Presentation to the PCSD Board of Education Peekskill Middle School Jamal Lewis, Principal June Campolongo, Assistant Principal Courtney Simon, Assistant Principal March 5, 2019
“Then work by cognitive scientists like Antonio Damasio showed us that emotion is not the opposite of reason; it’s essential to reason. Emotions assign value to things. If you don’t know what you want, you can’t make good decisions. Furthermore, emotions tell you what to pay attention to, care about, and remember. It’s hard to work through difficulty if your emotions aren’t engaged. Information is plentiful, but motivation is scarce.” That early neuroscience breakthrough reminded us that a key job of a school is to give students new things to love; an exciting field of study, new friends, new experiences. It reminded us that what teachers really teach is themselves; their contagious passion for their subjects and students. It reminded us that children learn from people they love, and that love (in this context) means willing the good of another and offering active care for the whole person.” - article emailed to me by Special Education Teacher/Department Leader/SLT Member Nora Sachs entitled “Students Learn From People They Love - Putting Relationship Quality at the Center of Education” By David Brooks
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School Comprehensive Education Plan (SCEP) OVERVIEW Tenet 2 School Leader Practices & Decisions ❏ Department and Teacher Data Protocol Forms ❏ Formal Classroom Observations with Best Instructional ❏ Quarters I & II Performance Data Review and Learning Practices & Discussion and Recommendations ❏ ELA Electronic Simulations with Performance ❏ Coordinated Author Visits Analysis and Discussion about Lesson Design ❏ Academic Performance Celebrations ❏ Sanctuary Training - Trauma-Informed Staff ❏ Pilot Achieve 3000 - Literacy Program ❏ Response to Intervention Conversations and ❏ The ELA, ENL, and Humanities Department received Protocol at Grade-Level Meetings professional development on revisiting how to effectively ❏ Continue to Redesign ELA and Humanities create a standards-driven content and learning objective Curriculum and connect them with higher order questions throughout ❏ Grade-Level Meetings for Professional a lesson Discussions- Academic & Social/Emotional ❏ Professional Development Sessions on Reading and Writing ❏ Monthly Meeting with Department Leaders Workshop ❏ Monthly Meeting with School Leadership Team ❏ Professional Development Sessions on Increasing Task, ❏ Classroom Visits with Feedback for Best Question, and Discussion Rigor Instructional and Learning Practices
What I Love About My Job https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew_AXxwN Lqk&feature=youtu.be
SCEP Overview Tenets 3 & 4 Curriculum, Support and Teacher Practices ❏ Turnkey Outside of School Training ❏ Orchestral Instruction ❏ Discuss Student Performance Data at Department and ❏ Writing Workshop Model Grade-Level Meetings ❏ Reading Workshop Model ❏ Teachers Deliver Mini Lessons at Grade-Level Meetings ❏ STEAM Course & Program ❏ Department Leaders Visit Members’ Classrooms for ❏ Spanish Courses (Grades 6 - 8) Support ❏ Sculpture Course (Grade 8) ❏ Achieve 3000 Program and Ongoing Analysis ❏ Math Text Book Series - Big Ideas ❏ The ELA, ENL, and Humanities Departments received ❏ Next Generation Learning Standards in ELA, professional development on revisiting how to effectively Math, Science, and Social Studies create a standards-driven content and learning ❏ Spiraling Back of Questions to Previous objective and connect them with higher order questions Assessments throughout a lesson ❏ Data Team Developed Analysis Form ❏ Typing is Now Part of the Technology 6 Course ❏ Dept and Teacher Data Analysis Form Completed with Patterns, Concerns, and Plan of Action
SCEP Overview Tenet 5 Tenet 6 Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Social and Emotional Developmental Health ❏ Great Potential Program - Purchase College Partnership STEAM Fair - March 7, 2019 ❏ ❏ Student Assistance Services Open House - April 2019 ❏ ❏ Andrus Services Saturday Academy ❏ ❏ Margaret’s Place Family Communication Log in Infinite Campus ❏ ❏ Women’s History Celebration Weekly Family Meetings ❏ ❏ Coretta Scott King Book Contest Reflection Room - Lateness to School - Attendance Matters ❏ ❏ Hispanic Heritage Activities Hudson Valley MOCA - Ongoing Partnership ❏ ❏ Black History Activities Nu Psi Zeta Oratorical Contest ❏ ❏ Weekly Clinical Meeting Winter and Spring Music Concerts ❏ ❏ Response to Intervention Protocol Seussical Jr. the Musical ❏ ❏ PBIS Program Hudson River Healthcare ❏ ❏ Sanctuary - Trauma-Informed Staff IBM - Ongoing Partnership - Girls & Boys in Technology ❏ ❏ Student & Adult Talent Show BOCES - Annual Trip - Tech Careers ❏ ❏ Open Reading time for all students during zero period, each Career Day - May 17, 2019 ❏ grade level lunch period, arrangements for classroom traveling Mercy College - STEP Program ❏ libraries, provide board game time during recess, scheduled a Drum Hill Concert ❏ Coretta Scott King Awards Book Talk Competition for Black NAACP Partnership ❏ History Month United Way Collaboration with Saturday Academy & Technology ❏ ❏ Hermanas Mentoring Program ❏ Technoloschicas Group
Board of Education Goal: Pre-K to High School Alignment ❏ Drama/Theater Course ❏ F&P Reading Assessment Tool ❏ Dance/Fitness Course ❏ Interim Assessments ❏ Social Studies Courses (Next Generation ❏ Writing Workshop Model Standards) ❏ Reading Workshop Model ❏ Mathematics Courses ❏ STEAM Course & Program ❏ Orchestral Instruction ❏ Spanish Courses (Grades 6 - 8) ❏ Our Humanities Course in Grade 6 ❏ Ceramics - Sculpture Class (Grade 8) Focusing on Writing ❏ Studio Art Course ❏ By 2022, we will have Honors ELA and ❏ Science Courses (Next Generation Social Studies in Grades 6 - 8 Standards) ❏ My Brother’s Keeper Program ❏ ENL & Newcomer Programs
Peekskill Pride: Peekskill Middle School Style Energetic Student & Staff Population Staff Professional Development Sessions My Brother’s Keeper
My Brother’s Keeper
They Say It Best! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdawAa hSV00&feature=youtu.be
My Brother’s Keeper Academic Performance Quarters 1 & 2 IMPROVED IMPROVED IMPROVED IMPROVED IMPROVED IN ONE IN TWO IN THREE IN FOUR IN TWO CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT CONTENT OR MORE AREA AREAS AREAS AREAS CONTENT AREAS 28 /28 = 5/28 = 6/28 = 4/28 = 15/28 = 100% 18% 21% 14% 53%
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