Post by WeNeed3 on Oct 16, 2008 16:50:02 GMT -5
I got these notes from a friend of mine who attended the IPPC meeting:
Jason Altenbern
- Parent University will be held Jan. 24 at Naperville Central and the $25 cost includes lunch and activities for the whole day. For more info, see the IPSD website and check this date on the calendar. There will be some presentations available in Spanish. ipsdweb.ipsd.org/Calendar.aspx?id=20229
- Midwest Heart Foundation heart monitoring/screening will be available for all HS students in the district next spring. Many volunteers will be needed for seven days of testing. They expect to have 3 days at NV Blue, 2 days at WV Green, and 1 day at each Gold campus. They hope to test each IPSD HS student twice during their HS years, so this year will be all students, next year will be freshmen.
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E-folders begin tomorrow and should save about 3 million pages a year.
Young and Patterson presented Green Initiatives - lots of great ideas that have made a difference in these two schools.
Patterson gave a financial gift to the IPSN PTA and invites the other local units to do the same.
Dr. Daeschner
- site based school improvement plans, moving toward having more kids in "exceeds" rather than "meets" standards category
- a lot is in place already in the plans of MV for going green, including the roof of the science wing
- a questions was brought up about addressing kids' social and emotional needs, and this evolved into talking about life skills kids should have
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Transition Plan - presented by Kathy Birkett, Kristine Marchiando, Jim Schmid, and Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers is the Director of Secondary Education. He and Jennifer Nonnemacher will meet and set timelines for Fischer MS. This will be coordinated with the timelines for MVHS. They will get info out to families and the community. In Dec/Jan the meetings with families and faculty will begin. There will be info out via listserv and they will give updates to the SB as well.
Kristine Marchiano, WV principal, is preparing for approx. 250 current NV freshmen and 250 current Scullen 8th graders to join WV next year as well as losing about 600 of WV current freshmen and moving freshmen into the Green campus. She has met with the NV students who will be moving and she's met with staff. The students' questions had to do with lockers, options period, whether there were differences in curriculum, and about wearing NV colors at WV. There was an evening of tours and Q&A at WV for dept. chairs and families that will be new to WV next year. There were about 175 attendees. Oct. 20 she will going to Scullen for Q&A. She will continue to communicate via listserv and connect-ed as well.
Jim Schmid, MV principal, says everything about MV is available on the website and the building is on schedule. He sees three components of the transition as parents, students, and staff. For parents he has the listserv and monthly meetings. He has been to visit the 8th graders at all three MS that will feed into MV and talked to them about all the exciting opportunites that await them in the new school. He will talk to the WV freshmen Student Council about all sorts of plans for next year. He reminded us that some staff will move with students, such that of 100 positions at MV about 80% of them will be filled by current staff.
Kathy Birkett took questions.
She said assistant principals may be announced at the end of next week and their positions begin on 7/1. Next will be department chairs.
The position for principal at Still MS will post in Dec.
Yes, there will be theater, music, marching band, etc. at MV from the very start as was done at NV.
Opening with fresh/soph is the usual model and since NV she has worked with 8 other schools that have done the same.
She says she could count on her two hands the number of students who had trouble transitioning from WV fresh to NV soph.
They are currently tweaking at "transition FAQ" and she will speak to the School Board about it in a work session.
The curricular needs of all students will be met regardless of what those are and if that requires transporting to other buildings.
The transition for 5th graders to Fischer will be similar to any other transition to MS and the kids will get to tour the building ahead of time.
Competition gyms and half of the practice fields will be ready when the school opens.
Plainfield North opened while under construction and KB visited while school was in session and saw how the kids and workers were kept separate. MV situation will be simlar and noisy work should be done outside of attendance hours.
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The slate for MVHS PTSA officers was presented - Angie Gaul, Sandra Conti, Robin Solomon, Martha Blount, and Deb Butler
The meeting is on 11/20 at 7pm in the CEC
Fischer PTA will be in Feb.
