SIT Meeting: Monday
- SIT members for next year?
- Whose rotation is ending?
- Worrell, Hoag, Elkins
- Brendan willing to stay-on
- Turner: Should available positions be "advertised" ? Conversation with constituents to decide if it’s okay if current SIT members who would be rotating off continue to stay.
- 8th grade rep: Laura Horn; Elkins to Horn--He is willing to "chair" if that helps her decision of whether or not to stay-on.
- Lakey represents EC and parent and is also willing to stay
- We can still clean up the representatives at the start of next year.
- There will definitely be an encore position
- Guidance rep (process of hiring for next year), and Guidance will determine in-house who their rep will be
- Amend the by-laws so people will serve for two years?
- A two year term would give some continuity
- Turner: bylaws can be amended by full faculty vote and PTSA Board Vote
- (We can take care of both teacher and PTSA votes on June 4th)
- A maximum of two terms (no more than four consecutive years)
- Procedures for walking through the halls
- Dress code (enforced) and emphasized at the start of the year.
- Someone said: "behavior among grade levels varies because of differences among teachers and admin inconsistencies"
- Gentry: "CHAMPS" training might need to be re-enforced since so many new staff members
- We can build the training in at the start of the year to create some consistency
- Having consistent looking common expectations posted in hallways, cafeteria, multi-purpose room, and other common areas might also help
- We can do "CHAMPS" without feeling like an extra expectation
- Needs to be Simple, basic set of guidelines
- Hallway behavior always comes up, and Gentry has some ideas for next year
- 8th grade movement is a known issue: may have to tap into using teachers during their planning times especially if tutoring goes away
- Has to happen starting day one
- Could possibly solve the 8th grade change problem.
- It will be a logistical deal for administration to plan, but should be well worth it
- Turner: If consequences for hall misbehavior would be enforced consistently, that would help. (for example, sending students to the back of the line)
- Duty would be broken down period by period
- There was a positive response on this idea among SIT members, and folks said it would be best if coverage happened throughout the day not just for 8th grade
- Will we have tutoring next year? Possibly not? It is being discussed at leadership
- Dress code: Thorne said that several people have expressed concerns about students being sent for dress code violations and then told they were "okay"
- Staff has to take ownership in the dress code issue: We need some simple codes in place to measure violations
- Admins ARE making the decisions NOT office staff
- We need to simplify the process as much as possible
- Home base needs to be the first level of checking.
- It is difficult if everyone is not on the same page
- Lakey: we can build it in the morning routine, maybe at the “Pledge”?
- Need to decide on what are the specific expectations of the teachers
- We do not want to go to a "standard mode of dress".
- Lakey: There are three main issues: "two short, too tight, and too revealing".
- Enforcement needs to minimize disruption and minimize lost class time.
- It become a discipline issue if it recurs
- "The bigger deal we make it, the bigger deal it becomes".
- Dress code violations is a level 1 offense, it's when recurs that it becomes a higher level
- Clear expectations at the start and consistency is the key
- Maxcy: Teachers have to step up and be clear to start out the year, a call to parents is sometimes the best defense.
- Teachers contact logs are supposed to be kept.
- Should we schedule a time during morning routine? Gentry is willing to do that.
Tech summer spending update:
- Our matching funds grant application was approved by the school board.
- Funds have to be used toward completion of "classroom solutions"
- We have essentially two new core classrooms that we have to outfit in the POD--rooms 311, 313, and we will use the ~ $4000 in matching funds to outfit those rooms.
- We are still working toward a DELL mini cart, 7 dell mini's have been purchased, and we will look at purchasing more along with an actual cart. But matching funds can NOT be used for laptops :(
