Brookside Middle School

SAC Minutes

November 10, 2005 at 2:15 p.m.

 

 

 

Members Present: 

Karen Rose, Dawn Carey, Nick Kohler, Stephanie Hall, Steve Bloom

 

Visitors: 

Joe Bazenas, Denise Cobb

 

The meeting was called to order at 2:15 p.m. by Nick Kohler.  Nick welcomed everyone and introduced Steve Bloom, who joined the SAC meeting today.

 

Karen Rose - Brookside Writes and Sarasota County Planning Tool

  • County purchased SCPT Princeton Review.
  • Third Brookside Writes will be administered November 15, 2005.
  • Brookside Writes graded as a school.
  • Writing pieces will go back to the teachers and used as a tool.
  • Goal:  To use Sarasota County Planning Tool to create own grade level assessments. 
  • We are using data to plan instruction.
  • DOE-Fl Reading Council Research based literacy materials are being used by all teachers.

 

Nick Kohler - Brookside Assessment:  How Brookside is assessing children.

  • Sarasota County Planning Tool.
  • SRI transfers reading scores into Lexile scores.
  • Lexile shows growth towards goal.
  • Fluency Probes are administered to progress monitor fluency.

 

NeXt Generation (5 year plan)

30 hours non duty time to develop Standards Based Lesson Plans Design.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 3:10 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Stephanie Hall, SAC Secretary