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SAISD Blueprint for Excellence
Community Meeting
Superintendent Pedro Martinez
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Our Mission
To transform SAISD into a
national model urban school
district where every child
graduates and is educated so that
he or she is prepared to be a
contributing member of the community
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Data Points
*class of 2014
2015
Graduation rate
Overall proficiency
Advanced level
SAT college ready
ELL proficiency
Special Ed proficiency
80.8%*
63%
7%
3%**
48%
38%
** If all graduates had tested
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4
Getting Started
• Meetings with 149
civic/business/
community leaders
• Hosted 8 community
sessions
• Presented to 4
community groups
• Visited 43 campuses
• 40 SAISD events 5
Five Pillars
• Academic Excellence
• Talent Management
• Culture Shift
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Fiscal Management
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Academic Excellence
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High School: High-Quality Options
Early College
High Schools
Magnets
Career Pathways
Earn up to 60 hrs
college credit
• Travis
• St. Philip’s
• Brackenridge
Earn up to 45 hrs
college credit
• IB
• Engineering
• Health
• Law
• Media & Film
Earn minimum of
30 hrs college credit
Pathways include:
• Agriculture
• Computer Science
• Culinary
• Fire Science
• IT
• Marketing/Business
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Advanced Academics
• SAT prep
• Texas Success Initiative
• Algebra I in 8th grade
• STEM program with Rice University
• IB – at all three levels
• Pre-AP and AP
• Advanced math in 5th grade
9
Gifted & Talented
• GT Academies
coming soon
• GT Specialists
• Universal
screening in 1st
and 5th grades
10
Literacy PK-3rd
• Reading on grade level by 3rd grade.
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Additional options in 2016-17
• Locally and nationally, parents are
preferring their child transitions later to the
secondary school environment.
• The District has seen high demand for its
PK-8 academies.
• We are increasing the number of PK-8
academies.
• We are adding 6th grade to 11 elementary
schools.
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Research on the benefits
• Studies show: students benefit both socially and
academically by staying longer in the elementary
school environment.
• Sixth-graders in elementary schools perform
better on tests than those in middle schools.
• Sixth-graders in elementary schools experience
less behavioral and self-esteem problems.
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Talent Management
• Residency
Models:
- Principals
- Teachers
- GT Lab
schools • :
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Recruitment Strategy
New teacher
hiring
Hiring
2014-15
Hiring
2015-16
Thru April 58*
240**
June-August 321 160
• Early Hiring
• Pre-hire for
high-quality
candidates
• Leadership
pathways *Represents cumulative hiring, October 2014-April 2015.
** Represents goal by April 2016.
(116 hires made as of January 2016.)
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Stakeholder Engagement
• Parental
engagement
• Higher-Ed
partnerships
• Business
partnerships
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Fiscal Management
• Measure against goals
• Align resources to strategies
• Academic return on investments
18
Culture Shift
• High expectations
• Goals driven
• District of
innovation
• Holistic
educational
environment
19
Ongoing Innovation
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Questions?
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