HomeMy WebLinkAbout2018-01-19-BOWMAN-min BOWMAN SITE-BASED COUNCIL
Thursday, January 19, 2018
MEETING MINUTES
Present: Mary Anton, Kathy Caron, Rosanne Barbacano, Lauren Avery,
Alison Stevens, Melinda Webster Loof, Seth Moeller, Kavita Ravi
December 7, 2017 minutes unanimously approved at 8:01 : motion made by
Alison Stevens and Kavita Ravi to approve the minutes.
Minutes recorded by: Beth Glick
I. Announcements
Mary Anton will be retiring from Bowman School at the end of June and will
be relocating to California to be the head of the lower school of the Chinese
American International School.
II. Public Comment (on topics not on the agenda)
III. Update on MLK Jr. Day of Service and Race Conversations forum
• About two hundred people attended
• Speaker who does a lot of analysis and looks at pipeline to prison
• Talked about ways to address the concerns.
• Human Rights committee and school at the same time working on
creating a survey to look at discipline and how it is handled.
• Speaker has looked at disaggregated data on African American
students and Special Education students around suspension and
time out of class, shows a disproportionate number of African
American students and students with disabilities have a higher
number of suspensions.
• Questions being asked: Is there unconscious bias going on? Are
African American students and special education students having
higher suspension rates and discipline rate? What is the education
going on in different schools, what are teachers being taught around
responding to behavioral difficulties?
• Data at the High School and Clarke
• Not the same concern at the elementary level
• Powerpoint on the Human Rights website for more information on this
presentation.
A follow up conversation with Site Council included:
• Association of Black citizens of lexington, SEPAC, Lexington
Commission on disabilities is working on the survey. Hoping to have
the survey out in February.
• Equity leadership was discussing different cultural lenses yesterday
and ways to respond.
• Differences on how different children will respond to no. Can have
different responses to teachers. How do we provide education to
teachers around responding and looking at the cultural lense. How do
we continue to look at methods other than discipline.
IV. Bowman School Curriculum Updates
Will go on the February meeting agenda
V. MCAS updates
• Third grade paper based, fourth and fifth grade on devices
• Extra day for Kindergarten screening. Will be an additional day at all
elementary schools. PAR has been added this year for screening.
PAR looks at vocabulary pieces, memory pieces and phonemic
awareness and phonological awareness.
• Parents will receive the screening results as they have in the past.
• Kathy Caron shared it is not overly identifying students at this point.
• ? who will administer the PAR. Will need more staff for Kindergarten
screening.
• When there are red flags in literacy, progress monitoring is used to
make sure student is making progress towards their goals.
• Discussion about dyslexia
• There is great support for students with reading differences here at
Bowman.
VI. Discussion - Superintendent Search
• Discussion to give feedback on the search and/or thoughts about
important initiatives to keep going forward.
• Update on the search
Unanimous vote to adjourn at 8:49: Alison Stevens and Seth Moeller made
a motion
Next meeting: February 9, 2018 7:45-8:45, Center Conference room