President, Margueritte Ramos, called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m. Board Members present included April Bolet, Monica Duran, Suzie Sponder, Toni Anderson, Assistant Principal Barbara Garcia.  

 

Presentation of program by a SIPA board member

Benefits include:

-         Cultural events and sponsorships

-         Purchase of books

Agenda item #2 – Assistant Principal Garcia

-         Park security monitor equipped with walkie-talkie when there is a class in session

-         Officer Alvarado possibly assigned to the school to be here a couple of days a week & for IFF

-         Report Cards go home on Nov 9^th

-         Student Award Assembly by invitation

-         Last month’s visiting author, Georgina Lázaro León

-         Author David Antonor, visiting today

-         Ana Maria Machado, Brazilian author

-         Kindergarten Showcase, after the end of PYP unit. Parents welcome to attend.

-         Portuguese Committee :

Materials and resources

Adriana Savino, President of Centro Cultural will try to allocate resources to bring it up to par with IS program

-         Scientists Committee

Generate a list of topics and availability to be presented to Principal Garcia

-         New Applicants’ Tour – Nov 27^th

-         Interim Assessment - to monitor progress to target specific levels

-         Visitors from the District - a Committee from Grand Cayman has been on school grounds observing the program because they want to implement the program in their district

-         Curriculum 

4^th grade writing is 79%, 4 points higher, want to bring it up to 90%

5^th grade – promotional ceremony and field trip, more info forthcoming

-         Safety Patrol – Officer Alvarez is recruiting 5^th and 6^th graders for program

-         Attendance

District Report: 95.7  

First 9 weeks – 97%

-         Is looking to hire exclusive use of the park, more security, a shade, and to refurbish the bathrooms.

-         Some parents are going the City to bring up the issue

-         It was discovered at a Miami-Dade City Police and Department of Parks & Recreation meeting that there is no exclusive use of the park

 

-         Ana Gonzalez presented the motion.

-         Jacquie Roch seconds the motion.

 

-         Only for Fridays = 0.5 of the 1.5 approval

-         The position is not open; however, Assistant Principal Garcia will check with Principal Garcia to make sure that’s accurate info.

 

-         April presented the motion

-         Lisa seconds it

 

-         12-step program

-         Teach children to reduce and recycle

-         Secure destroying of documents by use of an appropriate company

-         Recycle old gadgets

-         Recycle the water of the fountain

-         Start a compost

-         Rain barrel to collect rain water

-         Cafeteria recyclable trays

-         Gray water for toilets

-         Solar power for fountain operation

-         Comparative use of electricity

-         Occupancy sensors for room lights

-         Some of these measures would need to be approved; others would need infrastructure

 

-         Science, chess, etc

 

-         Orders arrive next Friday

-         Need to reconcile sales with internet sales to see which classroom sold the most

 

-         $600 for 5^th grade musical (Crawford/Wong)

-         Computer overhead

-         Motion to approve $176 Overhead projection screen

Tony presents motion

 

-         Not very popular, the consensus seems to be that a program needs to be held at AMK-8 center

 

-         Teachers did it in classrooms

 

Motion to Adjourn by April Bolet. Monica Duran seconds.