CSC MEETING MINUTES

10/05/09

6:15pm-8:18pm

Members Present: Students, Ashley Ajayi, Amelia Kucic, Isabel Hoyt, Kyra       Trimble; Parents; Linda During, Mary Jo Minogue, Becky Moore, Teachers; Anna Wadsworth, Jim Goffred; Principal; Steve Goldstein

1.   Principal’s  Report

a.       Homecoming Week

                   b.  Early Dismissal (10/16/09)

                   c.  Posted Admissions-Hiring Process

                   d. Interventionist-literacy area

2.   School Improvement Plan

a.       Revising SIP to update

b.      Pre-testing

c.       CSAP changing to ACT?

d.      Achievement Gap closing slowly

e.       Parent Involvement

f.       Pride Survey

g.      Denver Plan

3.   CSC Bylaws

a.       Changes- minimal

b.      No changes in wording

c.       Give Mr. Goldstein ground rules for meetings that would be inserted into CSC by-laws

d.      Wait until next meeting to approve 

4.   Mission Statement

a.       Touchstone?

b.      CSC individual statement?

c.       Agreed to go with touchstone from school

5.   Community/ Civic Leader

a.       City council or business representative

b.      1 submission- Bob Knous (real-estate developer, lawyer, public education      philanthropist and active in community, and a GW alum of 1965)

c.       Would be helpful if a business leader around the GW community

6.   Other Topics

a.       Help improve faculty relations

b.      Faculty Appreciation Day

c.       Fundraiser