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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-02-13-DIAMOND-minDiamond Site Council Agenda February 13, 2025 - 7:00am Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ovy-auyf-vyp Present: Dr. Johnny Cole, Beth Bristol, Stephen Babbitt, Whitney Didie, Yu Wu, Katina Lawdis, Joyce Dvorak, Mary Barry-Ng I. Welcome A. Introductions by members present II. Approval of Minutes From Previous Meeting A. Katina Lawdis approved the minutes, motion approved by all. III. Updates A. Principal 1. The principal search continues. There have been opportunities for students, staff and parents/caregivers to meet with Dr. Lyons, from Human Resources, to give their input. A number of staff members are part of the search committee. Additionally, there is a survey for all stakeholders to fill out and provide feedback. 2. Standards-Based Grading update: Learning Process Standard at the middle schools is a focus of both Diamond and Clarke to examine how students are transitioning to LHS from middle school. Tomorrow afternoon will be a professional development day for teachers to dive deeper into this standard to examine what this really means for our students. We know that students who do not do well with this standard have a more difficult time transitioning to LHS. 3. We are getting ready for 5th grade transition meeting. There will be a night time meeting for parents/caregivers and students in March. June 10th is the step-up day when 5th graders come to Diamond for part of the day and have their initial orientation. There is also a meeting tonight at LHS for 8th-grade parents/caregivers and students. 4. Stepping-Up Ceremony will be June 17th. B. Staff 1. No updates from staff. C. Parents 1. Teacher Ease - still have parents/caregivers who have not accessed their child’s report card. Is there a way via the PTO that this information can be shared with parents/caregivers? 2. Dr. Cole shared his screen/data in a pie-chart format for each grade level to show the Site Council the amount of parents/caregivers, students, and no logins. Dr. Cole also shared that he will work with our DLC (digital learning coach) to see what other resources are available for our community to assist with this process. IV. Open Discussion A. Dr. Cole shared the SIP (School Innovation Plan) - this is a 2-year plan. This plan is lengthier than other school plans. So we need to look carefully at this plan and see where we are and what we need to focus on. I do need to provide an update as to where we are for each of the process benchmarks. Thus, I would like to look at this as a team and identify where we are as a school from all perspectives (staff, parents/caregivers, students). B. Last evening, there was a secondary school PTO meeting for both middle schools and LHS parents/caregivers. There will be an upcoming event with a guest speaker. The event is called, “Behind the Screen” - it sounds extremely informative and important. We will continue to inform staff and parents/caregivers about this event. C. Teacher comment: Whitney Didie expressed concern about snow days and considering the snow days and extending trimesters rather than just adding days at the end of the year. D. Concerns at both middle schools as well about the third trimester with field trips too; impact unified arts especially because they only meet three out of the six days. E. Teacher comment: Dr. Katina Lawdis expressed concern about parking and the lack of parking for staff during the day. Specifically for teachers that travel, it is extremely difficult to come to the school during the day and find a parking space. Additionally, many cars are present in the morning that belong to community members walking their dogs, or hiking in the woods in the morning. Could we ask if they can’t park here during the day? F. Parent comment: Even with back-to-school night, it is extremely dangerous. It would be impossible to get a fire truck in. G. Dr.Cole will be contacting facilities to see if we could get specific tags or signs to express school hours should be reserved for school parking. V. Meeting Adjourned A. Movement to adjourn meeting from Mrs. Didie and agreed by all.