Tuesday, November 25, 2014

SIT Meeting November 2014

CHAMPS training for Staff

  • Gentry:  big discussion piece with encore--desire to re-do staff training and clear up the CHAMPS hallway expectations 

  • Does SIT feel like it needs to happen and how?  
  • training from a different source?
  • Young:  People not doing duties ?
  • Champs History:  Training was done extensively when it first started 
     
  • Graham:  a refresher would be good (keep it short) 
  • Wells: can we do in grade level ?
  • Miller:  Needs to be a school consensus on CHAMPS
  • Halverstatdt:  what is the training?-- It's a review of the SEMS expectations for class changes and hall behavior 
  • Graham:  consistency in enforcement is an issue
  • Gentry:  We should look at staff handbook for all the detailed expectations 
    • What are the expectations when teachers are dealing with other grade level?
  • a menu of options to address issues 
    • A what point does it go to the office? 
  • Pull that document and let SIT look at it and decide to do with it 
  • SIT needs to be on board based on necessity 
  • MIller: Teachers need to be out in the hall during locker changes (especially people in the pods) 

What would training it look like?  and how do we do it? 

  • Last time, Laura Horn and others provided the training
  • Young:  more than happy to help... 
  • Gentry:  very choosy about staff meeting items--might not be the best forum?
  • Douglass:  Could we do it on the Monday afternoon training sessions that we have been doing?
  • Look at the document in the handbook and make official recommendations for what to include 
  • Gentry--people get tired of hearing from me 
  • Thorne:  Can we make it more meaningful?--so make it specific to grade level  concerns
  • Wells--could we do the training in 2 parts? one for specifics and then one for the whole group...
  • Problem addressing a large group--people often don’t think they are talking to them 
  • Another thing to think about--If you were to walk in other schools/ halls  people might realize what we have here 
  • Give Gentry feedback on the handbook document and then schedule grade levels and then do the whole group 
  • Maybe in early January do the grade level meeting refresher
  • But she really needs the feedback from the document 

  • It's now much easier access to our discipline data 
  • We got a huge excel file that Gentry filtered and gave to us 
  • Do we have the past first quarter data to compare it to? no
  • 220 incidents for the first quarter that were documented by administration 
  • With Aaron coming on board--it can change the way things are coded 
  • 8th grade:  54%  of offenses
  • reportable offenses?--for example, marijuana
  • Mr. Griffin:  last week almost 80 ISS attendees, 400 for the year (if they come through the door Griffin documents their visit)  
  • How heavy ISS has gotten--admins have noticed 
  • Teacher morale is way off, that could be a factor in discipline?
  • If Brian gets loaded , then might have to close it off and handle among teams 
  • Some teachers abuse ISS and use it as a babysitting service 
  • Griffin:  Students take it more serious when ISS assignment comes from an administrator 
  • Young: are admins aware of frequent fliers? oh yes
  • A "taste of ALC" a week long stint in ISS 
  • Will continue to give you the discipline data 
  • Would like to look at the data by race 

Staff Survey for December / January:

  • Do we want to give the staff a survey late December or early January?
  • Come up with a sub committee with questions 
  • What showed up on the survey last year and needed addressed

Ideas for topics

  • Questions about CHAMPS: 
  • Resources for teachers 
  • other hot button ideas 
  • leadership roles 
  • Downs do the online part of it, Turner to work on the questions
  • Martin, Young, Thorne, and Miller to ask constituents about topics for the survey
  • Members send committee members and give SIT team to give feedback 
  • Thorne:  focus on SE Middle School--specifics to us that are able to be fixed 
  • no later than the second week of January 
Good of the order?  nothing

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