Superintendent's Bi-Weekly Report to the Board of Education
ELPS Superintendent’s Report November 11, 2024
National Multicultural Student Achievement Network (MSAN) Student Conference this Week in East Lansing!
We are excited to welcome over 200 of our MSAN students and chaperones to East Lansing this week! The annual MSAN Student Conference will be held at the Kellogg Center and will kick off with a dinner and keynote from Little Miss Flint, Mari Copeny, a youth activist from Flint who is best known for raising awareness about the Flint water crisis. The theme of this year’s conference is Leaving Your Legacy, so our speakers and panelists align to this theme. Friday’s keynote is Senator Sarah Anthony, and our students will also have an opportunity to hear from a panel of local entrepreneurs as part of their MSU campus tour Thursday. Students and their chaperones will come in Wednesday and depart Saturday.
Staff Professional Learning from November 1
Our second of five Professional Learning Fridays was held November 1. We offered 20 sessions, in addition to the multiple Collaboration Meetings that were held. Session titles included:
Nurturing Each Child – student and staff mental health and wellness, social emotional learning
Sessions included: Social Discipline Window
Understanding Minority Stress and Mental Health
Behavior Basics – Prevention Before Intervention
Ending the Silence for School Staff (with the National Alliance on Mental Illness – NAMI)
Educating All Students – teaching and learning
Sessions included: Digital Best Practice for Staff
Increasing Student Engagement Through Math Games
Book Study Groups – Dr. Gholdy Mohammad’s Cultivating Genius and Dr. Julia B. Lindsey’s
Reading Above the Fray
Transition IEPs: What You Must Know
Building World Citizens – diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice and belonging
Sessions included: Getting to Know the EJATT – with all MMS instructional staff
Understanding the Identities and Experiences of LGBTQ+ Students in Michigan
Building Inclusive Teacher Websites
Responding to Pushback (with the Justice Leaders Collaborative)
Our next Friday PD day is February 14, 2025.
School-Based Health Clinic Community Advisory Committee Meeting
We will be holding a meeting of the Health Clinic Community Advisory Committee next Wednesday, November 20 from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the ELHS Hub. Enter through Door #1.
Next Board Meeting
November 25, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. in the ELHS Board of Education room
