Minutes
Agenda
1/21/20
Agenda 1/21/20
Minutes
12/16/19
School Council
School Council
1/27/20
Attendance: Rochelle Toth
Sharon Gallo-Dunn
Lisa King
Melanie Patterson
Ragu Mocherla
Dave Tasto
- Next meeting: March 16, 2020
- PBIS Update
- Major/Minor behavior
- Flowchart
- Relationship Mapping & Mentoring Program
- Students identified as needing intervention
- Mentoring program
- Teachers volunteer to mentor student
- Students spend 15-20 minutes with mentor teacher once per week
- Letter to parents
- Revisions
- Phone call to 5 parents, explaining program
- Choose a few talking points
Agenda
1/21/20
Agenda 1/21/20
Minutes
12/16/19
School Council
12/16/19
Attendees: David Tasto
Raghu Mocherla
Sharon Gallo Dunn
Melanie Patterson
Rachelle Toth
Lisa King
- Safety Committee
- ALICE drill
- Done in January
- Parent newsletter and follow up email
- Immediate feedback from police and administration
- Emergency Response Guide
- On teacher desktops
- PBIS
- Major/Minor Behavior Matrix rollout
- Feedback from staff during January staff meeting
- Inter-School Council
- Introduction to inter-school council
- Introduced Walker report
- School building authority grant
- Cohesiveness of schools and groups addressed
- Strategic plan
- School start time
- Neighboring towns have shifted start times at the high school level
- Budget
- Presented to school committee on Wednesday evening
- Adding educational assistant position
- Open positions for 2020-2021: 2 second grade teachers, 1 special education teacher, 1 PE teacher
- Relationship Mapping
- Part of the strategic plan
- Interventions created based on relationship maps
- Staff volunteers to mentor students during the day
- Next Meeting:
- Walker Report
- Parent Communication
School Council
12/16/19
Attendees: David Tasto
Raghu Mocherla
Sharon Gallo Dunn
Melanie Patterson
Rachelle Toth
Lisa King
- Safety Committee
- ALICE drill
- Done in January
- Parent newsletter and follow up email
- Immediate feedback from police and administration
- Emergency Response Guide
- On teacher desktops
- PBIS
- Major/Minor Behavior Matrix rollout
- Feedback from staff during January staff meeting
- Inter-School Council
- Introduction to inter-school council
- Introduced Walker report
- School building authority grant
- Cohesiveness of schools and groups addressed
- Strategic plan
- School start time
- Neighboring towns have shifted start times at the high school level
- Budget
- Presented to school committee on Wednesday evening
- Adding educational assistant position
- Open positions for 2020-2021: 2 second grade teachers, 1 special education teacher, 1 PE teacher
- Relationship Mapping
- Part of the strategic plan
- Interventions created based on relationship maps
- Staff volunteers to mentor students during the day
- Next Meeting:
- Walker Report
- Parent Communication
10/28/19
Meeting Minutes
Attendees:
David Tasto – Parent
Sharon Gallo-Dunn – Second Grade Teacher
Melanie Patterson – Librarian
David Tasto – Parent
Sharon Gallo-Dunn – Second Grade Teacher
Melanie Patterson – Librarian
Role of School Council:
Building-based committee made up of the principal, parents, teachers and community members that looks at and edits the School Improvement Plan, acting as an advisory committee to the principal
School Improvement Goals:
-
Reader’s Workshop
o
We are on our third year of Reader’s Workshop
o
Continue implementation
o
Book drive to supplement teacher’s classroom
libraries
o
Survey for teachers in spring
-
Social Emotional
o
PBIS
§
creating a system of data collection
§
Lunchroom behavior
§
Major/minor behaviors
§
Feedback from teachers
-
Shawsheen Leaders
o
Community Service
§
Visits twice a year
o
School Committee presentation at end of school
year
o
Monthly presentations at all school meetings
o
Social media outreach: Twitter, Wilmington
Apple, Town Crier, WCTV, etc.)
