take attendance take attendance that would be fantastic okay you want do it Elma or you want me to okay I'm gonna start okay just go down the list and let us know if you're here Nate Collins School Board District Four member for Erica Woodfield um reginelle durandis AAA am I pronouncing
correctly sorry I'm here on okay thank you we have Laura Rachel frisber Schoolboard District 3 member Karen bril uh Randy Gabriel from the ESC advisory Council he wasn't feeling well okay she's excused Loria Hillard
Coalition for black student achievement yes saw Mrs mcquinn Barbara mcquinn Schoolboard District member from Matthew J Lane here um Charmaine postal palage County Council of PTA PTSA Sheila Scott Luben for Palm Beach State College here here
to see you um Christine tibs School Board District 2 member for Virginia saveto hi here hi so do we have it six or we have one two three four five six members okay and we need seven correct three
five um M Mar saying that we need six okay it's my understanding the past we've needed seven you you know why because a Hispanic education Coalition member that is vacant at this point I see okay so of the people who are absent um I only I wasn't able to note down everybody's names um how many
people of those people who contact um by either phone or email to let you all know that they were not going to be attending okay who but you said Randy Gabriel said she was going to be sick okay so we did receive an email from Randy Gabriel that she would not be in attendance okay so her absence is excused and did anyone else contact you anyone else no okay so uh could I get the names again of the people who were
who are absent and did not contact you because those would be unexcused absences and So based on whether or not they attended last time because if um as we learned between November and in the as was discussed in our December meeting if somebody has three consecutive unexcused absences then they would no longer be a Committee Member so we do need to track this okay so we have
Nate Collins and I know was here last week last meeting right okay we have Loria Hillard okay and I was she here last meeting was she here we have was she here last time Elma no we checking on that and then um Charmaine postel
post she was here last time correct so we we're just checking on Loria Hillard okay so we just have three unexcused absences this time correct correct okay so um because part of the policy states that the chair designates whether or not the absences are unexcused so we'll have the unexcused absence for Charmaine postal Nate Collins and Loria Hillard so um with that now that we have a quorum thank you all for your patience and
I will call the meeting to order at 5:56 p.m. and our first order of business will be the approval of minutes does um do we have a motion to approve the minutes Barbera mccoin still moved thank you a second sh Scott luin a second thank you any discussion hearing
none all in favor hi hi I saw Barbara you raised your hand Rachel great any opposed motion carries thank you very much do we have anybody here from from the public for a public comment is there anybody
in the room for a public comment no no one is here okay great so we will move on to the next item on the agenda and let me pull this up okay so um Miss Bishop if you'd go ahead and go forward with your update all right good afternoon again everyone uh my name is Maria Bishop I was here last time but we didn't
have a quorum so so as you know I am the new Chief academic officer I'm really excited to be here with all of you and look forward to meeting with you and my and working with you within my new role okay so let's go ahead and get started just a few updates to go over um wanted to start with a little bit of the legislative updates I know we're receiving a lot of questions about what's happening everyone's hearing different things I'm wondering how how what they're hearing is impacting us
here with our day-to-day business um so I'm going to start with there's been a lot of public interest on immigration enforcement that's probably the number one um concern that our community at large our families our students are sharing with us um and at this point there's a lot of work behind the scenes a lot of things are going on at the house and the Senate um lots of you
know they're busy working the the scenes to to exactly analyze everything that's said and then see how it's going to impact us so I just want to go over a statement that we as a district issued um because we want to make sure we're delivering the same message so we as school districts are mon closely monitoring any changes at the state federal levels that may impact our operations this is what we know at this time and as you know things change often but this is what we know
as a school district we remain committed to providing a safe and supportive learning environment for students while following all relevant state and federal laws and regulations all schools will follow strict protocols for visitors to campus which applies to everyone including parents and officials from any agency each visitor must have a valid reason to be on the campus and sign in through the front office students may only be released to an authorized
adult or through a valid legal document every child in Florida is entitled to equal access to public school schools do not maintain records relating to a students immigration status school counselors are available on every campus in addition to a behavioral health professional to provide our students with mental health support and Community Resources we will continue closely monitoring any federal or state policy changes that impact our schools okay just a brief statement um
if there are any questions you may always reach out to our our regions and our Communications Department as well okay um otherwise we are like I said before there's a lot of activity going on there's a couple of bills oh sorry go ahead Mr mcquinn no I'm sorry I put a message in the um chat has there been an increase in I I am now as a non-school board member on the board of directors of fam's first
palach County we partner with the school district and we have so many students um in um High poverty areas and um we obviously don't check their immigration status and some of them have been afraid to come to school so I just wondering do we have a noticeable increase in absences yeah and we do recognize that um some of our schools are are um noticing an increase attendance um
student absenteeism as well so school specific probably school specific yes depending on the communities that they serve so we are monitoring closely um and we're trying to reassure the families at the school when they come to see us the school principals the school staff um and welcome them welcome them their students to their schools as well um go
ahead we have another hand so um this is Laura F Laur so is has has anything happened dur on our school properties where there have been warrants or or removals of students well
as far as I know we have not seen anything like that but I can't comment on you know individual circumstances or anything like that right I I was asking it very generally so we haven't any specific things that have happened I'm not you know Liberty to share but um yeah I'm going to stick with that okay okay so um the other things that
we're keeping an eye on is um House Bill 733 oh we have one more hand uh Miss Loria oh helard oh you're here go ahead please well I'm gonna admit her never mind it's not a question I'm admitting her welcome Miss herard Hillard how are you pronoun okay we will go ahead and adjust our records that you are present
