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March 21, 2019 Meeting Minutes
Members in Attendance: Jen Turner, Sam Bosbach, Dan Strollo, Emma Burtenshaw, Curt
Barrentine
Approval of 1/17/19 Minutes: Approved
Principal's Report:
• District strategic plan work continues in Faculty Meetings
• Scheduling group assembled at Diamond, not yet at Clarke with Anna's pending
resignation
o Still a goal to have a new Middle School sched by 2020-2021
• Discipline Committee work continues. 2 April is the faculty meeting when work will be
shared out.
o Creating conformity/coordination regarding `Bin B' behaviors
o `pilot program' after faculty processes committee work
o Trial by fire to see what works best. Should be a collab process
• Panorama Survey/DEI Committee work:
o District just recently hired a consultant to manage the Equity Audit
o Building moving ahead with work this year. A presentation will be presented to
Site Council and faculty
• PBL work:
o Leadership committee met to talk about school culture to allow for more
PBL-style work
o Building leadership team has presented out at two faculty meetings
o Encouraging incorporation of elements of PBL into classrooms, not full
implementation within a timeframe. Will be part of scheduling work.
• SIP work to be done @ the next meeting, should ultimately conform w/ Strategic
Planning at district level. Work needs to be done on building based SIP before district
releases strategic plan.
o Next year's theme: Building Bridges
■ Aligning our many initiatives by building bridges between different
committees' work to have elements work together rather than conflict
Staff Report:
• D.C. trip coming up
• Teachers eager to hear out from variety of committees, particularly the Discipline
Committee
• Emma asks question about subs. Substitute issues remain, but no major crises lately.
Jen reports good long term subs are difficult to find.
Member Input:
• Dan talks about high schoolers coming down to Middle Schools to help with different
academic and social-emotional work w/students. Asks about specifics. Jen mentions
NHS, SOS initiative, etc. Consensus that this is a good thing the community should be
encouraging as much as possible.
• Language class question from Curt about teachers discouraging students from taking
higher level language courses if they don't speak the language at home. Mentioned by
LHS and Middle School students.
• Conversation turns to equity issues in language and math. Students with outside
knowledge or work have advantage in school.
• Acknowledged by the room that this is not something school can or should
control, but clear that classroom teachers should not be making
placements/discouraging students based on extracurricular activities or
out-of-school knowledge.
• Curt brings up a related matter regarding a heritage project and how adopted students
felt. Continued focus on ensuring inclusion of diversity.
• LHS sexual assault allegations. Parents in community curious about how culture is
taught at more formative levels.
• Reviewed 7th and 8th grade health curricula.
• What more can be done in Middle School? Issue is bigger than schools.
• Discussed prevalence of pornography among even young kids. Warps
expectations and understandings of healthy sexual relationships.
• Should some sort of education around porn be part of the health curriculum?
District may be heading in that direction. Will be a lot of backlash, if it happens.
Adjournment 7:52 am
Next Meeting: April 25, 2019