| 1. | 2/5/2008 2:35:00 PM | Consider additional staffing in gifted education.
Continue work to keep class sizes low. |
| 2. | 2/14/2008 9:53:00 PM | Diversifying our curriculum to address students of all cultures. |
| 3. | 3/4/2008 3:01:00 AM | It needs to be noted that in order to accomplish all of the academic goals, classes need to be kept to a manageable size.
Also, there is nothing about a school guidance counselor on the agenda, and I feel strongly that this is something we need to put into place. Even though we utilize Second Step and teach our school monthly character traits, the presence of a guidance counselor is definitely missing. |
| 4. | 3/4/2008 8:13:00 PM | Need for an Elementary Guidance Counselor, both for meeting the
needs of individual students and their families, as well as, for team
teaching needs. |
| 5. | 3/6/2008 4:56:00 PM | I think you have enough listed. |
| 6. | 3/6/2008 8:47:00 PM | Provide increased access to guidance counselors at the elementary level. |
| 7. | 3/6/2008 4:01:00 PM | Create timelines for revisiting new initiatives, adoptions, etc. Often new things are undertaken without gathering more information after the first year. Please review elementary report card to make sure expectations are reasonable, especially in Math. Pacing has to allow for time to reteach, in order to differentiate instruction for all learners. |
| 8. | 3/6/2008 6:40:00 PM | Elementary Guidance Person
Small Class Sizes so we can really help all children.
Don't keep adding more and more to our daily teaching schedule and not take anything away.
Don't keep adding more lines to our report cards, a half a day is not enough time for all we fill in and test. |
| 9. | 3/6/2008 8:36:00 PM | I think that smaller class sizes is definately a priority that would make the achieving of the academic goals much more feasible. Also, time for grade level collaboration is essential to many of these goals. I used to work in a district where two hours, paid, after school, mandatory grade level planning occured six months of the school year. I know that it is important to look for fiscally responsible decisions, but this decision was written right into our contract. Our school board decided that this was something that was worth paying for to guarantee that it was occuring. |
| 10. | 3/6/2008 10:58:00 PM | I don't know where this comment should go but- report cards need to be by semester. It's just getting way out of hand! 8-13 hours to do report cards each quarter is ridiculous!? I firmly believe that standards-based report cards are the way to go, but don't feel the need to do them 4 times a year. The way our math pacing also goes.. I'm having to report on Qtr. 1 skills all the way through Qtr. 4. I understand the idea that students should be growing as we reteach throughout the year, and the opportunity to 'show growth' from quarter to quarter is great, BUT, there IS NO TIME TO RETEACH! I consider myself a teacher who DOES go above and beyond to meet my students' needs, but the reality of it is, I am only ONE person, planning for 6+ subjects EACH DAY, for students who are all over the board in terms of their abilities. I can only do so much. We need more time and smaller classes. |