Members Present:
Douglass
Downs
Eisebacher
Gardner
Gentry
Griffin, Brian
Halverstadt
Jones, Julie
Martin, Jennifer
Miller
Turner (for Sherman)
Thorne
Turner
Young
SIT Chair -- Miller:
Gentry on the Staff Survey:
- Delayed—is not quite ready to go, but Gentry will make it happen very soon wants it to tie to data on school improvement plan
AP process update:
- We were walked through a process prior to now and still working out the kinks in this process
- The new process (not in writing) has been commonicated in different ways
- We have now been approached with the potential of having an interim in place for Cole who is retiring in March
- This is despite what HR has said about the process
- We also may have an opportunity to bring in a specific interim
- There are people on staff who know him and speak highly of him, so that is good
- This person is pro middle school and pro kids
- With Dr. Emory’s blessing, we can have stability coming in the door for the last four months of the year and would require less training.
- With SIT’s blessing then Gentry will close the books on this and he could come in soon and sub even before Cole leaves.
- We would still go through the interview process in June and this person could be eligible for the hiring process
Any questions for Gentry?
- Everyone was in agreement for bringing the interim on.
Signed Progress report issue?
- Some teachers require a parent signature when a child’s grade is below a certain level. But some parents would like to have the hard copy to keep.
- What can we do? Go back and have conversations with your groups with suggestions for handling this?
- Give teachers a couple of choices? Discuss feedback at the next SIT meeting.
Review of the SIT plan
- SIT plan review teams have been establisged by the district and they have an evaluative rubric for our plan which will be graded
- We will then be visited by a review team
- They will be looking for things like:
- Measurable goals?
- Who was involved in the SIT plan process? (inclusive?)
- Because of this, we need to review and see how much of our plan is actually in practice,
- What can we measure at this point?
- Over the next couple of meetings, we will go through goal by goal and then express any concerns about the different goals.
Here's an example: School priority Goal 1: reading proficiency
- Any of the strategies not really happening?
- LEP plans? Yes—Melissa Jackson is working on and are similar to IEP plans
- Mentoring program?
- Came to a standstill back in the fall –A meeting took place but the transportation piece fell through from the grant group.
- Central office met with the group and asked them to come back with another proposal and Gentry will be hearing from them soon.
- EC concerns: Robin asked that the 7th grade teams contact her since they missed a Dec meeting.
- Classroom walk through data has not really been provided because of difficulty with the reports
- If there are things we need to tweak (add or remove) then we can send in a revision and may have to respond to several things on the rubric.
- Bring SIT plan to future meetings for further review
