Elfida P. Chavez
SIT Minutes
October 14, 2015
Parent Conference Night: Thursday, October 22 (majority decision)
Student Recognitions/Incentives: Rosemary Yates
-A/B Honor Roll students for the 1st 9 weeks will be invited to a
“Banana Split” Honor Roll Party. Like in the past, students may bring a
banana from home, ice cream and toppings will be provided by school.
(Date to be announced later).
-“Lunch on Stage”- This will be an incentive for students with perfect
attendance for the entire 9 weeks. Tables will be set up on stage with
balloons and students will eat pizza on stage if they had perfect
attendance per 9 weeks.
-Popsicles- Students will receive popsicles for 100% cafeteria reports.
Students who do not participate in cleaning, will not receive popsicle.
Fall Benchmarks: Rosemary Yates
-Benchmark testing for grades 3-5 will be held the 2nd week of
November to allow teachers more time for instruction. Specific dates
for subjects will be decided and teachers will be informed as soon as
we receive more information, regarding length of test, scanning
deadline, and other factors.
I-Station After-School: Rosemary Yates
-As to not overwhelm first graders with extending their day for IStation, this year we will only offer I-station after school for 2nd
grade ONLY. In order to have allow more students to participate, a
schedule will be set: one group will stay Mondays and Wednesdays,
the other Tuesdays and Thursdays.
-Academic needs must be prioritized; therefore, if any students that
need I-Station after school are in clubs, they will have to be
removed from the club.
-We are hoping to begin the week before Thanksgiving (Nov.1619).
P.E. Changes: Rosemary Yates
-P.E. changes will be made to a.m. classes only in order to not affect
lunch schedules. Effective Mon. Oct. 19, A.M. P.E. will no longer be
staggered, classes are scheduled back to back. Here is the new
schedule:
Kinder 8:00-8:45
1st
8:45-9:30
2nd
9:30-10:15
3rd
10:15-11:00
**Because coaches will be receiving classes back to back, it is
important that teachers pick up their class on time and NEVER
be late. We need to ensure that no class is unsupervised at any
time. We need to be very diligent and conscientious of time.
Admin. Has also asked coaches to radio them if teachers are
not on time.
Monitors: Rosemary Yates & Sara Schwantner
- There is a concern that teachers are not in their classrooms and
ready to receive their class after lunch. Monitors have to leave
immediately to cover their next class and students must not be left
unsupervised in the hallway. Teachers, please be sure to be in your
classrooms after lunch to receive your class.
Lunch Clean-Up- Monitors have been doing a lot of the cleaning up,
but their job is to monitor the students.
-Each teacher is being asked to designate one Table cleaner and
one Floor cleaner each day. Everyday, students will be rotated
and it needs to be consistent so that students know who is doing
what job. The cleaners for the day will be wearing a lanyard with
their designated job (Table/Floor) and students are to turn in the
lanyard to their monitor before leaving outside.
-Mrs. Quezada brought up that she has a student in her class whose
parents are adamant that their child not clean up table. If this is the
case, students need to be instructed to clean up their area and they
will not participate in the incentive of receiving a popsicle, as they are
not participating in the clean-up.
Bringing back Red/Green Cup: Monitors will be given deliberate
instructions NOT to keep all children until everyone is done eating.
This was causing for students to only have 5-10 minutes to play after
eating. Monitors will be instructed that when MOST students are done,
to turn the cup to green, and students who wish to stay behind or
need more time may do so.
*1st grade brought up that at times, cafeteria staff is not ready to
serve kids; admin. Is aware and will work closely with cafeteria staff to
improve the issue.
*To minimize waiting times in cafeteria, teachers are allowed to send a
student to pick up lunch cards before and pass them out in class so
that they are ready as soon as they walk into cafeteria.
*Kinder brought up that all classes go at the same time and this takes
too long for all classes to be served; admin aware and is working on
solution.
*Teachers, please remind students to listen to lunch servings during
morning announcements. Students are now being asked to make their
own choices if they do NOT want everything, but this is taking too
long. Students may choose everything, or take fruit instead of
vegetable. Admin. has been explaining this during morning
announcements so please help by explaining to your students.
3, 6, 9 Week Assessments for 3-5th: Rosemary and Sara
-Rosemary has decided that in waiting for district checkpoints, we are not
following the backwards design that is intended for during planning days.
