A Closer Look
Colchester Public Schools
Superintendent’s Proposed Budget
Recap
● 8.99% Increase
● Reduction of 12 positions
● 4.0 Instructional Positions returning to the budget from Stimulus
● Requesting the addition of safety officers at each school
Budget Priorities: Systems of Improvement
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Professional Development
EDUCATOR
PROFESSIONAL Modeling by Instructional Coaches Inst. Coaching Cycles
EXPERIENCES
Teacher Leadership & Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
Safety and Security
All schools have a variety of infrastructure, policies and procedures, and technology to support security
needs and emergency response.
Current Proposed Comparable 1 Comparable 2
(Montville) (East Haddam)
School Resource 1.0 district-wide 1.0 district-wide 3.0 district-wide 1.0 district-wide
Officer
Hall Monitors 1.0 @ BA 1.0 @ BA Paras & Admin Paras & Admin
Safety Officers 0.0 per building 1.0 per building 1.2 per building 0.66 per building
Screened Entry CES, JJIS, BA only Yes Yes Yes
Pupil Services & Special Education: The Work Ahead
Vision &
Direction
Challenges
Commitment &
Consistency
Opportunities
Staffing, PD &
Resources
Pupil Services & Special Education Department Priorities
Communication Professional
& Partnership Development
Provide building-based Continued extensive &
administrative support focused PD across the
and partnership with department
families.
Procedures &
CT-SEDS
Continue our significant
FAPE Practices
work related to PPT Ensure fidelity &
process and training alignment of our
staff & administrators in procedures to IDEA
this new requirement
Specialized Instruction High Quality IEPs &
& Programming 504 Plans
Alignment with IDEA &
Responsive to a wide
Section 504 of the
range of students’ needs
Rehabilitation Act
CES Reading & Math Instruction: High
Academic Standards for Growth
The Science of Reading
Foundational Math
1 Explicit, systematic
4
Skills
reading instruction
CT State Law 8 mathematical practices
Fact fluency
Problem solving
Number formation
Reading includes:
2 ● Phonemic Awareness
Small group instruction
5
● Phonics
● Fluency 30 minutes of push in math
● Vocabulary Increases small groups
● Comprehension
Benchmarks & Progress
Small group instruction
3 Monitoring 6
40 minutes of push in reading
Benchmark 3 times per year
Two groups running simultaneously
Progress monitor based on instructional
Support students on their instructional
focus
focus
5 Data Team meetings per year
Instructional & Social Emotional Support For Each Child: Focus on
The Whole Child: The climate and culture in our schools support student
acceptance, connectedness, and readiness to learn
Use of Data Special Education
Used to determine an Enable us to support
instructional focus for students in need of
every learner. specialized instruction
Specialized
Supporting Learners
Classrooms
Receive core instruction
For students whose
and additional
educational disabilities
instruction based on impact all areas of their day
their area of need from and a behavior program
our reading and math
interventionists
Smaller Class Sizes Student Wellness Team
Help teachers provide Focuses on both staff and
the maximum amount of students with social and
support and focus on emotional learning
each child.
JJIS Priority #1: Student Achievement & Impacts
+Strong Arts Arts ELA
+Arts Integration 6 1 +Maintain ELA Coach
+Democratic Practice +Support addition of Wonders 2020
+Grammar Program grades 4-5
+Guided Spelling grades 3-5
Intervention Social Studies
+Maintain Intervention Staff 5 2
+Text and supplies
+Maintain resources and supplies +Field Trips
Science Mathematics
4 3
+Maintain Math Coach
+Text and supplies
+Eureka Math program
+Field Trips +Math Performance Tasks - Exemplars
program designed to promote reasoning,
communication, and higher order thinking.
JJIS Priority #2: Connected Community of Learners & Impacts
Class Size
Students learn more and faster Wellness
More opportunities to connect with adults
PBIS
Increases class community, opportunities for
feedback and participation Additional need: Pro social skills program
How is this different from PBIS?
A social skills curriculum will focus on
teaching students positive behavior through
Safety learning new skills, while PBIS focuses on
preventing the disruptive behavior by
rewarding expected behaviors.
Safe and Secure Building
Enrichment
Invention Convention
Lego Robotics
HOT Schools Math Olympiad
Unified Sports
Strong Arts Jazz Band
Arts Integration Democratic
Practice
WJ Budget Priorities: Supporting the Creation of Innovative Thinkers
4 Safety Being and feeling safe
SRBI
Student
Special Education
3 Supports Enrichment
Connecting with students & staff
Wellness Feeling accepted
2 PBIS, Clubs, Sports, etc.
Middle Small school within a school
School Collaboration between teachers
1 Model Maintaining class size
Impacts +/-
Addition of a greeter
Safety Addition of safety personnel
Student Maintaining support staff
Supports Maintaining programs
Wellness Personnel changes impact on students
Middle
Change in programming, greatest impact on 6th grade
School Model
Potential
Future cuts will result in programmatic reductions
Impacts
Bacon Academy Budget Priorities
Academic Growth
Student Wellness
Supports and intervention
Safety
Budgetary Impacts for Bacon Academy
Core academic Reduced electives
More limited course Fewer options to meet
options graduation requirements
Student wellness Safety
Increase safety in the
Support staff
building
Supports Connected
Special Education, 504,
ELA and math Sports, clubs and
intervention activities
How do we compare locally?
How do we compare locally?
How do we compare in our DRG?
How do we compare in our DRG?
Community Investment
● Home Values
● College Admission
● Reputation