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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
School Council -J Warren Killam Elementary
Date: 2013 -10 -08 Time: 3:30 PM
Building: School - Killam Location: Conference Room
Address: 333 Charles Street
Purpose: Regular Meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
Catherine Giles, Alice Gomez, Catherine Rice
Members - Not Present:
Donna Haros - Shindelman, Maura Looney
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Catherine A. Giles
Topics of Discussion:
A meeting of the J.W. Killam School Council was held on Tuesday, October 8, 2014 from
3:30P.M. until 4:30 P.M. in the conference room of the J. W. Killam Elementary School, 333
Charles Street, Reading, MA.
CALL TO ORDER
Review of School Improvement Plan:
• We work in PLCs and have staff meetings to review our team and individual goals
• For the 2013 -2014 school year, we will have a set of school -wide rules
• Common planning time for upper grade teachers will be implemented for the 2013 -2014 school
year.
• We use Baseline Edge in order to organize all of our academic, social /emotional, and behavioral
data in order to implement interventions for our students.
• Killam School is implementing three (3) at -home computer based internet programs in order to
provide academic interventions. (At this point we have Raz -Kids, Lexia and Extra Math)
• By the end of the 2013 -2014 school year, all professional teachers will pilot the use of district -
wide DDMs to track student growth and achievement. Each grade level will have at least 2
DDMs, including Fountas and Pinnell Benchmarking and DIBELS at the lower -grade levels.
Approval of Minutes
NEW BUSINESS
The idea of a "Walking School Bus" was discussed and we talked about how we are making progress on
our goal to implement a before school walking program for at least 50% of our students to promote
healthy living and brain -based exercise for all students. The parents at our meeting stated that they
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would like to do some research on the Walking School Bus idea in order to see if we could look at the
town like a grid and map out a "bus route" for next year.
Upcoming Events:
Next PTO November 19th
Book Fair -Week of 18th
Festival of Trees - December 7th
Blue Ribbon Conference December 10 -12
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 4:05 p.m.
The School Council will meet next on November 12, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. in the Conference
Room of the I W. Killam School.
Respectfully submitted,
Catherine A. Giles
Recording Secretary
October 11, 2013,
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