May 8th, 2007 Minutes

 

Attendees

Cindy Phillips, Salma Kandil, Walter Barry, Linda Frommer, Millie Balsam, Suzanne Barbarasch, Karen Ersted, Chloe Chen, David Lim, Madeleine Smeets (guest), Mary Sano, Glenn Krasner, Jan Van Houten-Prehn, Molly Golden, Andrea Mone

 

Welcome, Agenda. Minutes

Minutes Approved

Motion for Molly Golden (2 yr) and Andrea Mone (1 yr) to swap terms was approved.

 

Open Forum

Site council chair meeting with Superintendent – Linda will attend.

Last Site Council meeting on a Monday – Switched to Tuesday.

Linda Frommer introduced Madeleine Smeets who is considering running for Site Council next year.

 

Student Council Report

Pennies for Patients pizza parties took place last week.

Canned food drive this week (received email from Linda Lenoir) for Central Valley farm workers.

Clean Campus Campaign (C Cubed) - will take pictures of campus mess and show it on JTV (hope to change habits)

Green Citizen Campaign

Was a meeting this week for potential candidates for student government

 

Question – are drives communicated via eNews?  Canned food drive was spur of the moment.

Green Citizen will be sent out via eNews

When will bins be out for electronic equipment?  In two weeks will have boxes around school and presence in the library

Will be assemblies for all three grade levels on the 21st

 

PTA Report

Election tomorrow night.

Student council spoke about Green Citizen. 

Int'l Fair a great success – difficulty getting enough volunteers.

Staff appreciation

 

Principal's Report

Music Department Proposal distributed for next monthÕs consideration

 

Budget - Carry over of $19,500 (before we vote on anything today)

Has the library carryover of 2K been included or not?

 

Katia Peterson on budget this year and next – Reviewed her schedule and proposal; this is to handle the anti-bullying program

Need to consider $4500 for the three days sheÕll be here at the next meeting; can come up with questions for her

She canÕt come up with a concrete plan until she meets with the staff, parents, and students

Will she come to Site Council?  (Potentially after the meetings to present plan?) – not sure if June or Fall

What prompted the potential contract with her? Have been evaluating anti-bullying programs for over a year. Don't believe that there's anyone on staff with expertise to implement comprehensive anti-bullying program.

Will she be involved with Guidance Wheel curriculum?  Related to bullying – yes

 

To do:  Review the SIP Plan (will we need to edit or adjust according to info from the survey)

 

Safety Plan

Are there any questions with regard to the Safety Plan?  As no hard copies, will vote on next meeting.

 

Last drill – Glenn volunteered

Students well behaved

Staff good at proactively trying to solve problems

Amazing what two people (parents) can do mess everything upJ

Can PTA/School disseminate a list on proper disaster behavior/protocol?

 

To Do:  View Safety Plan and email Chris with any comments or bring them to next meeting

Will vote on next meeting

 

7th Grade Science Proposal, Social Studies Proposal

All proposals in the future must include tax and shipping.

 

Science proposal with addition of monies for videos - $1,931.98

Could the IMC order the videos? Sense that all schools will be teaching this at same time; this is 7th grade curriculum – FULL AMOUNT APPROVED

 

Social Studies (approved #1 & 2 previously)

3 & 4 – have access to multimedia cart

Printer request – needs to go through Tech Committee

Conveniently situated printers – take to Tech Committee & address the security issue

Cover DVDs  & shipping and handling up to $750 APPROVED

 

Music Proposal – HELD UNTIL JUNE

 

Analysis of Survey

Open to General Discussion

No parent comments – Defer to next time

 

Teachers

Overall happy to be in teams

Big issue – teams are too big; something that will persist as numbers of part-time teachers growing

InClass question – there are departments that donÕt give HW (should have an N/A portion)

 

Students

Teams limiting in terms of social contact

Lack of coordination for test dates

Lack of balance in terms of activities

Coordinate Team Activities

Approachability – counselors and principals; is it an appropriate question to pose?  Involve principals in team activities

 

Aside – Question related to Peer Helping and Guidance needs to be restructured for better data

Might need to tweak wording for general student population (many comments from students that they didn't get wording)

The three surveys need to work together; who should author them?