Annual Goals November Report

Goals 2015-2016

November 2015

Goal Area #1: Student Achievement

 Strategic Objectives:

I.                 We will vertically align K-12 core Math Curriculum.

a.      District and school goals pronounced and established with staff during PIR time.  Time was given for staff to work goal. 

b.      Additional Time was given to staff on 10-9-15. 

c.      Additional Time for staff was given on 11-13-15.

II.               We will horizontally align by building one course per staff member. Schedule training to this goal for Rubicon.  ELA Standards will be aligned for all courses.

a.      Training for Rubicon was completed for all schools for two hours.  Two hours was dedicated to staff for implementation.

b.      Time was given to staff on 10-9-15.

III.              Teach proper writing across all curriculums.  Schedule training to meet this goal for writing.

a.      Training scheduled for Writing in November with Tammy Elser from the U of M.  

b.      Training was completed with staff with three hours in the elementary and three hours in the high school on 11-13-15.

IV.              Emphasize the importance of meaningful assessments: Pre, Formative and Summative. Continue to research meaningful assessment for standards based learning. 

a.      Reviewed with staff during opening PIR, very little training was done on this topic. Will need to add training later this year. 

b.      School goals were established for assessments at all levels.

V.               Implement the tools of fundamental five instructional strategies at all levels.  Order books for all staff and implement frame the lesson and proper closure at all levels.

a.      Elementary, Middle, High School have decided to order these books for staff.    

b.      Frame and closing goals have established as school goals.  

c.      Books for every staff member arrived and will begin with staff on 10-9-15

d.      Additional Time for staff was given on 11-13-15.

VI.              Have every at-risk student on a milepost plan and monitored with positive interventions at all levels.  Use early intervention system to identify at-risk students.  Raise graduation rates.

a.      Training for Mileposts was done for all levels with no cost to the district. 

b.      Interventions were identified for each level and Milepost training complete k-12.

c.      Grant with O.P.I. complete to use early intervention system.  $10k grant complete and plan for those dollars will be dedicated to technology that we are in need of acquiring.

d.      Training for early warning systems was done 9-22-15. We can now utilize the warning system through GEMS to identify at-risk students.

e.      Met with OPI staff on 10-28-15 for additional Early Warning System Training.   

VII.            Emphasize district resources to ensure that every student can read by 3^rd grade. 

a.       We talked about this goal during district day.  This will need to be monitored.

b.      Proposing a paraprofessional for Kindergarten this month. 

c.      School Board recommended and hired Wendy Weider for Kindergarten and Britany Evelo for 2^nd Grade Paraprofessional to maintain emphasis of this goal. 

 

VIII.          Fund and support the extra-curricular activities that we currently offer.  Reinstate uniform rotation with funding. Maintain evaluation process of all programs.

a.      Rotation for uniforms was put back in place with funding.

b.      Wrestling uniforms are up on the rotation.

c.      Wrestling uniforms were ordered and paid for by the school.

Goal Area #2: Leadership

Strategic Objectives:

I.       For goals and expectations of buildings we offer proper training and time to staff.  (MBI, Rubicon, Mileposts, Fundamental Five, Writing)

a.      MBI, Rubicon and Mileposts Training complete over PIR.  Writing is scheduled and Fundamental Five is going to be done with during school improvement days.

b.      Fundamental Five Books were ordered for  every staff member.

II.     Monthly report to goals and efforts towards meeting our annual goals. 

a.      September is complete. J

b.      October is complete. J

c.      November is complete J

III.     Annual strategic plan goals established.

a.      Complete and working well. 

IV.    MBI Leadership Team – All Levels

a.      MBI Teams established at all levels.  We have teams in each building Elem, MS and HS.

b.      MBI High School Teachers are attending the high school forum this month. 

V.     Shared Leadership opportunities all levels: Board to Staff, Administrative Team, Administration to Staff, Board-Admin-Staff-Students-Parents-Community.

a.      We had great input during PIR.  We need to get board advisory committee active.  

b.      Board Advisory Committee meeting planned.

VI.    Gather input of staff and constituents to the effectiveness of leadership to our annual goals.

a.      Goals were reviewed and established with all staff during District Day P.I.R.

b.      Survey Monkey will be done with the current evaluation tool by staff. 

VII.  Develop an exit survey for all graduates to take at the end of the year at graduation practice prior to leaving our district.

a.      Mr. Hendrickson has an exit survey that he said he would refine to meet this goal for all seniors. 

Goal Area #3: Facilities/Classroom Needs

Strategic Objectives:

I.       Tech. Director visit and prioritize our district tech. needs by visiting each classroom and contacting each teacher for input. 

a.      Goal was reviewed with Mr. Lyons.

b.      Mr. Lyons has a plan to visit with teacher and respond via survey as well. 

c.      Budget was given to Mr. Lyons to meet immediate needs of the district.  Teacher computers are our first and most imperative and obvious need according to Mr. Lyon.

d.      Mr. Lyon is 1/2 the way through this project.    

