Agenda

December 2, 2015

8:00 AM

Media Center

1. Approve Minutes from Oct meeting

2. A+ Money

  • A+ Money basics- N. Marsala
  • A+ Money Proposals
  • SAC Discussion of proposals and ideas
  • SAC will create ballot
  • Vote on ballot to present to the staff.

3. Safety/Discipline Report- S. LaRosa

4. Department Reports

Midterms, etc.

5. SAF Update

6. Principal’s Report

A+ Proposal submitted by A. Locke:

91% of the A+ money shall be distributed equally among all 2014-2015 full-time staff members at Coral Springs Middle School whose start date was no later than 10/10/14 (October 10, 2014) and who completed the 2014-2015 school year. The remaining 9% of the total shall be used for after school FSA academic enrichment.

School Advisory Council Meeting Minutes

December 2, 2015

8:00 AM

  1. Approve minutes from October meeting
  2. Motion to approve, Gochin, seconded by Destefano
  3. A+ Money
  4. Don’t know the grade for the school yet, but must prepare what we’re going to do with the money even without knowing what we’re getting
  5. 1 option and none of the above
  6. 66% majority of faculty to approve
  7. 1 proposal submitted by A. Locke
  8. 91% to full-time staff starting 10/10/14 and earlier
  9. Encompasses the largest amount of staff
  10. Covers everyone on the full-time staff list
  11. 9-10% history of giving back, FSA camps, civics EOC Camp, FCAT Camp
  12. IF we don’t have another option, history has said that it doesn’t ever get rejected, but in case it is, we vote in December, if it isn’t 2/3 majority, meet in January and vote again in time for February
  13. No opposition
  14. 1 abstention from voting
  15. Will send vote out to staff and show SAC the results
  16. LaRosa Safety/Discipline Repro
  17. 10/28- 12-1
  18. See notes email by LaRosa for numbers
  19. Department Reports
  20. Gochin
  21. Midterms end of December
  22. 12/16-12/17 Algebra Midterm
  23. 12/14-12/15 Spanish Midterm
  24. Students given letters in Spanish to exempt from 1 midterm if in 2 or more high school classes. Give to teacher who they are exempting
  25. 12/9 due
  26. Math team
  27. Finished online competition
  28. Feb, march narrowing top 10 in math counts competition and will know before winter break
  29. Hour of Code through ELA
  30. Mr.Rosenthal, every 6th period on Thursday uses engineering software
  31. STEM night was a success, thanks to PTA, Mathnesium made it a success, large turn out and possibly expand and add more stations
  32. DeStefano
  33. Code.org, learn more about
  34. All ELA will use all laptops and spend the day next week coding though lessons provided
  35. Mr.Locke showed in PLC the hour of code and choose from Minecraft, Frozen or Star Wars and how to make games more fun through coding and puzzles
  36. Kids share what they created and share with friends on phone and play on phone
  37. Loving iReady
  38. Turned on standards mastery
  39. Allows to assess a specific standard covered in class
  40. 11/10
  41. School wide writing simulation
  42. Every grade wrote and gave the kids the most accurate experience that they’ll be going through on FSA digitally.
  43. Dollins
  44. STEM night great success
  45. 315-350 people in attendance
  46. Usually start in media center and move onto 4 classrooms. Created a 5th classroom on the spot, but next year going to have to change format
  47. Holiday House
  48. Science dept in shifts are taking the kids down in shifts
  49. All students registered for cyber mission
  50. Got the grant
  51. Marsala
  52. Went to Ramblewood to learn about Civics
  53. Constant repetition
  54. 80% pass rate at RMS
  55. Review after school based off of question stems
  56. History Fair
  57. Have our school winners before winter break
  58. End of February
  59. Prepping 6th grade
  60. 7 ancient wonders of the world to prep them for History Fair
  61. JA January 4-6
  62. Last day is 30 students sharing the day with another school
  63. ESE/Lopez
  64. 2 new additional support facilitator (Brown/Pies) 1 more per grade level
  65. Over 220 kids with IEP who have support and accommodations
  66. 60+ Eps
  67. Special Needs classroom Best Buddies Program, Christmas Carol
  68. Go every day to the class and include them on the trips
  69. Parental support
  70. Offer ese classroom tours to show parents how it will work
  71. Open house last year, want to do again this year and have more than 10 families
  72. No date yet, but most likely after testing
  73. Coleman, SAF Update
  74. Regarding High School (minutes from last time)
  75. Scheduling options (Douglass not considering it, parents can’t vote, but teachers vote. If it doesn’t pass, it doesn’t get discussed-which is what happened)
  76. Doesn’t affect our zone…. Option for having a study period, or A/B schedule or block
  77. Maybe have information by 8th grade night to offer
  78. 8th grade parent night in january
  79. iZone meeting, accreditation presentation, and everything above
  80. December 10, holiday meeting at Coral Glades, area meeting
  81. A recipe bake exchange
  82. Create a cookbook to share
  83. Boundary proposals on the website
  84. No proposal in our zone, by Nov 20 to be proposed
  85. Principal’s Report
  86. Welcome and wish happy holidays, days flying by
  87. Honor Roll
  88. Basketball Game all winning
  89. Band performing next week Douglass HS
  90. 12/9 playoff game at Douglass HS
  91. Academically go in every classroom
  92. 7-8th grade teachers played basketball
  93. January testing window going to be different from the past 6-7-8 all computerized
  94. Motion to Adjourn
  95. Beaney
  96. Coleman second