Claire Lilienthal Alternative K-8 – SSC minutes, 2/9/2010

Attending: William Hack, Brad Kaplan, Don Persky, Valerie Persky, Peter Rosson, Vic DeAngelo, Linda Marcelo, Cathy Cormier, Caitlin Mohan, Hera Kim

BSC updates:
1. teachers are sending home newsletters, some have websites
2. Mr. Hack checks in with afterschool programs at Bayview once a week, and Boys & Girls Club on Guerrero
3. EL grouping in place at Madison campus (K-2) and pull-out schedule for the ELLs

Discussion: Areas of Concern
- How can we get more involvement from families in the SSC and PTA? Need to get more representation from the diverse community.
- Hamilton Rec Center in Western Addition; Main Library with a small fee
- Need some outreach effort to get more people involved to represent each community
- We could identify liaison people to reach out to subgroups
- Coordinate with room parents
- Try for a date in April – tues or thur – April 13 or 20
- Break up into café conversations format
Reminder re Town Hall meeting on Feb 25 – need to show up at the rally
Offer parking at CL and march together at 6pm
Get room parents and google group to get out info
Caitlin Mohan will make flyer: will open yard for parking, wear Claire Wear, and march from the school
Call principals at Galileo and Francisco to ask their parents to march from their school
What are we asking for? The state owes SFUSD $9 million in Average Daily Attendance. Schools first, reinstate budget items to the schools. We need professional development, we need training for teachers, we need violence prevention, don’t cut our school year, advanced placement, art, school buses.

Visual Thinking Strategies
1. We received $2500 grant to develop visual thinking to use art and other visual training for developing critical thinking skills
2. VTS is offered at the DeYoung, and our students will attend

Meeting adjourned.