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Holyoke Public Schools Local Stakeholder Group (LSG)
Meeting 4, June 17, 3-6 PM
Picknelly Adult & Family Education Center
Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
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Agenda for Today
Welcome
Review of 6/10 meeting notes
Review of meeting norms
Secondary Schools discussion
Review of draft recommendations
Closing reflections
Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
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Norms: How We Will Work
We will encourage full participation and listen respectfully to all LSG voices
We will check for understanding
We will balance advocacy with inquiry
We will make recommendations that are affordable, sustainable, and scalable
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Secondary Schools discussion
Vionette Escudero, Barry Bacom
Dean Vocational Technical High School
Jeffrey Hayden
Holyoke Community College
Bill Ennen
UMASS Amherst and Holyoke High School
Dean Vocational Technical High SchoolVionette Escudero
Barry Bacom
Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
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Dean Tech Project/Model
Project Based Learning (PBL)2014-15 9th-10th
2015-16 All school
Data Inquiry Cycle• Mastery
ConnectGroup Protocols• Critical Friends
PLC’s
Career Technical Education (CTE)
Student Services
NTNECHO Platform
• Embedded Academics
• Project Creation
• Interventions• FLEX• Credit Audit• Student
Individual Plans
Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
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Turnaround Practice Domains
Leadership, shared responsibility and professional collaboration
Intentional practices for improving instruction
Student-specific supports and instruction to all students
School Culture and Climate
Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
Educator Plans and Goals are common throughout the buildingand are aligned to the work of the PLCs. Leaders and teachers are jointly committed to and have assumed shared ownership and collective responsibility for improving student achievement and a professional environment is one of mutual respect, teamwork, and accountability.
Examples: PLC agendas and minutes; Learning Target and Assessment analysis forms, reflection
protocol, and flow chart; PLC observation data; PLC and coaching session videos; and T3TL professional development
Leadership, shared responsibility and professional collaboration
Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
Leadership, shared responsibility and professional collaboration
Learning Walk Protocols and Schedule,
sample observation feedback, and
learning target formative assessment analysis
Humanities team members scheduled common planning
Partnership with WSU
Leaders and teachers jointly committed to, and assuming shared ownership and collective responsibility for, planning for differentiated re-teaching.
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MCAS practice has also shown improvement, based on both Dean’s rigorous mastery standards as well as historical MCAS cutoffs
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Percent of students achieving mastery1 – February through
April
51%
77%
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Pre Test Post Test
Percent of students achieving proficient/advanced2 –February through April
1 Mastery based on achieving a score of 80%2 Proficiency/advanced based on achieving a score of 48%, the most recent MCAS cutoff for 10th grade
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MCAS practice has yielded positive results in Dean’s SWD and ELL populations as well
17%
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Pre Test Post Test
Percent of ELL students achieving proficient/advanced1 – February
through April
55%
73%
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Pre Test Post Test
Percent of SWD students achieving proficient/advanced1
– February through April
1 Proficiency/advanced based on achieving a score of 48%, the most recent MCAS cutoff for 10th grade
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In ELA, mastery has been increasing slowly month by month
35% 33%30% 31%
34%31%
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50%
31%
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ELA percent of students achieving mastery by assessment
Dec: avg = 35%
Feb: avg = 32%
March: avg = 38%
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Leadership, shared responsibility and professional collaboration
Decision making protocolFeedback SessionsHawk Talk (online newsletter)Open SILT and Admin PLC meetings
School leaders engage in a shared planning and decision making process. Formal structures and opportunities for fostering staff input into school decisions and initiatives are in place and are used effectively to build relationships and two-way communication across
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Leadership, shared responsibility and professional collaboration
PD & PLC materials
Ideal Graduate Profile
School leaders have a defined and communicated theory of action or vision along with established goalsand interim benchmarks to drive the priorities identified in the Turnaround Plan.
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Intentional practices for improving instruction
PLC agendas and minutes,
professional development materials,
project plans, etc.
