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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
School Committee - 08/10/10
The live reporting from the School Committee meeting of Tuesday, Aug 10th can be found here:
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- Live reporting - Closing
- Live reporting - Superintendent update
- Live reporting - District Improvement Plan
- Live reporting - 5 minute recess
- Live reporting - Middle Schools/ High School
- Live reporting - Elementary principals
- Live reporting - School Committee
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Live reporting - Closing
School Committee Sub-Committee Reports
School Committee Liaison Reports
none
6. New Business
To discuss future business that may be brought before the School Committee.
7. Executive Session
Contractual Negotiations
Motion to enter execution session, no intention to return to open meeting, passed 7-0
Franklin, MA
Space Needs subcommittee met today, meeting again, Oct 5th
getting data needed on the facilities from Mike D'Angelo
School Committee Liaison Reports
none
6. New Business
To discuss future business that may be brought before the School Committee.
Rohrbach - congratulations to Jeff Roy and Jeff Nutting for successfully completing their PanMass Challenge ride
7. Executive Session
Contractual Negotiations
Motion to enter execution session, no intention to return to open meeting, passed 7-0
Franklin, MA
Live reporting - Superintendent update
3. Discussion Only Items - none
4. Action Items - none
5. Information Matters
Superintendent’s Report
a. MSBA Update
architect negotiations underway
b. Personnel Update
still looking to fulfill some positions
c. Schedules / Teacher Assignments
should be out next week, been getting phone calls on teacher assignments
d. Center For American Progress
we have had a lot of personnel changes over the summer
OT/PT consultants were hired instead of being outsources via the collaborative
three new health PE teachers, foreign language teachers moved to the high school
unexpected resignations during the summer
7 teachers were non-renewed who were not performing up to district standards during their 1-2-or 3 year before they obtained their professional status
enrollments continuing to grow, 20 this week alone
6th grade classes are at 28-29
f. Foreign Language Technology Presentation
met with Rosetta Stone
maybe able to utilize in a future budget year
g. Proposed School Committee Presentations 2010-11
very general outline on forthcoming presentations (to be shared post meeting)
Meeting with committee on full-day vs. half-day kindergarten
should be ready to report in January
Rohrbach - some people don't realize how much the administration does to help
Glynn - do you think there is an opportunity to help the foreign language situation we have?
Sabolinski - Kristy and Michelle are looking at that, once the students come back we want to get a survey out to see how many students would be interested.
Franklin, MA
4. Action Items - none
5. Information Matters
Superintendent’s Report
a. MSBA Update
architect negotiations underway
b. Personnel Update
still looking to fulfill some positions
c. Schedules / Teacher Assignments
should be out next week, been getting phone calls on teacher assignments
d. Center For American Progress
Franklin selected as a spotlight district for ROI.
Selected by a Washington, DC think-tank
used a variety of data to per pupil numbers, from state websites, and national databases, took out Special Ed costs, looked at AP scores
looked at 15,000 districts
e. New Staff Orientation (8/24, 25, 26 – RMS 8:00 A.M.)
we have had a lot of personnel changes over the summer
OT/PT consultants were hired instead of being outsources via the collaborative
three new health PE teachers, foreign language teachers moved to the high school
unexpected resignations during the summer
7 teachers were non-renewed who were not performing up to district standards during their 1-2-or 3 year before they obtained their professional status
enrollments continuing to grow, 20 this week alone
6th grade classes are at 28-29
f. Foreign Language Technology Presentation
met with Rosetta Stone
maybe able to utilize in a future budget year
g. Proposed School Committee Presentations 2010-11
very general outline on forthcoming presentations (to be shared post meeting)
Meeting with committee on full-day vs. half-day kindergarten
should be ready to report in January
Rohrbach - some people don't realize how much the administration does to help
Glynn - do you think there is an opportunity to help the foreign language situation we have?
Sabolinski - Kristy and Michelle are looking at that, once the students come back we want to get a survey out to see how many students would be interested.
Franklin, MA
Live reporting - District Improvement Plan
2. Guests/Presentations
b. District Improvement Plan
Sally Winslow (asst Superintendent), Maureen Sabolinski (Superintendent), Michele Kingsland-Smith
The document being discussed was posted earlier and can be found here
http://franklinmatters.blogspot.com/2010/08/franklin-ma-public-schools-district.html
1st goal - page 4
From the Strategic Plan they developed the first DIP
Next year, to continue the evolution of the planning process, the whole team will be here to present
developing district wide benchmarks for writing for each grade level
writing expectations in the sense of genre themes (friendly letter, list, story, etc.)
