Sylvan Rodriguez Elementary School
Shared Decision-Making Committee
Date: 12/1/2015
Procedures
1. Sign-In
2. Assign secretary to take minutes
3. Call meeting in order
4. Secretary calls roll
5. Agenda item review
6. Committee reports review
7. Deliberations/vote (if necessary)
8. Action to be taken and by whom
9. Next meeting date
10. Call meeting to adjourn
11. Adjourn Meeting
Assign secretary to take minutes
Call to order- Who?
Secretary calls roll- Who is present?
Name
Title
Dr. De Los Santos
Kindergarten teacher
Lorena Moore
IB Coordinator
Kayleigh McCormac
5th grade Teacher
Mr. Espinosa
2nd grade Teacher
K. McCormac
Christian De Los Santos
Mr. Mejia
Ms. Williams
Technology Specialist
Agenda items-Buley
Committee Reports Team Leaders
Deliberations/Vote
Action Steps
Next meeting?
Call to adjourn- Who?
Adjourn meeting /Time?
Name
Ms. Chocler
Ms. Galvan
Ms. Tello
Ms. Rocha
Title
Pre-K Teacher
Reading Specialist
Recipe for Success
1st grade Teacher
representative
Head Start
Mr. Espinosa
5:00 P.M.
School Culture committee:
IB announcements will be read each week. Ranger Store – open M-F next week – 7:15-7:50. Will
place an item for new items. Will place another order for the 2nd 9 weeks (awards). First grade is
taking the dog tags that were left in the library. Cafeteria wagon seems to be running smoothly.
Ranger bucks are in teachers’ boxes.
Staff recognitions – lump December and January together. Review teacher expectations and
appreciation to be in line with the teacher code of conduct. We need a more positive school
culture using the IB attitudes. Culture committee will research what other schools are doing and
bring it back to SDMC. Will bring this issue to a staff meeting. Some teachers have seen some
interesting ideas at other schools.
Might do a Secret Santa.
More icebreakers during staff meetings; could be tied to IB. Teachers want more fun!
Parent involvement:
Christmas breakfast for parents – invitation only on Friday, Dec. 17th at 8:30. Every grade level
will donate food so this can happen. Still up for debate whether to invite all parents or just those
who volunteer regularly. We talked more about ways to involve more parents. Health
fair/zumba night – Texas Children’s and other organizations will come. Hopefully will happen
beginning of March. Recipe for Success would be involved.
Need to publish a monthly calendar. Would be great to create a Sylvan Rodriguez Calendar that
we could sell.
Safety committee:
Ms. Cantu went to a district-wide meeting talking about how schools are soft targets for mass
violence and need a plan in place. Nobody should be in the school without tags or authorization.
Shouldn’t be letting in people from the back without knowing who they are. Need more safe
drills (other than fire drills). Need a procedure for when the school goes into lockdown. Safety
committee will address these concerns and develop procedures and share with SDMC.
New safety inspector is very by-the-book. Safety committee members will be checking
classrooms by next Wednesday, Dec. 9th. The fire marshal (also new) will be here soon. The
teacher will pay fines if they cause it.
Wellness committee:
Soap issue has been solved, but still urine on the floor in some bathrooms. Handwashing/hygiene training would be good for all kids. Suggest that this be coordinated by Ms.
Adamy, Mr. DeDios, and Nurse Key. It would be good if the cleaning crew could more frequently
visit the bathrooms that are more heavily populated. Every class needs bathroom monitors who
will do a check before kids start going in and report any kids messing up the bathroom during
bathroom time.
LPAC
Give to 3rd-5th grade teachers monitoring forms to fill out cycle 1 grades and linguistic
accommodation forms for ELL students.
Head Start
Last parent meeting – 12/11. Goal for the school year – 79/79. Class observation and binder
reviews happening now. Teacher training on 12/9. Class supplies should arrive soon. Teachers
will be meeting with parents about children’s grades.
PYP
All the teachers should have a binder with all the planners. Our goal is to become more
transdisciplinary this year. Need to integrate science and social studies. Did a walk-through
yesterday and there were still some classes that weren’t ready. Use the key concepts for your
current planner in your teaching. There is an IB manager for the district. Most Wonder Walls are
empty. Each grade level needs to have a lesson to introduce the planners. It would be good for
teachers to visit other schools. Ms. Moore should coordinate these school visits.
Bilingual
The Neuhaus representative was here. Grade levels shared about their ESL blocks. Discussed 3rd
grade going all English next year. Need to enforce the use of English since Pre-K. Neuhaus
representative talked about things we can do to help with the transition to all English in 3rd
grade and having more kids transition earlier. Then reviewed a writing sample from each grade
level. Neuhaus will give us a quote. Support for next semester will be modeling, coaching, and
PLCs. The language policy needs to be changed and run by IB if we transition another entire
grade level to English. We will follow the model of transitioning the kids based on readiness.