Attendance

Chip Osborn – administration

Carol Sheppard – Teacher/SAC Chair

Irene Shagam – teacher

Elizabeth Williams – parent

Kathy Cappy – teacher

Sue Gladstein – teacher

Peggy Evans – teacher/writing coach/BTU

Robin Baratz – community

Mitchell Baratz – community

Monique Acosta – parent

Juliet Hue – parent/teacher

Johne King – 9^th grade representative/student

Monica Bakerman – parent

Yitan Li – 11^th grade representative/student

Eric Feldman – 11^th grade representative

Gwen Lipscomb - parent

Ray Williams – executive partner

Sharon Shaulis – administration

Kristy Modia – SAC Co-secretary/teacher

Joyce Hawkins – mathematics coach/teacher

The November 28th meeting of the School Advisory Council for Flanagan High School was called to order at 4:00 by Mr. Osborn, assistant principal.

The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Juliet Hue and Irene Shagam, two teachers from Flanagan who just passed the National Boards. Congratulations! Flanagan now has six teachers who are National Board Certified.

Norms established at the first meeting were read by Tracy Chandler and are as follows:

· Turn off all cell phones

· Begin and end promptly

· No side-bars

· No one dominates the floor

· Everyone tries to participate

· Name tags for name recognition

· Police area when meeting is adjourned

Review of minutes

Minutes were reviewed and accepted as is.

The future dates for SAC for the 2004-2005 school year are as follows:

December 12; January 23; February 27; March 27; April 24; May 22

Revised Broward County School Calendar

A revised school calendar accompanied the packet distributed in SAC. One can also access the new calendar on Browardschools.com. The FCAT has been moved to the week of March 13^th and March 20^th for the reading, science, and mathematics portions. The writing test remains on the originally scheduled date.

BAT Results

Joyce Hawkins spoke regarding the mathematics test results. Of Flanagan’s 9^th and 10^th graders, 64% are predicted to be meeting proficiency (scoring three and above) if the current rate is maintained. The district is at 60% proficiency. Peggy Evans spoke regarding Flanagan’s progress in writing. On January 5^th, Flanagan is going to hold a school wide writing assessment. 11^th and 12^th graders will have a prompt corresponding to that which they may see on the SAT’s, whereas 9^th and 10^th graders will receive a prompt more FCAT in nature. The 9^th and 10^th grade scores will be graded first and students will be pulled from classes for remediation prior to the FCAT writing test.

Discussion of Recognition Funds

Students have about $7000 that they need to decide how to disseminate. A committee led by Eric Feldman and Yitan Li was created and is composed of both teachers and students. They will solicit from fellow students how it is they wish for the money to be spent.

Discussion of Mid-Year Waiver

Earlier in the year, Flanagan voted on whether or not there should be a fifteen minute homeroom class, once a week on Wednesdays, to deliver important information to students and for students to become close with a teacher who they may see as a mentor. Teachers voted against the waiver. However, SAC has voted to send the waiver out again to see if teachers will accept it this time. It was brought up that teachers need to have a better idea as to what they will be doing during homeroom in order to feel comfortable with voting for it.

SAF Business

There was no report from SAF. A report will be given next month.

New Business

Mr. Williams typed up a report summarizing the data collected from the student/teacher/ parent surveys given during the last three years. He asked for SAC to rank the issues they feel need to be addressed from most important to least important. Please consider the improvement of student achievement when you are ranking the issues.

Adjourning

The meeting was adjourned at 5:00