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First Day of School Report 2006

First Day of School Report 2006. An Overview. Rain and traffic Principals & staff met students – often directing traffic and serving as concierges Faculty out in force to help newcomers find their way. Students were welcomed in style!. Yorktown Marching Band. ACFD welcomed newcomers.

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First Day of School Report 2006

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  1. First Day of School Report2006

  2. An Overview • Rain and traffic • Principals & staff met students – often directing traffic and serving as concierges • Faculty out in force to help newcomers find their way

  3. Students were welcomed in style! Yorktown Marching Band

  4. ACFD welcomed newcomers

  5. New staff/new facilities welcomed • 3 new principals • 5 new AP’s • 188 new teachers • “New” Nottingham • Music addition to H-B Woodlawn • New fields, new paint, new equipment

  6. 2006 First-Day Membership 2005 K-12 First-Day Total was 95.2% of projection; September 30 count was 100.6% of projection. 2004 K-12 First-Day Total was 94.3% of projection; September 30 count was 99.7% of projection. 2005 PK First-Day Total was 49.2% of projection; 2004 PK First-Day Total was 63.1%.

  7. Staffing as of September 6 Total Number of Teachers 1,964 New Teachers Hired 188 Full-Time Teachers 159 Part-Time Teachers 29 School-based Vacancies 4.0 Countywide Instructional Vacancies 2.0

  8. Bus drivers • 113.5 positions were allocated in the FY 2007 budget • 104 bus drivers are under contract with 9.5 vacancies • 5 substitutes/retirees serving as drivers; 2 will be offered contracts • 3 bus drivers are in training

  9. Transportation • Weather problems caused traffic jams at some schools and prevented bus departures and arrivals. • Despite practice runs, conditions could not be predicted, and thus some buses were late. By Day Two, “normal” conditions prevailed. • One bus experienced a minor “fender bender.” • In the end, everyone made it to school – and back home.

  10. eSchoolPlus+ • Information Services staff members were dispersed throughout the schools to help with the implementation of the new Student Information System. • For the first time, teachers took attendance in eSchoolPlus+.

  11. early childhood Growing great minds one child at a time. New early childhood activities • New VPI classes at ASF & Glebe • New elementary Montessori class at Drew • 5 KG classes added in August • Planning Factor funding formulas extended to provide “specials” support to Pre-K students • 4-year-old Extended Day • Infant-toddler class added

  12. Extended Day Enrollment BEFORE SCHOOL PK 22 K 130 (175) 1-5 591 TOTAL 743 AFTER SCHOOL PK 48 K 320 1-8 1592 TOTAL 1960

  13. Extended Day Waitlist 15 trainees are being prepared to accommodate some of the waitlist

  14. Facilities: Examples of summer work • New Nottingham & H-B Woodlawn facilities completed • ATS – new chiller installed • Patrick Henry & Ashlawn – new carpet in library & several classrooms • Jamestown – classroom repainting • Long Branch – interior painting complete; exterior ongoing • H-B Woodlawn – relocatable removed • Williamsburg – new lockers installed

  15. Adequate Yearly Progress

  16. 2006-2007 NCLB Transfers Total transfers in 2004-2005: 27 Total transfers in 2005-2006: 12

  17. 2006-2007 NCLB Transfers

  18. APS SAT Scores • Highest mean scores since 1992 • Reading: Exceeded national average by 41 points, VA by 32 • Writing: Exceeded national average by 34 points, VA by 31 • Math: Exceeded national average by 27 points, VA by 32

  19. Getting Ready: Staff Development • New Hire orientation: Week of 8/18 • Philosophy of APS • Curricular approach of APS • Individualized attention for each new teacher • General Staff Development: Week of 8/25 • Teaching for Meaning • Essential questions • Enduring understandings • Use of new texts in Secondary English, Secondary Foreign Languages, K-12 Math • Information Services staff worked with Curriculum Supervisors to demonstrate interactive nature of new texts

  20. Opening Day Vignettes • At Swanson, shiny floors conspired with torrential rain to send three teachers flying to the ground. • At Yorktown, staff members wore “Ask Me” buttons and counselors had upper-classmen speak to freshmen about the school.

  21. At Glebe, Mark Johnston visited 5th Grade and was greeted by ¡Buenos Dias! in the new FLES class. • At McKinley, it was Pat Anderson’s 35th – and wettest – first day of school.

  22. At Claremont, lots of parents from both “target” languages showed up to wish their students well.

  23. At Campbell, Pre-K students teach Smith a lesson

  24. The Bottom Line • We’re off to a fantastic start, reassured that great things will happen in the Arlington Public Schools this year.

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