Meeting Minutes,
Committee Members Present: BOE(Carol Hunter), Donna Bushey, Sophie Child, Mary Carr, Rachel Haas, Kathy LaBare, Helen Martin, Sarah Mosher, Chris Stromer, Carol Van Riper, Jennifer Whittaker
Committee Absent: McKenzie Briere, Jerry Griffin
Meeting called to order by Jennifer Whittaker at
Minutes of
Shareholder Reports
-SRO at Winter Concert at MMS
-In school concert was held for children to hear/see
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-Owl Rehabilitation presentation for PMA and 2nd grade
-February 11-12, Brod Baggert will do a 1 hr writing activity with students
-1/2 staff development day-Brod Baggert-Teacher Workshop
-February 12 Valentine’s Day and 100th day of school celebrations
Flanders
-Quarterly PBIS went bowling with only 16-17 unable to attend
-$5 Car washes held at bus garage earned >$100 with proceeds going to drivers for bus supplies to keep children occupied
-Money jar
for
-Concert on Friday at MMS
-Reward assembly held
-Prepping for March Classroom Olympics
-Joe Quatrini writing workshop held
-Issues with reconfiguration
-Questions
regarding survey costs, liked the format
Middle School
-Staff Development covering 7 Essential Elements with a pot luck
-8th graders Prevention Needs Survey
-New social services rep in bldg-Clarissa Godfrey
-Enhanced telephone system enabled cell calling
-Unannounced lock down went well
-Discipline referrals down
-Concert on Friday
-Yearbook sales ending
-Spare
Change drive for
-Concerned about 8th graders at FA
Middle
School Student
-Bottle
caps collected for
-Candy
grams benefiting
-Valentine’s Dance on Friday and twin day
-Musical, All Shook Up, practicing nightly
-Regents Week went smoothly
-Camfell Productions to appear sometime in May
-Special Ed met with Marci Bright to smooth out problems
-Moving 8th
grade teachers met with High School teachers
-Student Council formed 2 goals
-1. Upgrade tech to include flat screen televisions in cafes and lobby
-2. How to keep kids in school or get them to return to school
BOE
-Meeting tonight
-Budget-looks grim (doing more with less)
-Tax levy down to 10%
-Few retirements so far
-90% below poverty line-90% free lunch-90% passing spoken of with reference to
-academic achievement
-curriculum choice
-frequent assessment
-timely assessment-moving forward
-external scoring
-more writing, less binary feedback (multiple choice)
CSEA
-Contract negotiations on hold
-One group may be forming own union
MAA
-Contract approval at BOE meeting tonight
MFT
-Budget on minds
-Race to the Top grant applied for
-$700 million available
-Valentine’s Day Family event Thursday at MMS cafeteria
-55/25 retirement proposal in Governor’s budget
55 yrs old with 25 yrs service eligible to retire-tied to Tier 5
Parent
-Swim Nights 26 February and 26 March
-Science night TBA
-February Craft night 10-12 on February 13th
-PTA meeting at 3 and 6 tonight
-Dr. Park from Massena did dental screenings
Superintendent
-Set up
dental clinic at
-Michelle Thompson set up H1N1 clinic at FA
-3 hours at Franklin County Public Health Community Awareness Coalition
-policy and environment issues
-sidewalks and lighting
-fresh foods and nutrition
-possibly move Farmer’s Market back into town
-restaurants serving fresh local produce
-community garden project
-community supported agriculture
-Wayne Walbridge, Marcy Bright and Dana Rutherford meet to create District Literacy Plan, review RTI and IST process 1 March
-Tech Committee writing grants for MMS
-Tech Committee discussed 8th grade move tech-wise
-Tim Whipple writing grants
-1 Call feature for delay and emergency calls
-Olympic
Run at
Old Business
-Goal 1-Perception Survey
-Looking at My voice survey from Pearson
-received price lists, money concerns
-Donna Bushey and Jerry Griffin will contribute to pilot 2 gr. levels at FA
-received 8 Conditions article
-Student rep Sophie Child suggested asking students first before spending money
-Goal 2-Reconfiguration
-Special Ed solutions
-some students may have to go out of cachement
-integrated co-teaching
-PMA forming sub-committee: what’s best for students?
-Bussing:1 pick up and drop off point!
-Goal 3-Comprehensive Strategic Instructional Plan
-District Wide Literacy Committee recommends Handwriting w/o Tears
-New tools on Curriculum Mapper
-Excellent data work going in district
-AIS-District Wide Literacy committee planning
-Ed. benefit training in November
-PBIS functional behavioral plans
-District
Wide Committee on professional development 4-1/2 days next yr.
New Business
-Proposed new schedule model
-Chateaugay’s model looked at
-Will revisit next moth
Other
-Next DWSIC meeting 9 March at FA
Room 113,
Meeting adjourned by Jennifer Whittaker at
Respectfully submitted,
Melissa J. Smith
518-483-7806