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2014-2015 QUASHNET SCHOOL COUNCIL Meeting: Tuesday, February 3, 2015-3:15 PM to 4:15 PM (Note: This meeting was rescheduled from 1120115 to 1127115, due to a conflict. Then it was rescheduled a second time to 213115 due to the blizzard that occurred on 1127/15) Quashnet School Conference Room MEMBERS PRESENT: Patricia DeBoer, Principal; Margaret Morrison, School Adjustment Counselor; Stephanie Manning, Teacher; Colleen Fraser, Parent MEMBERS ABSENT: Kathy O'Neill, Parent; Sarah Provencher, Parent; Jack Phelan, Community Member at large Our Four Major Areas of Responsibility: 1. Adopting educational goals for the school that are consistent with local educational policies and statewide student performance standards 2. Identifying the educational needs of students attending the school 3. Reviewing the annual school building budget 4. Formulating a school improvement plan Meetina Handouts: ■ Agenda ■ 1212114 Meeting Minutes ■ Mission Statement Staff/Parent Responses ■ 2014 Parent Survey Questions AGENDAIMINUTES 1. Minutes from our 1212114 School Council meeting were approved. 2. We reviewed the parent/staff responses regarding our proposed new Quashnet School mission statement. The majority of responses received from parents and staff support our new mission statement. Most of the feedback received from parents who suggested a different mission statement centered around whether including "college and career ready" was appropriate for students at this level. Our new mission statement will read as follows: Our mission at the Quashnet School, in partnership with parents, families, and community, is to promote academic excellence and character development while supporting and celebrating all students as they strive towards college and career readiness. Mrs. DeBoer will review the new mission statement with the superintendent and present it to the School Committee, 3. We spent most of our meeting discussing our 2015 Parent Survey. We have decided to send out the same survey as fast year so that we can gather data to compare with our 2014 baseline. We did decide on the elimination of Q 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, and 42. Questions 34-37 were specifically targeted to gather parent input on decisions that were being made last year. Questions 38-42 were open-ended questions which we think can be addressed by our one open -response box at the end of this year's survey. We are going to add a question specific to each of the following: Family Culture, Homework, Parent/Teacher Conferences, and Parent Attendance at event/meetings. We also decided to add an open response box at the end inviting additional comments related to any question included in the survey. For a few questions, we will add a "not applicable" answer choice. We also reworded Q22 related to technology. Mrs. DeBoer will prepare the 2015 Parent Survey and will provide Council members with the opportunity to review/edit it prior to the survey being sent to our families. 4. We did not have enough time to discuss our "Family to Family" mentoring idea --to be discussed at next meeting. 5. We had a very brief discussion about the possibility of reallocating personnel so that we could have a Literacy Interventionist/Instructional Coach at Quashnet next year. All agree there is a need. 6. In other business, we briefly discussed the proposed calendar for SY15-16. Because Labor Day is the latest possible date, (917115) the Superintendent is working with the Association to get a one-year waiver of the contractual stipulation that students do not begin prior to Labor Day. All agree that students should begin school year 15-16 prior to Labor Day. Our Next Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, 2015 l '_ .31 i � -