Each school building in Brighton has a building based School Based Opportunity Team. These teams consist of administrators, teachers, staff, families, and students (as applicable). The teams meet monthly to review school building goals around equity. Each building has set their own goals based on a review of their building data, strengths, and needs.
CRPS Facilitators
Principal Matt Tappon
Librarian Adele Mockevicius
FRES Facilitators
Principal Colleen Coggins
5th grade Teacher Jessica Cordova
TCMS Facilitators
Principal Danielle Edmunds
ENL Teacher Maria Sanchez-Martinez
BHS Facilitators
Principal Dr. Tom Hall
School Counselor Jennie Viggiani
2024-2025 School Year
Previous Work
CRPS
Partnered with BOCES for PD on Inclusive Language Protocol – Session #1
•SBET Team – “One Conversation at a Time”
•2nd Grade – Continued conversations about Civil Rights Unit – addition of Local Pilot – Constance Mitchell; several classrooms piloted this unit
Processed family and staff data from Panorama survey
Worked with Re-Center to develop CRPS specific professional development
Processed and develop procedures for working through current events for staff and students
Developed monthly professional development for staff processing equity scenarios and providing opportunities to look at resources and develop responses.
FRES
Partnered with BOCES for PD on Inclusive Language Protocol. Teachers have been working through using the protocol during professional development and in their classrooms.
5th grade student leaders are working on ideas to implement protocol and ideas for future work. This year about 20 students were part of this work.
Processed family and staff data from Panorama survey
Worked with consultants to develop FRES specific professional development
Led professional learning in faculty meetings around sense of belonging and radical dreaming while gathering input from staff on what is working and what needs shifting
Continued work around review of school data
Professional development at faculty meetings
Worked with consultants around cognitive redlining following student data review
TCMS
Reviewed data for disporportionality for in school and out of school suspensions.
Established a revised, intentional re-engagement process for students returning to school including family connections and student check ins.
Focus on building community
Unpacked student results from 2022 Panorama Survey focusing in on climate and sense of belonging. This includes identifying barriers and potential ways to address them. This was in collaboration with RE Center.
Unpacked Welcoming and Affirming Environment portion of NYS Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
Established culturally responsive building norms for all meetings.
Continued review of student data surrounding sense of belonging and culture/ climate
Professional Learning opportunities at monthly faculty meetings
BHS
The BHS team reviewed survey data from SEL survey and created purposeful events for student sense of belonging such as homeroom assemblies for holidays such as Lunar New Year and EID. Additionally, the building has started special activities for morning greetings for students.
Unpacked student results from 2022 Panorama Survey focusing in on climate and sense of belonging.
Developed methods to collect additional data from students in a Spring 2023 survey to dig deeper into questions.
Review student narratives from Spring 2023.
Students shared a time that they felt like they belonged at BHS and a time that they did not feel like they belonged. The SBET will reviewed all anonymous student repsonses to identify themes and determine next steps.
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