Level 4 stakeholders group update: NOTE CHANGE

...because for some reason this isn't being made public? While we're working on that, here's what I've got:

The first of the Level 4 stakeholder group meetings was held this week at Worcester Tech. Both groups--the one from Union Hill and the one from Chandler Elementary--attended, as there was some introductory work to do. After this, the Union Hill group will be meeting on Tuesdays from 12-4 at the Durkin Administration Building (room 410) [that's the change], and the Chandler Elementary group will be meeting at the Durkin Administration Building (room 410) on Thursdays from 12-4. The meetings are public.
I've asked for, but I've not yet gotten, a list of the stakeholders for each group. I can tell you that the mayor appointed Councilor Haller to the Chandler Elementary group, and me to the Union Hill group. There are two teachers serving on each committee, a parent representative for each, as well as the new principals of each school. There are also a range of service and community organizations represented, as well as school administration and the state (and I'm going to wait to get the full list to even guess here). The state law mandates the stakeholder group be no more than 13 people.
In addition to walking the groups through Level 4 designation (which I won't go into here as you've heard it before), the group was given the state's "Essential Conditions of School Effectiveness". These were passed by the Board of Ed last summer and are the conditions that each stakeholder group for a Level 4 school is being asked to consider and make recommendations around.
The groups then considered (in order) conditions 1, 2, and 7 on the list, all of which have to do with school leadership, the authority it has, and how the school system supports it.
This coming week, the stakeholder groups will be asked to look at aligned curriculum (number 4), and effective instruction (number 5).