San Mateo High School

School Leadership Team Minutes

08-11-06

 

 

 

In attendance

Rich Mozzini, Til Tribuzi, Cynthia Rapaido, Sally Seebode, Ron Beall, Martin Ortega, Jacquie McEvoy, Behrooz Shahvini, Nate Johnson (recorder), Diane Termini, Steve Asp, Brad Freidman, Ruth Micheletti, Michelle Casale, Joyce Dickson,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of Actions

We reviewed WASC Action Plans and the upcoming year’s embedded time.

 

We generated several meaningful frameworks for the WASC Action Plans that helped to organize last year’s work.  Jacquie and Behrooz are going to meet to distill the various frameworks into one that will serve to orient the faculty and staff.

 

We determined that with more embedded meeting time and with WASC Action Plans needing to be satisfied, a slightly new school structure is needed. We developed the overview of that structure.

 

New Structure

Everyone will be on two committees: their subject specific learning team; their school-WASC action team (SWAT).

Learning Team—course specific and determined through individual department members and chair. These are a continuation of previous teams’ work or are focused on new work that is centered around curricula for classes.

SWAT— issue oriented, product and artifact driven. Team can be part of an established group dealing with the WASC framework or team can propose their own work through a process. Individual SWATs will be approved by SLT at the 10/2/6 meeting.  Individual SWAT proposals need to address WASC action plan, be issue oriented, product and artifact driven. For example, a team could propose a new course of study for a new elective.

 

We decided on a loose structure for the September 15 Staff Development Day. We delegated tasks to be completed before next meeting. The goal for this day is to begin work on the WASC Action Plans. We hope to have people identify a SWAT to work on this year.

 

On September 11, the SLT will approve the SDD agenda and the WASC Framework, and the SWAT proposal form.

 

On September 19, those staff members who did not attend SDD will attend a make-up session to join or create SWAT(s). Proposals for the make-up SWAT are due with the other proposals on September 22.

 

 

New Members

The SLT hopes to expand its membership to include new members such as the WASC focus-group leaders, union representatives, librarian, etc.  Any recommendations for at-large members are welcome.