Fruitland Park Elementary School
School Advisory Council
Minutes of Meeting
DATE: 3/10/2014TIME: 3:55 p.m.
MEETING FACILITATOR / Barnelia WoodwardMEETING MINUTES BY / Ginger Godwin
ATTENDEES
(attach sign in sheet) / Voting Members: Barnelia Woodward, Patty Bordenkircher, Genene
Hammond, Paulina Villa, Tamera Chaplin, Ginger Godwin, Heather Pancoast,
Howard Lawerance, Bob Sherman, Joann Putney, Tony Cuelea
Guest: Caroline Van Dyken,
AGENDA ITEMS
Call to Order
Approval of minutes from last meeting
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Budget Vote:
Emergency Email Votes
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Budget Vote:
Line item for travel
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LSI Project
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Opening Discussion for 2014 - 2015 School Year Planning (1) School Improvement Plan (2) Title I Plan (3) Parent Involvement Plan (4) The school Compact
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Summer Workshops
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FCAT Testing Dates/ SAT Testing
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Value Added Model
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Other Discussions:
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Meeting Adjourned / Mrs. Woodward called the meeting to order at 3:55 p.m.
The February meeting minutes were distributed to each member. Time was provided for members and guests to review them. A motion to accept the minutes was made by G. Hammond and was seconded by B. Sherman. The members voted to accept the minutes as submitted with no modifications, the vote was unanimous.
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During the weeks between the SAC meetings, two emergency votes for line items went out via email. The first vote was to use some funds available in our Title I budget to support Staff Development. The second vote was to approve FPES spending Title I budgeted money on conference registration for members of the FPES leadership team to attend the two day Marzano Building Expertise Conference which is being held in Orlando this June. The registration cost is 399.00 per person for a total cost of 1596.00. However, if we have enough votes to pass this request by Monday 2/24/14 we will qualify for an early bird discount saving us a total of $200.00 and reducing our cost to 1396.00. Both votes passed unanimously.
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With the two emergency email votes passing, another vote was needed for a line item for travel expenses for the two teachers and Dr. DeJarlais. The money needed would be around $250.00 and this would go toward the three staff driving from Leesburg to Orlando and back for the days of training. A vote to approve the line item for travel was motioned by P. Bordenkircher and seconded by G. Hammond. The vote was unanimous.
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Before the previous line item vote was discussed Mrs. Woodward gave the group a background on what the training was about. With the changes in the academics in the state of Florida and the new common core curriculum, Fruitland Park Elementary is focusing on training our teachers in the latest developments and making sure that all of the teachers are following the same methods as a united team. The training that was discussed in the March meeting was LSI (Learning Sciences International) founded by Dr. Robert Marzano. Marzano is a speaker, trainer, and educational researcher in the United States. He has done educational research and theory on the topics of standards-based assessment, cognition, high-yield teaching strategies, and school leadership, including the development of practical programs and tools for teachers and administrators in K-12 schools. LSI combines proven strategies in instructional methods with advanced web-based technology. They also provide personalized e-learning and on-site solutions for teachers, leaders, schools and districts. Two teachers (Miller and Connelly) have previously recorded a video for presentations for LSI and in return Fruitland Park was awarded $12,000.00 worth of staff development.
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(1) To create the school improvement plan all the data is looked at and the weaknesses are marked during the summer. FCAT results are available in June for staff to go over and identify the weak areas to add to the improvement plan. In July /August summer meetings begin and information that needs to be added into the plans are discussed.
(2) There are four steps to creating the budget for title I funds; first data is collected and looked at, holes in last years budget or weak spots are looked at, the funds are projected on how to be handled, the budget is wrote into the school improvement plan.
(3) and (4) The parent involvement plan and The School Compact are a set of rules for the students and parents to read over and sign in the beginning of the school year. During the meeting we read over the rules and agreed that a few should be added. H. Pancoast thought that reading with your child daily should be added to the parents plan.
F. Umble had two ideas to add to the parent plan; to go through the communication folders with your child everyday and that parents should model behavior that they would like to see in their children.
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Summer workshops are starting to be discussed. Three percent of title I is saved for extra end of year expenses, what is left from these funds is going to be used to pay the teachers for time they put into summer workshops. The summer work shops are a time to plan and prepare for the upcoming school year.
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FCAT testing for students will begin two weeks after spring break for 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. The math portion is done first - starting April 14th, than the reading portion follows. 5th graders take the math portion online.
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Value Added Models (VAM) is a method of teacher evaluation that measures the teacher's contribution in a given year by comparing the current test scores of their students to the scores of those same students in previous school years, as well as to the scores of other students in the same grade. In this manner, value-added modeling seeks to isolate the contribution, or value added, that each teacher provides in a given year, which can be compared to the performance measures of other teachers. VAM uses all students and are based on the previous years test scores. K, 1st and 2nd take SAT 10 test strictly to base the VAM scores for the teachers, the test doesn't count in anyway for the students. This is still relatively new and the scores are in their beginning stages and everyone is working hard to bring the scores up.
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C. Van Dyken brought up that the Rubber Duck race was lacking in involvement this year. The school had several other fundraisers and projects going on and that was the reason. In the future, the school's Family Liaison, N. Cottom, will be asked to send out an email with more information about the fundraiser to families. Also, the school and PTO will try to communicate and schedule school happenings a little further apart so that one doesn't take away from another.
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The meeting was adjourned at 4:53 p.m.
Next Meeting, April 14th, 2014