Monday, September 12, 2011

SIT Minutes September 12, 2011

Voting--New Members and chairperson:
New slate

  • 6th Grade--Kristen Thorne, Brian Graham
  • Encore: Dedria Davis-King, Kay Hoag
  • 8th Grade:  Tonia Maxcy
  • Classified--TBA
  • EC/Parent Rep: Portia Lakey
All in favor, none opposed to new representatives.

Election of Chairperson:
  • Ms. Gentry explained that she should not be "running the meetings". 
  • Chairperson should facilitate meetings similar to single school culture meetings.
  • Maxcy nominated Laura Horn
    • Neal, second, all were in favor, none were opposed
SIT Meetings:
  • Meetings will be approximately every 6 weeks
  • Next scheduled meeting will be October 17th
  • Meetings can be called in between
  • First three meetings on the staff calendar:  Nov 28, Feb 20
SIT Plan:
  • We are in a "follow-up" year
  • We have to examine the data
  • Ms. Gentry will input the data, and get all members a copy
  • Members will review and see if there is anything we need to tweak
  • Plan is due in the middle of October
  • We also have to attach a School wide behavior plan
    • We were able to adjust section of the staff handbook adding a section on ALC and hall behavior
Instant Recess:

  • NC State Law says that WS/FCS is ~ an hour short in providing students with Physical fitness activity
  • Each school must find ~ 10 minutes per day
  • We will have to document in some way
  • We don't have to do the "instant recess" videos
  • Here is a site with on-line physical activity videos/clips that might be used:
  • Maxcy--8th grade has discussed walking after lunch around the track (would work since Encore is at lunch during that time)
  • 6th and 7th grade can be flexible about when they might do it so as not to interfere with team schedules
  • One suggestion was to do it during the morning encore morning break when PE would not be outside (~ 30 minutes from 9:15-9:45)
  • Teams would have to stick to their times so as not to overlap and have tons of students outside at once
  • Would have to have a "back-up weather plan" on inclement weather days
  • Deb Neal threw out the idea of each subject taking a quarter and handling it that way?
  • The whole grade level does not have to agree on one plan as long as there is agreement to stagger times outside and not to interfere with PE.
  • There was a suggestion that perhaps a team or grade level could do the whole week's worth in one day?
    • concerns expressed about a lack of supervision during those times. 
    • Don't want it to become recess with students handed a ball to play.
    • Must be structured activities
  • Outside options are:
    • Field to the left
    • Track to the right
    • Top of the hill too
  • SIT members will go back and discuss with their constituents.
Tutoring Plan:
  • No certain start date on this, but sooner rather than later.
  • There are two decisions to be made
    • Days of the week (needs to be two separate days)
    • Which groups of students/what type of tutoring
  • There also needs to be a clear and simple method of communication (master calendar) so that encore, core and students all know who, when and where students will be.
  • Tutoring should not be "make-up work" sessions
  • Does not have to be the same group of students both days
  • Maxcy said 8th grade teachers didn't like the idea of Mondays--if tutoring is done the way it should be, its something that has to be planned. 
  • They suggested Wednesdays & Thursdays and everyone seemed to agree with these two days  with some rotation so that students would not miss the same encore class all the time.
  • Duration of tutoring?  Gentry likes the idea of quarter long.
  • Question? Offer some flexibility in teachers choosing who would be tutored?
    • After school tutoring could target one group (bubble 2's?)
    • Day time for low 2's and 1's?
  • Suggestion to have the same "lesson" for both days
  • Because of 8th grade not having teams, some teachers may have to tutor some students of other teachers--that may also be the case with 6th and 7th grade because of the configuration of students on different teams.
  • Most seem to indicate they would rather have students picked for teachers for both days--predetermined by EOG scores
  • Encore said students should probably be exempt from encore work when they are at tutoring
  • If students are in after-school tutoring (and attending), then they would not have to go to day time tutoring

DEB Neal:  quick review of numbers:
  • Reading
    • 6th grade, 110 1's and 2's
    • 7th grade, 58-1's, 64-2's
    • 8th grade, 49-1's, 103-2's
  • Math:
    • 6th grade, 9-1's, 55-2's
    • 7th grade, 13-1's, 82-2's
    • 8th grade, 15-1's, 80-2's

  • Everything about tutoring plan will be in writing
  • Deb Neal to develop specific lessons (she wants input and consistency)
  • Letter will go home to parents (some parents may opt out)
  • Questions: 
    • Can students be added to tutoring?  Probably not after groups are predetermined
    • Can students be "exited"?  Could be for discipline issues--tutoring is a privilege and not a punishment

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