Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013
Meeting Minutes
Welcome and Pledge of Allegiance
In Attendance- Joel Miller, Susan Archibald, Lance Madigan, Liz Ash, Gayle Christensen, Brittany Gray, Amy Grace, Rae Garn, Coryn Oaks, Cathleen Tronson, Bryn Brown
Good things-
- Veterans Assembly
- Fundraiser
- Knowledge Bowl
- New Gifted and Talented program
- Double Dosing
- Great parent volunteers
- Voting on Sept. 26 minutes and Rules of Order and Procedure
- A motion was made by Susan Archibald and seconded by Rae Garn to approve last meetings minutes. A motion was made by Susan Archibald and seconded by Liz Ash to approve and accept the Rules of Order and Procedure. Both motions were given a unanimous vote of approval.
- Test Scores and Data Presentation (Mr. Miller)
- Review of data graphs for Language Arts, Science, and Math CRT scores
- What did we see?
- As a school, the students are making steady improvement in all areas.
- The most noticeable improvement came in science over the course of 5 years.
- This year a new testing model will be used called SAGE.
- The new common core is raising the bar in all areas.
- An effort is being made by the faculty to observe best practice ideas from those on their grade level team and also between grade levels. This observation is taking place during music rotations.
- DRA-
- There has been a steady climb in the DRA scores as a school. One exception was noted in the 6th grade. They were not given the DRA 3 times in 2012-2013 school year, so the 6th grade data was somewhat off.
- Now, all grades will take the DRA test 3 times each year. The DRA assessment shows the reading level of each student at certain times throughout the school year.
- By using the CRT score data and DRA score data we can better understand which kids are proficient in which areas and which kids need help in certain areas.
- DWA-This is a writing assessment given to 5th grade only. From 2010-2013 we see a positive climb in writing scores. This is in part due to:
- Teachers have learned better ways to teach writing.
- Lower grades are teaching more writing so kids are coming to 5th grade more prepared with better writing skills
- We are working to establish a school wide writing rubric so that the writing skills taught in each grade level will support each other.
- Double Dosing-is working great. The teachers are seeing improvement in student abilities.
- Greatest Academic Need-
- Continue Double Dosing
- Continue and expand Gifted and Talented program
- Add more teacher training
- Concerns:
- Some kids cannot make it to double dosing. Suggestions were made to make parents aware of other programs either during school or at home that could give the kid extra help. For example: RAZ Kids, IXL, Latino’s in Action, Community Literacy Center, parent volunteers.
