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
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