August 22, 2011

 1) Call to Order/Attendance

Brad Royal - Admin
Stephen Kottenbrock - Admin
LaJoi Wilson-Moore - Admin
Candi Fernandez - CC
Tanya Bridges - Tech
Daniel Bryant – SIT Chair
Kelly Hall – LA
Dave Jenkins – Math
Mark Schnably – Science
Gena Loflin – 8th
Cindy M Dietrich – 7th
Matthew A Fossa – 7th
Jennifer Via – 7th
Carleen Mooney – 6th
Deborah Cummings - Encore
Abby Allen - Encore
Jill M Friesen - Encore
Susan Riddle – Encore – SIT Sect.
Beth Raines - EC
Karen B Parker - EC
Dave Kornelius - PTA
Janet Fangmann - PTAa

2) Approval of Minutes from 6/6/2011 meeting

- Red/Green Zone discussion postponed until later in the school year.

Fossa moved to approve the 6/6/11 meeting minutes.

Parker 2nd, all in favor

3) Campus Cleanup - Royal
 a) Honor School of Excellence Signage

   The School of Excellence signage in the lobby is out of date. The banner program was probably cut due to budget cuts. At this time there are three options to consider regarding the banners:

 1) Leave the banners as is

2) Determine how to get signs exactly like those currently hanging (costs)
3) Take them down

Banner Suggestions:

•  Purchase one large banner similar to the sports banners in gym
• Royal: Three TVs are being donated and will be located in the lobby to help in creating a 21st century school environment. These could be used to promote school successes at no cost. 1 café / 1 concessions /1 guidance
• Bryant: Suggested a banner to note the YEAR and the Recognition then each year and the new recognition could be added. It could be designated as our Academic Excellence banner. Lower cost than individual banners for each year.
• Royal: Dietrich and Kornelius will research and present banner options
• McDowell: Will talk to Martin Patrick about banner options similar to those in the gym
• Upon hearing reports at the next meeting, discussion will begin about what to do with current banners. At this time banners will remain in the lobby.

 b) Deck the Halls - Royal

   Patriot Pride will be a new program this school year to motivate the staff and student body to take more pride in our school. It will include building and pod care/maintenance assignments. “This building looks like a 1999 building not a 2011!” (Royal) This starts with taking greater pride in our physical facilities-which means the teachers/faculty, students, staff and administration - all have to model Patriot Pride.

Areas to be addressed:

•  Pegram- Will begin changing out pictures to update them with current students and activities. This can be done inexpensively.
• Blevins and Hamby are additional picture resources.
• Change the art work to create a 21st Century look.
• Sketches and murals throughout the building need to be completed
• Clean up the front office and the building (work in progress)
• Spruce this place up!
• New fencing is going to be installed to keep kids off the grass near the new terracing beside the annex.
• Cummings, Allen and Pegram will lead the Deck the Halls initiative to begin updating the school/campus.

 Patriot Pride measures already underway for the new school year…

•  New steps at Guidance entrance
• New terraced retaining wall beside the annex
• Loop and chain fence to be installed to keep kids off the grass in the back.
• Power washing the walks and walls where needed.

 c) Patriot Pride - Bryant

   Contest within the buildings to help maintain Patriot Pride See Attached PowerPoint

  

Buildings are divided into areas of responsibility and are judged weekly based on appearance. Keep in mind that the Custodians shouldn’t clean up after us.

•  NO mopping or hazardous cleaning! (not part of the program)
• Patriot Pride includes keeping the hallways and classrooms clear of trash/books, lockers closed, bathrooms neat (reporting problems) 

Other points mentioned to help demonstrate Patriot Pride:

•  Pressure washing building and sidewalk to remove chalk (Thanks to Mr. Kottenbrock)
• FOSSA-If cable ties are used to secure empty lockers, be sure they are looped several times so students cannot yank the lockers open. 
• Fangmann-Consider outside cleanup for Crosby Scholars as community service -week-end activity (inside of bldg would be harder to arrange on the weekends)
• Kornelius-Beautification Committee (part of PTA) can help with outside
• Kottenbrock to get a list of outside projects to Dan Kornelius for the Beautification Committee to assist with 

4) Discipline

 a) ALC Location and Schedule - Fossa

   Because of the time requirements of study skills/PLCs/Grade level meetings this year, the ALC process and schedule will need to be reworked. Currently the move it to ISS simply because of meeting schedule. Other possibilities are being investigated by Moon and Fossa.

•  Royal: Maybe another team takes Study Skills while one team takes their week of ALC
• Allen: CTE teachers have some time can be used—Maybe rm. 010 for ALC
• Royal: (In response to questions about a singular ALC location) The current class schedule causes time gaps between 8th and 7th planning times. Because it seems that there are no other adult supervision options, ALC students could not be left alone during these times. Royal thought that ALC students were taken back to ISS between sessions when waiting for the next grade level to pick them up. If there is an issue with the student interacting with others during transition periods, then take student to the next location 5 minutes before class lets out. Prevent them from interaction during class changes (management issue).
• Mooney: Last year Mrs. Blevins was willing to put ALC in the small office beside ISS.
• Royal: That office space can not be used for ALC because it is used by the school social worker and psychologist to work with students. Every other school in the county combines ISS and ALC in one room.
• Fossa: Will look into ALC change and other options besides ISS and will invite Mrs. Blevins to the Discipline Committee meeting for her input on possibly housing ALC with ISS. There is also the possibility of teachers assisting Blevins with ALC students, but housing those children in the ISS room.

 5) Curriculum

 a) Mandate from Central Office - Bryant

   Each team is responsible for 10 minutes of Instant Recess for every child each day all year long. We are not required to use the videos from last year, but there must be 10 minutes of documented activity every day.

Possibilities/Suggestions:

• Team time can count—Team time needs to be planned/organized activities (1 or 2 times a week).
• Can use the IR videos. They will be on the SDrive and use whenever needed. It works best to download them to your desktop. They will also be looped on the TV like last year.
• Walk track 10 min.
• Students/Teachers might create videos to be shared
• Will start on Monday August 30 
• CORE teacher issue—team plans their schedule
• Must be documented for each child everyday!
• How to maintain documentation-forthcoming. 

a) Technology - Bridges

 Bridges is only here on B-days

• How do we unlock computers if students are locked out? Get generic logins—(passwords will be changed from time to time).
• Brad: Get generic logins from Candi
• Riddle/Barfield/Ladson- have open class periods and will be assisting Tanya 
• Daniel- Start a TECH Response team. ex. Jenkins and other teachers that have some tech knowledge (refrigerator list for technology)
• Try to KEEP STARS in place. Students are proud of leadership role. Identify kids from STARS.  

