Sierra Madre School
School Site Council (SSC)
School Advisory Council (SAC)
English Language Advisory Council
(ELAC)
Meeting Minutes
October 21, 2008
I. Welcome
Garrett Newsom,
Co-Chair, called to order the regular meeting of the SSC/SAC/ELAC at 6:30 p.m. on October 21, 2008 in the
Lower Campus Arts Discovery Room.
II. Approval
of Minutes
The minutes from the last meeting on May 20, 2008 were
distributed. The minutes were approved as read.
III. Principal’s
Report
·
Master Calendar - included in packet
hand-out
·
Government Funded Programs – a
handout regarding funding streams is included in the packet.
·
Site-Based Decision Making Process – shows
how our school is made up how decisions are made, how we get our reps., each
teacher at school belongs to three committees or sub-committee
·
School Website: sierramadreschool.org – the website
is a continuous work in progress, the technology class will be maintaining the
website which will include homework, minutes, agendas, lunch calendars, etc.
·
SMS Data – 870 API score this year,
highest in the district. Only three
sub-groups are statistically significant – White, Hispanic or Latino, and Socioeconomically
Disadvantaged. Each of the three groups
achieved growth during the 2007-2008 school-year.
·
2008-2009 STAR Results – Included in
the packet is an analysis of STAR scores and a break down of gains made across
grade levels. Also included was a
“Closing the Gap” chart. Details of this
and more are found in the handout each SSC member received.
IV. New
Business
·
Formation of Councils/School Year 2008-2009
– The SSC/SAC of Sierra
Madre School
(Pre K–8) is made up an equal number of parent and school member
representatives. Below is the list of
2008-2009 SSC/SAC members:
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School Members
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Parent Members
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Dani Richie
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Linda Graves,
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Daniel Martinez
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Helen Stapenhorst
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Dawna Tully
|
Pat van Derveer
|
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Jane Devlin
|
Melissa Castillo
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Garrett Newsom
|
Alan Prochaska
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Gayle Bluemel
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Mike Richie
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Kim Sibbrel
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Larry Torres
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Natasha Comer
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Noelle Barmann
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Pat Vidimos
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Leon Mualem
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Robert Williams
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Paul Beach
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Suzanne York
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Sue Hoskins,
|
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Tina Ogron
|
Jean Pfaffinger
|
|
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·
Designate SSC to function as SAC –The
School Site council at Sierra
Madre School
(PreK-8) to continue to function as our School Advisory Council. The motion to do so was passed unanimously.
·
Election of Officers – Larry Torres
was nominated and elected unanimously to be the parent rep co-chair of the
SSC/SAC, and Garrett Newsom was nominated and elected unanimously as the school
member co-chair. Noelle Barmann was
nominated and elected unanimously as recording secretary.
·
SSC By-Laws – members were advised
to review the SSC/SAC by-laws and bring any questions, comments or concerns to
our next meeting.
·
Approval of Budget 2008-2009 – Gayle
took the group through the list of funding streams for the 2008-2009 school year
as shown on the hand-out in our packet.
She explained the different funding streams, including that we have now
lost all Title I funds. The School Site
council at Sierra
Madre School
(PreK-8) moved to approve the budget for the 2008-2009 school year. The motion was passed unanimously.
·
Approval of Discretionary Block Grant
expenditures – A handout is included in our packet showing the
breakdown of a $17,542.96 Discretionary Block Grant. A discussion followed. A motion was made to approve the
Discretionary Block Grand expenditures.
The motion was passed unanimously.
·
Single Plan for Student Achievement,
2008-2009 – Dawna Tully took us through the 2008-2009 School Plan Goals
for Sierra Madre School
(PK-8) and the Tier III Summary Narrative.
She discussed in detail the goals and objectives of the plan. The School Site council at Sierra Madre
School (PreK-8) moved to
approve the Single Plan for Student Achievement for the 2008-2009 school
year. The motion was passed unanimously.
V. Old
Business
·
Budget Updates – Nothing new to report
·
New Librarian – We have a new part-time
librarian, Lynn Hall. She will cover the
time that Carlos is not here.
VI. Reports
·
The
Garrett Report – Lauren Sanchez, Student Body President from the upper
campus has been invited to attend our SSC meetings to report out about what is
going on the upper campus.
·
DAC –
Linda Graves is looking for new DAC representative to replace her as she has
been the DAC rep for about ten years.
·
PTA – Full
board in place and all grade level representatives are in place. PTA has sponsored things like reading under
the stars, back to school breakfast,
·
MSA –
Halloween dance is this Friday, the 8th grade trip plans are under
way, Green Team in Place and the service Club is up and running.
·
ELAC–
Nothing to report at this time.
·
GATE –
GATE is good.
·
Green
Team – the goal for 2009 is to go from recycling to wasting less and
environmental education.
·
Special
ED – Pat van Derveer distributed a handout titled “Think People First.”
·
Annual
Fund Committee – Met several times over the summer. Fall giving campaign has raised over $10,000
thus far. A school directory is being
created. Several special events are in
the works including a concert.
·
Superintendent’s
Advisory Council – Noelle reported that a commitment had been made from the
district to move the SMS technology needs up on the priority list. However, she was puzzled to learn that the
SMS Upper Campus has had18 brand new computers sitting ready to use since July,
but are sitting untouched because the District will not release the office
product key for the Microsoft Office Suite or the IP address. The work order was submitted several months
ago.
VII. Announcements
·
Next SSC Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November
18, 2008 at 6:30 P.M. in the lower campus Arts Discovery Room.
·
Future Events:
Ø
Pupil Free/Professional Development Day – October
22, 2008.
Ø
Fall Festival/Halloween Dance – October 24, 2008
Ø
Halloween Parade – October 31, 2008
Ø
PTA/Middle School Advocates Meeting – November
3, 2008
Ø
Picture Day – LC November 5th/UC
November 6th
Ø
Veteran’s Day – November 11, 2008
Ø
4th Grade Spotlight Assemblies –
November 20&21, 2008
Ø
Parent Conference Day – November 26, 2008
VIII. Adjournment
·
The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 pm.
Minutes submitted by:
Noelle Barmann