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: 09/12/2019 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, 09/04/2019
Attendance:
Members Present:
Villazon, Jacqueline (Alternate Principal)
KARAN-MIYAR, DUYSEVI (Union Steward)
Leon, Michelle (Teacher)
Mohammad, Ahmed (Teacher)
Phillips-Ingraham, Tawana (Teacher)
Saavedra, Jennifer (Teacher)
Corrales, Diosdado (Educational Support Employee)
CARCAMO, JOSE (Parent)
DOZIER, RITA (Parent)
MCDUFFIE, TRACY (Parent)
PASTOR, OLGA (Parent)
Estrada, Elda (Alternate Parent)
DOZIER-DANIELS, JORDYNN (Student)
MCCURVIN, NYLAH (Student)
Estrada, Daniel E (Alternate Student)
RIVAS, MARIA (Business/Community Representative)
RODRIGUEZ, EVELYN (Business/Community Representative)
SEDENO, EDDY (Business/Community Representative)
Members Absent (Excused):
Crespo, Rafael (Principal)
Picado, Jessica (Teacher)
Cannon, Claudette (Alternate Teacher/Paraprofessional)
Perez, Isabel (Alternate Educational Support)Members Absent (Unexcused):
SHEARN, MAHYA (Student)
Others Present:
Zachary Estrada (student)
William Cruz (parent)
Sherlis JOseph (parent)
JeanMarie Fonguet (community representative)
Taquaysha Hills (parent)
Elizabeth Thermids (parent)
Marcela Pena (parent)
Dr. Samuel A. Trice (parent)Topics Covered:
Introductions
Meeting to order at 8:11am
Approval of Minutes: Minutes approved with corrections
Karan-Miyar:
Due to the Hurricane Dorian, the EESAC meeting date was changed from September 5, 2019 to September 12, 2019.
Stated that before conducting business we need to establish a quorum.
3 parents are needed that will be attending the EESAC meetings. It is a 3 year term, If you miss more than 2 meetings you are considered resigned. Parents conducted a vote and the 3 new parents elected to EESAC were as follows.
Mr. Jose Carcomo
Ms. Olga Pastor
Ms. Tracy McDuffie
Ms. Dozier Motioned to add the new parents to EESAC 2019-20 roster
Motion was seconded by Mr. Ahmed
Motion is approved and carries
Principal Updates:
Ms. Villazon, Assistant Principal sitting on behalf of Mr. Crespo who is in a Principal's Meeting.
Currently I am in the process of opening some gifted classes for 7th and 8th graders who are on the gifted program. We revamped the ESOL program as far as scheduling to make the students placed by ESOL level.
School Improvement Plan:
Ms. Miyar emailed everyone the SIP to review and approve during today's meeting. Every year schools have to do a SIP and identify 2 areas where the school needs improvement in. One is regarding school culture and the other is academics. We obtain data driven information from the school climate survey, this survey is given to a random selection of students and parents. Based on the student school climate survey. They identified that the area of concern is the cleanliness of the school. However, we have had perfect sanitation audits for the last 3 years. It is a small representation of the student body with only about 60 kids answering the survey out of 730 students. I will be meeting more regularly with custodians and doing classroom walkthroughs making sure everything is kept up. In Academics, the area that we dropped in the most was Mathematics, this area we are heavily focusing on this year. The year prior Science was our focus and we did quite a few strategies, we went up 6 percentage points in Science. This year we have incorporated Intensive Math for the level 2 students. An additional Algebra class to reinforce and make sure that the students pass the EOC. We are going to have support from he district for Mathematics, Mathematics camps, and tutoring. These are the two areas that we are going to vote on.
Karan-Miyar asks for a motion to approve the SIP
Ms. Evelyn Rodriguez motions to approve the SIP
Mr. Jose Carcamos Seconds the Motion
The Motion is approved and carries
Title I Updates:
Ms. Dominguez-our Community involvement specialist
The Title I representatives Parent Representatives are: Marcela Pena, Rita Dozier, Elda Estrada.
In the DAC meeting they will vote on this.
Family Engagement Plan was distributed. A letter stating that this year we are a Title I school and also the parent Compact. The Parent Compact should list on the left hand side the Country Club Middle School guidelines and the parents will. The parent compact is a comparison between the rights of the school and the rights of the parents; for example; Parents have the right to a PTC, being informed of students progress or failure. As a Community Involvement Specialist I work directly with the parents and the students. I make sure that you can create a parent portal to ensure you have access to your child's grades and any questions you may have you can speak to me, Ms. Dominguez. September 18, during Open House we will be having a Title I meeting at 5:00pm and also our Open House.
Student Updates:
Jordyn Dozier-Daniels-
Students would like to know when the Open House is.
Naylah McCurvin would like to be one of the student members
On September 11, 2019 we had our EESAC teacher elections and education support employee elections. Ms. Jennifer Saavedra was elected as a new teacher rep.
Ms. Claudette Cannon requested to be an alternate teacher. An alternate means that when a teacher doesn't come the alternate gets to vote in case we need a quorum. Ms. Michelle Leon, Ms. Duysevi Karan-Miyar were reelected. For Education Support Employee Mr. Diosdodo Corrales was elected and Ms. Isabel Perez is the alternate.
Karan-Miyar announced EESAC Stakeholders training on October 25, 2019 and recommends all stakeholders to attend.
Our Rosters will be verified and locked tomorrow. We will be taking the SIP signature page tomorrow to the Region.
Announcements-
The floor is open. Ms. Maria Rivas wanted to know about the PTSA. If any parents would like to participate in PTSA please sign your name with contact information so we can contact you to recruit members for the PTSA. The elections will be scheduled at at later date by a PTSA representative.
Tracy McDuffie,the PTSA can promote establishing a community garden, the Home Depot has a grant to help schools establish a garden. Ms. McDuffie will contact Ms. Spicer to discuss the garden.
Bake sales, t-shirt sales. We have activities at night where the PTSA can be invited to sell.
Meeting was Adjourned at 8:50am
October 15, 2019 will be our next EESAC Meeting.