Site Council Meeting: Jan 19, 2005
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Room F-55
Present: Kathy Oeming, Alicia Brower, Lily Von Almen, Carla
Crinklaw,
Patrick Lamson-Hall, Grant Conway, Don Cataldo, Karla Nelson,
Dennis
Biggerstaff, Jack Stoddart, Helen Haberman, Jenifer Pleus, Anna-Lee
Beephan, and Delia Graham-Waters.
Absent: Wes Flinn, Keith Fjordbeck, Deon Saraceno, and
MaryLu Bowers.
OPEN AGENDA:
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1. LTD Bus Strike: This is a potentiality
(is that really a word,
Helen?) that would affect many in the CHS community. The
district is
devising a back-up plan to put into place in case ...this could
be
somewhat disruptive for some of our students...those with specail
needs
in particular.
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ASCD Membership: Dennis has paid dues
to have CHS be an official
member again. This gives us access to research in
best practices,
etc.
(Thanks Helen, for writing this information down while I was
preparing
our snacks!)
MISSION STATEMENT DRAFT:
Dennis synthesized the statements of the
staff to capture the ideas for our mission statement. Some
discussion
followed:
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Having "global" be part of it...yes,
we believe we are part of a
global community.
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Have "Lancer Pride" at the end of
it so we can incorporate our
current Lancer pride statement in our mission (with it)
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Is the mission statement too long? Several
folks thought it could
be pared down to make it more concise...but not lose sight of
the six
concepts the staff feels passionate about.
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We can ask one of our famous English teachers
to help pare it down
so it's less "wordy"...thought of possibly Sue Churnside,
but then
again, those of us who went to our 2004 Graduation thought maybe
to ask
Katie instead...due to Sue's "long-winded" speech...(We
love you
anyhow, Sue!)
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Dennis will ask one of the teachers to help
with this and will
e-mail the new and improved draft to all site-council members
before
our February meeting date.
UPDATE ON GATES GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS:
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Twenty CHS representatives went to the workshop
(8 staff, 4
parents, 7 students, and Denise Gudger.)
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They went through the rubric, thought of examples
for evidence, then
synthesized the information.
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Karla is now working laboriously on putting
it all together into a
typed format for others to look at.
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Once the document is finished, it will go to
the Futures Committee,
and then the whole staff to do some reflection on.
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We will use our February 2nd late start staff
meeting to work on
this.
SIP...REVIEW FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING:
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Helen brought the newest draft for us to look
over. We won't have
much time to devote to this in our next two site council meetings
due
to the budget process.
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The literacy piece is happening...we should
celebrate it!
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Don mentioned that we should somehow add "numeracy"
to the literacy
goal. (this was brought up several times before in our staff
and site
council meetings...just needs to logistically be figured out
how to do
this.) Don will talk to other math teachers about where and
how they
can add it. If it requires any funding, they'll need to
put it in the
budget requests for next month. We'll make sure it gets
approval
before adding/adjusting the goal.
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Goal # 2 (Instructional Practices) Has
anyone done a peer-sharing
forum yet? One obstacle is time...we need to set aside
some time for
curriculum areas to meet for this purpose...yet we always have
other
agenda items on our "plates".
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Patrick suggested posting some information
on our website to share
experiences and successes with each other as a staff.
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We feel we're not giving "fair" time
for this goal at the
moment...we have the priorities of the Mission Statement to
work on
first. This goal will be a priority in our second year
of the SIP.
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We would like to do some preliminary work on
this goal this year,
however. Helen will get in tough with staff members to
create some
peer sharing time at the beginning of our next few staff meetings
(like
we do our Kudos) so we at least can be thinking about this goal
in a
small way for now.
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We need to make a commitment to make this a
priority next year!
Maybe we could spend some quality time on this during our next
fall
staff retreat.
NEXT MEETING:
February 2nd: Curriculum representatives will come in to
present their
budget requests to the site council. We may ask clarifying
questions
and make helpful suggestions in this process. (No judgement)
February 16th: Site Council will make budget decisions to
balance the
budget. Other CHS staff may be present, but may not vote.
Respectfully submitted by:
Delia Graham-Waters
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