#17 MAP Data

Chinese Year 4718
Lunar New Year - January 25, 2020

Knowing that you have been under great pressure to meet budget and formative evaluation deadlines plus administering assessments: ACCESS, interims, etc..., I limited communicated with you only when necessary to the extent possible. Please reach out with questions/concerns. I will do my best to get back to you in a timely manner. 

We have a little over one week of budget collabs to go! This week, I will either see you at your collab or at your PLC on Thursday. As always, thank you for your hard work.

The week before February break, I will be attending the Standards Institute in Florida. Leaders from the lowest performing schools and central office staff will be attending. The Barr Foundation is funding this opportunity for the district to participate in an intensive and transformative learning experience designed to improve, develop, and sustain instructional excellence.

MAP Data from Our Group of Schools

In aggregate, students at the 50th percentile dropped based on the winter MAP Growth assessment. Schools that participated are included in these charts.

MAP Fluency for schools in our group.

MAP Winter Data Review Webinars for Leaders happening this week. We will review major reports and take questions from participants.

Information to access the webinars is below; if you would like a calendar invite with this information, please complete this survey.

MAP Winter Reading and Math Growth Data Review for Leaders

• Tuesday, January 21 from 3:00pm-4:00pm
• Online: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/1485497755
• Telephone:  US: +1(773)2319226
• Meeting ID: 148 549 7755

MAP Winter Fluency Data Review for Leaders

• Thursday, January 23 from 7:15 am -8:15 am
• Online: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/1490731358
• Telephone:  US: +1(773)2319226
• Meeting ID: 149 073 1358

Please reach out to Sarah Jay (sjay@bostonpublicschools.org) with any questions or additional requests for support.

From Marshall Memo 817:

“I’ve come to realize that when we ask superficial questions, we get superficial information back from what students know,” says Robert Kaplinsky in this Edutopia article. Encouraging teachers to promote deeper thinking, he includes a link to The Open Middle website https://www.openmiddle.com, which has a plethora of open-ended math problems from kindergarten through calculus, including counting, geometry, measurement and data, numbers and operations, algebraic thinking, statistics and probability, functions and vectors, linear models, and more. Here’s a sample fourth-grade question: You have $1.00 in change in your pocket. You have 15 coins. What coins do you have? (source: Andrew Gael).

“Getting to the Heart of What Students Know in Math” by Robert Kaplinsky in Edutopia, December 26, 2019, https://www.edutopia.org/article/getting-heart-what-students-know-math 

Dates

January 21, 2020     Strategic Plan @ Mattapan Library, 6 pm
January 23, 2020     PLC
January 29, 2020     School Committee, 6 pm
January 30, 2020     Strategic Plan @ East Boston Library, 6 pm
February 5, 2020     School Committee, 6 pm
February 6, 2020     Strategic Plan @ Condon Community Center, 6 pm
February 11, 2020   Strategic Plan @ Thelma D. Burns Building, 6 pm
February 13, 2020   School Committee Budget Hearing
February 20, 2020   School Leader Screening Day
2/17/20-2/21/20       February Vacation Week