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Meeting: School Based Site Council – Maria Hastings
Elementary Agenda/ Minutes
Date: Friday 4-28-17
Time: 7:45 am – 8:30 am
Location: Library, Maria Hastings Elementary, 7 Crosby Road,
Lexington, MA
Present: Curt Barrentine, Lance Conrad, Sue Campbell, Lisa Contre,
Louise Lipsitz, Brenda Rich, Battina McGimsey, Rachel Harrington
Member Input:
Updates:
Changes for 2017-2018~
Sections- Will have 23 classrooms next year. Currently have
476 students, having 23 sections
allows us to start off with classes of 20-21 students verses 24-
25 students.
Classroom moves-
-Adding a fourth section of first grade, a half section of
second grade, and a fourth section of fifth grade.
-Moderate Special Ed will leave the first grade wing to go
to the social workers space
-Jen Greenstein is moving into the third grade wing, her
classroom will be a second grade class with a new
teacher
-The music room will move to the teachers room, creating
a fifth grade classroom
-The ELL teachers will be in room 34
Personnel shifts
-Jennifer Greenstein will be teaching a half second/ half
third grade classroom: 10 of her
students will remain the same and then she’ll have 10
new students in addition.
-Anne Garcia Mentein will be moving to a full time ELL
specialist
-Amy Muzyka will be taking on a .7 literacy specialist role,
creating an opening in first grade
-Nithya Subramanian (current third grade teacher) will be
a fifth grade teacher
-Brianna Ambrus is leaving, creating an opening in fourth
grade
**Reach out to principals/ teachers/ parents who have experiences
with split classrooms, to give perspective/insight into what that looks
like and how it went. One idea is to have a first grade coffee hour,
where families can come and chat with people who are experienced
with the split classroom.
Building Project~
CM at Risk- interviewed six firms over April break, who would
work with the architects during the design process, we hired
Walsh Construction.
Geo-thermal heating- Over the break, we had a thermal well
test, where they tested the heating to
see how many wells will need to be dug. We are looking at a
closed loop system for thermal
heating, which is completely underground and doesn’t require
us to replace the pump every 15 years.
Next steps in design process- There is a meeting every other
Wednesday to talk about the design,
hoping the override vote will reimburse us. If the vote passes,
construction will begin Summer 2018, with a move in date of
the 19-20 school year.
* In the fall, we need to think about temporary drop-off routes. At this
time, we’ll start looking at an increase in bus riders and the potential
for more buses. Investigate the possibility of free busing to Hastings
during construction (potentially done at Estabrook?).
SIP~
ALICE drill planned for May if all support staff are available-
-police will come in and simulate violence in the building
and teachers respond.
Year end presentation to School Committee June 6th
SIP 17-18
Membership for 2017-2018