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

November SLT Agenda

Thursday, November 17, 2021
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
• Approve October Minutes
• By-laws- updated (hybrid) (5 minutes)
o Put hybrid into the bylaws
• Discuss BOY Data: (60 minutes)
o Acadience (K-2nd)
§ Letters, sounds, sounding out words, nonsense words
§ BOY- beginning of year
§ MOY- middle of year
§ EOY- end of year
§ Increasingly gets harder
o iReady Reading (3rd-5th)
§ third grade is our strong grade
§ maintain and push 3rd grade
§ 4th grade looks low
§ students struggling with informational texts
o iReady Math (K-5th)
§ below across the board
§ inquiry teams are focusing on math
§ upper grades working on word problems
§ lower grades adding things to centers
o F&P
§ Last year K (1st)- many at or above, should be coming to first on D
§ Last year 1st (2nd)- should be coming in on I
§ Last year 2nd (3rd)- should be coming in on a K
§ Last year 3rd (4th)- should be coming in on a P
 § Last year 4th(5th)- should be coming on a S
o Exemplars hopefully will support math word problems
o Pacing to do two exemplars a month
§ Getting students to think of strategy, show it and know that you
can use multiple strategies
• Afterschool
o Students targeting red and yellow (gen edu classrooms)
o Found 5 teachers
o Keeping groups low, one cycle 6 weeks, specific targeted programs- ELA
first and then move to math
o Possible 3, 4, 5- Saturday test prep academy-9-12
• Library Committee
o Parent volunteers
o Survey of what books we have
o Possible librarian to be paid as sub
• Functions (possible family nights)
o Math night
o Literacy night
• Discuss: (15 minutes)
o BOY data/alignment with CEP Goals
§ Review of CEP goals
§ 5% progress in reading
§ Two new members of PPT/SIT team
• Ms. Rufo
• Ms. Shirley
§ New RTI form
§ Dessa SEL Screener
§ End of unit tests for math
§ Signatures
• Update from Parent Association (5 minutes)
o Enrichment club funds
o Funding for books
 o Scholastic book fair- spoke about doing it in spring
• Next Steps (5 minutes)
o SLT items to discuss at next meeting
§ 5th grade parent teacher appointments
§ Chess Club- fairness? It says 889 but not something that all students
can take part of
§ Science curriculum- sprucing it up
§ Dessa Data
§ Parent surveys