September+2009

Members present were Mr. Davis, Ms. Berry, Mr. Mayo, Ms. McNeill, Ms. Wells, Ms. Walston, Ms. Foote, Ms. Mercer, and Ms. Lee
 * __ MTAC Meeting Notes __**

• Leadership Team needs to elect a representative from Kindergarten, Third Grade, and Fifth Grade. Ms. Lee is the new EC representative, and Ms. Foote is representing Fourth Grade.

• Internet Safety Week is October 5th-9th Mr. Mayo will give all teachers activities for the week following a video on the BNN in the morning. Any class who wants to do a podcast about internet safety before September 30th is eligible for a prize.

• Mr. Davis wants everyone in the rooms and focused during the BNN news

• If you have not given Ms. Johnson a list of your students to set up AM, please do so ASAP

• Ms. Berry needs all students (except Kindergarten) to take the star test before coming to the library for orientation to check out books. Please take good care of the library cards, do not write on them or stick anything on them, as they have to go through fifth grade and were very expensive.

• Mr. Davis said that it is a Teacher Decision whether children are allowed to use books or not on AR tests.

•Gaggle access will be available Oct. 12 for grades 2-5. It is a very safe email system that can even be accessed from home-please use it! Classroom teachers are responsible for monitoring use.

• Learn 360 could be taking the place of United Streaming starting right after Winter Break. [|www.learn360.com]

• If you have a broken computer in your room, you need to place a work order, computers from vacant rooms will not be moved.

• The color printer from the small lab is going to be moved into the media center for school use.

• The Destiny icon should now appear on your desktop and you can access it in the classroom and from home. Teachers need to please keep up with all checked out books this year, as we will not have as much funds to replace books this year.

• The interactive activities from Envisions math is on the common drive according to grade levels if you would like to use them during your fixed computer time.

• During scheduled computer and media times, teachers need to stay with classes

• There will be training for 3-5 teachers on classcape-an online testing program for common assessments, teachers should be trained by Christmas.

• There is a released EOG pre-test on DPI's website for reading, math, and science that will be used a pre and post test assessment for the first nine weeks or as a teaching tool.