Friday, June 20, 2014

June 2014 Final Meeting


Present
Sharman Lakey
Rachel Holmes
Rhymes
Brian Griffin
Jamie Sherman
Gardner
Turner
Halverstadt
Santoro
Portia Lakey
Graham
Worrell
Thorne
Elkins

  • Topics:

    • Positions on SIT
    • Test scores
    • New school improvement plan
      •  will send existing members info

SIT Plan

  • Still needs more data
    • Teacher Working Conditions survey has not been made public
    • Hispanic students huge concern for this school
    • Demographic changing quickly
      • Need to focus and have  community input
    • Other shift is math—traditionally been high, no longer since Common Core
      • Should we focus on Math ?

Changes for next year?

  • 5 or 6 early release days for next year
  • Will have to decide certain staff development sessions
    • address the gaps of our focus groups—wants SIT to have meaningful input
      • Get credit and take care of the needs of the school

Is the absorption plan working?   

  • Touch base at the start of the year.
  • Biggest issue is multiple people who are absent
  • Having a centralized place for absorption plans
  • On share drive?
  • on board outside?
  • Having backup assignments ready
  • The plans need to be updated quarterly (with new names, etc.)
  • Covering home base is an issue (especially in 6th grade)

Santoro:  Supervision

  • Issues between electives and third period
  • Encore walking them all the way down
    • Maybe clearly define where teachers walk to exactly during changes
    • Holmes --They walk all the way down to Dr. Daniels room (can be fixed—have an encore meeting to clarify)

Thorne:  Car riders

  • Some very defined expectations for the parents and teachers consistency
  • Gentry to print out directions –hand to car riders the first day?

Lakey: 6th graders with lockers on the 7th grade hall

  • Zero supervision—hopefully not be an issue next year

Brian Griffin:  Trash thrown out the windows on the last day

  • How to handle this?
  • Windows should be put up?
  • Police department got hold of a few kids
  • Faculty ride home on buses--they do this at some other schools
  • Portia Lakey—encourage students to have less and less stuff as the final week goes on.
  • Trash cans at the bus lot?
  • Last day—send the message that nothing comes to school that is important to them.

Late bus issue:

  • Automatic procedure of where to go?
    Maybe release rooms at the end of the 8th grade hall (Santoro and Ellis) in "wave one" so there is a holding area for buses not here.

Turner:  items not returned to the Media Center:

  • It's been the the most ever…
  • Maybe make things due the week before testing to help with getting items returned
  • Will the ten day testing window continue?
  • Perhaps there will be a 15 day window? (depends on the legislature)
  • Worrell: Teachers want kids to be able to have access to books during testing with all the down time, so that is a concern too
  • Thorne--They took up locks before testing and helped significantly

SIT Members for next year:

  • For Encore:
    • Rachel Holmes will be off
    • Jennifer Wells  to come on
  • 8th grade:
    • Santoro and Lakey rotating off (Santoro sent out an email to ask for interest)
    • Halverstadt staying on
  • 7th grade 
    • Elkins out
    • Brad still has a year
  • 6th grade:
  • We are covered,--Graham and Thorne still on for second year
  • Parent:
    • Worrell will continue if necessary
    • Tracy Eisebacher could do it
  • Guidance:
    • Sherman was supposed to rotate off, Guidance will discuss and decide
  • EC
  • Check on P. Lakey, Jennifer Lawson says she would do it
  • If multiple people of interest—SIT will vote
  • Will table until August though because of possible changes in summer.
  • Will double check on Portia and Sherry

SIT :
Gentry complimented the group--We bring the right issues to the table, and maximizes our time.

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