what's withs in our school and let you get to see what's going on in our classrooms um so how does the edone work into this as we go along too but we are here to just show you our partnership with the an col schools how we have worked with the United public schools to bring together um our work and our funding to help meet reality in our school so that we can bring our students the best possible education that they deserve and our teachers the professional development that they need in order to teach our students so tonight first we're going to bring up just us a little bit overw that anding well good evening um I totally prepared for exactly what she just said um okay so the react was a a really big deal and a collaboration I want to give a shout out to who is trly led the way in the state of Minnesota and I remember Stacy I had a meeting uh in my office and Stacey how about we s this and this yes so and this is and this is really what we have but you have led the way like we you are such a gem for for our district I you always did a love and appreciation that you absolutely deserve I that um so you guys really have left way for St policy um we we came early to understanding that balance ly whole language was a problem and really being able to look at Pro literacy and trying to make sure that we get teachers and students the tool they needed to succeed so the reap um has many different components but it's a92 million Investments and we are the such starts February 12 um I don't know any of poliy but I'm really exciting about hopefully getting 30 million more it's going to be my ask for re this year and so um it it make sure that be also I think the future we're going to want to look at increasing local ly incentive a for distri which I think superintendent you prob would be really helpful for districts but U the re really give a comprehensive look at how we that out curriculum and improve curriculum districts and then un Works away for our state just think districts would have to pay for this service the state is paying for it we're vetting it we're doing good work we this partnership with the University of Minnesota we are also paying for all of the training now for districts like ours we have already started some of the training so there will be a loss we've talked about reimbursement we'll see I honestly we're never going to make a complete B for district so um as we take ony as one of your your big issues here at fund I am so appreciative and in really any ways that I can partner and if you'd like to spend the day with me my last session genuinely is open invitation iing but thank you py for having so without further Ado we walk through some of the work that's being done in the district um um I'll call up thank youone to talk about lying um and J work that's happening in Public Schools this is my third year um I have the pleasure of overseeing and working alongside everyone who's working on literacy initiatives and if truly is you'll see the Snapchat of how this looks pre Elementary and secondary that's kind of our goal today and so to just touch on a few things and have some of our um other staff MERS come and share about programing in specific areas so as I said Bethy assistant director teaching and learning and I just wanted to pause here for a minute that I highlighted my email address we may not have time for questions because we got a lot of things to share and celebrate with you if we don't that's there for a reason please use it take a picture of it if you have any questions it might not get you to me so with that we always start with and I think this is a beautiful way to start off as we we share this story with you and how to read act and how ly um and St ly is in the district because we are committed every time we get together as a staff we talk about this vision together we read it it's at theen level with Dr our teachers students Chris can to that so for each student to reach their full potential and pride and you'll see evidence of that throughout as so this of reading you might be familiar with that very buzz word now education and um as a mom of two kids I first grer thir grader and we're living and breathing this now in our in our home and we recognize now that it's way more complicated I started teaching years ago and inal so this is just a that shows the complexity of what it takes to all and leave them together fr different to this video super intentional around why we're doing what we're doing why the way're why why we're support by ening the way do this high compx so um spoke a littleit about and I'm just going to talk really quickly she explain the overview of how stat is important us I don't to speak to what this looks D school because I will tell you part of my job is networking with other districts across the state we have a monthly meeting called metro area for we share Talk network problem Sol together and when came out I was thrilled because in doing this working in my mind was thinking this is so this is so encouraging this is work we're doing do and so really to touch on that and share with you how is we we have to be screening our students here screener that's been approve the state of Minnesota so is the screener if you have know theer very well so now trying to figure out how to implement F right as living and for many years with k1el and actually now K1 edst a year um at a really high level and so this is something that when I hear other districts talk I just feel that sense of Pride accomplishment what we're doing our teachers and our leaders our students are doing in terms of we're already by a couple years right another place for any d d way right we having the game here is the letters you might have might have heard that professional learning development around teaching the science and reading and instruction Shi necessary um one of is profession letters and this is one option for dists to train their teachers it's very very Rous this is where we really support this schools currently has over 300 teachers who are already inrolled we have cor finished all eight which is 144 hours with of about 25 teachers and now we have K3 already invol and we're seeing an impact on students already which is really exciting I share this with you in my metal are meetings just scam figure out how to make this happen already years we are to finding EXC along the way of the curve and again we'll students in a littleit it's pretty exciting the last pie our resources we're still making our way