Educational Excellence School Advisory Council

7541 North Miami Beach Senior High School

Verified EESAC Meeting Minutes for:    08/30/2018  03:10 PM

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Recording Secretary:    Mrs. Amanda Simon- Gant

Location of meeting:    North Miami Beach Senior High School Room 710

Was a quorum established?    Yes

Was the meeting advertised?    Yes,  08/20/2018

Attendance:

Members Present:

Milliken, Randy (Principal)
Ridore, Billy C (Alternate Principal)
Davis, James (Union Steward)
Gant, Alicia (Teacher)
Longley-Proctor, Aldene (Teacher)
Martin, Veronica (Teacher)
Simon-Gant, Amanda (Teacher)
Torres, Frank (Alternate Teacher/Paraprofessional)
Moss, Eric (Parent)
Aukbarille, Mohamad (Student)
Chavez, Kelly (Student)
Dempsey, Phillip (Student)
Francois, Hudalth (Student)
Lafleche, Renaldine (Student)
Politess, Tatiana (Student)
Rivers, Erick (Student)
Pickeny, Janna (Alternate Student)
Currie-Williams, Michelle (Business/Community Representative)

Members Absent (Excused):

Boeva, Vania (Teacher)
Clerizier, Edma (Educational Support Employee)
Serrano, Peter (Alternate Educational Support)
Rivers, Chery (Parent)

Members Absent (Unexcused):

Thezan, Dayjeah (Student)
Volmidor, Justine (Alternate Studen

Others Present:

Shkyla Moore
Jimmy Decembre
Sabriana Antenor

Topics Covered:

• Quorum reached at 3:07 pm
• Ms. Gant welcome everyone to the meeting and had them go around and do introductions. She let everyone know that the meetings are monthly.
• Ms. Gant – EESAC chair,
• Meeting paused b/c lost quorum 3:09.
• Quorum reestablished at 3:10
• Mr. Ridore alt for Mr. Milliken, Mr. Torres alt teacher, Ms. Martin ESE teacher, Ms. Longley-Proctor new teacher, Mrs. Simon-Gant voting member.
• Ms. Curry arrived at 3:10
• Kelly Challis – treasurer of SGA and vice-president of ICC, Sabrinor president SGA; Kimmy co-president of Bible club
• Tatiana GEMS, Mohammad president of NHS; Shklya president of GSA; Erick Janna president of HIP Huldath vice-president of HIP
• Dr. Currie director of Upward Bound Program – MDC business partner
• Mr. Milliken – principal
• Ms. Gant will follow Robert rules of order – review of minutes from the last meeting.
• Longley-proctor – motion minutes accepted with corrections
• Seconded by Erick Rivers and Ms. Martin
• Ms. Gant – will move forward and look at a few important dates
• By 9/12 have to review and update bylaws and new elections and also an insurance checklist.
• Have to review phase I and phase II of the SIP
• 3:15 Mr. Moss arrived
• Have to update roster of members
• Add Currie Williams as business community partner, Ms. Vetiac no longer here, Mrs. Simon-Gant moved up to teacher position and Mr. Torres voted in as alternate.
• Mr. Moss and Ms. Rivers are parent rep until PTSA is situated
• Ms. Gant asks if there are any other changes and a motion for the EESAC roster
• Dr. Davis motions to accept the roster with name changes along with student names based on attendance.
• Seconded by Longley-Proctor and Simon-Gant
• Ms. Gant – discuss elections and cedes to Dr. Davis to discuss elections
• Dr. Davis open floor for nominations for EESAC chair
• Erick nominates Ms. Gant and she accepts, Mr. Moss nominates Ms. Martin and she declines.
• Longley-Proctor motion to close nomination for chair
• Seconded by Torres and Rivers
• Ms. Martin open for co-chair for nominations for co-chair
• Ms. Longley proctor motion to close nomination for
• Longley proctor nominate Simon-Gant for recording secretary
• Torres motion to close nominations for secretary
• Ms. Gant chair, Ms. Martin co-chair, Mrs. Simon-Gant recording secretary.
• Gant look at bylaws from last year
• Gant wants to make 1 change, paragraph b council members instead of saying it has to be president and vice-president of sophomore or junior class, it be president vice-president of any club.
• Discussion from last years minutes that it was only the class presidents, wishes to change it to any club president and vice-president
• Moss – idea to broaden it more?
• Milliken – are going to increase amount of membership? Doesn’t want to open the number of members.
• Rivers – if open to all clubs, the first 8 would be elected to EESAC membership,
• Milliken – need to elect and have other club members as alternates
• Milliken – wording should be that all club vice-president or president would be an alternate if the voting members
• Milliken the only problem word be keeping track of which students can vote
• Davis- would need to vote on the issue of the language
• Milliken – problem seeing that there is no line of succession
• Gant – 8 voting members given by Mrs. Bertani
• Davis – change the idea that voting members would only
• Gant – voting of the 8 members done at the ICC meeting
• Milliken – need to clearly state that the alternates will be provided by ICC
• Gant – table momentarily to fix the language; the 8 names would be on the roster
• Davis – take vote on changing the language to include voting members on every club and opening it up to the idea of all clubs voting at the ICC meeting. Table it until later on in the meeting today. The committee agrees to that
• Gant – financial proposals view and approval – EESAC funding guideline procedures – Read through and see how we will govern how funding goes this year.
• Gant any suggestions and changes to guidelines or proposal, any motion on floor
• Milliken motion to accept proposals
• Longley-proctor seconded
• Gant – this is the guidelines for this year
• Gant – discuss EESAC budget
• Milliken- discuss budget. The current budget $7,376 based on FTE. Any questions
• Moss – concerned about encumbrances from last year
• Milliken – says those may not have been delivered
• Gant – says all orders 11/12 from last year were completed – says we have a carryover which comes as a result of the treasurer being able to order for a discount and this is what rolls over approx. $1200 rollover from last year
• Milliken – may drop the roll over to another area; current budget will be received in October.
• Gant – any questions? Move on to the SIP
• Ridore – SIP now called School Improvement Process to areas for the school – school culture and academic programs. Each school has to choose areas to work on. Attendance dropped from 95% to 89%. Will be a major focus on school culture. In academic area, we remained stagnant. Will increase work on proficiency. Look at diffentiated instruction – think that this will help to increase proficiency. This year we are a C school year by 4% points. Phase II is what are we going to specifically do to improve attendance and proficiency. Creating an attendance challenge – where the classes compete with each other. Making sure that attendance is taking accurate attendance. For differentiated instruction – using data to teach students based on where they are and have the coaches/teachers instruct/help other teachers; allow for peer teacher observations and using common planning to assist with this. Ridore
• Torres – motion to accept the SIP
• Loglye- Proctor seconded
• Ms. Gant all in favor
• Gant – Proposal request by activities office presented by the students Ms. Bertani is teacher rep
• Students presenting, Renaldine LaFleche and Sabrinor Antenor requesting materials for bulletin boards. They are running out and they are used by the entire school (staff and students)
• Mr. Moss –wants to know if this is what and if it is all that is needed for the year.
• Gant explains the order contains assorted colors for bulletin paper.
• Moss – does not think that this is enough for a years’ supplies
• Martin- motion to grant $500 needed by activities office for supplies
• Seconded by Torres
• Gant all in favor – voted on and approved by committee.

