Verified EESAC Meeting Minutes

Recording Secretary: Sarah Russell

Location of meeting: Dorothy M. Wallace COPE Center Media Center

Was a quorum established? Yes

Was the meeting advertised? Yes, 02/25/2014

Attendance

Topics Covered

The meeting was called to order at 8:32 a.m. by Alfreida Joseph-Goins in the Media Center of Dorothy M. Wallace COPE Center.

In Attendance: Alfreida Joseph-Goins, Daisy Butcher, Sarah Russell, Constance Gilbert, Patricia Florit-Valenzano, Marilyn Morning, Kimberly Wilson, Sonya Harrington, Patricia Emmons, Chantise Ellison, Tarika Quinn and Sylvia Hadley

Mrs. Joseph-Goins welcomed Ms. Sonya Harrington to the meeting.

Ms. Gilbert, in her capacity as UTD alternate, designated Ms. Kimberly Wilson to represent Dr. Sandra Billingslea (UTD Representative) in her absence.

The first item on the agenda was the Mid-Year Reflection when we look at the data to see if our students are making learning gains.

Mrs. Florit-Valenzano (Mathematics, Science, and STEM) said we’re not on target yet, but the students are making gains. Boot camps are being held to improve on the benchmarks in Algebra and Geometry because there are still some deficiencies in those areas. With STEM we’ve had seven participants attend the Regional Science Fair and students have also entered in the Fairchild Challenge.

Mrs. Tarika Quinn (Student Services) said the students are not on target. The goal for this school year is to have only a 7% dropout rate. Currently we are at 24%.

Mrs. Joseph-Goins said we’re headed in the right direction to meet the Reading target.

Ms. Sylvia Hadley (CTE) said we have several levels in the CTE program. We have two Level 4 students but they won’t be completers this year. There are four students five hours away from completing their 45 hours in Early Childhood Education.

Ms. Hadley also informed those present that three FCCLA students competed in the District competition. One student went to state as a voting delegate. So far we haven’t met our goal but we are on track to do so.

It was moved and approved to accept the Mid-Year Reflections.

School Improvement Plan Waivers – On March 4, 2014, 71% of the faculty voted to keep the present block scheduling (4 x 4). In addition, 83% of the faculty voted for the site administrator to have flexibility in staff teaching assignments.

A motion was made to accept the SIP waivers as they were voted on by the faculty. All members present approved the motion to accept.

EESAC Funds – It was previously agreed that these funds would be used for student incentives for attendance, awards certificates, and trophies for academic honor roll recipients.

A motion was made and seconded to designate $200.00 to be used for food purchases for various student activities during the course of the school year.

Miss Chantise Ellison asked if there was a way to change the school hours and whether there was a possibility of having an On the Job Training Program here.

She was informed that her questions would be addressed at a future meeting.

The next meeting will be held on April 22, 2014 at 8:00 a.m.

The EESAC meeting was adjourned at 8:52 a.m.