10-20-15+Collaborative+Agenda



Agenda 10/20/14 Present: Dr. Baker-Herring, Mr. Martin, John Naz, John Rama, Jackie McKay, Pam Woods, Kelsey Tackett, Liz Hanna, Lisa O'Connor, Paula Warren, Roxanne Cozza, Ryan Furkas, Amanda Rebeka, Jen Furkas
 * 1) Reviewed the 2013-2017 SIP
 * 2) Reviewed the Program Evaluation Tool--Same Program to evaluate for this year
 * 3) We will keep MLA as our Program Evaluation Goal for 15-16 and will evaluate its effectiveness by analyzing data.
 * 4) Data sources will be 8th grade failures from the previous year vs. current 9th grade failures with MLA vs. 10th grade failures without MLA
 * 5) Discussed if we should renew Sage Publications in the Media Center for next year. The cost is $900.00 Liz & Paula asked if access includes sources for the Senior Research Paper. Tabled until we can determine if this is necessary.
 * 6) Attendance plans/incentives/goal discussion
 * 7) [|Attendance Info]--since teachers can't exclude students with excessive absences and their data impacts if one attains one's achievement goal, good attendance is a concern.
 * 8) [|American Graduate]
 * 9) Attendance incentive proposal
 * 10) Quarterly incentives with less than one full day (6 periods) of excused absences. These could include an ice cream social, pancake breakfast, etc.
 * 11) No unexcused absences
 * 12) Students that are excessively absent will be put on a 'watch list.' These students could be paired with students or staff "sponsors" who will mentor and make daily contact in order to encourage better attendance and grades.
 * 13) The committee would like a current list of students who have excessive absences in order to determine how to create incentives that would motivate them. The committee likes a final exam exception incentive, and believes that pertinent data could be gathered by giving an exit exam. Teachers will need to do this for their achievement goal anyway so all students would still be expected to take a cumulative exam.
 * 14) Jen Furkas will collect data with Liz McNees to determine if the final exam waiver had an impact on attendance from 2007-2010 by comparing and contrasting with data from 2012-2015.
 * 15) Intervention for all students Built-in the school day-Power Hour update
 * 16) Meeting with all staff who volunteered to serve on the Power Hour Committee 10/21
 * 17) Plan to present info at 10/30 staff meeting
 * 18) 10/30 and 11/3 PD
 * 19) The 10/30 PD will be very busy, so there won't be any department time. However, on November 3rd, departments will meet from 12-3.
 * 20) Agendas for department PD are due by Nov. 2; department heads should send minutes of their meeting when done.
 * 21) Other--Attendance incentive committee will meet 10/28/15 in the office conference room for anyone who'd like to work on incentives for students; Jen will send an all-staff email to invite others not on the committee. Lisa made us aware of the number of students who have anxiety issues; pairing kids with someone they can talk to may help with this.


 * Action Steps || Responsible || Deadline || Resources || Potential Barriers || Result ||
 * What task will be done? || Who will do it? || By when? || What do you need to complete this step? (People, money, tools, etc.) || What could get in the way of task completion? How will you overcome them? || What is the outcome of the task? ||
 * Excessive absence student list || MBH || ASAP || Share with SIT ||  || look into staff sponsor possibilities ||
 * Analyze attendance data when we had exam waivers for all grades || Jen Furkas || ASAP || Liz McNees || Data location || What is the correlation? ||
 * Power Hour Info || Committee || 10/21 || Present info ||  || Staff presentation ||