II.     Continue to look for grants and outside help for projects that can be accomplished similar to the playground project. 

a.      Tribal education grant in the works to cover our Milepost and Infinite Campus cost.  10K

b.      OPI Indian Education for All Grant – Early Intervention System and 10k

III.    Continue with the building and grounds committee to best utilize funds that are available.

a.      Some work has been done as a result of our first meeting.  The budget is limited so what we can achieve is planned for this year.  Immediate needs will arise and be dealt with by committee.    

b.      We need to assess our Levy potential with both permissive and voted levies.

c.      Plan will be attached this month (October) for survey and funding information.

d.      Presentation will be given on Facilities this month to the board. (November)

  

IV.    Develop a five year plan to get impact aide back on track and available funds to make significant facility improvements. 

a.       Meeting with Dr. Matt has been set to review budget and look for levy potential. 

b.      I have met with Dr. Matt three times and reviewed our current reality and as we expected our impact aide is as low as we have ever been. 

c.      Funding for facility improvements will be included this month. (October)

d.      20 year bond is in the works for proposal to the board. (November) 4 million

Goal # 4:  Community/Communications

Strategic Objectives:

I.                 Continue: Community Breakfast, Social Media News, Web Presence, Blogs.

a.      Community Breakfast will start in October with normal breakfast.  November will be Donuts with Dads, December Muffins with Moms, January Biscuit with Elders, February will be normal and we will start the rotation over again.  We will have books to read with kids during our specific events. 

b.      Facebook is being used for boosters, football, teachers and administration.

c.      Our first community breakfast had record numbers.  We served over 300 meals and normally we are around 240. 

d.      320 served in November for Community Breakfast. 

II.               Create a collaborative calendar for the district.

a.      This has been done and active.  We established calendars for collaboration, facilities and testing. 

b.      Community Calendar was lacking specifics that have been added such as early out times and days off. 

c.      We have added specifics to calendar.  (November)

III.              Improve Web Presence with more positive data and information about the outstanding work we do.  Begin adding the horizontal alignment of curriculum.

a.      This goal has not been done yet.

b.      Horizontal Math has started to be aligned.   

c.      Facility Survey added to the web page to gather stakeholder input. 

IV.              Continue GRAD Matters and MBI Community efforts – Quarterly Newsletter, Valley Journal, Flyers, Posters, Placemats, Data Downtown “Did You Know?”

a.      Many ideas have been brainstormed, not much action yet with this goal. 

b.      We are going to continue with both MBI and Grad Matters.  Graduation Matters has been started with freshman orientation. 

c.      Newsletter will come out this month. It is started I am just waiting for others to finish and get out to the public. We will also mail this home with students.  (November)

V.               Continue Showcase- With Fresh Ideas 

VI.              Grant dollars spent to help with attendance and intervention systems.

a.      We are considering technology with these dollars.   

VII.            Attend and build positive relations with IEC and Tribal Education. 

a.      Administration plans to attend meetings second Wednesday 5:30pm.

b.      Indian Education for All Information will be handed out this month with Impact information reviewed for compliance and policy. 

c.      Denise Juneau will be here Oct. 21 at 1:45 as part of a tour of schools and feels our school is a school of best practice and outstanding systems that are currently working for students.

d.      We have requested a date to present to tribal council our Indian education report. 

e.      We presented to Tribal Council on 10-29-15 and put out an IEFA data packet.  This was well done and presented well to council on behalf the administrative team.  

Goal #5: Student Center Positive Climate and Culture

Strategic Objectives:

I.        Continue with MBI, RTI efforts to ensure that every student feels a sense of belonging.

a.      We will have data when the My Voice comes out later this fall.  Currently I have heard from students and staff and that feel we are on track.    Early warning system has been integrated. 

b.      Homecoming was great and really went well.  Great job staff, students and school. 

II.     Continue with MBI and Graduation Matters to ensure a safe and welcoming school.

a.      I believe with any quantitative data that my sense is we are on track here.  We will have data when the My Voice comes out later this fall.  Currently, I have heard from students and staff and that feel we are on track.    Both MBI and Grad Matters have been started. 

III.    Active MBI student and teacher groups at all levels. 

a.      Started at all levels.

b.      High School is going strong.  Need to check in with Elementary and Middle School. 

IV.    Welcome Back BBQ HS/MS- Elem Welcome Back Kick Off.

a.      Complete and I was very impressed at all levels.  Parent meet and greet was started at HS/MS and I felt this was an outstanding idea and very successful. 

