Glenallen Elementary School
School Advisory Council
Minutes
January 8, 2003
The School Advisory Council meeting was held on January 8, 2003 at 4:00 p.m. in Portable 1. Present at the meeting were Joan Bower, Principal, Glenn R.Wile, Assistant Principal, Michelle Channing, co-chairperson, Mary Wagner, Linda Shaughnessy, Myrette Rodney, Holly Gerzeny, Susan Steinfath, Luda Samchuk, and Brian Finnerty. Absent was Natasha Telesford. The meeting was called to order by Michelle Channing. Also present in the audience were Glenallen staff members: Ann Ulmer, Betsy Galterio, Linda Geller, Louanne Steele and Donna McGinn.
Introduction of Brian Finnerty, new business partner
SAC rep, was made by Glenn R. Wile.
Announcement made that Pat Foster has stepped down from
SAC due to conflicts with schedule.
No changes were made to last month’s minutes.
Climate surveys will go home in the report cards on
the 16th and will be considered as a part of the work habits
grade. Student, staff and classified
surveys will also be completed by the end of the month.
Introduction of Ken Marsh, Supervisor of Research
and Development. He came to speak to
our staff regarding the new school “G”.
Issues discussed:
·
February
4th the School Board will adopt the redistricting plan. This will have minimal impact on
Glenallen. School choice will be
delayed until after this decision is made.
·
School
G will be up and running for the 2003-2004 school year. It will be located on the Toledo Blade
campus. Will most likely have separate
school times.
·
Ground
breaking will be later this month. It
will be a 975 capacity school and will be a two story facility.
·
Mrs.
Channing questioned the process for hiring and transferring. All hiring will be based upon the language
written in the union contract. Toledo
Blade will obviously need to surplus teachers.
The process of surplussing and hiring will be done in April.
·
There
will not be a “free walk” for teachers to just opt to transfer to “G”. Mrs. Channing received feedback from a staff
member that our teachers should be given the option whereas this is “our”
community. Again, the contract will
dictate the hiring process.
·
Handouts
were shared showing the boundaries for the three schools. The redistricting has minimal impact on
Glenallen Elementary.
·
ESOL How it impacts this program really depends
upon how it falls and the areas in which our ESOL students are living. We are no longer considered an ESOL cluster
school.
·
All
three schools, based upon the lines of redistricting, will remain Title 1
schools.
·
Issue
of Choice: The issue of choice will be
discussed further with Principals and the Landings as to what schools will/will
not be open for choice. Will be based
upon student projections. May 1 will be
the deadline for choice.
·
How
will they go about making moves and decisions?
4 principles for guiding.
1)
try
to use natural boundaries
2)
try
not to redistrict students from one school to another if possible.
3)
try
to redistrict an area only once.
4)
try
to avoid moving students who can walk today and needing to become a bus rider
tomorrow.
Mr. Marsh
presented two topics for the SAC’s input.
1)
The
issue of the “hook” in redistricting.
Do we have those 30 students come to Glenallen or go elsewhere? We all agree that the districting should be
a straight line and that those students would be districted to Glenallen.
2)
Grandfathering: The School Board is very sensitive to
students who have been at a school for a long time. Glenallen’s input was to not do “Grandfathering”. Feeling that this way Toledo Blade would
remain overcrowded and school “G” might not start out with the proportionate
balance at each grade level. Instead,
entertain the options of redistricting or choice. However, preference may be given to 4th or 5th
graders. Each case will be looked at
individually.
Meeting was adjourned at 5:15 p.m. Next meeting is February 6, 2003.
Respectfully submitted by,
Glenn R. Wile