August+30+Agenda+and+Minutes

August 30, 2013

__ Meeting Outcomes – We will discuss: __ 1. Open House Plans 2. Pulse of the School Climate 3. School Improvement Initiatives -Initial Thoughts
 * PLAN ** – What do we plan to learn?

__ Meeting Activities – __ We will: Open House - The date is early. This should help with the fact parents should not want to have a discussion. Rose will meet with everyone and then excuse the teachers to classrooms. She is going to discuss: emails about concerns should be discussed in a conference (phone or in-person). Rose wants to host parent meetings. Rose needs to remind parents that county policy states children do not ride other buses. Rose will share the grading criteria with the parents. PowerPoint - Rose would like a copy to run for parents who come late or do not come. Teacher communication folders should be included in the Open House PowerPoint.
 * DO ** – What will we do to learn the outcomes?

Rose will do the September calendar. The coordinators will be bolded.

Pulse of the school climate. The teachers are STRESSED. Observations are a concern. Rose stated that maybe the plans need to be messy to show that we are working through the planning and how teachers are chunking their lessons. Special ed teachers will meet with their program facilitator today and clarify questions.

What should our school improvement look like for this year? A deeper understanding of the SLO's, Standards and planning, Understanding the new method of teaching, Team meeting for the grade level to develop materials and how they use the materials in the classroom. The grade level teams need to be looking at what they need for instruction. The specialists need copies of the core topics for each grade level. Keep the plans we are working on and polish the lesson to submit for the coor. Wed.

Teaching Channel is a good tool to see videos of other teachers doing lessons. Siemans will conduct webinars on resources for Common CORE. PBS also has webinars.

__ Meeting Results – __
 * STUDY ** – What do our results tell us?

__ Future Actions – __ We will: Rose will look at ordering IXL as a technology support for math. Rose will send out a memo about dress causal and her expectations.
 * ACT ** – What will we do differently next time?

How long do we need to meet? Once a month on the last Thursday of the month and emergency meetings.