Meeting Notes 2-25-13
Title 1 Parents Group
– First meeting
Monday February 25th
(10am and 6pm Sessions)
Facilitators:
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Tammy & George Hodder, Parents Group
chairmen
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Joe Shirvinski, Principle GC Hartman elementary
Attendees:
Tammy, George and Mr. Shirvinski were at all sessions.
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10AM
Session
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Jen Meyers
o
Margaret Wenhold
o
Delay and Donald Long
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7PM
Session
o
Michele Sharrow
o
Linda Sircovics
o
Audie Davis
o
Michele and Joe Lynch
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Renee Brown
Action Items:
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Scan copies of title 1 handout materials and
post to the blog
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Add a link for Tumble books to the blog
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Add a link for the conversion of book levels A-Z
to numeric.
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Add a page for Definition of common title 1
terms
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Complete mission statement
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Solicit volunteers for future plans
Agenda and notes:
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Review
Title 1 Resources available to Parents
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Cubs
Corner
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Available to all title 1 parents.
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Currently have items such as letter tiles,
games, a tape recorder, magazines, and pre-recorded stories. Parents may sign out items at any time.
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They also have the program Read Rabbit’s
Interactive Reading Journey available for weekend use for families with
Macintosh computer with a CD Drive
o
Parent
Resource Center
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Green flyer given in our Title 1 materials at
the beginning of the year. Allows
parents to order up to 10 books/pamphlets for helpful information on many
issues facing parents/students of all ages and situations
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SPAC
website
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SPAC is the state parent advisory council. Their site has other resources available to
our parent group. We’ll link to their page on the blog.
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Develop a
mission statement
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Some ideas we wanted in our mission statement
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Support Title 1 students and teachers
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Improve confidence, self-esteem, reading (level
as well as comprehension )
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Give parents the ability to give the same styp
of instruction @ home as in school
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Knowledge of resources for parents
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Be advocates for our children
o
We still need to fashion this into a statement
that can be our mission.
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Open
discussion
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Ideas for parents participation in classes
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Organize observation of students in class either
in person or via video
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Have parents visit title 1 class to read to
students
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Parents night with teachers…
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Teachers could have stations to show parents the
different skills they teach students.. and how they teach it
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Ideas for Blog (web page)
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Post sight words list for all classes
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Scan current title 1 documents to the web
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Post links for book “level” cross reference
(done)
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Link to Tumble books
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Create a page with common terms for title 1 and
their meaning
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Link information for dyslexia
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Information on how to read Diebels results
o
Ideas for correspondence
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Give feedback on letters/handouts etc we receive
to help teachers change the wording in ways parents can better understand
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Future
plans for group
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Build a library of information/resources for
title 1 families
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We’ll post a call for volunteers for a library
committee
o
Create summer activities to help bridge summer
months and keep title 1 kids sharp on their skills
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Summer fun reading checklist (like scavenger
hunt.. or read to your pet..etc)
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Book club
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Contact Elysburg/Bloom Library for info on
summer programs
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Create a ring binder of boxes (cake, cereal
etc.. for kids to read) as summer project
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Student makes own word search or crossword
puzzle
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We’ll post a call for volunteers for a summer
activity committee
o
Have a representative attend HART and board
meetings on behalf of parent group
o
Come up with a name for our Group!
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