Goal #6: Resources Accountability and Certainty

Strategic Objectives:

I.       We will develop a plan with the input of experts to improve our impact aide and levy opportunities.  In the last seven years we went from having a 20 year tradition of being at least a year ahead of impact aide to currently being at will of this year’s amount and borrowing against next year.  This is the worst this budget has been in 25 years.  We will ask the expertise of John Matt, Tim Skinner and Andy Homland to see what we can do to improve our situation and get back on track. 

a.      We have a meeting scheduled with Dr. Matt to review budget and look for ways to improve our financial situation.  We want to also look at levy potential. 

b.      Facility Improvement proposal has been started. 

c.      Regular meetings with Dr. Matt have occurred. 

II.     Our facilities, classroom and technology are below what we have set for a five year standard.  We need improvement in all areas. 

a.       We have started working on our technology needs and assessment.

b.      Survey has been built for facilities to gather input from Staff, Students and Community.

c.      20 year bond levy is in the works for School District #28 Facilities and Technology.    

III.    We will search out training that will help us study funding capabilities.  We will look for grant opportunities that we can utilize to offset impact aide stress.  

a.      Two grants have been started to help with our needs.  One from the state and one from the tribe.  We are also working on resubmitting our impact aid count from last year.  We believe we found 18 more works students that will give us additional funding for impact aid.  I have enlisted some help from Rose Tellier to help us find additional students.

b.      Impact Aide was resubmitted in order to fix the 30 students that were removed and did not qualify for the count.  We cleaned the list up with the help of the tribe and resubmitted the list that could bring 40k more in impact aide this year.  The impact aide information is currently being added to infinite campus for a more accurate count of students. 

c.      I attended MCELL and the Fall Superintendent Conference this year.  I also attend MASSP meeting once a month in Missoula. 

Bulldog News -

Bulldog News Letter

MBI Gold School

School District #28- Best Practice School

Denise Juneau Visit: Commends Mission on success and best practice systems-

Graduation Matters in Mission 2015

Great Start to the Year!!

We are seeing great things in all schools across the district-

GO BULLDOGS!!!!

Community News:

·        School District #28 is in search of data that can be used to decide future maintenance, building and grounds and technology needs for our facilities that are in need of improvement. 

·        Please take the survey on our webpage:

stignatiusschools.org   Your input is valued and needed. 

Building and Facility Needs:

·        New Gym with Additional Locker rooms/Shop/Remodel

·        Tennis Court

·        Bleachers/ Ticket Booth

·        Football Scoreboard

·        Shop Building needs work – Windows, Fans, Etc.

·        Old Gym needs ceiling repairs / Air Exchange

·        Additional Storage

·        Window Blinds in Elementary

·        SMART boards in select classrooms elementary

·        Additional Technology for Classrooms and Students

·        Parking Lot / Sidewalks – (50K three years Transportation)

·        Remodeled bathrooms in All Schools (HS Lobby for sure)

·        Automatic Flushers on All Toilets –

·        Family Consumer Science Room –Electric, Plumbing, Mice Proof

·        HS Lockers / MS Lockers

·        MS Cabinets Repaired

·        Library Carpet

·        Padded Walls Wrestling Area 

·        Class room desks/tables

·        Maintenance Equipment

·        Locker-rooms Need Work

·        Elementary Envelope East End

·        Boiler

·        Weight Room Roof

Please give us your opinion on what you feel is needed in our classrooms and facilities.  We will be looking at a Bond Levy in the Spring for Facility/Technology Improvements.

Be Bear Aware

By: Deputy Clay Shoemaker

It’s that time of year again, you guessed it, bear season, but not the hunting kind.  Bears are coming out of the woods and into populated areas; the chance of running into one in town or your backyard is much greater this time of year.  Bears are preparing for hibernation and are in search of food.  Likely sources are fruit trees such as apples and garbage cans.

The Humane Society of the United States is offering tips on how to prevent bears from getting too close and what to do if one makes his way into the backyard.

How to deter bears during the summer dispersal period:

• Make trash cans inaccessible. Do not put trash cans outside at night, but if necessary, buy a  “bear resistant” trash can or enclosure for trash containers.
• Rethink compost piles. Store compost in enclosed containers and avoid adding meat and dairy items.
• Recycle wisely. If storing recyclables outside, use enclosed bins and thoroughly wash recyclables before putting them out.
• Keep barbeque grills clean and as free of drippings as possible. Move the grill away from the house when not in use.
• Bring in birdfeeders during spring and summer. Natural foods are abundant during these seasons, and feeding can be discontinued if visits from bears are a possibility. These yearlings are looking for easy food. Raise feeders or make it difficult to reach as another solution.

Black bears are wary of people, but in the unlikely event that you encounter one:

• Never move toward a black bear to chase him away.
• Make as much noise as possible by shouting or banging pot lids together.
• Throw things at the bear.
• Make yourself look as big as possible by spreading your arms.
• After the bear leaves, make sure to remove whatever attracted him to the location (barbeque grill, bird feeder, pet food, or garbage).

