good evening everyone welcome to the Roseville area school's Public Presentation of the world's best Workforce report and plan and our achievement and integr plan report to start things off we'll be director uh Jake Vonda Lindy thanks Jake thank you chair Anderson as uh he stated I am Jake vindy executive director of teaching and learning in the Roseville area schools thanks for watching this evening I will be walking you through our annual report which includes our district goals and key strategies as well as our world's best Workforce information if you've been watching these reports for some time you'll notice that we've reworked and revised the report to focus on and highlight our district goals and key strategies which in which includes our world world's best Workforce goals this annual report provides us a chance to report on the the goal areas and key strategies with examples of our work over the past year our strategic plan goals are interwoven with our world's best Workforce areas and all of them work to improve the educational experience of our students and families I also want to acknowledge that all of this information represents work that is done every every day by many committed Roseville area school staff members and so I want to thank our staff who continue to support these efforts for our students families and communities so let's move on into the overview of our report we'll start with our mission vision and our Equity Vision our mission is Excellence Innovation and equity in all we do our vision is that each learner experiences a sense of belonging and a joy of learning is inspired and prepared to reach their potential and contributes to our communities our Equity Vision states that Roseville area schools is committed to ensuring an equitable and respectful learning environment for every student family and staff member regardless of race gender gender identity sexual orientation social socioeconomic status ability Homer first language religion national origin age and physical appearance our mission and vision were developed and honed during our strategic planning process that was completed in the spring of 2023 this was a process that included feedback and input from our staff students and community over the course of many months our Equity Vision was developed years ago and continues to be a guiding document for our district that is in the Forefront of our decision-making I'll move on to our Focus to our district by the Numbers the data points on this page describe our district in multiple different areas and maybe things that are current current community members and even some staff members don't know and would find interest interesting I won't go through all of them this evening but I'll highlight some that are important to know currently we serve about 7,676 students in prek through grade 12 we are a racially diverse district and the demographics of our district include about 15% of students who identify as Hispanic or latinx under 1% of our students that identify as American Indian or Native American 18% of our students identify as Asian about 18% of our students identify as black African-American or African and about uh 38% of our students identify as white and about 10 of our 10% of our students identify as multi-racial we also serve a majority of our students about 51% that qualify and receive educational benefits these benefits include free or reduced price meals Transportation activities fees and other fees 36% of our students are multilingual and speak a language other than English at home currently we have 92 languages other than English spoken in the homes of our students we serve about 550 students in early childhood serving students from birth up through age five when they when they begin kindergarten we also serve many meals and snacks throughout the day and and throughout the school year last year we served over 1 million meals between breakfast and lunches in the community one of the most visual ual reminders that school is in session is based on the yellow buses that drive around our communities each day what you might want to know is that we have 789 bus stops throughout our community and transport around 5,500 students each day next we'll focus on our world's best Workforce goals the world's best Workforce areas identified by the state of Minnesota along the left side of this document include five goal areas these goal areas are all children are ready for school all all third graders can read at grade level all racial and economic gaps between students are closed all students are ready for colle for career and college and all students graduate from high school for the first goal all students are ready for school we identified an early childhood reading assessment that focuses on rhyming for students we were hoping to see that students we were hoping to see students that are going into kindergarten in the next school year see an increase in their prek rhyming skills compared to the previous year but unfortunately we did not meet that goal yet we did however incorporate many strategies over the last year to work towards meeting that goal with some examples including providing professional development in letters and heg programs that enhance phonological awareness and skills for early literacy letter stands for language Essentials for teachers of reading and spelling it's a professional development program that helps teachers learn how to teach reading spelling and other language skills letters is based on the scientific reading research and designed to help teachers understand how students learn to read and write prek also implemented the TS gold assessment to provide information around growth and to Pro and to guide interventions through our teacher teams called plc's or professional learning communities the next goal is that all third graders can read at grade level we measured this goal based on the Minnesota compreh hensive assessment in reading and unfortunately we did not meet the goal for this area we made progress and improved our proficiency but not to the level we were hoping for we have put much