SGC 9/23/2014 4:15 – 5:15pm
Review of norms
Update (O’Brien) on high school plan
-questions and concerns brought up to Elizabeth and new super is gathering info (getting caught up to speed with everything), we want our community at the table moving forward. Invite superintendent to SGC to hear from her directly and ask question. Superintendent aware of space issue for next year’s high school.
-What is the backup plan?
School accountability Plan for Oct 1 (trying for Oct 1st) - increased focus on math, new teacher in math and more math time, software, PD FOSNO curriculum,
Goals from teachers first, not top down.
Chronic absences - reduce steps for chronic absences, form for teachers to link to report, then we can track the next step to happen. Requesting parents fill out a form as a request to leave early to be in before 9:00 – make appointments after school or on half days.
School compact – our school needs one per grade level – written so student and parent can understand what it means. Training for parent school compact October 23. Before we define the compact, we need to discuss and send out to teachers. We will look up the definition from the state. PA will have to add per grade level.
Goal – home and school to work together to help students
School compact is academic based - home supporting school
ex: word wall at home that mirrors what is in classroom.
Social , academic, parent and student goal – based on common core
parent teacher collaboration
Guidance Councilors – we are currently meeting guidelines for 504’s
Waiting for approval to post position
DATA – the amount of time it takes teachers to input work
-potential link to power school (to excel) and Performance Plus
Class sizes – Mr. O’Brien does not want to maximize class sizes, some classes are to capacity
Table for next week– Spanish/ enrichment
In Attendance
David Ambrose Dana Shimkus Kate Dougherty
Felicia Licki Renee Tavares Josh Scherer
Sue Ellen Repeta Richard Stohl Ken O’Brien
Jose Sierra Dennis Rizzo
Mary Manwaring Tracy Saperstein