Andersen United State of the School Meeting

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

2. Agenda 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

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

5. Our Current Reality Challenges • Proficiency on the MCAs • Consistency in making high growth on state assessments. Strengths • 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

6. Our School Improvement Plan

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

8. Our School Improvement Plan Strategy to achieve our goal: Our focus strategy will be Multi- tiered Systems of Support with a focus on strong core instruction with differentiation. Goal: • Increase proficiency on MCA in reading and math.

9. Our School Improvement Plan Strategy to achieve our goal: • Social Emotional Learning, with emphasis on building community and Self Awareness strategies starting with teacher practice and strategies. Goal: Increase self awareness and self care practices with teachers and students.

10. How We Measure Student Progress 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 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.

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 15-16 and February 7 and 13. Quarterly report cards Sent home in backpacks. ON the Parent Portal for middle school students.

12. Title I

13. What is Title I? Title I supports our School Improvement Plan, and the funding we receive helps us reach our goals. • Title I is a federal program that provides money to schools and districtsto 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.

14. For the 2018-2019 school year, we received $689,077in 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! Andersen is a schoolwideTitle I program, which means all our students are able to benefit from the services we provide with our Title I funding.

15. How We’re Using our Title I Funding 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. 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.

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 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

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.

18. Contact our School Staff! Principal Denise Wells 612-668-4200 Assistant Principals Eric Loichle Kate Beesch Family Liaisons Miriam Laureano Takara Bradley Mohamed Abass We appreciate you!