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School Council -Alice M Barrows Elementary
Date: 2023-06-06 Time: 3:00 PM
Building: School - Barrows Location: Meeting Room
Address: 16 Edgemont Avenue Session: Open Session
Purpose: School Council Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Alissa Gallegos, Principal
Jacqueline Lytle, Teacher
Pam Boston, Community Member
Kaylee Dee, Parent
Meghan Dribin, Parent
Members - Not Present:
Lori Hill, Teacher
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Alissa Gallegos, Principal
Topics of Discussion:
1. Call to Order
2. Old Business
3. New Business
• Principal shared updates on Class Size Information for 2023-24 School Year
o Reports class size for each grade
o Additional open enrollment for out of district students
• Principal shares updates on staffing/hiring
o No changes for classroom teachers
o Nurse Retiring/Interviews will begin in two weeks
o Sped Teacher- interviews begin 6/9/23
o New SAC/Metco coordinator
• Clarifies the role/responsibility for this position
• Interviews begin 6/12/23
• School Budget Updates- we are in good shape, ordering needed furniture for
new assistant principal position, storage for new ARC Core curriculum
materials. We were able to purchase all needed supplies and wishlist items for
teachers/staff
• Focus Area for Upcoming Year
o ARC roll-out for K-2
o Embedding grammar in the curriculum
o IM
o SEL Curriculum- Second Step
• Teacher reports that starting it in the spring was challenging
with all of the new ititiatives this year.
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Adjournment
• Believes staff will feel better starting it at the start of the school
year & will be a good community builder, common language,
wish there were slides to support curriculum, teachers need
time to enhance curriculum, maybe SAC can help teach these
lessons next year
Schedule/Grade level alignment
o We built a schedule that supports grade level subject alignment,
common planning and data team meetings, will help teachers be
efficient and more effective for instructional purposes
Principal asks about terms on each member. Staff that have been on
committee longer than 2 years will vacate spots unless we have no interest
in the fall.
Principal thanks council for collaboration and dedication to the work this
school year
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