9/14 SDMC Meeting Minutes • Postpone the Meeting Minute Approval for August 17th, 2015 to next meeting • Review SDMC members • Review SIP goals: continuous growth of 5% every year After school tutoring: teachers need to support individual help in classroom first. After school tutoring. • Attendance: reinforce the importance of attendance. • AB honor roll: every nine-week • Highly Qualified Teacher: make sure certification is updated. • Safety: parental perception bullying, encourage parents to respond the survey • Chinese Skills for native-speaker students: Mrs. Huang is helping • Teacher representative: HW expectation remains. • Parent representative: check magnet program’s application process for middle schools, question: do they lose their spots automatically? Meeting before Oct. 1st for middle school. Answer to current parents: who’s the teacher? Curriculum? • Pre-K: Dr. Penn brought up the question whether to keep pre-K class or not. SDMC will continue the conversation regarding this question. Mr. Chang will reach out to the HISD magnet office regarding our pre-k program. • Next Meeting is Oct. 5th.