- I recommend adoption of Horace Mann Middle School’s School Improvement Plan motion to approve; passed 7-0
- I recommend adoption of Remington Middle School’s School Improvement Plan motion to approve; passed 7-0
- I recommend adoption of Annie Sullivan Middle School’s School Improvement Plan motion to approve; passed 7-0
- I recommend adoption of Franklin High School’s School Improvement Plan motion to approve; passed 7-0
- I recommend acceptance of a check for $554.22 from the Tri County Partnership as credit for Life Fair for the FHS gift account motion to approve; passed 6-0, 1 abstain (Armenio)
- I recommend acceptance of a check for $100.00 from Kristen Redpath in memory of her late husband, Donald Redpath, for the FHS Science Department. motion to approve; passed 7-0
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Live reporting - Action Items
4. Action Items
Live reporting - Discussion only items
3. Discussion Only Items
The report on the listing of projects completed during the summer in all the schools will be added later.
90% of the work done was done at the High School, the remaining items will be done this fall.
Roy - typically at the end of the school day, the technology center is empty. A recent visit revealed 30-40 students working in the new area.
Transportation
The following chart was not part of the School Committee package but was prepared with the FPS data as provided. The data tells a story at a glance on what the pay-to-ride fee increase has done to the numbers of students riding the buses.
No route changes on the transportation side.
While ridership is down, the same number of buses is still be run as last year.
Q - Is there a way we can recover some costs with a half ride program, having parents pay for the ride home.
A - We would have to look at the bus capacity by route. Some buses we have already heard have some extra seats. We would be better able to do the analysis as the situation settle.
Q - Can you clarify the rule on the free ride?
A - There was a school committee policy some years ago that if there was not a safe walkway to school, it used to be a free ride. It is not a state requirement. The State requires free busing for those within 2 miles. The State allows a student to walk a half mile to a bus stop. We try to minimize that.
Comment - caution on some parents who have bought the pay-to-ride to get the afternoon ride home. You may need to implement some re-funds to for those parents if the half ride goes through.
H1N1 - spending much time on this health issue instead of instructional issues. Part of the town-wide planning process. The State may be sponsoring the vaccination clinics. The schools put the information out, people tend to listen rather than if the Police or other Town departments.
The Schools are collecting data weekly on attendance and illness rates.
Dr Timothy Johnson will be doing a town hall style meeting next week on Channel 5 to review the does/don'ts.
Purell can't be stored in the schools due to the alcohol content. They are working to obtain a non-alcohol based with aloe to avoid overwashing and creating additional issues.
Superintendent's goals
Roy - suggestion to bring it up to see how it would be handled this year.
Mullen - to take lead on developing goals for Maureen. Committee members can send their suggestions to her.
- Facilities Update
- Transportation Update
- H1N1 Update
- Superintendent’s Goals
The report on the listing of projects completed during the summer in all the schools will be added later.
90% of the work done was done at the High School, the remaining items will be done this fall.
Roy - typically at the end of the school day, the technology center is empty. A recent visit revealed 30-40 students working in the new area.
Transportation
The following chart was not part of the School Committee package but was prepared with the FPS data as provided. The data tells a story at a glance on what the pay-to-ride fee increase has done to the numbers of students riding the buses.
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No route changes on the transportation side.
While ridership is down, the same number of buses is still be run as last year.
Q - Is there a way we can recover some costs with a half ride program, having parents pay for the ride home.
A - We would have to look at the bus capacity by route. Some buses we have already heard have some extra seats. We would be better able to do the analysis as the situation settle.
Q - Can you clarify the rule on the free ride?
A - There was a school committee policy some years ago that if there was not a safe walkway to school, it used to be a free ride. It is not a state requirement. The State requires free busing for those within 2 miles. The State allows a student to walk a half mile to a bus stop. We try to minimize that.
Comment - caution on some parents who have bought the pay-to-ride to get the afternoon ride home. You may need to implement some re-funds to for those parents if the half ride goes through.
H1N1 - spending much time on this health issue instead of instructional issues. Part of the town-wide planning process. The State may be sponsoring the vaccination clinics. The schools put the information out, people tend to listen rather than if the Police or other Town departments.
The Schools are collecting data weekly on attendance and illness rates.
Dr Timothy Johnson will be doing a town hall style meeting next week on Channel 5 to review the does/don'ts.
Purell can't be stored in the schools due to the alcohol content. They are working to obtain a non-alcohol based with aloe to avoid overwashing and creating additional issues.
Superintendent's goals
Roy - suggestion to bring it up to see how it would be handled this year.
Mullen - to take lead on developing goals for Maureen. Committee members can send their suggestions to her.
Live reporting - SIP Franklin High
2. Guests/Presentations
a. School Improvement Plans
Increase summer reading
Increase graduation percent for lower socio-economic students
Continuation of increasing Advanced placement participation
open response questions within Math is a problem area and a team is being formed to look at more closely
Safety - run the lock down drill this year and develop an updated evacuation plan. In particular, the attendance procedures work but they are too slow.
EdLine is live now, students and parents will be receiving access codes in the next week or so. Access to grading will be deployed later to avoid potential misinterpretation of the results they would see.
They are looking to expand the concept of summer reading, expand to provide more choices, need to analyze what the level of participation was this year and then look to increase the offerings.
Looking at how to challenge the students in English with more AP or honors classes. Using the College Board predictive results to see what the students are that are not yet in the AP classes.
