Sherwood+Organizational+Team

Welcome to the Sherwood Organizational Team home page. Within this page, you will find agendas, discussion topics, decisions made and action to be taken related to the SOT members.

Team Members: Kathy, Erin, Kendra, Megan, Linda, Maribeth, Ben, Becki, Anita, Debra, Wanda, Jenny

__//**Meeting Dates & Agendas**//__


 * //__9-18-08__//**

1. Conferences 2. Mock Election
 * //__10-16-08__//**
 * Schedlues/Sibling Scheduling/Letters
 * Letters go home Oct. 31st
 * Sibling Scheduling will occur at Nov. 6th Staff Meeting
 * Review of the program and how it will all flow
 * Wear Red/White/Blue
 * 5th/6th Grade Peers will support primary grades with voting procedure

3. Walk-A-Thon/ Hog Logs
 * Description of new program and how it works
 * Staff 5K on the day of the Flying Pig

4. Healthy Schools Program
 * Overview of the program

5. Buisness Partnerships
 * What are they and do you have any at your grade level?
 * Do we have a desire as a school to increase our partnerships within our community?
 * Pro's and Con's?

6. Bullying Policy and Child Abuse Reporting Procedures

7. Terra Nova
 * Testing for 4th and 5th grade will occur Monday through Thursday of next week.

8. Market Day Pie Contest
 * Pie in the face for Dan or no? It was an overwhelming no!

9. Calendar Review

10. Comments/Concerns?

Minutes:

Beliefs:**
 * Building Beliefs & Goals

1. We believe that all students can learn and deserve an education that respects their individual learning strengths, interests, and developmental needs. Our responsibility as a staff is to ensure that all students have access to challenging and engaging activities. Teachers are the guiding force in leading, encouraging, and motivating students.

2. We believe that students should be guided and expected to solve prolbems and deal with the consequences of their actions. We believe misbehavior should be handled with natural consequences while maintaining the dignity of the student.

3. We believe that all students can learn through a student-centered and standards-driven curriculum, while focuing on individual needs , 4. We believe students need and deserve a rich and rigorous educational program which is student centered and driven by the standards. This will provide twenty- first century skills combing technology, literacy, creativity, and critical thinking with the core subject matter. 5. We believe all students can learn and deserve an education that respects their individual learning strengths, interests, developmental needs and gives them frequent opportunities to think critically, make appropriate choices, and grow in their ability to express themselves. 6. We believe that teachers, in a strong professional learning community, should design engaging and challenging learning opportunities for students which will encourage and promote lifelong learning for both the students and the staff. 7. We believe that students and staff should work together to create a safe and respectful learning environment in which maintains the dignity of all involved. 8. We believe that students should be given the opportunity to make decisions, good or bad, and be held accountable for these choices and the resulting consequences.

9. We will provide a student centered, safe environment that incorporates a rich and creative standards based curriculum in which all students will be respected and held accountable for their learning.

"maintain the dignity...adult and the student" "guided...expected...solve...problems...without making problems for anyone else" "natural consequences" "opportunity to make decisions and live with the results...good or bad" "rich...rigourous educational program....21st century skills" "individual learning strengths" "promote mutual responsibility for our children" "student-centered...standards driven curriculum" "life-long learning in both our students and staff" "right to feel safe" "frequent opportunities to think critically, make appropriate choices" "engaging activities..students and lead/encourage/motivate" "high standards and expectations must be maintained"

Agenda: 1. Identify Belief Statements/ Building Goals Activity __**New Belief Statements and Goals**__
 * //__12-16-08__//**
 * Review FHSD Goals and Belief Statements
 * As a group, identify the strongest belief statements that were submitted by the varying grade levels (3-5 statements).
 * Connect those belief staements to our building goals.

2. After-School Intervention (Grades 3-6)
 * Grade levels will share details with the teammates

3. Parent Communication
 * In what ways do you/ grade level communicate with your parent community?
 * Would there be any benefit to having consistency with how we communicate to parents across grade levels ?

**__2-19-09__** __**March 27, 2009**__ Agenda:
 * //__1-22-09__//**
 * 1) December meeting follow-up (10 min.)
 * 2) Parent Communication
 * 3) Beliefs
 * 1) January 23rd Inservice (10 min.)
 * 2) Day’s Schedule
 * 3) Goals of the Day
 * 4) Laptops
 * 1) Upcoming Events (10 min.)
 * 2) Souper Bowl- 1/26/09-1/30-09
 * 3) Candy Grams- 2/2/09-2/6/09
 * 4) Child Abuse Training- 2/5/09 (Annex), 2/10/09,
 * 5) Science Fair- 2/7/09
 * 6) Father/Daughter Social- 2/6/09
 * 7) SOT- 2/19/09
 * 1) Grade Level Ordering for 2009-2010
 * 2) March 1st Deadline
 * 1) Learning Teams
 * 1) Author Visit
 * 1) Thursday, March 5th
 * 2) Two PM Assemblies
 * 3) Workshop for grades 3-5 in pm
 * 1) Conferences
 * 2) 5th 4:00-8:00
 * 3) 6th 8:00-12:00
 * 4) 10th 4:00-7:00
 * 5) Food
 * 1) Makeup Days
 * 2) June 5th- Last day for students
 * 3) June 8th- Teacher Work Day
 * 4) June 5th- Field Day


 * 1) Parent Communication- Should we develop a standard for how we are using Wikis and Websites to communicate with our parents?


 * 1) Fire Safety Presentations
 * 2) May
 * 3) Each presentation will consist of 2 classes @ 50 mins. each
 * 4) Future Visits- Worthwhile?


 * 1) Test Ethics Review
 * 2) Monday, May 30th, 8:20, Media Center
 * 3) Grades 3-6, Intervention Specialists, Any Individual Proctoring an OAT
 * 4) Assessment
 * 5) Connie West will be present to answer any questions regarding OAT administration


 * 1) Staff Meeting- Thursday, April 2nd, 8:20, Anita’s Room


 * 1) Saturday’s BOE Meeting


 * 1) Other?


 * Next Meeting: April 23rd, 8:20, Media Center**


 * __//April 23rd Minutes//__**


 * __Service Projects __**

Kindergarten- make bookmarks to be kept in Sherwood's library for all students to use. (Yearlong project) 1st Grade- 2nd Grade- 3rd Grade- 4th Grade- 5th Grade-wants to weed all of the flowerbeds around the school 6th Grade-