Present: Lisa, Connie, Laura, Megan, Jeanie, Kelly, Josh, Susie, Annette, Lisa L.
Absent: Dr. Bonaiuto
AGENDA:
Leadership:
1. FYI: Dr. Bess Scott will send you a link to an email survey about Dr. Bonaiuto. As you set goals for professional growth, so do principals. Please make the time to respond to this survey. Questions? Please let Dr. B. – or Dr. Scott– know.
School-wide:
1. Field Trips: Please add your grade’s field trips to our shared Zimbra calendar. Don’t invite “attendees”, just have the event listed so mentors, teammates, and others can know ahead of time about times your class is gone. Make sure to say which classes are going, and for how long. (i.e. Strauch – museum – 9:30-11:00)
2. Triage: How well is triage working for your students? Who are the students participating in triage before school? –during the day? Who are they talking/meeting with? It’s time to update the list of triagers and triagees, to make sure the strategy is being used effectively. Please visit with your team and see if there are other students needing a triage at this time. Forward those requests to Annette. Kelly brought up a student who we will use as topic at our first Community Meeting this Wednesday. One suggestion was for grade levels to make a tri-fold board showing behaviors (below, at, above grade levels) with a color for triage, another color for protective plans, etc. GET members will discuss this at next meeting.
Non-classroom:
1. Changing the lunchroom supervisors at quarters. Liz will be outside; Josh in lunchroom. Trish will be outside; Chris in lunchroom. Classroom teachers must be on time to pick up students at lunchroom. Move out of the hallway as soon as possible to prevent traffic jams from students coming in and hanging up coats. (Ever other grade hangs up coats: second NO, Kdg. yes, first NO, third yes, fourth NO, fifth yes. That means the grades exiting the lunchroom need to be moving out of the way of the incoming students asap.)
2. Classroom teachers continuing their rotation with outdoor supervision or indoors? Indoor recess days require more than one person with each grade, since students are in separate classrooms. Outdoor recess needs more than one or two supervisors to keep specific students in their own areas. Classroom teachers will stay with outdoor duty. Fifth graders will line up south line on the ramp to see if that eases congestion in the hallway at lunch dismissal.
5. Cafeteria misc. discussion and concerns:
*It is crucial that classroom teachers are in the main hallway on time to pick up students. The lunchroom supervisors are unable to keep a handle on the cafeteria transition and the hallway at the same time. Also, if you are a cafeteria supervisor, please make sure that at least one grade level teacher is in the hallway to supervise when you send lines to the hall. Teachers will pick up their students in the hallway…not their classrooms.
*Each grade level has their own little system for picking up classes…which is fine. It was mentioned that it would help if the first 1-2 classes that are dismissed from the lunchroom be moved to a second location asap. Upper grades could even use the south ramp to “house” lines while you wait for the class to trickle out.
*Question: Could the “ticket punch” happen at the cafeteria arrival door? We think we know the answer to this.
*It was mentioned that 2nd grade students were on a dead run going to the lunchroom and coming back from the lunchroom on the indoor day. (This is because the classroom teacher on duty has already gone to lunch, leaving the supervisor alone to dismiss all three classrooms to lunch. Not even a super human can do that easily!) It was suggested that some responsible 5th graders be sent down to 2nd grade to help deliver lines to the lunchroom on indoor days. (If the assigned 5th graders went to the second grade rooms at 11:10, they would return to class before 11:20.) 5th grade, do you want to assign a couple of kids to go down on indoor days? Hopefully it will happen infrequently…but it’s better to be prepared.
6. Other misc. items:
*Keller and Wobig have swapped their arrival line locations. This will help when entering the building.
*A specific student IS supposed to sit with Mrs. Wobig’s class at arrival, not her own class. (Just clarifying so we all know.)
*It was mentioned that screaming is still an issue during recess times and after school with Family Service. The screaming (high pitched, annoying) is disrupting learning. If you are on recess duty, please move the screamers to the far end of the playground for their screaming pleasure or put the kabash on the screaming. Dr. B’s note: Please tell children it is not acceptable to just screech and scream… that indicates an emergency and a need for help… if screaming just for screaming’s sake, how can we hear those who do need help?
NEXT MEETING: December 5th