Team+Meeting+Notes

Team Meeting Notes

__Week of January 4-7, 2011__ We are going to start assigning 1 hour of detention for students who have 3 tardies in a quarter, going back to the beginning of 2nd quarter. Amanda M. will supervise the first detention, Jan. 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m. and Tricia I. will supervise the second detention, Jan. 20, 7:15-8:15 a.m. The team will take turns rotating detention supervision after that. The person in charge of supervision will keep tracvk of the paperwork and pass it along to the next supervisior. Students who do not serve their hour at detention will be assigned 2 hours of in-school. Scott is going to talk to Jill W. about teachers using their cell phones as a way to synchronize time. We have a continuting problem with tardy students who tell us that they are being dismissed late from their outside-the-house classes. Perhaps we can xend automatic text messages at dismissal times. We made some minor adjustments in the Advisory schedule to coincide with what 8th grade teachers are doing in their house. __Week of December 20-23__ AR reading is in Math this week. Since we will have all the 7th-graders in our Advisories this Thursday, we will offer various Christmas themed activities for students to choose. Discussed preferences for technology training from Jill to begin after the holiday break. Discussed the need to set up a rotating schedule of after-school supervisors for detention. Many, many tardies have gone by with no consequences.

__Week of November 30-December 3__ AR reading is in Math this week. We will present our idea for "Buddy Passes" in Advisories to the 8th grade team and see if they want to use them as well. Mid-quarter is next Wednesday, Dec. 8. Middoe school ineligibility rules kick in at mid-quarter. Parent-teacher conferences are Thursday, Dec. 9th from 4-7:30. We will be including AR scores in mid-quarter grades so parents have an idea of how many points their children have earned at the half-way mark of the quarter. We have had responses from all but about 5 parents indicating that they have seen their child's 1st quarter report card and AR report. On the agenda for discussion: Meeting w/ R. Kuhlemeyer regarding a student with special needs. Are we planning any Holiday projects this year, i.e., adopt-a-needy-cause? Are we planning any Holiday activities on Dec. 23rd? __Week of November 15-19__ Discussed remediation possibilities for kids who have failed 1st quarter. Sceduled and planned 7th Grade Celebartion (Nov. 23, 4-7during Advisory). Top AR students will be recognized. Each teacher will choose a "Student of the Quarter." Prizes and coupons for DQ will be given. DG will create an animoto. Decided that students with a consisten history of behavior problems will not be permitted to attend the lyceum on Friday. They will be supervised in the 7th grade House by T. Irvine, then M. Stoderl. __Week of November 8-12__ Met with 7th grade parents. Discussed procedures for handing out report cards and AR reports when printed. Students will need to return a slip, signed by parent, acknowledging receipt of both. B. Heltemes will be in charge of printing AR reports, handing out report cards and collecting slips as they are returned. There will be a small "reward" for students who return the slips within the first week. Also discussed what classes are going to do for Veterans' Day, Thursday, Nov. 11th and upcoming lyceum on Nov. 19th for 7th and 8th graders. __Week of November 1-5__ Discussed levy vote and possible cuts, jobs and programs, due to its failure. Began working on Special Ed. student referrals for testing. Parent contacts regarding student behaviors. __Week of October 25-29__ Adopt the policy, applicable in all 7th grade classes with academic work, that all old assignments/tests/quizzes must be finished and turned in by the end of the school day on Monday, November 1. After that, the scores turn to zeroes and the assignments will no longer be accepted. AR points have now been added to class gradebooks. This week students will have some time to read AR books in their Science classes. 8th grade celebration is Friday during Advisory. We will have all the 7th-graders in our classrooms during that time. __Week of October 18-20__ Finished the last remaining parent meetings; between scheduled meetings and conferences, we had about a 50% response to our letters __Week of October 11, 2010__ Continued to meet with parents of 7th-graders who are struggling academically and/or behaviorially; 7 more meetings scheduled for this week __Week of October 4, 2010__ Have scheduled 12 parent meetings so far in reponse to letters. Discussed problems with AR testing---cannot be done in the library, only in classrooms. Discussed various techniques of classroom management. Even though our wiki is up and running, fewer than half of our parent households can access it because they do not have high-speed internet. Discussed a policy regarding students who have missed school and parents want to pick up work---with what we have in place now, do we really need to run around and gather work for students who have only missed 1 day??? Plan for students who take trips: they must read an AR book while they are gone and take a test on it as soon as they return. Then they can use AR reading days in Advisory to make up work missed during the trip.

1. AR reading in CORE classes - Yes. week of 9/20=Social; week of 9/27=Science; week of 10/4=Math; week of 10/11=Social 2. consequences for misbehavior for a sub - parent contact and 3 lunch detentions 3. SpEd/Academy referrals - will revisit in the future 4. parent contacts necessary - team members will generate a list by Tues., 9/21 5. updating wiki for new teachers - done 6. recycling containers - TI will contact Barb K. AM will bring down the extra one from the Health classroom 7. items for Wednesday's BLT meeting?? - computer lab scheduling 8. posture in the classroom 9. common calendar-yes; it is posted in the window of room #705 10. coffee/water $$ reminder

9/28 We have prepared parent letters to send re: those students who are already struggling academically and/or behaviorally; those will be mailed the week of Sept. 27 Discussed procedures for Homecoming parade w/ new teachers Pending SpEd referral; will talk to R. Kuhlemeyer