Notes from the School Governance Council Meeting on January 19, 2016

School Governance Council
Dr. Lesley Morgan Thompson led the introductions and shared the 90thday of school data with members in attendance.

Overall

Discipline down, attendance is going back up. The Dental Van is at school 3 days this week.
Monique Butler invited to go to a Mindfulness event. She will be speaking about Commit to Stay Fit and how it’s evolved from teachers/staff the first 6 years to now students/families the last 2 years.
Steve Higgins spoke about a new member that will be joining SGC- Will Cordero (Raiza Diaz was here today for him; thank you for coming!)
Another new member of SGC is PastorReneéBaisden. She will be joining us as a community leader. Thank you for joining us!
Other members in attendance include:
Parents/Community Connections: Wendi James, Joana Moore, Ryan Balancier
Teachers/staff/school connections: Kara Levenduski, Marilyn Pet, Jocelyn Ault, Dr. Lesley Morgan Thompson, Monique Butler, Jennifer Doyon

Review of School Data

90% of students in our building receive free/reduced lunch
Review of STAR Reading/Math data. Students take the assessment in the Fall, Winter, and Spring
Dr. Thompson defined what scale score, and sgp mean
Next steps identified include:
Coaches assigned to teachers
Co-teaching teams. Students identified for Special Education there is a teacher and Special Education teacher working together
Grades 3-6 grades departmentalized. Teachers focus on one subject and teach it to all grades
Plugged In did very well last year it's 6th grade students, it has been expanded to 4thand 5th
Fundations in the lower grades to help with phonics, word decoding
Teachers will be getting trained on how to implement Reader's and Writer's workshop
Reading room
Since Fall there have been tutors added to the K classrooms due to size.
Formative assessments were described
Dibels- early literacy skills. Reading non-sense words. Pull word apart.
Math results: FASTT Math, math masters incentive programs, continued work on stations, targeted interventions- Do the Math, coaching model, looking at STAR data

Attendance

Discipline

In school suspensions down to under 1%, as well as out of school suspensions
Next steps:
ongoing PD- responsive classroom- building classroom communities.lsci- life space crisis intervention- helping students who've experienced trauma.
PBIS initiatives: behavior hall of fame, PBIS marketplace, paydays
Behavior reflections, bucket filling notes as apology of action.

Working on Compact

During March conferences: getting parent input
Compact is mandated by the state. There are multiple type of compacts. Specific things that are required: school goals, mission statement, things that can be done at home grade level specific, community partnerships, contact. School, classroom, home
Kara Levenduski- shared a few examples of different compacts.
Possible parent/student surveys to gather information
The expectation is compacts to be able to be given out next year during open house
Conference time- catching them before/after individual meetings
Newsletter format- seems to be in favor of from parents, and in color
Listing websites on there with more specific ones for the grade level helpful. As well as listing EHPS website
Possible- group assigned to ask questions, jotting down the notes. Bring it back to family engagement social piece.
Spanish speaking families- having translator there for them
Surveys on school event nights, those parents are involved, and it would be in a fun setting.
Putting it together with teachers content specific.
Questions for asking parents: Parents/Guardians to answer
Robo calls: brief, helpful to parents. That we're going to be asking.

Next meeting: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 6pm