Sehome High School

Site Council Minutes

Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Location:  IA-3

Scheduled:  2:30 - 4:00 PM

Actual time: 2:40 -

 

Attendees:  Anica Stieve, Michelle Nilsen, Craig Ferguson, Polly Favinger, Jane Wynn, Bobbie Jaffe-Nash, Jim Kistner, Dana Smith (recorder)

Unable to attend:  Maddie Stockwell, John Van Haalen, Laura DeRose, Julian Rondello

 

  1. The group reviewed the minutes from June 6, 2004.  Clarification was made to the discussion re: Honors Bio and the WASL.  Motion was carried to approve the 6/6 minutes. September 14, 2004 minutes were approved by consensus with the spelling corrections to “WASL.”  Dana Smith will send these minutes to John Mangan for posting on the website.

 

  1.  Jim Kistner shared a request reminding Site Council and PTSA that there is a district procedure for requesting student information.  General discussion of student information (e.g. opting out of military recruitment) followed.

 

  1. PRINCIPAL’S REPORT: 

-         Mr. Kistner reported that the late arrival activities on 9/30/04 with the staff went well.  Focus was on Culminating Project details and developing sample proposals.  A parent meeting regarding C.P. will be on October 20th.  Pending leadership approval, there will be meetings with junior students on 10/19-20 to help them better understand the process.

-         Mr. Robert Best (new English teacher) is the Sehome C.P. coordinator.  A pilot group of students are already working on proposals.

-         The group was asked to review the latest draft of the campus strategic plan, which was written in cooperation with staff members and will be approved by the Leadership team. 

                                                               i.      Reading section: Bobbie mentioned that there is no mention made of how to help already-achieving students and that the plan seems to focus on students who are below standard. 

                                                             ii.      Polly mentioned that some of the items are not date-specific and that deadlines for achieving might be important (e.g. page two, school-wide calendar)

                                                            iii.      Dana mentioned that we should keep our messaging standardized that reading is important across the curriculum, not just the English department.  J

 

  1. Open House:  What is site council’s role?  Parent representatives will be introduced at the general meeting at 6:45 PM.

 

  1. PTSA report: 

-         UmbrellaFest was on Saturday October 2nd.  More information (funds raised, etc) will be forthcoming.  “Gut reactions” were that it was well-attended and a good fundraiser.

-         PSAT speaker drew 60 parents and was a very valuable resource.

 

ACTION ITEMS:

  1. Don Shepherd and Craig Ferguson will check in with Julian Rondello to see if he plans on being involved with Site Council this year.
  2. Promotion of SchoolBucks program through Haggen should start back up. Bobbie will check with Haggen as to how to do this and will report at the next meeting.

 

NEXT MEETING:  Tuesday, October 26th - 2:30 PM

 

AGENDA ITEMS

  1. Mr. Kistner will bring a report of progress showing how we are moving toward various portions of the strategic plan.
  2. Review Site Council Action Plan
  3. Haggen SchoolBucks program