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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 weeks focus

Questions?

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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)
Kamal Chavada (Data)
Shakera Walker (Teacher PD)
Jon Burrows (Data, Human Capital)
Khadijha Brooks (Facilities)
Paul Sloan, Barry Kauffman, Jaime

Discussion questions:

Given hes part of the transition

team, should Shaun Blugh be
added to SteerCo?

Racanelli (Data and Strategy,

Operations)

Began collecting and analyzing data

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Contents

Week 1 highlights / activities

Week 2 schedule of activities

Initial memo re-cap

Next weeks focus

Questions?

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Week 2 schedule of activities

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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 School
Committee Chair and Vice Chair

Thursday 11:30am: Interview with

Superintendent McDonough

Thursday 6pm: Teachers focus group

(School Committee conference room)

Discussion questions:
Any concerns or issues to be aware of
around parent, teacher and principal focus
groups? School Committee?

Are there other City, BPS or external

viewpoints we should be conscious about
capturing?

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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Contents

Week 1 highlights / activities

Week 2 schedule of activities

Initial memo re-cap

Next weeks focus

Questions?

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Initial memo re-cap

Emerging insights
BPS has a/n:

Strong talent base

Engaged community

Discussion questions:

Improved network model

Further reflections on these

Focus on creating conditions of success

Need for articulate, clear and actionable

strategy

Poor ability to execute consistently

Hunger for greater role and accountability

themes from the cabinet /

SteerCo?

Questions or concerns about any

of the initial insights?

clarity

Lagging consistency of support for all

struggling students

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Contents

Week 1 highlights / activities

Week 2 schedule of activities

Initial memo re-cap

Next weeks focus

Questions?

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Next weeks 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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Contents

Week 1 highlights / activities

Week 2 schedule of activities

Initial memo re-cap

Next weeks focus

Questions?

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