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School Council -Walter S Parker Middle
Date: 2016-02-03 Time: 6:00 PM
Building: School - Parker Location: Conference Room
Address: 45 Temple Street
Purpose: Monthly Meeting Session: General Session
Attendees: Members - Present:
Richele Shankland, Brendan Norton, Stacey Bertocchi, Julie Joyce, Lauren
Luskin, Jayne Villadenis
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Richele Shankland
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting was called to order a16.00
The group looked at the district goals to determine a direction for the drafting of the next years school
improvement goals.
The group focused on district goals 1, 3 and 5 and then more specifically on goal number 5 regarding
communication
We discussed different means of communication and the complications with different platforms. There was a
discussion about different types of platforms for getting information out there.
It was discussed that people use multiple platforms for disseminating class information and school assignment
information to parents. Several challenges were discussed including the inability to open goggle classroom
sites to parents. The limitations of edline and its lack of usable features for teachers were discussed. Could
everyone use edline the same way? Number of different platforms for teachers could be a problem.
During the questions portion,it was asked if something could be done about thee traffic entering the parking lot
during school drop off. It was suggested that we could ask for parent volunteers to serve as traffic
coordinators.
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