down this path but I want you to confident that we SP really spend a lot of timeing our resources to Def ofing and while the resources on purpose we know that our resources are supporting all the teachers learning answering and again this has been um some implemented in terms of the foundational skills in 201 we're always that right impr this is so these are Ms and emping teachers so that right across the board this is my school dist and I could impressed with how um the folks the teachers embra this um Love princip this learning it's really outstanding our staff are ring this new learning and actually imp students you'll see evidence that along way also see the community by you part my with ouri with some of our um M the district and talk about how are we working together to make sure that we're communicating well that our families are understand B supported um so that partnership has just been really great at each of our elementary schools we're also having a science agree night um Chris gold started this couple of months ago and each of our buildings one of these night children teach so that's and I probably could work we just thr have support more about later um ability the med has given us to do work in the right for teachers i t for years I T first grade fourth grade fifth grade and when I think about the amount of um professional development that we're getting our teachers and what we're expecting them to do withh so I'm to and she [Music] and everybody I'm excited to be here um always um joyful to our other excellence in early childhood um I am h priv Learning Center across the we cently serve about 550 students and I work with a sta of 0 amazing so today I'm to share a little bit about doing inly learning ly and I'm my president aser talking so the first thing that I just want to start a little bit that's tell me sharing just a little history around childhood you're with it when you think about early childhood and the um development of early childhood teachers there is a very very strong focus on Child Development the cognitive development that's there's very um less focus on emergent learning skill literacy and numeracy and and so when we think about our candidates that are coming out to our teaching program we really know right way we need to invest in training our teacher so that they have skill set to do that um and the other thing that St me in early childhood is that curriculum is very that is kind of scho you app and that's right app but they're not they driven there doesn't we don't have any Baseline on what kids already know to do and so we don't have any direction those want how kids learn and grow up and so and also um it's it's a very sta Center plan that we want our teaching always when we're thinking about that so I was enough to come on board in 2016 and uh worked for a couple of years to really get a strong focused curriculum in the early C Crea curriculum is very very popular in school based Early Learning programs and reason learn is that is directly align with our state standards it also has a standardized assessment which is called teaching strategy go and again that standardized assessment is well aled with what we want kids to know to be able to do as they enter kinderg um and one of the very first things I started saying around school and I um was fortunate enough to join was we're not getting kids ready for June 1 we're getting them ready for September first so what make sure that they're transitioned into the next step of their educational journey is um they're ready and then the other thing that we've been fortunate enough to do is add some training for our teacher letters which I'll speak AOW more umun awareness training and lessons for her and then um intervention if you have K Elementary set you know read for and is we just got that version in the Early Learning Center is called early learning for so um we have a who comes over every day and misss for kills in 2022 23 school year we began to keep data and I I um has had noed for couple years you know this is pretty that are coming lots of different langages lots of different experiences um really well people and so 22 23 we started to collect some data on who are the families that are our school and discovered that we have um strong through and even those a number of KS that English English Learners and you think about real k is two three four five they're all learning English everybody is learning our stru but we notic that we have a some population of kids that are English as well and so we started a couple of different programs toet those fames um to that so all of these things you know I'm really very hasin talk about excellence and talking about what also the other versions of the the and I will say I asked every single tell me about letter how are you what does it look like for you as an administrator where you see in your classroom how is reading for Young Young Learners do your teachers like the hairing lessons and that feel really good to be able to say to other people in the doing Che conc doing sent you the teacher ask that teacher specific questions about how they Implement that half day class or all day class so that's really sort of wasn't really my necessarily but it's been a really nice that becoming know child for having a pretty low ly program okay so letter um so letter is for early child for professional learning experience for preting kindergarten teachers that provides deep knowledge of early lcy instructions teachers need skills to help Young Learners build the literacy Foundation before they even learn to read or write you know we take that PR all know how to but at some point in our life somebody taught us that right foundational skill um and the professional learning experience helps the teacher to understand devel language Knowledge Learning skills and this is the most important and I see this in the Halls when I'm talking in the classrooms um in the environmental PR when I'm observing lessons the why behind how kids learn the science behind literacy it's so important for teachers to have that and um I have an amazing ly in this and we often through the school and there are so many prank they the pictures Lon the other day like the CATE and teachers participated they participate in online session and then they also come together as a group and they facilitate the conversation the conversation that they are having from the why behind how kids learn are so um impactful and you see other in their classrooms