Philippa Schuyler Middle School for the Gifted and Talented
School Leadership Team Meeting
February 11, 2021
4-6pm
Agenda
4:00 – 4:05
Welcome and review Zoom meeting protocols
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In Mr. Adonis absence can we have a volunteer for minutes
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The chat feature is disabled for all except our interpreters
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When chat is enabled Simone Gibson is our chat manager
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Please raise your hand for comments
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Meeting is being recorded
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As a courtesy to an orderly and welcoming SLT meeting all SLT members and visitors attending on a telephone will identify themselves by stating their name and affiliation
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Spanish interpretation – Phone Number 2/11/21: Phone Numbers
+1 720-500-3468 – PIN: 117 719 101#
4:05 – 4:10 PM
Approval of minutes from 1/14/21
4:10 – 5:00 PM
CEP Progress Monitoring
5:00 – 5:05 PM
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Docusign for SLT signature page
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Additional SLT meeting–we are required to have 10 meetings and we did not have one in Sept. so we will need to calendar additional meeting.
5:05 PM – 5:50 PM
SLT Think Tank for community input
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Open discussion
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Development of questionnaire
5:50 – 6:00 PM
Questions and Answers
Voting Members – Attendance
Ms. Vergara (Present)
Ms. Wigdorsky (Present)
Ms. Hutchinson (Present)
Ms. Baldino (Present)
Ms. Slaughter (Present)
Mr. Adoniz (Present)
Ms. S. Gibson (Present)
Ms. J Rivera (Present)
Ms. Gomez (Present)
Ms. Colon (Absent)
Ms. Richards (Present)
Ms. Illery (Absent)
Ms. Morales (Absent)
Ms. Singletary (Absent)
Non Voting – Attendees
Jennifer Xu
Kaliyah Hoy (Student Member)
Madeline Maldonado
Trevena Goulbourne
Patty Alcivar
Randy Gualpa
Raymond Miranda
Sanchez
Meeting called to order at 4:04PM
Approval of minutes
Hutchinson
Gibson
Ms. Wigdorsky reviews CEP Goals 4:11PM on progress monitoring.
First Ms. Wigdorsky spoke on, in person learning returning to the school building, February 25th.
On Monday, announced by CHanceller and Mayor that middle schools will reopen for in person learning on February 25.
Some students will come back 5 days a week. The first week back and the following week. We are working on bringing back more students to building within CDC guidelines and proper social distancing practices.
Some classrooms have a cap at 13, depending on size. Some larger rooms can accommodate more individuals. Everyone entering the building must wear a mask and must have a signed COVID consent form to be tested weekly and must fill out a health screening survey every day before entering the building.
There are hand sanitizing stations in the classroom and every classroom will have an air purifier as well as other PPE in the classroom.
Students will NOT be permitted to use lockers. Bookbags and coats will be kept in the classroom. They will be kept with the same cohort in the classroom for the enter day except for transitioning to elective classes. Lunches will continue to be served in the classroom during the instructional period. Hot lunches will be served in the classroom.
5 day instruction students were sent a one call notification and a pupil path email and the students were notified in google classroom by their teachers. Classes staying in A and B rotation will follow the rotation schedule for in person and blended.
4:20 CEP Progress monitoring.
Reviewing data for the 4 goals
Goal 1: Teacher influence
Goal 2: Chronic Absenteeism
Goal 3: ELA Goals
Goal 4: Math goal
Goal 1
By June 2021, we will have a 10 percentage point increase from 52% to 62% as measured by the NYC school survey for teacher influence.
Four Questions are asked and comparisons were made between 2019- 2020 data and 2020-2021 data
Principal encourages feedback through regular meetings with parents & teacher leaders.
Spring 2020 77.0%
Fall 2021 61.5
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I have influence over instructional material in my classroom.
Spring 2020 30%
Fall 2021 56.4%
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I have influence over the creation of development of instructional materials
Spring 2020 57%
Fall 2021 59%
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I have influence over student behavior.
Spring 2020 43%
Fall 2021 66%
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Ms. Richards – Question – Parents are aware that iready is to be used as an assessment tool only and not to be graded on.
Ms Wigdorsky – The scores on the diagnostic will not be used towards students’ grades. The iready pathway lessons, however, will be counted towards participation in lessons. Iready will be discussed further in ELA and Math Department meetings.
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Goal 2
Overall Absenteeism is 8% of 889 students in February 20/21
Ms. Wigdorsky reviews over 3 subgoals on overall/ELL/SWD the meeting. Goals and Charts will be made available.
We have an attendance committee that meets weekly to discuss, review and manage chronic absenteeism. Action plans are created and phone calls are made.
