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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
School Council -Walter S Parker Middle
Date: 2017-01-04
Building: School - Parker
Address: 45 Temple Street
Purpose: Monthly Meeting
Attendees: Members - Present:
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Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Conference Room
Session: Open Session
Version: Final
Richele Shankland, Julie Joyce, Audra Cashins, Michelle Greenwalt, Linda
Michel, Eileen Manning, Andrew Spinali
Members - Not Present:
Priscilla Hollenbeck, Annika Scanlon
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Richele Shankland
Topics of Discussion:
Agenda:
1. Review minutes from the December 7, 2016, meeting.
✓ Motion made by Audra Cashin to accept the minutes.
✓ Motion accepted by Eileen Manning.
2. Update on School Happenings
✓ Grade 6 dance was successful and there will be dances for grades 7 and 8
✓ Peter Tompkins was principal for a day in December
✓ Winter concerts were excellent with the addition of hand chimes.
✓ Reading Cooperative Bank working with Financial Literacy Class (Gr 8)
✓ MLK Celebration: Jan 16
✓ Parent Visitation Day Jan 12
✓ Parent Presentation: social medialinternet safety — 7 pm Parker Auditorium
✓ Gr 7 dance Jan 27
✓ Understanding disabilities speaker March 13 — Melissa Hopely (antibullying, anxiety,
depression, OCD, positive coping, peer support)
✓ End Quarter 2 — Jan 20
3. Update on progress towards SIP goals
✓ Professional development, district PLC and faculty times spent working on
differentiation, modeling lessons for teachers
✓ Observations include recommendations for and discussion of differentiation
✓ Teachers participating in professional development outside of district on
differentiation
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✓ Leadership team and data team facilitators receiving training from district data coach
✓ Working on a consistent approach to interpreting and analyzing data (academic,
attendance, time out of class, discipline, social emotional)
✓ Creating a consistent way for tracking interventions/strategies used with students and
determining effectiveness
✓ Next team data meetings later in January
4. Continue discussion of Honor Roll Determination for 2017-2018 Handbook
✓ All As High honors, As AND Bs Honor Roll
✓ Ricki will bring some samples from other schools for the next meeting
✓ Next year give students a letter of achievement with their certificate
✓ New policy for 2017-18 school year
5. Other
✓ We are having meetings with staff in buildings and district -wide this week to discuss
budget cuts. On Monday, January 9, the impact of the budget on the schools will be
shared publicly at the school committee meeting. Ricki will send out communication
to parents on Tuesday about what this means for Parker.
Meeting adjourned at 6:35.
Next Meeting: February 1, 2017
-Discuss Dress Code
Respectfully submitted by,
Richele Shankland
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