Goal for complete wifi access, it is complete (with a couple of classroom exceptions). It is a free public wifi but students using to access via a secure channel to their folders. Printing is not yet available this way but they are working on this. Trying to go paperless as much as possible. 200 laptops are in, 50-60 are being used daily. Some are going out overnight. Minor issues with some but tech support is handling those.
Own online course management system is now functioning, it was used for summer school. About 40-50% fof the faculty are using it (either in an experimental stage or deployed).
55 teachers have courses built into Moodle today, per Sabolinski
Sabolinski, thanks to the collaboration and coordination amongst the middle and high school.
a. School Improvement Plans
- Franklin High School – Peter Light
Increase summer reading
Increase graduation percent for lower socio-economic students
Continuation of increasing Advanced placement participation
open response questions within Math is a problem area and a team is being formed to look at more closely
Safety - run the lock down drill this year and develop an updated evacuation plan. In particular, the attendance procedures work but they are too slow.
EdLine is live now, students and parents will be receiving access codes in the next week or so. Access to grading will be deployed later to avoid potential misinterpretation of the results they would see.
They are looking to expand the concept of summer reading, expand to provide more choices, need to analyze what the level of participation was this year and then look to increase the offerings.
Looking at how to challenge the students in English with more AP or honors classes. Using the College Board predictive results to see what the students are that are not yet in the AP classes.
Goal for complete wifi access, it is complete (with a couple of classroom exceptions). It is a free public wifi but students using to access via a secure channel to their folders. Printing is not yet available this way but they are working on this. Trying to go paperless as much as possible. 200 laptops are in, 50-60 are being used daily. Some are going out overnight. Minor issues with some but tech support is handling those.
Own online course management system is now functioning, it was used for summer school. About 40-50% fof the faculty are using it (either in an experimental stage or deployed).
55 teachers have courses built into Moodle today, per Sabolinski
Sabolinski, thanks to the collaboration and coordination amongst the middle and high school.
Live reporting - SIP Annie Sullivan
2. Guests/Presentations
a. School Improvement Plans
Goals
Q - on "Brain based instructional strategies"
A - getting students involved and engaged more completely with all their senses.
Q - What impact does differentiated learning have on the results?
A - differentiated instruction with an average of 30 students in a class is hard. It is a real issue. As long as we have class sizes and ratios that high it will be a challenge to continue to produce the results that Franklin has become used to seeing.
a. School Improvement Plans
- Annie Sullivan Middle School – Beth Wittcoff
Goals
- Response to intervention
- Literacy
- Annual Yearly Progress (AYP)
- Mathematics
Q - on "Brain based instructional strategies"
A - getting students involved and engaged more completely with all their senses.
Q - What impact does differentiated learning have on the results?
A - differentiated instruction with an average of 30 students in a class is hard. It is a real issue. As long as we have class sizes and ratios that high it will be a challenge to continue to produce the results that Franklin has become used to seeing.
Live reporting - SIP Remington
2. Guests/Presentations
a. School Improvement Plans (SIP)
Goals
a. School Improvement Plans (SIP)
- Remington Middle School – Paul Peri
Goals
- Incorporate reading/literacy strategies in the classrooms of all core content areas
- Targets the skills of the student who are at risk for not meeting district and state learning expectations in math
- Targets the skills of two sub-group populations of students
- Connecting RMS to the Franklin Community
Live reporting - Presentations (School Improvement Plans)
2. Guests/Presentations
a. School Improvement Plans (SIP)
Video taped an interview with high performing students, cooperative learning doesn't always work for them, pay attention to them, they have a right to learn something new every day
28% of the student lacking in the basic fundamentals, added some focus to this and got great results (with pre- and post-test results)
Action plans
The kids feedback was to do more pre-testing, if they already know it, let's move on to something else.
a. School Improvement Plans (SIP)
- Horace Mann Middle School – Dr. Anne Bergen
Video taped an interview with high performing students, cooperative learning doesn't always work for them, pay attention to them, they have a right to learn something new every day
28% of the student lacking in the basic fundamentals, added some focus to this and got great results (with pre- and post-test results)
Action plans
- Wide reading to develop background knowledge
- Writing goal
- Math goal
- School enrichment model
The kids feedback was to do more pre-testing, if they already know it, let's move on to something else.
Live reporting - School Committee 9/8/09
Attending: Armenio, Cafasso, Kelley, Mullen, Roy, Rohrbach, Trahan
Missing:
1. Routine Business
Citizen’s Comments - none
Review of Agenda - none
Minutes: I recommend approval of the minutes from the August 25, 2009 School Committee Meeting. motion to approve, passed 7-0
Payment of Bills - Mr. Kelly motion to approve, passed 7-0
Payroll - Ms. Armenio
FHS Student Representatives – Welcome to the new student representatives: Zach Price (President of Senior Class) and Christie Gianetti (Student Government President)
Correspondence
Missing:
1. Routine Business
Citizen’s Comments - none
Review of Agenda - none
Minutes: I recommend approval of the minutes from the August 25, 2009 School Committee Meeting. motion to approve, passed 7-0
Payment of Bills - Mr. Kelly motion to approve, passed 7-0
Payroll - Ms. Armenio
FHS Student Representatives – Welcome to the new student representatives: Zach Price (President of Senior Class) and Christie Gianetti (Student Government President)
Correspondence
- Budget to Actual
- Letter from Kristen Redpath (donation)
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