in today's meeting good evening thank you good evening and please pronounce your name for me make sure I'm saying it correctly Loria Hiller Hiller thank you you're welcome welcome okay so we are keeping an eye on as you know um this house build's been in movement for a while the middle school high school um hours is mainly what we're talking about um a lot of activity on that but from what our lobbyists are telling us I feel like there's probably going to be some flexibility with that I know there's a
lot of concern over that but there seems to be we feel at this time there's we feel like there's going to be some flexibility um coming up and another bill that we're kind of watching out there is a high school school sports um there is um a bill both in the house and the Senate if private schools that don't participate in the FSH students would potentially be able to try out at their um home high schools so we are watching all of
these very carefully um while there have been a lot of bills filed we do know that the um immigration situation that are our you know our representatives are spending a lot of time on that so they have not been able to hear as many bills as they would have at this time so by next month we should be able to have better updates for you all okay oh and one more thing also that
has been asked about the funding so Federal funding has not been paused at this time we have no changes to report at this time we will keep an eye on that as well all right Switching gears I do want to I guess every month we talk about the um go ahead so sorry there was I have another question um glad to hear that there's been no uh decrease in federal funding
at this time have there been any changes to uh Palm Beach County School District's programs in response to or um to prevent possible funding cuts um um I spoke to miss fericon today she really had no other nothing no
new information to share with us um that's where what she said I could have say we we are where we are right now no changes as of this time of course we're still we're still um working through the budget schools will receive their budgets here in the next couple weeks um so we're still rolling in the middle of of all of that okay so the the pro the student support programs that emotional wellbe well-being programs that we have in place are still there
is right y thank you okay changes at this time thank you okay so uh just a statement regarding the AAC book review verbiage at this time the book reviews are going well um we appreciate everyone taking their time to send feedback to library media services and if anyone has any questions about the process please reach out to Nolan Ro R um 561- 684 5145 or Stephanie Sunshine
561 684 5227 all right with that I'm going to go into like other updates I'm not even sure I'm not tracking the time but just really quickly things that are happening here at the district at this time um we're going to be hearing in a moment from Dr howchin from performance accountability about uh where we are in terms of our progress monitoring second period and um he'll be sharing some data with us and um and I'll be sharing
a little bit more at that time of what we're doing in response to that data but just about what's happening at the district right now our middle school and high schools are in the middle of their masterboard analysis meetings um this is a time where they we meet as a school staff and the instructionals and the Regionals and District Personnel are there as well for them to review their the course offerings for their students their systems and see how we're doing with that um we're looking at making sure that we're increasing ing uh
participation in all of our Advanced courses by all our students and then looking at the passing rates and making adjustments as necessary um we're also excited that our transition to kindergarten programs are starting we're starting that campaign coming up soon schools will be announcing in March their kickoff events where parents have the opportunity to go to their schools with their families and their students and um the schools are able to uh present their programs to them let them
them know um and introduce our staff so that the students and parents feel much more comfortable at the schools and let them and let them tour the school it's really an exciting time for our little ones you know in the last couple years we've been really working hard to to booster our transition to kindergarten um working with our private providers our um you know we have now ambassadors t2k we call it transition to kindergarten ambassadors they're they serve as Aon between the school district
and the private providers as well um our principes have been interacting as well with the private providers we have a read aoud program in which the principes go to the schools and read to their preschool students um we share information um and then once the parents come to schools and start registering the students we did this last year as well we have programs in which we send Communications out to the parents there's a kit that we a resource kit a readiness kit that we provide to every
family and along with that we send videos we share videos in multiple languages throughout the summer so that parents uh we kind of go over the the activities that are in the toolkits um and help them work with their students throughout the summer so we're excited about that we're also um finalizing our plans for summer school um summer school programs that we offer every year to our students um within the community so we'll be sharing that information soon and
we also have summer camps that we're going to start registrations will open I believe in around the month of March so getting ready for our summer as well so as far as general um announcements that's what I have for you today are there any questions this is Laura Felman I do have a question um regarding the summer camps do you have um really the summer school is often um an opportunity
to catch up so to speak do we have camps that enable advancement for students if they're so interested where they are have camps with a a more academic approach or a fun academic approach you know whether it's some form of science robotics or other such items well we have some of our programs I know the 21st century program
offer um enrichment over the summer they offer science and um all kinds of stem type programs over the summer but our the summer camps that we offer are mostly for fun you know for this um we're enriching our students We Believe by providing experiences field trips um and on all of that has there
ever been consideration of of adding keeping it in U an enrichment perspective but having it be sort of fun academic so to speak I mean because there are some students in in our district I think that would they they are attending camps elsewhere that provide that and perhaps that is something that our school district could offer that would one bring
in more money into our school district and two um further enhance our students because we would know what we're providing to them I can certainly bring that back um I know that we would like to offer more summer camps within our schools too but we always have an issue of capacity um many of our schools over the summer undergo um Renovations like we have certain schools that are closed for the summer with our Penny sales tax um funds so we're often
limited by what we can offer because of space um but we'll bring it back for sure cool okay thank you you're welcome all right and what do we have next here let me the are we ready for the presentation then
