SIT Agenda for Friday, May 17

See you at 7:30!

There are quite a few things to share and/or discuss:
- Update SIT planning for 2013-14
- Update building plans for next year
- Share about Bryant Community Center visit
- Share about M-FLI, a recently developed initiative about summer reading

Next steps

As always, thank you for your input and commitment to our SIT.
Kevin

School Improvement Team - Rescheduled to 5/17

Dear Mitchell SIT,

I need to reschedule our meeting from 5/10 to 5/17.

I hope you will still be able to meet. At the next meeting, I anticipate discussing/updating the following topics:

1. Bryant Community Center visit
2. 2013-14 School Improvement Plan - input

Again, I hope you'll still be able to meet next week.

Kevin

Doodle: Mitchell SIT Visit to Bryant Community Center

Hi Mitchell SIT,

Click the link below to help choose which day we visit the Bryant Community Center.

http://www.doodle.com/sbhnbqkwvvbpfguw

I coordinated these dates with Derrick at the Bryant CC, and I'm hoping many of you can join in the fun.

Thanks.
Kevin

Agenda - 4/8/13 @ 7:30

Updates  (5 minutes)
- Summer Bridge
- Community Center visit?
- Education Yes!
- Budget - 2013-14

Literacy Night Brainstormmg! (~30+ minutes)

Re: DRAFT Ed. Yes Report for Mitchell - Input Welcomed

Good afternoon Mitchell School Improvement Team and Staff, 

I have officially submitted the Education Yes! report for Mitchell for 2012-13.  For those who were able to look it over and give feedback, I appreciate it.  Your feedback was factored into the report.

In case you didn't have time to look it over as much as you wanted, I thought I should share some information with you:

Strengths in areas connected to:

Strand 5 - Data and Information Management with a score of 4 out of 4 

- our compilation of data in multiple formats and our use of the Achievement Team Database factors in here.

Strand 3 - Personnel Qualifications and Professional Learning - average sore of about 3.8 out of 4

- Excellent staff, excellent use of time in helping each other be the best we can be 

Our relative weaknesses are connected to:

Strand 1which focuses on curriculum and instruction with an average score of 3.4 out of 4.  The points of leverage in this section include:

- fidelity of instruction - so being the best teachers we can be around our research based practices - guided reading, interactive read alouds, workshop methods, consistent phonics implementation

- a systematic use of formative achievement data in defined teams (think data teams).  Our PD work in the use of NWEA data for formative assessments is a step in the right direction for sure.

PLEASE NOTE:  please know a relative weakness does not mean we are doing poorly in that area.  We clearly have strengths within all areas of Education Yes!

I hope this email helps to share some of the important information about this report.

If you have questions, please don't hesitate.  

Sincerely,

Kevin

SIT Agenda - March 15, 2013

Updates  (5 minutes)
- Summer RC Training
- Summer Bridge


- Education Yes! (10 minutes)

- If Mitchell were to become a community center, what would that mean? (10 minutes)


Literacy Night Brainstormmg! (~30 minutes)
From 2/8/13 Discussion

Our focus is the literacy night

-       what do we think should happen at a family literacy night next year

-       next session will brainstorm it all, hilton karr and others will filter, bring back and create the plan

o      the student needs a motivation to be there and then parents will be pressed to attend, student will say, “we need to go to this”

o      kid focus makes it more meaningful

o      student involvement

o      polish it up

o      build a presentation that will script and provide a model for grade level teachers can folow

Mitchell School Improvement Team – Notes 2/8/2013

In Attendance:

Hiltion, reischl, underwood, karr, bolanos, hatt, spiess, thompson

Review options for Responsive Classroom

thoughts on what to do if all teachers can't partcipate

-       2 people vs 10 people saying no

-       another way to do pd without physical presence (podcast, set of materials for indep. Study)

-       rc probably won’t let us film it

-       potential for training new staff is better when an outside learning model has been created

-       have to take the opportunity while you have it, we’ve seen it’s preliminary results – it’s worth it

-       everyone really does want to do it

-       the negative feelings about not attending seem to come from ‘self-guilt’

-       bring them in as much as possible after the training with materials, come to the staff if you need more information

-       depending on the staff person, their needs to relieve ‘self-guilt’ may be different

-       equally necessary for all staff to attend – teacher to lunch staff

-       6 people saying no is almost 25%, greater possibility of delivering inconsistent messages

-       what’s the number!!!

-       People unable to attend could possibly have a learning partner to help facilitate them getting the information from the training

-       We will always be catching someone up, let’s just do it

-       We need an intentional follow up with the staff who can’t attend

o      It’s not your fault that you couldn’t attend – we are here to support you!

Recommendation from SIT is move ahead with summer RC training for those who can participate.  We need to be thoughtful about how to bring others up to speed in fall.

updates

-       upcoming continued staff rc pd

-       parent writing workshop was well received...large turnout at arbor meadows was unconventional but productive!

-       Promotional video premier went really well, very meaningful for all participants  – students and interns were very pleased

-       Plan is to increase the amount of students next year – both 4^th grades, this year was a pilot

-       These kinds of activities will be best planned and executed by beginning as a classroom level, succeeding, increasing to a grade level and succeeding again, and just getting better!

-       The intimacy between student and intern grew great relationships...the students really did feel empowered and showed their learning – how does this connect our claims and evidence

Our focus is the literacy night

-       what do we think should happen at a family literacy night next year

-       next session will brainstorm it all, hilton karr and others will filter, bring back and create the plan

o      the student needs a motivation to be there and then parents will be pressed to attend, student will say, “we need to go to this”

o      kid focus makes it more meaningful

o      student involvement

o      polish it up

o      build a presentation that will script and provide a model for grade level teachers can follow