Windy Hill Middle School SAC Meeting

Windy Hill Middle School SAC Meeting

October 4, 2017

Called to order: 8:00 am

Meeting Facilitator: Beth Henkel, Chair

Minutes Recorded by: Heather Langford, Secretary

Members/Nonmembers in Attendance:

William Roberts, Principal

Consultants: Kelly Cousineau, Kim Walker-Lawrence, Rhonda Wolf

Instructional: Victoria Arribas, Kim Breeding, Gary Locuson

Non-Instructional: Barbara Herrmann, Cathy Santocki

Community/Business: Clintina Watts

Parents: Beth Henkel, Seleana Hobbs, Wendy Kern-Usrey, Heather Langford, Natasha Place

Guests: Katie M., Jessica Woods

Approval of Minutes:

• May 2017 Minutes: Barbara Herrmann-1st, Clintina Watts-2nd, all approved
• September 2017 Minutes: Clintina Watts-1st, Natasha Place-2nd, all approved

SAC Budget: $9715.85

Expenditures must be spelled out in SIP

Lanyards/IDs cost $3500-SIP goal is safety

FLEX costs $5000 (normally $8000) –discounted for technical glitches- estimate for next year will be $4000

Would like $3500 for IDs/lanyards and $1000 for FLEX as a cushion for predicted increase in enrollment

• Clintina Watts-1st motion to approve, Barbara Herrmann-2nd, all approved

Principal’s Report:

1378 students

Jazz and symphonic all state trials last Saturday, results in November

Fall ball with chorus and culinary- rave reviews

PRISM concert with LLE & ERH benefitting food bank at Real Life

Mr. Lancy is Teacher of the Year; Rookie teacher will be announced soon

Cross Country consistent at 4th/5th place- team is growing

Football and volleyball season started- VB won last game, FB lost in overtime

Kim Breeding- one of four finalists in UnLockED grant for $50,000 to help toward developing a food truck, community members will also be helping with this goal

FlexTime- going very well, kids enjoy the choice

Robotics grant for FlexTime-grant will go toward developing a solar powered system for the robots

New guidance counselor- Daylin Rivero to replace Ms. O’Conner who went to the district as an Intervention Specialist

LSA data- great starts- 7 of 9 categories are showing improvements over last year and at least half the areas are top in district-poised to be on target for an A school

PSAT-8th graders will take Oct. 11-assesses college readiness and gives teachers data

Irma make-up dates: Canceling early release on Dec. 18, Dec. 19, Dec. 20, May 22, May 23 and May 24 to equal six hours or one instructional day.

Additionally, classes will be held on March 30, formerly a non-student day.

PBS dance was a success

Recognized Barbara Herrmann for a perfect financial audit for the 2nd year in a row

Recognized 8th grader Lily Hall for her wanting to help in response to the Las Vegas shooting incident. Therefore, proceeds from Tuesday’s game, PBS, AVID, Mr. Robert’s Principal Fund, NJHS as well as additional donation boxes in cafetorium will go toward goal

Old/New Business:

*Authentic Literacy (Cousineau): Spoke about Mike Schmoker’s book entitled Focus. We want to focus on that one thing that will really help our students become responsive readers so that they engage in text, know how it relates to themselves and the world around them, to see multiple perspectives and know what text means to them.

Teachers have been tasked with implementing reading across all content areas in different ways from reading textbooks to newspapers, magazines, current event articles, etc. The goal is for students to be reading 150 minutes a day.

*Parent Conference Night and Wolves Night Out (Wolf):

Parents Conference nights are October 25 from 5:30-7 and April 11-opportunity for parents to meet with their child’s team as well as other areas such as elective teachers, guidance counselors, etc.; may also buy spirit wear and pay fees as well as sign up for Skyward; athletics will sell snacks to continue fundraising for gym floors

Wolves Night Out at the Cagan’s Community Library-date is coming and looking to join with Sawgrass Bay Elementary and East Ridge High to make it a bigger event with the purpose of making it easier to meet with students and their families on that end of our school reach

*College and Career Prep (Locuson/Woods):

C2 Prep is opportunity for students and teachers. Gives students life skills for high school and college/career beyond middle school. Allows teachers to get together with their teams to collaborate, plan and assess

Goal is Relevancy and Relationships

FLEX Time-chance for students to pick learning opportunities every week that may be a reinforcement of a concept they need help on, an opportunity to try something new, and to return to an area of study they enjoy.

*As FLEX has rolled out time was spent teaching the students the registration process

*Have dealt with bullying prevention including who to talk to and how to build and foster friendships and relationships

*Will be working on learning profiles including goal setting and surveys about intelligences, strengths/weaknesses and interest surveys

*Not graded

*Has been a smooth rollout-data has shown very few students have not registered (200 first week, 113 this week) but most of those of been because of dual account issues; working with those students to make sure they are registered-can register anywhere there is a computer including the cafetorium where there are two computers

Next Meeting: November 1 at 8am

Meeting adjourned: 8:57 am