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School-Based Site Council
December 16, 2022 Meeting Minutes
Attendance:Jessica Caverly, Meg Colella (chair),Kristen Gray, Shawn Wood, Paige Hall, Mohamed
El Husseini, Rachael Kipps, Sahar Shata, Heba Thabet, Maria Totniou, Karthik Urs, Katherine
Wrobel, Erfu Yan
The Bridge Elementary School School-based Site Council held its monthly meeting on Friday,
December 16, 2022 from 8:15 - 8:45 am held virtually via GoogleMeet.
Jessica Caverly presented a background on the new phonics program that Grades K, 1, and in the
new year, Grade 2 will be implementing for all students. Her presentation encompassed the following
information:
What is Foundations? What are we doing with the students?
Basic overview:
Fits into framework of tiered systems and supports and RTI
- General Tier 1 - In the classroom for all students
- Tier 2 for small groups (targeted to student needs)
- Tier 3 for small groups that need additional support, Foundations ties nicely with the Wilson
program
Supporting accuracy with reading words and spelling words (automaticity); Phonics & a look at
how words work in English.
Two main skills with phonics - we teach kids to take words apart (decode) and put words
together (encoding) (handwriting)
Two main types of words: 1) words that are phonetically regular & 2) high frequency words -
irregular/trick
Working to support orthographic mapping
Questions: What is orthographic mapping? What grade levels are we using foundations and other
programs to support decoding and encoding?
Materials:
Letter boards
Handwriting boards
Word collection journal
Support in the classroom - environmental supports:
- word walls
- posters
- Foundations has a family home support pack so the parents know what the students
are interested in
Activities - how do we help students access these skills
- dictation skills warming up with sounds and letters
- letter manipulation
- letter formation (Verbal path)
- make it fun - word play
- Word Play
- writing sentences grammatically correctly (capitalization, punctuation, etc.)
Progress monitoring - unit assessments and determine if we want to pause and reteach or just a
small group
Working collaboratively well with other supportive programs like Heggerty
Question: Sentence structure - when does that start? It starts in kindergarten with modeling and
teacher-led examples, then in first grade continues with hearing the sentence, counting the words,
building sentences with sentence frames (diagramming).
Links to resources:
Foundations Information Slideshow
Minutes approved at 2/3/23 Bridge SBC meeting with majority vote of approval.