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School Site Council (SSC) Meeting Wednesday, December 15, 1999
Mike Bachicha, Bill Strom, Peter Zell, Joan Silberman, Beverly Garrity
Guests: Mimi Correa (PTA Secretary), Jolanda Schreurers
Call to Order (not
enough for a quorum)
Meeting called to order at around 6:30 by Joan Silberman.
Proposal: To improve communication, Beverly Garrity will add information on Site Council activities to the FV Newsletter that goes out to all the parents. Bill Strom will add info. from the approved Site Council minutes to the FV Website @ www.coastside.net.farview.
Ed Fund Report
The $1860 for Physical Ed was approved by the Ed Fund.
The only issue is how much PE instruction the fund will cover. Mike Bachicha and Joan Silberman will work with
the PE teacher to set up a schedule tomorrow (12/16).
Ed Fund received a $13,000 grant to provide one aide per upper level (4-5) classroom, 3 hours per day. Ed Fund will add money to meet the $16,000 total required for the rest of this year. The doner would like to see this continue for the next few years and have matching community funds applied.
All of our computers are Y2K ready. The District provided us with an updated Fileserver.
September E-scrip finally came through and it looks good.
Review of Last Minutes
(can't approve minutes without a quorum)
SDAC Report
The District qualified for Title 1 money this year. The
poverty threshold was lowered from 35% to 25%. Title
1 money has to be used for supplementary uses (not what already exists). It will be $98,000 applied appropriately across
district schools. This is great news. for our
district services for ESL, ELD, etc.
Principal's Report
The after school homework center grant was approved.
Starts January 10th. Children
are referred by their teacher. Permission
slips are going out soon.
Music for K-3 will start next year (PTA funded) every other week.
Tech center grant looks good. This will be for training. More later.
John Bayless secured $7.6 million more than expected for district facilities improvements (for building only). It will be a long process to decide how it will be distributed in the district master plan.
By the end of May we need to review and revise our Site Plan. We need to set up a plan on how we will do this.
Next two sessions - Language Arts
One session after that - Math
After that - whatever else we want to look at
(make sure technology plan is reviewed as we go)
Review Site Plan
Reading
Teacher reports are an effective way to get a status report. The teachers will mark up the Language Arts plan
sheets for each grade level and Mike will make a report for the next Site Council Meeting. Math will likely be the next subject area.
The following general questions will be asked in addition to the overall assessment of the plan...These are draft questions Mike will massage.
1. Has each instructional strategy been implemented? If not, why?
2. Do you have the training and resources to implement this plan?
3. Is the plan working for MFG, traditional, and IPG classrooms?
4. Is the plan working as children transition from grade to grade?
5. How well is technology working to implement the plan?
6. Do you have suggestions for improvement?
Rank each goal from 1 to 5 for how important you feel it is for the child to know (5 being most important).
Budget
The budget is unchanged.
Next Agenda
Focus on on teacher feedback on Lanuage Arts for next meeting.
Action item to look at Site Plan Reading/Language Arts for next time.
We will discuss the PE proposal next time.
Mike will mail out the minutes and next agenda to the Site Council Members.
Adjourn
Meeting Adjourned 8:20.