October+meetings

Leadership Team Minutes October 6, 2010 **  Agenda items   ** The required work day for AHS has been changed to June 10th. Each faculty member at AHS is asked to read the School Improvement Plan and vote yes or no to approve it. Mr. Fitch has sent this out today, so please remind your department members to vote. On Thursday, October 14th Graham Helsabeck, Lisa Cheek, Lynn Fisher and Kemper Fitch will present our school improvement plan to the school board for approval. Mr. Fitch will ask if AHS can go first that night since we have several activities occurring that night. At the end of the school year, the school board will compare our plan to what we have actually accomplished during the school year. Without Algebra 1 and Geometry exams this semester, one possible exam schedule could be 2 days of exams, one day of remediation and one day for retakes. Each team member was asked to discuss this with their department and report back at our November meeting. **  Teacher questions   ** Teachers have questions about the administrative walk-throughs and these questions will be discussed at a PLC meeting in the near future. The walk-throughs are not evaluative but are necessary pieces in painting the overall picture of daily education at AHS. Why are OSS students excused from making up time? Because we are telling them that they cannot come to school. All students need to complete their work to enable them to learn and pass their courses. Can students bring personal laptops/devices? Yes, and they can connect to the Internet, but not to our network. **  Student questions   ** Student council officers would like more time to spend discussing ideas with our administration, which Amanda Gibson will arrange. The student counsel officers would also like to meet with other club officers to plan events for AHS. The clubs at AHS would like to send information home to all parents about their clubs. If they can have their information ready by October 14th, it can be handed out with report cards. Some students would like ID tags with pictures. Mr. Fitch will talk with the company that provides pictures for us and central Office to see if this is an affordable option. Administration would like a CD of pictures of the student body too. **  General Information   ** We are out of Smart Board bulbs for Generation 2 SmartBoards. Please remember to turn your bulb off when not in use. We have an order out, but it has not been placed yet. There was some discussion on taking drivers’ licenses when students fail classes, but no final decision. Please get information for the agenda to Lynn Fisher at least 24 hours before the next Leadership Team meeting. Please remember that there is a new teacher line in the cafeteria. Respectfully submitted, Cathy Wray Leadership Team recorder