DISTRICT WIDE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE

Meeting Minutes, Tuesday, 10 January 2012

2:45 p.m. – Room 157 FA

 

Committee Members Present: Jerry Griffin, Heather Hans, Caralee Kardash, Helen Martin, Jackie McCarthy, Darcy Rabideau, Carol Van Riper

 

Committee Absent:  Keely Dunshee, Steve Dupree, Kitty Eldridge, Dan Shaffer

 

Guest: Anthony Monteau, government student

 

Meeting called to order by Jerry Griffin at 2:48 p.m.

 

Minutes of 13 December 2011 were approved.

 

Shareholder Reports

            Davis

            -As part of Community Development, Mr. Bonesteel made wreathes with pre-K

            -Instruction request for Samson’s Classroom, a program with sight words, spelling, and reading

            -SIC funds went to Mrs. Tower for Kimochi, feelings books with a matching stuffie

           

            Flanders

            -PTO funded Christmas craft day

            -Yearbook program is seeking funds

            -Can the deadline for EWY be pushed back this year only?

            -When will parents know their children’s school assignment?

 

            St. Joseph’s

            -PBIS began a cafeteria reward chain

            -MFT sponsored wreathe making with Mr. Bonesteel

            -Academic showcase planned for 15 February

 

            Middle School

           

Middle School Student

 

            Franklin Academy

            -4 Common Core areas broken into 2 teams

            -Non core areas to meet during Regents Week

            -Regents review classes will meet during Regents Week

            -Wall wisher program brought up-way of computer communication

 

 

            Franklin Academy student

 

            BOE

 

            CSEA

            -Negotiation on hold because of charges of bad faith

 

            MAA

 

MFT

            -Wreath making 12 December

            -Float for the Winter Carnival Parade

            -LAP grant (local action project) from NYSUT for matching funds and training

 

            Parent

 

            Superintendent

            -Moving forward with Reconfiguration

-Misters Griffin, Barse, and Whipple met regarding elementary district lines

-Cachement lines affected class sizes-went back to maps

-Building secretaries being provided with maps and addresses for attendance area

-Met with elementary administrators to schedule specials for next year

-Special Ed. Staff will probably not move

           

Old Business (Reconfiguration)

            -Elementary lines looked at in respect to neighborhoods, backgrounds, transportation and travel time

            -Cachement Areas Map will be presented at 24 February BOE meeting

            -1 March parent notification with a letter

            -2 bubbles, current senior class and kindergarten

            -There will be some shifting of resources and large purchases

            -Saxon phonics refills to be ordered by grade level coordinators

            -New web communications devices set up for grade level communication

            -Holding off on employees’ children placement

 

New Business

 

 

Other

-Next DWSIC meeting 14 February at FA Room 157, 2:45 p.m.

 

Meeting adjourned by Jerry Griffin at 3:35 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Melissa J. Smith

St. Joseph’s Community School

518-483-7806

mjsmith@malonecsd.org