Pajaro Valley Unified School District

Bradley Elementary School

September 4, 2007

School Site Council Minutes

Members Present: Kathy Arola, Kathleen Blair, Andrea Carlos Willy, Steve Harrington, Marci Ernst, Debbie Puente, and Doug Evers. Celmi Williams was also present, representing the staff, although staff has not yet electeded site council representatives for this year.

Call to Order: Andrea called the meeting to order at 4:52 p.m.

Approval of Minutes: Debbie Puente moved

Marci Ernst seconded

Introductions: Everyone present introduced themselves.

Election of Officers: To be put on hold until we have teacher representatives.

Letter from North Zone: Traffic: We received letter from the N. Zone in response to our letter to them. The “old building” in the back was removed, making room for a few more parking spots. Right now, there is no money for the parking lot upgrade, which is the most expensive phase of the plan. Andrea is going to draft a thank you to the District for the progress so far.

Arts Grant: Schools have received a one time block grant for art, music and PE. The teachers will brainstorm on how to spend the money and bring to the next meeting. The money needs to be spent by July 1, 2009. This will be our first action item for the year.

Improved School Communications: We now have an All-Call System on campus in place. It was noted that there needs to be additional capability in some of the outside areas. We have also received five more walkie talkies through the Healthy Schools Grant.

Parent Survey Results: Three areas of concern: (1) Traffic; (2) Healthy choices in cafeteria (Home and School Club is looking into a salad bar); and (3) Technology (that’s why Kathy talked about the AR program at Back to School Night).

State Testing Results: The challenges at Bradley School this year are greater than ever – two boundary changes in the last four years, with the largest change in demographics of any school in the District. We only missed our target of 800 by two points, with a 798. Results of the last three years of testing in Math and Language Arts were handed out, as well as charts tracking performance by various break downs. The School Accountability Report Card for 2005-2006 was also passed out.

Agenda Items for Next Meeting: Recess schedule/lunch time.

Principal’s Report: Thank you from the staff to the Home and School Club for the welcome back luncheon. We had another boundary change, which we only heard about the last week of school. Started leveling groups for ELD. We had an early Back to School night. Any feedback on Back to School Night format? Let Kathy know. We’ll start looking at test scores from last year; the test score results came out on Friday. With all the challenges our school has faced, our score was still 798. Ongoing assessments will be taking place all year. We have several great new teachers this year.

Adjournment: Meeting was adjourned at 6:00 p.m. with the Principal’s Report at the Home and School Club meeting.

Next meeting is October 2, 2007 at 4:45 p.m.