SIT Minutes
December 12, 2012
Congratulations to:
Teacher of the Month: David Caldwell
Employee of the Month: Jacobo Mata
Student of the Month: Jazmin Valencia
New Club Proposal – Fitness Empire
Ms. Terrazas and her students proposed have a Fitness Empire club for faculty and students after school to promote fitness and being healthy. Thirty minute workouts would be for teachers on Monday –Thursday after school. Her students would be the fitness experts to help everyone with the proper techniques on the programs they have created. Workouts will be online for your convenience of printing, so that you may take them with you to work out or share with friends and family. You may check out the equipment and find your own place to work out or the upstairs foyer will be used for group work outs. The club would also like to sell smoothies and subways for nonprofit just to help everyone be healthier. Mrs. Paugh asked them to also help with the Aztec Body Challenge next semester. SIT approved the motion.
SISD Foundation Contest
We will have a presentation on the SISD Foundation when we return from the break on January 7th. A campus employee contribution contest will take place next semester and four grants will be awarded for $1,000.00 to the campuses with the highest amount of monetary contributions (one high school, one K-8, one middle school and one elementary school),and one grant for $500.00 to (Mission Early High School, Options High School or Keys Academy). Contributions must be new or an increase in the amount of your contribution if you already contribute to the Foundation. Payroll deductions must be turned in to Mrs. Paugh no later than January 15, 2013. Winners will be announced at the February EPAC meeting. Winners will be given a list of criteria that must be met as they plan a project to use the grant money. Winners will need to submit a description of the project which meets the criteria before a check will be issued to the campus. Your SIT committee member for your department has a breakdown of the campus contributions. All SIT committee members are asked to share this information with their departments.
Counselor Report
Ms. Marti reported for the counselors that El Dorado has reached scholarships approaching two million at this point. UTEP presented seven students on December 12, 2012 with $84,000 in scholarships. Aidan Martinez has been offered a four year scholarship to Wesleyan University. Please congratulate Aidan if you see him. Ms. Shaw mentioned that he will be also trying for the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
Counselors are also working on the second semester schedule changes due to staffing changes. Juniors will be preregistered for next year through the History Department beginning January 22. Sophomore preregistration will begin in February.
Ms. Marti also mentioned that if you know of any student that is having hardships, please refer them to either their counselor or Ms. Perez, the social worker, so that they may be helped especially during the holidays. Research has been done through the DSC recently and results found were some students no longer have a home and are living in a hotel. They can be coded homeless. Be vigilant so that we may help our large economically disadvantaged students when possible.
Master Schedule Report
The Master Schedule is being audited and changed due to loss of some our faculty. Seniors will have priority. Counselors are also working on changes for the Princeton Review classes, and there has been an increase in some course offerings for AVID.
Students will report to their first period from first semester to receive their second semester schedule when they return on January 8. They will report to their second period class when second period starts.
Next semester, just to be fair, lunches will be switched. If you had first lunch, you will then have second lunch. If you had second lunch, you will have first lunch.
Testing Update
Mr. Rincon is now in charge of TAKS testing. Ms. Bumpas is still in charge of EOC testing, which will finish December 13 with all the retesting make-up tests for this semester.
Students are still unclear that they must meet Level II standards to get credit on the EOC. Our website has information for EOC to help students and their parents understand how they need to accumulate points for graduation. Ms. Paugh expects the board to get a waiver for the 15% grade calculation for the EOC. She will let us know when the board has more information for us.
Benchmarks will take place on January 24 and 25 for writing in ELA classes. A proposed Writing Scoring Camp will take place on January 26.
Classes will not be frozen. Other benchmarks will take place on January 28 through January 31. Mrs. Paugh stated the data will help with evaluating how the students are doing for the EOC.