yes we are ready for than so uh is it Dr Miller or Mr Miller it's just Paul it's fine okay oh hi I saw both on the agenda so hi thank you very much Dr hins and um we look forward to hearing your presentation well thank you um Miss Bishop would you like me to present or do you just want to move the slides as I talk yeah I can move in for you if You' like okay then yeah uh so just asked uh
us to come give kind of a midyear update on where we are um as you're probably aware this you can go on to the next slide um the state release graduation rates shortly after we got back from winter break um the district is up uh including Charter Schools approximately 2% over uh last year continuing an upward Trend um so right now this this past Year's graduation cohort 92.1% of the students graduated uh when you factor that down just
to district operad schools not on the slide but it's 95.6 or sorry 95.9% of um the students coming through our district operated schools um are graduating on time in the four years uh next slide you can see the trend kind of continues across subgroups you know um if you wanted to look at some of the other subgroups are uh powerbi tools that are on the research eval website well we'll let you slice and dice the data
any way you want to to look at like combinations of subgroups but um here's our six kind of primary uh groups we usually discuss um again as you can see pretty much up uh across the board um some Gap closure between some of the subgroups uh you know Black and Hispanic um you know closing the Gap with uh White um elll large improvements in elll I think part of that's going to be due to some of the new graduation options that
were given um in the past couple of years where are um late enrollees students coming in after their I apologize I'm reading commentary um I think it's just in terms of the the programs and whatnot I don't know that it's anything specific um there's a lot of focus on the um you know getting those students ready for the Act and the SAT the CLT is now
option um so there's just a lot more uh options available for those students who aren't meeting the uh graduation requirement while they're in 10th Grade to to meet it via concordance um to your point on um options though uh where I was going with the elll uh just in the past couple of years uh Florida has introduced for lack of better word a portfolio option for students enrolling from out of the country during their junior or senior year
you know so just two years so they can show their they can show their their their their their Mastery of the content even though they haven't necessarily been here a long time to get super familiar with the language um you know similar increases amongst F frl and S swds as well so I generally speaking across the board up a lot of the the programs that the schools have been doing are I'm just gaining traction
and um probably you know building momentum uh and then as I said the uh the addition of the CLT is an option for standard concordance and the um the uh elll portfolio type of model for those late enrolling elll students um before we move on from graduation rate any questions on grad um I do have a follow-up question yes with the CLT what percentage of the students ended up uh taking the CLT and
using that was the basis for their uh meeting the concordant scores so we we don't necessarily Break It Out by what test they choose to use um I can go back and look at that and we can bring that forward um a good number of our students do use a concordance option be it sat act or CLT um but I would have to bring back CLT specifically okay and I see Rachel frisber has her hand up yeah yes I had a question um
I remember there was a huge discussion I thought it was just last year it might have been two years or three years ago um but the SAT concordant score was raised do you are you aware of that how long ago was and when did that take effect already uh that took effect with um last yeah uh the 20 I apologize they it was supposed to take effect with the 2020 graduates but they ended up postponing it several times
um it took effect with the 23 graduates I believe is the first year of the the the the new higher concordance scores for SAT and ACT uh went into place I believe it was 23 so obviously looking at the data that didn't really affect um graduation rates because um I I remember there was discussion that maybe the you know children wouldn't be able to make that but it doesn't or doesn't look like that I I agreed I I think part of the
timing was that you know I think there was some concern that children have difficulty making it considering they were just coming out of covid I think that was part of the reason for the the decision to postpone off a few years um but yeah we we don't seem to have seen a ton of impact um in the increase in in those scores but again we also do have a couple of additional options that weren't in place under the old scores okay thank thank you okay uh moving on
um as you're all I'm sure aware uh we've moved on from annual one time a year may testing to through assessment um we we give the the states um fast Assessments in ela and math three times a year now uh this is the combined uh 3 to 10 uh reading scores the English language arts scores for the past two years um as
you can see at each point in time uh pm1 and pm2 we are at a higher threshold of students who are already scoring on grade level um one of the interesting things with the state's decision for this type of assessment is they're not measuring on grade you know are you on grade level for September and then are you on grade level for December and then are you on grade level for May what the state is
measuring is are you on grade level for May in September in December January and then in May so basically they're applying the May standard three times a year um and as you can see this year versus last year we're up about three points um you know we started off our first PM in September about three points higher than where we were last year at the same time um mid year still stayed about three
points higher than we were again same point in time last year and you know we ended up the year a little less than 54% of students in three through 10 scoring on grade level and this year we're projecting that number to be about 56 again that last column to the far right is a projection based on how our students are doing um we'll know whether it comes through uh in May uh but this is the combined Ela uh uh question
y go ahead so um this is lauran so are there students who show that they've met the standards at the beginning of the year and are there what happens with these students academically does it make sense to keep them in the same grade that they currently are in are there discussions that start to happen about perhaps advancing them since they already know everything that they need to know by the end
of that year so the state test is a picture of the content right it's not necessarily measuring everything the child should know and when you look at the actual scaling that level three you know that we all talk about when we're talking about whether students are on grade level or not that's not necessarily Mastery of the grade level content that's satisfactory understanding of um so personally
I would say no moving kids on um at that point in time any number of reasons if the student gets a five or the the top score not a three but the top score if they score like 100% or whatever that may be understood understood so you know obviously if a student's getting a five in September that is definitely a course for a school to probably consider some enrichment with the child um again moving them past the grade may or