Inching towards 2014, where every student should be at 100%
while we are a high performing district, our growth rate is slowing
in the next MCAS cycle, the bar will be raised higher
Will need to update this for the new core standards that MA just accepted
2nd goal - page 5
Learning how to use the data
Learning walks, how can we work together to be better
a departure in culture, empowering our teachers and teacher leaders
need to develop a communication plan, how it should be communicated out
3rd goal - page 6
Sally - updated to include other data sources
K-12 health wellness added
MA bullying prevention requirements, evidence based
develop curriculum with kids participation
using the open circle as more a proactive than reactive tool
utilize the bullying task force to help in this area
4th goal - page 7
updating the emergency plans to account for staffing changes, new principals
training for all staff required by the MA bullying requirements
attempting to do similar to the Ethics regulations, PowerPoint, and sign-off
Q - Glynn - Does DESE provide training materials?
Winslow - They did provide some at the training but they are supposed to be supplying more
Sabolinski - We are so far ahead of other districts, we would likely take what DESE provides and customize it to our needs, we are poised to use open circle having used it for 10 years
Q - Glynn - is there any quantitative measure to this?
Sabolinski - there will be, there is not yet currently, DESE hasn't established the source yet, the timeline is for September, so we are awaiting their guidelines, we do anticipate having additional data points to work with
5th goal - page 8
Leveraging positive relationships with Dean College to expand in this area
Healthy futures with the Y, Miriam spent time in Boston on the nutrition conference, helping student makes better decisions
6th goal - page 8
Our community resources are dwindling
Evaluation resources are more structure to provide implementation status
Added an observation check list to set some consistent instructional expectations across the district
minimal instructional info for lesson plans
I add that wile the Strategic Plan (which I had helped to work on with the Steering Committee) has come a long way, it is really being fleshed out nicely. The community relationship section is lacking however, we (the big group 'we') have an issue with getting sufficient funding. One commenter already asked where the PCC's were? We should add something more in this section. Specifically to engage the community.
Franklin, MA
b. District Improvement Plan
Sally Winslow (asst Superintendent), Maureen Sabolinski (Superintendent), Michele Kingsland-Smith
The document being discussed was posted earlier and can be found here
http://franklinmatters.blogspot.com/2010/08/franklin-ma-public-schools-district.html
1st goal - page 4
From the Strategic Plan they developed the first DIP
Next year, to continue the evolution of the planning process, the whole team will be here to present
developing district wide benchmarks for writing for each grade level
writing expectations in the sense of genre themes (friendly letter, list, story, etc.)
Inching towards 2014, where every student should be at 100%
while we are a high performing district, our growth rate is slowing
in the next MCAS cycle, the bar will be raised higher
Will need to update this for the new core standards that MA just accepted
2nd goal - page 5
Learning how to use the data
Learning walks, how can we work together to be better
a departure in culture, empowering our teachers and teacher leaders
need to develop a communication plan, how it should be communicated out
3rd goal - page 6
Sally - updated to include other data sources
K-12 health wellness added
MA bullying prevention requirements, evidence based
develop curriculum with kids participation
using the open circle as more a proactive than reactive tool
utilize the bullying task force to help in this area
4th goal - page 7
updating the emergency plans to account for staffing changes, new principals
training for all staff required by the MA bullying requirements
attempting to do similar to the Ethics regulations, PowerPoint, and sign-off
Q - Glynn - Does DESE provide training materials?
Winslow - They did provide some at the training but they are supposed to be supplying more
Sabolinski - We are so far ahead of other districts, we would likely take what DESE provides and customize it to our needs, we are poised to use open circle having used it for 10 years
Q - Glynn - is there any quantitative measure to this?
Sabolinski - there will be, there is not yet currently, DESE hasn't established the source yet, the timeline is for September, so we are awaiting their guidelines, we do anticipate having additional data points to work with
5th goal - page 8
Leveraging positive relationships with Dean College to expand in this area
Healthy futures with the Y, Miriam spent time in Boston on the nutrition conference, helping student makes better decisions
6th goal - page 8
Our community resources are dwindling
Evaluation resources are more structure to provide implementation status
Added an observation check list to set some consistent instructional expectations across the district
minimal instructional info for lesson plans
I add that wile the Strategic Plan (which I had helped to work on with the Steering Committee) has come a long way, it is really being fleshed out nicely. The community relationship section is lacking however, we (the big group 'we') have an issue with getting sufficient funding. One commenter already asked where the PCC's were? We should add something more in this section. Specifically to engage the community.
Franklin, MA
Live reporting - 5 minute recess
5 minute recess to allow the principals to clear the room and the remainder of the meeting to continue
Franklin, MA
Franklin, MA
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