Check with your SIT committee members to see the calendar that includes the following assessments:
January 28 – English I, II, III revising and editing, Alg. I, Geo., Alg. II,
January 29 – Eng. I, II, III Reading, W. Geo., W. Hist., U.S. Hist.,
January 30 - Make-up, Scoring of writing
January 31, - EOC Bio., Chemistry, Physics, Make-up
Campus Schedule Discussion for Next Year
A new schedule for next year was discussed for feedback only. There are two options. Classes are considered for 45 minutes only.
First schedule to consider: (8 Period day)
Teachers would meet with Admin. for meetings or with team members every day from 8:00 to 8:40.
45 minute classes, 35 minute lunch and 6 minute transition time
A Lunch
Teacher Report time / 8:00 AMWarning Bell / 8:40
1st / 8:45 / 9:30
2nd / 9:36 / 10:21
3rd / 10:27 / 11:12
4th / 11:18 / 12:03
Lunch A / 12:03 / 12:38
5th / 12:44 / 1:29
6th / 1:35 / 2:20
7th / 2:26 / 3:11
8th / 3:17 / 4:02
B Lunch
5th / 12:09 / 12:54Lunch B / 12:54 / 1:29
Second Proposal
45 minute classes, 30 minute lunch, 6 minute transition
Teachers meet daily from 8:00 to 8:25 with teams or Admin.
A Lunch
Teacher Report time / 8:00 AMWarning Bell / 8:25
1st / 8:30 / 9:15
2nd / 9:21 / 10:06
3rd / 10:12 / 11:17 (Olweus built in)
4th / 11:23 / 12:08
Lunch A / 12:08 / 12:38
5th / 12:44 / 1:29
6th / 1:35 / 2:20
7th / 2:26 / 3:11
8th / 3:17 / 4:02
B Lunch
5th / 12:14 / 12:59Lunch B / 12:59 / 1:29
Mrs. Paugh was asked if two conference periods would ever be given again. She stated that she hoped so. That State Comp. Ed. Was taken away because it could not be proved that teachers were using their second conference periods to reduce the number of at-risk students. One conference period is paid by the district and at this point there is not enough in the budget to pay for a second conference period for teachers.
Mrs. Paugh asked the different departments how the schedule this year affected their departments. Most responded the conference period of 47 minutes was just not enough to help them copy their own materials, grade papers, etc. Having to copy their own materials took up a lot of their conference time, or they had to come in before school or stay after and getting their copies depended on whether or not the machines were working. The Fine Arts department would like to keep their own copy machine. Ms. Shaw stated that they had so many big programs in their department that it took a lot of time to make copies or they didn’t want to interrupt Ms. Berumen’s classes to make copies. Mr. Rincon stated there is a copy machine in the Universal Lab that Ms. Monsivais and Ms. Torales could use instead of ELA’s. The problem with the copy machines and having someone else make copies, will be considered.
Ms. Paugh mentioned that teachers should not be testing early for end of semester. Attendance will give dailies as to whether or not students are excused or unexcused if they are not here for testing. Permission should come from Mrs. Paugh if students insist they need to test early. Students can be given and Incomplete and the test made-up and corrected by the teacher second semester within the UIL 7 day period. A schedule for testing for a 90 minute period has been sent to teachers already. Check your e-mails.
A tentative Staff Development Agenda for January 7 was given to all SIT committee members and consists of the following.
NOTE: All grades must be in the system by 8 AM January 7, so that the information will be available for discussion in your departments.
8:15 – 9:30 - Theatre
Review of AYP, EOC
9:30 -10:30
Departments will access Eduphoria by subject teams to review 1st semester performance of AYP sub pops: 10th grade, Hisp., Econ Dis., Sped, LEP, White, Afr Am
10:30-12:00 - Subject Team planning – ensure high stakes objectives are taught to mastery for TAKS and EOC.
Lunch 11:45 on your own
1:15 – FERPA training in theatre, Mr. Martinez from DSC for about 30 minutes
2:30 -3:30 - Continue subject team planning
3:30 - SISD Foundation Presentation in Theatre
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