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So first i'd like everybody to just introduce their school

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district They're demographics so you can have an understanding of

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where they come from and then we can go into

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what they've succeeded at within their schools So tracy so

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i'm tracy best growth from bird ville texas now what's

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funny about that Is it's actually six different cities We're

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a suburb of fort worth texas So birdville is [woman discussing birdville]

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the name of the school but there's no longer a

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bird ville city by itself Our total population in the

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area is one hundred twenty thousand I didn't know that

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kristina looked at that for me That's Awesome Our student

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population and our thirty one schools We have a total

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of about twenty six thousand students three high schools seven

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middle schools and twenty one elementary schools As a district

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we have an average of about fifty eight percent low

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SES for free and reduced However we have a

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large disparity so some of our schools might be asshole

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aya's ninety percent free and reduced lunch and other schools

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might be as low as twenty percent So that's kind

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of an interesting thing about our district is what's the

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next one and the most interesting thing would be our

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changing demographics overtime I can speak to this personally as [demographic chart appears]

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i went to school k twelve in this district and

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i have had my twenty three year career in this

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district so literally i've been there since i was five

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so i can describe those changes at a very personal

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level But essentially we have a huge shift in what

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used to be a very fluent area is now majority

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low income and the ethnicity has changed which is something

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very unique for our school board for our population of

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teachers to relate to our students because many of them

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came from the is district as well so they're not

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they they've had a hard time with this change It's

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also changed the the what's going on in our programs

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so like we talked about it's not you know a

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lot of times we focus on ethnicity and low scs [BISD program participation chart]

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to raise students out of poverty but really we have

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also a problem with our low income of white households

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and those students performing as well So it's an interesting

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dynamic that's going on that i think is really going

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on all over the country So i think it's pretty

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important to point out and i think that might be

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all Okay um thank you tracy Next up is elizabeth

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from northeast high school philadelphia Good afternoon everyone As alison

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said i'm elizabeth fernandez veena from northeast high school and

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we are located in the north east Most portion of

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this map it's a school that was built in the

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nineteen fifties as a white flight school so public transportation

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doesn't really go out to where school is But many

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of our students to take public transportation to school it's

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become a largely immigrant working class neighborhood So if you

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notice in the top left go back that shows our

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income which is a thirty thousand dollars a year less [households earnings chart by neighborhood]

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per household And then if you look at the bottom

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left it shows the senses from two thousand ten which

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represents our neighborhood And as you will see our school

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certainly represents the demographics of our neighborhood So we have

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a twenty nine hundred plus or minus students down from

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about thirty eight hundred when i started there Part of

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that has happened because of students decided to goto virtual

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charter schools charter schools and other neighborhood schools now that

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they can decide to travel We have about five hundred

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students in our program currently but many of our

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students are also exit diesel students so when we look

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at our numbers a large percentage of our students were

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not born in the united states... Additionally unlike

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many schools a third of our school is represented by

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a magnet school which was started in the nineteen sixties [woman discussing magnet schools]

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as a stem program so ahead of its time and

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so these students come from all over the city But

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something i'd like to highlight is that even though thirty

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three percent of our school is represented in the magnet

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program it only represents sixty percent of our a p

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program and we're working towards even changing that even further

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When i started at northeast five years ago eighty percent

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of the students in the program or from the magnet

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program and so it was seen as an extension of

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that school and we're trying to change that So as

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we grow the program we're not decreasing the number of

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magnet students but we are increasing the number of non

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magnet students to sort of make those percentages were

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eighty four percent of our students are free and reduced

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lunch which is up from forty percent about six years

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ago So as you see this increase in free and [student population chart]

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reduced lunch which is how we measure our poverty very

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and an increase in the demo changing demographics in our

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school our AP scores have increasing So is the percentage

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of students in ap and then fifty six they're categorized

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as special ed Fifty six languages are represented so i

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would like to say that there's no majority in no

