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