Curriculum Council Minutes: November 24, 2004

Members present: Doug, Rachel, Tom, Dennis, Jennifer, Mike S., Cindy S., Lance, Shannon, and a special guest appearance by the amazing Chris Mudd!

Minutes/Notes

Doug said that he is the official CIM pest. No CIM samples have come in yet. He's going to continue to pester the staff to turn in their CIM work sample scores to Darcy.
Cindy reported on Sheldon, South, and North's progress in regards to the new state graduation requirements. Sheldon is farther along than we are. The discussion focused on advisory and senior project models. It was suggested that Betsy attend the next meeting in order to share what she's already doing to address this.

general observations - it was unclear what exactly the data reflects. When were the failure statistics taken from? Where is the Science CIM data? How about SPED? No info was given for graduation rates, college entrance, and AP/IB stats.
What are the current percentage breakdowns of your demographics? How can we focus on our economically disadvantaged students?

Read/Write, ELL - literacy, SPED programs, tutoring in science and math
Tom is interested in expanding peer tutoring into working with the
middle schools. Perhaps the student tutors could get class credit or
fulfill their CRLS? How about bringing in retired teachers or booster
club folks to tutor our kids? Are there grants to fund this?
Attendance plays a huge role in the achievement gap issue. If a
student physically doesn't show up for class then he/she obviously
can't do the work.