August 2014

SIT meeting minutes August 2014

Present:
Cole, Bailey, Gardner, Gentry Graham, Halverstadt, Julie Jones, Jennifer Martin, Miller, Portia Lakey,Sharman Lakey, Rhymes,Jamie Sherman,Thorne,Turner,Worrell, Wells, Young

Gentry running the meeting since no SIT chair yet

Today's Agenda:  SIT membership and priority for school improvement plan

• Not voting today
• Will set up a survey to be voted on by SIT members
• SIT plan needs to be done by mid late September

Membership:

• Encore:  Sharman standing and a year left
• Is  there is someone to be voted in?
• Wells and Young here to be voted in as members
• 6^th Grade
• Graham returning
• Kristin Thorne 
• Both have another year 
• 7^th grade
• Lost Elkins
• 3 serving now:
• Rhymes—back for a second
• Julie Jones and Helen Miller willing to serve on the open spot
• 8^th Grade:
• Matt is back for another year
• Jennifer Martin is submitting to serve
• EC:
• Portia was serving as Parent
• Robin putting herself in to serve as EC
• Parent:
• Worrell had served and is willing to serve again
• Gentry offers PTSA to serve every year and open to all—meet at 2:20 and usually take care of in house because of that.
• Standing members:
• Guidance, AP’s, Technology, Media and curriculum 
• Will send out the survey with the voting.
• At second meeting with new members we will  vote for a new chair.

The School Improvement Plan 

• Sources of Data
• Student survey
• Teacher working condition survey
• Compares to district and state
• Academic data—can not go outside this room—not been cleared by the state board.
• Contains data from two years ago compared to last year
• There are various good data comparisons
• Each table to send someone up from the table to look at data in small groups
•   What data sticks out to you—positive or negative? (to what do we really need to pay attention?
• Conversation from the tables
• Lakey—discipline—WSFCS below average across the state
• Consistently enforce rules question is lower for SEMS
• 30% of 8^th grade Student also felt students were not well behaved--that does seem high
• Positive, Downs: Teacher leadership and shared vision numbers have improved from the previous year ---perhaps because of our focus on CHAMPS and bullying training (Rachel’s challenge)  might be something worth continuing?
• Positive, Rhymes: sufficient access to appropriate instructional materials (even though fairly low) learning teams—resources and instructional supplies 
• what due to?  Referring to common core, district support? Or directly related to the school?
• Highly dependent on subject and grade level
• Positive, Lakey:  Overall SEMS is mostly above state average on almost everything
• Test Data:
• 7^th grade Rhymes:  LEP and students with disability very low
• Looking at all the groups who met and did not meet, breakdown by subgroups, The New PLT’s groups will need to look at this data in terms of those grade level and subjects—will continue this conversation even with encore
• No science and social studies data because not used for our ratings but covered in EVASS.
• Will come back in two weeks and look more with our new members
• What Data do you want possession of that is not sitting here?
• Is there a parent survey?  is almost ready and posting on they will be posting on the portal, Gentry will share with us
• Miller-- Social studies strands?
• 6^th grade:  can we see the fifth grade scores?  Would be nice to see a summary but can’t too easily because they come from several different schools
• Perhaps a little bit of discipline data (50% is on the bus)
• Next meeting is Tuesday, September 2^nd.
• We will select a chair and new members will attend