April PC Meeting Minutes

April 9, 2013

Englewood Parent Club Meeting was called to order by Shawn Hanson at 6:00 p.m. in the  Library.

Board Members in attendance:

Co-Presidents: Shawn Hanson and Amy Terry

Treasurer: Trish Campbell

Secretary: Mary Hanson

Co-Volunteer Coordinators: Connie Dewey and Lora Dougherty

Introductions Were Made Around The Room.

II.        Student Presentations                  By: Miss. Rachel Kuenzi’s 4^th Grade Class

·         Students demonstrated how they use the SMART boards in their classrooms when practicing finding longitude and latitude on a map on the world.

·         Miss Kuenzi’s class is learning a Louis and Clack unit. The SMART board is used to create learning material.

·         They are learning the roles for the different job assignments

·         Miss Kuenzi says she uses the SMART board everyday

o   Mostly for math

o   Daily instructions

·         Creating a lesson plan for the SMART board can be made as went along or some slides can take up to 40 minutes (but can be used over and over again).

III.        Principal Report                 By. Mrs. Katy Naff

·         Discussed Common Core State Standards

o   To see Oregon Common Core State Standards in Math CLICK HERE. 

o   To see  Oregon Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts & Literacy CLICK HERE

·         Progress Reports

·         State Assesments

·         Standards

·         Planning

·         All Day Staff Development Day

o   May 3

o   Scope Sequence

o   Familiarizing With Next Years Teaching Plans

·         Changes At A Statewide Level

·         Priorities

o   Mobile lab

o   More SMART board training

§  “show and tell” on useful lessons

§  Easy tips and tricks

IV.        Board Reports

Treasures Report               By Trish Campbell

·         Budget

o   We made less money overall during the 2012/13 school year

·         Need to increase fundraising or find a way to make more with the fundraisers we have in place.

·         Communication need to increase

·         Require more volunteers for events

·         Additional participation and more individuals to join parent-cub meeting and help with events

V.        Current Business

·         Sports-Fest 2013/14 School Year Planning Meeting Set

o   Tuesday, April 30

o   5:30-6:30

o   Library

·         Teacher Application Week

o   May 6^th To 10^th

o   Staff Coffee Lounge Set-Up

VI.       Old Business

·         Art Fund

o   Kiln

o   Principal Katy Naff and the district looking a possible space to place the kiln.

o   The figure for the kiln exhaust is $5,190.  This breaks down as $3,550 for the fabbing and installation of the hood and exhausting through the roof, $1,440 for running the power and $200 for parts and roof patching.  This does not include any fixing up of the room.

o   $2000.00 art fund could be approved to be affixed to next years fund to pay for costs.

o   $1,748.27 from the maps market investor account  "rainy day fund" (which we need to close anyway)

Meeting Was Adjourned At 7:00 P.M.

Next Meeting

May 14, 2013, at 6:00 p.m.