Lead+Team+Minutes

=__ School Year 2012 - 2013 __=

=__** School Year 2011 - 2012 **__= June 24, 2011 Present: Amy Robinson, Kimberly Smith, Sharon Holyoak, Lisa Shelton, Wendy Crow, Heather Murphy, Lane Hampton, Allyson Land, Becky Wallace, Brenda Yocom, Robin Varwig Items Discussed: Next Meeting - July 18, 2011 - 8:00 AM
 * Meeting times throughout the year - this team will meet on a monthly basis from 2:00 - 3:00.
 * Staff Parking Spaces - reassign or leave the same? The team decided to leave them the same this next year, assigning new spaces to new faculty members.
 * Book Study - Seven Simple Secrets
 * Reviewed Secrets 1 - 4; discussed presenting this to the faculty (one secret a month) at faculty meetings during the 2011 - 2012 school year. Robin will develop teams for each secret.

July 18, 2011 Present: Amy Robinson, Kimberly Smith, Sharon Holyoak, Lisa Shelton, Nona LIvingston, Wendy Crow, Heather Murphy, Lane Hampton, Allyson Land, Becky Wallace, Robin Varwig Items Discussed: Reading ||~ 4th Reading ||~ 5th Reading ||~  ||~ 3rd Math ||~ 4th Math ||~ 5th Math ||
 * Reviewed new schedules - asked that changes be made by the first week of August.
 * Reviewed upcoming changes in RTI
 * Presented Test Results for 2010 - 2011 school year. The percentages of scores were as follows:
 * ~ Score ||~ 3rd
 * IV || 61 || 55 || 67 ||  || 66 || 41 || 75 ||
 * III || 33 || 35 || 27 ||  || 22 || 28 || 23 ||
 * II || 7 || 11 || 6 ||  || 8 || 28 || 5 ||
 * I || 0 || 0 || 0 ||  || 4 || 3 || 0 ||
 * Total Proficiency || 97% || 90% || 94% ||  || 88% || 69% || 95% ||
 * AYP Score Needed || 88 || 86 || 88 ||  || 84 || 83 || 82 ||
 * Determined Teacher of the Month Traits for 2011 - 2012Staff Months: September, November, January, March, & May
 * August - Resilience
 * September - Flexibility
 * October - Understanding
 * November - Trustworthy
 * December - Professionalism
 * January - Dependability
 * February - Enthusiasm
 * March - Patience
 * April - Perseverance
 * May - Attitude
 * Book Study - Read and discussed Secrets 5 - 7. Determined months in which the Secrets would be presented. The book study will be introduced at a back to school faculty meeting where we will include all the teachers, aides, custodians, and lunchroom staff as we discuss our purpose and our promises to the students - developing a creed for Crestline. Then the secrets will be introduced once a month by three members of the Leadership Team.
 * August - Classroom Management (Sharon Holyoak, Nona Livingston, & Amy Robinson)
 * September - Planning (Wendy Crow, Sharon Holyoak, & Brenda Yocom)
 * October - Attitude (Allyson Land, Kim Smith, & Becky Wallace)
 * November - Instruction (Lane Hampton, Heather Murphy, Lisa Shelton)
 * January - Discipline (Wendy Crow, Lane Hampton, Amy Robinson, Kim Smith)
 * February - Professionalism (Allyson Land, Nona Livingston, Becky Wallace)
 * March - Motivation (Heather Murphy, Lisa Shelton, Brenda Yocom)
 * February - Professionalism (Allyson Land, Nona Livingston, Becky Wallace)
 * March - Motivation (Heather Murphy, Lisa Shelton, Brenda Yocom)

September 19, 2011 Present: Amy Robinson, Kimberly Smith, Sharon Holyoak, Lisa Shelton, Nona LIvingston, Wendy Crow, Heather Murphy, Lane Hampton, Allyson Land, Becky Wallace, Brenda Yocom, Robin Varwig Items Discussed: Continuous Improvement Plan - See CIP page.

October 3, 2011 Present: Amy Robinson, Kimberly Smith, Sharon Holyoak, Nona LIvingston, Wendy Crow, Heather Murphy, Lane Hampton, Allyson Land, Becky Wallace, Brenda Yocom, Melissa Kent Items Discussed: Continuous Improvement Plan - Continued CIP discussions - See CIP Document

October 17, 2011 Present: Kimberly Smith, Sharon Holyoak, Lisa Shelton, Nona LIvingston, Wendy Crow, Heather Murphy, Lane Hampton, Allyson Land, Becky Wallace, Brenda Yocom Items Discussed:
 * Halloween/Dress Up Day - It was decided that we would have dress up day be Friday; Oct. 28 during Red Ribbon Week, instead of dressing up in as a story character, students would participate in wear Red Day.
 * The team finalized the CIP - document is not on CIP page.

