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Meeting Minutes
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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
School Council - Walter S Parker Middle 2aIG DEC —4 Ala ®i
Date: 11/5/14 Time: S:OOp
Building: School - Parker Location: Conference Room
Address: 45 Temple Street
Purpose: Monthly Meeting Session: General Session
Attendees: Members - Present:
Stacey Bertocchi, Janet Faulkner, Bryan Walsh, Priscilla Hollenbeck, Brian
Snell, Julia Joyce, Lauren Luskin, Brendan Norton, Douglas Lyons
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Douglas Lyons
Topics of Discussion:
Minutes from the 11/05/2014 School Council Meeting Minutes
• Discuss and review the School Improvement Goals from 2013 -2014. An excel
document summarizing the three School Improvement Goals the benchmarks, and
the progress made toward each goal was presented to the council. The group
members present asked if I could send out the hand -outs attached as e-mail
documents. An e-mail was sent out on 11/25 with the 2013 -2014 End of Year
Summary (EOY) as well as the newly approved 2014 -2015 School Improvement
Plan.
• The three new School Improvement Goals were presented. Each goal had a theme
and focus, goal 1 connects to making work public and the district goals and PLC
initiative; goal 2 focuses on tiered systems of academic support; and goal 3 focuses
on tiered systems of behavior and social/emotional supports for students and the
school.
• The time span for each of the new SIP goals is 2014 to 2016.
• After reviewing the new School Improvement Plan a motion was made to accept the
new plan and the group voted unanimously to accept the new SIP plan.
The Parker MCAS Presentation completed on 10/16. The presentation was summarized
and a copy of the power point shared with the group.
Questions and Answers:
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Brian Snell asked about the Ice Bucket Challenge and the Presentation that was made to expand
the challenge to increase student and community involvement.
Doug shared that the change in the weather and the calendar had really slowed the participation
in the ice - bucket challenge.
Brian also shared information about Aaron's Presents (htto: / /www.aaronspresents.org /about-
us /what- we -do/ ) and inquired about the possibility for students to create a grant and work on it
after school. The information was discussed at Rotary and as great potential. The information
was shared with students but there hasn't been much interest.
Student leaders have been working to support the Reading Food Pantry in November.
Minutes reviewed, motion made to accept. AIt voted to accept.
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