may not be appropriate uh the state is actually conducting a study that's supposed to be out over this summer where they're looking at what students scoring on grade level in September and December actually means and whether or not that can be used in lie of the end ofe test um you know the results of those St that study doesn't exist yet but you know we'll be looking to see what they find um based on
the study they they finish over the summer um but we also have students who you know will get a level three the first time around and then get a level two the second time around or get a five the first time around and fall to a four the second time around um so you know the it's not necessarily a onetoone perfect relationship how students do on the September test the December test and the May test so you know being that this is really the second year that we've had this assessment with the scores as they
are I'd be I'd definitely be hesitant to be moving students forward until we know more in the future got it thank you m frisber I think you had a question too no I do not have a question thank you oh okay all right um same slide same structure it's just a three to8 math combined performance um as you can see there's a definitely a much bigger jump here
as we move um but again that's to be expected you know reading is more skills based math has more kind of content as you go from grade to grade so it's not surprising that a fourth grader doesn't you know know as much math content for fourth grade as they are able to read I'm Sorry Miss fishburg needs to put herself on mute Okay so so um but again looking at
this data uh we were up about two points uh year-over-year from the First Progress monitoring window that dipped a little bit to about one and a half uh at the second progress monitoring window um but as you can see last year we ended up at a little over 56% on grade level and we're projecting that will actually be a 60 um by the end of this year again with continued learning through the years and all that um the interesting thing with
math versus reading is when you look at those students who kind of scoring in the the midlevel two range during these first couple of Windows you know they're that's where you would expect a student to be who's going to end up kind of just in the three or four range because they still got a lot of content to learn before the end of the year so um and then with math algebra and geometry aren't included in the progress monitoring so the state still only gives those assessments at
the end of the course so there's not it's not because of the legis the way the legislative mandate was written for this the state uh did not include science and did not include any of the EOC courses in the three times a year progress monitoring so it's just the ELA and math um next slide uh finally same data uh Ela and math but Broken Out by subgroup uh very similar progressions um across
subgroups uh you know some some Gap closure uh some pretty big jumps in elll uh last year to this year um and again we're expecting based on our projections to be above and in most cases well above uh where we were last year by the end of the year again based on our what we're predicting for this year uh with that that's the that's the midyear data um everything's trending in
the the appropriate Direction um you know uh long as learning continues through the end of the year we're you know at the rate we're expecting um we're looking to be higher than we were last year uh any followup questions or uh otherwise I will turn it back over to miss Bishop all right thank you Paul thank you so much um and I'm piggy backing on his a presentation here so I can share
a little bit about what happens next um we have all this great data um then what do we do next with it so so we this time of the year we call it our midyear review right or like our halftime we could say in which we take a look at all this data and um at the school level what's happening is that schools their administrators their leadership teams the teachers alongside with the regional offices are looking at how are they progressing towards their goals
right are they on track to meet their their goals is the important thing and both at the schoolwide level as well as a student level so the moment that the students took this pm2 and the pm2 uh testing was complete the nice thing about this new system is that principles can see those scores immediately and they can look at it by student and start start that assessment process um um they look at
the data overall they look at it by grade level um we look at it by subgroups um because we want we have to really take the data apart complete a comprehensive analysis of where they are not only are we looking at students and scoring level three three and above but we're also looking at are they going to be demonstrating a learning gain which is very important as well we want to make sure that whether a student is a level three a level four a level five or level too that
they are going they are demonstrating that they're making at least one year's worth of um gain um so schools and you know start with this whole process they um meet with the teachers they look they go student by student they meet with the students right um then after that they take a look at creating an action plan are they where they need to be then there's some action that needs to be taken as well are they are they not where they need to be then there's some other action that needs to take place and
again um you know we have an amazing um accountability performance Department you know Paul howchin and the team they do amazing work with um crunching all this data we have the powerb we have our edw we have performance matter matters there's so many Platforms in which we can look at data any which way you know we can sort um we can um slice it dice it however we want to take a look at this right but then
at the school level and of course at the regional level now we need to take a look and see okay well what are we going to do about all of this right so um this is when the action planning begins right what are some different strategies that we can apply um you know we look at where are the strengths and the weaknesses and so forth and then as a district what we do every year around this time is we have we schedule the leadership Summits we call
them the essentials we had one um a couple weeks ago with elementary schools in which we bring the elementary principles they were able to bring a person from their schools to um attend the meeting with them and just last week we we conducted our meeting with our secondary principles as well so during this time um our we collaborated and we were so fortunate because we are very cohesive and collaborative um starting with the deputy superintendent's office um the chief
of staff performance and accountability um my office as well um which is teaching and learning ESC and all of that and then along with the Regional Offices we kind of came together because we wanted to make sure that we uh had really a great session for administrators and School staff we wanted to make sure that we were bringing the best um information the most relevant process that would really assist the schools because at the end of the day that's what we want to do want to be able to provide the
resources tools everything that our leaders uh need at the school level to um fine-tune their goal their action planning so we did this so we had our department of accountabil of accountability kind of led the schools in a process to conduct a deeper deeper data dive here with us um they started at the whole the big picture with the overall performance um of the schools and then they really um drilled it down all
