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Harrington Elementary School
Site Council —Meeting Agenda
2024-2025 Academic Year
Meetina Date/Time: Location:
Friday, October 24, 2025 Harrington School Conference Room
8:30-9:30 am
Recorder-Rory O'Connor
Members
Ms. Jackie Daley, Principal Meg Tabela, Family Rep.
Melissa Lee, Community Rep. Rory O'Connor-Assistant Principal
Rahnuma Wahid , Family Rep. Ms. Julie Scafidi, Faculty Rep.
Denise Grant, Family Rep. Ms. Liz Class, Faculty Rep.
Rachel Levy, Family Rep. Ms. Lisa Colagiovanni, Faculty Rep
Agenda Notes
Welcome Back to the 2025-26 School Year * Ms. Daley welcomed everyone back at 8:40
* Members present include Jackie Daley, Liz
Class, Lisa Colagiovanni, Rachel Levy, Denise
Grant and Julie Scafidi
2025-2026 * Ms. Daley reviewed the tentative schedule for
Meeting Schedule the year
* Team members agreed that the dates look
Friday, October 24, 2025, 8:30-9;30am good so far for the year
Friday, November 14, 2025, 8:30-9:30am
Friday, January 9, 2026, 8:30-9:30am
Friday, February 13, 2026, 8:30-9:30am
Friday, March 27, 2026, 8:30-9:30am
Friday, May 1, 2026, 8:30-9:30am
Friday, June 5, 2026, 8:30-9:30am
Opening Day-Focus for our work this • Review of the purpose of the Site Council
year..PARTNERSHIP-Community Circles, team and our impact on the School Innovation
SEL Curriculum Plan
• We always try to align our goals with the other
• MCAS Overview-Spring Results for elementary schools in the district, in particular
2025 at Harrington with curricular goals
• Each year, we aim to focus on a strategic goal
SA....Uu:E.5 l0W to work toward as a school
• Ms. Daley shared a slide deck to review our
goals at Harrington that focus on partnership,
community circles, and a new SEL curriculum
• When we look at the strategic plan, we look at
the overarching trending theme/goal, and that
is the disproportionality of academic
achievement as it relates to black/brown
students
• Relationships are a critical factor, and the hope
that with more a focus placed on that,
students will feel better about school in
general, and ultimately perform better
• Restorative Justice is an approach that has
gained great traction in the last several years;
Ms. Daley, Dr. O'Connor and several other staff
members have been formally trained at the
Tier 1 level
• We are not necessarily seeking to train all
staff, but we are actively working to integrate
the concept of community circles within
classrooms
o The overall concept with the approach
is bring students together in a circle,
use a talking piece, and establish
common ground (especially when a
conflict has arisen)
• The goal is also to expand the concept across
the school community as a whole
• Restorative practices were defined to help
understand what they mean in general as it
relates to forging positive relationships with
students
• Ms. Colagiovanni spoke about her morning
meeting with second graders where every
student understands that only one person is
allowed to speak at one time
o She then spoke about a disagreement
at recess where students were upset
about a game and students shared
some problem solving ideas in a circle,
and because they were used to the
format, it was easier to start and finish
• Ms. Class said that practicing with low-stakes
questions is a great way to build the routines,
then transitioning to deeper questioning; it is
really good to get into that routine and revert
back to class norms so that if
• Ms. Scafidi discussed sharing each morning,
and students use an object to pass which
signifies that person is able to speak; we have
not gotten to a place where deeper issues
have arisen and I feel confident using the
approach
• Members commend staff for taking on this
work- multiyear, multigenerational issues;
What does success look like in the short term?
o Discipline is something we document
and can track, so we could see shifts
and changes overtime
o It is difficult to say if Circle work is
directly related to any changes
o Looking at Student Growth Percentiles
for academic changes
• There are several students that have been
identified that are very close to meeting
expectations on MCAS
• Discussion about the integration of training by
Kurt Faustin that was secured through the
METCO department; Harrington is one of the
three LPS elementary schools where students
who belong the METCO program attend
school
• Ms. Grant commended that it is extraordinary
that we are doing this work as a work, and
that this was not the way school handled
things when she attended at the elementary
level
• Ms. Daley explained the Second Step SEL
curriculum. Every teacher has access to online
lessons as a teaching tool (how to be a good
friend, how to solve conflict, etc.)
o Ms. Grant wondered if there was a way
to measure the efficacy of the
program? Ms. Daley commented that
we do review VOCAL student survey
data when they complete data
• Screeners were reviewed as well as academic
performance that identify areas for growth
• Resources were shared with the group on how
to best support our efforts
• Ms. Levy commented that this work is
tremendous as it relates to our approach of
restorative justice
New business: • Next meeting to discuss possible ways to
measure our outcomes
Next Meeting:November 14th • Motion to approve by Ms. Daley at 9:33,
seconded Dr. O'Connor and approved 7-0