For next meeting:
-Budget-MCAS
-Shawsheen Leader update
-PBIS
-Inter-School Council update
March 25th Minutes
March 26, 2019 –
School Council
Attendees: Lisa King
Rachelle Toth
Megan Najarian
Melanie Patterson
Lori Fitzgerald
Diane Flaherty
Attendees: Lisa King
Rachelle Toth
Megan Najarian
Melanie Patterson
Lori Fitzgerald
Diane Flaherty
School Improvement
Plan
GOAL #1
Action: Teachers and students will participate in Independent reading with regular conferring daily
Teachers are trying to confer with students with 2-3 students per day, with 10-15 minutes per
conference - COMPLETED
Action: Teachers and students will participate in Independent reading with regular conferring daily
Teachers are trying to confer with students with 2-3 students per day, with 10-15 minutes per
conference - COMPLETED
Students will participate in
independent reading daily meeting grade level expectations -COMPLETED
Teachers will be learning and
implementing conferring using the research-decide-teach format three to five
times a week – IN PROGRESS
Teachers will use anchor charts
that coordinate with the current unit of study or area of continued focus – COMPLETED
Teachers will create a place and
system for efficient storage and access of books for students – It should be
noted that classroom libraries are supplemented with books from the March book
drives over the past 2 years - COMPLETED
Teachers will implement a system
for students to choose books based on interest independently – COMPLETED
Teachers will establish classroom
libraries which will be organized by genre, author, and topic and student
interest – COMPLETED
Teachers will teach daily mini
lessons using Lucy Calkins Units of Study for Reading and other supporting
materials that are aligned with balanced literacy – COMPLETED
Teachers will actively participate
in district provided professional development – TLA consultants come in weekly
to work with teachers. – IN PROGRESS
Teacher survey – IN PROGRESS (survey was completed in
2018, but not 2019)
GOAL #2
Action: Students present at school committee meetings – COMPLETED
Action: Students present at school committee meetings – COMPLETED
Classroom
teachers will invite families in for student work showcase events – COMPLETED
Promote
family literacy nights through Title One
– IN PROGRESS
Increase
our communication content of school happenings – COMPLETED
GOAL #3
Action: PBIS team will be re-established and roles of each member determined – COMPLETED
Action: PBIS team will be re-established and roles of each member determined – COMPLETED
Re-establish
a PBIS team vision and meeting norms – COMPLETED
Establish a meeting schedule
and goals – COMPLETED
Meeting
bi-weekly with PBIS team and coach – COMPLETED
Review
the behavior matrix – COMPLETED
Review
and revise a data system for PBIS and means of implementation – IN PROGRESS
Create a
communication system for families and students – COMPLETED
Presentation to students on PBIS
and behavior matrix (all school meeting, videos, etc) – COMPLETED
Creation of lesson plans
& establishing the delivery of the lesson plans – COMPLETED
Presentation on PBIS to
school committee – COMPLETED
Strategic Plan Parent
representative
In progress
Social Emotional
Special Education
Emphasis on testing
In progress
Social Emotional
Special Education
Emphasis on testing
Facilities
Curriculum
Teacher
support/staffing
Organizational skills
March 5th, 2019 Agenda
Minutes
Approval of last minutes meeting
2 teachers in attendance
PBIS update and renovations on the bathrrom
Picnic PBIS update and earning paws
video on the bathroom remodel
Next meeting focus will be on school improvement planning for 2019-2020
January 2019 Agenda
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EW342ppQG05WskHamANn4tpNuBcfhGA8QjpU7YSeZXE/edit
Minutes
Please see letter developed during the meeting. This was the total minutes for this meeting.
Dear Third Grade Families,
We wanted to send out information on MCAS. We know that MCAS has
been in place since 1993. MCAS stands for Massachusetts
Comprehensive Assessment system, it is the Commonwealth's statewide standards-based
assessment program. This was developed in response
to the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of the same year. State and federal law
mandates that all students who are enrolled in the tested grades and who are
educated with Massachusetts public funds participate in MCAS testing.
Over the years MCAS has changed its content to
match the evolving standards of Massachusetts. Some of those changes include
moving from paper testing to computer based testing. Our students are well
versed in computer literacy, and have used computers consistently to take
online math tests and work with typing programs for keyboard recognition. Recently students have been introduced
to the Read Works program which simulates MCAS online practice tests.
This year students in grade 3 will be taking
the reading and math MCAS online.
The window for ELA will be April 8th through the
12th and Math will be from May 6th-10th.
Testing sessions are untimed but students typically finish within a
few hours. Please try to limit any absences that week unless due
illness. The practice test will take place the week before and
teachers will be working with classes on any computer training needed to take
the tests. Mrs. King will go around to each room and discuss what to expect.
Here are some helpful tips for preparing for MCAS testing:
· Your
child will receive a snack the day of testing
· Encourage
your child to have a good night’s rest
· Try to
eat a good breakfast
· Check
in with your child that they have earbuds/headphones at school and that they
are working.
· Let
your child know to try his/her best!
If you would like more information on MCAS testing there is a
helpful MCAS website that you can review information about the MCAS and access
examples of test questions http://mcas.pearsonsupport.com/support/.
