Thursday, November 8, 2012

October 25 Meeting: Overview, Timeline, Process

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10/25/12
In attendance: Shane Ogden, Jim Peacock, Jill Lowe, Drew Nielsen, Mike Mudrow, Stacie Flygare, Gordon Geddes, Curtis Jensen, Paul Waggoner, Donna Starley, Jason Soffe, Student Jamie Dyer.

Process:
Review Data
Determine Needs
Seek resources to meet the needs
Review Research on Intervention
Find Consensus
Determine what not to mess with
Establish Resources
Acquire Approval

Timeline:
Oct. 25 Process
*Oct. 29 Gap Data
*Nov. 1 Student Level
Nov. 5 Wrap up data, determine needs
Nov. 8 Intervention options
Nov. 12 Intervention plan
Nov. 15 Resources (current, needed) to support and to advance
Nov. 19 Schedule
Nov. 22 Thanksgiving
Nov. 26 Schedule
Nov. 28 Departments/RTI
Nov. 29 Consensus
Nov. 30 Admin Finalize
Dec. 3 Prepare Report out
Dec. 4 Community Council
Dec. 5 Departments
Dec. 11 Board Mtg.

Shane:  Establish Norms
-Goal & Purpose for meeting, End in sight, timeline, Start and end on time, Data driven decisions (all data), Not personal (safe to share), Consensus
-“the Perfect Storm”, all new administrators that weren’t a part of the previous conversations.  RST teams got together to discuss the process to move forward.  Where are we?  Why are these individuals, group of students failing?
 Process:
Review Data
Determine Needs
Seek resources to meet the needs: do we have everything we need to help our students?
Review Research on Intervention
Find Consensus: Shane will share PLC consensus information
Determine what not to mess with
Establish Resources
Acquire Approval

Shane: Sees the Action Team going away, but new working teams come together with members of the original Action Team as the leaders of these problem solving teams.
Brad: Are there places we cannot go with the interventions that the District Office and school board not agree with?
Shane: I am meeting with members of our community council and our Superintendent to discuss our process and any preconceived notions about “off limits” areas.
Brad: we need to be able to trust our administrators because in the past we haven’t been able to trust who we are answering to at the district level who have their own notions at what will or won’t work here.
Shane: Paul and Curtis will present to the group the “gap data” that has been collected so far.  This group is a PLC and that is why will follow the norms the group has set.  We are here to do what is best for our kids.  How do we support those that are doing exceptionally well and how to lift up those that are struggling?  We need to build upon a shared knowledge base.  Next week I will have a shared reading for us to look over and discuss student level data.  On November 7th, we will be reporting to departments-the process and data.  Please get feedback and bring it back to this group.  What is available out there as we decide what needs are students have?  Interventions-we don’t have much time to look at what’s available and what we want to do.  We will be doing lots of work on our own to be prepared to share and discuss at next meeting.  We need to do an analysis of what our resources are.  The 19th we need to discuss the schedule and then head into Thanksgiving and get some work done.  The 28th we will report to RSTs.  We can work as departments if needed.  Then let’s visit to see what everyone else has to share.  We need to be aware of unintended consequences and look at everyone’s opinion and acknowledge what a concern is for another department.  November 30th the admin team will come to a consensus and make a decision.  The community council, student senate, departments, and then present to the board will be the process to get the thumbs up.  If for some reason we need more time, we will use the January board work meeting as well. 
How many teachers do we want to have be included in this team?  How do we want to move forward with the team?
Mike: How do we make sure adequate representation is made for the teachers, students, and faculty?  I don’t know how we move forward..
Shane: We will share our minutes with the community, teachers, students, and parents to be able to see what we are doing here.  No student information will be able to be shared. 
Jim: Would like a Google doc that is on the website available to everyone.
Shane: the students are working on a suggestion box and we could post our minutes in the office where people can comment or ask questions on our process.  Jill’s responsive school team is responsible for communication and could possibly post it to a blog.
Brad: That’s a lot of places to collect information from.
Shane: True, let’s just have a Google doc that is public and can go out and display our minutes.
Curtis: We can set it so comments are not on display and people can type their comments or questions without everyone else seeing what has been said.
Brad: Can we have the RSTs communicate?
Shane: Please ask your teammates on your RST for feedback and information (shared knowledge base).  How do you see that working Brad?
Brad: I am thinking about how it would work.
Curtis:  How do we let students and parents know?
Shane:   We will send a mailer home with their grades, with the Google doc.  Our community council president recommended that two of the runner ups for community council will serve on the team and help us to get the word of mouth out.  The people who serve on the committee will serve and create the climate for the council.  We have the chance to tell the story of what’s true here at LHS, not something that will hurt our high standards. 
Jim: we look at our academic achievement and we have to be realistic and be ready for what the data shows on our 24% that don’t graduate.
Shane: How do we decide who participates?
Paul: How about how many meetings are missed?
Jason/Brad: We will miss days for school related business.
Jim: Let’s keep the group as small as possible.
Shane: Gordon represents South Campus and the Math department.
Jim: let’s have one rep from each department, which we naturally have here.  The CTE can make the decision to have one rep come.  What makes sense on establishing a team?
Shane: here are the teachers who are interested: Jolene, Lacy and Mary are the only ones that aren’t here.
Brad: I’m the Maverik of the CTE dept.  I have three departments that I can represent.  I will have sport conflicts with some dates.  I would be happy to step down.
Shane: This is who we have interested so far:

Admin: Shane, Jim, Jill
Counseling: Donna
English: Curtis, Paul
SS: Jason
CTE: Jolene
Science: Drew
FL/FA: Mike
PE: Brad/Stacee
Math: Gordon
Spec. Ed: Mary Morgan
Parents: 2
Students: 2

Drew: Please send out reminders for meetings
Shane:  We will have teachers in each department that is represented more than once decide who will represent during these Action Team meetings.





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