Monday, January 24, 2011

Forum Minutes 1/19/2011

Attendance:
K-2:  Celie Perleberg
3-4: Michelle Kaney
5-6: Kathy Manders
Wellness: Mary Ahnert
Intervention (Elementary): Heidi Raab
English:  Charlie Ball
Math:  Marya Dolezal
Tech Team: Sue Zielanski
Intervention (High School):  Clara Clark
Social Studies:  Cynthia Wilondek
Science:  Vicki Heupel
Administration:  Matt Jensen, Jackie Boshka

Good News:
Semester tests.  Student Council will again be providing juice and bagels on Thursday.
Reflections reception and show is excellent.
7th and 8th graders went skiing.
Senior class is sponsoring parent’s night out on January 28th. Free babysitting from 6 to 10.
No drop outs first semester.
Three seniors are graduating early.
Vicki Heupel is high school teacher of the month.

Reports on HPT meetings
K-2: Aligning report cards with the Everyday Math program.
3-4:  Looked at the calendar and would like a half day HPT time but the lunchtime schedule is a problem for the elementary.  Working on math assessments and are now using the IXL Math program.
5-6:  Focused on the scientific method and were pleased with the classroom results.
Wellness:  Following the OPI guidelines.   Sue McGregor is the chair.  They will be seeking student and parent input and are working on assessing the school environment.
Intervention:  Implementing the intervention process at the Elementary.  Created a data room for all assessments K-8. 
Tech team:  rschooltoday training
Intervention (High School):  Six people will be going to a Pyramid Response to Intervention Workshop in March.  Are anxious to see how it will work at the high school level.
English:  Talked about the calendar.
Science:  No common assessments for Science so looked at individual assessments to be edited.
Social Studies:  Each brought an assessment to check with state standards.
Math:  Each brought an assessment to align with the state standards.  Discussed the calendar to adjust for more HPT time.

****HPTS should propose a calendar for recommendation next year.  Volunteers for the calendar committee are needed.

Next forum meeting is February 16,  2011.