SFC minutes 4-28-14
Group introductions
Tish Hild – Teacher and SFC chair, Mr. D - principal, Dan Hellerbach – 7th grade assistant principal and Climate
Committee co-chair, Sarah Walker – Goucher Higher Education Supervisor, Mrs. Mazziott - teacher, Ms. Carter – pre-K
to 2 assistant principal, Nancy Hart – school social worker and PBIS coach, Ms. Claiborne – Kindergarten para
professional and after-care coordinator, Ms. Furno – Recess coordinator and coach, Fabienne Guerene – parent,
Elizabeth Reichelt – parent, Brooke Thomas – Parent and MS SFC parent rep, Maiju Gardner – Parent and outgoing
Wellness Chair, Susan Henley – Parent, Ariana Boch – teacher/parent, Matt Croson – 6th grade assistant principal and
parent, Trish Pilla – parent/PTA president, Anisa Kupiac – parent/SFC 3rd-5th rep, Margo Candelaria – parent/SFC K-2nd
SFC rep, Ms. Rivetti, Teacher, Mr. Hollis – teacher and BTU rep, Ashley Handwork – parent
Attendance Committee – Mrs. Carter
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January attendance was 95.4%, up 1%
250 perfect attendance for quarter 3 – purple tickets given out
letters going out and School Support Team (SST) meetings scheduled for those with a lot of absences or tardies
o When letters go out varies - usually about 10 absenses/tardies and/or when grades are affected
Working on website policies – needs approval still working it out
Next 5/15 at 3:15
Climate – Mr. Hellerbach and Margo Candelaria
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Met on 4/9
o Main agenda item was to meet with 5th grade team and other teachers and discuss how to best manage
behavior concerns in a manner that addresses concerns from all sides (teachers, students, parents)
o Primarily encompassed general concerns in 3-5
Subcommittees meeting throughout so large meeting was mostly updates
Middle school taking about how to connect more to make it one school
o Possibly after school math tutoring with middle school and elementary school
o After school programs currently have middle schoolers helping
o MS Behavior subcommittee has been doing a listening campaign talking to relevant parties – should report
out soon
Elementary lunch/recess team
o Putting together a training program for parent volunteers
o Looking into how to get finger printed
o Looking at how to market – how to find parents that want to be involved and that they are consistent force
Town halls for april skipped and set up for May to see how to get a job
o Kay Halle who was active in the town hall meetings has passed away
Family Community Engagement Committee – Elizabeth
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Identified chair for nominating committee and helping with that process. Also have 2-3 people working on the
committee
Worked on job descriptions
Gave advice to running team on how to reach goals of getting 200 people turned out
Supported Mr. D on how to get parent turn out for the focus group
May engagement team will refocus away from turn out and reaching out and identifying new parent leaders
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o Sfc parent reps
o Trish Pilla
o Elisha hawk
o Heidi fancher
o David lunken have all committed to reaching out to do individual meetings
BUILD city wide efforts:
o rpems 5 year plans shared with city wide BUILD education team
o They established their ovrall agenda for city
 Agenda – education, jobs, public safety, and youth opportunities
o May 14th gubanatorial accountability forum: asking candidates to support the agenda
 7-9 pm st. Matthews catholic church
Wellness Committee – Maiju
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Next meeting this may 1st
Will review some past activities including
o Red hot run
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5 grade fun run Friday may 2nd 2pm
Planning field days
Getting another nation award – Michelle Obama’s let’s move award as part of rwjf
Running festival challenge is ongoing – active and up
Have to provide 40 volunteers
o Provided volunteers on april 5th 21
o Baltimore 10miler and we need 20 volunteers and that meets our obligation and students can run
Now focusing on strategic planning
o Working toward identifying more needs and priorities
o Have focused on physical activity and nutrition
o Want to look at staff wellness
o How can we partner with other committees?
Playworks trainings all complete.
o A few things in the works for next year such as junior coaches
Instructional Leadership Team & State of the school – Mr. D
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Looking at planning for next year including scheduling and grouping
o Looking at heterogeneous groups and appropriate student pairings
o Middle school team looking at a major revision to schedule to create grade level common planning and truly
integrate students across all levels
 Will be advertised and shared at may 15th pta meeting
 Big shift with a lot of potential for improvement
Looking at student writing, math problem solving and teacher performance data
o Writing looking at thoughtful text
o Math unit assessments and be sure we are trending in the positive
o Teacher performance key action (T6) - how well are teachers encouraging student to student interaction
during lessons. Using formal observation data to look at improvements.
Just completed school effectiveness review
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2 day visit from 5 central office people
Observed 20 classes
Look at all documentation – all meetings
Focus group interviews – parents, teacher teams, students
Looking at evaluating and rating
 Highly effective instruction
 Talented people
 Vision and engagement
 Strategic leadership
o Ultimately will write a report that will give a detailed description and all rating within each area. Each area
has 20 indicators and rated as:
 Ineffective
 Developing
 Effective
 Highly effecting
o Debrief gave some feedback without some specific ratings but identified strengths and weaknesses
 Not things we haven’t discussed before
 Climate making sure students feel safe and secure in the environment
 Differentiation for students at varying ability level – high and low performers
 Technology and need to improve the tech for both teacher and student use
o Because of that visit and the budget process the 5 year plan has been on hold
o Now want to reach out to existing committees and newly formed committees
Attendance – district is focusing on attendance
o At risk for chronic absence – ARCA plan needed for all schools
o Had to select about 40 students we would track on a daily basis and then engage with the parents
o Comparing 2nd q to 4th q
 2nd q was 12% were at risk for chronic absence (20 for year = 5 for the q)
 Expect 4th q to reduce by 1%
 Each administrator has 6-10 kids
 Probably half of 150 kids we are concerned and ½ not concerned (vacation or sick and not a major
concern)
 Look at performance in the classroom
PTA – Trish Pilla, report given by Tish Hild
o May Mart is may 10th keep an eye out for how to donate and volunteer opportunities
o General membership meeting 4/15 at 7pm
o Traffic meeting tomorrow at 6pm
 Discuss all issues related to safe travel to and from school including changes in neighborhood, drop
off procedures, back parking lot concerns, the officers responsibilities
 Central office put someone here temporarily additionally in the morning on a temporary basis and
may be able to appeal to have it permanently
 Definitely getting bus next year for elementary only
Goucher – Ms. rivetti reported for Ms. Walker
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7 interns and 2 student teachers
Goucher wants us to come up with topics or things they can help with to bring speakers or workshops