Action Team preparation for presentation

Action Team Re-convened

1/31/13

In Attendance:   Mike Mudrow, Jim Peacock, Jayne Hamblin, Jill Lowe, Student, Drew Nielson, Brad Nelson, Gordon Geddes, Curtis Jenson, Paul Wagner, Jason Soffe, Shane Ogden, Toph Cottle

Shane:  Discussion on what’s happening now, what our call is for next week.  Jill has been working with BATC on getting it coordinated with our new schedule and students will probably only be going in the mornings only.  Jim has been working with the bussing issue and we do have some issues with other schools, so we decided to just shorten our classes and keep the original start and end times.  We now will have to present next Wednesday to the public our presentation.  Can everyone commit to this next Wednesday at 6pm?  What are the key elements we want to present?  Everyone can be there but Jason. 

Minute taker stepped out of the room….

Paul:  Can we make this schedule improve the academic success of our students?  I want to keep fighting for our 60 minute classes.  I would rather have an intervention time than 60 minute classes.

Curtis:  I really can see where the middle school is coming from, but we aren’t going to get this right the first time, we need to be realistic.  I’m hopeful that we can get something done in the next few years.

Brad:  I’m not so optimistic that a year from now they are going to work with us.  We have seen this before, we all have.  I don’t see that they are willing to work with us now or then.

Paul:  If the middle school would extend their school day as well, ours would work.

Curtis: We need to revisit and make more changes, it’s a must.

Jim:  after the board approves the schedule, we need to continue our hard work and get this movement going.

Shane:  I have had conversations with people about some of their interventions that are going on and great things they are doing.  But I won’t go and tell Mike how to run his middle school.  The element of a continuous intervention from elementary on up and alignment, I just don’t see it coming in from the outside.  Some of the responses coming from the middle school were offensive to me and I don’t want to turn around and say similar things back. 

Paul:  I would like to propose we make every effort possible that we preserve the original schedule as we had decided.

Drew:  We average 44 minutes a day with.

Minute taker stepped out of the room….

Shane:  I am hearing that we want to make our Plan A work, or head back to the drawing board.

Jason:  I’m already on Plan C; I don’t want class time cut.

Brad:  My personal feelings are that we need to start over if our original plan doesn’t work out.

Jim:  I called Mike and we are going to meet with him tomorrow at 11:30.  Paul, can you come with me?

Paul: I can come..

Curtis:  If we don’t get our way, then what?

Brad:  I say we meet on Monday and battle it out.

Donna:   I think we need to show the gap data that we have to explain what the need for an intervention is real.  That’s important for our public to see.

Shane:  I don’t want to throw any department under the bus, with the data that we have, because that information didn’t change at the semester.

Jayne:  I want to know the info, but not muddy the waters.  I would rather have my student getting their help during school, rather than before or after school.

Shane:  Maybe we can have Scott put together a video for us a-a life of a failing student?