Educational Excellence School Advisory Council

7541 North Miami Beach Senior High School

Verified EESAC Meeting Minutes for:    10/06/2022  02:45 PM

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Recording Secretary:    Alexander Burger

Location of meeting:    North Miami Beach SHS 1247 NE 167th Street, NMB, FL 33167 Room 710

Was a quorum established?    Yes

Was the meeting advertised?    Yes,  09/29/2022

Attendance:

Members Present:

Milliken, Randy (Principal)
Fray, Beulah R (Alternate Principal)
Davis, James (Union Steward)
Burger, Alexander M (Teacher)
Gedeon, Ralph R (Teacher)
Leroy, Christel K (Teacher)
Hepburn-Murray, Darien R (Alternate Teacher/Paraprofessional)

Capers, Ashlene-Em (Student)
Jonas, Shermaelle T (Student)
Pierre-Louis, Kellycha (Student)
Raudales, Gively (Student)
Sawyer, Andre (Student)

Currie-Williams, Michelle (Business/Community Representative)

Members Absent (Excused):

Stovall, Rashi (Teacher)
Martin, Veronica (Teacher)

Members Absent (Unexcused):

Clerizier, Edma (Educational Support Employee)
Magny, Arielle (Alternate Educational Support)
Bernabe, Walter (Parent)

Delinois, Jeany G (Student)
Francois, Briandith (Student)
Moscova, Geanne (Parent)
Correa, Veronica (Alternate Parent)
Sadrac, Midrac M (Student)
Ermulda, Fortune (Alternate Student)

Others Present:

Nelson, Annabel (Student)
Ortila, Stephanie (Student)

Topics Covered:

Minutes
Quorum at 2:47

Motion to Approve minutes by Mr. Gedeon, second by Dr. Davis

EESAC Budget - Remaining Balance $6983.88


EESAC meeting minutes draft


Introductions
Mr. Gedeon motions to accept may meeting minutes
Mr. Gedeon motions to accept September 3rd minutes

Review of EESAC Bylaws


• Mr. Gedeon would like to make an addition: “students will need to use the money within 3 months after being approved.”After funding has been approved by EESAC to whichever organ organization we want, we would like to give them a semester or three months to another to use that money.”


• Dr. Davis and Mr. Milliken are asking for clarification on the requests and distribution of funds


• Mr. Gedeon provides clarification on the changes proposed.


• Mr. Milliken offers his concern regarding a pitching machine that was ordered and has not fulfilled the request and proposes: “We should set a time limit on how long it takes them to get the paperwork approved and through the treasurer.”


• Mr. Gedeon asks for suggestions regarding the changes


• The proposed changes were run by the students after the discussion. And clarification was provided by Dr. Davis and Mr. Gedeon.

An agreement was made to add item L.
• Any paperwork associated with funding requests through EESAC must be presented to the treasurer within 30 days of the EESAC approval.
• The Club Sponsor must represent the requests for funds during EESAC meetings.

SIP review
The SIP guides instructional focus, culture, and admin goals
4 areas of focus: standard aligned instruction, ESSA subgroup related to ELL students, positive culture and environment relating to PD, Transitional leadership relating to specific teacher walkthroughs
• Teachers will make adjustments to their instructional plans and lessons during content planning to ensure they are aligned to the achievement level descriptors and standards.
• And we found that last year, the staff disagreed that the Professional Learning Support Team promoted school culture and collaboration so the goal is we selected this area of focus because professional development is essential to continuous teacher growth and development, which will have a positive impact on student achievement.
• Right now in curriculum Council, we've been focusing on our school wide initiative, which has been a focus on vocabulary instruction schoolwide. And our professional development team is also working in conjunction with department chairs, to make sure that we have professional development throughout the school year.
• Curriculum council focus for the year will be on a on cross curriculums vocabulary initiative.

Mr. Milliken Walk through’s and debriefs for elective classes
• “So we brought a group of people and I said, I need to get into more of the elective classes and make sure that everybody is carrying a load not just everybody is getting some, some type of feedback and observations from the administrative team and make sure that everybody is carrying a load not just everybody is getting some, some type of feedback and observations from the administrative team. So I've committed to doing that myself.”
• “So after I have finished an observation, they come by my office at their leisure, and we sit down, we talk about what I saw, and I give them my observation for saying, or this is what I wrote down.”

Motion to accept the sip was accepted.

Title 1
Ms. Fray - Family engagement/PTSA
• “We have also been working closely with our PTSA to work on ideas about how to give back to the school, to support our students and our teachers.
• PTSA would like more student recruitment

Budget
• Budget- is currently $6983.88
o The upcoming request will be based on that figure.

Reports and updates


• Ashlyn capers GEMS- applications due Friday 10/7
• Ashlyn upward bound- tour to justice center to learn about law enforcement.


• Stephania WOT- upcoming meeting TBA.


• Band dance captain- working for upcoming games and tryouts.


• Annabelle HOSA treasurer- Camp Aaqua might be postponed to hurricane Ian.


• Vice pres. FBLA- first interest meeting and upcoming board training and competitions.


• SGA pres.- homecoming/spirit week plans/ think pink/ pep rally on October 14. Last month SGA met with local leaders student advisory committee to discuss issues
o “We learned a lot about the district goals that Miami Dade County has for like the schools. And it was kind of just like an open session where different students from our district were able to voice their concerns and say what they found good about the district or anything that might be improved. So that was really great. It was great to be able to listen to what everyone has to say.”


• Andre Sawyer SGA press and band captain - looking for more members. First game October 14. Band visited JFK to promote recruitment and are accepting members starting in 8th grade.
• Andre Sawyer - SGA elections have concluded and will be announced via Instagram and school announcements. Pie in the face competition to raise money for united way.

Community
• Ms. Jones: upward bound- We had a great time and Monday North Campus where students learned more about what the police academy does and also just figuring out you know, college does not have this one thing. We also have just finished our newsletter. So if you want to print a newsletter, just let me know at the end of this meeting.

Faculty
• Dr. Davis- the college tour is back. 83 students have paid the initial deposit. A second bus was requested to take additional students. Silver Knights applications will close on Monday the 10th.


• Ms. Leroy- class board has been chosen for the freshman class. Flags- preparing for November 14 auditions. Project fit cafe is open daily and the second-hand boutique had a large donation and will be closed until the inventory is sorted.

Admin
• Mr. Milliken
o “I wanted to get your feedback because we're always looking to improve. What are some of the things you liked? And what are some of the things that you thought we could improve on?”


• Students expressed concerns over tickets and pricing. Students were grateful to meet new prospects they may not have been able to meet otherwise


• The administration agrees to change the ticketing process.


• JV football has a game today and lake Mary tomorrow. Cross country is currently competing as well.


• “I got to sit with the principal from North Miami, Norlen, Carroll City, and myself and because we're all in Dr. Gallon’s district, we got to discuss some high school issues and things that happen. So if you want to see that I think it's on it's on YouTube. “
• PM1 is going very well with 95% percent tested.
• “We have an instructional review common which is people from the district and what they're going to walk and look for is what we put down as we were doing in the SIP.”

UTD
• Dr. Davis: The referendum is on the ballot in November.
o Dr. Davis explains the referendum to students.


Closing
• The EESAC meeting will be on November 10 at 2:45


• The motion to be adjourned was approved at 3:41