Forum Meeting: January 30, 2013
Attendance:
K-1-Jessie Smiley
2-3-
4-5-Tabatha Venezio
ELEM/MID Sped-Tracy Swope
ELEM/MID Title-Brenda Clarke
Grading Practices-Amy Bessen
ELEM/MID MBI-
Wellness-
Tech Team-Scarlett Sherman
Fine Arts –
Evaluations -
HS MBI –
HS Tech –Stormy Taylor
HS RTI-
Industrial Arts-
Admin-Matt Jensen
RECAP(read below for full report of meeting):
Report/Comment/Signup on the blog. Forum meets once a month. One rep from each team needs to be involved
with the Forum. Fulfill your 2012-2013 PIR and help come up with ideas for PIR
for next year. Feb 15th is a HPT work-day with your teams. CRISS
canceled. Kindergarten concerned about new benchmarks. Anyone who reads this ask me for a piece candy!!!!
Reporting: contact Scarlett to learn how to comment/report your
teams good news and meeting notes.
Attendance: One
rep from each team is supposed to attend the monthly FORUM meeting. There are quite a lot of frustrations from
the same people who attend. Where are
all the other reps?! However, it was suggested in the future it might be
notated in teacher evaluations: the lack of attendance because it is outlined
in our contract; page 14, section 3. Brenda Clarke noted …..coming from a
different school, this is a great voice for teachers and not offered at other
schools. [the staff] should really
embrace it.
Board Meeting Presentations: still have a
couple of teams that need to sign up.
2/3
Team
Elem/Mid MBI Team
Wellness Team
Industrial Arts Team
Elem/Mid MBI Team
Wellness Team
Industrial Arts Team
Forum Meeting Dates: 1 member from each team will
meet in Clara Clark’s room the last Wed of each month for the rest of the year.
Wednesday,
February 27, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
PIR: you need 42 credits of PIR each year. Log on to check your credits and sign up for
classes. http://kalnet.io-solutions.com/pir/
Also, let’s plan for next
year. Do we have any PIR ideas to
coincide with the common core?
Feb 15th: This will be an all-day HPT
day for teams to continue to work on the projects their group has been working
on all year. A. Bessen is excited for her team to work out
the details on grading practices. T.
Swope’s team is going to get out into the community once their brochure has
been approved and build upon their community service ideas/project. St. Taylor’s team has since changed their
focus after getting some of their earlier goals accomplished, like iPad
training.
CRISS training: At this time, it DOES NOT look like we will
be having a 2ND round of CRISS training due to an overwhelming
amount of feedback provided by the staff.
New Topic of Discussion: K1 Team has
some concerns about Kindergarten.
According to J. Smiley, the problem is two-fold: many of these
5-year-old students have not had preschool and the benchmarks at the kindergarten
level have doubled. She believes
kindergarten should be “the Hook” of school and with young unprepared students
not having success right from the start, these students might simply continue
to struggle. She believes setting and strictly
sticking to certain age, maturity and competency requirements is also very
important. Some solutions to consider:
should BF Schools offer a pre-k class to those students who haven’t had
preschool? Should some research be done looking for grants or funding for
preschool?
Start Time 3:30
End Time 4:00
