Board hears school-site data; approves SIPs for Kennedy, Orion and Adelante Selby

The Redwood City School Board on April 22 received midyear School Improvement Plan presentations from three sites and approved the SIPs for Kennedy Middle School, Orion and Adelante Selby.

Kennedy principal Chandra Leonardo reported midyear attendance near 94.2%, declines in suspension rates and targeted strategies to reduce chronic absenteeism, including MTSS supports, biweekly attendance meetings and CAP tutoring. "Our plan is to make sure that we are looking at our students' data…we want to get to 95% attendance," Leonardo said.

Orion’s principal described steep gains in multilingual-learner outcomes, reporting a reclassification rate increase "from 6 percent in the base year to 37.2 percent," along with I Ready and CAASPP midyear improvements. The principal also flagged independent-study completion and travel requests as contributors to attendance variability and outlined a suite of interventions (Win Block, PLCs, instructional coaching) to sustain gains.

Adelante Selby principal Patricia Alcocer highlighted attendance and ELPAC reclassification progress (midyear attendance ~95.6% and reclassification gains) and described PBIS, morning meetings and family-engagement strategies used to reduce chronic absence.

Trustees thanked site leaders for data-driven instruction and engagement; each presentation concluded with a motion and voice vote approving the corresponding school SIP. Board members also discussed the time management of site presentations and the value of keeping to established presentation and Q&A time limits.