Monday, Feb. 22, 2021
Present: Alice, Angie, Chai’enne, Jacy, Marie (Deirdre had a conflict & came for the second half)
Notetaker: Marie
Facilitated by Alice
Agenda:
- Welcome, check-ins
- ECBM winter results (Alice)
- Increase in grade 1 students served 🙂 Yay!
- Did not test all students again, only ones below 30th percentile
- 1st grade: doing walk to read/many may work with different 1st grade teacher
- Fluency on Seesaw with recording and timer as way to progress monitor
- Hybrid/SSO updates
- New survey results: we saw a trend toward more families choosing SSO than previously indicated, although it varies by grade level.
- Still working on final staffing and class lists internally
- Class lists & cohorts will be posted for parents on Friday, 2/26
- The elementary classroom shift will come the week of March 8 (if we are on target to begin the hybrid model for grades K–1 March 15 – this is all dependent on getting the vaccines in time).
- Updated potential timeline:
- March 8: Elementary classrooms shift
- March 15: Grades K–1 begin hybrid learning
- April 5: Grades 2–5 begin hybrid learning
- April 12: Grades 6–12 begin hybrid learning
- Remember that 4J has made a commitment to making full vaccination and 2-week immunity period available to staff before re-opening in person. That is why this timeline could change.
- Schoolwide communication plan discussion
- Whole school messages from the office
- Currently: email, facebook, Cheetah Chatter. Important/Urgent messages get “autodialer” phone calls – can send a text message from here!
- Communication between teacher and parent
- Currently: variety of methods depending on teacher and parent preference and comfort level, don’t have a whole-school way to send out text (many parents prefer text)
- Could start survey of who prefers what type of communication
- Email is great – Alice; Text is best but be careful about doubling up on message – Whitney; Email is great – Jacy; basically everyone has different preferences
- Synergy options/preferences
- Survey – how to filter out who already responded
- Whole school messages from the office
- Three big takeaways from this meeting to communicate out to stakeholders:
- Reading scores are looking great, especially 2nd – 5th fluency!
- Hybrid – we’re workin on it
- Communication – continuing to work on streamlining