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meeting or put it on the
backburner when there
are "fires" happening in
various buildings. That
7/23/2023 Special Education being said, it is critical
ongoing Directors, Supervisors for us as a team to
and Coordinators meet prioritize getting
Special monthly to discuss a together to check in,
Education variety of topics relevant connect and work on
Admin and to leading special problem solving
1 Special Education Leadership Team (SELT) Member TOSAs education in the district. together. x 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
It can be complicated to Robbinsdale Early Learning Schedule
meet the needs of all
early learners with
staffing and space
constraints. Sometimes,
Reviewed schedule, you need to get creative
made changes based on with staff and space to
Director of Early numbers in some ECFE create additional
2 "" Early Learning Schedule Review Learning classes. offerings. 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The idea to hire MTSS Compensatory Funds worksheet for MTSS staff
specific employees was
great, but finding staff,
especially after the
school year has started,
"" is challenging. Internal
staff that might be
Director of Early Worked with director to interested also don't
Learning, Exec. determine best use of want to leave their
Early Learning Budget Adjustment for compensatory Dir. of Special additional current position
3 funding Services compensatory funds. mid-year. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
We have a strong MTSS MTSS/BIR Data
team. However, the
"" interventions are only as
Initial training and good as the person
4 Early Learning MTSS Meetings MTSS Team weekly meetings implementing them. 16 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
The Pyramid Model Pyramid Model Review
structure is solid,
however there are
strategies within the
pyramid model that
""
might need to be
updated to be more
Early Learning Attended monthly neurodiversity affirming.
Pyramid Model meetings as This is continued work
5 Pyramid Model Meetings Team administrative rep. for me. 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Training 1 was pretty
basic related to best
practice teaching
""
Attended part 1 of 3 strategies. Would be
Pyramid Model especially helpful for
6 Pyramid Model Training Mn Coe Trainer trainings. new teachers. 7 1 Pyramid Model Review
Early Learning
Psychologist and The workbook can be a
"" Early Learning Learned how to use the bit unruly but also is full
BIR Data spreadsheet to find data of important
7 BIR Workbook training Manager subsets. information. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 BIR/MTSS Data
It takes a lot of time to
develop quality
professional
development, but it is
important. I am still
learning how to make it
relevant AND keep
"" people interested as my
tendency is to want to
share all of the
important information,
I have had my hand in even when it is likely
developing 6 days of PD overwhelming. It is also
over the course of the critical to build in time
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Learning, ECSE
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Learning
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Attended a virtual effective visual tool that
"" Rdale New training to learn about all staff should keep
Administrative the Equity Magnifier handy to reference
10 Equity Magnifier Training Staff tool. while decision making. 2 1 Copy of Equity Magnifier
This is a sad and difficult
process for all involved.
Trying to handle it with
"" compassion and support
Was the notetaker as is important, even for
Director of Early part of an employee the employee being
11 Employee Investigation Process Learning investigation. investigated. 8 1 1 1 1 1 Portion of Employee Investigation Form
12 "" Open Enrollment One Pager Student Systems Wrote up a "one pager" Even with the 3 1 1 One Pager on Open Enrollment
and Enrollment to help clarify the one-pager, it can be
Coordinator, district open enrollment complicated to
Director of Early process for early understand who needs
Learning learning. to open enroll.
Assistant Director This is an amazing
Sat in on meetings to learn
13 "" Schools to Housing Program of Special opportunity to provide 1 1 1 1 Information about Schools to Housing Program
about the program.
Education support to families.
