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Site Council Meeting 1/10/11
Members Present:
Louise Lipsitz, principal
Mary Erdman, parent
Sion Harris, parent
Heidi Pasternak, parent
Janet Lane, community member
Dana Steiner, teacher
Nancy Salitsky, nurse
Katie Boudreau, teacher
Nancy Campbell, assistant principal
Thanks to those who went to the site council training (Mary, Heidi, Sion, Nancy
Campbell)
A few people (Stu, Louise, Mary, Heidi) represented Hastings at Dr. Ash’s
presentation of the FY12 budget
Discussion of Site Council Training
Online Ethics Training to be done
Members were “shell shocked” with how much responsibility Site Council
Members actually have
Site Council members are subject to not collecting gifts of value
Frequency of meetings
Our site council seems to be posting meetings on time
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Other school site councils have not even met yet
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Parents have a lot of input in hiring
We will be adding a June meeting
Understanding the school budget is important
Site councils should take tours through the facility
Know what updates are needed
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Performance objectives
PTA presidents can come in as a guest speaker
Site council should be connected to other links in the school
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“Parent liaisons” should assess other parents perspectives
What needs to be addressed
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How things are going with the plans we are implementing
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**Parent surveys, focus groups (parent coffee, night meeting), random
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phone surveys
Bulling
Potential Topic: School Climate specifically with
Can use Room Parent to help with the outreach on getting survey’s
completed
Sion:
Stress Initiative: Race to No Where – movie – internal pressures of how well they
do in schools
Mindfulness Training: Own personal skills in managing stress
Potentially being offered as a PD
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Feb 1 offering on Mindfulness for parents, affects of stress on the youth’s
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brain
To what degree do parents see stress affecting their children? – potential question
for survey
Less attention on elementary school because they have Open Circle and
Middle/High School are not as developed with this topic
To do:
Louise will look in her files for past surveys
Hopefully we can get it out there in early March
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Use surveys to direct Focus Groups
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We need to identify 3 priorities for Survey
Prosocial – bullying
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Advocacy – how to work out the problems (**Potential training??)
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Here are a few topics/problems – yes/no, would you like more information
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about this?
Communication avenues
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Parents want teachers/administrators to let them know what specific feedback
they want from parents