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Senate
Minutes – October 7, 2008
Minutes Attending: Colleen Davis, Ken Tarleton, Rebecca Padilla, Janet Thompson, Dina Zografos Ruehle, Jessica Torvik, Rob Feigal-Stickles, Mark Greenway, Tony Renouard, April Lindner, Tim Ames, Jeff Jones, Sharon Miyata, Marni Campbell Absent: Robbie Cambell, Jonathan Duyker, Bob Poor, Linda Overlie, Shannon Conner, Doug Edelstein Old Business
Nathan Hale Senate Operational Norms for 2008-2009Start on time, end on time We need clear procedures – including how decisions are made and what decisions need to go to the whole staff. (Tony will continue to use Robert’s Rules of Order) We need a communication process: April will send out minutes Tony will send out meeting reminders and Agendas, and collect items for the agenda, and proposals to the whole staff so that staff members can then discuss the proposals with their representatives. We need to discuss meaningful and substantive issues – look at broader issues such as grading policies. It was decided that we can review agenda items over e-mail and decide together if they are the kinds of things we want to discuss. In addition, as Senators, we will take the responsibility to bring substantive issues to Senate. Each Senator will take on the responsibility of creating a routing list for his or her own constituents, understanding that constituent groups sometimes overlap. It was moved (Rebecca Padilla) and seconded to accept the Operational Norms. The motion passed. New Business – proposal
from Senator Colleen Davis “ Posters and notices are to be put up only
on bulletin boards or designated poster spots. These will be determined and indicated by ASB. Nothing is to
be put on windows or class except: the
Main Office – placed by main office staff only and the Colleen brought this proposal in response to frustration on the part of Custodial Staff and the Administration at having to police so many posters, especially on the glass of the PAC, which is hard to clean. A lot of discussion ensued including the following: Was there already something passed about this? What is the minimum thing required to keep Buon happy? No posters on the glass? If you’re going to post things, someone needs to be responsible for taking them down. Is this going to just turn into another burden for Administration? Shouldn’t kids have the right to put up notices? Are we making a mountain out of molehill? If we ban notices will only “criminals”(the ones who don’t go through the process of administrative approval) put up notices? If the real issue is Graffiti – let’s address that, and leave the posters alone Motion was tabled for more research. Principal’s ReportProposed Schedule for October 15
and 16
Wednesday, October 15 8:30 – 12:00 PSAT testing for 9 – 11th grade 12:00 – 12:30 lunch 12:35 – 1:45 Period 5 1:50 – 3:00 Period 6 Thursday, October 16 8:30 – 9:40 Period 1 9:45 – 10:45 Mentorship (extra long to allow time for the Healthy Youth Survey) 10:50 – 12:00 Period 2 12:00 – 12:30 Lunch 12::35 – 1:45 Period 3 1:50 – 3:00 Period 4 After some discussion – (Seniors do not have to come until 12:30 on Oct 15 – will they show up?) We need to communicate with Running Start. The schedule will not be a problem for 9th grade. No reading in mentorship on Thursday 10/16. Arrangements will have to be made for staff who work part time and have child care issues. A motion was made and seconded to approve the schedule. Motion passed. Marni brought the new Continuous
School Improvement Plan, which was created out of our old Transformation plan. Some highlights are that we will continue
to work on closing the achievement gap, particularly in Math and Science We will
work on getting students to attend (particularly at-risk students) and work
on disproportionality in discipline. We will continue to work on closing the
achievement gap in Marni said she incorporated many things we already have in place improve student achievement. She will send out an electronic copy of the document. Meeting adjourned at 4:20 |