effort focused time and effort and energy on improving our reading proficiency for all of our students and especially for our youngest Learners to do this we've communicated our belief that literacy is a social justice issue and committed to action around this belief including investing in elementary literacy material materials which incorporate the science of reading and structured literacy practices into our reading instruction we've also trained our K4 letters or teachers in letters and they have completed over 150 hours of letters training over two years our next goal is around eliminating all racial and economic achievement gaps this is a goal that we continue to focus on and put much effort efforts towards however we did not meet the goal for math or reading this year we decreased our racial disparity in math but unfortunately our reading disparity increased over the year we do expect to see long-term gains in Reading as we continue to change our reading practices to the science of reading and a structured literacy approach however this change in proficiency will take time as students are first tested on the MCA reading in grade three and some of our beginning readers skill Improvement may take a few years to show up our next goal all students graduate from high school focuses on the end of our students K12 experience we know how important it is for our students to earn a high school diploma in terms of their ability to earn a living wage have better job prospects and increase their life expectancy rates our goal in this area is a longer term goal to have all students graduate at an expected rate of 90% by 2024 graduation data is always a year behind so we won't get 2024 graduation rate information until the spring of 2025 in 2023 we had 89.6 of our students uh our students graduate in 4 years so we are well on our way to reaching our goal the last goal is that all students are ready for career and college we are using a act data to measure this goal we met this goal by increasing our act composite scores from 18.9 in 2023 to 20.0 in 2024 which is a large increase over one year and we hope to continue to see improvement over this year some of our Focus areas for this goal include continuing to expand our AVID program in grades 512 across all schools with PR plans to expand to all Elementary grades over the coming years continue to use our Avid wicker strategies writing inquiry collaboration organization and reading into our school Improvement plans and incorporating these strategies into all of our classrooms we also continue to expand our career Readiness Pathways and course options at the secondary level and offer certifications in various fields for high school students lastly we enable students to earn college credit while in high school through advanced placement concurrent enrollment College in the schools and postsecondary education options and courses we'll now transition to focus on our district goal areas this page provides an overview of our district goals and key strategies and in the next few pages we'll review each of these goal areas in more depth goal number one our graduates are prepared to achieve their goals and aspirations in this area we have a few key strategies deliver Innovative effective practices and systems ensure students are College and Career ready and deliver a challenging joyful and career sorry challenging joyful and safe learning learning environment out one of the highlights of our strategic plan in action is based on delivering a challenging joyful and safe learning environment throughout the district we work on establishing Mentor mentee relationships with older students and younger students an example of this last year includes raw's chemistry students who visited emtd Williams to work with our fourth grade students the RW students modeled science as a career option providing our fourth graders with Hands-On science experience that align to our state standards and goal number two goal number two is our Learners contribute to an equitable caring Society in this area we have four key strategies amplify student leadership and voice and decision-making cultivate student engagement and joy in learning support learner resiliency and prepare Learners to be racially and socially responsive a highlight for this goal area is preparing our students to be racially and socially responsive and amplifying their voices this year our superintendent and executive director of student services invited four Avid seniors from Roseville area high school to share their experiences and insights with Community audiences including the Rotary Club the optimists and the association of metropolitan school districts the students delivered presentations at each of the meetings addressing the Strategic plan goal areas 1 through 4 and highlighting how Roseville area schools have positively impacted their educational Journeys we'll move on to goal three and goal three is that we are a culturally responsive inclusive anti-racist District within this area we have five key strategies hire and retain a diverse Workforce develop Equitable leaders ensure educator commitment to anti-racist practices build a culture of belonging where we all feel welcome included and safe and develop a culturally responsive evaluation system the Highlight for this goal area is based on the work of ensuring educator commitment to anti-racist practices this fall at our back to school workshop for all staff we highlighted Native American culture with keynote speaker Dr Anton Troyer a professor of ojibway at beri State University and noted author and facilitator odia wood kruer the author of a guide to Reliable Native American related teaching resources the event equipped Educators with culturally responsive tools to Foster inclusivity and honor the diverse histories and experiences of Native American communities we'll move on to goal four goal four is that the community is United behind meeting student needs this area we have two key strategies partner with families and the community to support student Su Student Success and build a culture of belonging a highlight from