ACME ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Members Present:, Jackie Ebert, Ellyn Erickson, Diane Leigh & Amy Chase,

Members Absent: Gary Wall, Libby Westdal, Betty Ensley, Dick Vollmer & Michelle Coburn,

In Process:

1.  Writing Study Team:

The following meetings have been held.

Wed. February 1 “Study Team Nuts and Bolts”

Dr. Gary Wall will lead this meeting.  He used the powerpoint presentation as well as the Study Team Procedures Manual to explain the formation, activities and product of the study team.   This meeting was open to all staff members.  Flex-time or Comp-time will be used to compensate the classified staff members who participate. 

Wed. February 8 “Study Team Volunteers only”

Jackie facilitated this meeting of all those staff members who are interested in participating in the writing study team.  We would like to have at least one classified employee on the team also.  Jackie used an informal process to determine membership in the Acme Writing Study Team.  

Writing Study Team has been determined. 

They are:  Linina    Robin    John   Diane!  There is room for one more!  Ellyn will do a “Last Call” for volunteers with a deadline.  Volunteers will contact Jackie. 

Research schedule discussed. 

It was agreed that the team would benefit from spending a half day with Trina and other members of the original Lit Team to review the work that was done there.  We pulled out the BONE diagram from our large group work and the inter-relational Diagram for a transitional point to connect the district work to the school level research to be done.   Trina and Gary were meeting with Linda Dobbs from the ESD to formulate an effective way to pull the two pieces together to meet our needs.

2.  ALT Procedures Manual revision

We continued to discuss the ALT Procedure Manual to clearly define all of the collaborative decision making activities and processes we could use in the future.  We used a draft that Gary had sent as out starting point.  We had lots of questions about purpose, procedures and implementation of this formal committee work.  We asked to have Gary with us at our next meting on March 22 to help clarify our questions.  

We all agreed that there needs some method to assure the sustainability of our efforts as staff changes from year to year.  None of us want to reinvent the wheel every tme there is a staff change.  We were not clear about how this draft would help reach that goal with out being perceived as First Order Change.

Next Meeting:    March 22, 2006 - 4:30 – 6:00 pm - Acme Library

We need to set out timeline and remaining staff meetings to get our Action Plan out to staff by the end of May.

Work with Gary with the collaborative decision making agreements.

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