Middle School Redesign didnt just initiate wonder in one teacher learner, by thousands of middle School Students for whom an education where their voices rise above all of the noise around them and it has never been this bright, this beautiful , and is accessible. Thank you. Hello. My name is jesse walker and im a teacher at roosevelt middle school. Knowing last year that we would be one of the pilot schools for the middle School Redesign, we had the opportunity to go to pdl works conference and learn more about them and how to implement it into our classrooms. That was a huge advantage for us as teachers. We are now able to come back to our school with our Early Release one days and we are doing teacher led meetings for staff. They hear from us teachers how we are implementing it in our classroom instead of some to come in that has not taught for a while. I think all of our staff is really loving these Early Release one date wednesdays. We now have more than three hours of common planning time as teachers, to work together. Last year we only had an hour a week to work together. We couldnt always be more aligned. This year, we have three hours to work together. We are able to plan project based unionist units that allow students to have voice and choice and work well with our students. It has definitely been a positive experience so far this year and im really excited. Thank you. [please stand by] and also as a parent of a fifth grader at one of our Elementary Schools, i cant tell you about the chatter about middle school and how freaked out some families are. Ive forwarded out to our Elementary School already. I would encourage, though, maybe a potential workshop with the enrolment fair might be a great way to reach the families. You let us know where to show up. Well be there. Thanks. Thank you. Any comments or questions from commissioners . Commissioner lopez. Hi. Thank you for presenting and thank you to the teachers to shared their experiences. That is valuable. I was telling my colleagues that planning time is like gold. I know you are piloting this at certain schools and this will be built out. But im wondering about the k through 8 schools and whether they will be involved in this process. Thats something that were discussing. The one thing with the k8 schools, its a smaller structure. But im in conversation with the superintendent. They were part of our pd and retreat, so we are in conversation. Thank you for the presentation. I had the opportunity to visit roosevelt yesterday and visit it firsthand and that was illuminating. And i was thankful to see this take shape and liftoff. Michael mentioned one of the challenges and i was wondering if you could address it here around students who are low performing and not able to access the exploratory courses. We talked about it, where health and Computer Sciences have been on the books for and while and you have not mentioned it. For the electives, can you talk a bit about the challenges there and what that might look like going into the future. In the model that we created it was an eightperiod model. At roosevelt it is a sevenperiod model. We are constrained by that. So we had to make some adjustments with the seventhperiod day. We wanted to focus on the exploratory courses that everyone has access to Computer Sciences and health and the other courses. This is a learning year. We are going to work towards this model which is where all students will have access to electives. Can you elaborate on that, how will that happen if youre constrained by the amount of periods you can have in a day. What im going to say is it we are constrained by the contract. Its the fiveperiod day. Its in the language. So were learning to see how this is why were really constrained by that. One thing that weve been thinking about is with the black scheduling and with that the black scheduling can be alternated. So with that what our future potential of the changing of the contact can be. So in the future how the students might take an elective even if its not daily. I would just like to know who these students are. Moving into the school year, who are the students who will not be able to avail themselves of elective courses. Thats why were also working with our Research Planning and Accountability Office to measure towards access and achievement as well. I was just curious if you can talk a little bit more about how the exploratory courses are going to work. How students are going to what a typical year would look like with these courses. Its great that were offering world language in medical school and thats a huge step forward. I question the one trimester if thats going to get them ready for a class in a deeper study in high school. If you could talk a little bit about that too. So the exploratory in terms of the structure, they obviously because they rotate through on a trimester system. In sixth grade it will look different than seventh and eighth. In terms of the world language, we are in an exploratory phase with our exploratory wheel. So what we really are thinking about is how do we ensure that we are basing the world courses, so that what we are doing in those courses is getting students ready for the next level. We think it is a step in the right direction. It will be offered in cases where students want to take an elective. I think it is for students who entered, but for the sake of approximating redundant, students who entered in pathways in kinder and first grade then were able to take it through the eighth grade. And parents or students who didnt make that choice for their children didnt make that until high school. Its the first step to change that, but the first step to make that more equitable for all students. I want to underscore that i see this as a positive development. Thank you, staff, for making this possible. So how long is a trimester and how is that going to work . Every 12 weeks. So one of the things that i also want to if you look at the exploratory courses as a sampler, thats for students just to take a taste, but they also have