GATE Equity Webinar Series How do schools prioritize
GATE Equity Webinar Series How do schools prioritize and maintain connections with all students and families this fall?
We’re Planning to Group You: Let us Know Your Grade Band 1. Click on Participants in the Zoom menu. 2. Find your name in the participants list. Choose More. Click Rename. 3. First & last name. Grade Band you prefer to join: Elem. , MS/HS, None. Role. Chris Reykdal – MS/HS - Teacher 3/3/2021 | 2
Vision Mission Values All students prepared for post-secondary pathways, careers, and civic engagement. Transform K– 12 education to a system that is centered on closing opportunity gaps and is characterized by high expectations for all students and educators. We achieve this by developing equitybased policies and supports that empower educators, families, and communities. • • Ensuring Equity Collaboration and Service Achieving Excellence through Continuous Improvement Focus on the Whole Child
Equity Statement Each student, family, and community possesses strengths and cultural knowledge that benefits their peers, educators, and schools. Ensuring educational equity: • Goes beyond equality; it requires education leaders to examine the ways current policies and practices result in disparate outcomes for our students of color, students living in poverty, students receiving special education and English Learner services, students who identify as LGBTQ+, and highly mobile student populations. • Requires education leaders to develop an understanding of historical contexts; engage students, families, and community representatives as partners in decision-making; and actively dismantle systemic barriers, replacing them with policies and practices that ensure all students have access to the instruction and support they need to succeed in our schools.
Land Acknowledgement School District & Nearest Federally Recognized Tribes Washington Tribes Map *Gayle Pauley 3/3/2021 | 5
Cultural We acknowledge the pain and trauma resulting from 400 years of racism in the United States. We stand with our communities of color, especially those who identify as and/or are categorized as African American. We will continue to center our work in leading with racial equity. We want to offer a moment of silence, and honor the space for people from communities of color to respond to this acknowledgement first. Please use the chat box. We Invite accountability and partnership. An abridged version of a statement adopted by PSESD 121
Do You Need Clock Hours? 3 Free Clock Hours in pd. Enroller Register • Register for morning sessions: GATE Equity Webinar 101 – you only have to do this once for each school year. • Register for afternoon sessions: GATE Equity Webinar 201 – you only have to do this once for each school year. • Register monthly for your 3 Free Clock Hours on pd. Enroller. Attend Live • Attend both sessions live and mark your attendance by participating in the polls. This will be used for clock hour verifications. Evaluation • Complete the PDEnroller Evaluation online. Clock hours will be awarded when we have verified your attendance, usually within a few days. Questions about this process? Contact Ronnie Larson 3/3/2021 | 7
OSPI You. Tube Channel Subscribe! • Get alerts for new OSPI videos • Watch past webinars Youtube. com/wa. OSPI 3/3/2021 | 8
Objectives • Get an overview of guidance on attendance • Get perspectives from Mount Baker • Resources & Tools to help 3/3/2021 | 9
Presenters Kefi Andersen Krissy Johnson Andy Remien Graduation Equity Program Supervisor OSPI Attendance Program Supervisor OSPI Assistant Principal Mount Baker Junior & Senior High School 3/3/2021 | 10
More This Afternoon 3: 00 Attendance 201: What are culturally responsive ways to increase student engagement in remote learning? 3/3/2021 | 11
Questions & Polling 1 Who’s here? • Administrator • Counselor/Psych/Community Liaison/Attendance Liaison / Grad Specialist • Teacher • Para-educator • Parent/Community Member/Community Based Organization • District Office/ESD Staff • Continuous Improvement Partner or Teaching Coach • Other What grade band do you work with the most? • Elementary • Secondary • Both • None/NA • Other How familiar are you with our topic? • Very • Somewhat • It’s new! 3/3/2021 | 12
Attendance & Engagement during COVID-19
2020 is not normal And we are all working very hard to adapt 3/3/2021 | 14
Opportunities for Attendance during COVID • Attendance is a signal: barrier, inequity or system change • Attendance is the first step to engagement in learning • Opportunity to refocus on engagement and re-engagement 3/3/2021 | 15
What is Chronic Absenteeism? 10% or more of school days Excused Unexcused Chronic Absenteeism 3/3/2021 | 16
Regular Attendance in Washington 2019 Definition: Regular Attendance is when a student misses less than two days per month (average). It is the opposite of chronic absence. 83% of students were regular attenders Most Impacted Gender X (45%), Students experiencing homelessness (56%), American Indian (65%), Pacific Islander (67%) Washington State Report Card 3/3/2021 | 17
Emergency Absence Rule Definition of absence from remote learning Take attendance daily, in-person or remote New category of absence for September = absences not counted towards truancy until Oct. 5 Additional reasons for excused absences related to COVID Tiered response system to support students and address barriers 3/3/2021 | 18
Best Practice Considerations
Student/Family MTSS for Attendance Voice and Partnership Community partnerships Leadership Teams monitor and respond to data frequently MTSS for Attendance Tiered responses (all, some, few) using proven strategies* * Attendance Playbook: Smart Solutions for Reducing Chronic Absenteeism in the COVID Era
Key questions to consider prior to school Do we have working contact information for all students? Do all students have access to instructional tools & support (internet, Chromebooks, accommodations, adult support)? Do all students have someone at school they trust? Are we building relationships and connections for all students? Do we have a system for tracking participation in remote learning? Do we have a team to review and respond to that data? “Measuring Daily Attendance and Participation During COVID-19”
Breakout Rooms
