ACME ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Acme Leadership Team Minutes

December 5, 2007

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

Chair:  John Mumma                   Recorder:  Ellyn Erickson

In Process:

1.  Review School-wide Title I Plan

We briefly reviewed the completed Title I School Wide Plan that was revised in November.  It is ready for the notebook.  Artifacts to support the various components of the plan will be added to the notebook through out the course of the year. (Monday Notes, Evaluation forms, PD Forms, etc.)

2.  Budget – EOM Reports

 The only budget reports available for our review were the Building Budget and the Professional Development Budget.  Ellyn showed the group the Budget process format and the reports that document the expenditures in each of the budget line items. 

3.  Next Step for working with NVE information

The ALT will review the Themes that were generated from the NVES Site Visit Team and shared with staff last spring.  We reviewed what activities we had completed and discussed the best options for moving forward.  We also re-examined the posters that we designed last spring to complete the Interrelationship Digraph and the Venn Diagram to determine which group would  be responsible for which theme areas.  We decided to devote the entire January meeting to creating a plan for sharing with the entire staff where we are and where we need to go.

4.  Writing Team Update

Each grade band representative shared out the activities that they had participated in on the last Waiver Day.  The groups all did work on reviewing student data for reading as well as writing.  There are new Writing Plans set for the next 6 weeks.  They are posted in the staff room.

5.  RtI Update- Reading CBAs

 John will share the CBA Activity Notebook & CD that Julie loaned to him.  It is a fabulous fit for the CBAs that we are using for grades 3-6.  We discussed how useful these would be for all teachers.  John will do a survey to find out haw many we have in the building.  We will find out if they are available to purchase from the ESD. 

Jackie also mentioned a CD that is available for the Fountas and Pinnel Phonics materials.  It is much more efficient than searching the manual and copying pages.  The user can generate materials straight from the CD to the printer.

New Topics:

1.  SIP – Summary Activity

We each received a brief questionnaire to assess our current understanding of the Acme School Improvement Plan.  We will discuss it next time and determine if it would be a useful tool to use to help ALL staff members maintain a clear understanding of our goals and the activities that the Writing Team has designed to help us reach those goals.

2.   CSI Conference - Debrief

Each ALT member who attended the CSI conference in Arlington shared out one new learning or an affirmation that they developed through this conference. 

3.  CERTIFICATED Staff:  Who?  What?  Why? ????

4.  ALT Topics for Spring: