Thank you and your input please

Dear Mitchell School Improvement Team,

It was a pleasure to meet with all of you today.  We are a new team!  Thank you for your interest and commitment as we continue to shape the learning environment at Mitchell.

Two things to share:

1. I have sent invitations for the proposed dates and times of upcoming school improvement team meetings. They are all on a weekday at 7:30 AM which seemed to be an OK way to proceed for our group.  If you did not get email invitations, please let me know and I will try again.

2.  At the meeting today, we decided to collect input from our group to understand the areas of interest and possible areas of focus.  Please CLICK HERE for a recap of today's meeting and to give your input.

Once we have received the input (by the end of the week I hope), we will be in touch again to share.

If you have questions, I would like to help.

Thank you.

Kevin

Follow up to 10/5 SIT meeting

Dear Mitchell School Improvement Team,

Thank you for all of the questions, input and questions today at our first meeting of the year!  I am excited about the energy and possibilities we have in front of us.

My recap of today's meeting shows below.  It may be that I missed something. If this is the case, your reminder/input can be received using the link below :-).

We left the meeting with the direction of giving input about possible focus areas for SIT (including several ideas that came up at the first meeting):
- Details about Education Yes! to better understand the tool and possible areas of focus.
- Grammar and the teaching of Standard English
- Understanding the current data of the school
- Understanding the way teaching and learning is approached at Mitchell (and how the IB Primary Years Programme will change that)
- Developing the use of the Mitchell-Scarlett Community Center in connection family needs

We also talked about having time at SIT meetings to report out and/or share ideas. 

We surfaced a possible idea of having subcommittees form to work on a specific issue. Relative to subcommittee, having the SIT work with PTO representatives to looking at pick up and drop off procedures was brought up.  Given the input from SIT and PTO parents at this time, we will form a subcommittee to look at this and give input.  If you are interested, please let Kevin or Mrs. Liddell know....or put it in the Google Doc link below.

I'd like your input and thoughts.  Would you please CLICK HERE to share?

Kevin and Matt will use this input to shape and propose our next SIT agenda and the direction for the year.

Thank you.
Kevin

Mitchell School Improvement Team Meeting

Mitchell-Scarlett Community Center
October 5, 2016
7:30 AM

For our first meeting of the year, I am hoping each member will read the following before coming to the meeting:
A. The purpose of the Mitchell SIT team is to:
     - Support the requirements of Education Yes!;
     - Facilitate the improvement of Mitchell School through the analysis of data;
     - Implement strategies to support Education Yes! strand 4;
     - Fulfill the requirements of Public Act 25 of 1990.
     - Come to the meeting with one question you have bout the purpose of the SIT
B. Look over the current draft of the Mitchell School Improvement Plan (SIP)
     - Before coming to the meeting, please share 2-3 things you notice about the SIP on THIS document
C. Look over ideas we've previously generated for the Mitchell-Scarlett Community Center

At the meeting, we will:
1. Introduce ourselves
2. Answer at least three of the questions from A above (maybe more if it makes sense)
3. Spend at least 10 minutes sharing what was noticed in the current draft of the SIP
4. Dialogue about the community center proposal, share the current work, and discuss

I'm also open to suggestions in revising / tailoring the agenda if you have suggestions.

Mitchell SIT on Tuesday, 5/17 @ 7:30 AM

Hi,

We are meeting on Tuesday morning...7:30 AM.   Can't wait to see you.

We will focus on the draft partnership proposal around the family resource room.

Kevin

Mitchell SIT Agenda - April 19, 7:30

Hope to see you in the morning

Family Resource Room Update

- Naming categories of activities we want to occur in the FRR

- Potential Partnership Proposal

Announcements:

Mitchell Expansion Update
Mitchell School Improvement Plan for 2016-17 - Sharing where we are now

Mitchell Expansion - Further Input from Mitchell SIT

Hello Kevin (and Merri Lynn for #2 below),

Please consider the following input from the Mitchell School Improvement team regarding the Mitchell Family Resource Room design.

1.  Please make the hallway windows with the ability to open them and create free flowing space in and out the space from the interior hallway.  We would hope that those windows/door walls (whatever we call them).

2. The team sees the premium of the wall space in the room and believes putting a large LCD on the new wall does not fit the needs of the space.  We are wondering about a solution here that could be mobile/movable as a way to value the use of the space as flexible.  Maybe there is a solution that has a white board on one side and the giant LCD on the other?

3. I'd like to talk with you about the new wall and the possibility of extending it as a way to make the semi private space a bit more private?  Or maybe add in a movable/folding wall.

Thank you.

Kevin

Mitchell School Improvement Agenda - 3/15/16

We'll meet for a school improvement team meeting on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30 in the conference room.

Agenda:

-EdYES Report

-Mid-Year Data Update

-Building Expansion Plans