Ongoing collective review and use of student data to inform instructional strategies and use of resources.
Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
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Student-specific supports and instruction to all students
Data Inquiry Cycle Summary
FLEX Intervention planning and implementation
Academic Interventions
Credit Audits
Student Individual Plans
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School Culture and Climate
Two year comparison of all infractions and suspensions
The code of conduct and student handbook
Student Support Plans with progress monitoring
PD materials focused on schoolwide expectations
Student Support Plans
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1170
2010
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111
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Infractions Suspensions Students Students2
2013-2014 2014-2015
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Challenges to our Success
Improve the level of first-time instruction
Strengthen student recruitment and enrollment
Change the public perception of Technical Education
Improve the technology infrastructure
Impact multi-year trend of low attendance rates
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DTHS/ Secondary School Recommendations
Alignment between both High Schools
Modernize Technical programs to align to STEM careers
Strategic Technical and Academic teacher recruitment
Continue data inquiry cycle and tiered support structures
Holyoke Community CollegeJeffrey Hayden
Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education
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Enrollment and Performance of Holyoke Public School Students at Holyoke Community College
Spring 2015 Report for School Principals and Superintendents
June 16, 2015
Data Notes:
Holyoke High School (HHS) and Wm. J. Dean Technical High School (WJDTHS)
Recent High School Graduates = Class of 2014 unless noted
Data collected by HCC
I. Enrollment:
HCC’s overall enrollment has been on declining trend as a correction to the enrollment spike in 2010
Over the last 5 years, on average 93 HHS students have enrolled at HCC; 38% of all HHS graduates for the same period of time
Over the last 5 years, on average 23 WJ Dean HS students have enrolled at HCC; 36% of all WJDTHS graduates for the same period of time
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II. College Readiness: HHS students requiring Developmental Math – 80% (All students = 76%) HHS students requiring Developmental English – 57% (All students = 41%) WJDTHS students requiring Developmental Math – 93% WJDTHS students requiring Developmental English – 81%
III. College Retention: HHS Course Completion Rate – 68% (All students = 71%) HHS Retention from Fall to Spring - 77% (All students = 78%) WJDTHS Course Completion Rate – 60% WJSTHS Retention from Fall to Spring – 63% HHS students’ HPA GPA (Mean and Median) – 2.00 and 2.30 respectively (All
students = 2.01 and 2.30) WJDTHS students’ HCC GPA (Mean and Median) – 1.56 and 1.65 respectively
IV. Graduation and Transfer: HHS over the past 5 years has averaged 59 graduates/year from HCC WJDTHS over the past 5 years has averaged 12 graduates/year from HCC HCC transfers 67% of all graduates; HHS 60%; WJDTHS 55%
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HCC ObjectivesIn accordance with its College Priorities HCC seeks to:
Increase access to college by better meeting the changing needs and demographics of the region;
Increase retention and reduce achievement gaps through enhanced student support with strategies (research informed) aimed at student success;
Expand and explore options to help underprepared students to become ready to do college-level work as quickly as possible; and,
Assess and respond to the region’s workforce needs by developing career pathways that provide opportunities to the unemployed, underemployed, those with limited educational attainment and those seeking career advancement.
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HCC ParticipationReviewing the Holyoke Public School student data juxtaposed to HCC’s College Priorities, the college will:
Maintain and enhance its Avanza 2 College effort;
Scale up HCC’s College Access pilot at Dean Tech to include Holyoke High School (peer mentoring, college activities, study skills and more);
Work with the district to expand dual enrollment efforts including the Gateway to College program;
Continue to work with the district to form career pathways from HHS and WJDTHS to HCC, specifically in Healthcare; Manufacturing (STCC); Hospitality and Culinary, Information Technology, STEM, Early Childhood and others (3+2 model);
Explore the Development of a Teacher Academy for Holyoke Residents with incentives for a commitment to Holyoke; and,
Connect HCC and HPS Math and English faculties in order to discuss opportunities to make students more ready for college-level work.