SAISD Blueprint for Excellence

Community Meeting

Superintendent Pedro Martinez

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Our Mission

To transform SAISD into a

national model urban school

district where every child

graduates and is educated so that

he or she is prepared to be a

contributing member of the community

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Data Points

*class of 2014

2015

Graduation rate

Overall proficiency

Advanced level

SAT college ready

ELL proficiency

Special Ed proficiency

80.8%*

63%

7%

3%**

48%

38%

** If all graduates had tested

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Getting Started

• Meetings with 149

civic/business/

community leaders

• Hosted 8 community

sessions

• Presented to 4

community groups

• Visited 43 campuses

• 40 SAISD events 5

Five Pillars

• Academic Excellence

• Talent Management

• Culture Shift

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Fiscal Management

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Academic Excellence

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High School: High-Quality Options

Early College

High Schools

Magnets

Career Pathways

Earn up to 60 hrs

college credit

• Travis

• St. Philip’s

• Brackenridge

Earn up to 45 hrs

college credit

• IB

• Engineering

• Health

• Law

• Media & Film

Earn minimum of

30 hrs college credit

Pathways include:

• Agriculture

• Computer Science

• Culinary

• Fire Science

• IT

• Marketing/Business

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Advanced Academics

• SAT prep

• Texas Success Initiative

• Algebra I in 8th grade

• STEM program with Rice University

• IB – at all three levels

• Pre-AP and AP

• Advanced math in 5th grade

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Gifted & Talented

• GT Academies

coming soon

• GT Specialists

• Universal

screening in 1st

and 5th grades

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Literacy PK-3rd

• Reading on grade level by 3rd grade.

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Additional options in 2016-17

• Locally and nationally, parents are

preferring their child transitions later to the

secondary school environment.

• The District has seen high demand for its

PK-8 academies.

• We are increasing the number of PK-8

academies.

• We are adding 6th grade to 11 elementary

schools.

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Research on the benefits

• Studies show: students benefit both socially and

academically by staying longer in the elementary

school environment.

• Sixth-graders in elementary schools perform

better on tests than those in middle schools.

• Sixth-graders in elementary schools experience

less behavioral and self-esteem problems.

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Talent Management

• Residency

Models:

- Principals

- Teachers

- GT Lab

schools • :

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Recruitment Strategy

New teacher

hiring

Hiring

2014-15

Hiring

2015-16

Thru April 58*

240**

June-August 321 160

• Early Hiring

• Pre-hire for

high-quality

candidates

• Leadership

pathways *Represents cumulative hiring, October 2014-April 2015.

** Represents goal by April 2016.

(116 hires made as of January 2016.)

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Stakeholder Engagement

• Parental

engagement

• Higher-Ed

partnerships

• Business

partnerships

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Fiscal Management

• Measure against goals

• Align resources to strategies

• Academic return on investments

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Culture Shift

• High expectations

• Goals driven

• District of

innovation

• Holistic

educational

environment

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Ongoing Innovation

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Questions?

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