November 14, 2011 Present: Amy Robinson, Kimberly Smith, Sharon Holyoak, Nona LIvingston, Wendy Crow, Heather Murphy, Lane Hampton, Becky Wallace, Brenda Yocom, Robin Varwig Items Discussed:
 * Halloween for 2012 - this year we had "parties" or special snacks in some classes and not in other classes. It was discussed what we would do for 2012 - 2013. It was agreed that we would send a letter to all room mom's letting them know the guidelines for parties for the year. Halloween Dress Up day will continue on Halloween Day and a special snack will be allowed at regular snack time (1 salty snack, 1 sweet snack, 1 drink - that meet the nutritional guidelines) - no goodie bags and as this is not a party, parents will not come.
 * Reviewed Crestline's Mission Statement - will ask PTO to review the Mission Statement. The team decided to keep the current mission statement; however they wanted to take the Crestline Creed, that was developed with full faculty input and use it instead of the belief statements. The team will share this with their grade levels for suggestions or comments, which will be discussed at our December Leadership Team Meeting (Dec. 19, 2011).
 * Current Mission Statement: The mission of Crestline Elementary School is to provide for students an active, positive, and challenging environment that promotes a community of life-long learners.
 * Following the belief statement the following would be added:
 * Therefore, we promise to:
 * provide engaging, challenging, and memorable learning experiences,
 * respect and care about each individual,
 * be fair and consistent,
 * be good listeners,
 * clearly communicate our expectations,
 * be loving, patient, accepting, and encouraging,
 * show school pride,
 * believe in you, never give up on you, and celebrate your successes
 * Hallway Motto - To go along with our new creed/promises, we discussed a motto to put up in the main hall once it is painted:Targeted Title I vs. Schoolwide Title - will be applying for Schoolwide, as it will allow more flexibility with our program. Our title teachers will be able to help more students and funds will be available school wide. We will need to revise our current CIP Plan during this year should we go school wide. The process starts with a letter from Dr. Reed applying for Schoolwide status.
 * At Crestline . ..
 * We respect each other
 * We keep our promises
 * We never give up
 * We give second chances
 * We apologize
 * We forgive
 * We encourage one another
 * We laugh often
 * We belong . ..
 * We Are a Family and a Great Place to Learn
 * State Monitoring - first full week in January - our school will be monitored by the state to make sure we are in compliance with multiple areas. More information will be provided.
 * CIP Math Goal - Was reviewed with the idea that Lisa Shelton will share with the Math Learning Team and then grade levels the place value story that she has developed and the R.I.C.E. process. First in Math was also discussed - this new program is helping our students and they are very excited about using this computer program. This can be used during computer lab time.
 * Best Practices - In order to see the great things that are going on in classrooms at Crestline, a peer observation will be implemented. Teachers would choose at least one teacher to observe on one of their planning periods after Christmas break and before Spring Break. This will be added to our CIP plan. We discussed the need to have some sort of record of these observations and that it be positive in nature (best practices, student learning, examples of the seven secrets). Amy Robinson will work on developing a "exit slip" a short form in which teachers can share something positive with the teacher they observed and that will be turned in to the office.Leadership Team Meetings - It was suggested that meeting at 2:00 is disruptive to classroom instruction, the team agreed to meet for two one hours times after school per month. The team will do this and then other Learning Teams will be asked to follow - in return, we will go back to one face-to-face faculty meeting a month with the other being done by email.
 * Logistics to be finalized: All teachers will participate, at least one day's notice will be given and the day will be mutually agreed upon by both the observer and teacher being observed, the teacher being observed has the right to say no and schedule an alternate time. A notebook of schedules will be kept in the office, so observers can determine what classes they can observe during their planning time. Observations must last a minimum of 30 minutes. The form and these logistics will be finalized at the next meeting.
 * Logistics to be finalized: All teachers will participate, at least one day's notice will be given and the day will be mutually agreed upon by both the observer and teacher being observed, the teacher being observed has the right to say no and schedule an alternate time. A notebook of schedules will be kept in the office, so observers can determine what classes they can observe during their planning time. Observations must last a minimum of 30 minutes. The form and these logistics will be finalized at the next meeting.

January 30, 2012 Present: Amy Robinson, Sharon Holyoak, Lisa Shelton, Heather Murphy, Lane Hampton, Allyson Land, Becky Wallace, Brenda Yocom, Robin Varwig Items discussed:
 * Leadership Team & Core Team-The Core team has been tasked with heading the CIP plan, giving direction to the Leadership team, and serving as an advisory group to Robin. It was decided that each year the grade level chairperson will be on the Leadership team.
 * Mission Statement and Hallway Motto will remain the same
 * The following changes were made to the promises which will follow the belief statement:Blue Ribbon visit-Each teacher on staff will create a one to two-page spread of activities and events in his/her classroom/grade level to be compiled in a scrapbook. Pages are due by February 15th.
 * Therefore, we promise to:
 * provide engaging and challenging learning experiences,
 * ensure a safe and non-threatening environment
 * respect and care about each individual,
 * be fair and consistent,
 * be good listeners,
 * clearly communicate our expectations,
 * be loving, patient, accepting, and encouraging,
 * show school pride,
 * believe in you and celebrate your successes
 * Blue Ribbon team arrives Feb 21st. Leadership team will have dinner with them at 4:30 before the PTO meeting and Book Fair. Wednesday, the team will be in the classrooms and Thursday, they will present their findings to the Leadership team.
 * Summer painting-Kindergarten,1st, and 2nd have plans for painting their hallways this summer. The lower half of the walls in the lunchroom are also scheduled for painting.
 * Seven Simple Secrets-Due to the Blue Ribbon visit, the group scheduled to share the next secret will not do so until March. Instead, the Leadership Team will share the information from the Blue Ribbon visit.
 * Seven Simple Secrets-Due to the Blue Ribbon visit, the group scheduled to share the next secret will not do so until March. Instead, the Leadership Team will share the information from the Blue Ribbon visit.