Leadership Team met on Tuesday, October 22. Todd and Debra were unable to attend. Craig Stickling was also in attendance. Below is a summary of our activities.

• We reviewed the meeting feedback from the September meeting. Tiffany will be responsible for ordering refreshments (both salty and sweet) for future meetings.
• Craig Stickling shared components of the counseling program. You will never blot your lipstick again without thinking of Craig. Services include counseling, consulting, and coordinating community resources. Suggestions were to involve more students. It was commented that Craig’s recess presence is powerful. Communication was highlighted. Conflict resolution was identified as a group need.
• We reviewed the action plans developed by the three sub-committees and accepted them as written and revised. Those plans include Communication, Staff Development and PDSA. The plans are included in this summary. As a group we determined that release days would be for the purposes listed below.

• We did not get to the Quality Assurance agenda item and will cover it at the November meeting.
• We completed a plus / delta evaluation of the meeting and adjourned at 6:30 real time.
• Our next meeting is scheduled for November 12^th at 4:30 in the PDSA room.

• The communication systems (email especially) support internal communication but are not universally used to support external communication.
• The telephone system is used to enhance communication but not systematically.
• We distribute information to parents via newsletters school-wide on a monthly basis and in many classrooms on a weekly basis.
• Some parents have individualized communication plans based on student needs.
• Parent conferences are conducted for all students in November and March.

• Establish robust two-way communication systems among parents and staff utilizing current technology.
• Utilize the family room to support parent communication networks.
• Systematically communicate student accomplishments on a monthly basis to parents.
• Systematically communicate to parents via email lists for classrooms and the school.

• Enter email addresses gathered at registration into the AS 400 student data base.
• Import the data into an excel file for each classroom.
• Create nicknames for classroom groups.
• Utilize email for classroom newsletters and announcements.
• Utilize email for school-wide announcements and reminders.
• Utilize the telephone system to communicate with each child’s parent on a monthly basis (one positive message per student per month).
• Survey parents at conference times.

• Responses to survey in November and March.
• Survey of staff.
• Utilization of the family room.
• Testimonials.

Target: Provide high quality professional development to improve teaching and learning.

Where are we now? *SIP days to do team grading

• PDSA team looked at fluency charts to prepare literacy groups
• Collected playground/cafeteria data (Plus/Delta)
• Craig, John, Jane: extra supervision on the playground

• Quality Tools Show and Tell at staff meeting
• Technology – finished software correlation project
• Parents -? Is this staff development or communication?

Where do we want to be?

WRITING

• Comfortable and Consistency with Rubrics, Anchor papers and writing process
• Get writing hints and tips from each other

LITERACY

*Use the data from CARS to identify kids and improve instruction (2/3)

SUPERVISION

*Lower tally numbers

• Safe school environment
• Consistency from classroom to cafeteria to playground

QUALITY TOOLS

• Whole staff trained
• Have flexibility and freedom to apply in classroom

TECH

• Knowledge and awareness of tech tools and strategies to integrate effectively in the curriculum

PARENTS

• Want parents to be aware of student expectations and how SIP helps teachers learn how to teach the curriculum more effectively

How will we get there?

WRITING AND LITERACY

• ½ day release for grade levels and teams
• Periodic ½ day release for mix grade level teams

SUPERVISION

• Consequences for repeat offenders
• Use data
• Implement building discipline plan (I care, etc.)

QUALITY TOOLS, TECH, PARENTS:

*Through continued training and support

How will we all know how we are doing along the way?

Reflect on data collected and use to continue or revise our plans

Target: Involve and train all stakeholders in the PDSA process to improve teaching and learning. (Goals 1, 3, 4)

• Every staff member has been exposed to a variety of qualitytools to implement the PDSA process via:
• SIP planning days
• Jefferson staff meetings
• Jefferson Retreat days
• grade level meetings
• classroom collaboration with Quality Tools facilitator
• professional development to 4 staff members & students focusing on data collection tools & process

• Communicate to parents, students and staff the purpose of using quality tools and the PDSA process to document student growth.
• Devise a plan to include all staff members and students within a reasonable time period.

• Pilot a variety of PDSA’s in 4 classrooms (K-3) which involve both teacher and student training to improve teaching and learning.
• Incorporate the "Quality Tools Data Folders" in the conferencing process.
• Dedicate staff and resources to implement the PDSA process.
• The pilot teachers need release time for collaboration and development of resources to share out with fellow staff members.
• Develop teacher resource binders respectively across grade levels for all to see.
• Bulletin board and hallway displays used throughout the year-both individual classrooms and school wide (Supervision bulletin board display).
• Develop a plan which supports the pilot teachers being trained this year while expanding the program by training additional staff members next year.

• Are we allowing the tools/data to guide instruction?
• Are the students/teachers successfully communicating growth to parents?
• Are we successfully communicating our program/process with other staff members?
• Are sub committees informing the SILT team of their progress?