SAC Minutes May 9, 2005

In Attendance:

Jill Klosenberg, SAF Chair

Lori Spencer, parent

Mary Cook, Reading Coach

Kathy Cappy, teacher

Camille Barnett, teacher

Suzanna Bianco, Parent

Jessica Bianco, 9th grade rep

Amanda Gonzalez, SK

Adrian Ogle, Senior rep

Paola Murcia, 10th grade rep

Mitchell Baratz, Community

Laura Golden, SK

Peggy Evans, BTU/ writing coach

Myrna Goldenstein, Sci. Dept. Head

Uchin, SAC

Janice Gibson, Teacher

Tom Santino, Teacher

Eric Feldman, 10th grade rep

Jelisa O’Connor, 10th grade

Susan Royal, Parent

Lilian Carrillo, Parent

Elizabeth Williams, Parent/ District ESE

Henry A. Rose, Parent

Carol Sheppard, SAC Chair/ Teacher

Chip Osborn, Administration

Sharon Shaulis, Administration

Bary Williams, Executive Partners

Terri Oien, Parent

Sheila LeBlanc, Teacher, Grants

 

Meeting Was Called To Order at 4:07

The Pledge of Allegiance

 

Congratulations

Congratulations went to Silver Knights:

Qian Yang

Laura Golden

Tiffany Cross

Crystal Richardson

Amanda Gonzalez

Dianna Padilla

 

Minutes

The minutes of March 31, 2005 were reviewed and accepted with a few changes.

Confirmation of Dates and Times of Meetings

 

Kelvin Lee – Appointed principal of McNichol Middle School

 

DECA – Won 3rd place in Nationals out of 52 teams. Only School in Broward to take trophy.

 

Chip Osborn – First Draft of School Improvement Plan:

- Objectives – drafted initial plan for next year dept heads/ pathway leaders

- Reading – Keep both objectives (proposed 2006)

- Math

- Change wording of writing objective: make more uniform for other FCAT standards – change from 3.5 to 4

- Science – Stays

- Sep. objective for high school reform or integrate

 

Mary Cook – based on data of incoming students

- Teachers trained

- Flagging kids of AP and Honors

- Pathfinder has reading

- SSR and Amsco books stay

 

- Objective #3 –

#’s 3,4,5,7,8,10,11,15,17,19,27,29 are new or revised actions steps to SIP. Dovetail with Just Read FL – very similar

 

-Objective #4 – other reading goals

            #3,6,7,9,10,14,16 are new or revised. #20 – reword

 

Mary Cook – reading plan is still in draft form – dovetails with plan – still waiting for scores

 

Eric Feldman- Homeroom pathways

 

Carol Sheppard – Looking for high school reform – if go with action step, must be with objective

 

Math Objective #2 – reflective for upper level students – made changes

#1,2,4,6,8,9,13,16 – new or revisions: incorporation of SAT online into curriculum – second year of adoption for curriculum no longer applies

 

Peggy Evans

-Writing Objectives and FL Writes Report

-Yearbook has been chosen top 1% in country

-Writing scores – in from state: mean score = 3.9, persuasive = 4.0

-93% scored 3.0 or above – last year 91%

-Last year 80% scored 3.5 or above – this year 82%

-Last year 66% scored 4.0 or above – this year 66%

-Showing steady progress

-Showed improvement from diagnostic test

 

SIP – Made changes to move scores further

-Two school-wide diagnostic assessments

-Pull kids to work with

-Compare essays with SAT scores

-Utilize online SAT & FCAT programs

-Provide anchor papers from high to low

-Teachers go to Flanagan website for FCAT strategies for each level/discipline

-More training for teachers on high stakes tests

-Continue pull out for kids who don’t do well on tests

-Beefing everything up – Exposing kids to more material and increase teacher training

 

Carol Sheppard– Helping low kids and helping high kids

 

Henry Rose – Change objective on writing #4 “on FL writes!” Kids will receive 4.0

 

Myrna Goldenstein

-Reassignment of students:

            Below 3 – Earth Science

            Above 3 – Biology/Honors Biology – tracked through biology, chemistry, physics

-Continue read in FCAT in lower science classes

-Change in science strands – Still in draft stage – get training in areas affected

-Total Tutoring – students available for science

-High students in National Honor Society

-Bring speakers in to speak with kids about science

-Amsco Science review book for FCAT

-FCAT for science in 11th grade

-No base score for passing

-Kids have done pretty well – pleased with results

 

  

Carol Sheppard –

-PSD – Where are we going with high school reform – something that will need to be  included in SIP

 

Sharon Shaulis – wait for Direction from county

 

Elizabeth Williams – from PSD/County – we’ll need to include, looks like its an action statement

 

 

 

Chip Osborn

-Concern – Objective  must be data driven, but for high school reform, how do you know you accomplished it

 

 

Elizabeth Williams –

-Reading plan – take struggling reading chart and tie it to money from district – if school is doing different then that is plan – don’t need to do extra

 

Mary Cook – District is writing goal geared to 1&2

 

Henry Rose-

Discussed actions/goals – do we want to separate the action goals/ steps?  If they don’t get promoted, it affects our grade.

 

Sheila LeBlanc-

Submitted objectives

Collected extras of the action steps that didn’t fit under reading, writing and math.

Put in school improvement objectives for 9th Grade.  Students need to earn a total of 5, etc.  Show promotion is focused on a positive instead of saying they are “retained”

Use the number from this past year to show improvement from one year to the next.

 

Carol Sheppard-

We will talk about the objective or actions steps (retention problem) at the next meeting.

 

Henry Rose-

We might need to make it an actual goal for the school.

 

Sharon Shaulis

We will follow the goals for the district (embedded)

We are waiting for directions from the county.

 

 

Henry Rose

Educational Summit sponsored by Beverly Gallagher

Over 130-140 people here – varying people from the community.

The sessions were on funding, transportation, etc.

City, school and homeowners were present.

They talked about how we get funded, choose bus stops, how we deal with fights off the bus, etc. so that everyone in the county gets the same message.

 

Jill Klosenberg- SAF report

Everything is status quo.

 

Chip Osborn

Elections

Brought up parent involvement to SAC - sent handouts home to parents to be returned by May 16th – will announce parent elections at next meeting (May 31st)

Teacher elections – May 16th – election on May 25th

Student elections will take place in the fall.

Support employees – non-instructional elections are due May 16 and election is on May 25th

 

New Business

None

 

Thanks Mr. Epstein for Prom

AP Testing

Silver Knight Night

Baseball Team is District Champions

SAT Testing this past Saturday

Graduation May 28th

Zone meeting tomorrow at Palm Cove

3:45pm first round of baseball.

 

Meeting was adjourned at 5:15 pm