the way to the Benchmark level reporting categories and Benchmark level to identify strengths what were our strengths as a district but also what are our weaknesses as a district what are we looked at standards that had been pre had been previously taught um previous to the pm2 assessment and um and identified which of those were still students were still having some difficulty with those um and so out of that we then took them we
viewed we looked at those benchmarks very thoroughly we took a look at them we looked at the um the standers itself the clarifications we looked at how those standards could TP could be um assessed you know the um the teis the item enh technology enhanced items sometimes represent um challenges for our students so we want to take a look at those and see what could have been um challenging for our students because the the more um
we can refine that the better and more precise we can be with our ring and then our teaching and learning Department an excellent job of now that we know what are some of the benchmarks that our students need more support with we were able to connect them to the resources so they took us through a process of um going to exactly identifying the resources needed for whether it was reteaching whether it was a another um reteaching taking place in small
group or it needed to be in whole group I'm probably giving you way more information that you probably ever wanted to know but um and then they did a great job of like putting that all together for their school so they would they would be able to take that back to their buildings and work with their teachers at the plc's and after all these resources and tools were shared then the school leaders were able to make those final adjustments to their second semester action plans um and we talked a lot about leadership strategies and how to
communicate with their how to bring that information forth at their schools and then the most important part of this is that monitoring piece so that's we've been really busy with that um okay go ahead and question Laura yeah thank you yes um did were there particular standards that were um that students across the district or in particular areas had more difficulty with yes there were so that's
what we pulled at the district level we went ahead and pulled those that we saw overall was were some ch um opportunities for us and then the schools were able to then drill down to their own School data to do the same so there were some that were across and even a couple standard that were um historically have been a little bit difficult for us um for example I can give you um the ones about poetry uh those particular Ben marks there's one in
particular that um we needed to focus in on interesting and I see uh Rachel frisber has her hand up one of the things I'm concerned about is that when we look at the ELA data you see you know how the child performs overall with the reading and the children that are getting the ones and the twos um might be not doing so well on those exams because they are not able to read the text they're not able to decode it accurately so therefore they're misinterpreting it therefore getting questions
wrong how are we using what data are we using to determine whether or not the child has a decoding deficit and that's what's causing a lower Ela score well ideally that kind of occurs you know the teachers working with the students will be able to identify that even prior to testing but then yes once we have the results we go back and we look at it by student to see you know what could have CA cause that um and
of course you know we do have students that that have accommodations already um that have IEPs or um are on 504s or El students that receive those accommodations and so we want to make sure that that we use those accommodations on a daily basis for instruction and that way students are able to show what they learn utilizing those accommodations on these testing days as well yeah I just want
to make sure besides using accommodations that they're getting um the decoding instruction at you know at their school because when you get into middle school or high school you know that's not something that's taught but a lot of kids have you know slipped through the crack um with decoding issues and even you know in third grade we want to make sure that that's happening because in third grade you should be done learning your phonics you should be learning you know comprehension that
that's the biggest you know concern that we need to make sure as a district we're doing and yeah no absolutely um and any child that we anytime we have a student that's um you know that's not progressing with their with any content area you know we begin our mtss process and interventions trying to really fine-tune um what the reason is where they're you know finding out where exactly we need to focus in on the
intervention um and so this is going to actually really good segue for this next slide where we talk about school and student support um and I'm going to touch upon that a little bit because you bring up a really good point um so additional support provided to the schools at this time you know all these updated instructional tools and resources that we provided and providing that support at the school or edw Specialists are able to go to the schools and assist um principles and Leadership teams through this data disaggregation and pulling all these reports
because we have a lot of reports but you have to know which are the the you know which report goes with which um purpose and what do we want to look at um and additional that work that we've been really honing in here in palage County for the last couple years i' would say two um is a K2 literacy um specifically um implementing obviously the science of reading and focusing on the phonics and phics awareness instruction with we teamed up with the University of Florida we have our
last iner schools we've been really focusing in on the uh on the flamingo small group structure which is really focused in on the um really understanding what the students know and especially when it comes to phic awareness and phonics um our many of our schools are also this this year implementing either foundations or youly as a u core for phonics instruction and we're seeing some
really great um great results so far we had all our teachers trained that was a big push for this year professional development for all of our teachers uh we provided the the kits and the materials at the school's level so that has been a big push so that we can make sure that we the students are decoding and if they're not we can provide those interventions we're trying to really focus on strong core instruction um we had some last iner k to lab sites uh where our partners
at University of Florida come here come to palich County um and support the teachers we do walkthroughs they um and you know identify strengths and weaknesses but they do lab um like coaching in to teachers too so that they can see what it really looks like again lots of professional development um all right and moving on from that continuing the kigo support really monitoring that data to see how many interactions our students are having if they're utilizing
it um and then the student facing support in which uh we had staff from the district office from the different departments go out to the schools we did that last year so again we worked collaboratively with our departments here in the district Deputy superintendent office Chief of Staff Chief academic officer um performance and accountability and with the regions to select the schools that would receive the support the schools identify the students