um and you know it empowers teachers to feel really um compid what you're doing they are research based best practice for emerg okay this is such a great picture and to grab it um so this talks about the typon in the hen 10 there's skill one letter name letter s recognition activity and then one language Nursery rights remember your Nursery rights don't ever forget them they're so important um and then the daily lessons provid practice and exposure for awareness now in the early Center we only have three be safe and solve problems and this is an example ofid practicing no Rue this is all child written and in particular class that the K understand that the Tex has needed and it lives in their lives this is directly connected to their lives and that's she SES every it's so sweet so this is a little bit more our multi Learners so um students that when they register Early Learning question here and one the question here is tell us about your languages what can you speak and um and then once we GA that data The Learning Center teachers go out and do home visits to families and layet before you do that home visit they will call each family and give them a little pre interview and for our multiple they're really kind of um Gathering data to find out what level of language learning is your child in your family at and then in the following K come give the prass screener which is the screener that Meuse for kids that are learning the English language and then they they basically they're SC number and then that helps us know um what level of services they might need and and um the other thing that was really fun last year is weed into that Center data speaking volunteers so we took all ours and you know I think this year it's 36 languages that we speak at the and K in preschool class if this child speaks Japanese their native language and one day a week they have a Japanese volunte that comes to school them and that person is there to just help in the structure the routine of the day and it has that we get really and then Ono professional development with our teaching staff trying to give them allour we can down on assessments same thing with the letter just having ke conversations about how can we help support okay and so then this is my last slide and I just you know when matthy says put some pictures in and you have you know 25 so the the first P left corner that is a four-year-old ta room and they're doing a lesson on Wheels and so you can see they have the pictures of all the different kinds of wheels and then they made a chart together what we and so different um notes this is really a Shar of the interactive writing the language to the teacher and she model the writing on chart paper J is the where the teacher she draws hers and direct to the children is find a her so this is where we engage different RS in know because is letter my would be but if I'm know more than just in my if I know my whole name I Le um the top left hand corner is just an interacting chart that's to the creative curriculum sh again so each day they go through and do one of these charts and they um organize together and the bot is a sound ball and if youve been in an elementary Class you probably heard of a word ball and this is the sound ball and so we're really working on teaching kids the S and you'll if you you tell her she's got young that are covering the picture of and and for some of she's got the um picture of the shape your when you're making s which is really really important kids to understand when they're burning my mou moves in different ways to make different so just an example great things and all are welcome spend some time 20 minutes downstairs in the center yesterday picture and about 12s on they so I'm G to just walk you through element a little so I spend a lot of time amazing coaches working together us in our principal in the classs and so um I'm just kind speak now things are and some things that are you're notice patterns of work that happens as we move up in the years so there are some things I have to credit doly and don't live and so we the back before the sci reading movement this is of the right really big highs that teachers are making one really important thing is that we used to be great dance right read to your children a b something that story and just bit and start to learn starting to talk you know cing things like that what we know now is it is challenging remember all of those components that are required be explicitly Tau of few just exposure most being That explicit instruction around awareness find CL we used to think that there are many ways to teach reading and now we know recent brain scans that there's really one way that's effec sequence right so we're really leing into that the students read the variables cannot change we now know that we can and finally students will patch up we're not going to wait catch up we want to get it early and often and build those skills just like ear so we know that that really inter is critical so did that this now is the level of so this sound so downstairs this is how in our classrooms we have this um cre in our French we have this living reading inage classrooms now as they did for two and L they Sall and they understand profal development anduse all throughout their day during their instruction to be and show show Children sound they even know like a vo sound or unvoiced sound when you're in classro he starting now this point of the year to really use this language these are in your charts if you're in classroom you'll see these yoube classroom and you'll see teachers referencing they're going to their day teaching sounds teaching Strat this is an example of feny practice one of the pieces in that reading R is that reading and so um one of the things I'm just going to share with you a really quick video of these two friends at elementary loundy um and these do this not just with letter sounds but also with passages I'll share this with you really quick [Music] practice that fluency fluency is really just our practicing our rate and our accuracy andity so that we smooth as we speak right so then this would progress um for our older students right first and up we're still practicing in fifth grade practicing Middle School right that fluency passages skpp a couple of pieces here just a snap now our example of a [Music] less and this is another part and in our um Elementary classrooms that's part of their day making resources where they are explicitly teaching we know