ATTENDANCE
Shahad Mohieldin, Isabelle Maestas, Scott Lessard, Kevin Vicente, Jennifer Harkness- Quintana, Juliana Evans, Michael Wylde, Mary Jo Minogue, Jay Clapper, Adam Haynes, Ron Sherman, Eric Sherman
CALLED TO ORDER
4:30pm
MINUTES
- Parent Satisfaction Survey
- Overall positive trend
- From 2015 the overall satisfaction of academics moved
- District:
- 2015- 82%
- 2016- 83%
- 2017- 84%
- School
- 2015- 66%
- 2016- 73%
- 2017- 72%
- There are 5 response options
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
- They only account for agree and strongly disagree
- District average only secondary
- Mailed out in Spanish and English
- Met the 20% threshold
- This means that it will be counted
- Thanks to P3 for the help with growth in the school
- Mr. Lessard’s focus
- 79% was the average for the school
- 80% is the benchmark
- Student Satisfaction Survey
- Response rate went from the 64% to 35%
- Overall positive trend
- Growth of 2% in “I am getting a good education at my school”
- A goal is using Infinite Campus to show families what their students are doing in class
- There was a jump in the atmosphere
- Peer tutoring has helped a lot
- 96% on “my school encourages me to go to college”
- Students take it during school
- GW is about the district in its average on family
- We need to continue to work on everything
- Communication has greatly increased
- There are opportunities to increase communication on teacher level
- Teachers can use I.C. to communicate with families
- Sending weekly emails letting families know what their students are working on in class
- How many families have access to internet at home?
- How can we increasing the amount of parent participation in Back to School Night?
- Some families can only come certain times
- Investigating where we see lack of participation
- We are collecting data on the area and languages spoken in the GW community
- There are 60 different languages spoken
- P3 is making every possible effort to bring in families
- We could host a presentation in native languages
- Arabic and Spanish are the most spoken
- We should have Multicultural Day/Night
- Some historic problems are safety and security issues
- We want to continue to build the academic environment
- Introductions to new students
- State of the school
- October count: 1237
- The district is feeling good
- They used the number in September for October count
- The cooling project should almost be done
- There will be some cold rooms
- The Bond Project is in the mist
- Number 1 priority is the windows,
- they will cost around $2 million
- they are going to be double paned
- Number 2 is the locker rooms
- Number 3 is the student’s bathroom will cost around $800,000
- Number 4 is the library
- Want it to be fully staffed
- We filled the French teacher spot
- SPF did great in some areas
- The school won’t be green
- Equity indicator is 45
- We are 50.17 for academics but need to be 50.5
- Great growth in 9th grade English
- Teachers are collaborating once a week
- We recently won the safety award
- GW Speech and Debate are currently first in the state and ninth in country
- The voter registration drive went well
- We have more work to do as a school
- The district will continue to reach in and support us
- Last year there were only 18 suspensions
- Going to try and reduce the opportunity gap
- How do we give them the skills they need?
- All three pathways are legitimate
- Random facts
- GW Athletics had the largest G.P.A
- 94% pass rate went down to 80%
- Made more students pass
- Make sure they have college credit in
- Students will need to take standardized test to graduate starting with this years freshmen
- Big Focus
- PSAT in every content area
- All students should be able to write an argumentative essay
- Next Step
- Giving students the steps to do well on the PSAT
- Advisors
- Senior advisors
- SAT/ACT prep for juniors
- Every sophomore is meeting with a college advisor/ parent interest inventory
- Required to graduate
- We have put more resources in the classroom for 9th graders
- At least 2 adults in the classroom
- How do we do a better job of supporting our students?
- PSAT for 9th, 10th, and 11th grade is very helpful
- State decided to use the PSAT
MEETING ADJOURNED
6:00pm
NEXT MEETING
11/6/22017 – 4:30pm
English
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French
Russian
Spanish