Salisbury Elementary School

School Council

Meeting Minutes

November 29, 2023

SES School Council Meeting - Wednesday November 29, 2023

Members present: Kara Balkus, Daniel Bertrand, Lillian Chalifour, Erica Champagne, Holly Counts-Vanhoose, Kathryn Dawe, Anna Reilly

Wednesday 11/29 – Salisbury Elementary School Council Meeting

Introductions
Reviewing the October minutes
Kathryn - Updates
- Continuing the ELA work with CKLA
- Math teachers - They had a math implementation team came up with a focus for students to work on each month, based on Shape Bait composition, competition/shapes each week, kids to come up with the pattern that is being driven by different shapes that are there, talked about making it available for different levels / grades
- Anna Bates is coming this week for Math professional development.
- Today they had their coteaching collaboration - came in and observed different coteaching classes.
- School Safety - planning a lockdown drill in January, they will have student assemblies leading up to that, cleared with the FD/PD
- PBIS
- Professional development
- Student council - student of the month, student directed, coming from the kids directly.
School Improvement Plan - reviewing it and going over the current goals written and the action items in it
- Reviewing the goals - ELA, considering the option to tweak the goals that have been the same to
- Breaking down the story of the data versus just seeing the numbers in the
- Considering putting in a growth percentile report alongside the chart on page 7 regarding the grade level percentages - reporting out on the growth per grade levels
  - DIBELS - measures decoding application piece, early literacy skills, phonetic awareness (younger grades)
  - iReady - does measure those things that DIBELS does, but for 3+ grade, gives a comprehension measure as well
- Discussion on page 10, breaking down the first goal, the bullet points
- Examining grade level abilities versus growth also being essential to show
- New wording on Goal #1 needed
  - Proposing new goal language, two bullets outlining decoding and comprehension (those are both subparts of reading proficiency) 80% comprehension and 80% for decoding
  - Wanting another bullet (and achieving annual typical or growth stretch)
  - Students will be comprehending at grade level / and achieving annual typical or stretch growth by the end of each school year.
- Students will show understanding and mastery of grade level reading standards.
  - Decoding bullet (growth is embedded in this) - the 80% number in this too
  - Comprehension (growth in embedded in this) - the 80% number in this too

SES School Council Meeting - 3:15 PM

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