School Advisory Council
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Educational Excellence School Advisory Council |
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6611 Country Club Middle School
Verified EESAC Meeting Minutes for: 11/20/2018 08:00 AM
Please contact the school for a formatted hard copy of these minutes.
Recording Secretary: Elda Estrada
Location of meeting: Country Club Middle School
Was a quorum established? Yes
Was the meeting advertised? Yes, 08/23/2018
Attendance:
Members Present:
Lima, Cynthia (Principal)
Cannon, Claudette (Teacher)
Karan-Miyar, Duysevi (Teacher)
Leon, Michelle (Teacher)
Phillips-Ingraham, Tawana (Teacher)
ALI, SAUDIA (Parent)
Estrada, Elda (Alternate Parent)
BROWN, SAIDAH (Student)
RIVAS, MARIA (Business/Community Representative)
RODRIGUEZ, EVELYN (Business/Community Representative)
SEDENO, EDDY (Business/Community Representative)
Members Absent (Excused):
VIillazon, Jacqueline (Alternate Principal)
Curry-Coffee, Nicole (Union Steward)
Stephen, Josmeen (Teacher)
Martin, Myra (Alternate Teacher/Paraprofessional)
Javed, Elba (Educational Support Employee)
Pino, Marisol (Alternate Educational Support)
GARY, YVONNE (Parent)
RIVERA, KARINA (Parent)
Estrada, Daniel E (Alternate Student)
Members Absent (Unexcused):
DOZIER, RITA (Parent)
DOZIER-DANIELS, JORDYNN (Student)
SHEARN, MAHYA (Student)
Others Present:
No one else was present.
Topics Covered:
Meeting called to order at 8:00am
Announcements:
Ms. Duysevi Karan-Miyar( EESAC Chairperson):
Ms. Josmeen Stephen , teacher has resigned from EESAC. An election will take place to replace Ms. Stephen at our next faculty meeting.
Also, our business community representative from YMCA called and said they will not be able to attend our meetings. Ms. Perez has been given the task of selecting another business community member and she selected Ms. Maria Rivas, who is the owner of the business down the street.
Correction of Minutes:
Corrections were identified and will be submitted.
Principal updates:
Ms. Cynthia Lima
Student ID’s:
Plastic clear envelopes where the soft ID’s can be placed with a lanyard, were purchased. Ms. Villazon and Mr. Gutierrez will update as to when these will be distributed to the students.
Our Winter Expo will take place at American Senior High School ,which is our feeder pattern High School at 6pm on December 12, 2018 . The EXPO consists of two parts the first part is the Exhibition where we will present our two Magnets and Culinary Arts and Fine Arts The second part, we will showcase our performing arts in Dance and Band.
We do lock the perimeter, at this time 28 faculty and staff members have keys to unlock the perimeter gates. If there is an extreme emergency where any faculty needs to leave campus they can exit out of the Main Office.
We did have 3 out of the 4 Elementary Schools in our feeder pattern visit our campus, by far the showcasing of each classroom got better and better as the days went by. These Elementary Schools are Spanish Lakes, Charles Wynch and Joella Good. Palm Springs North chose not to participate.
Civics EOC night- Thursday November 15, 2018
Ms. Cannon added that we had 20 parents participate.
Ms. Leon will be spearheading our STEAM night which will take place January 16, 2019 at 5:30pm in our Cafetorium in collaboration with Miami Dade College. This will include all faculty and staff.
A recruitment letter has been sent to the parents of 780 incoming fifth graders. The letter was also sent out to the faculty so that they can be aware of the recruitment process. The letter concludes by inviting parents to our STEAM night On January 16, 2019 at our Cafetorium.
Two lunches have been implemented. This has allowed us to increase safety measures and students are not arriving to class late.
We are in the process of hiring a part time security. We are taking applications. Ms. Villazon will be interviewing along with Mr. Gutierrez to narrow down the candidates . Once this is done the interview committee will interview and chose one candidate.
Algebra Camp- Back to Basics took place this past Saturday, in collaboration with Ms. Hopkins she makes the flyers and picks the Saturday to conduct the Algebra Camp.
Ms. McGgraw our Security Monitor and our faculty member Ms. Stephen reached out to our faculty members and selected 16 young ladies that could benefit from a mentoring program which they called GEMS . The young ladies were invited to a lunch on November 1st, 2018. Also, several events will take place throughout the year to get these young ladies together and have faculty and community members give presentations.
Two no opt PD days Oct 26 and November 6. Country Club Middle School had a PD available on campus for both of these days. Not all Middle Schools did that for their teachers. It was very well attended. Our first PD was dedicated to data and IReady.
November 6 was dedicated to technology and started with MS. Leon discussing the new performance matters testing platform
Course offerings for 2019-2020 will increase in electives like Computer Science.
Attendance- Counselors were given the choice to pick a grade level and every day call the parents of students that are absent.
The Attendance plan will Ms. Scheives is assigned to 6th grade
Mr. Fabal is assigned to 7th grade and our Social Worker Mr. Casteledo was agreed to handle 8th grade. The counselor with the best attendance numbers will win at the end of the year.
The district has implemented Lock Down Drills and they give scenarios. For example, an Active Shooter. In the past we have never had to do this type of Lock Down Drills. Lock Down drills are not always tied to an intruder in the building. After every lockdown I meet with everyone who has a radio who is involved in making sure that everything is locked down, and we revised the Code Red, Code Yellow Procedures.
Incentives- Today our Honor roll Ceremony, which is spearheaded by Ms. Leon and sponsored by the EESAC will take place. Students will receive a donut and a certificate
Our community involvement specialist and parent Ms. Rivas added that her son will be part of the ceremony and did not eat breakfast because he was looking forward to eating his breakfast donut at school.
Student of the Month will also receive their reward, a $15 Burger King gift card.
Our school count is at 675 so we have increased in numbers. Our Budget Conference was on October 1st. Any increase in student numbers after October 1st will not go into the budget.
Ms. Leon created a spreadsheet that includes all the topic assessments for the year. For example, looking at Ms. Cannons Civics Mini Assessments, we can see that for Mini- Assessment 1 the school achieved a score of 69.2 and the district achieved 63. For the second Mini- Assessment the school achieved 78.6 and the District 54.3
Algebra, Geometry, Biology and Science are also included in the spreadsheet.
English Language Arts does not give a mini assessment. They have the I-Ready assessment which is not comparable to the test. This year we are implementing a writing assessment that the teachers are grading and incorporate that in our growth monitoring.
The writing assessment window will be from April 1st- April 12th . The official testing window begins May 1st this year until the last
week of May.
ESOL Tutoring
Ms. Duysevi Karan-Miyar
Tutoring begins the week of November 12th. Language Arts and Science. After school and before school.
Title 1 updates
No Title 1 updates at this time.
Student updates.
Student Saidah Brown, added that the Homecoming Dance was fun, many of her friends were there. The Homecoming Dance sold out.
Parent Updates-
Student Saidah Brown's mother added that they went to a Magnet Fair at American Senior High and a Science Teacher told her that he has observed that incoming 9th graders are doing better than from 2 years ago. Students are more focused and on task. It was a great compliment.
Evelyn Rodriguez, Representative from Miami Dade College brought flyers to be distributed to students advertising a community event for the holidays.
New Community Member and Parent Ms. Maria Rivas introduced herself. Her youngest child Daniel attends Country Club Middle School and everyone that comes to the store always mentions positive things about the school.
Two additional computer labs have been opened making 208 computers total.
Next meeting will be December 18th at 7:45am.
Meeting is adjourned at 8:53am.