• Updates
• Yearbook – underclass photos for yearbook today
• Renaldine – had senior parent night – had 30 or more students; club fair is 9/7, have football games and homecoming coming up.. Are selling jackets and hoodies are for $35. Pep rally 9/14 and United Way in October.
• Shykla – feels ID policy gong well
• Vice-president ICC– will soon decorate the teacher lounge,
• PTSA – no updates
• Miami-Dade – upward bound which serves NMB exclusively- pre-college program. are recruiting – parent orientation next Thursday at 5:30pm. 2 parts of upward bound is the academic year (meetings and tutoring), 1 Sat a month they take classes, over the summer they had a 6 week summer component.
• Faculty Staff
• Gant & Davis – planning GA/FL college trip leaving feb 14 – feb 18. Plan go to Clark-Atlanta, GA Tech, Spellman, Morehouse, FSU and then UCF in Orlando. Have to use travel agencies. Trip will cost $642. Submit paperwork tomorrow so that students can fundraise the cost down.
• Admin-
• opening of schools was at MDC- North – targeted data and student attendance and went over the SIP. Less students than last year (1539) now at 1429. Did data reflection during common planning. Have football game
• Huldath – not enough chairs need more
• Admin – senior parent night informed parents of all activities and events.
• UTD – getting classes leveled. Had a successful opening of schools.
• Gant going back to bylaws that were tabled earlier in the meeting –
• Milliken – move to accept changes given by Dr. Davis in the language of having the ICC vote on the 8 voting student members and that the president and vice president of the auxiliary clubs can serve as an alternate.
• Motion accepted
• Gant – next meeting on Sept 26th at 3:30
• Gant – meeting closed at 4:21 pm