SIT
Meeting Agenda 3-24-2014
- School
Improvement Plan for 2014-2015
April meetings accountability people
They are coming and we will have to
have one in place Will not re-invent the
wheel
Data in November
Some teacher survey data
DO we need to shift focus
3-5 goals and and strategies
Get up to date information
Start making recommendations
Majority will still b eon SIT, and be
one of the first things we do is to finalize the plan
- Student
Handbook Review - Recommendations for next school year
Come back with suggestions for
handback which is due to publisher in late May, so people need to start looking
through now
Gentry will forward a copy to us
before the next meeting.
CHAMPS during transitions:
Gentry—couple of items have popped up
End of 3rd quarter not
surprising
How 8th grade expectations
are different because they change all together at one time vs the teams
8th grade teachers vs
teachers on hall duty?
8th grade teachers should
revisit what 8th grade hall should look like and have a unified
front to deliver to the encore/core teachers who cover the hall.
Santoro: teaches should not hate coming to hall
duty…they will work on at the next grade level meeting
Rhymes: guys congregating in the bathrooms—some come
with an agenda some not
Santoro: norming the process, wait till everyone is
quiet before moving
Get information to Gentry and she
will distribute to staff to clarify the situation.
Lisa:
question about the expectation of having an agenda in the hall
Instruments, delivering things for
teachers, and add going to the bathroom
Have to have a planner to get in the
library for example.
Elkins is probably something we have
gotten slack on and
- John
Downs. & Lisa Turner.
Don’t want to give the impression that
we are changing the rules of the game
Controlled environment Halverstadt
No plans to open widely.
Opt in vs opt out?
Lisa backing up in the 6th
and 7th grade some of the research components
She might offer staff development on
this
Product oriented generation with Lisa
perhaps
Teachers directed
8th graders less
experienced
- Readdress
Staff Morale Boosters for the "3rd Quarter Blues"
Copy codes and push for eog review?
Is admins aware of this
Is admins aware of this
Purpose of the codes is to monitor
the usage
- Any
other grade level concerns?
Santoro: 8th
Can EC classrooms take over for the
classroom in the event there is not a sub?
Depends (downtown probably no)
They become the core and no longer
are the EC
It changes the role of the EC teacher
and EC law.
Can’t assume EC teachers will but
some will say that they will take a class, Gentry will not direct that
Can EC teacher take their students
and work with them, and that can be very effective—can do the assessments that
they are required to do either during absorption
EC teachers have overlapping classes
and sometimes not available for the entire class
Are subs pulled from other grades has
to go thru the main office—yes
Two people out on the same grade
level then you have to redistribute kids who were supposed to go to
Just a reminder—happens rarely, but
it can happen and should have a contingency plan
If EC teachers pull out, the
absorption teachers need to be notified
Elkins:
Not much feedback (no reminder sent
out)
Reach out to younger teachers? Still encourage teachers to do that?
Maybe before test time, throw
something out there.
Maybe three or four weeks in ,
perhaps get something together.
Everything goes out the window with
the test plan, abnormal number of makeups, etc.
Reserve the right to change
Need to look at in terms of the
events, etc.
7th grade zoo?
8th grade celebrations
Will go over in April staff meeting
Extend 2 all in final 10 days
Only one not in last ten days is
Foreign Language Testing
Recommend all online with in the last
ten days
Elkins: when gentry sends out the handbook review
Thorne:
Kids wearing the headphones—Thorne
Trickles
Next meeting: May 12
April 21st?
Money hospitality, business partners?
8th grade celebration at
the end of May
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