School Site Council Minutes
Members Present: Kathy Arola, Kathleen Blair, Heidi Barnes, Stephen Stires, Andrea Carlos Willy, Marci Ernest, Steve Harrington, and Celmi Williams
Call to Order:
Andrea Willy called the meeting to order at
Approval of Minutes: Stephen Stires moved
Heidi Barnes seconded
Budget: Kathy
handed out the Cabinet’s recommendation on cutting the budget. We had a brief discussion regarding how these
cuts would affect
Elections: Information is going out this week requesting anyone interested in running for Site Council next year to submit their biography. Four positions are available. Elections will take place next week. A few people have expressed an interest to Kathy in running.
GATE Advisory Council: Kathleen and Andrea gave a brief presentation
on what the GATE Advisory Council is working on. They are going to be making a presentation to
Cabinet on advising school sites to use clustering models when setting up
classrooms for the next school year so that GATE students are clustered with
other GATE students to allow for better achievement all around. Also, as funds allow, GATE would like there
to be a “go to” person at each school site that is trained in GATE.
School Plan 2008-2009: We then reviewed the proposed School Plan for 2008-2009. Some items of note: Our API last year was 798 and we met 18 out of 19 on the AYP. Per NCLB, all schools are supposed to show 10% growth each year. Kathy showed us charts of how this would look. As an aside, we just had 15 new students enroll at Bradley within the last few weeks and they are all ELD students.
We reviewed our school budget and what was decided by staff on how to spend the monies: Plan A on the chart which was handed out which would keep Jennifer Fish at 50% for the ELS position. We will only have two part time instructional assistants. The Home and School Club and outside donations, as well as a Read-A-Thon, will be funding the part time Reading Intervention teacher.
We reviewed the results of the parent survey – one of the big comments was about lack of parking since the new traffic plan was put in place. We had a safety walk through and should be getting $5,000.00 to help with an area in need. Kathy requested restriping of the back parking lot to make more parking spaces and allow safer drop off of students.
Some changes for next year which are being reflected in the School Plan: Wherever SCOE appears, Kathy will put in the appropriate assessment which will be used once she is told what that will be. Data Teams is the theme for next year, which is District required. Each grade level looks in depth at one subject area and provides data to staff showing achievement in their focus area. Data Team meetings will take the place of grade level meetings. “Data Team” was added to School Plan in all appropriate areas. It has also been figured out how to accomplish a daily block of time at each grade level for ELD, including 4-6 and K (1-3 has already been implementing this year). Some of this may be affected by elimination of class size reduction.
Andrea Willy made a motion to approve the School Plan
2008-2009 with changes being made as discussed at this meeting. Andrea will proofread the final changes
before signing. Kathleen Blair seconded
the motion. All present, which was a
quorum, voted in favor of approving the School Plan 2008-2009 with the
discussed changes being made. It was
also noted that if there were any major changes to be made, an email
notification would be sent out to all members.
Adjournment:
Meeting adjourned at