this goal is our continued work in building relationships across our community this includes Community businesses organizations and individuals who support our students from volunteers who read play games and knit hats to organizations promoting voting addressing food needs and funding scholarships we know that we are deeply fortunate for the shared Community commitment to enriching the lives of our students and finally our last goal area is that we are financially secure this area has two key strategies cultivate and maintain Community Trust and secure and allocate Financial Resources to support the district's mission and vision a highlight for this area includes work at Fairview Alternative High School where students explore real world climate change Solutions using data from their schools solar panels to track energy generation and CO2 emission saved in 2024 the entire School learned about how their build building uses renewable solar energy and the last page besides the awesome pictures of our students provide some links to reports that were provided to the board during the 2023 2024 school year these reports provide information and data about our school district in more detail before we end I want to say thank you for taking time to follow along with our district annual report and world's best Workforce presentation this evening thank you for your Comm committed support for your continued committed support of Roseville area schools and I also want to especially thank Carrie arido our director of communications for the countless hours it took to put together this annual report from the layout the design and word smithing so thanks so much Carrie and following my report this evening uh donon Smith associate superintendent will be presenting our achievement and integration report so please stay tuned for that upcoming information thank you Jake said I am donon Smith associate superintendent of vacu innovation here in Rose VAR schools um I'm here today to share with you an update on the progress of our achievement and integration plan so um director Von Lindy did such a great job of laying out our our vision and and some history behind that but I just wanted to once again highlight our mission of Excellence Innovation e All We Do and our vision of each learner experiences a sense of belonging and a joy of learning is inspired to prepare and prepare excuse me to reach their potential and contribute to our communities uh this plan aims to uh support both the mission and the vision and to help us live into our Equity Vision uh there are five goals as once again if you tuned in earlier you would have heard U of our strategic plan our graduates are prepared to achieve their goals and aspirations our Learners contribute to an equable caring Society we are a culturally responsive inclusive anti-racist District the community is United behind uh meeting student needs and we are financially secure so this presentation will touch on all of these goals in some way but more specifically goals one through four so the achievement integration uh for Minnesota program supports the pursuit of racial and economic integration increased student achievement the creation of Equitable educational opportunities and the reduction of academic disparities based on students diverse racial ethnic and uh economic backgrounds in Minnesota Public Schools the Minnesota Department of Education determines which school districts participate in the Achi integration program by comparing the joining District's percentage of enrolled protected class students uh these would be our African-American students Asian Pacific Islander um Latinos uh students American Indian Alaskan native students and multi-racial students it also Compares a percentage of enrolled protected class students at schools within the same school district each year the commissioner analyzes fall enrollment data from every District to look for these racial enrollment disparities between districts and between schools when the difference between the district percentage of enrolled protected class students is more than 20% higher when compared with at least one of its adjoining Districts The District with the higher percentage is considered racially isolated and on the the other and when the difference of enrolled protected class students at a school is more than 20% when compared to the district's average of students in that same uh grade level or those same grade levels uh the school with the higher percentage of is considered racially identifiable or racially identifiable school districts that are racially isolated or have a racially identifiable School are required to be in the achievement and integration program and this year marks the second year of our three-year plan so the achievement integration plan must contain three types of goals at least one of these goals or at least one in each of the following and that's reducing disparities in academic achievement among all students that's reducing the disparities in Equitable access to effective and more diverse teachers among all students and increasing racial and economic integration I will spend the next few slides sharing progress updates on each of our goal uh of our plan goals so goal number one is to increase overall reading proficiency for bipac that's black indigenous uh people of color students in grades 3- six from 37.4% 2022 to 30 excuse me 53.2% in 2026 as measured by the mca3 reading tests and so our progress on that is uh with this last MCAS uh we had a proficiency rate for that group of 31% um and I I put up last year's uh to show you the comparison and so we have taken a dip um in in that particular one um and so for this one we're not currently on track but there is some optimism that we will get things turned around here hopefully soon go two uh decrease the flat growth of Native American students in grades two through six on Fast reading assessment test from 38% in 2022 to 29% in 2026 uh this is a very encouraging as you can look at the progress update uh our 2024 flat growth was at 177% um almost cut in half from the year before um like I said this