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Home My WebLink About2019-02-06-ESTABROOK-min Estabrook School Council Meeting Wednesday, February 6, 2019 MINUTES Members Present: Amy Burk, Steve Chang, Christina Gavin, Amy Klotz, and Rick Rogers Approval of January 16, 2019 Minutes: On a motion by Amy Klotz, seconded by Steve Chang, the minutes of January 16, 2019 were unanimously approved. Updates  Principal Search Process: Rick reported on the school visits by the two finalists on Tuesday. The Superintendent is expected to make a final decision prior to February break.  Gr. 4 NAEP & ACCESS Testing: NAEP testing for about 60 fourth grade students took place today and went smoothly. Thanks to Christina Gavin for all the advanced preparation and coordinating NAEP while also overseeing the completion of ACCESS testing for 100 ELL students.  Recent Incident: Rick reported on a safety incident last week during arrival on the third floor. Staff responded quickly and no one was hurt. Fifth grade parents (and one adjacent fourth grade class) were informed of the incident. Appropriate follow- up steps have been put in place to provide support and ensure student safety. School Improvement Plan Updates Please refer to School Improvement Plan Social Emotional Goal Update (dated January 16, 2019) for details. Goal 2 (Social Emotional) Update (continued)  Mental Health: Rick described how in addition to using data teams to identify students who may benefit from counseling support, a Mental Health team member is attending grade level CPT monthly. An area we still need to work on is identifying exit criteria for students who receive TLP Tier 2 support.  Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: This was discussed last meeting, but since that time we had a faculty meeting (2/4) in which Christina Gavin presented data on office referrals broken down by gender, race, IEP status and ELL. The data was used to continue our conversation about ways to reduce referrals for boys who are Black or African-American. COSEBOC Consultant Pat Kelly will spend a half-day at Estabrook on 2/7 to observe and assess our climate and make recommendations  Home-School Communication Strategies: We still need to do work on reviewing the content of our classroom newsletters to determine if they are providing parents with the information they need (given that homework is not assigned). Estabrook Buzz is now published weekly. Rick would like to work with PTO to consider merging newsletters and send PTO communication to all Estabrook families, not just PTO members. Goal 3 (Safety) Update  Safe Routes to School was begun to reduce traffic at school. This year it has been more focused on promoting healthy habits each month as a way to bring more 1 visibility to the program.  Traffic management: Our new crossing guard at the school entrance sends Rick and Christina updates so we can send reminders out to parents. Steve talked about the challenge of being sent away from the driveway 3-4 times and then having to turn around when there are snow banks.  Safety Procedure & ALICE Training: Christina is representing Estabrook on a district-wide committee working to clarify expectations for annual drills and training. Supporting New Principal’s Transition We had a preliminary conversation about how best to support the transition to a new principal. Among the ideas that were brainstormed:  New Principal should meet with as many populations as possible and schedule opportunities to meet parents early.  Provide an overview of the year and all the events on the calendar  Provide an overview of committees and standing meetings  Help the new principal with context – where we have come from and where we need to go (What’s needs to be fixed and what’s next.)  Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – Maintain momentum & identify next steps  Be mindful school will have 4th principal in 4 years  Write a School Improvement Plan that identifies key priorities, rather than an exhaustive list of everything going on. Include a visionary component  Add student leadership goal  Is it time to update vision for school (with new principal)? Future Topic Home-School Communication Strategies & Partnering with Families Next Meeting: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 – 3:30 Upcoming Meeting Schedule – Wednesdays 3:30-4:30 (monthly) March 6 May 15 April 10 June 5 2