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2013-2014

 Board Meetings

Board Meeting Agenda 07/10/14
Board Meeting Agenda 05/07/14
Board Meeting Agenda 04/09/14
Board Meeting Agenda 03/05/14
Board Meeting Agenda 02/05/14
Board Meeting Agenda 12/03/13
Board Meeting Agenda 11/06/13
Board Meeting Agenda 10/09/13
Board Meeting Agenda 09/04/13
Board Meeting Agenda 08/21/13
Board Meeting Agenda 06/13/13

Association Meetings

Association Meeting Minutes 04/21/14
Association Meeting Minutes 03/27/14
Association Meeting Minutes 01/27/14
Association Meeting Minutes 09/09/13
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March 27, 2014 Association Meeting PowerPoint Presentation

Meeting Summaries

Summary from August 21, 2013 GHS PTSA Board meeting
Please Note: This was actually posted October 1, 2013
  • New Teachers at GHS: Richard McHard, Computer Science; Ronae Wilkes, English; Matt Van Gelder, Special Education; Jessie Berry, Special Education; Diane Maestas, Special Education; and Juan Bautista, Math.
  • School Goals for 2013-2014: (1) Common Core standards, (2) Explicit Direct Instruction, (3) Response to Intervention, (4) Anti-Bullying and (5) Closing the Achievement Gap. (see below for details)
  • First GHS PTSA Parent to Parent Coffee is scheduled for August 28, 2013, with focus on helping freshmen parents.
  • GHS Parent  Information Night to occur on September 9, 2013, starting at 6 p.m., regular day schedule.
  • Parent Seminar Series: GHS is repeating parent seminar series, with first one to focus on aeries.net (on-line grading system) scheduled for September 25, 2013.
  • This year’s School Theme: “Be Original” to celebrate GHS’ 20th year of instruction.
  • GHS PTSA Fundraisers proposed for this year: (1) Yogurtland on Sept. 10th (2) Dog Haus, every Tuesday of the school year, and (3) Direct Appeal to families.  PTSA Ways & Meeting Chairs will also look into possibly having food trucks for Open House event.
  • GHS PTSA website is up (www.gabrielinoptsa.org) which includes parent forum page where parents can post questions for others to respond to.
  Detailed District Goals for 2013-2014:
1.  Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
CCSS are a set of internationally benchmarked K-12 educational standards to ensure every students’ college and career readiness in English language arts and mathematics. These standards increase rigor in every school, and provide clarity and consistency for what all students need to know once they graduate from high school. To date, 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoan Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands and the Anchorage, AK School District have voluntarily adopted CCSS.  See attached brochures (in English and Spanish) explaining the Common Core Standards for High School Math and High School English.

2.  Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI)
An EDI lesson always includes specific lesson design components and lesson delivery strategies. It always includes continuous Checking for Understanding to verify that students are learning during the lesson. Well-crafted EDI lessons have a goal of 80% of students achieving 80% correct answers during Independent Practice. EDI lesson design components and lesson delivery strategies are independent of grade level and content. The figure on the right shows a graphical representation of Explicit Direct Instruction. You can see the lesson design components of a well-crafted EDI lesson, starting with a Learning Objective and ending with Lesson Closure. After Lesson Closure, teaching has ended, and students are ready for Independent Practice. On the outside, surrounding the design components, you can see the lesson delivery strategies including, for example, Checking for Understanding. The lesson delivery strategies are not specific to any design component and are used throughout the lesson. For more information, see http://www.dataworks-ed.com/research/edi

3.  Response to Intervention (RTI)
RTI is a recent addition to our nation’s special education law and our nation’s schools. RTI is a process that schools can use to help children who are struggling academically or behaviorally. One of its underlying premises is the possibility that a child’s struggles may be due to inadequacies in instruction or in the curriculum either in use at the moment or in the child’s past. RTI is a multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and to reduce behavior problems. With RTI, schools identify students at risk for poor learning outcomes, monitor student progress, provide evidence-based interventions and adjust the intensity and nature of those interventions depending on a student’s responsiveness. There are three basic levels of RTI intensity or prevention. The primary prevention level includes high quality core instruction. The secondary level includes evidence-based intervention(s) of moderate intensity. The tertiary prevention level includes individualized intervention(s) of increased intensity for students who show minimal response to secondary prevention. At all levels, attention should be on fidelity of implementation, with consideration for cultural and linguistic responsiveness and recognition of student strengths. For further information, visit http://nichcy.org/schools-administrators/rti

4.  Anti-Bullying Programs
GHS-Specific Goals for 2013-14
  1. CCSS (see above)
  2. RTI (see above)
  3. EDI (see above)
  4. Anti-Bullying Programs
  5. Closing the Achievement Gap using Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) Strategies. For more information, visit http://www.avid.org/abo_whatisavid.html
Summary from September 4, 2013 GHS PTSA Board meeting
Please Note: Actually posted on October 1, 2013
  • GHS PTSA Association meeting will be held as part of the Sept. 9th Parent Information Night.  Association to approve this year’s budget, last Association minutes and Bylaws amendment (increase of membership dues to $10).
  • Today was the first Late Start Day.  According to Principal Heinrich, it went well and staff used the additional time to get updates from the various school departments.
  • First Parent to Parent Coffee on August 28th also went well with approximately 30 parents (mainly freshmen parents) in attendance.  GHS PTSA Board to determine subject for next Parent to Parent Coffee.
  • Membership report: GHS PTSA has 538 members to date. Direct Appeal to families and campaign for teachers and staff will begin this month.  Membership dues can be paid by PayPal via the GHS PTSA website.
  •  Yogurtland Fundariser to be held on Sept. 10th (minimum day), with 15% of sales to support GHS PTSA.  Fliers must be presented for promotion.  Fliers will be available at the Student Center, and will be passed out during the Parent Information Night as well as afterschool on Sept. 10th.
  • Weekly emails to GHS PTSA members to begin this month along with summary of PTSA Board meetings on website.
Summary of November 6, 2013 GHS PTSA Board Meeting
  • The Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA), which is a roadmap outlining the goals for Gabrielino and the strategies to achieve those goals, will be presented for approval to the SGUSD board on November 19. All six goals outlined in the SPSA align with the district-wide goals of implementing the Common Core Standards, closing the achievement gap, improving the response to intervention programs, and continuing to advance anti-bullying campaigns. Once approved, the SPSA will be posted on the GHS website; there will also be a link to it from the GHS PTSA website.
  • School Counselors are continuing their “Blueprint Meetings” with students. These meetings utilize the information students entered in their Naviance Surveys to help develop curriculum plans to achieve each student’s goals for high school and beyond. Counselors have now finished meeting with all the freshmen and are beginning meetings with the sophomores.
State Testing Update:
  • Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 484, which gives California two years to create a master plan for future state tests and effectively ends the California Standards Tests (CST) in English Language Arts and Math for all grades.
  • The California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA), which is the alternate assessment for the CSTs given to students with special needs, will continue to be administered.
  • The CST in Science will continue to be administered to all sophomores.
  • The Early Assessment Program (EAP) tests in English and Math, which the California State University system uses for college placement purposes, are embedded in CSTs in English and Math. Juniors wishing to take the EAPs will be able to take the Math and English CSTs.
  • The California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) will continue to be administered.
Reminder: November 7 is a Parent Seminar in the GHS Media Center. The topic is Cyber-Bullying.
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