St. Louis Park Public Schools — Transcript
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Continuous Improvement Plans (CIP) Updates
Fiscal Year 2025 and 2026 Budget Discussion
First Reading of Policy 715
City Commission Seat Restructure Discussion
School Year 2025 Site Goals and Preliminary Planning for School Year 2026 Continuous Improvement Plan
Notable Quotes (15)
We plan around this time of the year to think about next year. We implement strategies throughout the year and then at this point of the year for next year, we will be evaluating how well those plans went.
For our SIP goal plan itself, we ask our sites to create one care team goal for the school year and up to two smart academic goals. That doesn't mean that there's only two or three things that they're working on. That means that these are precise data points that we try to measure to see if the activities that we have worked on throughout the year are getting us the results that we want in terms of our SIP goals.
Our SID goal was by August of 2025 to develop and implement a formal MTSS process at Central Early Learning Center. It's continuing to be an ongoing process. But what we did do was do a lot of professional development on our tier one instruction to make sure that that was really strong and ready to go and ready for the next step.
We changed our care like presentation process this year which made it much more um teacher friendly meaning everyone had to participate because we made it a round table and we took different areas from different programs and put those people together and then everyone had to share in the time about their cares.
Our second goal was a specific literacy goal goal that focused on increasing our grade three through five reading proficiency from 49.33% to 52% based on our MCA data.
As a site, Aquilla had 33 teachers participating in letters training. So that's directly related to uh the legislative um mandate but something that our teachers or and something that our teachers also found really helpful. So letters training is based on the science of reading.
What we discovered is that we didn't have a systematized process for welcoming families and ensuring that they have those basic things. basic access to health care, other resettlement resources. And so the care work that um that Mi Miss Carrie did was based on that and it has shifted our practices.
Education is liberation here in St. Louis Park. So that's our goal to make sure that all kids have access to that liberatory narrative.
Our SIP goals two and three were both related to increased proficiency on the MCAs. And you can see here this is our internal document for all the things that we were working on related to these goals.
This year, for the first time ever in the history of PSI, we taught English phonics in kindergarten for 100 minutes a week and saw some great connections.
The middle one is our Cartoneria project. It's our annual project. Been doing it about 10 years where every single child in the school writes a book.
We attribute that to um you we did meet our last goal that every week when we sent out the newsletter we had 81% open rate consistent we end of the year at that.
Our first goal was that all teachers at Peter Hobart during the two care cycles will focus on collaboration with special education for academic scaffolds and behavioral deescalation techniques.
One of the really amazing things that came out of this work, we started with just carved out collaboration time throughout the school year during their common prep time; our special education team really took this idea and they came up with the Peter Hobart pit stop.
So, um we achieved this first care team goal. Our second goal is around literacy. And it has to do with the MCA reading assessment similar to what Aquilla and Parks immersion talked about.
People (36)
Introduced site leaders for continuous improvement plan updates.
Representing Early Learning program.
Presided over the study session and acknowledged Dr. Lafayette and other presenters.
Acknowledged by Dr. Lafayette as part of the leadership team.
Mentioned as providing guidance on sharing care work.
Introduced presenters and explained the continuous improvement planning process.
Her care work on systematizing the welcome process for new families was highlighted.
Mentioned in relation to explaining the systematized process for families.
Mentioned as having visited a site and discussed the systematized process.
Brought the mobile unit to Aquilla site twice this year to meet family needs.
Collaborated with the principal on focusing on the Latinx affinity group.
Part of the team ensuring lessons were delivered to students.
Part of the team delivering lessons on self-regulation and identifying problems.
Part of the team delivering lessons on self-regulation and identifying problems.
Honored at Algar field finale.
Part of the team ensuring lessons were delivered to students.
Mentioned regarding data interpretation and utilization.
A picture of him and Omar was intended for a slide but not used.
Featured in a picture with Director Ebrahim.
Will receive a slide to prepare.
Presented on Early Learning's continuous improvement plan goals. Name clarification.
Presented for Aquilla Elementary School, highlighting their continuous improvement goals. Name clarification.
Presented for Peter Hobart Elementary School, highlighting their continuous improvement goals.
Presented for Aquilla Elementary School, highlighting their continuous improvement goals.
Presented for Park Immersion Elementary School, highlighting their continuous improvement goals.
Acknowledged by presenters.
Opened the study session and managed the agenda.
Presented on Early Learning's continuous improvement.
Provided an overview of the continuous improvement process.
Presented the continuous improvement goals for Aquilla Elementary.
Presented the continuous improvement goals for Peter Hobart Elementary.
Presented the continuous improvement goals for Park Immersion Elementary.
Mentioned in the context of the continuous improvement planning process.
Mentioned in the context of the continuous improvement planning process.
Mentioned for requesting that everyone share their care work.
His picture with Omar was intended for a presentation slide.
Places Mentioned
Events & Meetings (18)
- Study Session: St. Park School Board, 6:31 PM
- February: Principles were present to describe the continuous improvement planning process.
- Spring: Continuous improvement planning goals were prepared.
- This Spring: Visited kindergarten.
- This Spring: The continuous improvement planning process began preparation for goals.
- August: Leaders will finalize SIP goals for school year 2026.
- September: Seeking approval for SIP goals.
- Winter Meltdown: Art project activity held.
- Earth Day: Art project completed and displayed.
- Midway through the year: Opportunity to share progress on continuous improvement plans.
- Spring of 2024: MCA reading data reported.
- This year: English phonics taught in kindergarten for 100 minutes a week.
- This year: Cartoneria project, where every child writes a book.
- This year: Pacing guides for reading and math implemented.
- This year: Latinx affinity group established.
- End of the year party: Celebrated participation in the Latinx affinity group.
- This year: Carved out collaboration time for special education staff.
- Partway through the year: Peter Hobart Pit Stop professional development sessions began.
Ordinances & Resolutions (1)
First reading of Policy 715.