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.