The scholarship committee has not yet met and will give their report in November. (This means no unity basketball game as was planned/scheduled)
Jason Altenbern
- Parent University will be held Jan. 24 at Naperville Central and the $25 cost includes lunch and activities for the whole day. For more info, see the IPSD website and check this date on the calendar. There will be some presentations available in Spanish. ipsdweb.ipsd.org/Calendar.aspx?id=20229
- Midwest Heart Foundation heart monitoring/screening will be available for all HS students in the district next spring. Many volunteers will be needed for seven days of testing. They expect to have 3 days at NV Blue, 2 days at WV Green, and 1 day at each Gold campus. They hope to test each IPSD HS student twice during their HS years, so this year will be all students, next year will be freshmen.
===============
E-folders begin tomorrow and should save about 3 million pages a year.
Young and Patterson presented Green Initiatives - lots of great ideas that have made a difference in these two schools.
Patterson gave a financial gift to the IPSN PTA and invites the other local units to do the same.
Dr. Daeschner
- site based school improvement plans, moving toward having more kids in "exceeds" rather than "meets" standards category
- a lot is in place already in the plans of MV for going green, including the roof of the science wing
- a questions was brought up about addressing kids' social and emotional needs, and this evolved into talking about life skills kids should have
============================
Transition Plan - presented by Kathy Birkett, Kristine Marchiando, Jim Schmid, and Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers is the Director of Secondary Education. He and Jennifer Nonnemacher will meet and set timelines for Fischer MS. This will be coordinated with the timelines for MVHS. They will get info out to families and the community. In Dec/Jan the meetings with families and faculty will begin. There will be info out via listserv and they will give updates to the SB as well.
Kristine Marchiano, WV principal, is preparing for approx. 250 current NV freshmen and 250 current Scullen 8th graders to join WV next year as well as losing about 600 of WV current freshmen and moving freshmen into the Green campus. She has met with the NV students who will be moving and she's met with staff. The students' questions had to do with lockers, options period, whether there were differences in curriculum, and about wearing NV colors at WV. There was an evening of tours and Q&A at WV for dept. chairs and families that will be new to WV next year. There were about 175 attendees. Oct. 20 she will going to Scullen for Q&A. She will continue to communicate via listserv and connect-ed as well.
Jim Schmid, MV principal, says everything about MV is available on the website and the building is on schedule. He sees three components of the transition as parents, students, and staff. For parents he has the listserv and monthly meetings. He has been to visit the 8th graders at all three MS that will feed into MV and talked to them about all the exciting opportunites that await them in the new school. He will talk to the WV freshmen Student Council about all sorts of plans for next year. He reminded us that some staff will move with students, such that of 100 positions at MV about 80% of them will be filled by current staff.
Kathy Birkett took questions.
She said assistant principals may be announced at the end of next week and their positions begin on 7/1. Next will be department chairs.
The position for principal at Still MS will post in Dec.
Yes, there will be theater, music, marching band, etc. at MV from the very start as was done at NV.
Opening with fresh/soph is the usual model and since NV she has worked with 8 other schools that have done the same.
She says she could count on her two hands the number of students who had trouble transitioning from WV fresh to NV soph.
They are currently tweaking at "transition FAQ" and she will speak to the School Board about it in a work session.
The curricular needs of all students will be met regardless of what those are and if that requires transporting to other buildings.
The transition for 5th graders to Fischer will be similar to any other transition to MS and the kids will get to tour the building ahead of time.
Competition gyms and half of the practice fields will be ready when the school opens.
Plainfield North opened while under construction and KB visited while school was in session and saw how the kids and workers were kept separate. MV situation will be simlar and noisy work should be done outside of attendance hours.
================
The slate for MVHS PTSA officers was presented - Angie Gaul, Sandra Conti, Robin Solomon, Martha Blount, and Deb Butler
The meeting is on 11/20 at 7pm in the CEC
Fischer PTA will be in Feb.
The scholarship committee has not yet met and will give their report in November. (This means no unity basketball game as was planned/scheduled)