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School Council -Joshua Eaton Elementary
Date: 2018-01-22 Time: 3:05 PM
Building: School - Joshua Eaton Location: Conference Room
Address: 365 Summer Avenue Session: Open Session
Purpose: School Council Meeting Version: Final
Attendees: Members- Present:
Ippolito, LisaMarie, Lusk, Christine, Emery, Sandy, Libby, Susie, Quinn,
Jaime, Ross, Julie, Gaffen, Erin, O'Neal, Laura
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Marianne Downing
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By:
Topics of Discussion:
1) Call to order
2) Old Business
- a. Acceptance of Minutes
b. Wash Updates
• Family Fitness night was a success
• Good Tum out
3) New Business
a. School Improvement Plan Updates/Progress check
School Goal One-Literacy
• Administered the Literacy Material Survey and now all teachers have the Lucy
Calkins materials.
• All teachers are working with their teams and at the building level to learn the
curriculum.
• Staff are working to understand and plan each unit of study.
• All teachers are assessing the students three times a year with each writing unit.
Teachers are working together to be consistent with the rubrics.
• Staff are using the Fountas and Pinnell to track student reading progress.Lisa will
share this data with the district at the school committee meeting.
• We will be having a staff meeting on aligning the ELA curriculum. Teachers are
working on this in team meetings.
• Teachers are implementing intervention blocks and assessing the students on the
growth with literacy and other necessary areas.
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• All teachers have the same literacy goal to improve the understanding of the Lucy
Calkins program.
• K-2 Teachers are benefiting from the Mystic Valley readers in the classroom
during the literacy blocks.
• Professional Development in Readers and Writer's workshop is ongoing
throughout the year.
School Improvement Goal#2 Communication
• Lisa has been updating the website to provide families with valuable information
and resources about our school,activities and building events.
• We are offering families resources in the tracks that support health and wellness.
• We had a Family Wellness Night.
• We will be having a math night(TBD).
• We are updating Facebook page to keep up on the news and activities.
• In the beginning of the year we had a lot of press with Veterans' Day and Student
Council Food Drive.
• Our plan is to promote upcoming events such as Spelling Bee and the Read-A-
Thou.
• Lisa has been having the parent caf6s most months.
• The next parent cafe will be on"Supporting your Incoming Kindergarten
Students."
• Staff are using the portal but at various levels of comfortability.
• We shared the communication plan with the community through the website.
School Improvement Goal#3 Attendance
• 87 kids were absent for ten or more days by the end of the year. At this point we have
only ten kids who have ten or more days.
• The BLT,the SAC teams and Lisa are examining attendance data. They are using the
state website which looks at attendance for an exact moment in time and we look at in
house data.
• Joshua Eaton is getting a lot of support from families around attendance and it is
prompting a lot of discussion that is supporting everyone.
• Student council is creating skits to promote high attendance rates.
• The classrooms will be making posters to help build a positive understanding of
attendance.
• We will be making a bulletin board to promote attendance progress
• We will continue to share out information throughout the tracks
• Weare researching trends and data.
• We are sending letters home if students are missing more than five days total. The
exception is students with ongoing medical issues.
• Weare hoping to educate the parents on the absente policy.
4) Little Free Library
• Lisa will find out who can install the LFL?
• Fifty for shipping, base coat of paint,and a post included
• Recycle That will donate books to the Little Free Library
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5) Items for Next Meeting
• John Doherty will becoming to talk budget at our meeting
Lisa will be presenting to the school committee that same night
6) Adjourn
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