Operational Review Week 1 Check-In

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Boston Public Schools Operational Review – Week 1 check-in January 9, 2015

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Agenda

▪ Week 1 highlights / activities ▪ Week 2 schedule of activities ▪ Initial memo re-cap ▪ Next week’s focus ▪ Questions?

Week 1 highlights and activities

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Week 1 activities

▪ Phase 1 kicked off with BPS cabinet ▪ Conducted interviews (23 to date) with:  – Elaine Ng (SPED)  – Jon Sproul (Partnerships)

Discussion questions:

 – Kamal Chavada (Data)

▪ Given he’s part of the transition

 – Shakera Walker (Teacher PD)  – Jon Burrows (Data, Human Capital)  – Khadijha Brooks (Facilities)  – Paul Sloan, Barry Kauffman, Jaime Racanelli (Data and Strategy, Strategy, Operations)

▪ Began collecting and analyzing data

team, should Shaun Blugh be added to SteerCo?

Contents

▪ Week 1 highlights / activities ▪ Week 2 schedule of activities ▪ Initial memo re-cap ▪ Next week’s focus ▪ Questions?

Week 2 schedule of activities

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Week 2 activities

▪ 15 interviews with representatives of:  – Food Services, Athletics, Safety, Safety, Transportation, Transportation, Recruitment, Enrollment, HR management, Network Supts.

▪ Notable meetings:  – Wednesday 4pm: Interview with School Committee Chair and Vice Chair

 – Thursday 11:30am: Interview with Superintendent McDonough

 – Thursday 6pm: Teachers Teachers focus group (School Committee conference room)

 – Friday 10:30am: Principals focus group (School Committee conference room)

 – Friday 3pm: Weekly SteerCo call

▪ Parents focus group in-process scheduling

Discussion questions: or issues to be aware aware of ▪  Any concerns or around parent, teacher and principal focus groups? School Committee? City, BPS or external ▪  Are there other City, viewpoints we should be conscious about capturing?

Contents

▪ Week 1 highlights / activities ▪ Week 2 schedule of activities ▪ Initial memo re-cap ▪ Next week’s focus ▪ Questions?

Initial memo re-cap

Emerging insights BPS has a/n:

▪ Strong talent base ▪ Engaged community ▪ Improved network model ▪ Focus on creating conditions of success ▪ Need for articulate, clear and actionable strategy

▪ Poor ability to execute consistently ▪ Hunger for greater role and accountability clarity

▪ Lagging consistency of support for all struggling students

Discussion questions:

▪ Further reflections on these themes from the cabinet / SteerCo?

▪ Questions or concerns about any of the initial insights?

Contents

▪ Week 1 highlights / activities ▪ Week 2 schedule of activities ▪ Initial memo re-cap ▪

Next week’s w eek’s focus

▪ Questions?

Next week’s focus

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Initial syndication of department-level insights as we flesh out the 25 areas specified in the RFP

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Bring outside perspectives (teachers, parents, principals, school committee) into the BPS narrative

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Start the narrowing process of priority areas from data analysis and further interviews

Contents

▪ Week 1 highlights / activities ▪ Week 2 schedule of activities ▪ Initial memo re-cap ▪ Next week’s focus ▪ Questions?