FORUM on 6/3

Forum Minutes
June 3, 2009

I. Attendance
¸ K-2: Shults
¸ 3-5: Deskins-President
¸ 6-8: Howie
¸ 9th grade: --------?
¸ 10th: Appleby
¸ 11/12: Boshka
¸ Tech: Sherman
¸ Intervention: -------?
¸ Admin: Boshka, Kinzer, Jensen, Loeffler

II. Good News from Teams
¸ High School reported most seniors got good scholarships
¸ Graduation was short but very sincere
¸ First time for baccalaureate
¸ Elementary school reported Kindergarten graduation at Sliters park went well
¸ L Losing 3 teachers at the Elem level: Deskins, Howie, Moul
¸ 8th grade trip leaves for their trip on Thursday- looks like they have lots of fun planned
¸ 5th has been at Ravenwood this week! Going well!!
¸ Multi-age went to Ravenwood last week and it went really well!

III. HPT Restructure
¸ Right now the school improvement system is bogged down. We need to re-align the entire process. All teams will be restructured by discipline and by grade-level.
¸ Next year we will be working on: Curriculum, Instructive and best practices. This is the time to focus on our students and the curriculum
¸ Next Fall one of those September days will be used for this re-alignment
¸ Content teams will be one big vertical team and then break down into smaller focus groups within the team.
¸ Benchmarks will be assessed.
¸ Next year specific goals will be articulated.
¸ Here are the teams:
¸ Math: Epperley, Bach, Pitz, Dorr, Gross, Pierce, McAnally, Tennant, Johnson, Dolezal, Swope, New
¸ Language Arts: Singleton, Lamar, Shults, Morley, Henion, Bonner, White, Blinn, Pierce, Ball, Appleby, Sullivan, Boskha, Clark
¸ Science: Brown, Trembath, Pogy, Bodenhammer, White, Heupel
¸ Social Studies: Perleberg, Manders, Carter, Aldrich, Taylor
¸ Sped: Wisher, Richter, Pilskalns, Wallin, Hanson, Raab (Aides: Manicke, Standley, Stodghill, Lyons
¸ Art: Britt, Taylor
¸ Music: Blinn, Peters, Richter
¸ Counselors: Wood, Ahnert, Nadeau, Willison, Strong
¸ PE: Epperley, Loeffler
¸ Shop: Melkioty
¸ Spanish: Young, Trenerry
¸ Tech: Richardson, Roberts, Zielanski, Shanks, Porrrovecchio, Sherman, New
¸ *****All questions/concerns will be answered this fall!! There will also be some flexibility in these teams!

IV. The Inservice Days (The First Four Days of School TENTATIVE SCHEDULE)
¸ Orientation/Cluster Day 1
¸ HPT Restructureing Day 2-3
¸ Building Preperations/Meetings Day 3-4

V. MEA Days (October)
¸ You need to have a plan
¸ MEA days are contracturally required
¸ There will be flexibility if you have made prior arrangements to fullful your PIR if prior arrangements have been made (Summer workshops)
¸ Otherwise things will be offered at our school
¸ MEA is in Billings this year

VI. Cluster Day Ideas
o AGATE
o ANKEL TAPING
o SCHOOL ATTOURNEY
o TECH
o INDIAN ED
o SUMMER INSTITURE FROM THE CO-OP
o BIG 6
o Anyone with ideas please contact Scarlett
o You get DOUBLE PIR if you teach one of the classes!!
o Teams planning on presenting a cluster need to put something in writing
o Here is the tentative schedule:

Tues Sept 1st
8:00 Greeting/Orientation
8:30-10:00 Guest Speaker
10-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Cluster
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:45 Cluster
1:45-2:00 Break
2:00-3:15 Cluster

Wed. Sept 2nd Thur. Sept. 3rd Fri Sept. 4th ----T.B.A.