SILT MEETING MINUTES OCTOBER 11, 2000

Tonya Calvert, Facilitator

  1. REVIEWED EVALUATIONS: Silt members reviewed the 200 SILT evaluations from the staff, the Parent and the Teacher evaluations from "Meet your Teacher" night. Most of the discussion revolved around the problem of having younger siblings attending this meeting and causing distractions. No solutions were apparent at this time.
  2. REVIEWED THE BUDGET: Cindy went over C.B. Smith’s budget for 2000-2001. Highlights include:
  1. latchkey is still making a good profit for Smith.

    2. $5,000 was taken out of savings to cover newly purchased overheads and VCRs for classrooms (latchkey more than made up for this expense).

  2. Smith reallocated textbook money is $10,928. $1400 is for Weekly Readers, $1000 is for copy paper which leaves $8,500; $700.00 will be allotted for each first, second, and third grade classroom. (SILT members, please note this change.)
  3. our portion of the District Goals 2000 grant is $8,534 which will be used for speakers, substitutes and such.

Each certified staff member along with Writing to Read and Learning Center will receive $50.00 from the enterprise account/fundraiser.

Please see your grade representative for more details or a copy of the budget.

  1. TOOL COMMITTEE: Cindy reported that this committee will attend monthly training using 2 or 3 tools that will be brought back to be used at inservices, grade level meetings, SILT meetings and then in classrooms.
  2. PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES: Grade level representatives expressed their colleagues’ opinions. It was decided to leave our schedule the same: All day and evening on Thursday and Friday morning. The majority did not want to conference on Wednesday evening and take Thursday morning. (We HAVE to come on Friday morning; we could not have all of Friday off.)
  3. PEORIA CHIEFS’ FAMILY NIGHT: Tonya explained a promotion from the Peoria Chiefs Baseball Club. Each child would receive a free ticket for a baseball game in April; they would purchase tickets for other family members. The entire staff will be asked for input at the staff meeting next week.
  4. DISMISSAL: Joanne H. brought up the possible problems when specialists with daily dismissal duty are absent. The procedure will be worked on. For now, we will list the available people who can substitute for those positions. Cindy will send this list on the listserv.

    5. PLEASE NOTE: When calling in sick, remind Becky or Cindy about your afternoon duty.

     

  5. "FEELIN’ GOOD MILEAGE CLUB": Gloria R. explained a possible recess walking

    6. program through St. Francis Hospital. Students could walk a ¼ mile area during recess. Each time students reach the checkpoint, the supervisor would punch their cards. Prizes are awarded for reaching 5, 10, 15, etc. miles. We could adapt the program to fit our needs. Gloria will contact St. Francis Hospital for more details.

  6. FACILITY AND CAPITAL MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS, REPLACEMENT: Cindy reported that our list is

    7. Priority 1: Continued mouse extermination

    Priority 1: Carpet maintenance

    Priority 2: Repair/replace plumbing

    This is not for work order items.

  7. SOFTWARE: The District is going to match fund for purchasing software in our buildings. Smith’s allotment is $3100; we spend that amount and the district will match is so we could purchase $6200 in software. DEADLINE IS APRIL 1, 2001. These are the steps:
  1. Teachers find and preview software
  2. Teacher evaluates with district rubric
  3. Learning Center evaluates with rubric
  4. SILT approves
  5. Send rubrics, SILT approval and purchase orders to Tech Center.

9. Gloria Ranney agreed to be secretary. Mary Ellen Bevenour will take Tonya’s facilitating position when Tonya is home enjoying her baby.