Announcements

• Karen announced that we have an ELA plan for the 40 students struggling with English. Karen will test them then go in to classrooms to provide support.
• Culum requested that advisors enforce more noise control in all school meetings in between announcements.
• Culum wants all school meetings to be more about presentations of learning than announcements, so please sign up for these. I WAS NOT AT THE MEETING, BUT IF WE COULD TRY TO CREATE A CULTURE OF NOT APPLAUDING FOR EVERY ANNOUNCEMENT, IT WILL HELP ON KEEPING THINGS MORE ORDERLY DURING ASSEMBLIES! MAYBE WE CAN DO SOMETHING I CALL "THE SOUND OF ONE-HAND CLAPPING" WHICH LETS KIDS MOVE THEIR ARM AND HAND, BUT IT DOES NOT MAKE NOISE! (DOYLE)

• Kate said that next week is international education week. Tuesday - event at Brown Palace (free for us if we chaperone students). She'll email us the information. Friday a delegation of biodiesel energy specialists will be here from Brazil.
• Please give Kate any photos of students engaged in classes or clubs.

Agenda item: How assignments are put in to IC
Presenter: Karen
Discussion: Misa suggested changing the M to a 0 if a student can't make-up an assignment. Jeff prefers to keep the M because it conveys that the student never turned it in.
Action: Dan suggested that we communicate with parents in our letters home to them the reasons behind our grading systems.

Agenda item: Bullying
Presenter: Dan
Discussion: We need to be transparent about how we are going to be dealing with bullying in our building. This will take time. For example, we need to define what constitutes bullying. Davinna and Susan requested that we hear names so that we can keep our radar on for bullies and victims. Dan and Stephen said that the situations are confidential.
Action: Lorie will be working on an anti-bullying program. Teachers, please be in the hallway looking for and responding to this type of behavior in between classes. Stephen suggests asking them what they did and their plan for fixing it, so that they take responsibility. Teachers can also do journaling prompts in advisement on this.
Person responsible: Dan, Stephen and Lorie
Deadline: (Dan, Stephen and Lorie will follow up with us as they develop this)

Agenda item: Testing
Presenter: Stephen
Discussion:

• CDE now requires that any student on an IEP or 504 Plan ILP have an Assessment Accomodation Plan.
• We will start benchmarks in December. Misa was concerned that the exam would come before she had time to cover everything. Dan said the coordination of this is still an evolving animal.
• Stephen provided CSAP training.
• Dan said that relevant to the district, our CSAP scores are good. We were proficient. Still, he and Kate don't use them for recruitment.
• Linda said our reputation precedes us. She commended Dan for hiring the creme of the crop.

Agenda item: Letter to kids whose home schools aren't proficient.
Presenter: Heidi
Discussion: Parents get confused because these letters aren't referring to DCIS. These letters say that the kids can choose to go to another school that is proficient. They are just a bureaucratic head scratcher, according to Dan.

Notetaker: Davinna