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minority at north east high school on so that's represented by [woman discussing north east high school]

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ethnicity which you can see for yourselves It's tough to

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read but it's about thirty three percent black twenty two

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percent asian nineteen percent white i think it's about seventeen

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percent latino I have two can't do the math that

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quickly and then a cz you see our ninth grade

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classes are pretty large so in our senior class does

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go down to below about six hundred So we do

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deal with issues of dropout rates and other We have

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other issues that many schools in the country face especially

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in the inner city And so as i mentioned on

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dh weaken just quickly go through this Our student population

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has decreased as our free and reduced lunch rate has

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increased and so we're really proud of our ap gains

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in particular because of that And then elizabeth how many

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assistant principals do you have at the school Five four

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okay depends so we've had significant budget cuts in the

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last year and so we've lost a lot of staff

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and were slowly rehiring cem cem folks so we have

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no library in we started off the school year with

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one counselor for three thousand students Um we lost twenty

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six teachers last year and we lost twenty the year

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before that So i've been really fortunate to be able

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to keep my job and we lost assistant principals Our

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entire administrative team with the exception of two people is

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new this year Um so so we're dealing with a

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lot of change and change that we don't necessarily want

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to happen Thank you And next up dr lipkin from

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tustin All right i'm gonna go really quick quickly through

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this but easiest fine Easiest place to find I couldjust

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reference disneyland We're pretty Close to that Most people know [Man discussing Tustin]

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where that is but tustin serves three different major cities

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in this area It's down in orange county right by

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john wayne airport ah tustin irvine in santa ana Um [Tustin shown on map]

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so we have twenty eight schools three major high schools

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and then there's a continuation adult school that i did

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not list there about twenty four thousand kids The thing

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that's important A lot of people like working with tustin

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from publishing perspective from a research perspective because we have

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almost mirror demographics to the state of california So we're

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a microcosm of the state on dh it's a fairly

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good size sample So a lot of people really like

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to look at at us the one place where we

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are beating beating the odds i guess when you consider

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that sample size we do have a fairly high graduate

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and once you extend a little bit it actually gets

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up in the about the ninety eight range But our

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initial grad rate is ninety six Point two in about

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eighty percent of our kids do go on a four

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year college So that's a pretty high rate when you [man discussing rates of kids going to college]

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consider that we are we do have that demographic set

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we have specific for year MUN program AP program i

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b and then early college where we actually have about

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last year was about sixty kids who get there a

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before they get their high school diploma So we have

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we have kind of the realm We have a third

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of our kids on free and reduced But then we

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also have ah third of our kids whose attorney will

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talk to you are their nanny every time you know

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that there's an issue So you deal with the wide [Man discussing peoples issues in schools]

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variety of people and it's a it's a great city

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and a great place to work because you get that

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full gamut Um i think that's pretty much it Okay

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great And charles is a high I'm i'm charles mazzei

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thie assistant principal in indio high school Um for most

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of us even know indio it's more in the area

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of the palm springs area California desert So me coming

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out here It's actually cold Um just real quick Ah

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lot of your students would probably know where we are

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We are the home of the world famous coachella fest

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which happens every april And if your country western fan

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of two week long events called stage coach we also [events staged in indio]

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have the tamale festival which is pretty international around We

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have about a thousand companies come out and do that

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in our city My high school is about two thousand

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We used to be a little bit larger but five

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years ago we opened up a second high school

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in the city of india So we went from about

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twenty seven hundred down to two thousand My high school

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was ninety five percent hispanic Um forty eight percent of

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them are english learners Um and we are i think

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this year about eighty eight percent frame reduced lunch No [Man discussing ethnicity in high school]

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we are the the poorer school in my school district

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We are also in this in the school district that

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includes cities such as retch rancho mirage indian wells palm

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desert the country club cities And so we are definitely

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the the opposite side of the tracks in the sense

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of our area Great Thank you So we have the

