PUBLIC SCHOOL 889 - 21 Hinckley Place - Brooklyn NY 11218

Phone (929) 397-9171 Fax (929) 397-9176 ps889k@gmail.com

M. Lucy Militello, Principal
Michelle Esposito, Assistant Principal

October SLT Agenda

Thursday, October 20, 2022

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
• By-laws (5 minutes)
o Ms. Dalton sent email- making sure everyone is receiving emails
o SLT Training date at the end of November 11/22
• Update by Ms. Militello
o Diagnostic screeners- iready (K-2-math), acadience (K-2-ELA)- K-5 does
iReady math and iReady ELA (3-5), Dessa- social emotional screener
o F&P- part of MOSL (running record)
o 10/21 for teachers, 10/28 for whole city
o by next SLT should have results
o F&P part of CEP but also MOSL-Measures of Student Learning
o Teachers rated by observations and how students do academically
o Enrichment clubs- part of parent survey- parents wanted more enrichment
o 4th and 5th surveyed and picking clubs
§ cooking
§ photography
§ theater
§ art
o Students did a club fair based on interests- trying to give 5th graders first
choice, trying to give everybody 1st choice
o 2 parents running photography club with a teacher
o Ms. Mona put out survey to see if parents were interested in helping with
clubs- do not need to be a 4th or 5th grade parent
o working out lower house enrichment day
o work as a team, different per grade
 o Want to start after school- targeting our special education students for
more support
• State report scores (20 minutes)
• Last year’s 3rd and 4th graders
• 38 4th graders
• 40 3rd graders
• do not know what opt out will look like
• amount of students who take tests affects us
• Covid being taken into consideration
• Precovid- penalized schools for opting out- want to see how schools are doing-
certain families are targeted so that schools would have less ones, schools
inflated
• Many opt out kids last year
• No science test on 4th grade, next year taking it on 5th grade
• Level 3 is grade level, Level 2 is approaching, Level 1 below
• Science test has not changed in many years, questions on state test haven’t
changed- questions from K-4th grade
• A lot of level 1 in math- exemplars and math notebooks for support to build up
scores
• Reading notebook for reading response
• Teacher teams: Correlation of what is happening in the classroom, while
authentic connects to skills needed for test
• Scores pretty much aligned with nearby schools and city
• Strategy: Ex: exposing 2nd graders to 3rd grade skills
• End of year 2022 DESSA, F&P, Acadience (30 minutes)
• F&P Running records: Last years grades
• Kindergarten- concerned with so many being on Level B?
• 1st grade – hardest grade, but made progress at end of year
• 2nd grade- grade to watch, very high readers- correlating skills to writing
• 3rd grade-
• 4th graders- 4th grade in ELA was on grade level 44.7%- F&P doesn’t match- being
able to read and write responses
• annotating text- react to text, make a connection, character traits
• Acadience
• Timed assessment
• Very fluid
• Example: initial sounds
• In kindergarten- recognizing letters and sounds
• In First grade- beginning sound in word, letter name taken away, phonemic
awareness
• Connects to Heggerty
• Many of students in K- did really well on letter id, challenged with sounds
• iReady
• similar grades to state data
• Dessa
• progression to strengths
• Mr. Quay has started a boys club- teachers have identified who need support
• Family Survey
• Pre-K- question regarding which school would be best for their child- 45%
• Did receive outreach
• Zoom or in person- application to rank schools
• Only 55% of families answered surveys
• Discuss: (20 minutes)
o CEP Goals
o Reviewed data from last school year, 10/28 BOY data is closing-input to
CEP goals
o Suggested Agenda Items, sent from Ms. Dalton
§ Confirm all receives emails from Ms. Dalton
• Library (5 minutes)
• Found a retired paraprofessional staff would be able to volunteer teaching
• Vote/approve stipend
• Options: Parent volunteer- library intern/college student/school aide- hire a sub
school aide to replace where Lisa would be
• Money is tied up for per session and per diem
• Library is a shared space- being used for as a quasi-classroom
• Can’t get funding without licensed librarian in full time capacity
• Update from Parent Association (5 minutes)
• Parent Pastry after the PA meeting
• Happening in the morning, in gymatorium
• Get budget approved next week, enrichment clubs can draw from
• Anything in bank is surplus
• Next Steps (5 minutes)
o SLT items to discuss at next meeting
o Looking back at new Data in correlation to CEP
o Zoom observer- follow up with Ms. Dalton