so we started back in January 21st about 119 District Specialists were deployed to go out to the schools and they are really um focusing on intensive small group differentiated instruction and that is going on as we speak now um so we are working really hard uh to meet the needs of all of our students we have this last push right now and making sure that we are preparing our students by teaching them all the the grade standards and providing
support and interventions where were necessary all right and I think that brings us to the end of my presentation are there any additional questions all right I'm going to turn it back over to miss Felman thank you very much okay so we have on new business we have uh future topics
so um I believe we have a list um from before but it's a good time to check in and see if um just to reiterate if there if you've mentioned a topic before that you still want address please go ahead and bring that up and if there are brand new topics that we've not discussed um before please bring that up and then when from this list we can then um prioritize them and determine what we we're hoping we can hear in the next
few months H keeping in mind um staff availability so if anybody has um any ideas if You' please either put it in the chat or go ahead and raise your hand and we can get started with that
you guys can hear me right okay yes I don't think anybody has anything okay well I will um what I had my from my notes um from August I had a few ideas of a few topics I think were just mentioned in August one is if
we have if the school district has any pilot projects uh that are planned for this year and for next year if we could hear presentations about those um and also another I uh discussions about opportunity gaps across our district um specifically in terms of opportunity gaps for advanced coursework um and how those opportunity gaps have
changed over time so for example uh the availability of AP Physics is not consistent throughout our district and um hoping that it has been improved but I'm not sure that it actually has or AP Computer Science a for example which is very helpful for students who are going into the computer science field and uh Miss Quinn I see that your hand is
raised but you're muted so I can see that you're talking but you're muted there we go yeah thanks when you mentioned the piece about for example AP Physics last year I do think this is something and not just AP Physics so I'm talking about um all schools because when last year I attended virtually one of the superintendent student advisory Council meetings and one
young man from high performing School said that at I'm just letting you know it's a high performing School more towards South and there actually was a lottery in that school to get into AP Physics because of the limited number of teachers that were qualified to teach it so I'm and the super intendent I mean he checked on it right away just I talked
to him about that but I think that's something that I don't even know how you would approach it but finding out if there is truly a lottery every kid should be able to get in AP Physics if they want to be in AP Physics or AP whatever right and so that was something that I would love to look out down the line thanks oh I think that's that's great and it to me it's not just it it's a good it's an excellent point
to bring up it's one is the class offered in the school two do the students have access to take the class that's offered in the school but we do have a lot of schools I believe a lot of high schools where the class is not even offered yet it is our responsibility to help prepare our students for for example stem careers um Miss Branch I see your hand is raised um I think it does it also may have to do with finding
a teacher to be able to teach it yes and that is another part of it that so we we there there is part but but there might be some Creative Solutions as to how to make this work um even with limited resources but all of that needs to be taken into consideration but the first part is establishing that they is in need so over the years we've had the
conversation about the fact that some high schools I think they're really only a few high schools in the county for example that offer AP Computer Science a um and AP Computer Science principles is a great test uh it's a great course but there are some universities that don't even give class credit for that course because it is at such a basic level that it does not actually do much in terms of preparing the student students for a career in computer science
so the real question to me is what are we doing to help our students get to that stage and when you can see that it's not offered in so many high schools across the district it's a concern My Hope Is that when I first started looking into this probably like I don't know five six seven years ago that over time we are actually offering
this course at more of our high schools um and so that's why I'm talking about taking a look at this not just as to where we're offering it now but has there been a change over time so we can say we are working towards closing this opportunity Gap my fear is that it has not changed over time much and miss qu I see your hand is up okay yeah I'm still on mic uh the superintendent I think I brought this up you know toward the end of last year but um particularly for Mrs Bishop when
she's reporting back from here I agree with you not only because I think we have the list of which schools have which um AP classes but does every student have access to that class who wants it and one of the things many many many years ago that we did at Sun Coast was and now it's just like nothing but it was distance learning we didn't have a
teacher to teach um AP Calculus and so we again this is before all the technology today but we actually did distance learning with an incredible teacher at bokei high school so that our students have that so we have so many ways now and obviously they work with a union and all of that stuff but there are ways for us to be able to you could put a substitute in a classroom while they're doing a distance learning piece if there's not a qualified teacher at
the school so I'm hoping that um Mrs Bishop will bring forth some brainstorming on ways that we can make that happen thank you that's great and Miss fishburg I see that your hand is raised you're muted if you're speaking or maybe it was just I I'm sorry um so my question is um can students if the course is not
offered at their High School take a class on fvs and if so is there a limit to how many classes the student can take on F like let's say they want to take AP Physics um and um AP Compu um AP Computer Science a are they allowed to do that or are they limited okay um yes they are able to take classes in Florida virtual um but yes there is a
limit because they're because they're enrolled in the high school um um so they have to that has to be like their full-time school but they can take a course or two Florida virtual I don't have the exact number that that what the limit is but um but yes but it's more than one correct interrupting we looked at that um one of the things we looked at last year um and and more and more Florida virtual or I think we still have Page County virtual but um they're
not offering some of those higher level classes so it's just something I think we need to know right I think it's a good component of it but um part of the reason why I bring up whether or not the course is offered at the school is that um by offering it at the school you have students who can learn together with their with their cohort cohort and that it's a better experience to be