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desert We have disney We have philadelphia in texas So

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obviously you can see there's a vast geographical difference demographic

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difference but in terms of accomplishing great things with digital [Woman discussing high schools]

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curriculum thes four individuals have done an amazing job incorporating

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Shmoop as well as a variety of other resource is

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so at this point i'd like for each of you

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to just talk about some of the biggest challenges and

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what your goal was to do with in your district

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Well when i started in this position i really wanted [Woman discussing challenges]

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to find ways to help teachers target content needs and

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diagnosis those content needs appropriately especially with ap teachers that's

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really difficult to talk about because they don't think they

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have any content needs they understand it and so they

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don't necessarily think they need much help with it but

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so that was also a barrier but really what i

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wanted was for them to not think of the shmoop

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offering as online prep but to take those little quotations

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from around the words online so that it's really about

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a student taking ownership and response ability for their own

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needs that a student can leave their classroom and choose

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to do preparation for their course that that teacher doesn't

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necessarily build or lead or directly instruct And when you

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talk to ap teachers about that That makes them a

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little frightened because they're a little controlling I don't know

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if you've met any of them but so that's really

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we could I could say all day long that the

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barriers were you know we don't have the one toe

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one initiative we have bring your own device but we

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don't have enough band with I mean we could talk

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about those those issues that come with devices all day

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long But it's really about the concept of how teachers

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and students view preparation and confidence in the content And

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so that's what we faced i faced Sure so one

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of our initial goals was really it's really started from [Woman discussing initial goals]

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changing from having a very fixed mindset about ourselves and

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our students tohave to changing to having a growth mindset

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So what i mean by that is that we could

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reflect and think about our practice what we were doing

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in the classroom what we were providing for our students

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and thinking about our students and what resource is an

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access they had So we overhauled the entire program on

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dh Many of the teachers initially said well i teach

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the ap students they're the best in the brightest and

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we're doing everything we can to make sure that they

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succeed and unfortunately they're not We were at eighty percent

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eighty percent of our exam score tto one at that

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time and we started thinking about extending class time with

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limited resource is how do we do that Our students

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have smart phones So how do we connect with them

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What spaces are available in the building for them to

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come together to study What can we do with saturday's

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Our building's open on saturdays for recreation Why can't we

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take advantage of the classroom So we started thinking about

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everything that we had not necessarily the obstacles We put

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everything on paper and then said what is feasible and

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and that's how we started to change So our initial

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goal was really toe lower ones and to make sure

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that we were providing for our students and then it

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just became a it just i see everyone looking back

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so what's back there on building community So we started

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also having community building events we go ice skating Now

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every year we go to a Phillies game at the

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end of the year after ap exams And so now

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it went from students taking ap classes to students becoming

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ap students and ap scholars and that was an unintentional [Woman discussing AP students]

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outcome of what we started doing And i really think

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that just by taking baby steps and not to use

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the words that we use this morning becoming intoxicated with

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potential but just taking it one step at a time

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is really how we got to where we are wonderful

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grant All right andi i put all my answers on

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the slide so i don't know but some of the

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things that some of the things that i didn't share

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before though really quickly um we really did face a

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lot of obstacles but a lot of our obstacles are

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also advantages when you really look at it Um we

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have jonathan blackmore is in the back he's the tustin

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high principal but he's been working with his school for

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about four years I believe with shmoop um and has

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had a lot of tremendous success with ap but we've

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also been really fortunate in our district that band with

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issues are not a problem We got one hundred and

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thirty million dollars tech bond that we have to use

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just for technology S o r infrastructure is just ridiculous

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and we have one two one programs and things like

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that that we're putting into place so we're really looking

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for ah full digital transformation on dh not just put

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a you know a book onto a device or just

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have a really cool website but really to change teaching

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on dh really change learning night and day from what

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it wass on dh we don't have huge problems we

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have high socioeconomic six overall so we're trying to force