Help desk process seems to be working fine so far.

  

  6) For the Good of the Order:

• Fossa: Classroom 10 is empty. Ask teachers at grade level how many of their working classroom desktop computers they would be willing to donate for a new computer lab. If there are enough computers donated to create a classroom, Mr. Royal will check into getting that room wired. This would provide another location for classes to sign-up/use computers. Please contact Matt Fossa if you have any extra computers for this project. 

• Fernandez: Staff development-Grade level meetings-1 of 2 will be for staff development. Each team should come up with recommendation for staff development by their September 1st grade level meeting in order to set the calendar for 2011-2012.

• Kornelius: Jefferson Middle School’s PTA now has a Facebook page

• Hall: Reactivate the old Mad Minutemen Club- fundraiser for athletic department.   

 -Cost was $25.00 and only good for basketball games (several years ago).
 -Cost would have to be reviewed and the inclusion of volleyball season considered.
 -Will be discussed with Francis and Schnably
 -There must be a staff member managing the group's organization and appropriateness at sporting events
             
Students in the original group received:
 -T-shirt- When wearing the shirt they received free admission to home basketball games (excluding championship games) and seating in a designated section beside the cheerleaders.
 -Ration Card for 1 free drink and snack

June 6, 2011

1) Call to Order
2) Attendance
Brad Royal - Admin
LaJoi Wilson-Moore - Admin
Stephen Kottenbrock - Admin (absent)
John Downs - Tech
Candi Fernandez – CC
Sara Billings - Class.
Lisha Vannoy - guidance
John Cardarelli – S.S.
Kelly Hall – L.A. (absent)
Dave Jenkins – Math
Mark Schnably – Science
Jill Friesen – encore/secretary
Tamara Hughes – encore
Deborah Cummings - encore
Daniel Bryant – 6 th
Elizabeth Hobson – 6 th
Matt Fossa – 7 th
Robin Moon – 7 th
Gail Frank – 8 th (absent)
Brent Atkinson – 8 th
Richardson/Edmonds – EC
M.Hunter/J. Fangmann- PTA
Karen Parker – Teacher Assistant
Jenifer Holland
Gena Loflin
Susan Riddle
Carleen Mooney
Cindy Dietrich

3) Minutes


-Motion to approve last meeting minutes? Fossa motions, Bryant & Hughes and Parker 2nd, all in favor.


4) Classroom solution– Atkinson
-Social Studies proposals for “classroom solution” have been submitted by J Holland and J Garwood.
• Both proposals were read, but because of the guidelines set at the last meeting, Jennifer Holland was approved for the classroom solution.


5) Changing of guard – need to elect a new SIT Chair from next years members
Nominations: Need a majority vote to become chair. There will be a run-off if there are are 2 high nominees
• Daniel Bryant, nominated by Fossa and K. Parker
• Fossa, nominated by Jenkins and Loflin. Fossa declined… too many sports.
Daniel Bryant was the only one available, no one was opposed, so he is now the SIT chair.
SIT Secretary: Jill Friesen will be 80% next year, so may not be best as secretary.
Susan Riddle was nominated and 2nded for secretary, with none opposed. Susan Riddle will be next year’s secretary.


6) Red/Green Zone: It needs to be a first order of business for SIT next year. Also, professionalism and ALC scheduling (especially during testing time) need to be addressed at the beginning of the year.
• Royal- Maybe this (professionalism) should be a focus for single school culture. This has been scoffed at previously, but it can be a powerful thing. You hold each other accountable of that.
• Atkinson- We as a staff weren’t taught or told anything about single school culture… we were just told one day that for that we’re all going to walk on the right side of the hallway.
• Bryant- I thought we had to choose what type of school we were: single school culture (2 years ago), or PLC school (this year).
• Royal: What if we pick one goal per quarter to work on as part of professionalism? Ex. 1st quarter- we focus on everybody being on their duties on time. 2nd Quarter- we focus on gum, etc.
• Atkinson- A huge part of single school culture is the accountability piece- me being willing to go to Matt Fossa (for example) and say, you aren’t doing your duty on time. You need to do that. And he needs to be ready to hear that and accept it without throwing a hissy fit.
• Royal: Both administration and teachers are to hold each other responsible for that. EVERYONE must be in agreement or it falls to pieces.
• Dietrich: It’s all about consistency and eliminating the gray area. This is similar to my Time to Teach training.
• Royal: You all scoffed at a half-baked idea. Whatever idea you decide to do has to be all the way thought through. That is not just one meeting. That is a series of well laid out meetings.
• Gum chewing discussion… when/how to write up, between classes, differences between how teachers respond, etc. … Need to refocus back to Single School Culture. Obviously this is an important issue that we can work on tackling next year as part of single school culture.
• Bryant: We can’t just keep doing the exact same things over again, because we’re just walking in circles. We need to be proactive and reactive.
• Royal: I’m really irritated about the physical appearance of the hallways. Papers, trash, all over floors, lockers open, bookbags halfway in them. This shows no respect for our school. I’d like for administration to pick a hallway a week to focus on, and reward that team for keeping it clean or something. Maybe called the Patriot Pride Award. Expectations can, should, need to be high.
-Carderelli- I think it’s a great idea. But I think we should take down some of the ancient pictures, art, and photos that are up and put up more recent stuff.
-Not just hallways, also bathrooms, outside walkways, etc. Maybe we can put more trash cans out there… there’s some recycling money we could use for that.
-We need to work with business partners to come up with rewards. I can make this a Brad Royal thing, but I’d like it to be everybody working together on this. It will take some work to set up. We need to ALL work together, and we also need to model pride.
-Carderelli- I think we should start with something tangible like hallways and gum, but ultimately we could lead into an honor code system… I will not cheat, I won’t contribute to graffiti, I’m proud to be a student here, BECAUSE I go to TJMS. Once it gets started it snowballs… bathroom walls become a message board.
-Bryant: This is a good place to start, and there’s no better time to start that than the beginning of the year… that’s when the school is the cleanest.
• Atkinson- If you haven’t read about single school culture before, you may want to go back and look into that.


Meeting adjourned @ 3:00pm.
Minutes submitted by Jill Friesen.

