Coral Cove Elementary School

School Advisory Council

November 18, 2015

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space-Evan Esar

AGENDA

SAC Chair: Vinson D. Jones

SAC Co-Chair: Marilyn Montenegro

Secretary: Alexandra Valiente

  1. Establish quorum
  2. Approve minutes from last SAC meeting on 10/14/15
  3. Content Focus Presentation-Writing
  4. School Improvement Plan Approval
  5. Accreditation: Standard 2
  6. Principal’s Update
  7. Open Forum
  8. Adjournment

Dates to Remember:

Thanksgiving Break: November 24-27, 2015

CCE McDonalds Family Night: December 2, 2015

Next SAC/SAF Meeting: January 20, 2016

Coral Cove Elementary

School Advisory Committee

October 14, 2015.

Meeting called to order at 5:38 PM

  1. Establish quorum
  • Quorum was met. All members of the committee were present.
  1. Approval of September minutes
  • Minutes approved as written
  1. SAC Sub Committees Report
  • CCE Teachers collaborating together to work on the School Improvement Plan
  • Math SAC Committee: discussed the strength and weaknesses regarding the teachers experience with math this year.
  • ELA SAC Committee:

K Handwriting, Letter Sounds, Word Families, Story Structure, Sight Words

1st- Word Families, Dolch Word Lists, Story Structure, Sequencing, Lucy Caulkins-Small Moments Writing

2nd- Conclusions & Story Structure, Circle Maps, Opinion Writing, Cause & Effect, Compare & Contrast, Basic Text Evidence Skills

3rd-Inferrencing Skills, Story Structure, Compare & Contrast, Cause & Effect, Opinion Writing, Finding Text Evidence.

4th-Inferrencing Skills, Compare & Contrast, Cause & Effect, Opinion Writing Prompts, Writing Process,

Finding Text Evidence to Support Your Answer

5th- Opinion writing, Using Text Evidence to Support Details, Story Structure Compare & Contrast, Cause &

Effect, Inferrencing Skills.

  1. Content Focus Presentation- Reading- Fluency
  • Mrs. Valiente (3rd grade teacher) discussed the importance of fluency. The parents were able to understand what fluency is, learn what to look for in a fluent reader and got some tips on how to increase oral reading fluency at home.
  1. School Improvement Plan voted and approved
  2. Accreditation: Standard 1- Purpose and Direction
  • The system maintains and communicates at all levels of the organization a purpose and a direction for continuous improvement that commits to high expectations for learning as well as shared values and beliefs about teaching and learning.
  1. Principal’s Update
  • 2015 FSA data was reconstructed and reported for Reading and Math for grades 3-5.
  • FSA scores were also broken down by grade levels.
  • Students were assigned a T score that ranged from 20-80. T score was translated into percentile ranking.
  • What’s next:

-Data Chats with Grades 3-5

-Remediate strands based on common formative assessments

-Professional Learning Communities

  1. Open Forum
  • Parents concerned with classroom doors being kept locked at all times. Mrs. Saban assured that the problem would be fixed by having teacher lock classroom doors.
  • PTA mentioned providing blinds to cover windows in class doors in case of an emergency.
  • Intern Principal, Doris Palacio, from glades Middle School extended her hand in introducing middle school to parents.

Meeting adjourned at 6:24 PM