Comprehensive Equity Plan

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Comprehensive Equity Plan

• Mount Laurels Affirmative Action Team
• Dr. Antoinette Rath, Robert Wachter, Dr. Diane
  Willard, Dr. Sharon Vitella, Karen Andronici and
  Marie Reynolds

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Needs Assessment

• Equality and Equity in Educational Programs
• Staff Development and Training
• Employment / Contract Practices

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Equality and Equity in Educational Programs
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Revision of Policy Manual

• The Policy Committee continues to review and
  revise all policies and regulations relating to
  Equality and Equity in School and Classroom
  Practices to comply with current statute
• Ensuring equal access for all
• Prohibiting and eliminating sexual harassment
• Equality in hiring practices
• The entire Mount Laurel Board of Education Policy
  Manual is now available through our district
  website for all staff and community members
• Regulations are posted on the Staff Portal

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Affirmative Action Policy and Procedures
Communication

• 2008-2009 School Calendar and Family Handbook
• Staff communications
• Building postings
• Periodic district publications

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Equality and Equity in Curriculum

• New Literacy curriculum
• New Health and PE curriculum
• Responsive Classroom
• Renaissance Program
• Ruby Payne Program
• MAP data provides teachers with information to
  differentiate by ability
• Naglieri Non-Verbal Intelligence Test
• Extra-curricular programs and activities

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Long-Range Facility Plan

• Equal access to all students assured by the
  districts Long Range Facility Plan
• Capital Improvement Project within the Mount
  Laurel Township Schools has made equal access a
  priority in all projects

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Staff Development and Training
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Staff Development

• Ensures compliance with the law
• Orientation for new staff
• Fall faculty meetings
• Training agendas and attendance rosters for all
  sessions are compiled for QSAC monitoring

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Disaggregated Student Assessment Data

• Gender
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Limited English proficiency
• Special education
• Other significant achievement factors

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Harrington and AYP

• Special Education Language Arts-Year 3
• Safe Harbor
• Status frozen
• Title I Unified Plan created to improve student
  achievement
• Community notification and individual tutoring
  offered to Title I students in compliance with
  NCLB
• NCLB funds earmarked for additional professional
  development to increase repertoire of
  instructional strategies in the areas of literacy
  and math instruction.

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Hartford and AYP

• Not Title I in 2008-2009
• No sanctions
• Grade 6
• Special Education Language Arts-Year 2
• Grade 5
• Special Education Language Arts-Year 1
• Special Education and African-American Math-Year
  1
• NCLB funds earmarked for additional professional
  development to increase repertoire of
  instructional strategies in the areas of literacy
  and math instruction.

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Administrators Training

• Administrative Retreat held in August 2008
• Differentiated Instruction
• Overview of new Literacy curriculum
• Using MAP data to inform instruction
• Alignment of district initiatives

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Superintendents Annual Report

• Addresses the districts progress in meeting
  Annual Yearly Targets as established by the
  Department of Education
• A copy is published on the district website

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Mount Laurel Board of Education

• Diane Blair, President
• Ronald Frey, Vice President
• William J. Crowe, Jr.
• Jane Elliott
• Michael Gallagher
• Margaret Haynes
• Nancy Jones
• Helen Siegel
• Kathleen Wolfe
• Dr. Antoinette Rath, Superintendent