SIT Meeting, May 16, 2011

Attendance
Present:
Brad Royal - Admin
John Downs - Tech
Candi Fernandez – CC
Kelly Hall – L.A.
Dave Jenkins – Math
Mark Schnably – Science
Tamara Hughes – encore
Deborah Cummings - encore
Daniel Bryant – 6 th
Elizabeth Hobson – 6 th
Matt Fossa – 7 th
Jill Friesent--Secretary
Gail Frank – 8 th
Brent Atkinson – 8 th
Karen Parker – Teacher Assistant
Stephen Kottenbrock - Admin
Lisha Vannoy - guidance
John Cardarelli – S.S
Richardson/Edmonds – EC
Robin Moon – 7 th

Not present:
Janet. Fangmann- PTA
LaJoi Wilson-Moore - Admin

3) Minutes
-Motion to approve last meeting minutes?
-Karen motions, Matt seconds, all in favor

4) Tech update – Atkinson

New Classroom Solutions – One to Mr. Schnably, as he was the only other person to write a proposal for round one. One to a sixth grade social studies teacher IF district will insure equipment in the pods. If not, a 7th social studies teacher in the main building.
-Royal: Yes, they can put them in a pod, no it’s not insured. (We’re self-insured… if that money is gone or they don’t want to pay it as the school system, we’re on our own. So it’s really just a maybe. That’s the best answer he can give us.) The TV would have to be put on a rolling cart… much easier to steal. $8250… but 6th should have one.
-Downs: But, not to be against 6th grade, if it’s our money now we might should lean on the safe side. and wait till the 2012 bond to equip the PODS?
-Atkinson- Hopefully any emptied classrooms will turn into computer labs, but we won’t double up (on our own money) and put solutions in the labs.
This completes “phase one” of our tech acquisition plan. Yeah!

Phase two has been modified to fill 4 dell mini laptop carts, one for each grade level and encore before returning to solutions. (They hold 24 each)
-Fossa: I think it’s silly to decide which building the solutions go in? If someone has a better proposal, why shouldn’t they get it? Answer: Soc. St. already met about this. No one is moving rooms… we’re all the same school. Why should we be so restrictive? It will eventually force someone to take one, due to location and restrictions, as opposed to those who will really use it.
-Atkinson: They can’t be on the same team: that’s a parent issue. So it’s more a team thing, but buildings make that easier to decide.
-Downs: Another reason to do it geographically is if teams switch around in future years.
-Royal: I don’t personally care where we put them, but it does geographically make sense.
-Carderelli: I think this resoves the issue, because after this one is placed downstairs, it makes the next one open to anyone.
-Atkinson: So after this, do we want to say that it goes to the best proposal period? Since one will be close enough regardless.
-Atkinson: So we need to know… are we adamantly against putting one in 6th grade? We have to decide this in order to move forward.
-Royal: "Maybe" in Central office means no. So we need this to go to 7th grade.
-Carderelli: Motion to make the next solution downstairs in 7th grade social studies. The motion was seconded, unanimous vote that way.


5) Encore meetings – Friesen

Meeting more often than encore would like. Only want/need 2 meeting per month.
-Royal: We don’t have grade level meetings unless there is something to be discussed. We can’t know ahead of time when things will come up.
–Atkinson: how many parent meetings do you do in there too? I know it’s your lunch, but… Grades take a long time with 2-3 times the students.
Candi and Brad: out of necessity… we can’t necessarily say now that they will only be twice a month.
- Friesen: Also, can we choose events: concerts, plays, banquets, etc. Instead of having to go to all, like we have in past years. Atkinson: We’ll talk about that next time since it wasn’t on the agenda.

6) Student Agenda for 2011-2012 – Hall

Changes for gum, etc if not to be enforced
- Hall: Battle against gum is done, right?
- Royal: Not set that way, but I don’t want my administrators tied up dealing with it. Maybe when it turns into insubordination. But get it off the books… you can do something about it if you like, but not on the books.
- Hall: If it isn’t going to be supported by administration as a school rule, lets take it off the agenda, and deal with it again. Previously when a repeated offence (insubordination), we wrote it up for an ASD. I’m seeing gum everywhere. Everywhere. We need to either take it off the books or take it on. But this isn’t just about gum… it’s about rules in general.
- Royal: Gum chewing in hallways and at water fountains… how can we monitor that?
- We have never had the nasty gum mess that we have now.
- Fossa: Do not Take it off the books… so we can still enforce it in on our own… and be able to tell them to spit it out.
- Frank: Make it known that it is still a rule: some teachers are letting them chew gum.
- Atkinson: And letting them use cell phones.
- Bryant: Teachers are doing it too.
- Atkinson: Gum scraping service has to be really monitored with whatever time teachers are willing to give. Whatever you decide is your punishment and you enforce it yourself, you should see some decline. But she’s right… to be in the agenda we have to be united on it.
- Royal: How do you encourage people to be professional? That’s what this is about. How do we hold each other accountable? Single-School culture… not just walk on the sides of the halls. We have to tackle the staff first. This is more about professionalism and holding each other accountable. That is something that we as a staff next year could really improve on.
- Atkinson: In May now, we can’t send directives out right now. But since there isn’t a SIP to be done next year… we can tackle that next year straight off. Because if everybody just did what was expected of them, then this wouldn’t be an issue.
-Carderelli: I suggest we discuss this by grade level, and decide how we want to deal with it… make it a team thing, etc.
- Vannoy: But if the consequences are always different, then isn’t that confusing to kids too?
- Atkinson: Time to move on: it’s professionalism. To be dealt with next year.

7) Creation of PTA business center – Bryant

-To meet the needs to parents, to email parents, check parent assist, pay bills, etc. I think it would be helpful to provide some access to parents. Church used to be the center of the community, but it isn’t doing it anymore, so I feel like now it should be the school. Can we give value to coming in to using the doors, etc. So why couldn’t we form a PTA headquarters, in say, Mr. Messick’s old office, for parents to use if not already used?
-Atkinson: Great idea IF the resources are there. Even if only a few use it, the PTA would appreciate it.
-Royal: I’m thinking more a business professionals’ office. But I love the idea.
-Bryant: And I think it needs to be in place right at the beginning of the year, and easily accessible.
-Royal: I love this idea… how inviting is it to be so inviting the community.
-Copies may be a problem.
-Atkinson: Parking may be a problem. I think it’s time to consider making visitor parking really just for visitors (in the past we didn’t have enough, so we had to use it for employees), but we need to offer them somewhere to park.
-This would also reduce that parking in front of the building and blocking traffic.