that is critical reading comprehension p and so this is an example of a teacher lesson where they were using something from our inspired coures letters is our professional development for K3 teachers and Inspire is the are secondary research St research but it's now of Supply students at home and why we still need a lot ofci because I in first grade so we have catching up to do with them right so that explicit instruction around these pieces of really critical at this age and so this is an example of the inspired living the classroom learning being applied Expos words I he throughout the time teachers will tell me they they start writing shity KS take a word that word start to different ways we can um make that a little bit stronger word less strong intense and ways and then that so I'm Ro and I work here um sou I am administrative student support and I just join this year from the elementary street Valley was my for 17 years and then con for that so I have I I corelia I really love the science of reading coming from Elementary in and I know talk about what different parts that the the all the way through Elementary so back show you what is certain look like now in M middle school so we use the F to scream and then we use the Diagnostics to diagnose we be going to the doctor um not feeling so great go to the doctor going to say not feeling great okay well now let diagnos screen realize you need to be this diagn what this is and see it's something that we to attent to so at the middle level we know they have come through all these great schools and so we want to find where are the actual hles that are causing us to C with a possible me in so that we take the Diagnostics pass and we work on the each and every student what does each and every student need they are you that they have a need from a we start with and we see if that is where is maybe or so is that um intervention that they could receive to buil and then take off maybe maybe it's a fluency need and we see a lot of that in middle school and so that we know thatw SKS are there but we need to just make it Moree so depending on what those Diagnostics was life we decide how are we going to make an academic action plan without students we [Music] also showing us it shows there wey everything all the skills are there diagnos so we are not over servicing students who don't need that so once we identify they do need a need in the Middle School alum and we know what their need is and what we might need to we use our res Bas intervention that they us elementaries in the mid and we are working on what we saw those little girls doing and they were practicing Noy at the level you see seven graders are practicing their fency at the word level the story level level so we know research tells us we have to give that intervention five times a week at 30 minutes of dose we're talking medical and so to get those we have structured what our like what ourway times during scho life so that these students are now receiving for a week and then every other week they do progress monitoring so we're saying is this working is the doses of need that we are trying to fill working and if we are seeing that it's working in their data it's going we can keep going until they reach and are to stay if we see this is beginning and we say we need to adjust our resp we need to see maybe there a that didn't so we are monitoring adjusting so that we can our mle schp um some students depending on their need maybe receiving two different inters so that they can build the small skills that they may need and their artist looking on that fluency so at times that's how we try to accelerate the grow gr for our leers um at our district level we have kind of our big rcks and then our our Middle School all the schools that buil our big rcks well we know School ly is a big Ro and school wri literacy is something that are developing as well so we are training our e teachers our Ela English language and reading reading teachers and our special ed teachers as well as our intervention teachers in the science of reading then we are also full sta for development what does it look like for you as a science a social studies a music atic teacher what does that what how what does literacy look like in your space and what supports do you need for that literacy to develop so is a ver we are now not using sound of mdle school we are using ver so do need to supportal could you practice using our research these strategies for teaching vocabulary maybe a science teacher but let's R in some of those strategies and other places for those need in class that to this and if you feel like you we also Havey so we there to help support them support our teachers and provide so we can not just keep it going all way up is it's working um really quickly um working alongside the second year the teachers right getting the winter data in it's working there as well I have here but they're ex students so I know we had 11 students exud they really coration between and I understand right righten volumes to what um how we're how we shap the trajectory for the future really so is it working this is really exciting you guys what you're looking at right now over here on the left is kindergarten over here on the right and what this is this winter Trend data from pass okay so we have over in 2021 over see 2021 we had 59% in January 59% of our kindergarteners were being that's the 5% in last year during this time he 76% and just this year in January we are now % 2% in three years this is significant because this is why work right it's landing on kids first grade on the left 54% two years ago last year 65 this year we're at 72% but an increase in 18% in that data that is outstanding so looken which higher scale right increasing so same increase here with this not we know right catch on the primary level layer skills intering deer level 8% in 3 years in second grade 7% in just three years that these are different kids right from year to year but even this year we're seeing in in these primary grades this is for letter that Prof science and breing has been going on two to three years okay so is we and so we're getting rolling with the p there we're getting rolling with the coaching there we're getting ready we're getting rolling using that data there also so this continues on the story to be continu right we get more together students so that weend our whole segment with just an overiew video [Music] and each of the public schools is committed to ensure