April Forum 2010

Forum April 21, 2010

Attendance:
Tech Team: Scarlett Sherman
Art Team: Amber Britt
Math Team: Ann Dorr
Social Studies Team: Celie Perleberg
Language Arts: Joyce Singleton & Clara Clark
Special Ed/Title Team: Heidi Raab
Spanish Team: Ana Young
Admin: Cory Pierce, Russ Kinzer
Counselors Team: Mary Ahnert

Non-Attendees:
Science ?
Health Enhancement ?
Music ?

**A Friendly reminder: when a representative cannot attend the scheduled forum meeting, a replacement representative must be chosen to attend.

Next Meeting is May 19th.


I. GOOD NEWS
• Mr. Kinzer- "Bravo Everyone for doing such a fabulous job with curriculum alignment"
• K-5 team- Thanks the Staff for cooperation with planting trees on Earth Day.
• 6-8 team- Started Advisory again. Getting positive feedback from staff and students; today’s discussion is on bullying.
• Mr. Pierce- Our School is very near being a PLC (Professional Learning Community) school.
• High school is noticing less bullying from the freshman for this year and students are more willing to approach staff when issues arise.

II.REPORT BACK on professional development ideas: These are suggestions and ideas only. Teams will need to report back with final input at the next meeting.
• 1 day Love and Logic Speaker k-12
• Step-up to Writing
• 6 Traits of Writing
• Ruby Payne Project: Understanding the Framework of Generational Poverty training
• MBI (Montana Behavior Initiative)
• Olweus Bullying Prevention Review
• Big 6 Research Model
• Healthy Living Information
• Staff Members might be able to present: Tech Team(network, blogging, best websites, online library, wikis, smartboards, iPad), Doug Peters and bike riding healthy living, Indian Ed
• How to deal with ADD ADHD kids
• Classroom mgmt tricks: Love and logic covers this
• Police/Drug presentation
• Now What: The Curriculum is Aligned
• Copyright Laws with school Lawyer Mr. Dahlam from Whitefish
• Professional Learning Communities (PLC)—training from Phoenix, AZ that several staff members attended
• Suicide Prevention, sexual harassment, drug Prevention at secondary levels
• Refresher on Math Connects and how it connects to Everyday Math
• 1 day Denny program
• Refresher on CRISS strategies
• Training on Aims Web
• Common Prescription drugs/side effects, what they are used for. -Craig Walker, Clinical Psychologist.
• Possible break up with k-8 separation with 9-12 for one day for a session pertaining to those grade levels
• Group training for HPT’s and how they can be effective
• Assessment training so we are all on the same page
Thanks to everyone for all of the great suggestions!


III. HPT Discussion:
• Would like to open the floor to anyone willing to help organize this Fall’s first few days of school for all of us. Please if you are interested in helping contact Scarlett. It is a lot of hard work for just a couple of staff members!

• What training do we need to provide to our staff to make sure the programs that are in place, stay solid and consistent. This will be explored more at the next meeting.

• Restructuring Teams: Possible option for going back to grade level teams for common assessments on the implementation of our newly aligned curriculum. The Forum would like each team to discuss this issue to bring back to the forum. Give feedback on how you would like to restructure teams. Intervention would like to stay together.

Next Forum Meeting each team will need to report the following three items:

1) Now that we have so many ideas for the Fall Professional day; what do we want to see, who is going to help plan and how much time/ money is available. Think of motivational, upbeat and inspiring ideas for the beginning of the year!

2) Discuss team restructuring for next year. Would you like to go back to grade-level teams like we’ve had in the past?

3) What programs can we use for the 9-12 level to address bullying. Olweus is designed for k-8. Would like suggestions from high school teams/staff members as to what possible program would work with secondary levels.


Have a Fabulous Day!
~Amber