School
Site Council Minutes
Members Present: Kathy Arola, Kathleen Blair, Steve
Harrington, George Alexandrov, Marci Ernst, Andrea Carlos Willy, and Debbie
Puente
Call to Order: Andrea Willy called the meeting to order at
Approval of Minutes: Marci Ernst moved
Debbie
Puente seconded
Services to Second Language Learners: Jennifer Fish, Bradley’s 50% Bilingual
Resource Teacher, presented the Site Council with a slide show regarding the
services to second language learners.
She explained that Bradley classrooms are Structured English Immersion. This allows teachers to give support to
students in their primary language.
Right now Bradley has approximately 120 students that are Second
Language Learners, or approximately 20% of the student population. To determine if a student is ELL is based ,a parent survey is given when students enter school
(parents indicate that language other than English is spoken at home). California English Language Development Test
is given to those students and those scoring intermediate or below are
classified as ELL. Jennifer described services for Second Language Learners at
Bradley and how those services are provided through both the classroom teachers
and herself and her bilingual aide.
Jennifer gave a very informative presentation.
North Zone Advisory Report: No report this month.
Internal Scan: School Corrective Action Plan due to the
Superintendent in January based on our own internal scan. Each grade level team is given release time
to visit one grade level above and one grade level below and then fill out
feedback form to complete the Corrective Action Plan. Bradley was already doing these classroom
visits! Teachers will be looking for
content and rituals and routines. Focus areas will be: increased articulation
and reading.
Technology Support Model 2007-2008: Proposition was handed out and will also be
presented to Home and School Club. Two
models presented: 25% technology
technician or 10% Tech Support Teacher.
District wants requisition and all money up front at the start of the
year. This will be also be explained at the H&S Club. A decision will need to be made as to which
model, or modified version of the model, to go with.
Parent Survey:
Modifications:
Site Council reviewed proposed survey which will be a District wide
survey and gave their comments to Kathy for passing along to the District. Survey will be forthcoming in February.
Driscoll’s Purchase: Driscoll is purchasing the property across
the street and has had two community meetings.
The property will be used for a propagation facility and part of it will
be leased to a blueberry farmer. Appears that they want to build a good partnership with the school.
Traffic/Parking Solution: Kathy will attend a third round of meetings
tomorrow with various district and county personnel, including Ellen
Pirie. Looks like there will a third,
turn lane, in front of
Principal’s Report: Bradley was #1 in attendance for the North
Zone last year. Staff
celebration next week. This last
trimester 168 students (33% of the student population) had perfect
attendance. Why? Welcoming staff, incredible
teachers that create an exciting learning environment and the after school
enrichment. Cross-grade level
articulation visits taking place (see Internal Scan above). Musical in March will be CATS and tryouts are
this week. SBC day
coming up which will include instruction for writing, specific reading
interventions and technology.
Teachers will be attending their second positive discipline workshop
next week. Dec. 20 is a full day with
the Winter Program beginning at
Adjournment: Meeting was adjourned at
Next meeting is