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change in an area where a lot Of people think

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we didn't need a lot of change and that is

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kind of ah hard time but with common core We

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thought it was perfect timing to do something like that

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So a lot of the things that we have for

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major obstacles with this curriculum rob's obstacles that handing uh

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ipad as well or something like that to a student

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to walk home through three gang neighborhoods with eight hundred

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dollars in their back pocket you know So we had

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different things like that to consider whether they have internet

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at home which we have solutions for those things just

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the sheer size of it But also how are we

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going How are we really going to change things with

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this Are we gonna get better results How are we

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going teo Change teaching in the classroom How we can

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extend the school day and then really take the tutor

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market away We have a really strong tutoring market and

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it creates such an imbalance between our rich and are

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poor You especially see that in a p and i

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think it's the genius of what shmoop can do on

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and it's also the genius of people That are visionary

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like jonathan and are able to see that this helps

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lower and close that gap because for free essentially for

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our kids once they log in their ableto access ap

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is a perfect spot because they can't take those tests

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five seven times I can't remember how many times but

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at least five times practicing in the past only the

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rich kid that could get a kaplan book or go

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sign up for ah crash course or something like that

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actually has that access or can pay for a tutor

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or something like that This really levels the playing field

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um and provides a lot of those opportunities for kids

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so we were really looking for for that home from

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a teacher training perspective We were really worried as well

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that are are certain demographic of teachers that were pretty

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set in their ways and not digital native we're just

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going to be afraid of using the internet period But

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with that hundred thirty million dollar tech bond we hired

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thirteen digital learning coaches that are specifically to train teachers

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on dh provide p d every day all day amendments

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where people so so a lot of things that i

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could complain but i'm i would not have a lot

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of sympathizers i don't think and then the other things

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that we're concerned about is obviously cost too when we're

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talking about the scale that we have weii what had

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some big ambitious goals but we had things like plato

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and we have all of these other digital re sources

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that are out there and they cost a fortune and

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digital books and then you throw in eight hundred dollar

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ipad on the top of it or whatever and it

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starts dad up one hundred thirty million dollars It sounds

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funny but it doesn't go very far with twenty four

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thousand people over thirty years so we have so much

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to take in a consideration but from a curricular perspective

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the bang for your buck with this particular program and

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his wide ranging is it is it's just incredible You

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know if you look at a digital even the most

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interactive digital textbook about sixty two teo eighty dollars is

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about as cheap as you can get it So this

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is just a tremendous value for what we've been able

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to get so we were and i don't work for

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smooth by the way so but anyway it really we're

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also looking for a one stop shop way needed We

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want one log in for everything to make it easy

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for parents to make it easy for kids so we

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don't have to hire an entire i t person just

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to manage everything that was going on And this also

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serves that purpose so thank you Thanks graham You're hired

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if you'd like tio uh charles Um well the story

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with shmoop in indio high school actually goes back about

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four years ago Um when california decided to push for

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the race for top grant um my high school was

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put on the chronically underperforming list We had an a

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p i that was pretty much stuck around six Forty

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and so were placed on this list and pretty much

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we were given a year to turn it around Um and so were placed on this list and pretty much

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we were given a year to turn it around Um

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we came up with a bunch of plans One of

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our plans was to start um we went from the

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six periods scheduled to an eighth period schedule to design

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more support classes for definitely are struggling students That left

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us with a sort of a good problem and we

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weren't exactly sure what to do with our top students

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on And so i was assigned with the task of

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finding some curriculum for low level students our middle level

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students and are high achieving students I was up at

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a conference and i happened to run into paul tailor

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and he started telling me about what we could help

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you with Cassie we could help you with the eels

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We could help you with a p we cannot be

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with us and we could help you with and i

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said okay and i wouldn't talk to some other people

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They were much more expensive so i came back to

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paul tailor come on And that sort of began our

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relationship Um he mentioned earlier the one thing that i