in the classroom learning um with other students than perhaps virtually which though it does absolutely fill a need and and there also are dual enrollment opportunities but that would have a different um what's word I'm looking for um those those can impact the student differently um when they go for forward onto college for example um and I
know I've spoken about stem but there are also opportunities in non- stem AP classes that um should also I would love to see looked at um so clearly we've got some interest in the in the topic because there few people have spoken up about it so I'm hoping we can and it considering that it's a time when the school when the district is going through the masterboard planning I think this could be a very helpful and
useful topic to go over and better understand how we're looking at closing this Gap because the students in pooki should have the same opportunity as those in Riviera Beach as bokeh as Jupiter as Wellington and anywhere Bon Beach all of them should have this opportunity and um it I I'm concerned that a lot of students are missing out because they don't don't have it yeah and and that's
why um we have this entire Master board schedule analysis because we're looking at that right we're looking at what are the courses being offered what's the interest are we offering enough of the uh more rigorous cours work um and schools do get very creative but yeah let's bring that back it's an excellent topic and um I'll work with our Personnel to bring that back um and I think now is a good time this time of the year agreed and miss I see your hand is raised again I think it's really
crucial to see the interest level not we can offer this course we don't have a teacher and you have two kids interested in it so I know you want it in all schools which is great but we need to see what the interest level is and get that from the principal so that brings me to my next point and I think that it's it yes you do need to have the interest there but I think we need to help build that interest that and lead the students to these interests so to speak because
it means that we need to start that advanced work earlier and support that because then the students can see this as a possibility in their future if they've not been exposed to it if they've not felt that they have a sufficient Foundation they might not think it's even a possibility and they won't express any interest so it's up to us to show that this is a reality that can become theirs and if we don't do
that I think we're selling the students short I'd really like to know the interest level I I don't want to sell any student short but I think we're putting the card ahead of the horse here I'd love to know the interest level you brings up another it does bring up another question I have for example we have an amp program in math but we have students who have talent
and interest in other subjects that can lead them towards acceleration which would help better prepare them and be their interests in um for these AP classes um just the same way as the amp program has helped prepare the students for um acceleration within math and I am sure we have and have seen when my kids were in school students
who excelled with within English and science and social studies and that perhaps we need to take a look at meeting those students needs as well and helping them to achieve whatever their dreams may be and help them to accelerate through that and I'm hoping that we can find out more information about that type of a program and what would take to establish it and Rachel I see
that your hand is up yes um one of the things I'd like to mention I know we're going to discuss this but I know you said that you're doing the masterboard planning now one thing that I think is so important with 20% of our children um you know statistically having some form of you know dyslexia struggling with learning a second language and we want these kids to succeed and go to Great colleges need to have sign language you can take it
virtually and this year um just so you know they added sign language three to the FLV class and um I know a student who's taking it and enjoying it but it is nice to have it in person I know some schools do have it but not all high schools have it and with college it being mandatory you know pretty much to have language to get admitted we're doing a disservice to a lot of our students that struggle with you know language based T you know learning a language
so um you know it'd be great if you guys can consider that because I know you're working on the master schedule right now so thank you do you want to discuss the learning of non-english languages within schools as being one of a presentation no no I I feel that that can
be part of offerings because it's unfair you know to some students that they they it's not offered at their high school and a lot of kids struggle with learning a language a second language and they're much better it's easier it's proven statistically easier for kids with dyslexia or language-based disabilities to learn sign language so it would be great to offer that because it is really puts these kids as disadvantage when they're you know if they you know
and think I'm so thankful because my daughter's a senior that they just offered the third year of sign language and so essentially that's yet another opportunity Gap that you're discussing that we we can make it available that's what I'm saying yes so if we could include that in the discussion about the opportunity gaps I think that would be great and Miss Quinn I see your hand is raised yeah and actually you've I just want to clarify that um the only reason brought this up at all was the students
who um were on that advisory Council who wanted in classes that weren't offered so NE certainly I mean you know having been a high school principal I don't want to offer a class that I can't fill because that that is not coste effective so you know I just want to clarify that I'm not suggesting that every course be offered at every school thanks um okay so another topic but it's related
to these other topics is um a discussion about Advanced coursework offered from elementary school on up um and uh yet another topic um is learning gains we um Miss Bishop you had mentioned it for uh learning gains for at least a year but if we could dive into that a little bit further taking a look
at um overall learning gains for um disaggregated information including for gifted Ells students with disabilities free and reduced lunch program students um and take a look at how we are how they're doing in terms of learning gains and how we're helping them to succeed even further okay so just to clarify I'm interested in seeing the data um for learning gains I know we had some we had
some nice gains last year we can take a look at that and then as well as um strategies for because obviously you know if we have students that are more than a year below grade level at that point we we're working hard um to make sure that like one year's learning gain isn't going to be enough to to um bring them closer to grade level so at times we're working really hard to some students make two years worth of gains in one year with a lot of of hard work and the proper interventions and all that
so um okay so we'll bring that up so dat as well as strategies that would be great and but to not only the categories of students that we've discussed but also to pull out the information for gifted students I remember um a few years ago hearing that there you find sometimes gifted students are not showing learning gains and I