8) PTA meetings on Thursdays – Fossa

- This goes with what Jill was saying about scheduling… but I remember SIT saying meetings only on Thursday to have long day at the end of the week, since we have to have such late days.
-Downs: I think this one was just switched due to the scheduling of the band concert.
-Kottenbrock: That may be partially my fault, because I was standing in for Brad that day, but they like that to have more audience and members.
-Atkinson: The choosing options, when I chose mine and came, only a few came.
-Frank (and others): That was really only a problem in December. And there are also problems for parking.
-Atkinson: So since the PTA meetings for next year have not been set, we can make an effort that way.
-Hall: But if there are more things a month, and we still have option, then I think it would be enjoyed, etc.
-Communication next year should be somewhat better too, because we’ll have a full-time band teacher next year. (Kottenbrock)
- And we all left that particular meeting unhappy because it was so hot, muggy, and rainy. We need some handicapped seating… that was a major problem.
-Royal: We are NOT having another meeting in the gym during the month of May.

9) D-1s for Tardies – Fossa

-Is it possible for NC Wise to handle D-1’s to handle 3rd tardy? Can Steve Blair run those reports, instead of us dealing with it because it happens so much.
-Royal: Easier for whom? How many referrals are you asking 2 administrators to write up, versus 60 people? It’s just a shift of responsibility.
-Fossa: We don’t even keep track of tardies anyways… NC WISE does. It’s an efficiency issue. If Steve Blair could even run a report and email it to us to write up, but for us to go through it… so much to scroll through. The way we do it, is hard… we can’t be consistent because they go to encore and we don’t see the slips
-Downs: Why don’t we ask Steve Blair about it, and see what’s possible?
-Cummings: Encore teachers can just give the pass back for them to take to homeroom teachers after seeing it.
-Vannoy: Maybe some teachers may need to teach others the efficiency of how to deal with it.
-Royal: I’m all about holding our kids accountable. If is kid is tardy, the kid should be disciplined. But (rhetorically) are we really disciplining the right person? We shouldn’t get so caught up in consequences for this, and remember the reasoning behind it.
-Frank: Then we need to change how it’s written in the agenda.
-If we take it out, we’ll have an increase in tardies.
-Some parents ask me to write them up… they just won’t get out of bed.
-Atkinson: The agenda at least needs to be looked at, not just last-minute-like. Royal: If you want things adjusted in there, email administration about it.

10) Short shorts – EC
- Back to the agenda issue… so let’s just focus on professionalism.

11) ISS assignment requests – EC
- Need requests in boxes sooner than morning of assignment. EC teachers get that slip the morning we walk in the door, and they can’t leave kids in the classroom, etc. Maybe email assignments?
-They can call her too. Or send kids with it to Cathy. Or Cathy does have something there to work on if just once in awhile. Cathy doesn’t mind if it’s a little late as long as they have something to do.
-Royal: In other schools I think we should schedule ISS a day in between assignments. But if the kid needs to be out… they need to be there next day.
-Atkinson- I think I’m speaking for the staff- we would not be happy if there was a lag there if the kids really needed to be out.
-Kottenbrock: And maybe if we schedule that before 11am, then it should be for the next day, but if they are scheduled after that time, maybe it should lag a day.
-And if she needs work, she often calls the room.
Vannoy: What about holey jeans? I mean, up past the thigh. –Send to add to agenda.


12) Close of school year and furlough days – Royal
-Scratched for today.

13) SIT next year – Who is replacing whom?

-Loflin replacing Atkinson as 8th rep.
-Carleen Mooney replacing Hobson
- Riddle? Replacing Hughes
-Dietrich replacing Moon
-Bryant is staying on, replacing himself.

Royal: Friday you’ll receive a close of school packet of checkout stuff. Grades will be due by 3pm Tuesday June 14th. You’ll get report cards by the 15th, first thing in the morning, and have to stuff them that day. Quick turn around. That’s all the time we’ve got.

14) MVP nominations/award: MVP TBD.

School Improvement Team Meeting April 18, 2011

Attendance
Present:
Brad Royal - Admin
LaJoi Wilson-Moore - Admin
John Downs - Tech
Candi Fernandez – CC
Kelly Hall – L.A.
Dave Jenkins – Math
Mark Schnably – Science
Tamara Hughes – encore
Deborah Cummings - encore
Daniel Bryant – 6 th
Elizabeth Hobson – 6 th
Matt Fossa – 7 th
Gail Frank – 8 th
Brent Atkinson – 8 th
Janet. Fangmann- PTA
Karen Parker – Teacher Assistant

Not Present:
Stephen Kottenbrock - Admin
Lisha Vannoy - guidance
John Cardarelli – S.S
Richardson/Edmonds – EC
Robin Moon – 7 th
Jill Friesen – encore/secretary

Minutes
More staff members are reading the minutes…encourage them to continue to do that.
Motion to approve? Hughes, Hall, 2nd, all in favor?  All approved
Brent appreciates the notes taken by Friesen and the Blog helps keep things archived

TJMS Social Committee: (Atkinson for Denise Francis)

Ms Francis heard about an idea at Flatrock where the social committee spent funds for a cake for special occasions like wedding showers or baby showers, etc.

Also, they had the idea of a rep from each grade level, encore, and classified.

Denise wanted to talk to SIT about money to be spent for things like baby showers, wedding showers, etc.  Right now, we send flowers to funerals, cards to people in the hospital, and part of left over money goes to year end lunch.

• What do we feel about spending social money this way?
• How do you think people would feel about purchasing a cake for someone who is having a baby?

We will have to look at limitations…such as certain amounts for certain events?

This idea is just for cakes…People bring gifts on their own.

Question:  How much money is generally left over at the end of the year?  (Brent or Denise will check with Diana)

Issues: 

• Many people don’t pay it..It’s not absolutely mandatory, classified pay one half of certified staff
• Kelly Hall—suggests we do some research on what was done in the past
• What kind of idea is this? Good/bad…?Go back to your peers and discuss
• How much money do we get and what are the usual expenses? Hobson  (again, Brent or Denise will check with Diana)
• Some liked the idea of a gift that would last longer rather than a cake
• Denise had concerns that you can't really get a decent "gift" for less than $50.00,   gift cards?

Other questions?

• What if we do this and by the end of the year money runs out?
• Gail: need for making gifts proportional—so much  for a wedding, so much for a baby
• Brent: His team threw a wedding shower, maybe we are too big of a staff to "all be friends"
• Kelly--we will need to set some kind of guidelines
• Brent will talk to Denise on how much is commonly spend, for retirements…
• Gift cards for people people who leave?

