School Improvement Team Meeting
Monday 8/25/10 1:00pm/Minutes
1) Call to Order
2) Attendance
X Jerry Messick - Admin
X Jill Friesen – encore
X LaJoi Wilson-Moore - Admin X Tamara Hughes – encore
Stephen Kottenbrock - Admin X Barbara Cummings - encore
X John Downs - Tech
X Daniel Bryant – 6 th
Benika Thompson – CC
X Elizabeth Hobson – 6 th
X Jennifer Covington - office
X Matt Fossa – 7 th
X Lisha Vannoy - guidance
X Robin Moon – 7 th
X John Cardarelli – S.S.
X Kirby Carespodi – 8 th
X Kelly Hall – L.A.
X Brent Atkinson – 8 th
X Dave Jenkins – Math
X Kara Richardson – EC
X Mark Schnably – Science
- PTA
3) Alternative Learning Center
A. Discipline Committee (interested members are: R Moon, G Frank, D Miller, N Foster, L Scott, C. Blevins, C. Daniel, W. Broadstreet, C. Dietrich, C. Jones)
1. Needs certified teacher & separation
2. can be shorter than previously, parole option
3. Cannot just be Cathy Blevins on ISS & ALC
4. Committee to work it out.
B. Students who are sent to an alt. school coming back – Schnably
1. Should they be put on a fresh team/fresh schedule to limit further disturbances?
2. This should be decided on a case by case basis. There should be a transition meeting about each student.
C. -Minor Offenses (Gum, Tardies, etc.)
1. Need creative ideas and plans to bring down ASD numbers:
ex. Gum chewers Gum scrapers
2. ASD not impactful to most
3. Gum chewing snowballs into disrespect and insubordination
4. Pick your battles VS. Need whole staff to work together
5. The district looks at referral #’s for all teachers
D. -Cindy Dietrich: Time to Teach
1. It’s a philosophy. Cindy went to training, can train others now.
2. Do we want to train the entire staff, and with what funds? Cindy or someone outside?
3. Shared a power point about it, passed out an article, “Order in the Classroom”.
4. Aim: intentional, strategic, consistent discipline method
5. Is our school going to buy into this or not? Please discuss with constituents. It would really help to be with this together as a team. Cindy has posted the power point on the Staff Share drive, and John will send out a link to one of the videos on the program.
4) Secretary- Jill Friesen volunteered (Downs to post on SIT blog)
-Take minutes and post to other members
- See Laura LeMay for notebook
5) SIP (Emma Couch, John Downs, Carderelli)
- now a 2 year cycle, instead of 3 year, so 2010, 2012
-pick 3-5 attainable, meaty goals
-Ex. Turn our school from 19th C. to 21st C. but aim for a certain # of classrooms per year because it’s $8500 per classroom to do it. School system prefers “classroom solution” as opposed to “piece-mealing”/outfitting classes.
6) Technology staff development needs/wants – John Downs
What workshops do you want…? (People already asking about technology credit (all are required to get 20 hours in the course of 5 year cycle)
• Daniel Bryant how to use social media effectively
o Downs: I was considering a session on: http://www.edmodo.com/ and http://kidblog.org/home.php
• Daniel Bryant: how to use cell phones & home computers, but how to deal with students who don’t have them.
• Brent Atkinson: workshop with 10 mini things that individuals can choose from and work with.
o Downs mentioned doing something the link a sent out in my back to school tech letter: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/08/11-techy-things-for-teachers-to-try.html
• John Cardarelli: show & tell: tech success and failures (like stories by teachers who have used various things, like blogs, voicethread, etc)
• Kirby Carespodi breakout groups: 1 session with 3 options
o Downs Suggested perhaps doing sessions at subject area (PLC) meetings instead of grade level to accomplish this goal
• Daniel Bryant organizing tech stuff (blogs, wikis, etc.)
• Brent Atkinson: using the 1 computer in the classroom (problems with lab access)
• Other ideas? Talk to constituents.
o We have created a google doc where anyone can input ideas for topics/suggestions:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApexppJsFByqdFl0ZWo3TURmVktNVWVMS2szaEsxVkE&hl=en&authkey=CIWp2vcD
7) Online Trip payment – Moon
A. Diana hopes to be all online eventually
B. Credit card service charge 4% can’t be included in price.
C. Once deadline missed, then what? Sometimes it depends on #’s. How receptive is the school to late payments?
We should have admin., Diana, & trip coordinators meet soon so all are on the same page and these issues can be dealt with.
8) School Vision – John C
- need same page vision of what we consider an education- not necessarily test scores!
- Where does testing belong in the big picture/ more positive statement?
-Has to be positive, or state won’t allow it.
- It’s been 10 years, no one knows what the vision is.
We need to revisit the vision and mission (Brent will with SIP plan).
9) Vertical Meetings
-Set-up Donor’s Choose
-internal grants ($2,000) will be accessible, but if you want that money for tech. items, etc., must submit proposal with why you want it, need it, how it’ll help students. Proposals will be reviewed and prioritized for $.
- Grants: M. McDowell
12) All agenda Requests must be submitted online – Google Docs
https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=t4z0yIaN2kWXQYnKkYspwAA&authkey=CJ3Uu50B&hl=en#gid=0
*pre-paid Visa for Science consumables? Not legal
13) SIT meetings: scheduled twice/month, but 2nd may be unnecessary.
Meeting was adjourned at 2:35.
Minutes submitted by Jill Friesen
