Level 5 Schools 2015–16 Quarter 2 Report: Morgan Full Service Community School Student Enrollment and Demographics School Information SY 2015–16 Holyoke, Massachusetts Location Enrollment Level 5 Percentage SWDs Current Status Dr. Stephen Zrike Percentage ELLs Receiver Name 2013 Percentage Year Designated Level 5 Percentage Year Designated 4 2010 Latino/Hispanic PK–8 Percentage Asian Grade Span Percentage White Number of Full-Time 58 Staff in SY 2015–16 Percentage Multirace Priority Areas Recruitment and development of professional talent. Priority Area 1: Priority Area 2: Systems to support professional learning and responsiveness in practice. Creating a Center of Excellence for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics Priority Area 3: (STEM). Priority Area 4: Targeted and aligned resources. Enhancing and sustaining family and community engagement. Priority Area 5: Content provided by Superintendent Stephen Zrike Executive Summary Staffing and Leadership Support: Morgan Full Service Community School (Morgan) was fully staffed by mid-October 2015, with the middle school schedule restructured so all students receive daily science and social studies instruction. In light of the resignation of the Dean of Instruction in October, the district is partnering with SchoolWorks to provide coaching and support around instructional improvement to Morgan administration, academic coaches, and teachers. The school also has begun an intensive partnership with the district’s Teaching and Learning Team, creating an opportunity for all Morgan teachers to consistently receive individualized feedback. Instruction: The school has refocused on the use of the Curriculum for literacy instruction in grades K–4, and organized intensive professional development to support its implementation. The daily targeted skills instruction (“intervention”) block was reorganized, with the decision to focus on literacy in K–5 and the integration of Lexia Core 5 to support individualized, customized skill development; grades 6–8 developed specific interventions based on student instructional needs in ELA, mathematics, and science. Morgan teachers used ANet data to identify strengths and weaknesses and plan reteaching in ELA and mathematics.
Level 5 Schools 2015–16 Quarter 2 Report: Morgan Full Service Community School School Information Student Enrollment and Demographics Location Holyoke, Massachusetts SY 2015–16 Enrollment Current Status Level 5 Percentage SWDs Receiver Name Dr. Stephen Zrike Percentage ELLs Year Designated Level 5 2013 Percentage Year Designated 4 2010 Percentage Latino/Hispanic Grade Span PK–8 Percentage Asian Number of Full-Time Staff in SY 2015–16 58 Percentage White Percentage Multirace Priority Areas Priority Area 1: Recruitment and development of professional talent. Priority Area 2: Systems to support professional learning and responsiveness in practice. Priority Area 3: Creating a Center of Excellence for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Priority Area 4: Targeted and aligned resources. Priority Area 5: Enhancing and sustaining family and community engagement. Content provided by Superintendent Stephen Zrike Executive Summary Staffing and Leadership Support: Morgan Full Service Community School (Morgan) was fully staffed by mid-October 2015, with the middle school schedule restructured so all students receive daily science and social studies instruction. In light of the resignation of the Dean of Instruction in October, the district is partnering with SchoolWorks to provide coaching and support around instructional improvement to Morgan administration, academic coaches, and teachers. The school also has begun an intensive partnership with the district’s Teaching and Learning Team, creating an opportunity for all Morgan teachers to consistently receive individualized feedback. Instruction: The school has refocused on the use of the Curriculum for literacy instruction in grades K–4, and organized intensive professional development to support its implementation. The daily targeted skills instruction (“intervention”) block was reorganized, with the decision to focus on literacy in K–5 and the integration of Lexia Core 5 to support individualized, customized skill development; grades 6–8 developed specific interventions based on student instructional needs in ELA, mathematics, and science. Morgan teachers used ANet data to identify strengths and weaknesses and plan reteaching in ELA and mathematics.
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