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think was the easiest for me to sell my staff

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was that it was one website want every student cause

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i have students that are english learners that aaron ap

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classes that are struggling to pass the math portion of

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the exit exam and they have one log in one

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website and a teacher that is they were able to

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go to that one website and so we started using

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the word shmoop shmoop points all over campus That is

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like ninety five percent hispanic Um but i think because

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of that i also was able to reach my staff

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in a very easy way In the sense of there

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was only one stop for pretty much all of our

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problems Um with the support from the extra support classes

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from going to the eighth period over two days blocks

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get going we were able to raise their test scores

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We would we didn't get fired Thankfully um but we

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also have seen an incredible growth in our students on

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our all of our higher tv in students in the

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sense of a p a c t as they became

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a priority and getting also the help that they needed

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at a low income school Wonderful So to segway to

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that let's talk about the results that i would like

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for each of you to brag about You have seen

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tremendous improvements with your test scores So let's we'll go

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back around start with tracy i think their slides but

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so they're okay All right so with shmoop and actually

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what's up there right now has changed But i did

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buy this district wide for all three of our high

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schools and some middle schools if they would convince me

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they had reason to be on it I said yes

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i've essentially told no one know which is a fun

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offend a fun thing to do but since this since

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i did this alison came out and we did a

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go visit the world and in february alone i've signed i did this alison came out and we did a

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go visit the world and in february alone i've signed

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up almost five hundred more students because of that push

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and our number of hours on the program has increased

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by in just one month i think by over three and our number of hours on the program has increased

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by in just one month i think by over three

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hundred hours So really this goes back to that goal

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that i had in the beginning about students realizing they

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can take responsibility for their learning and do things on

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their own So even if they've signed up under even

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if they joined a teacher's class they're still having to

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do this most likely on a device that is not

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school provided because we don't have a one to one

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initiative and i just dropped everything and she's picking it

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up for me So that is extremely exciting to know

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that the students are on their own Realizing that prepping

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for a p s a t s yeah can't be

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done on their own and that is extremely exciting The

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other thing i think there's another slide maybe are we

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just talking about shmoop results or okay i only have

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one life so there my my shmoop results are awesome

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and to be determined on this year scores ah and

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now elizabeth can you please brag about the wonderful results

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that you've seen despite librarians counselors money anything so i'd

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like to add that our student to computer ratio is

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i was going backwards but it's one tonight so we

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have nine students for everyone computer and if you really

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break that down and think about the desktops that aaron

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classrooms it's actually worse than that So when thinking about

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how to implement shmoop we had to think about what's

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feasible as i said before and what do all of

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our students have access to Not all of them have

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access to a smartphone but most do now and most

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of them have access to a library down the street

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and up until last june they had access to our

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school library which has about forty computers So when we

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talked about the change that we made in our program

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it was about student autonomy students taking control of their

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learning and we were just there to guide them and

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provide them with opportunities so that's how we were able

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to use shmoop so if you look at this bar

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graph the bottom number shows the number of students involved

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with our ap program in two thousand eleven you'll see

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an increase in students and that's because we had an

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increase in federal funding and so we were able to

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have an eight periods school day We now have a

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seven periods school day which limits the number of ap

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course offerings that we can have and therefore the number

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of students who can take them You can also see

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on an increase in the number of exams ordered and

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i'm happy to say that this year i will be

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ordering about seven hundred exams so our numbers have stayed

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the same but the number of student taking each exam

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has or the number of exams each student will be

