Garden City Site Council Minutes

November 3, 2005

Meeting called to order at 6:36pm by Chairperson Betsy Eernisse.

• Welcome and introductions

Members Present: Nancy Wavrin, Kari Lindholm-Johnson, Betsy Eernisse, Henry Yang, Amy Watkins, Nancy Martinsen

• Approval of Minutes

Minutes for October 13, 2005 approved

Minutes will be posted on the office bulletin board

• Review Matrix and Bylaws

Bylaw changes include:

-duty of distributing agenda prior to meeting will be moved from Secretary to Chairperson

-reduce number of meetings from 8 times each year to ‘at least 5 times between the months of September and May’.

-remove ‘use Fist to Five Model for discussions and consensus’ under meeting protocols and replace it with ‘discussion to consensus is always the goal’

Matrix changes include:

-remove ‘Title I’ from the explanation for Compensatory Allocations to Sites

-remove ‘including technology funds’ from the explanation for Supplemental Funding Sites

• School Improvement Process

There will be three check-ins by Kate McGuire and Susan Hintz.

Teachers are currently writing SMART goals with an emphasis on reading (site improvement goal), but teachers are also writing math SMART goals

• Mission Statement

Discussion of current mission statement “Plant knowledge, grow community”. Should it include ‘achievement academically and socially’? Should we revise or keep the same?

Vote taken to keep the mission statement without revisions:

Ayes: 5

Nays: 0

No changes will be made

• Additional Items

Discussion of amount of visual arts taught and used in teaching at GC. Much of GC teaching is left brained oriented, can we add more right brain activities for learning? The topic will be brought to the academic committee.

• Future meetings

4:30pm