Site Council Minutes — January 11, 2005

Minutes

Welcome: Cathy Mueller

Members absent: None

Visitors: LaPier, Forte

Agenda Change due to Hillary's arrival time: moved Dr Forte report forward

Dr. Forte - GATE Plan

  • Report on actions to date
  • Survey - suggested study group per Ruby Payne study group now meeting at Jordan
  • Meeting with parent group and with Joy Addison
  • Meeting with Ed Council
  • Plan:
  1. Implement study group re differentiated instruction
  2. Define the "as is" re what is actually happening at Jordan
  3. Presentations to staff re differentiation…. At next staff meeting and a presentation on Jan 19, leading to department meetings for sharing Best Practices
  4. Meetings planned in Feb and April for teachers to assist in implementation strategies

Review of New Surveys of Jordan Community

  • Revised questions reviewed and accepted.
  • Committee will revise and give in February.
  • Request for help from Site Council parents and other teachers to help with student survey

Monitor Current School Site Plan

  • Forms distributed for members to review School Plan in an ongoing manner.
  • What are we not doing: literacy skills as a focus
  • Hillary and Suzanne will develop monitoring form for March meeting

SEBI Reports

InClass -

  • Problems not being fixed by software company
  • Information article in Jordan Journal in December
  • Teachers developing skills faster than did for Homework Hotline
  • Parents still like old email system
  • Training available for teachers
  • Helpful if parents would communicate to teachers successes and failures with using InClass

Posters

  • Reviewed the locker rooms for existing posters
  • Sources found for both posters and frames to hold them
  • Approximately $700 would cover purchase costs

Publicity

  • Jordan Journal article planned
  • Would welcome information about activities

Breakfast or lunch with administrators

  • Students new to Jordan invited to lunch with administrators
  • Planning to invite different groups of students to lunch each month

International Festival

  • Still in planning stages
  • Gathering ideas from staff

Principal's Report

Highlights of happenings at Jordan

  • Mentor program involving 21 staff members
  • Gate staff development
  • Diversity staff development planned in February - Gay/Lesbian panel
  • Framework for Understanding Poverty study group - highly recommend reading
  • Middle School Implementation presentation to Board, includes report on progress toward teaming
  • Working on preliminary schedules for teams to get idea of how teaming would work for Jordan
  • Charitable fundraising - ongoing efforts at Jordan. Suggest student council review activities. Bake sales can be replaced with healthy snack sales.

PTA Report

  • Co-president resigned because child left school.
  • Stamm taken on co-president's role of JFC Vice President
  • Just Buy It! program implemented via website

JFC Update

  • Pot of money : PTA, not from Student Council this year
  • Used for Teacher Reimbursements $200/$300:
  • Teacher Grants : deadline moved to February
  • Should there be plans to add Site Council money to JFC grants

Business for next month

  • Funds allocated for poster purchases
  • Funds available to add to JFC fund
  • Monitor budget
  • Monitor ERB
  • School site plan spreadsheet review
  • Department report

Open Forum Time

Meeting adjourned at 5:25