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January 22, 2008
Site Council Minutes
January 21, 2008 meeting
Attending: Cynthia Macleod, Dick Cherry, Jay Hoover, Michela MacMahon, Kris Anderson, Cherie Allbaugh, Deborah O’Kelly, Erica Rosser.
Open House: Jay and Cherie provided updates on plans for the upcoming Open House for families of incoming 6th-8th graders (Jan. 31, 6:30-8:00pm in the library), including their discussions with 6th and 7thgraders about the information and questions they would like to be addressed. Announcements have been made in In Touch and a flyer is ready to be sent home with 5th, 6th, and 7th grade students. Cynthia has requested contact info from the district for neighborhood 5th grade students currently attending other schools and will notify them of the upcoming open house.
Feedback/Questions provided by 6th and 7th grade students:
• How will space be created for the 8th grade classes?
• Will there be mixed age classes?
• Will there be a choice of electives for 8th grade, or pre-determined enrichment classes as it is now?
• The current schedule creates too much time with the same students rather than opportunities to mix with all students within a grade.
• Would like more routine each day (M/W/F and T/T schedules and homeroom)
• Like having more study time built into the day, hence less homework.
• Like strong relationships with teachers – and that teachers know the students well
• Generally like school-based service (except when assignments are “boring”), arts, and PE (although some would prefer daily PE)
Topics Cynthia will address at open house:
• Advantages and disadvantages of mixed age classes and when they might be utilized.
• How “highly qualified” requirements ensure that upper grade teachers will have endorsements for the subjects taught.
LEAP Program for TAG students: Margaret Greer has made arrangements for the pilot program using the Saturday Academy LEAP program to supplement TAG support. Starting in Feb. TAG students in several grades will participate in a computer class during their regularly scheduled TAG time. The costs for the pilot program are being paid out of Irvington’s nominal TAG funds, but other funding sources will need to be identified in order to offer these classes in the future.
Leadership Update: Cynthia, Dick Cherry, and Karen Barker are continuing their work in the district provided Leadership program. They are focusing on reducing Irvington’s achievement gap in math. The leadership program helps leaders focus on the problem to develop a true understanding of its nature and then developing solutions designed to address the problem in a systemic way.
Counselor Project: Cherie provided an update on her required project – she has created study groups of kids not meeting benchmarks and is providing directed support to help them reach benchmark.
Kindergarten Round-up: discussed previous commitment to rethink kindergarten round-up based on feedback of prior years events. Kris will organize a small committee of parents, teachers and Cynthia to discuss and plan this year’s round-up (Feb. 12)
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