Absentee list is given to school aides to make daily calls after morning attendance is taken. Students that are chronically absent will be sent letters home directly from the DOE on resources that family can use, starting February 22nd. There is an opt-out feature for the letter as well. You can check your child’s attendance on the nyc schools account.
SWD will be going back 5 days a week if they had opted into in-person learning.
Goal 3
ELA
We do not know if state exams will be happening for the 2020-2021 school year
By June 2021 there will be a 10 percentage point increase from 61% – 71%.
By June 2021, there will be a 10% point decrease from 66% to 56% of students with disabilities achieving at level 1 as measured by the NYS ELA state exam.
By June 2021, there will be a 10% point decrease from 74% to 64% of english language learning achieved at level 1 as measured by the NYS ELA state exam.
Results are discussed and will be posted.
After students take the diagnostic test on iready, they are expected to complete modules on their my pathways lesson as a follow up to the diagnostic. These lessons are personalized based on student scores.
Resources used by instructors:
Padlet
Edpuzzle
Myonreader
Brainpop.
Ms. Slaughter – Students are engaged in completing their modules in iready.
Goal 4
MATH
By June 2021 there will be a 10 percentage point increase from 48% – 58%.
By June 2021, there will be a 10% point decrease from 86% to 76% of students with disabilities achieving at level 1 as measured by the NYS MATH state exam.
By June 2021, there will be a 10% point decrease from 98% to 88% of english language learning achieved at level 1 as measured by the NYS MATH state exam.
Results are discussed and will be posted.
After students take the diagnostic test on iready, they are expected to complete modules on their my pathways lesson as a follow up to the diagnostic. These lessons are personalized based on student scores.
Resources used by instructors:
Padlet
Edpuzzle
Brainpop
Nearpod
Peardeck
After School support and enrichment in Math and ELA will be made available to families.
Ms Hutchinson speaks on how iready is being used by instructors and students in the classroom to help students reach their goals.
Ms Wigdorsky finishes CEP at 4:57PM
Ms. Wigdorsky discusses docusign with the team for the CEP signature page. Document must be signed by February 26th, 2020.
Ms. Vergara shares a screen of docusign.
5:02 PM. Ms Vergara discusses a Questionnaire on possible ideas to put on the table for future SLT meetings geared towards the Schulyer community at large.
Meeting attendees think independently on ideas.
Breakout rooms for discussion start at 5:07pm
Discussing activities to bring students together
What can we offer students the opportunity who have fallen behind the opportunity to catch up on their work.
Sanchez – Students want a time to meet during lunch and have a luncheon with the teacher and other students to talk. Students want time for clubs with their friends. Can we have spirit days for the students/school?
Richards – When we bring the students back, set up a zoom for them to discuss changes during the pandemic. They can discuss what has changed about their world, about them, about school, they discuss with a teacher monitor. Students need to have an outlet to address emotional needs before they come back. Beautiful Me – an uplifting and empowering group for women.
Gomez – Children’s voices should be heard in the planning process. Students have a team building group based on STEM problem solving or group activity or on their interests.
Slaughter – in month agenda we can incorporate the student voice piece into the agenda and carve out time for students to speak on activities in the school. We can have a Schulyer wins portion into the agenda. Positive light-hearted things about the school. We can discuss the budget more in the meetings in relation to the goals.
Baldino – Children are not receiving the socialization that they are used to when they are in person. How can we incorporate socialization into the week? Town halls? Movie night? Where can they have the time to discuss their daily activities and needs? How will children feel physically with each other in the classroom?
Wigdorsky – We had so many pep rallies and dances and sports activities. Which activities can we transfer to the virtual world? How can we create a spirit day into a school wide event?
Gibson – Perfect Purple party. Students that have the top attendance and grades can have a celebration. Honor roll party?
Vergara – We can have a discussion about socio-emotional learning with students, perhaps restorative circles.
Rivera – We did do perfect attendance meetings and students of the month. Students can be invited to a movie night. We can implement this once a month. PTA has the money for these things so we can do movie nights for these students. The parent Coordinator can monitor a zoom meeting as a virtual cafe or a virtual cafeteria? We can do monthly rewards and then an end of year celebration.
We will create one questionnaire for all stakeholders.
Ms. Vergara works on creating a google form for all stakeholders to get ideas.
Possible Questions:
What kinds of clubs would you be interested in-person and virtually?
Wigdorsky – We will have virtual clubs beginning on march on Thursday.
We will table the Questionnaire to the next meeting.
Q and A
What will February 25th look like?
Wigdorsky – She sent pupil path messages and a blast from the chancellor on what the return to in person learning will look like.
Richards – What has the situation room said about weekly COVID testing?
Wigdorsky – Staff has been randomly tested on a weekly basis. We are randomly required to test 20% of students and staff weekly.
6:00PM Motion to end meeting
Rivera – second the motion.