School Advisory Council
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Educational Excellence School Advisory Council |
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0521 Broadmoor Elementary School
Verified EESAC Meeting Minutes for: 05/24/2018 03:30 PM
Please contact the school for a formatted hard copy of these minutes.
Recording Secretary: Maritza Hernandez
Location of meeting: Media Center
Was a quorum established? Yes
Was the meeting advertised? Yes, 08/21/2017
Attendance:
Members Present:
Riaz, Omar (Principal)
Welch, JoAnne (Union Steward)
Edwards-Jerry, Kativa (Teacher)
Hernandez, Maritza (Teacher)
Moore, Crystel (Teacher)
Quintero, Amparo (Teacher)
Johnson, Shandela (Alternate Teacher/Paraprofessional)
Rosario, Wanda (Educational Support Employee)
Members Absent (Excused):
Grisales, Paola (Teacher)
Rodriguez, Gracemelly (Alternate Educational Support)
Anacreon, Fabiola (Parent)
Cruz, Eva (Parent)
Paz, Emma (Parent)
Pileta, Angel (Parent)
Rodriguez, Roberto (Parent)
Soriano, Marta (Parent)
Williams, Tyesha (Alternate Parent)
Mercado, Grace (Student)
Paz, Ileana (Alternate Student)
Monert, Daniel (Business/Community Representative)
Romero, Josefina (Business/Community Representative)
Members Absent (Unexcused):
No one had an unexcused absence.
Others Present:
Galceran, Maritza (Assistant Principal)
Topics Covered:
EESAC Meeting Minutes 5/24/2018 3:30pm
Last month’s meeting minutes-
Motion to approve last month’s meeting minutes (Hernandez )
Motion carried (all)
Introductions/ Welcome:
New attendees: N-A
Handouts: meeting minutes, agenda, review Bylaws/Roster, budget
School Improvement Plan/Action Plan Reviews/ Data Updates
Goals, Strategies and Action Plan
The staff just completed the 2017-2018 Continuous Reflection Worksheet during yesterday’s faculty meeting. I sent the staff an email with the summarized version and each grade levels responses. I created a summary with the responses provided by the grade levels. Thank you for your continued support. If you feel the document should be revised, please let me know. Most of the grade levels echoed that we were fully implementing Academic Programs/ Support, School Culture, and School Leadership. The grade levels tied in the professional development section; three said fully implemented and three said partially implemented. I decided that will be one of the areas that we will focus on for next year’s School Improvement Plan. To summarize, the staff felt that they would like more unformal opportunities for feedback during the next school year. I will submit this document to the district along with the SIP model. -Riaz
iReady
The third iReady diagnostic assessments will be completed by tomorrow. We were waiting for the third grade Florida Standards Assessment results to do a mock testing for the students who needed it to be promoted to the next grade. When we look at the whole school, the scores look promising. We have flipped the model of proficiency. For math, we currently have 65% tier one students who are on grade level; 28% tier 2 students one year below grade level and 7% tier 3 students who are more than one grade level behind. In reading not including third grade we currently have 53% tier one students who are on grade level; 33% tier 2 students one year below grade level and 14% tier 3 students who are more than one grade level behind. Our predicted proficiency scores in math are third grade at 59%, fourth grade at 55% and fifth grade at 52%. For reading we are still waiting for third grade to test, fourth grade is at 37% and fifth grade is at 40% proficiency. -Riaz
What is our goal for reading? - Quintero
We set it at 50% proficiency but 45% proficiency would do. -Riaz
Do you think we will make a “B” this year? -Welch
I would hope so, but we still must wait for the scores to be released. -Riaz
I heard that the lowest 300 schools’ criteria has changed. Is this true? -Jerry
Yes, they decided to average out the last three years of scores and then rank them in descending order. This way the schools will need to make a slow and steady improvement in order to not fall under that criteria. The state wants the school to stay consistent in this matter.
It is realistic for this to be a gradual process. -Johnson
Do you track students from k-5 based on SAT scores and FSA scores? -Welch
Yes, any possible data element we track it, SAT scores, iReady scores, FSA scores, behavior and attendance. -Riaz
Math Topic Assessments
We are currently working on the getting ready for the next grade series and CPALMS lessons. -Galceran
FSA Weekly Assessments
We are still working on this until the end of the school year. -Quintero
Monthly Instructional Focus
We made it to the end of this year! -Quintero
Professional Development Opportunities
The following are the professional development opportunities that the district is offering online on Beacon:
-Summer 2018 Clinical Supervision Course
-Summer 2018 ESOL Endorsement Course
-Summer 2018 Reading Endorsement Course
The following are the professional development opportunities that the district is offering face to face:
-2018 Summer Professional Development Offerings
- Mindful Kids Miami (MKM) Mindfulness -Based Stress Reduction Summer Program.
