HomeMy WebLinkAbout2004-10-06-Hastings-minSCHOOL COUNCIL MEMBERS 2004/5
Maria Hastings Elementary School
Susan Campbell
c/o Hastings School, 2618 Mass Avenue, Lexington, MA 02421
781- 860 -5800
sampbell(a,sch.ci.lexington.ma.us
Janet Lane
21 Hayward Avenue, Lexington, MA 02421
781 - 862 -7097
j.flane ,mindspring com
Maria Moxon
49 Balfour
Lexington, MA
781- 274 -7018
mariakmoxonsonline.com
Tammy Mulligan
32 Taft Avenue, Lexington, MA 02421
781 -861 -0813
TMulligan@rcn.com
Diana Partyka
19 Ewell Avenue, Lexington, MA 02421
781 - 863 -1031
Diana.Dave@rcn.com
Lynne Stinson
c/o Hastings School, 2618 Mass Avenue, Lexington, MA 02421
781- 860 -5800
lstinson a,sch.ci.lexington.ma.us
Reem Yared
22 Hastings Rd., Lexington, MA 02421
781 - 652 -8540
reem@fzrowthwise.com
Marcia Zichittella
c/o Hastings School, 2618 Mass Avenue, Lexington, MA 02421
781 -860 -5800
mzichitella ci.lexington.ma.us
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From: "j.f.lane" <j.f.lane @mindspring.com>
To: "June Hsiao" <jyhsiao @rcn.com>
Cc: "David Armstrong" <j.f.lane @mindspring.com>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 12:41 PM
Subject: Revised Minutes of Oct. 6 meeting
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL
OCTOBER 6, 2004 Minutes
Present: Marcia Zichatella, Reem Yared, Maria Moxon, Janet Lane, Diana
Partyka, Beth Somers Sutzman, Lynne Stinson.
1- Choosing Cochair - postponed to next meeting as two members could not be
present
2- Choosing meeting times - We were unable to arrive at a time that every
member was available so we will meet on alternate Wednesdays and Thursdays
at 3:30 in Lynne Stinson's office
Thurs. Nov 4
Weds Dec 8
Thurs Jan. 13
Weds Feb 9
Thurs March 10
Wed April 13
Thurs. May 12
Weds June 8
3- We reviewed the school improvement goals for this year that Lynne drafted
from our
work last year. Somehow two goals were missing from the report and one was
sent to Lynne after the meeting. An additional goal of literacy was added
to reflect the new reading anthology that has been adopted system wide.
There has been an deadline extension hopefully allowing for correction.
4- Lynne handed out a draft of the volunteer handbook to review. This work
is the outgrowth of a working committee jointly run by the PTA and School
Council.
Hopefully a parent handbook will be written this year by a similar process
to help new families orient to school and make expectations and protocols
more explicit. Target date for completion would be May 2005. Both
handbooks need to be available on the website.
5- We talked about potential changes in school morning drop off and
pick up procedures to satisfy the fire dept. and disaster management
concerns, and asked Lynne to use one of us as a sounding board before she
sends out her letter. (Two parents offered to read it for diplomacy). The
proposal at pickup would have parents wait for their children in a
designated waiting
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place rather than in the school corridors which is causing unsafe crowding
in some areas, and alter morning routines to have children lining up nearer
to the doors that they enter after the 8:30 am whistle blows. We discussed
alternatives to drop off and pickup and agreed to solicit more parent input.
6- Lynne shared a draft brochure made by Susan Campbell to describe Special
Education services at Hastings as a beginning point to school goal of
helping the community understand more about Special Ed in general and the
ILP (Intensive Learning Program) in particular.
Meeting adjourned until November 4 at 3:30, in Lynne's office
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