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School Council -Walter S Parker Middle
Date: 2020-06-10 Time: 5:30 PM
Building: School - Parker Location: Conference Room
Address: 45 Temple Street Session:
Purpose: Monthly Meeting Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Marianne Downing, Eileen Manning, Richele Shankland, Christine Lusk,
Andrew Spinali, Lynda Michel
Members - Not Present:
Jeanne Duran, Vonda Gauthier, Erin Gallen, ELisabeth Bean, Sherilla
Lestrade
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Richele Shankland
Topics of Discussion:
1. Review and vote on minutes from the May 13, 2020, meeting-Minutes Approved
Motion made by Christine Lusk and Seconded by Eileen Manning
Add: Enough/advanced notification for calls and assignments—no same day notification
during remote learning
2. End of year
-5'h graders will be given their team but they need to be flexible depending what happens
in the fall
-A Video will be provided with Team Theme
-6ih and 7'h graders will not be informed until school is out-this is typical
-8'h grade promotion ceremony Wednesda(June 17ih) @ 6
8`h grade drive through Thursday(June 18th) 11-1 to pick up yearbook, awards if
applicable
-Friday (June 19th) last day of school
3. Planning for next school year
a. What will school look like?
What about pairing down the scope of curiculum covered?
Not likely but the school has looked at what has been taught to mastery
from previous year working on what are the skills for the next year-
prerequisite skills that would need to be taught in addition to the grade
level curriculum
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Any assessment exam at the beginning of year?
Definitely for math if in person
How to assess skills if remote continues?
That conversation just started
No exact answers for what next year will look like. Pretty sure going back as a hybrid model.
Central office admin is getting a difference sense this week after participating in some DESE
meetings.
-Many organizations have been rallying in support of going back to brick and mortar
-Parker classes net year will have about 22 students in each class except honors math.
-state talking about red, yellow, green light model providing districts more flexibility based on
each city/town data
-4 planning committees to look at plans for next year to help make recommendations next
Wednesday (6/17/2020)
b. School Improvement Plan
1. Recommendations/thoughts for next year's plan
Incoming 6th grade placement tests
Edulcastic for math
GATES: Reading
What resources will be available for those that have fallen behind?
In school: use team time
Virtual: need to look at this
Are there any opportunities over the summer for students to get
caught up?No unless they qualify for ESY
How is information being transferred from school to school
(transition years)?
Will be provided in a spreadsheetstudent specific that will show
trends and patterns
Would like to do more work on multi-cultural differences and add
into curriculum and to the everyday life of the school not just
advisory, teams etc.
4. Members returning/leaving
Marianne Downing-returning
Erin Gaffen-returning
Sherilla Lestrade-returning
Christine Lusk-retuming
Lynda Michel-Leaving
Eileen Manning-Leaving
5. Other
Mr. Trapani is not returning
Ashley Sylvie has been hired for 8" grade math
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