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Humboldt High School Site Council Minutes December 12, 2005 Present: Valerie Atkinson (Co-chair staff), Jason Schlukebier (Counselor), Gilbert de la O (Community), John Hines (Parent), Diane Schroepfer (Staff), Kandy Hedlund (Parent), Saul Castillo (Student), John Bianchi (Principal), Kari Denissen (Community), Bonnie Bellows (Staff), Mike Sodomka (Assistant Principal), Isreal Moses (Assistant Principal), Dave Mergens (Staff), Anne Gangl (Parent), Tom Krantz (Staff-Union), Deb Shipp (Assistant Principal), Jennifer Purtell (Parent), Andrew Purtell (Student). Members Not Present: Becki Hamilton (Co-chair Parent), Marilyn Mauritz (Staff)
Announcement: Becky is absent due to illness in family, Dave Mergens will fill in as co-chair. Motion to approve agenda so moved by John H, seconded by Anne G. Unanimous Motion to approve agenda so moved by Gilbert D., seconded by John H. Unanimous. Gilbert: Thanksgiving weekend the neighborhood was hit hard by gang graffiti, the community got together and to clean up and come up with action steps. We are being hit repeatedly. The police are increasing patrols and have arrested sixteen people so far. Call to open eyes and ears and be united as community to prevent this, let Gilbert know if you see it so it can be documented. Idea to put mural on large wall space at Humboldt Jr. High because murals seem to prevent graffiti (the principal of the Jr. High is supportive of this). Discussion of student groups to help with graffiti removal. Call to county justice system to do restorative justice with the kids- many not from the community or from Humboldt Sr. High. Kari: Update on survey data about community perceptions of Humboldt and update on the work NLC is doing with member of St. Paul School District around permits and connecting curriculum with schools and OST learning. Our next meeting is the day before the school board meeting- do we want to add another meeting date, change our meeting date? -seems at this point no. Education Summit is on December 15th at 6:30 PM, it has been in paper, newspapers, cable access, and flyer handouts around the neighborhood. Lots of parents with younger students at bus stops who were interested in it. Agenda is attached, only change is the in the Goals section it will follow: Instruction, Programs, Student Panel. Next in packet is the public comment sheet so people can give comments. Not a dialogue because we have had community meetings to get input and we just want to do a presentation about what we have come up with. (register of concern that this may not be the best received by community if it is more, "here is what we are going to do" as opposed to, lets have a dialogue about this together). Just presenting the goals, no decisions have been made on how to get to them yet. Part of challenge with engaging a lot of people is that we are under a timeline given to us by the district and we need a description in by Dec 16th for the school profile bulletin. The school is also trying to do damage control about reporter who said that Humboldt may be closing. Some on council feel there has been plenty of opportunity for community, students and parents to contribute at parent nights, etc. It is important that the school does not use school jargon but try to use "everyday" terms. Updates to Education Summit Agenda:
BREAK HERE (say 5 but plan on 10min)
Overall questions: John H and Val will act as MC’s representing the site council but still ask Karen W. to moderate the "goals" section. Have Mike S. tape it. Who will record it so that it can be sent out to school community (timeline moves fast so people need to hear what happened if they were not there)? What will really be known for the Dec 16th insert? We won’t know if we are changing the schedule or the uniforms, etc. We need to focus on core positives about the school that will not change even if schedule changes, etc. The site council will meet with the school board on Jan 10th at 4:45 p.m. to present status on above goals. Decisions on many of these goals should be made by the parent fair on January 21st. Change "question/feedback" form so it includes school contact information (a specific person). Take name change question off and change to, "do you have any other recommendations." This is being taken off because it would require some "intro" that there is not time for at this meeting but this idea has come up from business partners, community organizations and some individuals. Kari to get translation equipment from WSCO and bring to event.
Jennifer nominates Kandy and John seconds. Unanimous. We are missing a teaching staff and a non-teaching staff position- Valerie will send email to staff about this in January. Motion to adjourn so moved by Dave M, seconded by John H. Seconded.
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