We met for our regular monthly meeting last night from 5:00 to 8:00. Kris Rogers was unable to attend due to a sick child. Below is a summary of our meeting. Zan Brixey attended the beginning of the meeting.
 
 

• We spent some time looking at our school improvement plan web pages, pages from other schools and the district improvement plan pages. We were looking for additions and links that could be added, especially in the area of results. Several suggestions were made. Ms. Brixey and I will work on those improvements. We will update you as the changes are implemented.
• We approved the staff development request for Suzanne Adcock and Brenda Grafelman to attend a Reading and Writing / Balanced literacy workshop in Davenport on May 15. Costs included registration, room and substitutes.
• We discussed the facility needs assessment feedback. The future needs will be addressed at a later date by a district level committee. The current needs either have been addressed or will be addressed this spring or summer. Jeff will be meeting with Ken sometime in April.
• Maintenance Budget development forms will be sent out this week.
• We approved the purchase of level 16+ books to be rotated among 1^st grace classrooms from the Language Arts allocation.
• We discussed and decided that we ask Mr. Bowen to allow us to spend the remainder of the Language Arts allocation (about $3000.00) in next year’s budget. We are still searching for a replacement to Writing to Read. We have examined a (quite pricey) alternative but need to examine more options. We will approve with the request of second and third grade teachers the purchase of software from the new reading series. They are offering a 2 for 1 price during this adoption year. One classroom set should serve the school adequately.
• We discussed membership. Val’s term will be up this year. Her seat is one selected by the team. Several names were suggested. Debbie Davis and I will discuss these and make appropriate contacts. I will update you as we progress. Susan Lindenfelser’s term is also up. She will seek a replacement.
• We set our next meeting for April 25 (the day we come back from spring break) at 5:00. Topics for that meeting include:

• Membership update
• Class list task force
• Earobics software

I look forward to our next meeting.
 
 
 
 

Jeff