NBHS SBDM Committee Policy
Names and Jurisdiction of Committees
North Bullitt High School will have five standing SBDM committees with the following
names and jurisdictions:
1. Curriculum
a. Area of Focus: Academic policies, textbooks, whole school PD, scheduling
concerns overlapping departments, budgetary decisions effecting all
departments, teacher planning days.
b. Activities: Submit reports as needed and requested by SBDM. Monthly
meeting to be determined by the Principal.
2. Student Life/ PBIS
a. Area of Focus: student celebrations, discipline, climate, culture, dress code,
extracurriculars
b. Activities: Planning schoolwide assemblies, recognitions, reports as needed
and requested by SBDM
3. Technology
a. Area of focus: Technology, BYOD, Cellphone policy, FLEX school
b. Activities: Report to SBDM in December/ May of state of technology in the
building and requests.
4. Professional Development:
a. Area of focus: Determines needs lists for departments, suggested list for
teachers/ contents, suggested list for whole school PD
b. Activities: Report to SBDM in February a suggested PD plan, reports as
needed and requested by SBDM
5. RTI
a. Area of focus: Math and ELA RTI
b. Activities: Creation of a Schoolwide RTI policy and program, reports as
needed and requested by SBDM
Standing Committee composition and membership Selection
All members of the faculty will serve on at least on standing committee. SBDM teacher reps
are exempt but may serve on a standing committee by choice. Each standing committee
will have one grade level representation and include at least five members. Committees
will also make every effort to include at least one parent to provide reasonable
representation of the ethnic diversity of our community.
Specific Criteria in addition to:
Curriculum Committee- Is comprised of the Department Chairs
Student Life/ PBIS- should make every effort to recruit students to serve on the committee.
Professional Development- must have a representative of each of the Departments
RTI- must have a representative of the counseling office, ELA teacher, and Math teacher.
AUGUST
1. The principal (or principals designee) will provide an additional, well published
opportunity to sign up for committees for both new staff and all parents.
2. The Principal will appoint members using sign-up sheets, staff interest, and
professional discretion as a basis. The SBDM council will review the assignments
for balance and adequate membership. The council may need to assign some people
to committees that are not their first choice to give each committee adequate and
balanced membership.
3. The principal will notify committee members of their appointments
4. Once Councils are established as soon as possible the Principal will call a faculty
meeting for the purpose of letting all committees hold their first meeting. At that
meeting all committees will:
a. Elect a chair.
b. Elect a recorder
c. Elect a vice chair
d. Receive information from the principal about the council timeline for regular
committee reports
e. Set up a meeting schedule for the rest of the year
f. Read and discuss this policy
g. Discuss ongoing and new charges from the council and develop the plan of
action that includes a timeline
Ad Hoc Committees
As needed, the council may also approve ad hoc committees for the following tasks:
1. Address other needs as identified by the council
For these ad hoc committee the council will identify the specific topic to be addressed in a
written charge.
The Principal will invite person to serve on the ad hoc committee and will also designate a
committee member to convene the committee for its first meeting.
Ad hoc committees automatically dissolve at the completion of the assigned task.
Operating rules for all committees
Each committee shall elect a chair and select a committee member to record minutes. All
committees established by the SBDM Council are public agencies subject to Kentucky’s
Open Meetings Law. To comply with that law, each committee must:
1. Establish a regular meeting schedule at its first meeting of each school year and make
that schedule available to the public by posting it in a place convenient to the public.
2. Hold meetings that are not on the regular schedule only after following these special
meeting procedures:
a. The committee chair or a majority of members decide the date, time place, and
agenda.
b. Those who make the decision put the date, time, place, and agenda in a written
notice, which they must post in a place convenient to the public at least 24 hours
before the meeting.
c. Notice of a special meeting must be hand-deliver, faxed, or mailed to all members of
the committee early enough so that they will receive it 24 hours before the meeting.
E-mail cannot be used to deliver these notices.
d. IF any media organization has asked for notice of special meetings, those calling the
meeting must hand-deliver, fax, or mail copies of the written notice to the agency
requesting the notice so that they will receive it 24 hours before the meeting. E-mail
cannot be used to deliver these notices.
3. Take minutes of the actions and decisions at every meeting.
4. Review the minutes of each meeting and approve them at the very next meeting, after
deciding on any needed corrections.
5. Make committee minutes for each meeting available to the Council and to any
interested party after final approval of the minutes.
Date Adopted:
_________
Date Reviewed or Revised
Council Chairpersons Initials
Date Reviewed or Revised
Council Chairperson Initials