shot clinic
• Monthly Coffee with the Community
• Native American Family Involvement Day
• Family Math Games night
• “I Love to Read” Family Night
• African American Family Involvement Night
• SEL Movie Night
• East African Family Involvement Day
• Spring Carnival 16
How We’re Using our Title I Funding
• 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 compactbetween 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
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As a family member in a Title I
School, you have the right to…
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 14th
and 15th.
• Coffee with the Community (9/17, 11/19, 12/17, 3/24, 4/28)
• Native American Family Involvement Day (11/22)
• Family Math Games night (11/7)
• “I Love to Read” Family Night (1/30)
• African American Family Involvement Night (2/28)
• SEL Movie Night (3/19)
• East African Family Involvement Day (4/16)
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Opportunities for Families to be Involved!
• Participate in Site Council! Site Council meets 6 times per year. The focus is on enacting the Community Agreements and School Improvement Plan.
• 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.
Principal• Denise Wells, [email protected]
• 612-668-4201
Assistant Principal(s)• Eric Loichle, [email protected]
• 612-668-4239
• Tara FitzGerald, [email protected]• 612-668-4258
Family Liaison• Miriam Laureano, 612-668-4223• Takara Bradley, 612-668-4216• Mohamed Ahmed-Abass, 612-668-4289
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School Staff Information
We appreciate you!
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