February 25, 2013: Group Break outs

2/25/13

In Attendance:  Jim Peacock, Jill Lowe, Angela Martinez, Gordon Geddes, Jen Hyde, Paul Wagner, Larry Comadena, Lisa Hopkins, Jason Soffe, Jayne Hamblin, Donna Starley, LIA students, Paul Guyman, Joyce Smart, Kristie Cooley

Excused:  Shane Ogden

Jim:  Intro to our meeting, what the board has approved of our group to work on.  If we look at the questions that need to be answered, these are things that we can do.  We need a leader for three groups:  Logistics, Intervention, and Communication.  I have asked Mike Mudrow to head up logistics.  That will include the bussing, lunch, etc.  Paul will you lead the intervention group?  Curtis can lead communications.  To clarify things, we aren’t meeting about the schedule.  We are meeting to solve the problems on the email that I have presented. 

Angela Martinez: Does that mean we can’t talk about the schedule?

Jim:  The schedule has been approved and we are now trying to figure out what we need this to look like.

Stepped away from the room……

Jim:  Freshman won’t have the full lunch time.  And the intervention time is going to be for all students.

Angela:  You guys here at LHS aren’t transparent.  If you cannot give up a prep period for intervention that is one of the biggest problems here.  My daughter sits on the floor in two of her classes, that to me is a huge problem.  I’m not here to cause problems, I was just directed here.

Jim:  We are wasting lots of our time right now with many students going out to BATC that are having to wait for their teachers. 

Jen: I just want to address the prep question.  We are seeing more students.  We have 40 more minutes…

Jim: Our time in class has just been distributed differently as well.  I need everyone to pick a group to be in and let’s break out and get some work done.