Site Base
January 8, 2014
Attending: J. Ronning, L. Brooks, S. Jacobs, C.
Broadley, L. DeCoste, J. Fabis, J. Palmiotto, M. McIntire, G. Elsesser, S.
Manning, M. Aumand, G. Bellows, N. LeClair.
Community Forum:
1.
How is the superintendent search is going? There
is no superintendent search at this time.
2.
Lil
DeCoste explained superintendent search entails hiring someone to do the advertising;
they are going to decide what are they going to do at this time at their Monday
meeting.
3.
No budget changes. Board approved.
4.
There will be a hearing at the high school.
5.
Pellet Furnace-Silo for Walpole School may be
something for the future. An organization came to the Board and explained the
study that was done on our buildings. Company guarantees the savings. We would use
both pellets and oil burning furnace
Approval of Minutes: Approved
Common Core Forum: Principals meet with
consultant on Jan. 10. Let’s talk about a Parent Presentation at our next
meeting. We would host this during TV
Turn-Off Week.
Things
that people might want to know about Common Core (what would they like)
1.
Community members/business what they need from
the graduates
2.
Examples of Common Core
3.
Identify need and reason for change
4.
Practical Applications
5.
Teachers—What changes they find themselves
implementing?
*lots of ways to do things
*think-pair-share
*more evidence
*more discussion/inferential thinking
*stronger vocabulary
*more critical thinking, more mindful and more aware of
reading/language
*teaching perseverance
Think About the Following
What does the evening look like?
How is the assessment different?
Persistence as part of our children’s
experience in Common Core?
First Week in April for Forum, invite
preschools
Adult Classes:
Sam contacted the Tech Director/Lynne Philips about holding adult ed. classes----Cyber
Safety, Cyber Bullying. Other Ideas:
nutrition, exercise, How to help kids or parents with Divorce. Parents/Sharing
Your Child at School, Child Independence-Raising a Resilient Child, Resume
Writing, Interview Skills, Survey Local Businesses to find out what they would
want their employees to know…..
Discussion about possible fees
How
to give Community an idea of what is going on in their town. Walpole Leadership Academy,
Invite
community members to show how their job relates to math (to kids)
Job
Shadowing
Community
Members---people offering after school clubs
Interact/Community
Service Club
Parent Resource Library
How
to get resources for parents……Sam has items in his office. Gathering….List for
parents of items…Common Core material, parenting resources. Videos child
development….librarian…..local groups and availability of groups for families…
Resourcing
the old computers to families that don’t have them…speakers and their books, etc.
Local Directory….Youth Listings, etc.
·
Walpole library used to print out a directory of
the local programs and businesses (do they still do it?).
·
Walpole Leadership is printing a business list.
The Site Base Committee would like to have a youth/local listing section added
to this as well. Jen and Lil will look into this.
Other Business: -----
·
First budget meeting is 16th 5:30 pm at
the high school
Meeting adjourned
Next meeting February 5th 7:00
