Minutes for SAC/SAF Meeting
Date: Tuesday, November 29th, 2016
Commenced Time: 2:34PM
Adjourned Time: 3:12 PM
Welcome: SAC Chair – Mrs. LaPaglia welcomed everyone to the meeting.
Minutes:October 26th, 2016– approved
Social/Emotional Learning: Mrs. Berrieum discussed the district initiative. We are a pilot school. 100 schools in the district have been chosen to pilot the program. The following are goals we need to ensure are being addressed in our school:
Decrease student tardies
Increase student success and celebrations
Increase parent involvement
Our PTO has been doing quite a bit this school year to get more parents involved.
BCPS Calendar Option: The School Board has decided upon two options for the 2017-2018 calendars.
Option 1: Christina Stewart, Jill Groudan, Jason Kaplan, Tyisha Harrison, Kara Rodman
Wed, August 16th, 2017 / Fri, June 1st, 2018 / Ends prior to the Winter Break / 1st: 85 Days (45/40)
2nd: 95 Days (52/43)
Option 2: Alvaro Picado, Dorothy Bowers
Mon, August 21st, 2017 / Wed, June 6th, 2018 / Ends prior to the Winter Break / 1st: 82 Days (42/40)
2nd: 98 Days (52/46)
SIP - Attendance Plan: Shared our Attendance Plan, which is documented in our SIP Plan (BEST Practice #2)
Plans are in place within the school when students are tardy more than 5 times per quarter, have more than 3 unexcused absences, and more than 5 excused absences per quarter.
BPIE:Mr. Thornberry spoke about the Best Practices in Inclusion Education, which is taking students with disabilities and including them in general education classrooms. We rated ourselves with 34 indicators. The rating scale consisted of not yet, beginning, partial, and fully. We rated ourselves as beginning in 2 areas:
- MTSS (Multi-Tiered Support System) Indicator #20 – We plan to conduct hot labs and monthly trainings on BASIS for the teachers.
- General and Special Education teachers will utilize collaborative planning time: Indicator #28 – Primary teachers conduct PLCs on Tuesday afternoons and Intermediate teachers conduct their PLCs on Thursday afternoons. Teachers have also begun to meet with their teams on Wednesday afternoons to discuss possible students who may need to be placed in RTI.
Important Dates:
12/1 – Doughnuts for Dads
12/2 – 5th Grade GRADE Graduation
12/5 (Week of) – Holiday Shop
12/7 – Holiday Shop Family Night
12/19 (Week of) – Field Day
12/21 (6:30 P.M.) – Winter Program
SAC Adjourned at 3:12 PM
SAF Meeting (Immediately Afterwards)
Discussed was:
- Boundary Committee discussion with nominations.
- Continuation of Anti-Bullying policy.
- Young Lives Matter Program for middle and high school students to be able to discuss topics such as politics.
SAF Adjourned at 3:20 PM
Next SAC/SAF meeting isJanuary 25that 2:30 PM.