SILT MINUTES APRIL 4, 2001

1. Dawn and Craig Stickling: Remind colleagues to participate in Turn Off TV week. A reading log will be distributed for students to read 90 minutes. McDonalds is v giving a treat for this reading.

2. Cindy went over spring conference teacher evaluation comments. Many teachers felt good about spring conferences. Next fall, keep in mind if we want to restructure our conferences. SILT can address this next year (options, etc.)

3. The District would like a Smith parent to join DILT next year. The staff DILT position is also open (Julie McArdle's term). Ask colleagues if anyone wants to do DILT. Karen Hurst volunteered to be the DILT/SILT representative.

4. Committee plans: Every committee's term will be two-year rotation. We need to stagger this so everyone does not go off the committee at the same time. Each grade/special group will have four members (four groups plus support) to rotate. SIP, SILT, TECH, STAT. SILT-Kindergarten, Specialists, and Special Ed. will rotate anew next year. Please bring the new names to SILT in May. We also need to appoint a facilitator next month, too.

5. Furniture order is due this Friday.

6.Change in Services discussion: Due to a shift in grant expectations, the Writing to Read and Learning Center assistant will become Title I assistants, so we must restructure. Mary Ann is full Title and Donna will be ½ time Learning Center and ½ time Title I assistant. They will assist students in need to meet SAI objectives in reading and writing in K through third grades. Title teachers will plan with the assistants. They must have Title children in the group being taught. The Writing to Read lab will be dismantled. This is specific support to specific students for specific objectives. We need to plan for next year. Becky addressed the Writing to Read equipment: 12 old Model 25 computers-no CD Rom or network; can be stand-alone word processors. 4 computers from the original pilots with internal CD Roms that can be networked. 2 with Windows 3.1 Aptivas that cannot be networked; can run CDs but not Windows 95. There are no Apples. The Learning Center has three Mac computers that will run programs. The Learning Center will lose another computer to automation. Please think of where these computers should be placed. Put the four original computers in the Learning Center. Presently, the Learning Center has 20 plus 3. The Aptivas and Mac could be another mini-lab and perhaps the Model 25s. We also need to decide what to do with the Writing to Read Lab room. Please talk to constituents about all of this. (The Learning Center Teacher's position is also changing.)