November+2010

** 11/3/10  **   ** __ People in Attendance __ **
 * MTAC/Leadership Minutes **

Georgia Vick Tamara Arizpe Jane Walton Julie Keating Suzanne Stott Sandy Alston Matthew Mayo Lori Barnes Cindy Berry Gail Bunn Mrs. Spencer Mr. Davis

** __ MTAC __ ** ** __ Leadership __ **
 * Wilson County is doing an iPod touch pilot this school year. Ms. Stott and Mrs. Walls are the two teachers that have been trained this year.
 * Please be sure to have your data in on time for your planning.
 * Year book money and order forms should be in your envelope. Mr. Mayo has been coming around at 8:45 to collect it.
 * Make sure you are using United Streaming, and ClassScape. Dr. Price has said that he will be monitoring our usage. There are still some teachers that have inactivity with ClassScape.
 * Benchmark data should be available any time now.
 * All library books will be due December 16th before Christmas Break.
 * Discipline-
 * Our number of suspensions for the school has gone down this year; however our number of referrals has increased.
 * The majority of our referrals were for disruptive behavior and aggressive behavior last month.
 * Kindergarten data: After the 1st 9 weeks, 55% of our kindergarteners are at/above grade level. We do not have any numbers to compare with last year.
 * 1st & 2nd Grade data:
 * 1st grade had 73% of their students at/above grade level. That is an increase of 15% from last year’s results of 58%.
 * 2nd grade had 76% at/above grade level, compared to 88% last year.
 * Concerns about Spark were mentioned. Solution:
 * 5th grade will continue to work with small groups during that time.
 * Their TA’s were not needed, since they already had several students out of the room for remediation, EC, and AIG.
 * 3rd-4th will each have an assistant. Teachers should group their students by ability to meet their needs.