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School Council -Birch Meadow Elementary
Date: 2017-4-3 Time: 3:00 PM
Building: School - Birch Meadow Location: Conference Room
Address: 27 Arthur B Lord Drive Session: Open Session
Purpose: Version:
Attendees: Members - Present:
Whitney Goodhue
Danielle Tucker
Keriann Zahoruiko
Ashley Quinn
Julia Hendrix
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Julia Hendrix, Principal
Topics of Discussion:
4-3-17
CORE Value
Parent Communication about Core Values
• How is best way to communicate?
o Beginning of the year presentation
o Reminders in newsletters
• What should we communicate?
o What does it look like?
o What is the matrix?
o What kind of reinforcements are we using?
o What does it mean in their day today school life?
• There's never been a parent presentation about the Core Values
• Can it be part of the PTO meeting?
Get iino school Information to Parents
• PTO Folder was clearly school and PTO-centric—well organized and covered all important
things
• Cheat sheet or greatest hits of handbook
o Health information
o Arrival/Dismissal Procedures—School hours
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o Lunch—caf6 putting money on accounts, buying lunch,etc...
o Allergy-Nut free classrooms for snack—nut free tables in cafe
o School Directory
o Notifying us about absences
o Distributing invitations at school
o Before and After School Program
o Behavior Matrix
o Homework Matrix
o Communication with teachers
o PTO Contact information
o Visitors and Parent Volunteers
Questions for Executive Committee Wulla will ask)
• Could we have longer at a PTO meeting to present the Core Values?
• Is there a meeting where more people show up?
Other items of discussion
• Back to School Night—ideas for the agenda for middle part of evening
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