M I N U T E S

In Attendance: Candace Dearing, Kris Martin, Ruth Wright, Cheryl Farr, Susan Fairey, Marta Calabrese, Jane O'Malley, Dotti Rosenfield, Sheri Paulsen, Jennifer McMahon, Ann Putnam, Milt Sabanovich (Albertson's Store Director), Cynthia McGrail.

Agreement was reached to have Marta Calabrese serve as Chair for this year's SAC/SDMT Committee. Sheri Paulsen will provide notes for the meetings.

Meeting was called to order at 3:10 p.m.

Item 1:

ESOL Aide

Due to the increasing numbers of ESOL students, especially Spanish speaking ESOL students, it is important that we adhere to the state guidelines for meeting the needs of our Limited English Speaking learners. It is required that as soon as any one language is represented with at least 15 students, there must be an ESOL teacher/aide assigned to service their specific needs. We currently have 14 Spanish speaking students. The campus needs to consider the possibility of hiring a Full-Time A-3 aide to work with our Spanish speaking population. Once the 10-Day Count is official, we may want to hire the aid with the extra 1/2 unit that was saved. Consensus was reached that if the funds were available that the aide should be hired now, instead of waiting for a fifteenth student.

Item 2:

Strategic Plan for Excellence (formally School Improvement Plan) Revisions

We are currently at the end of our 5 Year School Improvement Plan. It is now time to disaggregate all the data from testing and survey to come to conclusions about the achievement of our goals over the past five years. Members of SAC/SDMT will meet on Tuesday 8/26/03 at 3:45-6:45 to work on sorting and categorizing data. The report is due Friday. Our school's new Strategic Plan For Excellence will take us to the year 2008 and is due at the end of September.

Item 3:

Meeting Dates and Times

Future SDMT/SAC meetings will take place on the first Tuesday of the month. Occasionally it will be necessary to schedule an extra meeting on the third Tuesday such as the one on September 16th.

Item 4:

Additional Computers for Teachers

Cynthia McGrail addressed the meeting with the request that when capital outlay monies are being discussed, teams consider purchasing lap tops for teachers that did not receive them on the first round of purchasing. Ten lap tops were purchased using county funds and assigned to 5th, 4th, and 3rd grade teachers. There is no guarantee that the county will provide more funds to purchase next year. These lap tops will be the dedicated stations that will allow teachers to take attendance and record grades. Last year's capital outlay budget was $18,000+. The lap top purchase could use up a large portion of a similar budget if agreement for purchase is reached. Each ibook costs $1200-$1800 depending on what "deals" we receive. It was also requested that we consider all sources for funding, such as grants etc. before decisions are made about capital outlay monies. Ms. McGrail pointed out that receiving grants for projects that are not software or "student achievement" driven can be very difficult.

Other:

There were no "others" discussed

The meeting was adjourned at 3:50 p.m.