Planning
committee Met weekly with staff to It takes a village! Plan
made up of plan our fall family for more than you think
14 "" Fall Family Night, Planning and Event volunteer staff night. you will need. 10 1 1 1 1 1 Fall Family Night Planning Doc and Flyer
Being new to the
district, this was a great
way to connect with
Planned and staffed and staff and families. Plus
supervised the Early our tables/activities
Director of Early Learning tables at this were the best! We had
15 "" Great Rdale Get Together, Planning and Event Learning community event. lots of engagement. 8 1 1 1 Photo from event
Finding time for staff to
meet is difficult. We will
continue to refine how
we do this, however our
first meeting went very
well and the staff that
Worked with a teacher came had quality
to develop and host a conversation driven by
16 "" Podcast Club, Planning and Event ECSE Teacher monthly podcast club. the podcast topic. 3 1 1 1 1 1 Flier for clun
Was involved in almost
all early learning
interviews, checked I am grateful that we
references, completed have had as many
Director of Early recommend to hire applications we have
17 "" Interview, Reference Checks and Recommend to Hire Learning, HR forms. had for open positions. 12 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Copy of Recommend to Hire form
This training happened
prior to school starting. I
ended up taking the
Attended full day Frontline refresher
trainings on the updated training as it was much
Rdale Danielson Rubric and more useful once I
Administrators, also the Frontline actually started doing
18 "" Frontline and Danielson Training HR system. observations. 20 1 1 Powerpoint of training
I am hopeful that the
district will follow the
state law going into
effect on 1/1/24 that
makes it illegal to ask for
Executive a prospective
Director of HR, I discovered a pay equity employee's prior salary,
Director of HR, issue and brought it to as this can lead to
Acting the attention of district continuing pay
19 "" Pay Equity Self-Advocacy Superintendent leadership. disparities. 5 1 1 1 n/a
In an effort to minimize
the number of
interpreter requests we
make as well as The district pays a 2
maximize our use of hour minimum for
interpreters when we interpreters and often,
have them, I have been the teacher requesting
working on only needs them for 15
organizational systems minutes to an hour. We
ECSE Spanish for requesting also want to give
Liaison, interpreters for families choice in when
Language welcome week and to meet. This is a work
20 "" Interpreter and Translation Support Services conferences. in progress. 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 Chart for organizing interpreters
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complete the Discovery was pretty spot on, and
Personal Profile which very different than my
provide a broad director. I think that
understanding of each having different work
Rdale person's work style. We styles makes our team
Administrative keep this in mind while stronger as we each
Staff, Trainer we do additional equity bring our own skills and
21 "" Insights Training from MDE related training. needs to the team. 8 1 1 1 1 1 Insights Flier
There were ongoing
concerns with treatment
of our early
learning/ECSE students
by some bus/van
drivers. In a meeting Not everyone has the
with the transportation patience or
director prior to school understanding to work
Director of starting, I offered to with our youngest
Transportation, create some tips and students, especially if
Director of Early visuals to distribute to they have behavioral
22 "" Transportation Tips and Visuals Learning drivers. needs. 6 1 1 1 1 Bus Tips Flier
Director of Early
Learning, Early I updated the care and
Learning crisis manual to reflect It is important to
Psychologist and changes made for the double/triple check
23 "" NHLC Care and Crisis Manual and 1 Pager work Social Worker 23-24 school year. before printing. 12 1 1 1 1 1 Copy of NHLC Care and Crisis Manual
Other building I am the Early Learning
representatives rep for our district
for the team, Emergency response
Director of team. I attend our With changes the
Safety and building meetings as district is implementing,
Security, Exec. well and bring it would be helpful to
Dir of Student information back and meet a bit more often
24 "" Emergency Response Team Services forth between the two. on the front end. 2 1 1 1 Copy of Meeting Notes
It is important to make
sure everyone is on the
Early Learning same page and
Care and Crisis I am on the building understands any
25 "" Care and Crisis Team Team Members care and crisis team. changes. 4 1 Copy of Meeting Notes
We have had a rocky roll
out of the new
procedures, partly
Attended training to be because of the design of
Director of Early able to use the Raptor our building and nature
25 "" Raptor Training Learning systems. of our programs. 2 1 1 Information on Raptor Training
It was nice to connect
with other new leaders
around the state, many
of whom did not have
prior experience in
ECSE. It made me feel
more confident in my
own ability to lead as
Attended two half day well as being ok not
new leader training knowing everything
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Attend monthly virtual It is nice to have the
meetings to learn more opportunity to meet
MDE, Statewide about topics important monthly with other
27 "" ECSE Leaders Monthly Call ECSE Leadership in ECSE leadership leaders. 3 1 1 1 1 Information about Monthly ECSE Leadership calls
It seems like it would be
easy enough to get visits
in to each site, however,
there are often other
pressing work
In an effort to be more responsibilities that
present in our come up. Splitting the
classrooms that are load among the whole
offsite, I organized a visit team helps, and
schedule for our early hopefully our offsite
Early Learning learning leadership teams feel more
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knowledgeable about
While completing funding, budgets and
onboarding with my braiding funding to
director, she walked me support programs. She
through the budget is an excellent resource
Director of Early codes that we use in our for me as I learn more
29 "" Early Learning Budget Codes Review Learning department. about it. 1 1 1 Copy of Budget Code Cheat Sheet

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