d. MCAS Growth Model
1. Michele Kingsland-Smith
2. Bob Lima
3. Maureen Sabolinski
The presentation used:
Franklin was part of the pilot at the State level to participate in this program. The State is gearing for some federal funds and this data pilot was a good step to gain that.
The comparisons amongst the students at a data level to compare apples to apples has not been available previously. This look at the data should help to answer this question.
The test is different year to year, the standards are different. Comparison year to year becomes difficult. How much grown really occurred in the learning? This could not be answered previously.
SGP - Student Growth Profile
CPI - Current Performance Index
One couldn't predict future performance from MCAS results. The value of the new growth model is that this growth can now be forecasted.
The MCAS scores enabled a comparison amongst the Franklin students. Now with the SGP, the comparison can be made statewide. This comparison can truly be made on a cohort statewide level.
Each year, the growth would be re-calculated to produce a new cohort based upon similar performance over three years of testing.
The score for the SGP would be calculated for every subject area in the MCAS environment.
20% rule of thumb, this breaks out the range of growth over 100% into five groupings: 1-19, 20-39, 40-59, 60-79, 80-99.
Data previously was descriptive, now the data can be predictive.
The data shown in the slides is from the pilot and not Franklin District student data.
What this allows us to do is ask questions. What we need to do is to ask the right questions?
This will be a learning year for the District. The Pilot was a great thing to benefit from.
Q - One challenge has been the bar has been raised year to year, does this also measure district growth?
A - You can do a district level report, by grade, by building, a variety of perspectives. At the moment we can only access Franklin data. The ability to do a district level analysis is possible but likely at the State level. What will be presented to the public is still open. We do not know yet. There is no definitive answer yet.
A - Anyone can take data and show issues with it. The strength of the data will be to allow us to show student growth and target assistence to specific groups of students.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Live reporting - Literacy update
c. Literacy Update – Michele Kingsland-Smith
The presentation used:
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The amount of time kids are spending reading has increased 100%. I have no doubt about it.
There is always a connection between the reading and what they learned. The consultants are working on building a collegial learning environment so that the entire building feels comfortable.
Last year all teachers reached the "launch" training.
This year 4 and 5th will be working on learning how to do the "Group Reading Assessment and Evaluation (GRADE)" process.
"Key Three" strategies are being implemented throughout the middle school classrooms.
Grade 6 teachers will also pilot GRADE (as outlined above).
The "managing complex change" slide is most interesting. It can be used to understand other changes.
Some technical difficulty in trying to present a movie from a DVD. Choice Literacy, a national program, made a DVD using the Franklin program and personnel.
The presentation used:
Note: email subscribers will need to click through to view the presentation.
The amount of time kids are spending reading has increased 100%. I have no doubt about it.
There is always a connection between the reading and what they learned. The consultants are working on building a collegial learning environment so that the entire building feels comfortable.
Last year all teachers reached the "launch" training.
This year 4 and 5th will be working on learning how to do the "Group Reading Assessment and Evaluation (GRADE)" process.
"Key Three" strategies are being implemented throughout the middle school classrooms.
Grade 6 teachers will also pilot GRADE (as outlined above).
The "managing complex change" slide is most interesting. It can be used to understand other changes.
Some technical difficulty in trying to present a movie from a DVD. Choice Literacy, a national program, made a DVD using the Franklin program and personnel.
Live reporting - swim team proposal
b. FHS Swim Team Proposal – Brad Sidwell
Had a sign up interest meeting a couple of weeks ago, 15 girls, 5 boys.
Positive meeting with YMCA, pool time has been offered for free.
This would not be a full fledged varsity team the first time through.
I think there is a need there. It would grow fast here.
Q - Tom, what would the SBA say to a pool?
A - good question
Q - Where are the other towns doing their teams?
A - Private clubs, and many are in the Hockomock Area Y.
Q - Do you have someone who could be a coach?
A - I have a number of options but I didn't want to go anywhere until I had talked with you.
Q - What would happen next year? We would have kids as part of a pilot and not knowing what next year would be like?
Q - The number piece is important, it looks like you could do this at about 6-7,000 for this?
A - Yes, that is correct.
Q - It is another opportunity for keeping and attracting kids at the high school.
A - Yes, I have heard from a number.
Q - When gymnastics was cut, how much was it costing?
A - It was a different dynamic, the numbers were dropping. The members were going to private gyms and not wanting to give up their time.
Q - When would you need to know?
A - As soon as you can, we would not be officially part of the league this year. That time has passed.
Q - So if we have a decision for next meeting?
A - That would be good.
Note: the $11,000 shown on the doc would be reduced by the pool cost, increased by the number of swimmers (from 12 to 20) and the coach cost would be reduced by about $700 to bring to the toal as discussed about 6,000.
Had a sign up interest meeting a couple of weeks ago, 15 girls, 5 boys.
Positive meeting with YMCA, pool time has been offered for free.
This would not be a full fledged varsity team the first time through.
I think there is a need there. It would grow fast here.
Q - Tom, what would the SBA say to a pool?
A - good question
Q - Where are the other towns doing their teams?
A - Private clubs, and many are in the Hockomock Area Y.
Q - Do you have someone who could be a coach?
A - I have a number of options but I didn't want to go anywhere until I had talked with you.
Q - What would happen next year? We would have kids as part of a pilot and not knowing what next year would be like?
