All are welcome to attend; meetings occur in the school library (room 112).

SSC Members (2004/2005)

Send mail to many members ot the SSC: EMAIL SSC

• Sande Leigh, principal
• Diego Montoya, treasurer, parent
• Isak Lindenauer, community member
• Alisa Chriss, school secretary, parent
• Ruben Urbina, parent, chair of SSC
• Sesheta Hanible, teacher
• Brendan Creane, teacher
• Dara Peters, teacher
• Ruby MacDonald, parent
• Edith Hidalgo, parent, ELAC
• Megan Van, parent, special education
• Delonzo Pope, parent alternate (backup)
• Lincoln Lee, parent alternate (backup)
• Amy Rosenthal - Kinder parent representative

SSC review feedback from staff and community. Revise plan and budget.

• Preliminary budget approved by SSC with input from parent and teacher communities.
• New body of parents needed for both SSC and ELAC groups. Meeting must be held before election for the ELAC. Four positions are open for SSC, one needs to be from the ELAC as well. We need to nominate new member. Elections must be held before end of October.

• Discussed metods for gathering input on budget priorities. The initial draft of the budget is due october 1, 2004. We'll hold a staff meeting on September 28, 2004 to present ideas and gather staff input. Starting September 21, parents will receive a letter in the Wednesday folder which presents budget ideas and asks for input regarding opinions and new ideas. Within the SSC the following ideas were suggested for spending unallocated monies:

  • Perform a needs analysis of curriculum materials for math, reading, and science with the intent of purchasing critical materials that address the needs of low-performing students.
  • Identify professional development and planning time resources that will help teachers focus on math and reading performance of low-performing students.
  • Create a musical instrument scholarship program to help low-income students pay the $100 / year instrument rental fee.

  Bottom line: we have a plan for completing the first draft of the school 2004/2005 budget.

  Welcome to new members: Dara Peters, and Ruby MacDonald

• Core Values of SSC members:

  • Focusing on academic goals and needs is positive
  • Reading other people's opinions on the SSC survey was positive
  • Identifying trends in student performance (assessments) is important
  • Connecting the PFC, SSC, and school staff is positive and needed (triangle of interest and communication)
  • Note: we represent a variety of constiuencies -- staff, parents, students.

  Summary of meeting:

  • Reviewed SSC end-of-last-year's SSC self-assessment results ... areas of concern include:
    • UBC -- the staff is in the process of forming the Union Building Committee. The new site representative is Phil Nymark (second grade teacher).
    • ELAC (English Language Advisory Committee) -- the committee needs to be organized. Focus on Spanish-speaking parents since the majority of english language learner identified students is Spanish speaking. We need to involve one member of the ELAC with the SSC.
    • Roles and responsibilities of members of SSC still not clear. All SSC members will attend the district SSC training in October.
  • Monitor academic plan throughout the school year. Create a small committee (two members) to review reading first test data through the OARS system (online reporting tool).
  • Monitor math progress in classrooms. The ideal method would be for teachers to administer the same assessment at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year. Otherwise, administer, record, and publish (to the committee) the results of Harcourt end-of-chapter tests.
  • SSC must monitor and report to the various constiuents the budget status.
  • Next meeting is September 15, 2004, 8am. Elect SSC members, set up ELAC.