Science Department Concerns/Schnably

Schnably attended a Science conference:

• They talked about the new standard course of study coming for 2013
• Science is going to try and get probeware for schools to use.
• Concern is: if we get such technology we really don't have the computers to be able to use this equipment.
• Also, starting next year science testing year on-line…will need computers for those as well
• How are we going to get students proficient with science, and not have the tools (computers) we need?
• Do we want more classroom computers and put aside adding classroom solutions for now?..
• Brad, met with BB&T on Friday and asked them for money for technology…hopefull that they will donate to help us fill laptop carts

We need to look at our priority list…

• There maybe classrooms freed up with the allotment where we could put computers
• More people have used the minis over the classroom solution
• Mr. Downs said we shouldn't totally move away from classroom solutions--
• it is changing dramatically the way teachers teach--talk to Leigh Humphrey or Dietrich.
•  we need to at least put one in a 6th grade classroom to expose those teachers. 
• Another issue,  what happens when a projector bulb breaks, the cost to replace the bulb is upwards of $300.00
• do we put that money into an old piece of equipment or do we put that money toward a new "classroom solution" instead? 
• Even though we keep hearing from the district that a future bond will pay for all classrooms to be outfitted with classroom solutions, can we totally wait on that and remain frozen in time? 

Mr Schnably: We have a pacing guide to stick to…how would you do that to be able to share materials…(probe ware and the computers to use them?)

New Sit members:

Have the name by the next meeting, can that be put on the next grade level meeting agenda?  (to vote for the replacements). 7th grade has already voted.

Also be thinking about a SIT chair…

Department chairs going off?  Read last SIT meeting minutes…

Sara Billings won the Most Valuable Player for the month of March--Congratulations Ms Billings!!

SIT Meeting, March 21, 2011

Attendance:
Brad Royal - Admin
John Downs - Tech
Sara Billings - Class.
Lisha Vannoy - guidance
John Cardarelli – S.S.
Dave Jenkins – Math
Mark Schnably – Science
Jill Friesen – encore/secretary
Tamara Hughes – encore
Deborah Cummings - encore
Elizabeth Hobson – 6 th
Gail Frank – 8 th
Brent Atkinson – 8 th
Richardson/Edmonds – EC
Karen Parker – Teacher Assistant

not present:
Kelly Hall – L.A.
Candi Fernandez – CC
LaJoi Wilson-Moore - Admin
Stephen Kottenbrock - Admin
Matt Fossa – 7 th

Robin Moon – 7 th
Daniel Bryant – 6 th
M.Hunter/J. Fangmann- PTA


3) Minutes

-Motion to approve last meeting minutes? Minutes approved.

4) Dell Minis and Testing – Fossa (Atkinson speaking for him)
• Fossa: new dell minis tied up during testing, but their purpose in buying them was not just for testing. Fernandez agrees. But apparently the Soc. St. testing window was too short, and during EOQ week, so this shouldn’t be an issue again.
• Downs: We don’t have test schedules set up at beginning of year, it’s not all planned out, so we have used them for convenience to test inthe vicinity to the lab so Downs can monitor and so we can get 1200 kids tested in 1-2 weeks.  The test windows are set late, separate EC groups are many and have to be taken into consideration.
• Schnably: Can’t we tell central office that this isn’t enough of a window for testing?
• Downs: it would be nice to be able to do that, but that's not a reality option (especially not with a new administration)
• Jenkins: This is a district mandated thing… they need to just suck it up and make the windows better to work with.
• Carderelli: This is never-ending. You’re right… they should have this planned well ahead of time (and not change it randomly).
• Atkinson: So if we were to keep to our window, the dell minis are taken as a last resort in emergency situations. Central office needs to hear this, but they’re going to do more coming from parents (on parents’ own initiative). We have to keep them aware of the technology situation, the needs we have, that tests are taking the technology so we can’t use it for making web pages, etc.
• Royal: Rationale between these extra district tests is that we aren’t getting good civics scores over-all, and we’re trying to remedy this. Within a few years, all the EOQ testing will be computerized. 2012-2013--The plan is for 8th grade science testing to be on the computer, and for 2014-2015 all standardized tests on the a computer.
Downs:  Proposed that we might need to tweak our Proposal for spending technology monies...Perhaps, with the next amount of money that we spend for technology that we first fill the Dell laptop carts to bring them up to 24 laptops each (they each have 15 at this time)  If this is a priority that teachers want?

5) Unexcused absences letters (Fossa)

When do they go home? Can we make it uniform? (15th and 30th of each month?)
- Royal: After 3 absences (per year), NCWISE generates the letter, Brad signs them. An email isn’t documentation… a letter is needed.
- Could we make a uniform policy, i.e. excuse letters have to be in by (date), or coded by (date)? For each date w/ letter you need it’s about a minute.
- Blair: Generated generally on Tuesdays. Generated at 3 absences (unexcused), 6 absences, and 10.
- Letters need to go back to administration
What if a child brings a note in past 3 days? He’ll still take them.
- Royal: Honestly, their options to make-up work are the same unexcused v. excused, so it doesn’t matter much that way. But from a truancy standpoint, we need that info, and the AP’s have to make the phone calls after so many absences.
- Royal: You technically have the autonomy to fail a kid based on absences, but run it by me first.
- Atkinson: But M.S. doesn’t have an attendance policy like that… we need to check on that.
- Atkinson: Is it a common thing for teachers to wait on the letters and not put them in when received? Why can’t we just expect teachers to put them in by Friday that same week?
- Royal: A week is ample enough time to do so… on a professional responsibility basis. It’s preferred to do it that day while it’s fresh on your mind. It is an expectation to do it as soon as possible. We don’t need to mandate this.

6) Overdue library books – Billings

- Cindy and Mr. Shoulda… 25 pages of overdue books run the other day, many from before Nov. She runs them off and puts them in teacher’s boxes, but teachers are ignoring them, or not taking them as seriously as they should be. Parents have no idea. Many times they’re in their lockers. But many books are out that need to be returned.
- This should be added to the next staff meeting agenda.
- We don’t need to do more… we just need teachers to actually remind those students about the overdue books.

