Local District 5 Principals Meeting

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Local District 5Principals Meeting

• January 14, 2009

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Updates

• Budget
• 100 Day Plan
• LD5 Plan of Action
• PCAC
• Planning for 09/10
• LD5 Happenings
• Third Grade Proficiency

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Budget Update

• First of all, all that is said about the budget
  is precautionary because the State has not given
  us definite directions regarding the budget
• We do know
• Mid-Year Reductions 190-250 million
• 09/10 Reductions 200-600 million
• We know that we expect three very difficult years
  and that everyone involved in the education of
  students will be expected to multi-task in an
  effective manner

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Budget Update

• January 13th Board Meeting
• Discussion about sending notices to 2,290 non
  permanent teachers regarding possible layoff
• Elementary Teachers 1,690
• Secondary English Teachers 300
• Secondary Math Teachers 300
• Non permanent teachers may be released within 14
  calendar days notice
• Order of release Provisional, Temporary
  contracts, University Interns, District Interns,
  First Year Probationary Teachers, Second Year
  Probationary Teachers

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Budget Update

• March 15th Letters will be issued to all
  certificated administrators
• Order of Release within a class is as follows
• Substitute Acting employees
• Limited Acting
• Substitute Eligible
• Qualifying 1
• Qualifying 2
• Continuing

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Budget Update

• Local District Reductions
• Thank you Principal Partners for your insights
  and input
• Reductions will amount up to 2 million for 09/10
• Local District 5 will be a different local
  district next year

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Past District Initiatives

• Review of Initiatives in the past ten years
• Unz Initiative
• District Reading Plan
• Supported by comprehensive professional
  development and coaches
• Restructuring Plan
• Principles of Learning Theory of Action
• Periodic Assessments
• Lesson Study
• Small Learning Communities
• Pearson Learning Teams
• Professional Learning Communities

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Past District Initiatives

• Principals and administrators have been given
  comprehensive professional development and
  strategies to direct, improve and monitor
  instruction
• Its now time to recall all those learned
  strategies and skills (learnings) to ensure
  that quality instruction continues to take place
  in the schools, in spite of reduced human
  resources and funding

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Past District Initiatives

• Budget cuts cannot keep us from continuing the
  progress which has been made these past ten years
• Our key resource is the leadership capacity at
  every school
• Michael Fullan called on principals to become
  agents as well as beneficiaries of the process of
  school change

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• LAUSDs Work Plan for our First 100 Days

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LAUSDs Work Plan for Our First 100 Days

• Strategies and Priorities
• Guide, train and equip teachers, administrators
  and those providing support services to achieve
  consistently high levels of achievement
• Streamline the district - reduce inefficiency and
  redundancy, and bring decision-making closer to
  the schools
• Provide safe, modern and orderly schools

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LAUSDs Work Plan for Our First 100 Days

• Implement an accountability and support system
• Launch an Accountability and Performance
  Management System
• Celebrate schools, teachers, administrators,
  classified and support staff who have made a
  difference
• Provide transparency to gather input from
  employees, parents, students and community

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Correlation to the LD5 Plan of Action

• High Academic Achievement
• Graduation Rate
• Effective Individual Counseling
• Strong Parent, Community and School Connections
• Safe and Orderly Schools

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Correlation 1
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Correlation 2
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Strong Parent, School and Community Connections
and Provide Transparency

• Parent Community Advisory Committee
• January 15th - first meeting
• Community/Business Members
• Joey Alvarado, Community Member, Bienvenidos
• Reneé Martinez, ELAC, VP
• Dr. Keith Moo-Young, CSULA, Dean of College of
  Engineering
• Martha Sanchez, ACORN
• Ex-Officio Members
• Raul Aguilar, Principal, Metropolitan CHS
• Ana Perez, Principal, Hamasaki EL
• Olivia Caldera, Teacher, Hammel EL
• Mark Wilkins, Teacher, Lincoln HS

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Planning for 2009/10

• Elementary Schedules
• Conversion to single track calendar 49th Street
  and Latona
• Conversion to PreK-6 sites Albion, Breed,
  Hamasaki, Malabar
• On Hold Brooklyn, Griffin, Hillside, Second
  Street

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Planning for 2009/10

• Charter Space Considerations (Initial)
• Ann Street
• Brooklyn Elementary
• Ford Boulevard
• Murchison Elementary

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Planning for 2009/10

• Charter Space Timeline
• December Meetings with local district staff
• January Campus visits (January 28th) to verify
  availability, space configuration and assess
  instructional impact
• February Preliminary facilities offers are
  provided to applicant charter schools

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• LD5 Happenings

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Congratulations

• Brian Lucas and Richard Hickcox whose schools are
  being honored with Title 1 Academic Achievement
  Awards for consistently exceeding their API and
  AYP for the last two years. These schools are
  making progress in closing the achievement gap
  among significant subgroups. Commendations to
  both schools. Solano Avenue has received this
  award for the lst four consecutive years.

