School Improvement Panel (Scip)
Orange Board of Education
(RPCS)
School Improvement Panel (ScIP)
Agenda/Minutes
Date: January 30, 2015
Present: Debra Joseph-Charles; Dennis Peterson; Nyree Delgado & Lisa Catanzarite
Not Present: none.
Mentoring
Name of New Teacher / Name of Mentor / Evidence of Support / NJDOE Forms sent (date) / Requests for AssistanceJean St. Fort / Andrew Coban / Yes-weekly meetings / Submitted 10 week form / none
Sem Etienne / Wendy Mir {Lincoln} / Yes-weekly meetings / Submitted 10 week form / Yes- visited Ms. Catanzarite’s classroom to observe the classroom layout and classroom management ideas.
Claire Codada-Remy / Nina Hefter {Lincoln} / Yes-weekly meetings / Submitted 10 week form / Yes- needs PD on co-teaching & using rubrics for scoring essays {ELA content}
*should visit an in-house ESL teacher and observe
Elizabeth Nunez / Dr. Jennifer Campbell / Yes-weekly meetings / Submitted 10 week form / none
Rose Dextra / Helen DeRisi / Yes-weekly / Submitted 10 week form / *need to update the status
*-Mentors across the district are not optimal for the mentees. It’s more difficult to meet and observe in classroom procedures.
*-20 week evaluations are coming up for the State.
Evaluations (Utilize of Teachscape Reports/Records)All round #1 observations are completed.
Round 1
Number of observations assigned per administrator / Number completed to date / Number yet to be completed / Trends noted in need of PD / Requests for AssistanceAgosto-25 / 25 / 0 / Lesson Planning/SMART Learning Objectives / None
Peterson-25 / 25 / 0 / Lesson Planning/SMART Learning Objectives / None
Joseph-Charles 29 / 29 / 0 / Lesson Planning/SMART Learning Objectives / None
**Evaluations are in the second round as of this meeting date.
PD Opportunities
Area of Need / Target Audience / Facilitator / Dates / Evidence of Successful implementationChrome Books / Grades 3-7 / Mrs. Vaughn / During corresponding SLC meeting times. / Teachers will now have access to their Google accounts to learn more about the various programs offered by this system.
ST Math / K-5 Math teachers / Brain Gresser/Ms. Yildiz / 12/8/14-during faculty academy / Data being collected on Teacher implementation and student progress
X-cel / Data team / TBD / TBD
UDL / All Staff / District / Faculty Academy
SIOP / New staff / Ms. O / TBD
Google Training / All staff / Mrs. Vaughn / On going
**Chrome books are in!
Corrective Action Plans: Our corrective action plans are down to three because one person has left the district as per the board minutes. Checking on one other to see if they have fulfilled all the requirements for their CAP and if there is any paperwork to be completed by administration to reflect this status.
Number of CAPs: / Number of CAPs reviewed: / Evidence of Support / Status: Great Improvement, Some Improvement, Limited Improvement, No Improvement / Evidence of Improvement StatusOriginally 5 (down to 3) / 3 / Meeting notes.
Walkthroughs.
Logs from Intervention Specialists.
Visits from Supervisors and District level coaches / Limited Improvement / Lesson Plans; Walkthroughs