7) Instant Recess

- Many have said it’s preferred to due it all at the same time
- It’s annoying for the people below us.
- It would have to be either first thing in the morning or at the end of the day. End of the day defeats some of the purpose, so that it doesn’t wake them up for school work.
- Finding a time that coordinates with whole grade-level would be hard, avoiding lunches and everything else.
- Royal: I like the autonomy. But what about spreading it out, like Mondays at 7:30, Tuesday’s at 9:00, Wed. at 9:45, etc…
- Do we really want to change the entire bell schedule for this? Several Yes.
- Another idea: 7:25-7:35 IR, but 1:50-2 daily announcements. But they’re more attentive to morning announcements.
- What if done in the morning it only affects 8th grade daily, minus a few minutes?
- Encore teachers: if all 8th grade is still getting even amounts of time per class, I think most people would be ok with that.

- Royal: If we do this, we need to get rid of some things to make it work… like the student piece on morning announcements, even though I love it.
- Some like the kid piece, some don’t. Eric has to beg people to send thoughts in.
- Black History Month piece was awesome. But how do we do it all? I’m not a fan of IR, but we have to do it.
- Atkinson: Are we saying as a group, that changing the schedule and doing IR all at once in the morning would be preferred? Vote: all voted affirmative. We’ll try to start it by 7:30, then only losing 2 minutes per class. Royal and Atkinson will represent us and reconfigure that schedule.

- Keep doing IR as before until we hear differently, change would happen after spring break at the earliest.
- Royal: Teachers are not required to do this… if you have a hurt back, etc…

8) SIT next year – it is not too early to be thinking about this

Scheduled to roll off:
Grade Level/Encore (elected): Bryant, Hobson, Vannoy, Hobson, Moon, Atkinson, (Frank)
Chairs (appointed by Mr. Royal): Carderelli is the only one who’s been in 2 years. (Soc. St.)
Atkinson: I hope our last meeting of the year (June) involves both groups, so this year people are here with the next year’s people for less confusing change-over. The binders also need to be handed over. Add to them the new agendas. Figure this out now, so we’re ready in June.

8) MVP nominations/award (not voting this time)

Don’t forget about classified employees . . . be looking for next nomination. Just keep it on our radar.
Can be anyone in the building (not cafeteria people).
Frank: Can we have a light put on in the gravel parking lot for safety? Now on the list.
Schnably: ALC isn’t working. Not a SIT issue… talk to administration. Talk to Royal later.
Royal: Study Skills- While I want ideas to keep coming my way, central office has hinted at a standardized study skill schedule throughout the county.

Meeting adjourned
Minutes taken by Jill Friesen.

Sit Meeting--March 7, 2011

Attendance:
Brad Royal - Admin
LaJoi Wilson-Moore - Admin
Stephen Kottenbrock - Admin
John Downs - Tech
Candi Fernandez – CC
Sara Billings - Class.
Lisha Vannoy - guidance
John Cardarelli – S.S.
Kelly Hall – L.A.
Dave Jenkins – Math
Mark Schnably – Science
Jill Friesen – encore/secretary
Tamara Hughes – encore
Deborah Cummings - encore
Daniel Bryant – 6 th
Elizabeth Hobson – 6 th
Matt Fossa – 7 th
Robin Moon – 7 th
Gail Frank – 8 th
Brent Atkinson – 8 th
Richardson/Edmonds – EC
M.Hunter/J. Fangmann- PTA
Karen Parker – Teacher Assistant

3) Minutes

-Motion to approve last meeting minutes? End time needs to be changed. After that, Hall motioned, Cummings 2nd. All in favor

4) The Need for an "Educating Parents Night" - Bryant

-Bring in Professionals from the area
-Daniel talked about tutoring sessions on Saturdays and different strategies to hold students accountable and to communicate this to parents. There was a tremendous amount of feedback from the parents. Daniel states that this may be something that we want to look into by bringing in outside resources to help students with different behavior and academic strategies that will help them to excel in the classroom. This could be bullying issues, behavior, etc. A 6th grade teacher did this on a Saturday morning with great results.
-Carderelli: a dinner that attracts parents, then sign PEP papers and such during 1st quarter. -Royal: one reason it worked because it was a small group, and there was personal connection. I don’t think a large group setting would work. Some teams may not even need it. Why don’t we do this by teams?
-K. Hall- When Mike and I worked at Paisley all teams had their own team night for things like that.
-Atkinson- What if each team had a meeting, then announced a large group meeting with a professional about homework help, etc.?
-Royal- I don’t think the PTA rally for parents (hot dog supper) and this need to go hand in hand.
-Wilson-Moore: at other schools they provide this as an additional resource. This would help us and our business partners to bring them in and offer this.
-Fangman: Maybe this could be that extra pull that PTA likes to have to draw people in? I’ll bring it up with PTA.
-Atkinson- If it is made to be mandatory, it won’t get anywhere near the same results. It needs to be on teachers’ own initiative.
-Royal: Maybe Mike McDowell would be willing to share more about this with staff.
-Specific, Detailed invitations for failing and poor behavior students as well as parents who feel they need help
-Possibly Addressing Items such as: Managing Conflict with your Child, Handling Homework, Setting Boundaries, Bullying and Friend Situations, Limiting Technology, etc


5) Custodians – Moon


-Staff helping out- get the kids to pick up trash in the room at the end so custodians don’t have to do it. Any help would be appreciated.


6) Instant Recess – Moon

-All at once? One child who sleeps all the time... if he does it in many classes, he is missing so much class.
-Jenkins: From a technology standpoint the server can’t handle it all at one time, unless put on the TV or something.
-Atkinson- multiple people have brought this up to me, not just Robin. What if we did it every day of the week, but it runs at a different time each day, but the whole school does it at the same time? We would probably need to skip the lunch window
-Fernandez: This was how it was first presented to the principals, but the P.E. teachers said to let the teachers decide that.
-Some people hear recommended and then just delete from their brain... decide not to do it. But the teams needs to hold each other accountable.
-Schnably: What if we do away with team time, and do this instead?
-Is team time or recess mandated?
-Atkinson: Let’s make this a team decision for the next 2 weeks. Then we see how it’s working and come back to this at our other March SIT meeting and decide for the remainder of the year?
-Fossa- just give us an answer... can we do Teams M-R, and Encore on Fri. As the official way for the next 2 weeks?
-Royal- I’ll find out about team time.

7) ALC – Moon/Fossa

-future staffing- If there is acting out, is there some where, like with Cell A with Clickscales, Miller, etc.
- ALC is the last shot at TJMS. If they can’t behave there, they’re going somewhere else.
-Any other ideas about how to coordinate ALC during the EOQ testing schedule?
-Hall- can we survey the teachers who’ve done it so far, but at the end of the day it looks like he’s done very little all day. Teachers earlier aren’t on him enough, he’s just doodling and getting nothing done. There were probably some growing pains from the little prep given to teachers last week. It does need more instructions. But if he’s choosing to whittle away all his time like this, and isn’t following through, this is insubordination.