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Congratulations

• Cheryl Moreland and the staff and students from
  Albion Elementary School. On December 18th the
  Beverly Hills High School Madrigal Choir,
  Marching Band, Cheerleaders and Santa visited the
  students at Albion.  They brought music,
  entertainment and each child two wrapped gifts.
  BHHS and Albion Street School have been sister
  schools since 1927.  This partnership first began
  when BHHS was part of the Los Angeles Unified
  School District and has continued for 81 years.
  On every Christmas, BHHS has brought Santa, his
  helpers and bags of wrapped toys for every Albion
  student.  The Madrigal Singers conductor, Joel
  Pressman has been coming for 34 years.

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Congratulations

• Pat Romero and the staff from Garza PC. On
  December 19th the School Police Department and
  Santa visited Garza PC with presents for every
  boy and girl. Our LAUSD Police Department had
  worked all year collecting and planning their
  Santa visit. This year, two schools, Garza PC
  and Dena Elementary in LD5, were selected to be
  recipients of their generosity. Beautiful warm
  jackets were presented to many selected students.

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Congratulations

• Carmel Madady and the staff from Breed Elementary
  School.This was the fourth year that the Roybal
  Youth and Family Center and the Boyle Heights
  Technology Center staff, Ozzie Lopez and Maria
  Lopez, representing the Youth Center has invited
  Breed Street School to be part of "Breakfast with
  Santa".  Other organizations who made this event
  possible were the Zamora Brothers who donated the
  food, SCECU who donated the toys and the Mayor's
  office who donated the Santa. The kindergarten
  children viewed the "Polar Express", ate a
  scrumptious breakfast, listened to Christmas
  music, colored holiday pictures and received back
  packs, bicycle helmets and toys from Santa.  

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Congratulations

• Maria Torres Flores and the staff from Bravo
  Magnet for their successful Holiday Basket Drive.
  Holiday baskets were decorated and filled with
  goodies for needy families in the community.

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Congratulations

• Art Duardo and the staff from El Sereno Middle
  School for their successful First Academic Pep
  Rally held on December 15th. The first ever
  Academic Pep Rally, titled the Nightmare Before
  Holiday Break focused on CST and CAHSEE
  awareness. Coordinated by school APSCS, Michelle
  Hernandez, each student received a personalized
  themed data sheet focusing on their CST
  proficiency.

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• Themed approach to engage students
• Personalized, simplified data
• Attendance data
• Assembly logistics with personalized tickets.

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Principal welcomes the first of 6 academically
themed assemblies
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Drama class gives seventh graders pep talk about
CAHSEE
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Gym turned into CST 500 speedway
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Congratulations

• The students in the LAUSD Honor Band who
  performed magnificently at the New Years 120th
  Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena. Art
  Duardo, principal of El Sereno MS, has been
  participating for 25 years as co-director
  preparing the band for their annual performance
  in the parade. The final product is an excellent
  performance that exemplifies his commitment to
  music and the students in LAUSD. We are proud of
  these talented students and we are proud of Art
  too.

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• Third Grade Proficiency

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Data Associated with 3rd Grade Literacy

• CST At/Above proficient
• CST Sub Scores
• EL Enrollment
• Achievement Gap Proficiency
• EL Proficiency
• CELDT Results

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• Current CST ELA At/Above Proficient Dips
• in 3rd Grade

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• LD5 Elementary ELA Subscores
• Compares Reading Comprehension to State and LAUSD

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• English Learner Enrollment Relative to 3rd Grade

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• Current results show slight drop of 3rd grade
  proficient students
• Percentage of proficient RFEPs declines after
  4th grade.

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• CELDT
• Early Advanced and Advanced results reach peak at
  5th grade, then drop off.

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English Language Arts

• Grades 2 5
• Percent At/Above Proficient

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Ethnicity, LD5
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Say, Mean, Matter

• What do these tables and charts say to you?
• What does this mean?
• Why does it matter? Why is it important? What
  are the implications?
• Jot down your responses to these three questions
  on the Say, Mean, Matter handout.
• Share with your table.
• Be prepared to share out to the whole group.

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• Progress is always made through
• the crucible of purposeful action
• in which people learn
• from their own experience
• and from each other.
• Michael Fullen