SFC minutes 5-19-14
Group introductions
TishHild – Teacher and SFC chair, Mr. D - principal, Dan Hellerbach – 7th grade administrator and Climate Committee co-chair, Ms. Carter – pre-K to 2 assistant principal, Ms. Claiborne – Kindergarten para professional and after-care coordinator, Ms. Furno – Recess coordinator and coach, Brooke Thomas –, Parent and MS SFC parent rep Trish Pilla – parent/PTA president, Ms. Wilson – social worker, Mr. Hollis - teacher, Mr. Hollbrook - teacher, Karimah Williams – parent and elementary PTA president, Ms. Rivetti - teacher, Doug Miller - Parent, Libby Austen - Parent, Umeka Horsey – central office, Ms. Gearhardt – elementary resource teacher, Margo Candelaria – Parent, k-2 SFC rep
Attendance Committee – Mrs. Carter
- January 95.6%
- letters going out and School Support Team (SST) to chronically absent and tardy families
- Website policy updated and will post in summer
Climate – Mr. Hellerbach and Margo Candelaria
- Hasn’t met – meeting next week
- PBIS orioles event for middle schoolers who earned it
Family Community Engagement Committee –Dan Hellerbach reporting for MattCroson
- In May focusing on individual meetings to identify potential leaders and identify issues most pressing
- 8 people committed
- 5/27 at 8:15 with Ojeda
- Attend IAF gubanotorial forum – trishPilla, hie Jung, Karen Alexander, SteveGrantz, Daniel Horwitz, mr.D , Kimberly Lodge
- Asked candidates to support
- Housing
- Afterschool
- Gun violence
- Jobs through infrastructure projects such as school reconstruction
- And commit to work with and develop relationships with IAF and BUILD
- Not partisan will hold whoever is elected accountable
- Contact Elizabeth – jobs team meeting tonight at 6pm
Wellness Committee –Luke Hollis
- 5th grade fun run
- Bike to walk to school day, we have small grant to support
- Red hot run at RPCS – trophy ceremony today – RPEMS had largest team participating, even more then RPCS
- Working on running fest with annual fund
- Still need 19 volunteers at the 10 mile run June 14th
- Increase staff involvement and staff opportunities and health education
- May 27th sex awareness sponsored by wellness 7pm in library
- 6th grade field day 5/30
- Field day out of uniform day but athletic ware
Instructional Leadership Team & State of the school – Mr. D
- Focusing on planning and prep for next year
- Middle school schedule
- Grade level common schedules, currently two different schedules/grade
- will allow for student integration and teachers can have common planning time and more consistency across classes
- Will be shared Thursday at PTA mtg
- Elementary talking about student groupings and schedules for next year
- It has been difficult to differentiate needs of varying abilities
- Currently mixed heterogeneous groups in class with small groups within the class based on skills leve
- but hard to implement with large class size
- Want to maintain heterogeneity but thinking about bringing like groups together will allow for acceleration
- Heterogeneous groupings benefits lower performing students but don’t challenge high performing students
- May have an enrichment day or more enrichment opportunities, increased technologies
- What is criteria for being pulled out for enrichment and what is communication? Need to work out those procedures
- Good for all kids because it allows time for all levels to get enriched experience because they will get targeted instruction at their level
- Bus going forward
- Working out plan, corner to corner, additional adult on the bus
PTA – Trish Pilla
- Thursday 5/22 7pm in multipurpose
- Elections, all offices open except treasurer
- Trish staying on unless someone tries to run against
- Hie Jung will give an idea of what we made at May mart and other financials
- Mr. D will report about his plans
- Family fun night 5/30 at 6:30
- Want teachers to play against parents on that night
- Need help organizing!
- Teacher appreciation luncheon being scheduled
- Traffic discussions/ task force
- Meeting held to see interest of parents to advocate for change
- Mostly complaining but need someone to step up and lead a task force
- AnisaKupiecrequesting a traffic study with the city
- Sandy Sommerslooking into schedule change
- Roland ave construction held up, not sure of schedule
- Asked admin to communicate better what rules and expectations are – happened already
- Looking into getting an extra officer in the morning and afternoon
- Would like more teacher representation
- Need more enforcement of the rules
Goucher – Ms. rivetti reported for Ms. Walker
- 2 ft student teachers all year
- Now only 1 spring intern is coming back
- Now not all slots are filled for next year
Voting for next year
- Mr. Hollbrook – 13 y, 0 n unanimously – New SFC Chair