Why is he still here then? LaJoi- Because there has been significant progress (he was doing nothing prior to ALC, but he has been doing something. We expect change incrementally. Some of this takes time. But we are lacking replacement behaviors, counselling etc. in ALC right now. He also lacks the follow-through.
-We need a survey or google doc to add positive and negative feedback so we can continue working on this.


8) Subs – Hall
-High quality “regular” subs. We continue to employ subs who are detrimental to our kids, but we aren’t getting the good subs on a regular basis. We have regular subs that are being used constantly, but aren’t productive. Maybe Diana doesn’t know who is doing a poor job in classrooms, thus she’s asking them back. Could we have a way of recording about the subs performance? If several people say the same person is doing a poor job, then they shouldn’t be getting the personal phone call request from Diana. Then it isn’t just one teacher having a bad day. So, encourage your constituents: if you have a poor sub, report it to Diana. But we do need to make sure that we leave good enough plans to keep kids working. Maybe like the subs turn in a checklist at the end of the day, we should also have a checklist or something to turn in about them? Or we could ask subs on our own, by compiling a list of good subs.


9) Fernandez: Spring fever
-behavior problems, etc. Make sure to remind students to be going through the right hallways and where they’re supposed to be, in the mornings especially.


10) MVP nominations/award for February- Sabrina Barfield


Meeting Adjourned 3:09


Minutes submitted by Jill Friesen

Meeting minutes February 7, 2011

School Improvement Team Meeting

1) Call to Order
2) Attendance
Present:
Brad Royal - Admin
LaJoi Wilson-Moore - Admin
Stephen Kottenbrock - Admin
John Downs - Tech
Candi Fernandez – CC
Sara Billings - Class.
Lisha Vannoy - guidance
John Cardarelli – S.S.
Kelly Hall – L.A.
Dave Jenkins – Math
Mark Schnably – Science
Jill Friesen – encore/secretary
Tamara Hughes – encore
Daniel Bryant – 6 th
Robin Moon – 7 th
Gail Frank – 8 th
Brent Atkinson – 8 th
M.Hunter/J. Fangmann- PTA
Karen Parker – Teacher Assistant

Not present:
Deborah Cummings – encore
Matt Fossa – 7 th
Elizabeth Hobson – 6 th
Richardson/Edmonds – EC

3) Minutes
-Motion to approve last meeting minutes? Hughes Motioned, Moon 2nd, all in favor
4) Questions about progress on our SIP
a. What strategies are critical to the success of the school?
Improve white v. Black test scores (Atkinson), Close gap, esp. in reading. (Also EVAS data)
• Bullying piece- makes it easier for students to achieve (Bryant)
• Teacher morale cannot be ignored, especially after crisis and budget cuts. (Downs)
• What is EVAS data based on? (Frank) based on mathmatical algorithms. Frustration: EVAS and EOG’s don’t tell you where the problem is, necessarily.

b. What does the data tell us about the implementation of specific strategies?
• EVAS tells us that what we do for low readers is working. (Atkinson)
• EVAS data shows that we aren’t making a differenence for higher level students. (Atkinson) – Carderelli- this may just be a statistical fact of life (Carderelli). Atkinson- but in comparison to other school’s data, there is a difference in scale school growth.
• After-school tutoring for students who need additional tutoring, is paying off. (Bryant) Atkinson- We have to be careful with EVAS data, and not just become a statistics... if we grow the higher children each one point, but ignore the lower children, our statistics show higher points. But the lower kids need it more.

c. What does the data not tell us?
• It’s not showing the time people are spending afterschool in focused/instructional tutoring.
• How is study skills working? We have some data on this, but only the teachers have it... it’s not shared on a large-scale. All we have are EOG test scores, and the numbers changing between years.
• Outside tutoring
• Comparisons 6th v. 8th grade study skills/tutoring. And all the combinations there-of.
• Red Zone/ Green Zone: Many scores rose, but is it due to the hard core focus we put on, or due to something else? Other schools don’t do that, but also have growth. (Bryant) We have this data but it hasn’t extracted. (Atkinson). Also, the differences between last year’s version and the previous year’s version. Royal: This is not factored into AYP, which only goes off of the first test. Is there anything we do during Red zone that we can do before the 1st test, to help the first scores?

d. What changes or revisions do we need to make?
• Add strategies for higher level (Downs)

5) Principal’s Success Trip – Royal
• What do we want for that? (Royal) Standard: Straight A’s and good behavior, right? Is behavior really part or not? What should it be?
• Atkinson: Someone qualified for principal’s success that had many suspensions and such, but had straight A’s. Frank said, not everybody gives a code for conduct... we need to add that. But it was in the 2nd to last meeting last year, but the ball was dropped on getting it out. Schnably: This also goes with the Marshall status.
• K. Hall: Agenda says we need good conduct... but we need to clarify this... is it just with one teacher, or across the board?
• Downs: in the past, you couldn’t give an N or U unless there has already been contact with the parent about it, and a chance for it to be addressed. There shouldn’t be impulsive N’s that keep them off the list. (Several others agree with this.)
• Bryant: The kids need to know all this too. It needs to be promoted better to have better conduct.
• Carderelli: what if we automatically get 2 bad comments, they’re automatically disqualified, as well as if there’s a D-1. But if there’s one problem with one teacher, can we first have a discussion with that teacher before disqualifying them.

6) ALC – Fossa/Moon
• Mr. Moon will be posting power point presentation along with several documents/forms that go along with ALC
• Student-centered –behavior & counseling through guidance or other.
• Teachers need to know about it and why, but still be with-in confidentiality constraints. Teachers who work with the students need that info, when they work with the child, are privy to that info. Teachers also can be a part of the referral process and reentry phase into the classroom.
• 45-90 day program, with 10 or more level 2 & 3, plus vrey severe cases.
• Phase-in plan, with specific criteria. 45 days start over if there’s a discipline referral. If that moves it to level 4, the student can be sent to Griffith.
• Two alternating committees, so that same 4 people don’t do all the work.
• There are specified rules for these students, given in the powerpoint. Forms/ all paperwork are also included there.
• Teachers on duty for the week in their plan time, is take the child to their room for the time. We don’t have a cubby hole really, so the team on the floor can hold accountable. Teachers rotate through until they serve their time. The schedule may need adjustment as we go, esp. next year with changes.
• Responsibilities: provide assignments (could be like ISS assignments, or alt. Assignments, Plato, Skype, books from Carson Dellosa) Skype: $100 for mic and webcam for them to see into the actual class.
• Encore... what will we do with that? Probably just send work.
• LaJoi: we have 3 student who upon next referrral woulf be placed in ALC.

