Agenda

June 4, 2021

• Welcome and Sharing

 

• Exiting Members

• Summer School/Promotion Standards:

• Updated COVID 19 Standards/Next Year

• STAAR Scores

• Plans/Ideas for next year

• Other Concerns (Gray)

Next Meeting Date: 2021-2022 School Year

 

□ David Knittle   □  Brittany Jennings   □ Amanda Vasquez   □ Bertha Davies □  Tiffanie Cole  

□ Maria Salinas  □  Nora Gonzales   □  Amanda Hudson □  Elyzabeth Perales

□ Stephanie Gray  □  Bobbie Blackwell □  Mary Velasquez

 □ __________   □___________________________ □_____________________

SDMC Agenda April 29, 2021

Meeting to be held at 3:15 pm via TEAMS

I.    Welcome and Sharing

II.   Staffing Updates

III.  STAAR Updates

IV.   Budget

V.    Summer School Updates

VI.   2021-2022 School Year

VII.  COVID-19 Updates

VIII. Other Concerns

SDMC Voting Members:

Maria Salinas

Amanda Vasquez

Bertha Davies

Tiffanie Cole

Bobbie Blackwell

Elyzabeth Perales

Amanda Hudson

Mary Velasquez

Stefanie Gray

Brittany Jennings

David Knittle

SDMC Agenda January 15, 2021

Meeting to be held at 3:05 pm via TEAMS

I. Staffing

II. Budget

III. Attendance

IV. Academics

V. CoH Health Fepartment

VI. Other items

SDMC Voting Members:

Maria Salinas

Amanda Vasquez

Bertha Davies

Tiffanie Cole

Bobbie Blackwell

Elyzabeth Perales

Amanda Hudson

Mary Velasquez

Stefanie Gray

Brittany Jennings

David Knittle

SDMC Meeting Agenda

September 8, 2020

The Meeting to be held via TEAMS at 9:00 am

 

• Welcome & Sharing
• Discussion and Approval of the 2020-2021 School Improvement Plan (SIP)
• Other Concerns

 

SDMC Voting Members:

Maria Salinas

Amanda Vasquez

Bertha Davies

Tiffanie Cole

Bobbie Blackwell

Elyzabeth Perales

Amanda Hudson

Mary Velasquez

Stefanie Gray

Brittany Jennings

David Knittle

 

Next Meeting Date: January 15, 2021

SDMC Minutes

June 4, 2021

1- Welcome and Sharing

2- Exiting Members

• Upcoming vacancies were announced.  The voting process for next year was discussed

3- Summer School/Promotion Standards:

• Still need accurate data to determine who needs to go to summer school.
• Summer school schedule:  In person in AM.  Virtual in PM. No Hybrid option.
• LPAC and GPC will determine promotion standards for LEP students

4- Updated COVID 19 Standards/Next Year

• No masks required starting Monday.
• STAAR Scores
• Waiting on an updated file from make ups.
• Data will be used to plan for next year
• High percentage of students tested
• Faculty should not be worried that the principal is in any way disappointed or upset with teachers
• Further breakdown of the data will occur next week

5- Plans/Ideas for next year

• Knittle would like feedback and ideas for planning purposes next year to address: 1. Academic Gaps 2. Social Emotional Issues/Concerns for students and staff 3. Building campus culture 4. Revisiting systems
• Expect unforeseen challenges

6- Other Concerns (Gray)

• Teacher morale & culture moving back into “normal”
• Weeks is coordinating an optional book-club for teachers to process personal SEL needs

 

Next Meeting Date: 2021-2022 School Year

 

□X David Knittle   □  Brittany Jennings   □ Amanda Vasquez   □ Bertha Davies □X  Tiffanie Cole  

□ X Maria Salinas  □  Nora Gonzales   □ X Amanda Hudson □ X Elyzabeth Perales

□ X Stephanie Gray  □  X Bobbie Blackwell □ X Mary Velasquez

 □ __________   □___________________________ □_____________________

SDMC Meeting

Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 3:15 pm via TEAMS

 1- Welcome and Sharing

 2- Staffing Updates:

• Current vacancies: P.E., Math 8, Science 6, SPED Co-teach, Nurse
• Possible ELA and Science 8

 3- STAAR Updates

• Paper-based administration 5/6-7 and 5/11-12: non-testers attend class as usual (IP or RV)
• Online administration 5/18-19 (8^th Sci/SS), 5/24-27 (6-8 Math & Reading): non-testers attend RV

 4- Budget

• 2020-21 Spending complete, major investment in tech upgrade, online resources
• 2021-22 Projected enrollment 1430, magnet numbers down (reduced recruitment/awareness)
  • Well-stocked on materials, curriculum, subscriptions, Clevertouch boards
  • Hoping for 1:1 student devices soon

 5- Summer School Updates

• Higher need for summer school teachers; stipend offered.
• Will maintain Covid capacity with in-person attendees. Students may opt virtual.
• Apex program to assist virtual instruction.

