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School Council -Birch Meadow Elementary M 8° 01
Date: 2018-09-17 Time: 3 PM
Building: School - Birch Meadow Location: Conference Room
Address: 27 Arthur B Lord Drive Session: Open Session
Purpose: Version:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Julia Hendrix
Gioia Butler
Jan Rhein
Valerie Gould-Heithaus
Jennifer Zani
Alissa Gallegos
Members - Not Present:
Ashley Quinn
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Julia Hendrix
Topics of Discussion:
Review of school data from 17-18 school year: Fountas and Pinnell Benchmark Data,
Attendance Data, Discipline Data
We followed a data protocol from the School Reform Initiative Handbook to review the
Fountas and Pinnell, literacy, data.
Whole School Data
• There is growth year to year.
• There is growth in all categories of students.
• More student move from Meets to Exceeds than move from Below to Meets.
• Boys went from 24%below benchmark to 15%below benchmark.
• Number of High Needs Students Not Tested has gone down each year
• The percentage of High Needs Students Not Testing is higher than the general population of
students
Year of Graduation 2027,2026,2025
• In all three years more students went from Meets to Exceeds than from Below to Meetings
• In 2025,girls did not make as much progress as boys
• Different cohorts(year of graduation)make different progress at the same grade
• Year of Graduation 2026—the below group for High Needs Students went from 40%in P grade
to 25%in 4'a grade and more students were tested
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Year of Graduation 2030, 2029,2028
• Year of graduation 2029,for girls-79%at or above benchmark in kindergarten and 66%at or
above benchmark in 1"
• Year of graduation 2029 for High Needs Students, 33%at or above benchmark in kindergarten
and 54%at or above benchmark in Grade 1
What does this data suggest?
• We need to work on our High Needs Population.
• We're not moving girls forward as much as we should be(2029 and 2025)
• We are giving student at benchmark what they need—they're moving from meeting to
exceeding.
• Kids at Benchmark are already readers and move themselves forward.
Questions and Next Steps
• Students who are very good readers are reading more.
• Do students who are strong readers take more opportunities to read?
• How are we differentiating instruction at each grade/class?
• Does differentiation look similar teacher to teacher in the same grade?
• How do students choose books appropriately for read to self?
• Next step—audio books/listening.
• What has happened over the last three years that has changed student learning?
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