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School Council -Walter S Parker Middle
Date: 2021-04-14 Time: 5:30 PM
Building: School - Parker Location:
Address: 45 Temple Street Session:
Purpose: Monthly Meeting Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Marianne Downing, Richele Shankland, Andrew Spinali, Maya Liteplo, Miguel
Borrero, Erin Gallen, Sherilla Lestrade, Kimberly Bernazzani
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Addis Sintayehu, Ilka Walkley, Brendan Norton, Amy Koehler, Bryan
Fernandez
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Richele Shankland
Topics of Discussion:
1. Review and vote on minutes from the March 24, 2021,meeting.
a.) March 24,2021, minutes were approved with name spelling correction(Ikla was
changed to Ilka).
2. Continue Handbook Equity Audit
a.) Breakout groups continue work on assigned section of the rubric (45 minutes)
b.) Notes were shared out by groups
Groups (changed based on attendance):
a. #1 Miguel,Andy, Erin,Addis(NOTES
b. #2 Maya, Justin, Sherilla,Kim, Ricki (NOTES
c. #3 Brendan, Marianne,Amy,Ilka(NOTES)
i. Additional notes
1. Dress standards—inequitable to females
a. Rules—unintended effects
b. Focus more on comfortable clothing
2. Definition of bullying may not match the district definition of
bullying
3. Focus on expectation versus punishment
4. For the lists, try to reframe as interventions
5. Saturday/PM detentions not accessible to all
6. Discipline Definitions are state law requirements
7. Bullet points seem subjective and open to interpretation
c.) Discuss process
d.) Identify next steps
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a. Thoughts discussed(all ideas noted here)
i. Provide a summary of findings from the rubrics to hand off to the next
team
ii. Take the rubric and notes and find the common threads(ie tonality)
iii. Students working on mission/vision ideas
iv. Formulate some preambles to each part that speak to mission/vision
v. Then draft specifics of each section
vi. Want to hand off a draft with our revisions to next year's committee to
continue the editing process
vii. Don't want them to have to interpret our notes
viii. They should do their own work on our draft
b. Proposal was made for next meeting
i. Outline principles
1. Equitable
2. Easy to read
3. Positive tone
ii. Share draft of a sample section with edits based on notes from rubric
iii. Get into breakout groups and edit that section
iv. Use that edited section as a sample for editing the rest of the sections
before handing off to next year's committee
v. Outline next steps
3. Other
1. We discussed the AP Search process
a. Committee interviews all day on Friday,April 9.
1. Students,staff,parents,administrators and METCO representative
on the committee.
b. Student and staff forums with 3 finalists after school today(April 14)
c. Collect feedback forms from students and staff
d. Ricki will read feedback and decide on next steps
Meeting adjourned at 7:15 pm.
Respectfully submitted by Richele Shankland.
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