know there are a variety of reasons for that yes but to take a look at what that is so we make sure that we're meeting the needs of all students okay absolutely yes because sometimes it is difficult to show a learning game when you're already a five um right yeah and the criteria every year actually changes depending on the grade level and the scale scores and all of that so okay all right I think we have and I
think also would be interesting to include in that if possible is um oh I just I had the phrase in my head and I just blanked out on it um students who fit into multiples of these categories for example if you have um because we have students for example who are gifted and who have um
learning disabilities we have students you know who are elll and have learning disabilities or or elll and gifted um but we don't always that's harder to address I realize but also we don't identify that easily within what we are when we look at the disaggregated data and having being a
part of each of those sets can impact what works best for the student yeah but we do take a look at that at the school level we really do we really um strive to understanding each student and exactly where they're represented because that does happen often they fall within multiple um groups okay um all right back to you Miss Felman were we going to talk about the second topic
there under new business yes um and the second topic is the so back in I think it was September um our committee had discussed having encouraging our members to appear in person every other month starting in November and we were keeping the same meeting format of it being a hybrid
meeting um but encouraging us all to show up in person but I have noticed that for the two times that we were meeting quote unquote with having this encouragement to be there in person we've had three people show up to be in the room in person and actually both of those meetings I believe we were not able to get a quorum to conduct the meeting
even counting the people who were there who virtually so the question comes to everyone is do we still want to have this encouragement to show up every other meeting in person or would it be better to change that Miss Branch um I think a lot of people are really busy and driving in traffic is
horrendous these days um so I'm for definitely not making people come in person I understand believe me having me making that drive I really get it um but I also from the committee members what do you all prefer this isie sorry uh re Reginal yes um hey we all
are very busy and some of us are joining more than one boards or or or involv in the community leave it as is however it would be nice to at least have two meeting out of the Year where we can come and celebrate you know our wins and and losses okay that that we can we can see each other face to face at least two meeting before the school year close that's s that makes sense Miss
Quinn I love that idea so let me go back to Families First of Palm Beach County again because so many um you know they have full-time jobs our attendance has been better with the option for virtual but I'll tell you we're doing our strategic planning right now and it was incredible to see everyone in person and so the strategic planning like Reginal said um
maybe it's a good idea maybe a a fall and then a spring lets everybody try to come if you can but I'm GNA be frank if so part of the reason I didn't run for another term is that I have been diagnosed with an eye issue and I really cannot see after dark you don't want me anywhere around you after dark driving as soon as Ron daylight savings I'm planning on coming in person so I would love that opportunity to be able to do that
thank you so what if we were to do a meeting in April or May well may we start getting into graduation time frame so maybe if we were to make the April meeting where we encourage people to show up in person and we were to make the first meeting of the school year so that would be that August September meeting be one where we
encourage people to show up in person um and that's where we'll leave it because we would need to readdress this come September anyhow for the next school year um because at the first meeting of the year there's also an election of the chair Etc does that sound so we would keep the meetings to be hybrid as they currently are so if you want to come in person you're always welcome to go there and and um but in for
our April meeting we can talk we can hopefully more of us can actually show up in person and I know if those of us who are taking the time and the effort to show up to the school district it would be absolutely wonderful if we actually had a quorum to be able to hold the meeting in person because that that's a little frustrating does that sound good with everybody okay that'd be great and for those
who cannot deal with the traffic or drive for whatever the reason may be um virtual is always welcome even in that April meeting in the first meeting of the Year okay great does anybody have any other questions or topics they wanted to discuss this is Reggie the question that I I I have for you how are we in aing AI at the school management level as well I
in the classroom because I know AI is is moving forward but we need to making sure we're are preparing our children to use that tools and how is the school district is planning and doing so so I believe we had a presentation about this at the end of last school year um Miss Bishop has do you are you aware of any changes in the program from what was I know you weren't here for that presentation but are you aware of any changes that have been made in the
programs this year regarding AI okay and and I wrote it down Miss reg I was thinking that that's a topic that you want us to bring forward to bring forth so um I'd love to be able to bring that information from the team to do maybe an update as to where we are um great I know right so we will do that um because I know that we've been busy with writing policy too we have policy that we're in the process of um finalizing and all of that so I'd like to have the team bring that back but I do know that this
year what we've done a little bit differently is with the conmigo um using that at the middle school and high school levels I know our teachers are using some of that AI That's within that to um prepare lessons lesson write lesson plans prepare lessons um create resources for their students and I know that at the secondary level the big push has been for students to use it so the teachers really using has been at the elementary level versus the students utilizing
it at the um in the secondary level utilizing it for their instruction but I think we should bring that back as a topic because we'll be able to get lots of great updates and more specifics than I can provide at this time that would be great and can we also include in that what we're doing to help prepare students to have careers within the field of AI so from that not just using AI in their future
careers but to be part of the researchers or um developers of AI sure great thank you anyone else have anything okay do I have a motion to
adjourn thank you second to the motion I don't know whether reg your eyes so one of us is first and one of us is second terrific thank you very much all in favor I I thank you so much meeting is adjourned have a wonderful night oh I think Miss fishberg has a question miss fish Miss fishberg sorry no question I was just agreeing I was okay okay thank
you everyone have a nice evening you too thank you so much