COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TEAM

AGENDA

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015: 6:00 – 9:00 pm

Hackett Middle School Library

6:00 – 6:15 /
  • Introductions around the table
  • CET plan template discussed and revisions were heard and agreed upon. Concern about the fact that more parents of color are not involved was discussed – the need to figure out who is not participating, why they are not, and how to get them to participate was discussed. Passed the CET Plan.
  • Approve 9/9/15 Meeting Minutes- Need May and June minutes. Corrections need to be emailed to Tonda. Approved meeting minutes for last week.
  • Find out if the metrics have been provided by SED.
  • Agree on approach for this meeting

6:15 – 7:15 /
  • Major Recommendations to be Discussed – Facilitated Discussion
  • Outreach has been done with potential student members.
  • Reviewed the 8 recommendations that came out of the discussion from the last meeting – Dahlia collapsed the recommendations from the larger document into these 8. She requested that if anything major is missing, it be noted.
  • The question of naming specific vendors to work with was raised. A discussion of Mindful Moments and what it offers for students to stimulate their brains for learning.
  • Discussion about discipline strategies and potential alternative learning classrooms with therapeutic interventions.
  • Discussion about culture and climate as being fundamentally different than it was years ago, not in a good way. PBIS seems to be coming together this year.
  • Discussions about the tutoring volunteers and coordination of that work, keeping it open to nonspecific people.
  • After discussion of the recommendations, Dahlia will use her notes to revise the 8 recommendations.

7:15 – 7:45 / Depending on whether or not the metrics have been provided by SED, either:
  • Discuss, and decide on which additional metrics we would like to choose.
  • If metrics have not been provided yet, Decide/prioritize Instructional Strategies recommendations.
  • We have the indicators.
  • Mike presented new information about the Indicators he received from SED over the weekend. Mike explained which indicators we cannot use because we meet the baseline already.

7:45 – 8:00 /
  • List any reports/data CET is requesting for next meeting.Next time – first order of business is to go back to the plan and indicators – identifying the most important ones. Mike recommends the committee continue their work forward andthen he would provide his input.
  • Decide next steps to complete Recommendations.One member requested the data. Opt Out data was discussed.

1-hour Time Bank: We will make every attempt to limit this meeting to 2 hours. However, in case of need, we, who are able, will stay up until 9 pm.

Co-Facilitators:

Dahlia Herring:

Kate Russell:

Barry Walston:

Deadlines:

  • If, as an individual or group of individuals, you have a disagreement with any of the recommendations, or wish to add other recommendations, please send your comments to Dahlia no later than September 21st.

Week of September 21:CET cannot meet on:

Tuesday, Sept. 22 or Wednesday, Sept. 23: Yom Kippur (Holiday begins the evening of September 22)

Suggested CET Meeting Date: September 21 or 24: 6-9 pm

Decision-Making Ground Rules

  1. Reach consensus, whenever possible.
  2. If consensus cannot be reached, take a vote (majority rules)
  3. For those recommendations that did not get into the Plan, allow for individual CET members to write a Minority Report.