-Because we are a TIER 1 campus, admin. has decided that every grade
level will CREATE their own assessments
-Grade levels will be consistently planning; if time permits, lower grades will
also receive time to create their assessments.
-3rd Grade- Math and Reading must include 3, 6, 9 assessments; Science
and Writing, 1 per 9 weeks in Eduphoria.
4th grade- Plan for Reading, Math, Writing, and Science for 3, 6, 9. Because
of 5th grade Science STAAR, checkpoints should include Science.
*All grade levels-On the next planning day (3rd 9wks), at least one Social
Studies test per 9 wks must be entered into Eduphoria.
Fall Intersession 2016: Rosemary Yates
-Any teacher who wants to teach or feels a need to teach during the break
will be allowed to teach; beginning next year it will not be limited to only
certain teachers.
Spring Tutoring, Saturday School, and Intersession: Rosemary Yates
-Before we leave for the December break, grade levels need to decide on
tutoring days and Saturdays. Please remember NOT to schedule any
Saturdays right before the test.
-Also, for Saturdays, consider which subjects will be covered; it was also
suggested to consider doing rotations within grade level in which each
teacher focuses on an SE and classes rotate after an hour.
-Please plan these dates with enough time; consider sending permission
slips for tutoring prior to the break.
T-Shirt Sale- Rosemary and Sara
-The sale is to benefit the Teacher fund
-$$8 per shirt (Rosemary wore on Fri. 10/16)
-Little stuffed moose will also be sold soon.
-Generation TX- week of Oct.19-23;
-Red Ribbon Week – Oct. 26-30
*Suzan has sent out schedule of activities for both weeks.
Safety Update: Sara Schwantner
-Mrs. Schwantner discussed amendments to the Emergency
Operations Plan (EOP) to reflect changes in members of the Safety
Team.
-Nurse Norma will be getting trained to be a “trainer of trainers” in
CPR. The goals is that all members of the Safety Team are trained, as
well as at least one, preferably two teachers per hallway be trained.
-There have also been changes in the stations; please continue to
provide feedback to Mrs. Schwantner after drills in order to make any
changes, if needed.
-Please lookout for reminder e-mails from Mrs. Schwantner regarding
emergency procedures.
-Teachers in ALL grade levels, continue to remind your students to
NOT open any door for ANYONE at ANY time. At a district meeting, it
was brought up that at a particular campus, a student was offered
candy and the student opened the door. It took 45 minutes for
intruder to be stopped by someone. So please, continuously remind
students not to open the door!!!
-It was also suggested to consider reviewing drills briefly, 5 minutes
during your Olweus lesson to ensure that students understand the
drills and their importance.
EPAC Update: Gaby Barraza
-Olweus needs to be implemented weekly.
-Analyze that resources being used for instruction are being used
adequately and are aligned to the SE.
-TWITTER is ENCOURAGED but not MANDATORY. Parents are checking
so the use to share wonderful news is being encouraged.
**If you do have a Twitter account, please follow Rosemary! **
-Superintendent is stressing that teachers update webpages. He does
randomly visit webpages.
-Attendance needs to be closely monitored and documented.
-Campus Improvement Plan is available on the website.
-Sharing table-district is still deciding whether to bring that back.
-No personal printers are allowed on campus!
Framing the Lesson: Rosemary Yates
-We will continue reviewing Framing the Lesson section of the
Fundamental Five on Early Release Oct. 28.
Family Night: December 10th
-Since we will only host 2 per year, one per semester, every member
of grade level must participate in one (half and half).
-Holiday themed
-All content areas will be covered; each grade level representative
needs to a different activity/subject; try to make it as hands-on as
possible.
STAAR Reports 2015: Sara Schwantner
-New reports including Math scores with new standards have arrived.
Since the reports are still grouped by last year’s teachers, each grade
level will get together during a grade-level to separate student reports
and each teacher will file in their current students’ CUM folders.
Open Forum: Rosemary Yates
-During intersession, custodians were asked to make daily “restroom
sweeps” at 9 and 1 to check that student and teacher restrooms have
supplies. Please let admin. Know if bathrooms continue running short
on supplies.
-2nd grade asked if all classes still had lunch at the same time, as lines
were too long. Rosemary answered that this problem should be fixed
with new P.E. schedule.
-4th grade asked if Oct. 30th is an allowable treat day; Rosemary will
ask and confirm.