SBDM Minutes

September 12, 2002

The Picadome School Community is committed to all students attaining the highest levels of academic achievement and responsible citizenship through equitable opportunities in becoming lifelong learners.

The meeting was called to order at 3:40 by the chair, Darla Simms. Members present: Juaacklyn Cunningham, Tammy Johnson, Bill McMakin (teachers); Tammy Lynch and Jeff Mefford (parents).

  I.      The minutes of the August 8 and 26 meetings were read and approved. Council welcomed Bill McMakin as the new teacher representative replacing Christina Qualls who resigned.

         II.    Information

         Budget

        Ms. Simms explained that there is about $5000 remaining in the Section 4 Staffing Budget. Tammy Johnson recommended using some of this to hire a cafeteria monitor. One .2 position would require $3344.  Mrs. Calia, one of the primary assistants who is currently a .6 position was suggested as a possibility. With the money available she could be hired as a .2 cafeteria monitor in addition to her existing .6 primary instructional assistant position. If Mrs. Calia isn’t interested, Ms. Simms will check the classified applicant pool. Council reached consensus on this.

    Council reviewed interpretation of the CTBS scores. Ms. Simms gave them the sheet that will go to parents; Ms. Simms gave an overview of the results using NCE.  The total score was down 3.7 (NCE) from 59.8 to 56.1.  Staff will go over these results in staff meeting. The area deficits were: in math computation and in language word analysis. Juaacklyn Cunningham requested the item analysis for next meeting. Picadome’s obtained score was higher than the one predicted. Ms. Simms will review CTBS results with staff; staff will do data analysis with the CTBS and KCCT scores for professional development this fall.

    Ms. Simms gave council a staffing update. The new .5 custodian is John Robinson; the special education para-educator is Susan Harmon; Ms. Simms consulted with Council concerning staffing and hiring. Amy McBroom resigned as the Early Start teacher.

    Since the last council meeting discussion of Day 4 adjustments, several primary teachers presented an alternate plan for Lower Class Size Initiative to Ms. Simms. The plan involves averaging the number of students assigned to a team rather than the number assigned to each teacher in order to provide the team with an average of 18 students each. With this plan only 5 students changed classroom assignments.  Elementary director Judy Boggs approved this plan and council agreed by consensus.

    Senate Bill 168: Ms. Simms reviewed the timeline. (see attached);

    District Consolidated Plan: We are required by District to review the district plan. Members reviewed plan and it will be placed on the October 10 agenda and will also be reviewed by staff this fall.

            III. Action

Committee Charges:  Committees will continue working on unfinished policies from last year. The Student, Parent & Faculty Support Committee will work on a discipline policy. Tuesday, September 17 will be the first committee meetings. Each committee will elect a Council representative, a parent member, a chair and a recorder. Also each will review last year’s work and prepare report to Council.

IV. Work session

Hiring policy; discussion; members given copies; will review at next meeting

 Meeting adjourned: 4:47 PM

 Suggested items for the agenda: 10/10/02

Approval of Minutes

Budget

Staffing Update

District Consolidated Plan

Disaggregated Data

Work Session

        KCCT Data

   Hiring Policy