Silk Hope SIT meeting Minutes
October 19, 2015
Members
Principal: Angie Brady-Andrews
Ass’t Principal: Sarah Petty
Curriculum Coach: Cathy Waddell
K-2 Rep: Melissa Jenkins (abs)/
Christa Morgan
Parent Rep: Susan Anderson (abs)
Parent Rep: Reid Guthrie (abs)
3-5 Rep: Irion Dickerson
MS: Regina DeCristofaro
TA Rep: Ginger Clark
Admin Rep: Karen Snipes
Resource/Specials Rep: Catherine Stewart
Classified Rep: Karen Snipes
AGENDA ITEMS
● MTAC updates
- MTAC currently meets quarterly but in the future that will probably change to
monthly
- the first meeting this year was dedicated to distributing materials
- cost of ebooks per school with overdrive is about $5000 per year
- schools are wondering about cost of upkeep after the first few years
- our current ebook collection could be migrated to the new system (overdrive)
- subscription with schools 12 each for reading A-Z and RAZ kids, school-wide
licenses for brainpop
- Christa Morgan got a grant for reflex math
- classroom equipment: next two ceiling mounted projectors are Mrs. Waddell’s office
and the corner of the media
- second semester: 8th graders could be assigned a laptop to use during the day as an
introduction to the 1:1 initiative they will experience in high school
- Mrs. Johnson thinks that we would be able to do this without losing a cart
(Brian also thinks that we may be allocated more laptops this year)
- SHS facebook page has been created, looking at having the MTAC committee also
contribute to posting on the page
- committee is interested in having Keith Medlin come and do a presentation to the
faculty
● District and SHS data as it relates to our SIP goals
- Angie shared district mclass data from the first benchmark which showed where
our students are in comparison to the rest of the district (Dibels and TRC)
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Angie shared information from their PTEC session on scheduling and how this will
coincide with the team attending the DuFour’s PLC training in November
survey: how/when is writing being taught?
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family literacy night
- Karen created a google doc with the feedback responses from parents that
attended
- what can we do to boost attendance?
MTSS/PBIS review the information collected by Sarah on behavior practices
currently used
Leader in Me: Who went where last year? Who has not gone yet?
Karen S. - ‘16-’17 Calendar
1st day of school cannot start until the 29th and still must end by June 10th
Questions:
Eagle Time: Angie supports rolling over days from the previous year for use during
optional workdays at the beginning of the school year.
Middle School Math: push in for math now that we have an additional interventionist?
- we can look at Amy’s schedule to see if she could come in at a different time. She
could be used for math during i/e time instead of reading.