 6- 21-22 School year

• Virtual learning-TBA

 7- COVID Updates

• Adult cases significantly decreased, spike in student presumed cases

 8- Other Concerns (Gray)

• Parking lot lines – HISD oversees repainting. Requests will be re-submitted.
• In-person class sizes reaching capacity (some)
• Quarantine return protocols need to be confirmed by nurse
• Restroom maintenance issues since the freeze
• Students being picked up early despite after-school commitments (DT, tutorials); admin assistance needed

The meeting adjourned at 4:20 pm.

Next Meeting Date: TBD May/June 2021

 

SDMC Voting Members present:

X David Knittle   

Brittany Jennings   

X Amanda Vasquez

Bertha Davies                                                                                                                   □

X Tiffanie Cole

X Maria Salinas

Nora Gonzales

X Amanda Hudson 

X Elyzabeth Perales

X Stephanie Gray

X Bobbie Blackwell

Mary Velasquez

SDMC Meeting: January 15, 2021

The Meeting began at 3:05 pm via TEAMS

 

In Attendance: David Knittle, Nora Gonzales, Stefanie Gray, Bobbie Jo Blackwell, Tiffanie Cole, Maria Salinas, Amanda Hudson

 I. Staffing Update:

• TA position open
• 7^th AP Clerk position open
• HISD hiring freeze has kept them unfilled until now. We’ll receive funding for these positions in February as hourly, not contract positions, which means no benefits for now but with the potential to become permanent positions.
• Suggestions for candidates who would be good fits are welcome.

II. Budget: Budget is slowly being opened so we can provide more student incentives and food, i.e. through the Burbank Store. For now, we are relying on donations for incentives.

 

III. Attendance: The school will begin to be penalized for attendance, which will affect funding.

 

IV. Academics:

• How can we help students who were not successful in the first semester make improvements for second semester?
  • Personal conversation about exceptions for failing kids to make big, consistent change to help them catch up and forgive previously failed cycles.
  • Continue with personal calls. Administration calls have been helping to motivate students who are on the verge of failing/losing attendance status, especially in 7^th grade, and including some students who are attending in person
  • Not all families able to send their child to in-person instruction, so parents must ensure online engagement.
  • Stressing the importance of the STAAR test and promotion standards have helped motivate students and parents
• How to creatively encourage students to come back and continue working?
  • Incentive such as “Eagle of the Week” for students in each cluster, weekly. An incentive could be a Chick Fil A gift card/lunch.
  • Homeroom shout-outs and competitions regarding grades, honor roll, attendance.

V. CoH Health Dept:

• The visiting team gave us an overall positive report/grade on how we are meeting COVID guidelines. Only concern was with the cafeteria where it’s hard to ensure distance. Classroom eating is not feasible due to the duty-free lunch for teachers. Outdoor lunch is feasible with 2 per table, weather permitting.
• BMS was randomly picked for another COVID safety audit this week. The team reviewed staff & student trainings online and BMS dismissal routine. They offered some feedback but found no violations. One of the suggestions was keeping doors open at all times for air flow and minimized contact points with the exception of outside classrooms. It’s not realistic due to weather.

 

VI. Other items:

• There is a strong possibility of returning classroom furniture due to potential use of gym for basketball (case # permitting) and to increase gym class roster #s by providing space to maintain distance.
• Teachers have been requesting additional time to complete RTI, GT, ELL work, and other documentation. Principal Knittle has been trying to advocate for us at district level and relieve some tasks on our end, for example, Attendance.
• How can we boost teacher morale? Suggestions:
• More shout-outs (Rockin’ the Reeboot) to acknowledge the hard work.
• Potential to use new budget money for appreciation treats.
• Spirit days/weeks?

 

Meeting adjourned at 4:05 pm

Next meeting date: April 9, 2021

SDMC Meeting

Minutes

September 8, 2020

The Meeting was held via TEAMS at 9:00 am

 

• Knittle introduced the purpose of the meeting which was to discuss and vote on Burbank’s SIP for 2020-2021.
• He proceeded to present the SIP to the committee by sharing his screen. He pointed out the fact that our data remained the same as 2019-2020 because there was no end-of-year testing due to COVID-19.
• Then he proceeded to go over the objectives for each subject area, emphasizing the areas of Special Education and Dyslexia.
• He opened the floor for discussion after which voting too place.
• The SIP was approved unanimously.
• The meeting was adjourned at 9:50 am

 

 

SDMC Voting Members Present:

Maria Salinas

Amanda Vasquez

Bertha Davies

Tiffanie Cole

Bobbie Blackwell

Elyzabeth Perales

Amanda Hudson

Mary Velasquez

Stefanie Gray

Brittany Jennings

David Knittle

 

Non-Members in Attendance:

None

 

Next Meeting Date: January 15, 2021