26:10

taking his increased i also have to add that all

26:13

of the data that i'm going to share represents all

26:16

of our students taking the exam because the school district

26:19

thankfully does pay for every student to take our exam

26:22

So when i show you our data it represents the

26:25

entire population of ap students Okay so this this graph

26:33

is the one i'm most proud of and seems to

26:36

be the most popular if you see the top line

26:40

It shows the number of one's our students scored over

26:43

the years so we were seventy six percent in two

26:45

thousand seven and now we were down to forty six

26:50

percent last year and so the middle number the middle

26:55

line represents the number of college eligible exams which is

26:58

threes fours and fives Our goal for this year is

27:01

toe have those lines flip flop so that we have

27:06

mawr college eligible exams than then one so that's what

27:09

we're working towards this year No and i just wanted

27:14

to also that we had zero ap scholars in two

27:16

thousand seven and twenty two last year so the number

27:21

of students getting a three or more on three or

27:23

more exams has also increased dramatically I'm our schoolwide college

27:31

going rate in terms of matriculation is sixty three percent

27:35

but for our ap students i just dis aggregated the

27:37

data and it's at eighty six percent and this year

27:42

if you see ccp is the largest so this to

27:45

the left you'll see where our students have been accepted

27:48

to and where they've decided they're not where they said

27:50

to go where they've been accepted to and ccp is

27:52

our community college in philadelphia Now if you go to

27:56

the slide with the college acceptances for this year these

28:01

air the schools to which our students have been accepted

28:03

to thus far as of last friday at northeast so

28:08

you'll notice some changes We have lots of local top

28:14

tier schools and our students are exploring schools other than

28:17

temple penn state lasalle drexel which our local university So

28:22

we're really happy about that We also have had students

28:25

this year with interviews to stanford m i t princeton

28:29

eso we're keeping our fingers crossed for them These are

28:32

our statewide standardized test scores there included simply because it

28:36

shows the school wide performance on our state test Our

28:40

state tests recently changed but it's about fifty four percent

28:43

so way have definitely have some work to do But

28:46

this is sort of teo give you an idea of

28:48

what type of school were coming from and i don't

28:55

know if there's anything else can you tell the story

28:58

about the ap computer science program that you're gonna put

29:01

together next year So this year we have five students

29:06

I probably shouldn't say their names going to be difficult

29:08

Who approached me in the beginning of the year in

29:10

said ms fernandez if we teach ourselves computer science and

29:14

put together of course and we teach it ourselves um

29:19

can we take the test at the end of the

29:20

year And so i said well if you prove to

29:23

me that you have the content knowledge to do that

29:25

then sure because the school district pays for the exam

29:29

so they've been saying after school teaching themselves a p

29:33

computer science and actually using shmoop to help them along

29:36

the way because we don't have a teacher to help

29:38

them and i just gave them their practiced us and

29:42

they will be taking the exam So then some underclassman

29:45

approached me and said miss fernandez can we get a

29:48

p computer science next year And i always like to

29:50

say yes so i said yes but you have to

29:53

put together a proposal and get thirty three Signatures Because

29:57

that's the number of students that we need to have

29:59

in a class to be able to have a teacher

30:01

for them on each of those students needs to write

30:04

Why computer Why they want to take this So last

30:08

week i got a proposal on my desk with thirty

30:10

three signatures And now i have to figure out how

30:13

to actually approach my administration to get this class But

30:16

i think what this story shows is that not only

30:20

are teachers taking initiative in our school but students are

30:24

to make things happen And when you do have a

30:26

grassroots culture like we haven't northeast things can happen Change

30:31

can happen despite everything that's going on both locally on

30:37

dh also nationally in terms of of the political scene

30:41

So this story's just telling about how our school culture

30:45

has changed and how student ownership is really important when

30:49

thinking about making change in the school Thank you and

30:54

that's what Six snow days already that you've accumulated at

30:57

six snow days Yeah we no longer have spring break

31:01

on now on tio tustin and grant way we have

31:07

expanded now so all of our high school students have

31:10

access and now all of our middle school students have

