Park Spanish Immersion School

Site Council Meeting

September 27, 2007

Minutes

 

In Attendance (*):

*Ben Bleske   

Heather Briant

*Jim Cook

*Katherine Cramer

*Ricardo Franco

*Mar’a Frederick

*Megan Harem

*Bill Levine    

*Lynn Martinson

 

*Kristin Piper 

*Rachel Raz

*Rosa Sala-Healey

*Sharon Secor

*Rich Vignes

*Chris Watkins

*Cara Schied  

*Maria Puchol

*Kara Scheid

Lori Nuebel    

Cari Hatcher   

*Diane Golding

Bruce Richardson

*Arlis Grossman

*Irv Grossman           

Laura Swartz     

*Steve Pohlen            

*Ursina Swanson

 

PrincipalÕs update

Ursina Swanson provided updates on:

¤      07/08 enrollment

¤      New district leadership

¤      Responsive Classroom

¤      Behavior Plan

¤      Parent teacher conference schedules

¤      MCA data overview

Maria Puchol provided update of her new role and Flap grant

Chris Watkins provided Q-Comp update

 

Role of Site Council

The District has established the role of site council to be that of an advisory group only. Policy is established at the district level.

 

Site Council – PTO reorganization

Members of both PTO and Site Council will be meeting throughout the year to discuss the role of each and how we might organize ourselves to best meet the needs of the school and students.

 

Strategic Plan updates

The main focus for the first few months of this yearÕs Site Council will be to review the 2005 – 2008 Strategic Plan and present recommendations for adding, deleting or modifying Strategies and Action Steps within the plan. We will then decide whether to create a ÒnewÓ or ÒbridgeÓ plan and how we would implement it. One factor in our decision making and timing is that the district is currently working on a District Strategic Plan and we will align the PSI Strategic Plan to districtÕs plan. 

 

Five teams have been organized - one for each of the four strategies outlined in the strategic plan, and a 5th team will review the different options for the roles and inter-relationship of PTO and Site Council.

 

The Site Council received updates/results from the last few years for each of the strategies.

¤      High Academic Standards (Strategy #1):  excellent results being shown – standardized test results were presented by Ursina Swanson

¤      Spanish Language Learning (Strategy #2): Ben Bleske provided update on implementation of action steps.

¤      Staff Development (Strategy #3) – Ursina Swanson provided summary.

¤      Safe & Healthy Learning Environment (Strategy #4)  - Chris Watkins provided an update on progress on building security and safety – many things have been done (e.g. Gates added on playground, some access control added) and many things remain to be done (e.g. access to PSI not as secure as we would like it).  District acknowledged issues remaining, but nothing implemented yet.

 

 

Working Groups were determined for the coming year as follows:

 

Site Council Working Groups

 

High Academic Standards

Spanish Language Learning

Staff Development

Safe and Healthy Learning Environment

Site Council/PTO Reorganization

Jim Cook

Rich Vignes

Lynn Martinson Ursina Swanson

Ben Bleske Kristen Piper Mar’a Frederick Ricardo Franco

Kara Scheid

Bill Levine

Rosa Sala-Healey Sharon Secor

 

Chris Watkins

Erv Grossman

Rachel Raz 

Diane Goulding

Steve Pohlen

Arlis Grossman

Katherine Cramer

Megan Harem

 

 

 

Remaining members will be added at the next meeting.

 

                            

Working groups met for approximately 30 minutes to begin looking at their Strategic Plan strategy and come up with recommendations. Work on these recommendations will continue at the next site council meeting.

 

Dates for the 2007-2008 Site Council for the year were confirmed:

 

Sept 27, 2007

Nov 29, 2007

Dec 13, 2007 (Added)

Jan 24, 2008

Feb 28, 2008 

March 27, 2008 

May 29, 2008