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Date: 2013 -09 -23
Building: School - Barrows
Address: 16 Edgemont Avenue
Purpose: Monthly Meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
Time: 3:30 PM
Location: Conference Room
Heather Leonard, Co- Chair, Sarah Lanzo, Ellen LaMarche - Co Chair, Laura
LaFrancesca, Liz Whitelam, Heather Mustone
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Liz Whitelam /Heather Leonard
Topics of Discussion:
Call to Order: 3:30pm
Present: Heather Leonard, Co- Chair, Sarah Lanzo, Ellen LaMarche — Co Chair, Laura LaFrancesca, Liz
Whitelam, Heather Mustone
11. Introductions
111. Review of School Council Purpose, Law, & Objectives
a. The Council is required to have equal numbers of staff members and parents
b. The Council is meant to have a member who is a community member who is not a parent at the school:
ideas for people to solicit are welcome!
i. Laura is going to reach out to Deb Harvey at Sawyer Nursery School to see if she will send an
email to Sawyer Parents
ii. Sarah will check with Maria Georgopolis about asking members of the RISE PTM
c. Non members of the School Council are welcome to attend: it is an Open Meeting
d. Heather also pointed out that there are additional staff members willing to join the Council if we can get
additional parents to join. Current members are going to reach out to prospects.
e. School Council Objectives: Determine and develop School Improvement Plan and provide budget input
f. We will tweak our existing School Improvement Plan, and begin a more robust effort to overhaul the SIP in
January, so that there is enough time to solicit input, create and revise by the end of the school year, and
be ready to start with the new plan in Fall of 2014
IV. Ellen LaMarche was nominated, accepted and voted in as School Council Co -Chair
V. Misc: Parents Place at www.pplace.org is a great resource for parents and their role in schools
VI. Review of current School Improvement Plan draft document
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a. Feedback from Kindergarten teachers on the existing document includes: Please remove Goal 2,
(Standards Based Report Card) as it has already been implemented; Clarity is requested on Goals 1 and 3;
Please maintain Goals 6 -9.
b. Revised School Improvement Plan document, in progress — attached.
Meeting Adjourned 4:32pm
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