Site Council
Site councils are established at each school to advise the principal on how to advance student learning through strong shared planning, communications, and problem-solving. Site Council members include parents, staff, and sometimes students.
The Creekside Site Council will meet monthly for approximately 1.5 to 2 hours outside of contracted time in the school day. The council will schedule meeting times at the beginning of each term.
See below for meeting minutes and other important information:
Site Council Meeting Minutes
Jan. 25, 2019
Team member name |
Team member signature |
Melissa Skone ~ K/1 Staff Rep |
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Kathleen Blanding ~ 2/3 Staff Rep |
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Neal Pollock ~ 4/5 Staff Rep |
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Lori George ~ Specialist Rep |
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Teresa Mature ~ Safety Support |
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Loretta Rieger ~ EA Rep |
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Hailey Chamberlin ~ K/1 Parent Rep |
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Karen Rajtar ~ PTSA and 2/3 Parent Rep |
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Katy Loucks ~ 4/5 Parent Rep |
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Steve McFarland ~ Community Rep |
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Kathy Keegan ~ Admin Rep |
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Tera Coyle ~ Admin Rep |
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Agenda
Introductions
What is Site Council?
- The Creekside Site Council is an advisory committee for the school principal to foster communication and provide input on the optimal learning environment for our school. The Site Council consists of staff representatives, parent representatives and community representatives (including PTSA). To the extent possible, the parent representatives should, as a collective, represent students from a wide variety of grade levels, learning needs and personal backgrounds.
- Typical areas of focus for our Site Council include:
- Developing our School Community. Continue the development of our school as a place where families are embraced, supported and connected to the school, each other and the greater Creekside community.
- Ensure School Safety. Further grow systems and practices that ensure school safety. School Safety includes social/emotional wellness as well as physical safety.
- Shared Learning. Share our school improvement plan as well as our Learning Assistance Program (LAP) plan.
Level 2 Disaster Work Update
- District Safety Committee worked with all the local city police and fire to create a common district-wide level 2 safety plan. These plans are called “Emergency Operations Plan” (EOP). Part of these plans includes an “Incident Command System Organizational Chart.” This organizational flow chart looks like this:
- Creekside’s Staff took time in August to review these roles and this chart.
- In September the staff looked over the “role descriptions” and signed up for the task that best meet their personal needs.
- At the end of September, the staff members that are on Site Council reviewed the flow chart to add in staff that weren’t assigned at that time and to combine some of the tasks that had similar role descriptions.
- Tera (principal), Andrea (principal’s secretary) and Eryn (school nurse) looked at our emergency prep list and organized it into priorities. The list includes the following:
- Water pouches for students and staff (5 year shelf life)
- Emergency bars for food (5 year shelf life)
- Canopies (2 of them)
- Large Canopy/Tent
- Mylar Blankets
- Color-coded vests for staff that coordinate with Incident Command roles
- Triage Supplies (Tags, tape, tarps)
- Green (walk-in wounded)
- Yellow (not life threatening)
- Red (life threatening)
- Black (deceased)
- Chain Saw, Safety Equipment, Training
- Pop-up privacy shelters for bathroom use
- Buckets from Home Depot to use for supplies for each Incident Command Team
- Staff will be trained at our February 27th Professional Development meeting
Safety Update
- Physical Safety:
- Safety September Month ~ practiced all drills in the month of September
- Continue monthly drills
- Participated in the Great American Shake-out in October
- Differentiated between lock down drills
- Modified lock down example: bear on playground
- Lock down example: police activity in the neighborhood
- Active Shooter: RUN, HIDE, FIGHT
- Administration walks through the building monthly with custodial team to ensure building safety
- Emotional and Social Well-being:
- Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)curriculum
- Common language
- Common themes
- Problem Solving
- Supplemented by just-in-time lessons provided by Student Support Coaches and Counselor
- Common Language around Responsible, Respectful, Safe and Kind expectations in all areas of the building
- Common voice volume levels posted and taught around the building
- Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)curriculum
- PBSES (Positive Behavior Social Emotional Support) Work
- Support SEL curriculum
- Support just-in-time classroom lessons
- Proactive classroom management strategies
- School-wide behavior expectations and reinforcement
- Positive relationship building between staff and students
- Support for students that need a little extra TLC and behavioral interventions
- Provide staff training to support this work
- Support consistency between school and home
Follow-up Action Items:
- ADD Steve to the e-mail list distribution for emergency needs
- Before/After School Emergency Routines/Procedures (possibly mirror Otter Club plans)
Creekside’s Mission Statement:
The Creekside Elementary School community will work collaboratively to provide a safe, engaging, supportive, and challenging environment, ensuring that all students reach their highest potential in academics and citizenship while honoring their personal strengths.
SIP GOAL: All students
By 2021, 90% of 5th grade students identified in the 3rd through 5th grade longitudinal cohort data group, will score a 3 or 4 on the SBA ELA.
SIP GOAL: Gap group
By 2021, 80% of 5th grade level 2 students identified in the 3rd through 5th grade longitudinal cohort data group, will score a 3 or 4 on the SBA ELA.
Sept. 28, 2018
Agenda Items with Meeting Notes
- Review of Level 2 Disaster Sign-ups
- Reviewed our staff sign-ups and added some names that were missing
- Reviewed some of the job descriptions that were confusing
- Combined some of the jobs that were similar or overlapping
- Discussion of WHO Needs to be on this team and how to Recruit
- Parents
- Looking for parents to sign-up for a 2-year commitment
- K: Melissa Bramble will reach out to a Kindergarten parent
- 2nd: Kathleen Blanding will reach out to a 2nd grade parent (NOTE: Tera reached out to Karen Rajtar who has a 2nd grade kiddo and she has agreed to be the 2nd/3rd grade rep)
- 4th: Neal Pollock will reach out to the 4th grade team to see if they can suggest a parent to be our 4th/5th grade rep
- Community Reps Community Member:
- Tera will reach out to a business person that also lives in the Creekside attendance area and is one of the leads on the neighboring home owners association, Steve McFarland.
- PTSA Board Member
- Tera will reach out to Marissa Corona, PTSA President, to see if she can recruit someone from the board to be our PTSA rep.
- Parents
- Safety Stuff Done thus far this year
- Reviewed our September Safety Month where we have…
- Taught Expectations Throughout the Building using our PBSES Posters
- Taught Drills Throughout the Month of September
- Next Up:
- Educate Parents on this work and what to do in the event of an emergency when they are ON campus or OFF campus
- Reviewed our September Safety Month where we have…
- ER priority list…what’s next?
- Held this until NEXT Site Council to include Blondie (Andrea Garvey)