IV.
Jeanette Reed, Final
Appointment of Principal
After a discussion with SLT members, Jeanette
Reed announced Valerie Capitulo as PS 101Q’s
principal.
V.
Principal Update:
There will be a posting for a new Assistant
Principal. This will require a new C-30
process. There will be hours accrued for SLT.
This position will be decided internally
through a level 2 process.
Resumes will not be available for review prior
to the date of the interview. The panel will
develop questions together and then rate the
candidates. Valerie will choose 3-5 candidates
to be interviewed. The closing date for
applications will be January 15th,
2010. Information regarding the candidates
will be forward to Valerie.
With parental permission, 120 students, nine
years old and younger, will receive the 2nd
dose of the H1N1 vaccine.
Mr. Parlini will hold a parent workshop for
the New York State Science Exam.
Middle School magnet applications will be
handed in for upcoming school year. The New
York City Department of Education, Office of
Portfolio Planning approved the zoning of the
new high school on Metropolitan Avenue. The
school will be open for the September 2010
school year. Eighth grade students zoned for
the high school will receive applications in
February.
Damon McCord will be the leader of the
Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School,
grades 6-12. Marci Levy-Maguire will be the
new leader of the Queens Metropolitan High
School, grades 9-12.
CEC meeting discussed these new schools. The
Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School is
highly science and technology based. It is
more practical than academic and will serve as
a college preparatory school. It is a project
based expeditionary learning school. They
choose three or four themes a year and
everything ties into that theme. They will
accept 100 students within the whole
district. Admission will be through a lottery
system for 6th and 7th
graders. Applications will be sent in
February. Based on the zoning for the high
school, some students will be far away.
Middle school is open to all in district.
PS 101 will begin a new recycling program.
There will be green bins for paper garbage and
a special bin located on each floor for cans
and bottles. There will be special days for
recycling pick-up. The school custodian will
be involved in this effort. The custodian
used funding to purchase these bins for each
classroom. There will be a catchy slogan for
the kids.
School website has calendars and newsletters,
including the newsletter for Physical
Education. The total and unique hits were
analyzed and the most popular links were the
calendar, staff, and parent information.
In September there were 191,000 hits on the
website, 2000 were unique; 121,000 hits in
October, 1500 were unique; 108,000 hits in
November, 1300 unique; 117,000 in December,
1400 unique. Up to present there have been
8500 unique hits.
There is a website called homework hero as an
online teacher service to post assignments.
It seems inexpensive and easy to use. Mr.
Hyman pays for his own website.
As per last SLT meeting, goals for mandated
extended day students, 3 suggested learning
objectives in Reading and Math were
communicated to parents. These objectives were
based on Scantron results. The letter that
went out to extended day students was clear
and simple. In February there will be a
switch for enrichment, third grade and up.
This is an optional morning program and will
include up to 10 students in each grade.
We will now be using Study Island as an
assessment recording system.
VI.
Parent Association Update
The Current semester of the Parent Association
After School will end in January.
Registration for the next semester will take
place on January 20, 2010.
The Father Daughter Dance will be held on
February 6th, 2010. There will be
a Little Orchestra Concert at the end of
February. It will be a weekend performance
for first grade and up.
We were awarded the Parents as Art Partners
grant. The music program will be partnering
with Town Hall. There will be a percussion
program open to grades 2 and 3. There will be
30 parent/student teams for $3000. The school
surveys decided the interest. This will be
supported by Mr. Sansaricq, Valerie, Deb
Dillingham, Mrs. Sawicki-Mallien, Ms. Lori
Diamond, and several others. There will be a
tie-in to the International Dinner and an Art
day tied in with Sara Giaimo’s program.
There have been internet problems within our
school building. We are functioning at full
capacity. There was a request from the
Parents’ Association for a grant for band
expansion. They would ask for $100, 000 for
band expansion and $150,000 for computers.
The new council person isn’t in office yet,
letters will be sent as soon as possible. The
Parent Association bought Jennifer Farley’s
class a Smart Board and hopes to order one
more for second grade.
In terms of computers, either laptops will be
replaced or the media center computers since
there is a short lifespan.
Biennial reviews regarding the SLT need to be
completed online by the 15th of
January by all SLT members.
VII. Survey
Updates:
The set of surveys for upper and lower grade
children have been completed. More information
online should be class specific rather than
grade specific, for example the newsletters.
The current newsletters are working for the
parents. They want more information unit by
unit.
Parents would like more specific and
individualized comments from teachers for
specific issues and progress on students.
However, we don’t want teachers burdened by
more paperwork.
There are still issues with parent access to
the newsletters. We may be able to send an
on-line blast, email class parent on each
grade. Then they can attach newsletters and
email through class
We need more advertisement for the school
website. We can highlight all new items and
post reminders. We also need to make it clear
that there is standardization across the
grade. We need to make more implicit
information explicit. We also have to inform
parents that they can feel free to email
teachers when they would like more information
about something. A lot of things that are sent
home tend to get lost in the shuffle.
Instead of posting a sample of student work on
the back of the newsletter, perhaps we can
have a “Tips for Parents” section. Parents
can immediately use the tips without
deciphering information.
We will table this time for the next SLT
meeting.
In terms of highlights from second grade,
there is a lot of interest in G & T tutoring,
grade tutoring, and after school. Parents
would like to be involved in what the courses
are. We can ask the parents what kinds of
things would they like and ask the parents for
course offerings.
Parents like Test Prep. Homework Help is not
popular. Unless it is really pushed by the
teacher who teaches it, the parents don’t sign
up for it. Homework idea is too broad. Mr.
Gelber’s 2nd grade after school did
work. It was geared towards specific group of
students and used the Treasures Program.
We will table survey for next meeting.
Upper grade survey was briefly reviewed and
will be revisited at the next SLT meeting.
VIII.
SLT Subcommittees
The SLT subcommittees groups met. These
subcommittees are based on the Action Plan.
CEP identifies issues and we create an Action
Plan. We take feedback on these broad issues
and make a plan to help us get better scores
on the next school survey. The SLT serves as
a way to evaluate the survey information and
come up with the Action Plan.
IX.
Agenda Items for Next
Meeting:
1.
Resume survey review.
2.
Decide how to make newsletters work for
parents
3.
Time for subcommittee break-outs
X.
Adjournment
Meeting was
adjourned at 4:25 PM.
Minutes
submitted by: Michelle Trinchese
December 1st
Minutes approved by: Members of SLT