that each of every student that our classrooms becomes theing reader we have committed to ensuring that each student receives the best structure aligned to the most current research possible and this is of our commitment to the science of reading after letters intentionality different we do from reading stories to guided spelling to decoding um we really have the science really question to exactly everything we do um students are more competent they're using all their skills that they learned and it's just totally Chang everything we do in literacy literacy and that's really really get that start the of school our teachers have just really embraced the science of writing and it has created this um movement around the collective efficacy and looking at data and using that data to instruction and those instructional shs that they're learning about research in the science and reading through their letters Andes and uming that and ening that instruction of landing on kids in a way that shows they are reaching that aggressive grow and need benchmarks learning love yeah I really especially appreciate looking at students who who have made growth despite their being at a little risk rate or at a risk rate and they're still making some grow and actually positive and I what we were thinking right now is to look further and see look at what they are doing um with those kids do those kids with their bring out other students who are also on gas fridge charts and we love selfs success and so when you see the D go up St in and celebrate with them whether is the kids being successful our staff being amazing or Community wrapping around our school district to make certain that we are lead finding excellence in the areas of Science and reading I this is soending to see and he the in our classroom um has ioud direct teach here inting 2000 middle of right in the middle of our work and create our early learning control comprehens so one thing I want connectel is mostly and that it takes an entire lch to put this work into place for students so that I di behind Excellence we do deny Excellence because that is what our students deserve right and so a huge piece that I know um we want to celebrate is the Partnerships that we have um partnership specifically we have um we have parents that partnership and collaboration because very parents that are in the Stace that in the P the challenging questions that are CRI for us to hear our Partnerships are what makes the difference for students and so a lot of that PRN comes in resources and the resource that um we have with has critical for us to implement the confence the read act the science at the highest possible levels we results in our students the D is committed to making sure these Partnerships are strong and Collective so we have students some of the them heart andour specifically this work our I look at element for the last two years for three years in a row so we have multiple days to support our teachers um that resour of time and that collaboration is highly invested in another re I said has um specifically is the coaches so you heard tonight ly coach at the early Le Center we have two ly coaches our elementary we have three years and our team we thises to our middle schools and partner who inst some specific instruction that's us at world the resource of people and the money and the commitment to the children that we most um the 3v areas 3v trains are all phenomenal and they all teach us about the sence agre and even prior to that we have Team invested in some piloting and collaborating and digging into those resources we decided anded invest in just having our teachers letter training which is one thing right implenting what training in classroom so Public Schools specifically paid for small pictures so there are resources that we're investing in as a District that would without those resources would not allow our teachers to implement are I think all of us right have been engaged in Le in our lives you know sometimes read sometimes podcast is really easy for us to just so that creation and then take the next step of having conversation about it of applying it talking about ly Eng resources that professional development that we have I SP so helping us is one is the resource our just a quick round of numbers to keep it really simple um we number that teachers right now add that number but every teacher um group their work um there are two different parts of letters right so we have four Less in that first cluster and then four Less in that cluster and each cluster one cler class $500 for one session or one cluster learning and another those the licenses the books that's right for 300 teachers $300,000,000 and so Partnership of the and then making sure we're also thees that we're other are this is just stret and because we and we us we are able to this the level of and not just theum to and Mo on about collaboration and support we've also belied in where we have paid for some of and this help us raise is our teachers so the time that they are investing in this and that's absolutely crial um if you think in totality about 140 hours of Master Class that is a to ask any individual to do ask the teer to do able to we is also a St and so for the hours that they do outside of what we find or abach they amazing professional it could very very hard to come space eny CL have the so I just really he died his highly as a school district prior through ay of resources I have resources that resources time Fone right and we are going to continue to Le in the Partnerships that fund as well as our community are Contin this that's deserve ums and they so everyone being here um think probably questions I want to remind everyone there there if we don't thank you everyone for being here um this is all we are here because of all the work we are commity Foundation that comes together to help sh that this Happ we are here tday to launch our week of Community Action for kids education why here a great to celebrate literacy and all the work that we do and then we're going to come together on Friday discover that more at St P's church or to talk more could we this cheaper know you think about it I my KS I to wouldn't you take day you and it NES and you're going to grow it's and that's there's some that go this for it's the we need that it's and the right so let's take our time let's invest in it let's come together as let's do this join us on Friday thank you for being part of us and thank you for being thanks I