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Re-envisioning Roosevelt Senior High School
Roosevelt Community Meeting
March 3, 2015
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Re-envisioning Roosevelt Senior High School
Our goals
 Share input that we have received through our engagement
efforts over the past two months, including key takeaways that
we heard
 Reintroduce the Roosevelt High School Community Cabinet
and the selection process
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Community Input: Who attended?
Programmatic
feeder schools
(Oyster*, Tyler)
Roosevelt
parents
Geographic
feeder schools
(Truesdell,
West, Powell)
Ward 4
Education
Alliance
Community input
that
will inform
Community
decisions
input re:
Roosevelt
Roosevelt
leadership and
staff
DCPS
Superintendent
and Central
staff members
Roosevelt
students*
African
immigrant
community
Roosevelt
alumni
association*
~200
attendees/
contributors at
13 meetings, 2
online forums,
and a number
of individual
conversations;
188 comments
total
* Meetings are scheduled but have not yet taken place
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Community Input: What did we hear?
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Curriculum and Programming
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Curriculum and Programming
Key takeaways
Your exact words…
1. Parents want strong instruction –
preparation for college and career
success – at the core of Roosevelt.
→ “Without good instruction, these bells
and whistles are useless.”
2. Many people want more details
about the proposed programming and
pathways.
→ “How does the Seal program work?
How does it compare to International
Baccalaureate?”
→ “Need to serve both [kids at low levels
and kids at high levels]”
→ “Tell us where things stand now on
dual-language programming.”
→ “We want to feel that our kids are
being stimulated and inspired by
multiple ways at school.”
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Re-envisioning Process and Timeline
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Re-envisioning Process and Timeline
Key takeaways
Your exact words…
1. There were questions about how
decisions will be made about the
programming at Roosevelt.
→ “Who is making these decisions?”
2. There are questions about what a
feasible timeline for successful
implementation of the proposed
programming looks like.
→ “What will begin in 2015?”
→ “You said you are looking to phase this
in in fall of 2015, so what does this
look like for current students?
Students three years from now?”
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School Quality Concerns
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School Quality Concerns
Key takeaways
Your exact words…
1. Many expressed concern about
implementing the new programming
in a school that is struggling right now
like Roosevelt.
→ “What is going to change to make us
feel like we can get a basic high school
option for our kids? From what I read
online, there is a lot of criticism of
[the school].”
2. There are concerns about the
readiness of the staff and leadership
at Roosevelt.
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“It concerns me that you are creating
a new school but I am concerned that
you are leaving the same staff and
principal, so what is changing?”
→ “What are you going to do to keep
highly-effective staff at this school?”
→ “Are [the Roosevelt staff members]
ready?”
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Enrollment and Funding Concerns
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Enrollment and Funding Concerns
Key takeaways
1. There are questions about whether
funding and support for these
programs will be consistent, especially
when people see education initiatives
at DCPS changing frequently.
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Your exact words…
→ “There needs to be a predictability of
funding. Parents aren't going to take
the risk on the school if the funding
isn't clear.”
→ “How do we get enough funding if we
don’t have the enrollment to support
it?”
→ “It seems that there is a chicken-andegg problem when trying to develop a
school.”
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How can you contribute?
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What?
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The Roosevelt Community Cabinet – a group of 15-20 community members – will
serve as an advisory committee for the Roosevelt re-envisioning process as we
prepare for SY16-17 launch.
The School Planning and Community Engagement teams will lead these meetings.
Why?
→ The RCC will serve to (1) gather input from the group they represent on key
questions posed by the planning team, and (2) communicate that input to the
larger group during monthly RCC meeting, and (3) provide updates from monthly
meetings to the group they represent.
Who?
→ The RCC will include representatives for each of the following groups: Roosevelt
students, Roosevelt families, Roosevelt staff, feeder school families, and each
community/interest group
→ Representatives must be willing to attend most (ideally, all) meetings and must
send a stand-in if they cannot make the meeting.
When? Where?
→ Meetings will take place monthly – every 2nd Tuesday of the month beginning
Tuesday, May 10th – from 6-8pm
→ Locations for meetings are TBD
How?
→ Apply via googledoc at http://bit.ly/1GNKPhE, email, or paper application by
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
→ If you have questions, email Julienne Vinson at julienne.vinson@dc.gov
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