River Eves Elementary School Governance Council
Meeting Agenda – April 12, 2017 7:15a.m.
(This meeting does not allot time for public comment)
Call to Order- 7:20
Approve Agenda
Amended Agenda:
-Superintendents SGC Meeting added
-Julia Bernath Council meeting
Agenda approved
Approve March 17, 2017 Meeting Minutes
3/17 minutes approved
Election update
-Parent candidates elected: Rebecca Lang and Laurel Nelson
-Teacher candidate elected: Lesley Rogers
-New members have been invited to our next meeting
-New council members will participate in training and transition into positions in July
-Voting goal: Staff 70% and Parents 10%
-12% Parents really voted – increase 156% increase
-80% Teachers and staff – increase 28%
-Faculty and staff vote shows their support and understanding about what SGC is and does
-Several issues about voting emails going clutter vs. inbox
-Emails individualized caused additional confusion
Seed Fund update
-Board scheduled to vote on Seed Fund at April Board meeting
-April board meeting is when board approves overall budget (reason for delay since Foundation approved Seed Funds)
SGC Superintendent Meeting
-AP courses are pushed extensively
-Mr. Rose shared his perspective about his daughter not being stressed/pushed to be in AP courses
-Becomes an issue when students cant get into UGA without 12 hours of courses
-High schools are missing honors courses. Student choices are on level or AP
-The district’s preference is to move to 1 assessment.
-IOWA is preferred over Milestones, but would align IOWA to Milestones
-Milestones data is received so late, very little value in regards to learning/instruction
-Not producing enough teachers for positions nationally
-Fulton is working hard to retain teacher
- River Eves/Mr. Pinnock does an excellent job to hire and retain excellent teachers
-Many schools are struggling to recruit and retain quality teachers
-65% of current teachers recommend their child not become teachers.
-Mr. Rose believes there are too many kids in TAG
-students should test into it
-intended for exceptional students.
-TAG at REES
-STEM initiative has made all classrooms more TAG-like
-Parent feedback is that pull out model changes dynamics of classroom and is disruptive.
-Teachers can only teach new content 4 days/week.
-Can SGC address TAG model at the school level?
Mountain Park pulls students 1 hour/day vs. whole day
-SGC would like input from parents/teachers on TAG and current program.
-HBMS offers TAG/advanced classes (this is unique to HBMS)
-HBMS offers pace options course by course. Rolling out this year
Julia Bernath
-Recess bill is going to House for approval, passed in Senate(30 minute recess)
- Prefer only one assessment
-Conduct/student responsibility cycle was shared
-Offense=recommended repercussions
Announcements and Adjournment
-Should have received SGC self-check survey and principal feedback survey
-River Eves has been identified as a receiving school for the 2017-2018 Open Enrollment transfer process.Qualifying elementary and middle schools are those that have an excess of 2 or more available classrooms based on next year’s forecast estimates and teacher allocations.
-Gardner and Kirk are working on Earth Day book reading
Meeting adjourned- 8:05
Members in Attendance
Murphy, Gardner, Sweet, Storr, Brennen, Kirk, Hirshberg, Griffin, Long
To Do:
n/a
May 19 agenda:
Introduce new members
Seed fund update
SGC survey (potentially)
Title I survey
Year-end summary
Strategic plan update