School Leadership Team
2019-2020
Minutes - March 11, 2020 - 3:45PM - PS/IS 276 Parent Room
Attendance:
Name | Role | Present | Absent |
Terri Ruyter | Principal | x |
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Natalie Skeels | Teacher/UFT Chapter Chair |
| x |
Melinda Orlie Katsiris | Parent/Co-PTA President | x |
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Jessica Abraham | Teacher | x |
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Audra Benjamin | Teacher |
| x |
Melanie Pavlovich | Teacher | x |
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Erika Richardson | Teacher | x |
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Ashley London Taylor | Parent | x |
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Preeti Priya | Parent (Chair) | x |
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Matt Schneider | Parent (Secretary) | x |
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Marija Stojanovski | Parent | x |
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Claire Wladis | Parent | x |
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- Call to Order
- Approved February 12, 2020 Minutes
- Committee Updates
- Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- First school community meeting held
- Committee received very positive feedback
- Planning for next meeting - currently scheduled for April 7 - considering books
- Discussed bias as it relates to coronavirus
- NYC Kids Project - 4th grade program to bring awareness of autism and other disabilities
- Technology Committee
- Terri working with Basia and Rachel Lewis to think about how to incorporate more technology into curriculum
- Coronavirus Update
- Guidance from the NYC Health Department/NYS Education Department and the NYC Health Department/NYC Department of Education
- School Continuity Preparation
- DOE has new guidance on attendance - coronavirus anxiety now included as excused absence
- Teacher meetings all by phone/virtual
- Consider no parent volunteers
- Consider postponing PTA meeting - potential virtual meeting
- Consider making auction virtual
- UFT reps getting sense of where things stand with teachers union
- Terri meeting with teachers on Monday afternoon
- Terri to suggest to teachers that they should think about resources that could be suggested in case of school closure
- Consider Email to parents regarding technology - what do you have?
- 276 Grading Policy Update/Discussion
- Discussed DRAFT created by Terri and teacher committee
- Recognizing that parents want a 4 without understanding what a 4 means
- DOE standards are shifting
- Elementary schools are limited in grades they can give from a systems perspective
- Terri seeking feedback on draft (shared in Google Drive)
- What about students with disabilities? DOE says that they are supposed to be judged against standards, what is the impact?
- Could this information be communicated online ahead of time? Potential for online gradebook
- Call to Adjourn
Submitted by Matt Schneider, Secretary
Signature: _____(signed minutes on file in Principal’s Office)_______________________
Date: ____________________________________