electives where they go deeper into the language. Were not saying the exploratory course will take the place of a fullon exploratory language class. If you see in those two big buckets. The exploratory courses are your appear tideser and your elective is a main dish as well. Finally, can you talk a little bit more about the exploratory course and how is that looking like. For literacy were using an accelerated literacy course that were using. And in math theyre using a course to help students. I think that the acceleration courses are also places that students designated as students that need help can get help. Does that mean that every student is enrolled in an acceleration course thats tailored to whatever their need or passion is. If im an english language learner i would get the right course. I assume if im weve talked about math so im going to ask. If im passionate about learning about math, i can enroll in a math acceleration course . Absolutely. Thats a course in progress. Weve hired someone to work exclusively on that math course. If youre at grade level in math you can take a math acceleration course approxima course . We hired someone this year to do it next year. So right now there are for students who are behind grade level in eld or mathematics or reading. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Its been really exciting to be a parent at roosevelt and going through the redesign. Thank you. I had a couple of questions around the social and emotional integration. I wanted to learn around what was happening in supports and how you look to scale. Its actually happening at francisco and presidio. We are working with an organization looking at student connectiveness and Building Community and building resilience of the teacher. We piloted it at ap a year ago and the sixth grade students is phenomenal because that is a large school and they felt more connected to their teachers and students. Because the teaches had time to reflect on their own practice but also reflecting on themselves as a teacher and the identity of a teacher and how hard that is. Because we saw that support, we wanted to branch that out to the other schools. And the other question i had is what does scaling look like for the district. I know you pretend that in the spring, but maybe you can move forward with the assessment and the growth year. Sure, i can answer that. Were exploring what scale hools looks like. In terms of how many schools and at what pace, were still learning. Were still learning how are all of our middle schools able to explore or pilot or address some of the principles of deeper learning and what does it look like in terms of all of the changes that need to have structurally and capacitybuilding, professional development, for a whole school to adapt and take on that change. So through our evaluation through our p. A. Were going to be looking at that and looking at all the factors. We dont have a definitive answer at this point, but we will know more and look at what are the next set of schools. I will say the good thing or what were working forwards, the schools are in a good way. Other schools are working on specific principles or have their own aspects of deeper learning and the middle redesign. So were gearing up schools to be in that pipeline. I think that is going to be really critical communicating that out to the community. Even parents in elementary, theyre thinking about what middle School Experience is going to be. Its going to be important for us as a district to be orienting rising sixth grade families, how are we communicating that this is a longterm impact for the district. This is what we want to get through the class of 2025. Just to recommend that we proactively engage with our parent pacts its a continuous feedback cycle and encouraging that at the school sites as well that i know that will be occur lg at. Thank you. So i wanted to get clarity. I think part of what im hearing from other commissioners is what im experiencing. Were exploring things, and at the same time i want to know what does it actually look like. In terms of the planning even. So i want to know so i have a lot of questions. What types of electives are being offered. Im hearing we could offer world language classes as an elective. We could be offering band or those things. As a parent and a board member, electives sounds vague and theres some crossover things. So for kids getting a sampling or doing a yearlong class. We want knto understand where w are going. What is an elective these acceleration courses are electives but also elective. The different schools have different similar electives and different. Some schools have robotics and some have dramas. The reason we dont have a set of electives is each community has what they want to offer. Is that what youre asking . I know it would be were looking at how we do art in the district. That may form some of the electives offered in the future. When you say english, math, social studies, that makes sense to me. I heard from commissioner norton, what kinds of classes fit in. What kinds of classes fit in for what types of classes. It could be math circle. Give me specific examples. I would like to know on the m u menu, is it an appetiser or main menu item. As far as how they lay out, it looks like every year every kid would get one visual or performing art. They would get a computer since and two years they would get health. In sixth grade they would get a world taster. Maybe the exposure would lead them to say they would want something in seventh or eighth grades. Youre working with concrete pieces and it would be helpful for families and pieces to see that. Also, social and emotional content, you say youre working with my milennium forum. I would have to look at it. Its also part of the Health Curriculum at the different grades swlt. I can speak to the cyberbullying piece as well. I dont know if youve been using second step and i dont know if this is a part of this. So problematic the second step is because i think theres one lesson on Sexual Harassment and