Date | time 10/3/2013 7:07 PM
| Meeting called to order by President Nicole
Hammond
In Attendance
70 Parents were present (refer to sign in sheet)
Approval of Minutes
1st PTA meeting for 2013/2014 school year and
there were no minutes to be approved
Board
Nicole Hammond – President
JoAnn Bute – 1st Vice President
Terrance Credle – 2nd Vice President
Frank Griffith – Treasurer
Sheila Owens – Financial Secretary
Florence Duggins – Recording Secretary
Michele May – Corresponding Secretary
Financial Report June – September 2012 – 2013 School Year
JoAnn Bute
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Report was given to parents. Motion was made by
Cecile Hilton to accept the financial report and seconded by Maria Tramell.
Principal’s Report
Presented by Assistant Principal Mrs. Ambrosio
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CEP (Comprehensive Education Plan) Goals
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CEP goals posted on every floor by elevators for
parents to see
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Parents can log onto the DOE website to see CEP
goals for any school
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Instructional Focus for grades K-8
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Evidence in argument. Students will be asked to
show evidence as to how they arrived to their answer
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Students must use substantial evidence in
argument
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Common Core aligned
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Mitigation proposal for middle school grades.
This would be a twelve (12) week program dealing with mock trials
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Ms. Ambrosio announced that 270Q supports the
PTA EATS program
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Starting Monday. October 7th there
will be a teacher for the 1st grade class that haven’t had a teacher
at the start of the school year. Wanted to make sure that the school didn’t
just find a teacher, but the right teacher for our school and that’s going to
work to our standards
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Test scores on Arisparentlink.org
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Test scores dropped by 30% city wide
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270Q did better than the average school
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Ms. Tidridge is the new math teacher for middle
school
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First day of school we hit the ground running
and started our curriculum and started on day one Fontes and Pinnel reading
curriculum and we’re moving forward
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Teaching from Ready Gen/Go Math which is aligned
with Common Core
President’s Report
Nicole Hammond
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Prayer was rendered by Stacie Grant
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Pledge of Allegiance recited by all
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E.A.T.S is an enrichment program and the kids
get help with homework as well as extracurricular activities such as chess,
drama, dance, etc.
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Request
for upper grade enrollment (Grades 5-8)
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Explained why the program ends at 6pm and it
would be too expensive to have the building open until 7:00pm unless we have
enough parents to sign up and there’s a need for it
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On know your school night a sheet was circulated
for parents who were interested and would sign up their child if the program
was extended to 6:30pm
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Would like to start a parent committee to go out
into the community and spread the news about what’s going on within 270Q as
well as report back to the school/parents
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President Hammond announced that she is the 2nd
VP of the CEC for District 29 & is the liaison for this school and five (5) other district 29
schools
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President Hammond announced that she is a parent
advocate and that the CEC meets every 3rd Thursday of the month at
different schools and any parent is welcome to attend
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Discussed Ms. Eva Moskowitz (Success Charter
School) co-locating within our schools and eventually shutting down our schools
and fully operating her school. It’s easy for her to do this because it doesn’t
cost anything for her to reside in our public school buildings.
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President Hammond asked for parent support and
that we show up in support of IS 59 who is the school in question and that we
stand in support and protest this co-location on Thursday, October 9, 2013 at
6pm
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Announced that she would like to form committees
for fundraising, legislative, hospitality, media/tech, and grant writing
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Ms. Hammond put forth the motion that parent
Lattoy Mcdowell to lead the legislative committee and be the liaison and
put together a team of parents and report back to parents/community/PTA/school.
Motion was seconded by Parents Jill Rahim and
Florence Duggins and Ms. McDowell accepted.
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Ms. Hammond mentioned that last year one of the
parent complaints was that they received notices too late and that one of the
purposes for forming these committees is so the parents would be informed early and be involved.
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Ms. Hammond took a vote that if parents put
their name/email/contact info down on our PTA sign in sheet that it gives us
permission to contact them and everyone unanimously agreed.
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PTA President Hammond pointed out our new
fundraiser (Charleston Wrap) and explained why we decided to kick off our
fundraiser with something new as parents were complaining about Miss Chocolate
candy. Charleston Wrap offered quality items.
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Breakfast at Applebee’s is upcoming and parent volunteers
are still needed and Andrea Woodley (Parent)
volunteered to help at Applebee’s.
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Ms. Hammond announced that Applebee’s tickets
are not allowed to be sold at the door
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President Hammond announced that going forward
in future PTA meetings that she would like to have a speakers list and have a
parent speak at these meetings instead of her speaking for the entire meeting
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Next meeting 11/7/13 at 7pm
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Michael Duncan of Jamaica Breeze sponsored
tonight’s dinner. Will try to get a sponsor at every PTA meeting
Announcements/Speakers
Raymond Smith (Healthfirst)
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Discussed and gave important information
concerning Obamacare
(Affordable Care Act)
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Tried to shut it down 43 times and was
unsuccessful
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Open enrollment 10/1/13
