Lawn Ave. SIT notes
May 12, 2005
Meeting was called
to order at 4:00
April 14, Notes
were corrected and accepted.
A.
Julia Held
typed and distributed a letter to encourage people to join Lawn Ave. SIT.
1. It was suggested that the letter Julia
drafted, be sent to the Jamestown Press with slight modifications.
2. Kathy Sipala will send to newspaper.
B.
Kathy S
explained grade 6 plan and schedule.
1. Social studies and reading are the
connection to each of the 6th grade teachers.
2. Social Studies will be taught the same time
each day. Units are Africa, Middle
East/Asia, Central & South America
3. Report cards were explained.
4. Additional art period with some robotics
and one music period reduced
5. Every subject meets 5 days per week
6. Reading will be reading instruction, not
DEAR
7. Spanish once a week, except for 8
weeks. Library methods will be
taught.
8. There will not be one day where the
children will remain with their homeroom teacher
9. Block periods will be intermittent to the
monthly scheduling.
10. 7th grade will block work
May 16th
meeting reschedule to June after teacher job fair.
May 16th
with parents has been cancelled and will be rearranged after June 7th,
teachers job fair.
II. Action Plans:
· Need to implement plan as soon as they can.
· Curriculum plan and discipline plan could
be on line.
· Provide extension/accelerated programs for
those students who can do it.
For
next meeting, a finished action plan will be attached.
III. Curriculum:
· Melrose curriculum plan was shown. It had been worked on this past year.
· Lawn Ave schoolteachers will be asked to
list their curriculum for each subject.
This needs to be done by end of year.
· Placing the curriculum on web page would
advantageous for parents.
· Bruce explained assessment and how the
curriculum could be used to assist the assessment by Dept. of Ed.
NECAP is online. It is the curriculum at: www.necompact.org
You
can look at each grade and see how it scaffolds
upward throughout the grades. It is not a curriculum
guide rather a direction of where the curriculum is going
in the state. Parents may want to look at this to identify where the grade
levels will go.
Note: Revised action plans that have been
finalized, please submit to Mrs. Sipala
so that they can be attached and discussed at the next meeting.
Four
have been submitted and more are hoped for.
III. New Business
1. On attachment is a list of schools. If you would like to be a member of a SALT evaluation team,
please submit your name in pertinent information.
1. Successful night was due to keeping it
together. Kids had a
great time.
2. Parental involvement was impressive and the
Breakfast was incredible.
1. Would SIT be interested in sponsoring a
Candidate Forum? —A place where candidates can be together to discuss the
issues, publicly.
2.
Typically, a
Jamestown organization has held one in the past, however is not doing it this
time. Format of this meeting is up
for discussion.
3. The Jamestown Shore’s will be holding a
candidate forum. We should have
one for School committee candidates only.
Town council candidates are not our issue.
4. Monday, May 23, 2005, appears to be the
only available date. K. Sipala
will do paperwork for building and custodian. Night should begin at 7:00. Maybe Mr. Pease will be the
mediator. Martha Vigneault and Pat
McLaughlin will work on this event.
Candidates will be informed the week before so that they can think about
issues that they may be asked about.
D. Lawn
Ave Survey
1. 33 surveys out of 40 surveys came back.
2. Julia Held reviewed the surveys. Any issues
that were mentioned twice were considered.
3. Outcome of survey
· Weekly progress reports from 8th
grade teachers are greatly appreciated by parents.
· 7th and 8th grade
Parent Conferences with students presenting their work, was not sufficient in
letting parents know how, and where their child is with academic success or failure. Parent Teacher conferences are
requested to team with child/parent conferences.
· Parents want Updated web sites on line
· Would like Snow days on answering machine
· Some do want to communicate more with
teachers via Email
· 31 out of 40 kids had a successful year
· 4 surveys indicated that their child did
not have a successful year.
Overall, most
comments were constructive from parents.
IV. Future
Business
A.
To discuss at future meeting:
1. Difference with girls versus boys
2. 75 % girls’ populations are successful
3. 25 % boys’ populations are successful
B. What can be done to motivate boys to do
better?
1. It was mentioned that a higher percentage
of boys in Jamestown School was more successful than the norm.
2. We need to be sensitive to this issue. As a school we are not just focusing on
girls. However, more than just the
honor roll, we want activities to support successful involvement for all.
3. School needs to be sensitive to this area
Future Meeting
times:
June
9th, not necessary to meet with Melrose School. We will meet on our own at Lawn Ave.
New
Group
Rolling
Agenda: Name of group hoping to create better, safe paths
Bike Paths –looking to establish bike
baths to promote a healthy activity.
Developing, healthy habits.
Thursday, May 19, kids are being asked to
bike to school. This
is National Biking Week.
Monday, May 23, is
school committee meeting
Meeting was over
at 5:25