is encouraging and could speak uh to the shift that we're making um in letters in the science of reading as Jake spoke about I believe the work our of our American IND department and our Native American Infinity groups um has impacted the way students see themselves and the confidence that they have as Scholars and so so far with this particular one this is a goal that is met goal three our students will self-report a 10% increase from 2023 Baseline to 2026 uh in their experience of teacher Equitable practices and culture of equity in their classrooms on the annual seal and Equity student survey so let me break this down a little bit for you so last year um we actually got our Baseline last year for 2024 and so it took a little time to get this survey so we're going off for 2024 Baseline um and for this goal we're looking at two sections of the survey the survey is broken down into a few sections one of them is teacher Equitable practices and the other is culture of equity uh in their classrooms so these two sections speak to how our students experience our professional development efforts and if the learning we do as adults in this district is reaching the classroom um it's a scale of one to four going from strongly disagree to strongly agree and so looking at 2024 Baseline data in our elementary for our elementary students which are our fifth and sixth grade students um we had an average score of 3.04 for Teacher Equitable practices and an average score of 3.25 for a culture of equity and so students are somewhere in that agree uh between agree and strongly agree um in their responses to those sections for uh secondary we had uh for Teacher equal practices 2.83 average response and culture of equity 2.97 um average response so these will be our Baseline for um for next year when we report out again as well and then gold area four uh this is to increase students access to the number of racially and eely diverse teachers from 12% 2023 to 177% in 2026 so our um at the end of 2024 uh or actually at the start of this year uh we our teacher of color population is 15.17 per of the entire teaching population so that has gone up from 2023 once again this is an exciting number and I want to thank our human resource Department forther work in increasing this number our Collective efforts and our understanding of the importance of representation in the teaching ranks for all of our students promises to raise this number above our expectations and so I would believe for this particular one we are on track all right so that's the end of our districtwide goals and now we're going to talk about those racially identifiable schools and keep in mind rally identifiable schools are schools whose bipox student population is at least 20 percentage points higher uh than the district and you can see from those numbers uh those two schools are harambe and uh Edon elementaries so racially identifiable School goal number one is decrease the overall average percentage of Flat growth for bipox students in grades 2 through six as measured by that fast assessment at ederton we want to go from 16.5 to 8% and harambe 21 per to 10% by 2026 um and you can see uh 2024's flat growth for edting was 18% compared to 16% the year before and harambes was 22% compared to 16% um so we do expect these numbers to uh decrease over time as we continue to course correct with training of all of our teachers in the science of reading and our new Ela curriculum um as we enter year two of implementation uh currently we are not on track with this particular goal but once again um we hope to see the fruits of our labor here pretty soon goal number two increase the enrollment at Edon Elementary from 450 students to 490 and harambe from 270 to 330 students uh you can see from those numbers we are going in the wrong direction um so there's a lot of work that needs to be done here in this particular area and we are not on track with this goal as we sit here today and then the last uh goal for raci identifiable schools is Edan harambe students will self-report a 10% increase on the student SEO survey um from 2023 baselines once again we're working off of a 2024 Baseline so this is closely related to The District goal around this particular one um and at harambe and Edan we're looking for their responses and teacher Equitable practices in their classrooms and so uh the progress on that is that that survey data um for those individual schools it was it's still being generated um and so as soon as we uh have that data we we'll report on on how harambe and ENT 10 students responded to the questions in the teacher Equitable practice section so next slide is um some response and efforts uh to help us meet our goals and to turn around some of those goals where we're not on track uh we continue to believe that L literacy is a social justice issue of our time and so um structured literacy in the science of reading is our Focus um professional development um the materials and the curriculum that we uh um have purchased and implemented over the last year um that would include letters training for our K4 teachers um once again that's going to uh eventually increase and um atric or articulate up to 7 through 12 uh we have a new Ela curriculum k6 that was implemented last year and we continue to do our screenings uh for K8 students and intervening um when needed of avid Elementary is another exciting piece that we added is and was implemented last year as well and Aid wicker strategies will also help in that area of um of uh increasing our literacy proficiency um we've also um added a equity advancement literacy lead to help us to focus more on Equity K12 um we continued our Recruitment and Retention efforts for our bipac uh staff and um our pist uh epistemology work I call it so the contined professional development that we do around mindsets um and the continue critical self-reflection that we ask all staff to do as they go through this work um are things that um we continue to do and continue to to to pull our efforts around all right that concludes this presentation uh for this evening and thank you for your time e