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 6^th 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: 6^th graders with lockers on the 7^th 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
• 8^th grade:
• Santoro and Lakey rotating off (Santoro sent out an email to ask for interest)
• Halverstadt staying on
• 7^th grade 
• Elkins out
• Brad still has a year
• 6^th 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.