Building Level Planning Team

December 1, 2005

 

Members present:   Gideon, Saxena, A., Saxena, P., Volin, Boolukos, McLoughlin, Tannenbaum, Davenport, Scales, Murphy, Sutherland, Lancto

 

  1. We approved the minutes from the October 27, 2005 meeting.
  2. We heard a proposal from SADD to invite a speaker to campus in the spring to talk about making good choices.  We decided to move forward and ask SADD to invite the speaker.
  3. Mr. Davenport reported on our accreditation status.  While he could find no record of our status, other members commented that the school had been accredited but this was allowed to lapse.  Since the current CDEP depends on collecting and reviewing student performance data, it was suggested that alumni be surveyed regarding their high school educations.  Mr. Davenport will request budget support for this for next year.
  4. Mr. Davenport reported on meeting publicity.  All agendas and minutes are posted on the website, as is an e-mail address for contacting the BLPT.
  5. Ms. Lancto shared information regarding matching grants programs and electronic mentoring.  Ms. Cannelli will be contacted to determine how to accept matching grants or gifts of equipment.  .
  6. Mr. Davenport said he would invite participants for an action team to review progress report comments to meet once or twice and refine our current comments.  Ms. Gideon indicated that she would like to participate on this committee.
  7. We began discussions of implementing a departmental student of the month program to recognize student academic achievement.  Mr. Davenport will draft a procedure and set of criteria for our review at the next meeting.
  8. Based on our conversation with SADD, Mr. Davenport will draft a set of questions or criteria to apply to assembly requests.  The team will review this at our next meeting.
  9. Mr. Davenport shared the advice from our legal counsel regarding open campus.  Briefly put, if students leave campus with parent permission, the district’s liability is limited.  In addition, if we were to close the campus, we would have to consider space and staffing issues.  We will take up this matter again at our next meeting.
  10. We adjourned at 5:30 p.m.
  11. Our next meeting will take place at 4:00 p.m. on January 5.