REMINDER: All reconfigured teams need to make certain they have a rep for the next forum meeting.
Attendance:
K-2: Celie Perleberg
3-4: Michelle Kaney
5-6: Kathy Manders
Wellness: Sue Loeffler
Intervention (Elementary): Bridget Martel
Tech Team: Sue Zielanski
7-12 English: Charlie Ball
7-12 Science: Vicki Heupel
7-12 Math: Marya Dolezal
Intervention (High School): Clara Clark
Art:
7-12: Social Studies
Administration: Jackie Boshka
GOOD NEWS:
· Two math teachers have been hired.
· Trish Shults has been appointed to the Student Literacy Board for the state of Montana.
· Door decorating at the High School will begin next week, 5th period. Theme is Christmas Around the World.
· K-5 is working on an assembly that will include singing and dancing.
· Nobel Peach Prize for student behavior is being implemented at the Elementary. Peaches can be nominated by teachers and peers.
· Running Across the U.S. is starting in Sue’s P.E. classes. Students will earn shoe laces and a runner to add for each 5 miles they run.
· Anthony Baker is the Student of the Month at the High School.
Wellness: Sue Loeffler talked about the new wellness team. The initial focus of this team will be food and nutrition. Eda will address the budgetary restrictions at their next meeting. They will also be looking at increasing the P.E. requirement, creating goals, and finding out what other schools are doing successfully.
K-2: Discussed the possibility of rescheduling Parent Teacher conferences for next year. Suggestions were all day, two days of early release, and spread out over 3 days. Jackie stated there will be a calendar committee for next year’s calendar. The team also worked on fine tuning their report card (essential learnings).
3-4: Working on the geography assessment but decided they really want to focus on math and create a solid assessment in this area first.
5-6: Worked on creating a formal assessment for writing. They came up with several possible prompts to use.
7-12 English: Discussed the difficulty in assessing for each grade level in English. They looked at different tests for each grade level and would like to have some sort of formal assessment at the 9th grade level.
7-12 Math: Looked at aligning the assessment with the standards. They also plan to look at the semester and end of the year final to create assessments that are consistent. They also plan to create a “pacing guide” so that a new person stepping in to the department would have a timeline to follow.
7-12 Science: Worked on checking assessments and essential learnings.
Tech: Tech team is beginning to work on the new District web site. We are awaiting training from rschooltoday. There are many great features that we are anxious to share with everyone.
HS Intervention: Working on how to develop and practice RTI at the high school level.
Intervention: They have developed a packet that was handed out and explained to staff that shows the process, flowchart, guidelines, and iplans for Intervention.
HPT Schedule Change Ideas:
· extend school day by a few minutes to create a full day of HPT
· early release one day a month
· half a day once a month (one day might be too much HPT!)
· a day in between semesters for grading, etc.
· could we have an occasional break from assessment during HPTs?
Early Release: December 15th, Clara will email HPT goals on Monday
Forum Meeting: January 19th
