Site Council Meeting Minutes
April 20, 2006
In attendance: Julie Printz, Ann Hobbie, Lisa Keitel,
Katie Parke-Reimer, Jessica Pihlstrom, Valerie OKeefe, Tasha Klepp, Kathy
Bigelow, Lori Seastrand, Emmett Donnelly, Kris Hageman, Anneke Krall, Lisa
Randall, Gene Yates, Cleve Jobe, Jeff Sambs
The meeting commenced
at 5:24 p.m. The agenda and the minutes were approved.
Opening remarks: The Groveland Elementary website is the featured webpage on
the St. Paul Public Schools website this month and as a result our website is
experiencing more hits.
Celebrate Groveland Event: Kris Hageman gave a quick update.
- The committee has received
donations for the silent auction from Northern Clay.
- Tickets will be on sale outside
after school during this week and next.
Tickets are also available in the copy room for staff members. ½ the tickets sold thus far are for
people who didn’t attend the event last year perhaps due to some “good buzz”
about it.
- Silent auctions forms are also
available yet if people still want to contribute.
- Dana Bergman, the volunteer
coordinator says that people are still needed for 2-hr. set-up shifts and
for tear down at the end of the night.
- The event will include
performances by a parent band, the Sirens (acapella group from Macalester
College) and the Heads and Tails game.
There will also be a live auction piece (weekend give-away, boat
ride with Dr. Jobe, St. Paul Hotel) and the very popular grade level
baskets.
Principal’s Report:
Budget Report
–
The allocation for
06-07 is $2,143,570, an increase over the 2005-2006 school year. The extra money will go towards the current
staff. There is a $74,000 rollover that
will also apply to next school year.
–
Our projected
enrollment for next school year is 431, a number that Dr. Jobe has confidence
in. Up until very recently Groveland
has continued to take additional students but Dr. Jobe has told the Placement
Office that we are now closed for the remainder of this school year.
–
Connie Feil the
District technoloIgy person from the district has informed us that the 2009
MCA’s (standardized tests) will be required to be completed online in a
fixed-lab setting. This puts many
schools like Groveland at a disadvantage because they don’t have the budget to buy
the necessary hardware. 30 computers
have been shipped to Groveland for this purpose. In order to support this new
lab, Groveland will hire 1 FTE technology teacher for next year who will also
be available in a tech support capacity.
–
The district cost for
a full-time teacher, grade 1-6 is $79,000 and is calculated as an average
including benefits. A full-time
kindergarten teacher costs Groveland $77,000.
This is a PROPOSED budget and is subject to change:
PROPOSED PROPOSED
PROPOSED PROPOSED PROPOSED PROPOSED
o
2.5 Kindergarten
teachers: $186,135
o
15 Elementary
teachers: $1,177,695
o
3 Specialty Teachers: $235,539 (Music, Physical Ed, Science)
Total
Teachers $1,599,369
–
Other costs include:
o
1 Principal $129,757
o
1 Clerk $46,444
o
2 TA’s $46,582
o
1 SEM $78,513
o
.5 Social Worker $42,92 5
o
.1 Nurse $7,614
o
1 Tech teacher $78,513
o
.5 Title 1 Teacher $39,256
o
1.5 Title 1 TA $34,937
o
Textbook/patrol
Stipend $3,036
o
Staff Development $13,320
o
Supplies/Reserve $23,304
Total
Other $544,201
Total Budget: $2,143,554
–
ELL will pay for 4.5
teachers, 1.5 EA. Special Ed. Pays for
a DCD teacher, .5 social worker, .6 speech teacher, .5 Occupational Therapist,
and a .2 School Psychologist. The Title
I money will pay for a .5 teacher and 1.5 TAs. The district provides the band
teacher, custodians and Nutrition Services personnel.
–
Groveland
will not have a librarian next year, however if enrollment projections increase
we could potentially hire a part time librarian.
–
The grade
1-2 combination class has been eliminated due to the configuration of students in those two grades. Mrs. Eggert will teach 2nd grade,
keeping her current first grade students.
–
The staff
will be studying and discussing the idea of looping (where one teacher stays
with the same students for two years) next year with possible implementation in
the 07-08 school year.
–
The
technology teacher will help students learn to use the computers for testing
purposes and will work to integrate technology into the classroom. Dr. Jobe will work on writing the job
description for this position.
Edit/Approval of SCIP
(School-wide Continuous Improvement Plan):
Ashley
Cannaday reviewed the changes that were proposed for the 06-07 SCIP as follows:
In
the School Description Section -
–
Added information
about the Language Academy throughout
–
Mentioned Dodge
Nature center outings
–
Chess club is
redefined as Game Club
–
Mention of Title I
status
–
Mention of Celebrate
Groveland event
–
Placed the running
club separately to highlight it more to better address concerns for student
health and wellness – also mentioned participation in Melpomene Run
–
Enrichment Clusters
renamed as “Explore Time” classes
Suggestions were made
to add a reference to having strong parent volunteerism, mention of a fixed
computer lab and a wireless computer lab.
In the Goals Section:
–
Removed Goal #4
(Gifted and Talented Task Force), and moved the topic to the Initiatives
section. All other goals remained the
same. Ashley stressed the idea that
goals indicate deficits and the SCIP committee didn’t want to suggest that our
G/T program was an area of weakness.
In the Initiative
Section:
–
Initiative #1, Title
I Targeted Assistance information was added.
Groveland will be targeting reading in grades 1, 2 and 3 with a mix of
pull-out and collaboration.
–
Initiative #2 which
focuses on ELL learners stayed the same.
One suggestion was made to add a reference to the parent involvement
night (required for Title I).
–
Initiative #3 is
about making improvements to math achievement.
A change was made to say that Kindergarten uses the Everyday Math
curriculum instead of the Investigations curriculum.
–
Initiative #4 was
added this year to address the Gifted and Talented program. This past year there was a Gifted and
Talented task force set up to review and suggest changes to the current
program. However, this task force has
been modified in favor of greater involvement by staff and parents, with the
idea that staff and parents could come to a consensus and present it to Site
Council. A question was raised about
whether there should be a forum for parental involvement. Perhaps parents who were part of the task
force would join the teachers in this effort and invite additional parents to
be involved. It was suggested that it
should be added that parents are invited to participate in the enrichment
committee at any time.
It was decided to
table the vote for approval because attendance at this meeting was low. Ann Hobbie will email voting Site Council
members for comments/feedback about the SCIP.
Other
announcements: Ann Hobbie reminded Site
Council that we had agreed to put off the discussion of “paying for all day
Kindergarten” for the 08-09 school year until this spring. It was decided to table this discussion
until next fall.
The meeting was
adjourned at 6:45 p.m. The next meeting
is planned for May 16th at 5:15 p.m.
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