Q - The number piece is important, it looks like you could do this at about 6-7,000 for this?
A - Yes, that is correct.
Q - It is another opportunity for keeping and attracting kids at the high school.
A - Yes, I have heard from a number.
Q - When gymnastics was cut, how much was it costing?
A - It was a different dynamic, the numbers were dropping. The members were going to private gyms and not wanting to give up their time.
Q - When would you need to know?
A - As soon as you can, we would not be officially part of the league this year. That time has passed.
Q - So if we have a decision for next meeting?
A - That would be good.
Note: the $11,000 shown on the doc would be reduced by the pool cost, increased by the number of swimmers (from 12 to 20) and the coach cost would be reduced by about $700 to bring to the toal as discussed about 6,000.
Live reporting - FHS building update
2. Guests/Presentations
a. FHS Building Update – Tom Mercer
a. FHS Building Update – Tom Mercer
Process much different now from last one completed (the Horace Mann project)
Right now at the stage for the feasibility study for the building and grounds. Now on the listing for projects approved for a feasibility study.
First step in this is to hire an OPM. An Owners Project Manager is hired by Franklin. The OPM has to e qualified and certified by the State.
The Request for Services (RFS) was just submitted last week. It had been a revision cycle with the State going back and forth to come to an agreement on the language being used in the document.
Franklin has used OPM's previously for the Senior Center, Fire Station and other projects.
The RFS proposals are due about the end of October, they need to be reviewed, decision made, in conjunction with the State. Likely to have the OPM in place in January when all is said and done.
Once the OPM is completed, another RFS is to be negotiated and submitted to obtain an architect. The architect will then prepare a schematic design. The conceptual design would arrive at the feasibility concept. The design would be submitted to the State which would then review it and detail what they would cover and what they would not cover. If the State does not cover an item, but it is needed, then it would be up to the Town to fund that part of the project at 100%. The State reimbursement rate for the covered items would range from 30-45%. We won't know for sometime where we fall in that range.
To get through the schematic design the Town has authorized a $1 million bond. This is different from prior projects but also a result of the State changes. We may not need to spend the whole amount but we need to front the project funding.
Once the final determination is made on the cost of the project, the Town has 120 days to determine if it approves funding the project. The funding would come from a combination of sources, the primary being a debt override.
After the funding is complete, the OPM and architect would be retained for another period to complete the detailed project determining the final details, including color of the materials. The bids for material would be put out for vendors to submit their proposals to supply the materials.
We thought we would have the RFS out on the street about 3 weeks ago and it is just going out now. OPM on board in January, architect in April, schematic design could be done in the fall. Could go to the voters either in the Fall of 2010 or Spring of 2011.
6-8 months process for the architect to draw the final plans. Hopefully to begin doing some construction work in the fall of 2011 or spring of 2012.
Q - one thing you didn't mention is that the sales tax revenue at the state level, if it continues to fall short, this time line is still open.
A - The only thing approved at this point is the schematic design process, when it comes time to submit it for approval, we won't know what the amount will be, what amount (at the state level will be available) and where we are in the listing.
Q - If the money is not there, is it a prioritization?
A - Based upon what they have done, you would not get approved unless there was money to cover.
Q - If there is not enough money at the State, do we just wait?
A - It would be a Town Council decision on funding, I wouldn't want to speak for them. The SBA has seen the building and made recommendations, that is on our favor. There are items that I feel they will not approve but that we will want to continue with.
Q -
A - I think we will have multiple options. I think we can do some of the most interruption during the summer time. Some construction will be done during the school year. This is one of the major parts of the planning phases.
Q - Could we use the drawings done a couple of years ago?
A - We did submit those previously. That is one of the reasons, they sent out their engineers to see the building. We will meed the SBA somewhere in the middle. We really can use them as drawings, they were ideas and reflections of what could be.
Live reporting - School Committee - 10/13/09
Attending: Armenio, Cafasso, Kelly, Mullen, Roy, Trahan
1. Routine Business
Citizen’s Comments - none
Review of Agenda - none
Minutes: I recommend approval of the minutes from the September 22, 2009 School Committee Meeting. Motion to approve - passed 6-0
Payment of Bills Mr. Kelly Motion to approve - passed 6-0
Payroll Ms. Armenio
FHS Student Representatives
Longer lunch liked by students, shorter class periods, tech center being used especially to log out computers for overnight use.
Correspondence: Budget to Actual
1. Routine Business
Citizen’s Comments - none
Review of Agenda - none
Minutes: I recommend approval of the minutes from the September 22, 2009 School Committee Meeting. Motion to approve - passed 6-0
Payment of Bills Mr. Kelly Motion to approve - passed 6-0
Payroll Ms. Armenio
FHS Student Representatives
Longer lunch liked by students, shorter class periods, tech center being used especially to log out computers for overnight use.
Correspondence: Budget to Actual
Team Fitness Open House - Oct 14th
TeamFitness has an open house
Wednesday October 14, 2009
8:30 am to 12 noon or 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm
100 Franklin Village Drive
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Or
508-541-8330
In the News - renovation update, local author
Get the full story on the high school renovation project and more at the School Committee meeting this evening.
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Cape Cod history retold by Franklin author at the library Oct 21.
Franklin parents urged to attend meeting
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Cape Cod history retold by Franklin author at the library Oct 21.
Local author Michael Tougias to present latest book
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