North Clackamas School District
Mark Pinder
Principal
MILWAUKIE HIGH SCHOOL
11300 SE 23rd Ave. · Milwaukie, Oregon 97222-7795
503-353-5830 · Fax: 503-353-5845
Amy Busch
Assistant Principal
Shirley Huyett
Assistant Principal
Michael Ralls
Assistant Principal
Tim Taylor
Assistant Principal
Minutes Site Council Meeting
March 9, 2010
Attendance:
Amy Busch, Mark Pinder, Natalie Burton, Holly Green, Michael Ralls, Autumn Krumm, Jordan Entrikin,
Serena Mills, Ken Blacksmith, Brian Durhkoop, Zoe Brittell, Ivonne McVay, Noah Hurd
Learn Strong – A program to help the school focus on school
 Random Incentive program – a reminder to keep grades up
 Equity – Is it discriminatory?
 Logistics a concern – collecting wrist bands, keeping track
 List of students who have list is very helpful to teachers.
 Motivators – intrinsic and extrinsic
 Support to SIP and site council
 Students say – it motivates kids – get out of lunch early. Nobody wants to spend their lunch time
doing homework. It is getting kids to do their homework.
 Do kids understand the procedures about learn strong? Kids don’t understand how to get and keep
wrist bands – needs more explanation.
 Keep the consistency – gives power to program.
 Add students to Learn Strong initiative – Key communicators in student population and possibly a
newspaper article to communicate with other students. Mark will email Autumn and Jordan about
meeting times when they come up.
Student Site Council Member Check in
Waking up early is hard. I have learned a lot about my school that I didn’t know. By learning this, I can
help make a decision that helps the school. I like knowing what is going on. Glad I am on the Site
Council.
Committee work with students:
Some are more appropriate than others –
Equity appropriate
PLC - ?? Too teacher based for students to participate??
Reading committee:
Staff meeting – Have not heard from teachers about if they are implementing the reading assignment nor
have there been questions.
Reading window opens April 16 for OAKs testing
Packets took the implementation to the next level – easy for teachers to follow through.
April Staff meeting – questionnaire – Ask teachers -have you implemented yet? When will you?
Encourage them to finish up.
Writing committee:
Has not met – Writing month was January
Functioning PLC committee:
Various PLC groups presented Feb. 24, to give updates on where they are and what they have done. We
had two sessions: AM and PM
Everyone that presented said it was hard and time consuming but worth it.
Reminder: Joe Bridgeman can help with Excel or other computer support if you need help.
Need to model what a functional PLC looks like.
Need more accountability for teachers.
1. Each PLC is to turn in a weekly PLC Activity Log to the administrator that supervises their
department.
Pinder
Busch
Ralls
Huyett
Taylor
Science
SPED
LA
Health
Math
Performing Arts
Social Studies
Math
PE
Media Center
ELL
Counselors
Business
World Language
Fine Arts
2. Each PLC is required to turn in a common formative assessment - where is your PLC? Turn in to
administrator – Due Date?? PLC’s will receive feedback.
3. Ask PLC’s to review essential outcomes
Equity Committee:
Noah passed out Equity data.
April 7 – Equity committee presenting at staff meeting
Need parents of color in PTSA!
Math Committee:
 Rich with interventions this year
 Math Study Hall – Tuesday and Thursday
 Test Review Sessions – Mornings
 Math/Science – First Friday breakfast – develop better communication between departments
 Developing Rubric: What does an A, B, C, student look like??
 Students without basic skills – frustration on teacher’s part
 Discussion within department about Math workshop for ALL 9th grade students???