31:13

access so they're using it that's new this year our

31:18

best data on shmoop use comes from tustin high so

31:23

i have that information right here Um and you can

31:27

kind of see the longitude no results of this but

31:29

this is with a fairly stable number of kids involved

31:34

with the school but our number of test takers hasn't

31:38

changed dramatically but the number of scores three or above

31:42

have gone up dramatically since the start of on shmoop

31:47

use at this particular school also i think that's the

31:52

biggest thing is that it's not hard for us to

31:55

convince kids to take ap classes or take on dh

32:00

and this is our lowest From a socioeconomic perspective this

32:03

is our lowest socioeconomic high school thea other too two

32:07

are considerably higher from a socioeconomic perspective there especially the

32:12

one that's located in irvine they have many many more

32:17

students that are taking ap and many more people who

32:20

are um who are taking multiple ap tests but the

32:27

biggest growth has been with closing that achievement gap in

32:30

providing a level playing field and jonathan has done an

32:34

excellent job of of utilizing this and his and making

32:38

this known to his teachers and you can see that

32:42

here jonathan i know i'm putting you on the spot

32:45

but is there anything i'm missing about your school in

32:47

particular I think most importantly with us for shmoop it

32:52

in one of these is that we dealt with was

32:54

was the hole issue of equity and access for our

32:59

students and we do have a very very large avid

33:02

population We did it we we encourage our avid students

33:08

to take advance placement courses especially their eleventh and twelfth

33:12

grade year We also used the ap potential program identified

33:16

ap students and and encourage them to enroll in advanced

33:20

placement So knowing that we're taking students that have you

33:24

know historically not not taken a college preparatory course load

33:28

that they don't have help at home they're going to

33:30

be first generation college students when they go to college

33:33

What could we do to help them and make the

33:36

curriculum accessible for them And that's really where Shmoop has

33:38

bridged the gap for our students and it's Our students

33:43

have become drivers of shmoop and they drive the teachers

33:47

especially ap teachers especially within our abbot program especially within

33:50

our honors and ap courses The teachers are the students

33:54

learn it is quickly or more effectively And then they

33:57

go back and teach the teachers which has been a

33:59

really really great transformation for us Can we go to

34:03

the side That was right before this really quick something

34:06

that i know jumped out at me specifically this year

34:09

And i'm really anxious to look at scores about it

34:13

We have never used this in our continuation high school

34:17

before on dh this year our continuation high school principal

34:21

was became aware of it on dh They put it

34:24

in a really heavy use with casey and passing the

34:29

high school exit exams and s oh it's a high

34:32

heel population very low socioeconomic typically and we had i

34:39

think we only had fifty students who needed to pass

34:41

it this year in forty three kids Were some of

34:45

the heaviest users of shmoop in the casey prep area

34:49

forty three of the seventy two kids that we had

34:51

that were really focusing in that area they spent something

34:54

like nine hundred hours on casey prep on shmoop and

34:59

i think nine hundred hours might be more hours than

35:03

they have gone to some of these kids have gone

35:05

to school onda and that is kind of a funny

35:08

statement to think about but you don't end up at

35:11

continuation by having stellar attendants and s so it's really

35:16

amazing it struck a chord with that particular group of

35:19

kids where they believe in it it's entertaining it's kind

35:24

of funny and they get immediate feedback those air all

35:28

things and they get shmoop ants they get all of

35:30

these little extrinsic things that they may not get with

35:33

somebody else they don't have to connect with the teacher

35:35

they don't have to show up on time they can

35:37

pull it up wherever they want to it's just it's

35:40

available on bits quality and i can't wait for scores

35:45

to go up so i can say that's why so

35:48

it's kind of ah ah cool thing But i'm really

35:51

anxious to see what those forty three kids that spent

35:53

that alone of time I know that they passed the

35:56

exit exam So that's a good thing Yeah but i

35:59

can't wait to see you know whitmore Quantifiable data on

36:02

those forty three kids right And that's Ah great segue

36:05

way over to charles because charles dunn has done a

36:07

fantastic job video being all levels within test prep In

36:13

increasing the key see rates increasing the ap scholars as

36:16

well as a city and

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