SIT Meeting September 2014

Present:

Douglass
Eisbacher
Gardner
Gentry
Graham

Griffin
Halverstadt

Julie Jones
Jennifer Martin
Miller
Sherman

Thorne
Turner

Wells
Young

Today's Agenda--New SIT  team members, School Improvement Plan

• Double checking status of classified position
• Brian Griffin can rotate off, but checking if any interest by other classified
• More than likely Brian will rotate back on and serve
• We will select a chair person today
• Will go over some more test data today as well
• Need School Improvement Plan by the end of October to go Superintendent

Chairperson role:

• Principal should not run the agenda
• Could be Co-chairs?
• Acts as a "point person" to put items on the agenda/meet with principal
• If members have items to bring to SIT,  they should put issues in writing to chair person
• Chair person then typically meets with the principal before the next meeting 
• Sometimes the answer is no for items to be brought to SIT
• Chair acts in a facilitator role to walk us through the agenda
• Sometimes SIT chair is involved with hiring for example our AP position

Does anyone want to nominate a person to serve as chair?

• Lisa Turner nominates Helen Miller
• All in favor of Helen, none opposed

Gentry/SIT plan

• We looked at Data last time and have more data to look at this time
• We now have the Teacher Working Conditions Survey results
• Also look more closely at the academic data and make notes for Gentry
• We have had some trouble with discipline data, but will get for next time

Table discussions:

• Parent Survey
• Nothing really jumps out
• Fairly small group of survey respondants (52)
• Demographics of the survey, white females mostly
• Evidence of less bullying and also saw that with the student survey
• Only 7 reported bullying and only 4 reported the bullying
• Maybe we still need to include bullying even though "we got better", since it is such a hot button issue and Rachel’s challenge was a success, why not build on that?
• How the parent survey is publicized determines respondent pool
• Data discussions
• discrepancies in comparing the data from a non-common core year to a common core year (2014)
• 6^th grade black and Hispanic numbers almost half of AIG and white
• Science and EOC math stand out as strong
• Gentry will collect our comments from today and summarize the table discussions, and bring back to the next meeting for further review along with the current SIT Plan