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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2019-03-20-CLARKE-min `O%3 MORN 1775 � r NW z� a Z o APRIL 19TH 3JonasMiddle are School <<`XI NG1O� 17 Stedman Road Lexington, Massachusetts 02421 Anna W. Monaco,Principal Office: (781) 861-2450 Mary B.Barry-Ng,Assistant Principal Fax: (781) 674-2043 Jonathan R.Wettstone,Assistant Principal School Site Council Meeting March 20, 2019 7:00 AM/Main Office Meeting Minutes In Attendance: Anna Monaco, Principal; Mary Barry-Ng , Assistant Principal; Tiffany Zides, Teacher; Lauren Jigarjian, Teacher; Meghan Kilpatrick, Teacher; Jon Roy; Teacher, Jennifer Roney, Parent; Jennifer Velis, Parent; Rucha Londhe, Parent; Amy Selinger; Parent I. Welcome II. Approve Minutes from January 16, 2019 a. Minutes approved III. Clarke K/L/D/I Planning Template & Superintendent's Strategic Planning Process a. Shared with Site Council, January Professional Learning had the staff focus on the K=keep, L=lose, D=dream, I=innovate protocol b. In Clarke we broke into six small groups, led by building administrators and department heads. We reviewed different strategic plans, identified the need and purpose of a strategic plan and then proceeded with the K/L/D/I Planning Template c. March PD,just last week. We reviewed all of the Clarke data from the January PD day. This time Clarke staff in much smaller groups 6-8 people (17 groups) and the focus was to review the data and look at priorities for PLC level/Team level, School level, and the District level. d. Focus for site council to look at the school level • parents identify more printers, therapy dogs and more color printers as "low hanging fruit" and easily accessible - is there a possibility for LEF funding or PTO funding? • parent concerns - identify snacks for after school and longer lines at lunch. Possibility of pre-ordering lunches (like LHS app where kids to order lunch) • Principal acknowledge ability of Enriching Students software to allow students to sign themselves up for WIN and use the time we have reserved for sign up (12 minutes) and use after C block for a break/free time. • Teachers suggest that allowing outside area supervised • Discussion over time of WIN - would we move it to end of day? Concern over students leaving and not using the time for help/break as it was intended. • Teacher- suggest for WIN every day as many students who are taking band/orchestra and have full schedules, don't have the opportunity to run around or just be kids for a few minutes. • Principal acknowledges the need to have more "down"time so that students can adjust as well as how difficult it is to go "class to class"without a break. Shares time that followed an 8th grader and truly understood what it is like for a day. Difficulty without snack, time for bathroom break, etc. • Parent suggestion that one block a day is longer and the 15 minutes extra time become a non-academic snack and chat time. • Teacher- it might help to have a menu of items that are acceptable for faculty to do/use with students. (e.g. yoga, snack) • Parent- appreciated the teachers that do offer non-academic WIN courses (e.g. outside, Disney, etc). • Teacher- acknowledged that there used to be more non-academic offerings. • Teacher- we need to do a better job encouraging this and advertising what we are doing. • Principal - shares implementation of WIN and how had to convince others. IV. Adjourn 8:OOAM