7) Morale Survey – John C.
• We need to assess teacher morale on a quarterly basis. It’s February. So... we need to do that.
• We need to do a simple survey to run through the staff... can I have some/a volunteers? Downs volunteered to help with Survey Monkey. Meredith Ebert said she would help too, Caradarelli is thinking 5-6 questions. We can do it on survey questions.
• How to word questions to be concise yet informative... that’s what we need help with.

8) MVP nominations/award for February... Matt Fossa!

Meeting adjourned @ 3:25.
Minutes submitted by Jill Friesen

SIT MEETING Friday, January 14, 2011

1) Call to Order

2) Attendance
present:

• Brad Royal - Admin
• LaJoi Wilson-Moore - Admin
• John Downs - Tech
• Candi Fernandez – CC
• Lisha Vannoy - guidance
• John Cardarelli – S.S.
• Kelly Hall – L.A.
• Dave Jenkins – Math
• Mark Schnably – Science
• Jill Friesen – encore/secretary
• Tamara Hughes – encore
• Deborah Cummings - encore
• Daniel Bryant – 6 th
• Elizabeth Hobson – 6 th
• Matt Fossa – 7 th
• Robin Moon – 7 th
• Gail Frank – 8 th
• Brent Atkinson – 8 th
• Richardson/Edmonds – EC
• Karen Parker – Teacher Assistant 
•  ** not present--M.Hunter/J. Fangmann- PTA, Stephen Kottenbrock - Admin

3) Minutes –We need to add to Julia Edmonds’ attendence to the minutes from the last meeting.

•  Motion to approve last meeting minutes--Motion approved .

4) Questions about progress on our SIP

School Improvement Plan Goals:

• 1. Reading
• 2. Technology
• 3. Bullying
• 4. Positive things happening – They can be posted to Downs’ blog about good things... never any better time than now to post good things.
•  *Some of these questions we can’t answer now... it’s too early. But we can re-look at them at our next meeting, Feb. 7th. --.

  a. What strategies are critical to the success of the school?

• Next meeting we should all have a copy of the SIP strategies to look at and discuss at next meeting
•  Royal: For technology goal: We are making progess! We have put 2 enhanced classroom solutions into the media center,  1 in 7th grade and 1 in 8th grade . School is now completely wireless. We have bought 30 laptops for 2 Dell  mini carts.  All full-time teachers have all received a new WFU laptop
• Royal: Carol Montague-Davis is coming Jan. 20th. We need to have some answer for these, in case she asks about it.
• Cardarelli: Can we research best practices in reading and discuss at Feb. 7th meeting?
• Atkinson: Beth Raines has been offering workshops in PLC’s on reading comprehension strategies for the M.S. reader. She offers 1 specific strategy each time, and encourages immediate implementation.

b. What does the data tell us about the implementation of specific strategies?

 c. What does the data not tell us? 

• Atkinson: This is the toughest question. What is the piece that we’re missing. 
• Downs: Honestly, the data doesn’t tell us 100% which strategies are working. 
• Frank: Do we need another form of data? Atkinson: I don’t think so, we just need to be aware that it doesn’t show everything. 
• Atkinson: What about data about students’ home atmosphere (support, habits)? That is not shown in the data... we can’t get parents to be honest about what they’re doing (or not doing) on that. 
• Cardarelli: There are a great number of great teachers at our school... but we don’t have data saying how much good impact we are making as teachers at our school, but it’s there! 
• Royal: Is there a school student survey? Yes. Are there questions about if there are teachers who care about me? Yes. Then can we use some of that data to support our impact? Wilson-Moore: There is an ASD survey that relates to this somewhat, but not all students spend time in ASD.

 d. What changes or revisions do we need to make?

• It is too early to see what are our faults.

5) Faculty/Student Bball Tech fundraiser – Bryant

• It would be really good if, as teachers, we promoted the technology, as well as putting steps forward showing us raising money. One of these ways was an afterschool bball game at the end of the season, with the money going towards the technology initiative. It isn’t on the calender yet. IS this ok with everyone? 
• Atkinson: The latest our season can go is Feb. 22, so the last week of Feb. would be good. 
• Downs: I think we should set the date soon, so that it can be advertised at a PTA meeting, bringing school spirit. 
• Atkinson: The date could conflict with a championship game, but we don’t know if there will be one. Jenkins: I don’t think we can exclude anyone. 
• March 2nd PTA hospitality lunch, then it’s fresh on their minds. What about that night? 
• Bryant: I don’t think we have to set down a date today. I just wanted to be sure the group agreed to it. We did agree that right after school is the best bet to get as many students as possible. Charge: $2 or $5, but say it’s a donation.  
• Atkinson: The # of dollars isn’t as important, but the idea that we’re making the effort to do something, as opposed to just riding the backs of our parents.  
• Keep the cost down... we’ll get more. Maybe $1 or $2, and then get the money from concessions.  
• Vannoy: If it’s advertised well, the parents may also send in checks.  
• Atkinson: We’d rather include all of our students than not. But it’s not a pep rally... it’s a fundraiser. That’s why we’re saying it should be afterschool. Also, no instructional time is lost for staff. 
• Royal: It’s coming, they’ll be adding 10 min. where students are doing physical activity during the school day. 
• Downs: Basketball- feels ethically better to do it afterschool.

6) MVP nominations/award for November

• We have 4 names, read accolades with a # attached to them. Write down the most deserving #.
• Mrs. Kim Pickell is our MVP.  Congratulations Ms. Pickell!!  She is fantastic!

 7) Royal: PE teachers taking a training next week.

• 10 min./day aside from PE will be set aside for exercise... instant recess. It has some positives and negatives.
• When to do it?  If during announcements, then we might have to stop doing morning announcements.
• Denise should explain to SIT on January 21st the details.
• We may try to rotate the time, so that it’s not hitting the same class.
•  Everyone will do it the same time everyday.
• We want this to boost the overall health of children, maybe bring in Michelle Obama. For all Middle Schoolers. Some data says it helps improve test scores.