MAURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LOCAL SCHOOL ADVISORY TEAM (LSAT)
Date: August 23, 2011
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Location: Staff Lounge
Agenda:
1. Meet and Greet (incl. brief update on recent
DCPS LSAT workshop)
2. Elections: LSAT chair (and co-chair), LSAT
secretary
3. Appointment: Community representative
4. Principal's updates
5. Planning of meeting dates/times
Attendees:
Henri Cooper, WTU building representative
Asonja Dorsey, teacher representative
Jennifer George, teacher representative
Natalie Hanni, teacher representative
Kim Wright-Spurlock, teacher representative
Chantese Alston, parent representative
Tara Givens, parent representative
Antonia Herzog, parent representative
Sonja Walti, parent representative
Amy Weedon, PTA representative
Bonita Brockenberry, staff representative
Elizabeth Nelson, community representative
Carolyne Albert-Garvey, principal
Absent:
none
Next meeting:
Thursday, September 8, 3:30 pm
Agenda item
Who?
By when?
Meet and greet
LSAT members introduce themselves and parents share contents
communicated at the LSAT workshop on Wednesday, August 17, at
Eastern HS, especially regarding LSAT participation in the upcoming
amendment of the Comprehensive School Plan
Elections: LSAT chair (and co-chair), LSAT secretary
Natalie Hanni offers to act as a secretary. Chantese Alston, Sonja Walti,
and Kim Wright-Spurlock are available to act as co-chairs. LSAT
guidelines specify that any member can be a chair. If an LSAT opts for a
chair/co-chair arrangement, one is to be a teacher or staff and one a
parent. Elected are by secret ballot:
Secretary: Natalie Hanni
Co-chair: Kim Wright-Spurlock
Co-chair: Sonja Walti
Appointment: Community representative
Elizabeth Nelson, who lives near Maury, volunteers at Maury, and heads
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Revisions to these minutes should be sent to Sonja Walti at walti@american.edu
(Please respond within a week so minutes can be posted. According to LSAT guidelines, failure to respond within 20
school days is taken as assumed consent.)
MAURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LOCAL SCHOOL ADVISORY TEAM (LSAT)
up the North Lincoln Park Neighborhood Association, again offers to act
as our community representative. The LSAT approves her appointment as
our community representative.
Principal’s update
CAG
asap
Due to high projections, which Maury had sought to contest, enrollment is
now about 25 students below projections. The goal is to recruit about 10
additional students into grades that are not completely full, i.e. 1st grade
and up. CAG will follow up with waitlisted students and then formulate
an open call that could be shared with the community to recruit additional
students. Due to the renovation process, she hopes to have until October 5
to recruit.
Amy Weedon shares the PTA-initiated S.o.S. “Back to Basics” campaign,
during which the goal is to raise funds for a readings specialist or program
to start as soon as possible.
Planning of meeting dates/times
In an effort to accommodate working parents as well as teachers’
schedules, it is decided to alternate between a 3:30 and a 5 pm meeting
time. Taking everyone’s constraints into account, it is decided to hold
LSAT meetings on the first Thursday of every month. Planned meeting
dates and times are as follows:
Thursday, September 8, 3:30 pm (needed to meet the Comprehensive
School Plan amendment deadline on September 15)
Thursday, October 6, 5 pm
Thursday, November 3, 3:30 pm
Thursday, December 1, 5 pm*
Thursday, January 5, 3:30 pm*
Thursday, February 2, 5 pm*
Thursday, March 1, 3:30 pm
Thursday, April 12, 5 pm (second Thursday due to Spring Break)
Thursday, May 3, 3:30 pm**
Thursday, June 7, 3:30 pm (early due to PTA meeting that day)
**LSAT Parent elections are scheduled for Thursday, May 17
*Additional meetings may be needed, in particular to discuss budgeting
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Revisions to these minutes should be sent to Sonja Walti at walti@american.edu
(Please respond within a week so minutes can be posted. According to LSAT guidelines, failure to respond within 20
school days is taken as assumed consent.)