Bears have recently been seen in town and on the St. Ignatius High School campus in the early morning hours.  Many people go for a run or walk around town and on the high school track, please use caution and carry bear spray and a flashlight when it’s dark.  Most bear spray can be used up to 40 feet away and should be used if a bear comes towards you and creating distance has not worked.

Indian Education for All

Achievement Gap Closing

Way above state average in Mission

Math Achievement Gap 

State:  16% Mission: 6.3%

Reading Achievement Gap

State: 19% Mission: 5.5%  

St. Ignatius School Programs 2015-2016

Graduation Matters K-12

Montana Behavioral Initiative-PBIS

Mileposts RTI Academic Assistance

Rubicon Math/Reading Curriculum Alignment

RTI School k-12/Mission Forward Academy

21^st Century School k-8

Gear Up  School 6-12

PLC School Instructional

Bully Free School

Fundamental Five Initiative -Instructional

Advisory Programs/School to Work

Student Led Conferences

Senior Projects

Extra-Curricular and Co-Curricular Activities

Upward Bound and Talent Search

Free Breakfast for All Students K-8 

After School Tutoring k-12 / Summer Program k-12

The Youth Risk Survey

St. Ignatius high school and middle school students have cut drug use in half over the past two years.  Students who have used marijuana in their lives have gone from 77% to 52% over the past two years.  Students who have used marijuana over 100 times, has gone from 25% to 12% in the past two years.  Congratulations Students, Staff, Parents and Community!!!

Attendance Rates

Last year attendance rates:

·        Elem: 92%

·        Middle: 91%

·        High: 95%

Every day on Time!!!!J

Drop Out Numbers Decreasing

2012-2013: 7

2013-2014: 6

2014-2015: 3

Graduation Rates Rising /Drop Outs Decreasing

High School/Middle School News

This week was college application week.  As of today we have had 90% of our seniors apply to at least one college/university or trade school.

MHS RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS MBI GOLD AWARD

The MHS MBI team was honored in June at the Montana Behavioral Initiative (MBI) conference in Bozeman.  This is the third year in a row that the MHS team has received an award.  Superintendent Jason Sargent said that the goal is to move up to the next level of awards, which would be to be recognized as a Platinum MBI School.  Platinum is also the highest honor bestowed upon MBI schools.  A side note, MHS is the only reservation school to achieve the gold standard. 

SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS: FACEBOOK, SNAPCHAT, INSTAGRAM

All technology should be greeted with caution and inquisition when it comes to your children.  I have already dealt with several cases of cyberbullying and harassment over social media.  Here are some tips I’d like to  offer to you as parents, in regards to your child and use of social media. 

Facebook/Snapchat/Instagram:  Do not allow your child to have Facebook if they are not the minimum age, which is 13.  Make sure your child has their settings set to the strictest settings.  Set ground rules.  You should know your child’s password.  If they won’t give it to you, things are taking place that they don’t want you to see.  Monitor the pictures your child posts online.  These pictures can and will be stolen, and will never disappear once they are posted to an social media site.  Be a good example for your child on social media.  If  they see you acting and posting appropriately they should follow suit.

Snapchat:  The purpose of Snapchat is to take photos that will be deleted shortly after sending them.  This is not good.  I would not recommend letting your child have Snapchat.  In my world, it is one of the worst social media sites to deal with on a school level.  Again, monitor the photos your child is posting online.  Good luck.

SSC: Students Serving Community - HWY. Clean Up

Elementary News

MHS RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS MBI GOLD AWARD

St. Ignatius Elementary School was recognized at the state MBI Conference in June for their efforts towards improving school climate, culture and pride. The school received the Bronze level award.  A team of teachers meets regularly to address behavioral and academic trends and recommends systemic adjustments as needed.  The team and school continually look at ways to improve instructional practices.

Elementary Playground Donation

                    Friends of Regional Parks and Trails (FORPAT) visited St. Ignatius Elementary School on October 2 to make a generous $500.00 contribution to the playground fund.   Committee efforts continue on a monthly basis to prioritize and plan for future plans.  In addition to working closely with BC/BS and Kaboom on the upper playground equipment, priorities include benches for students and families, providing space for purchased bricks, emergency exit gates on the north end of the playground, and planning for handicapped access points for existing and planned equipment.

21^st Century After School Program

                    The After School program held their Kick-Off event on October 1^st with “Hot Dogs           for Bulldogs.”  Families were treated to hot dogs, given program information, and invited to share the evening playing board games with their children.  A good time        was had by approximately 50 people in attendance.  Currently there are 100 students registered for the program.  See event photos below. The program runs Monday –Thursday3:30-5:00 PM and offers time to complete homework, a choir program, and other enrichment activities.