Site Council Notes – March 2, 2009

Agenda    

1.  Approval of January minutes
2.  District Updates from Linda
3.  Carol Update on funding for teacher project
4.  Vision Statement Update
5.  Meet with other committees

Members Present
Site Council:  Rob Gibson, Tricia Barry, Linda Kapranos, Carol Schrader, Ingrid Petersen, Dana Barbarick
School Committees: Safety (Hollyrood and Fernwood); Arts; School Climate, Green Committee
PTA Rep: Craig Williams

Approval of Minutes

Minutes and Agenda unanimously approved

District Updates (Linda)

• Tours of both campuses very high – 77 families at Kindergarten Round-up – 46 registered (6 for half day)
• Discipline Data      

- Last year at this time – 394 timeouts (5th -8th)
- This year – 40 timeouts (2nd-8th)

Update on Funding for teachers wanting to plan over the summer (Carol & Linda)

• Tom drafted grid by subject/class
• Linda figured cost
• Time could be used for curriculum mapping and methods to create longer term plan (compacting, differentiation, etc.)
• Start with curriculum mapping, think about support materials and professional development

-  Take two content areas per year

-  Over three years, there will be a full set of maps

• Choice of subject areas decided by grade level teams
• Teachers to come in during summer and then train others at grade level during first PD day
• The hope is that there will be a school-wide understanding of what students will know coming in
• Funding will be for technical, support materials and teacher time
• Next steps:

- Teachers to figure out which 2 subjects and who is willing to come in and work during the summer if funds are available

Vision Statement Update (Carol)

Carol met with PTA to check in about parent action statement – many ideas, not a lot of commonality

• Wondering if we should wait?  Start again in the fall?
• Concerns that having separate action statements is divisive?

Meetings with other committees

Site Council recap for other committees
Updates from other committees (see committee notes)

Agenda for next meeting (April 6th) 

• Start 15 minutes Earlier!!!
• Approval of Agenda/Minutes
• Revisit vision/action statement
• Update on teacher planning curr./funding
• Role of enrichment next year?
• Staffing info and district updates