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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
School Council -Arthur W Coolidge Middle
Date: 2017-11-02 Time: 3:00 PM
Building: School - Coolidge
Address: 89 Birch Meadow Drive
Purpose:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Location: Conference Room
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Eric Castriano, Sarah Marchant, Marcel Koster, Theresa Wiggin, Christine
Magoon
Members - Not Present:
Richard Nazzaro, Michael Maday, Pooja Parsons, Breinne Karow
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Eric Castriano
Topics of Discussion:
I. Welcome! Any quick announcements or questions?
• Any questions?
Talked about the -Understanding Disabilities assembly with Chad Hymas
Explained and discussed Challenge day and the positive impact it has on the 8th
grade students.
• Students take a survey after ChallengeDayand Sarah offered to share the results at
the next meeting.
II. MCAS Presentation: School and District Data and Data driven dialogue about
MCAS Results
• Reviewed PowerPoint slides that introduced changes to the MCAS reports
• Looked at data and made observations:
o More 7th graders meeting and exceeding expectations
o 6th Grade highest in partially meeting and lowest in exceeding expectations
o 7th Grade had the highest amount of SGP
o Girls SGP is performing higher than boys on ELA
.o When looking at data this is last year's grade levels
.o SGP was going up in 2015 and 2016 and then the test changed.
o High needs and Students with Disabilities SGP sub groups are exceeding all
students in 7th grade.
o Not as much as a gap, with male and females SGP with Math as there was
with ELA.
o Advancing above 50 SGP in 7th and 8th grade..
o Coolidge is performing higher than the state in proficient on Science
o Coolidge, and Parker are outperforming the state.
• Spring 2018 Science will be computer based.
IV. (Will also be given final copies of the School Improvement Plan)
• Next meeting Thursday December 7th
• Future Topics
o Discuss Override
o Budget
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