ACME ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Acme Leadership Team Meeting #7 - Minutes

February 20, 2008

Rescheduled from February 13, 2008

Members :   Jon Anderson, Justina Bass, Jackie Ebert, Debbie Hecht-Reier, Alicia Scott, John Mumma & Ellyn Erickson

Chair:  John Mumma              Recorder:  Ellyn Erickson

In Process:

1.  Next Step for working with NVE information - Plan March 5^th Staff Meeting (This will be our only agenda item for February 27^th.)   

2.  Discuss Principal Selection Process w/ Jim Frey - Jim distributed and explained the process that has been used for the past several principal searches.  He will be meeting with ALT, staff and parents to form the questions and determine the screening criterion.  Timeline and specific activities are well defined and beginning now. The document that he brought will be available to all staff to review in the staff room.

New Topics:

1.   School-Wide Professional Development Planning – We reviewed the language in the MBEA Contract on Pages 28-29 related to school-wide professional development planning and the involvement of school leadership teams (new language this contract).

·         This language essentially refers to the planning for the use of LID and DD days. 

·         (F) 4 refers to an annual meeting of school representatives and the ELT – this meeting is tentatively scheduled for February 26^th from 4-5:30.  John will be the ALT Representative at this meeting. This meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday, March 11, 4:00 – 5:30 pm @ the DO.

·         (F) 3a refers to the curriculum director coming to a leadership team meeting “at predictable points in the year” to talk about professional development considerations.  (Determine when it would make the most sense for Trina to come and meet with ALT to begin the discussion of professional development landscape for 08-09 planning.)  The ALT selected the March 19 ALT meeting for Trina to visit.  We will also invite the Acme Writing Team.

2.  Staffing Models for 0809 - We had two charts listing students and class configurations from 0708 and the Rolled up numbers for 0809.   Without the continuation of the Funding that we used for the Primary Support Position (Kaye Marshall) and the reduction in total student numbers, we project 7.5 classroom teachers for next year.   WE talked about how the reduction of staff might play out.  The Layoff and Recall  (pg. 11 +) language in the MBEA contract was briefly reviewed.   Justina shared the parent/PTA concern of growing class size numbers.  The possibility of Burlington not accepting more Inter-district transfers from Mt. Baker was discussed.  Ellyn agreed to contact the principal at Allen Elementary to see if there are any decisions yet about MBSD students currently attending Burlington schools being returned to MBSD next year.

3.  Agendas – We discussed the use of the agendas.  It was mentioned that some teachers do not use them.  The ALT Reps will talk to the other members of their grade level bands to determine how the agendas are being used and if we need to continue ordering them for everyone.

4.  HLAY Blitz Week?  The ALT selected the weeks from March 17 – 28 for teachers to teach the selected HLAY lessons.  We will all begin on Monday March 17^th with a brief assembly and the first lessons.  Teachers can be flexible in scheduling the remaining lessons, to be completed by March 28^th .

5.  Spring Conference Scheduling?  We discussed the intent of the Spring Conferences is to fill all the conference slots.  Teachers are being paid for 3.5 hours for Fall evening conferences and 3.5 hours for Spring evening conferences.   If teachers are unable to reschedule conferences during the designated days, they may use the state designated Patron Availability Time before and after school:  8:55 – 9:25 am and 3: 25 – 3:55 pm.

For Future Discussion