bullying. It doesnt talk about race and power dynamics. Those kinds of things lead to certain kids getting bullying. So its not random kids getting bullied. Kid bring them in. So i would like to do a thorough review of all the click alumini aluminium i mean, i have done as an educator, is it comprehensive throughout or is it one lesson, thats the kind of thing id like to make sure and i love when we develop our own curriculum. Our health ed is incredible. So were going to buy pieces as much as we need. But our educators are doing an amazing job and we should be patenting it and selling it because the stuff we do is more comprehensive. And then, i guess have we conducted any resource mapping. Because i dont know whos doing what. Id like to know what are the components of the redesign. Im hearing many different things. Do we have a list of all the schools and who has what . I know all schools have Computer Science to varying degrees. Id like to know if were moving from there to here and do you have a master list from all the schools . We can follow up and get that to you. Were all going to homefulpe have all of it. And scopingwise, how are we going to get there . Its not going to be we planned this and were doing this. But five years and we got a lot of schools and a lot of components, so id like to sigh whats our even if its a were going to go for this. And then stakeholder outreach, id like to see family focus group, the actual raw data if you have family focus groups, and id like to know what negative feedback or pushback are we hearing from families and surveys. If you could tell us all what are some of the challenges or things youre hearing from the community redesign. Im interested in hearing it now if you have some input. I heard hiring for Computer Science was a big challenge. And other challenges im thinking about so the time that this takes for our educators and we heard from some of our teachers and the comments that they shared, to share the lessons theyre hearing, not only in terms of the content but also the time. Shifting to a block schedule is different than the number of minutes that teaches have. Having the Early Release time so that teachers have more time together. Having teacherled pds. And then in terms of when weve done from our parent focus groups, you know, a lot of excitement definitely about it. And i know we were talking about our Elementary School families. We often get a very large representation from elementary parents because they want to know whats going on and available for my kid in middle school. The questions about whats going to work. What will the children have in terms of shifts, will the children be prepared. Its also that excitement but also anxiety. Wanting to have the nuts and bolts. The shift, can we give an example. So we had a working group last year that looked at examples and sample lessons. How do you go deeper instead of new staff. I imagine that will continue to come up and how are we supporting educators in the way we are teaching. Thank you. I love group work and projectbased learning. Its more facilitating learning than direct instruction. But my question is ive seen that in some cases people associate group work with putting students in a group. In those cases i heard the highpchling take over for lowperforming students get bulldozed or hang back or not supporting. I think we need to be supportive in how we support teachers in that work. I want to know how are we supporting educators in those structures. There are structures that you can implement with group work. So id like to know what were going to be providing to teachers. Im assuming that support can happen through this collaborative time, but i think we should have structures for how we can scaffold students together. Actually, weve been thinking and doing a lot of that work in our status. In our math departments in when we go into clam classrooms, weve been trained to look at that. Thanks for the presentation. I just want to quickly shout out again to all the teachers. Thank you for coming out and ms. Allen who is an amazing science teacher. All of you, thank you for coming. I see your principal is back there. Whats up, yall. You got to teach tomorrow. Youre going to stick around . Youre welcome to stay. Hope to have you back at future meetings. Its tons of fun as you can see. I had a couple of questions about i only have a couple about the redesign work. And im sure you all thought about this already, but its not included in the presentation. But its really around whats happening around Summer School and in the summer for students. What is our do we have Summer Learning loss and how it affects middle School Students . I dont think we have the kind of data we need to inform what we would need in the summer. There are very few options for the middle grade students. There is a geometry class that we would offer. I hear a lot of conversations around elementary School Students and around efforts towards literacy and our high School Conversation is around credit recovery. There may be some college prep stuff, but we have this wide gap around middle school. And given the fact that were having this redesign conversation, were talking about what we need to do for middle school. Im hoping we can start to seriously look at that and see what it will take to enhance our Students Learning experience over the summer. Have those conversations started . No. But i think we can start them. I think these are great conversations to have. There are a number of cbos in the summer we can work with. A lot of them do serve our middle School Students and are academically focused. But figuring out if those are sufficient or if we need to do Something Different can be a topic Going Forward in the steering community. I love a lot of the work thats coming out of the projectbased learning. Im wondering how can we share it because a lot of it is seeing it. Its great work you are doing and i want to see more of it. The other thing i was going to speak to was the Health Curriculum and how critical that is for middle