Barbara Deane-Williams, Superintendent – Rochester City School DistrictBo Wright, Deputy Superintendent of Administration

Linus Guillory, Deputy Superintendent of Teaching and Learning

Path Forward Steering Committee

2 Being Addressed Tonight

3 BOARD RESOLUTIONS

DEMOGRAPHICS

• Enrollment Trends

• While # of children enrolling in District is decreasing, the # of students in need of Bilingual/ENL programs and SWD’s are increasing

• Zones don’t match seat capacity

• The Path Forward Team recommends no closure of any school facilities

Tools for the path forwardHerramientas para el camino hacia adelante

www.rcsdk12.org/pathforward

• School Design• Education Planning• Demographics/Assignment/Data• Finance• Community Engagement• Communication

PATH FORWARD WEBSITE

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS WITH…Students, Parents, Community, Principals/School leaders, Teachers and Employees• Schools within my neighborhood (mixed feedback)• We want more access to CTE like the early days at Edison• Expand the arts, acceleration, IB and schools that are

successful like SOTA, SWW and WOIS

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

• Need to increase the number of teachers of color and increased access to culturally relevant curriculum

• The community wants better schools for all students

• Communication

PATH FORWARDFirst StepsWhat is happening right now…

INCREASING CAPACITY WITHIN THE ZONE

NORTHEAST ZONE• 6 Receivership Schools• K-12 Bilingual program options• K-12 Feeder pattern between School No. 33

and East with bilingual program continuum

NORTHEAST ZONE• Expanding capacity in the zones

NORTHWEST ZONE• 2 Receivership Schools• K-12 program options• The addition of 9-12 seats at Edison

provides a full continuum of services for students in the NW zone

NORTHWEST ZONE• Expanding capacity in the zones

SOUTH ZONE• 3 Receivership Schools• K-12 dual language continuum• Seal of Bi-Literacy option for

Students graduating in 2023

SOUTH ZONE• Expanding capacity in the zones

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN 2018Our engagement team heard the call to replicate schools such as School Without Walls, World of Inquiry, The Children’s School, School of the Arts, and programs that let our students be actively engaged in hands-on learning, career and technical education, service learning, college credit, and service learning programs. As schools are empowered to improve, these practices will be expanded and replicated.

Rochester Innovation Schools Empowered (RISE) Kodak Park School 41 is being redesigned in spring 2018 and a new RISE School will open in September 2018 as a Community School with a new learning and teaching focus. Design and development with the school community is underway now.

Expanding the Community as a Classroom CTE Opportunities and Internships with Trillium Health, Toshiba, Innovative Solutions, Chamber of Commerce/Pointii

HIGH SCHOOL REDESIGN• More opportunities for AP, IB and

acceleration• More hands-on learning

opportunities, internships and externships

• Increase CTE

NEXT STEPS…