RTI / Leadership Team Reviews / Updates
We are meeting with parents of the students we are going to retain. Every student who is being considered for retention needs a Referral for Assistance form completed by the teacher. We have a list of students that we are waiting for the Florida Standards Assessment scores to be released so we can refer them to the gifted program. We have currently staffed a few students for Speech and SLD accommodations- Galceran
Clear Backpack Pilot Program
We have decided not to participate in the clear backpack pilot program. We know it will be a financial burden for our parents to purchase them so we decided not to implement this. -Riaz
EESAC 2017-2018 End of Year Reflection Process
We are confirming that our Educational Excellence School Advisory Committee (EESAC) is in compliance with School Board Bylaws & Policy (SBBP) and State Statutes for the 2017-2018 school year. We meet all the following requirements:
-At least four EESAC meetings were held for the 2017-2018 school year.
-All EESAC meetings were advertised with Citizen Information Center at least 5 business days prior to the scheduled meeting dates.
-The EESAC roster and bylaws were reviewed and updated on or before Friday, September 22, 2017.
-The Principal and EESAC Chair verified the EESAC Roster on or before Friday, November 17, 2017.
-All EESAC agendas included the monitoring and implementation of the SIP/Action Plan.
-The EESAC reviewed and approved the 2017-2018 SIP/Action Plan (as applicable) on or before Friday, October 13, 2017.
-The EESAC ensured that quorum was established at all meetings where a vote was conducted.
-All EESAC meeting minutes have been posted to the OSI website (osi.dadeschools.net) and contain language to support the monitoring of the SIP/Action Plan.
-All meeting minutes have been approved by the EESAC.
-All meeting minutes have been verified by the principal, except for the last meeting for the 2017-2018 school year which will remain in the “Pending Verification” column until the 2018-2019 school year.
-The EESAC reviewed and approved the Mid-Year Reflection (as applicable).
-The EESAC reviewed and approved the End-of-Year Continuous Improvement Reflection (CIR).
Open Forum/ Discussion
School Operations
I want to formally announce that I spoke to the gentleman in charge of the vending machine. He is willing to bring it back if we meet the criteria the district enforces of healthy foods only. I brought it up to the staff in yesterday’s faculty meeting and they unanimously agreed that they did not want the vending machine back with those terms. -Riaz
I want to thank Mr. Snipes for going above and beyond to get me a replacement lamp for my promethean board. The children were very excited to see it working again. - Hernandez
Curriculum Issues
We had our Math STEM night this week and had many parents come. We are going to host two more STEM nights before the school year ends one for coding and one for robotics. -Galceran
Budget Reviews / Updates
2018-2019 School Budget
We have the CASAS Detail by School preliminary budget for the next school year. We have been allocated 20 teachers and would like to purchase a kindergarten teacher to reduce class size in that grade level. We need to bring our enrollment higher. It is unknown if we will be given the $20,000 ETO gives us to purchase an interventionist. We pay $30,000 for each interventionist and I don’t know if we would afford it without ETO’s help. Since we have flipped the model to more students at proficiency and less at below grade level we will focus on having a more strategic intervention next year. -Riaz
Title I Budget (Parent Input)
We would like more feedback on how to spend our Title I budget for the next school year. We have been allotted $185,000 to purchase one teacher, Ms. Rosario, our Reading Coach Ms. Quintero. After that we will have about $2,000 left for materials. -Riaz
Will we ever get another math coach? -Jerry
No, we will be operating like another tier one school. -Riaz
I remember when we had Ms. Pena as our Science Coach in the Science Lab. She was amazing! -Johnson
Yes, you should consider her for something like that if we have the opportunity again. -Jerry
When my sister attended this school her most favorite part was her class. Catherine always looked forward to her class! -Hernandez
My granddaughter loved it too! - Rosario
Title One
Five of our parents are getting honored on May 30th including Eva Cruz for being involved in the PTA. We are also receiving an honor as a school in the Title I resource Center right around the corner for having the most involved parents in our feeder pattern. -Rosario
New business
Comments/Concerns
I would like to bring back the Five Thousand Role Models Program to the school. -Welch
Do you have any details about the program? - Jerry
No, but I would like to bring it to the school again. -Welch
What is going on with the mentoring program? - Welch
It has been going on all year. Teachers were instructed to meet with their mentees throughout the year. I sent an email to teachers to document their mentoring. -Galceran
Mr. Gonzalez is here every day before school starts to mentor his student. He is such a great mentor! I’m surprised you haven’t seen him early in the morning. -Johnson
Yes, he is! He is so devoted to his student he even plays chess with him from time to time! - Hernandez
Mr. Rivera is also doing a great job with his student. He meets with her every day! -Jerry
I know we are supposed to have one entry point to the school at all times but the other day I noticed that there was a man getting cardboard from the trash. We need to secure that gate as well. -Jerry
Motion to adjourn -Hernandez
Motion carried -Quintero
Adjourned 4:38pm.