Padlet Resource Sharing Group designates a Recorder and Reporter Recorder Reporter Share Padlet Screen Capture responses Share out if called on Padlet Link in the chat 3/3/2021 | 23
Guiding Questions for Breakout Rooms: 5 minutes Questions You Have Concerns & Challenges 3/3/2021 | 24
Padlet: How to Create an Account 1 2 3 Padlet Link in the chat 3/3/2021 | 25
Welcome Back – Let’s Share Your feedback, questions, and concerns will inform OSPI’s next steps and guidance. Raise Your Hand • We’ll call on You Unmute Chat • 1 minute share • We can’t get to everyone but we want to hear your feedback 3/3/2021 | 26
What Does it Look Like in Real Life? Mount Baker School District
Staying “Mount Baker Strong” Andy Remien Assistant Principal Mount Baker Junior & Senior High School Or “We’re not really calling this the ‘Phone Tree of Love’ are we? ” 7/28/2020 | 28
Mount Baker JH / SH focus for 2019 -2020 School Improvement Plan focused on student engagement Address student engagement Improve relationships Teach desired behaviors 7/28/2020 | 29
Reacting to School Shutdown Staff agreed that our purpose was maintaining relationships. • Shared Google Sheets with notes • Lots of phone calls and Zoom meetings • Priority on making contact with families Each PRIDE teacher contacted students on advisory roster via phone Office staff organized “Phone Tree of Love” for students who frequently visited counselors, AP, other office staff Any students who we couldn’t reach were “drafted” by any staff member with whom they had a relationship 3/3/2021 | 30
Our Process: Contact & Respond Initial Contacts Measuring Responses Responding to Needs How are we doing? Phone calls & notes What do we do now? Staff & Student Surveys How can we help? Individual Responses Building & Sustaining Relationships 3/3/2021 | 31
Lessons Learned Communications Workload Concerns • Phone calls (and sometimes texts) are the best way to communicate • Use multiple ways to communicate • Agree upon what to say and how to say it • Ask very specific questions • Share all notes with all staff members • If an emphasis is put on communication, something else has to give • Staff must be honest about their bandwidth to communicate • This work can be fluid and end up outside regular “work hours” • During new school year, teachers cannot cut away instructional time • Staff do not always have the tools to handle communication • Inequities are consistently revealed and solutions are scarce 3/3/2021 | 32
Next Steps What we will Continue to do • Contact students and families directly and frequently • Prioritize relationships over curriculum and instruction • Openly share communication notes with the entire staff • Share and celebrate our success stories How we need to Improve (and adapt) • Use active measurements to inform decisions • Better use asynchronous video to share information and resources • Have more language supports for families for whom English is not their first language • Better define and shape communication roles & protocols 3/3/2021 | 33
Advice to Other Schools Just go for it Hustle Connect Our Students • The perfect plan takes up time and energy • Students and families appreciate hustle (and are willing to forgive) • When it comes to relationships, every staff member has the unique ability to connect with at least one student or family member • There is an immediate reward - students want to hear from us 3/3/2021 | 34
Our approach to attendance, engagement tracking, & making connections with students Why? What principles & values did you rely on? What key activities and strategies did you use? Who was involved? How did you figure it out? What did you learn? • Did you see any trends that indicated opportunity gaps or inequity? Who were the students that didn’t engage or connect? • How did you respond or attempt to engage the students that were toughest to engage? • Any data – for example: percentage of students reached; disaggregated by student group 3/3/2021 | 35
How we’re adapting for this fall What we’re continuing from the spring Ways we’re hoping to improve What advice would you have for other districts? How will you adapt your attendance processes given the new OSPI guidance? 3/3/2021 | 36
Breakout Rooms
Guiding Questions for Breakout Rooms What great work are you doing already? What parts of this model can you take back to your work? What are you still wondering about? 3/3/2021 | 38
Welcome Back – Let’s Share We’ll Call On Groups Reflect on Your Discussion What does everyone in this meeting need to know to take us to the next level? • Raise Hand to Volunteer Share Out • Unmute • 1 minute share out 3/3/2021 | 39
Considerations Discuss your ideas with leadership Share ideas with your PLC Lead a discussion with students Do you have a next step? Tell us in the chat! 3/3/2021 | 40
GATE Evaluation This presentation will change my practice in the future. The presenters were content experts This presentation was relevant to my work and topics I want to know about right now. The presentation met the stated learning objectives. I had an opportunity to reflect on my next steps. I would recommend participating to a colleague. GATE Feedback Survey | 3/3/2021 | 41
Resources
Resources Strategies for Connecting with Students & Families • Specific for families that have been hard to reach during COVID Connections Tool • A tool to help educators build relationships with families and connect them to needed resources before assessing learning needs. Attendance Playbook • Proven strategies to increase student attendance updated for COVID 2020 Attendance Awareness Campaign OSPI Guidance • Key messages and logos sponsored by Attendance Works • OSPI Coronavirus Guidance • OSPI Attendance Resources 3/3/2021 | 43
Contact Us Kefi Andersen Krissy Johnson Andy Remien Graduation Equity Program Supervisor OSPI Kefi. andersen@k 12. wa. us Attendance Program Supervisor OSPI Krissy. Johnson@k 12. wa. us Assistant Principal Mount Baker Junior & Senior High School aremien@mtbaker. wednet. edu 3/3/2021 | 44
Next Month September 9 School Climate 101: How Do You Use Standards Based Grading for Equity? 10 a. m. – 11: 30 a. m. School Climate 201: How Do You Bring Cultural Inclusivity into Your School Climate? 3 p. m. – 4: 30 p. m. 3/3/2021 | 45
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