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Teller Elementary
1150 Garfield Street
Denver, CO 80206
Office Phone:
(303) 333-4285 Fax:
(720) 424-3585
School Hours:
8:55AM-3:45PM
Morning playground supervision begins at 8:45AM.
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CSC Meeting Minutes - 10/13/09
Attendees:
Jen Barton
Kate Hoffman
Cathey Bonnefoi
Pam Paulien
Sarah Kinzer
Jon Hindlemann
Anna Jones
Dick Sprague
Lisa Evens
James Hartley
Michele Foust
Minutes Jon Hindlemann approved last meeting’s minutes, Cathey Bonnefoi seconded the motion.
Reports Principal Teller is busy. Most fall assessments have been completed so the school is in full instruction mode. Parent Teacher Conferences are coming up. Parents will meet with their child’s homeroom teacher. The teachers will do everything possible to meet parent requests to meet with other teachers. Grades 1-5 are invited to attend conferences to set goals.
SLM Discussion during the SLT meeting included: Activities for profession days. The inside procedure for K-2 will now include dance in the music room. Substitute contingency plans include splitting classes when a substitute cannot be found. Editing the School Improvement Plan (SIP). Professional Development focus this year will be technology, math and literacy interventions, Response to Intervention (RtI) and Highly Gifted and Talented (HGT). How to help the parent group raise money. Ideas included Go Bowling with a Teacher, and a Teacher Dinner or Movie night.
Parents Haunted House build times will be Friday, October 16, 1:00-9:00, Saturday, October 17, 7:00-noon, Sunday, October 18, 10:00-1:00. Take down will be Saturday, October 24. At a meeting with Governor Ritter, he suggested he wants to get rid of the CSAP and use teacher input to make a better assessment. Freiker is run like a frequent flyer program. It rewards students who find alternate modes of transportation other than being driven to school, such as, walking, biking or taking the bus. This program could improve the safety of the routes to Teller. The program uses a Freikometer to track the students’ miles which is then posted on a website. The next step is finding funding. There may be funding available through the Safe Route to School program. Success rates of similar programs have been astounding. Pam Paulien is going to check with the parents in charge of the Bike/Walk to School Program.
Teachers The first book exchange will be taking place at Teller. Students will bring books in to exchange with others. Students will leave with one book more than s/he brought in, the maximum being 5 books brought in, 6 taken home.
Other No report.
Old Business Jen has not heard anything from the district on Teller’s choice election plan.
New Business The group spent time looking at school data – School Performance Framework, 2009 CSAP and Fall Benchmark Results. The group broke into three groups and spent 30 minutes looking at data. Each group filled out an organizer including noticings and possible next steps. Jen collected the organizers so the data can be included in the SIP. Next meeting will include a presentation by Cathey Bonnefoi on Linda Mood Bell and other intervention programs at Teller. Next meeting is Tuesday, November 10.
Data Analyzed: School Performance Framework Noticings Next Steps |
Growth in progress over time (37% in 08 vs 61% in 09) doing well. Need to continue upward trend.
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Reinforce interventions in academics. Reinforce parent involvement. Better communication early in academic career. | |
Parent survey response rate
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Incentive return of survey via Starbucks card, other? | |
Student engagement could be higher |
Look at time of day, time of year given | |
| Easy Wins: Increase student engagement to 81% ; (from 2 to 5) Parent and community engagement to 80% (from 3-4) | CSAP Noticings Next Steps | READING: “No Score” on 5th grade reading
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Make sure that doesn’t happen again. | | MATH: Unsatisfactory increased in grade 5 math
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50% of 5th grade not passing, what happened?
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Make sure they get through the curriculum, checking in at all grade levels. | | WRITING: Why is our writing so much weaker than reading and math? Too many kids in partial
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Move 10% | | SCIENCE:
| Making sure the science program being taught in each grade. Some kind of PD on science-like we have in reading 5 Learning Points. | |
Students need to know to use graphic organizers → students could create graphic organizers in technology |
Teach how to fill in graphic organizers. Incorporate technology into how kids make a web. |
Data Analyzed: Benchmarks Noticings Next Steps |
Haven’t seemed to lose a lot over the summer
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2nd,3rd, and 4th – ½ are proficient or more but 5th grade is way behind in math only (-)
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Why (?) Investigate new concepts | |
There is a drop between grade transitions
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Ho to do a better job of maintaining over all? | |
Don’t pick the lowest
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Try to do general over all maintenance. | |
Focus on partially proficient to move them up
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Smart Goals | |
Move unsatisfactory to PP.
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Smart Goals |
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