Members Present:
Pat Bliss -
Instructional Tina
Martinelli - Parent
Amiee Buckman
- Parent Bob
Marvin - Instructional
Ali Dvoskin
- Student Kate
Mocherman - Classified
Jorge Echevierri - ESOL Alison
Neville - Classified
Chuck Evans –
Instructional/SAC Chairman Linda
Nook – RHS Principal
Abby Gerrity
- Parent Janice
Piedra - Parent
Lloyd Hankinson –
Instructional Kim
Richards - Instructional
Sue Hlohinec
- Parent Dusty
Twining - Instructional
Bonnie Kulha - Parent Dimitrije Zdravkovich -
Instructional
Guests:
Lisa Hlohinec
– Student
Jeanne Ladimir - SAC Secretary
Rachel Shelley – RHS
Assistant Principal/SAC Facilitator
Members Absent:
Jim Popielinski – Parent (Excused)
Curt Singleton - Parent
Meeting was called to order at
On
Linda Nook stated that RHS SAC does not represent the ethnic and
racial diversity in our school and that it is incumbent upon her to find a
representative that will help balance that issue. She is aware that it is difficult for most
business people to attend a 2:00 p.m. meeting and that she is searching for
someone who is willing to make that commitment. She has a few names in mind and she will
bring names forward at the September meeting.
In order for an absence to be excused, you must call the secretary
responsible and let them know that you are not going
to be present.
Chuck Evans for 2004 –
05 SAC Chairman
Jeanne Ladimir for 2004 – 05 SAC Secretary
Janice Piedra for 2004 – 05 SAC Vice Chairperson
No objections.
Chuck Evans reviewed all
the ground rules for RHS SAC.
Chuck Evans reviewed a letter from the Office of the
Governor. He stated that the money
($247,000.00) is available now to benefit the school and staff and that it can
be accessed as soon as the school’s staff and SAC can jointly decide how to use
the award. He would like this process to
be as cordial and as expedient as possible.
If it can’t be decided upon, the Governor & the Dept. of Ed. put in
a clause stating that 100% of the money goes only to this year’s instructional
staff. The deadline is
SACS Accreditation will take one year to get
ready.
AYP and NCLB (No Child Left Behind) measure
differently than the state accountability system and forces us to look at the
individual sub groups and our state accountability system does not require
that. NCLB will identify a special
learning student who receives a special diploma as a dropout and does not
consider them to have graduated high school.
This is counted against the school.
When we go before the board on
Linda Nook said the graduation rate has
increased from 70% - 83%, but feels a 70% graduation rate is unacceptable and
that we have a long way to go regarding the minority graduation rate. She also stated that 51% of 9th &10th
grade students were reading on or above level and that too, is
unacceptable. She said that it is not OK
that only half of our kids are achieving and when we move into the School
Improvement Plan (SIP) process, we are going to have to make this a real clear
focus.
Students presently in dual enrollment classes
(MCC) have to take the college placement test in order to be eligible.
Research says that
schools that do well have one or two measurable goals. RHS’s
two goals will be in
Rachel Shelley reviewed
the School Improvement Plan 1998-2004, Campaign for Excellence, Strategic Plan
III and spoke of the inservice workshops &
conferences that were held this summer.
One of those was the Literacy Conference where everyone was taught how
to incorporate reading across the board. She reviewed the attached Action Plan
that staff members drafted. One plan, Silent
Reading Time has us working closely with the
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
COMMUNITY
LITERACY AND DATA ACTION
PLANS (SUMMER 2004)
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION OF
COLLEGE AND SCHOOLS (SACS)
Every five years, in order for our students to qualify to go to
Universities, our school has to be approved by the Southern Association of
College and Schools (SACS). Without this
accreditation, our students who receive diplomas will not be recognized at any
of our state and out of state universities.
The Accreditation packet has standards.
You must document everything.
There will be one chairperson for each area and the entire staff will be
involved. This needs to be staff
driven. There needs to be one point
person. Ten people are needed who will
be willing to invest in us.
It is a 17 mo. process
and we are down to 7 mos.
CALENDAR OF SAC MEETINGS
Reviewed Calendar of SAC Meetings.
“A”
SCHOOL MONEY
RHS’s Curriculum Coordinators suggested a ballot with two
choices: 95(staff)/5 (school) or 90
(staff)/10 (school), will be given to all staff to find out how they would like
the money distributed. The staff portion
would be divided equally by all staff (custodians, classified, teachers, etc.)
like last year. Last year, the school
portion of the money went towards a career scholarship person. SAC recommended a third choice to be added to
the ballot 85(staff)/15(school).
Suggestions:
Renaissance Tutoring Center
Money for the
Abby Gerrity suggests Read 180
technology based reading program and Linda Nook does not rule it out. Possibly for 9th
and 10th grade students in the near future.
Foundation has pledged $30,000 to the
District has given RHS $20,000 or $30,000.
$50,000 for the
The
It was suggested that we keep the
Mobile labs are not improving our reading.
Abby Gerrity states the importance of
parent communication.
The meeting was adjourned at
The next SAC meeting
will be held
Respectfully submitted by:
Jeanne Ladimir