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Boston Public Schools Operational
Review – Week 1 check-inJanuary 9, 2015
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▪ Week 1 highlights / activities
▪ Week 2 schedule of activities
▪ Initial memo re-cap
▪ Next week’s focus
▪ Questions?
Agenda
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Week 1 highlights and activities DRAFT
Discussion questions:
▪ Given he’s part of the transitionteam, should Shaun Blugh
beadded to SteerCo?
Week 1 activities
▪ Phase 1 kicked off with BPS cabinet
▪ Conducted interviews (23 to date) with:
– Elaine Ng (SPED)
– Jon Sproul (Partnerships)
–Kamal Chavada (Data)
– Shakera Walker (Teacher PD)
– Jon Burrows (Data, Human Capital)
– Khadijha Brooks (Facilities)
– Paul Sloan, Barry Kauffman, JaimeRacanelli (Data and
Strategy,
Operations)
▪ Began collecting and analyzing data
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Week 2 schedule of activities DRAFT
Discussion questions:
▪ Any concerns or issues to be aware of
around parent, teacher and principal focusgroups? School
Committee?
▪ Are there other City, BPS or externalviewpoints we
should be conscious about
capturing?
Week 2 activities
▪ 15 interviews with representatives of:
– Food Services, Athletics, Safety,Transportation,
Recruitment,
Enrollment, HR management, Network
Supts.
▪ Notable meetings:
– Wednesday 4pm: Interview with SchoolCommittee Chair and
Vice Chair
– Thursday 11:30am: Interview withSuperintendent
McDonough
– Thursday 6pm: 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
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Initial memo re-cap
Discussion questions:
▪ Further reflections on these
themes from the cabinet /SteerCo?
▪ Questions or concerns about anyof the initial insights?
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 actionablestrategy
▪ Poor ability to execute consistently
▪ Hunger for greater role and accountabilityclarity
▪ Lagging consistency of support for allstruggling students
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Next week’s focus
Initial syndication of department-level insights as we flesh out
the 25
areas specified in the RFP
Bring outside perspectives (teachers, parents, principals,
school
committee) into the BPS narrative
Start the narrowing process of priority areas from data analysis
and
further interviews
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