Comments for Building Southmoor Together

Comment on Task Force Reaches Consensus on Key Principles by Ilia Geltser

Ilia Geltser — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:41:08 +0000

I do not see the need for “integration to the greatest degree possible”, nor for any additional efforts in that direction.

Children from all grades and classes have ample opportunities to play together and form friendships. A multitude of art and aftershool actvities involve children across the whole school, mixing age, gender and any other groupping. If, at certain age, girls prefer not to play with the boys or not to play with much younger children - then so be it.

Parents should not be bringing their personal and political agendas into educational process, certainly not for other’s children.

Comment on Task Force Reaches Consensus on Key Principles by Ilia Geltser

Ilia Geltser — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:31:55 +0000

One soultion to shortage of resources at school is a broader parent participation. At the moment, a small number of parents carry almost all vounteer load. Many Charter Schools mandate parental involvement - from sweeping the floors to class assistance. The greater amount of patental time may compensate for reduced DPS funding.

We can consider changing Southmoor status to a Charter School or a School of Innovation.

Comment on Task Force Reaches Consensus on Key Principles by Ilia Geltser

Ilia Geltser — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:25:35 +0000

IF the school receives same funding per HGT and traditional student, then having smaller HGT classes consitutes an uneven distribution of resources and is unfair.

Instead of doing a separate test and thus undermining the work of the whole Gifted department at DPS, I suggest a monetary equation of resources.

Imagine, the GHT classs ended at 33% smaller headcount than tranditional class. Teacher compensation is about $2500 per student per year. Thus, to equate teacher resources per student the HGT parents need to pay about $833 per student. In practice, this amount will be lower because the school receives about $100 per HGT student subsidy from DPS.

Comment on Next Task Force Meeting, April 14, 6:30 PM by Bill Fulton

Bill Fulton — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:23:31 +0000

Fantastic, Nancie! We can’t thank you enough. Bill

Comment on Next Task Force Meeting, April 14, 6:30 PM by Nancie Carollo

Nancie Carollo — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:13:46 +0000

Volunteering myself to help with outreach efforts — the survey data will only be useful if there are a wide variety of respondents from our community.

Volunteering my husband, Carsten Baumann, to help with data analysis and presentation. He is a professional evaluator.

Comment on Task Force Reaches Consensus on Key Principles by Bill Fulton

Bill Fulton — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:20:04 +0000

Note: these notes were updated 2.26.10 to clarify that the 80% threshold of parity referenced in the final paragraph is in reference to class sizes in a given grade, not across grades. Thanks!

Comment on Agenda for 1.19.09 Meeting by Bill Fulton

Bill Fulton — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:07:41 +0000

Thanks, Todd–sorry for the delay. Hopefully we’ve got everything up there people need to be in on the discussion. Hope you can make next Tuesday’s meeting (see home page post for details).

Bill

Comment on Agenda for 1.19.09 Meeting by admin

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:34:33 +0000

I will ask our facilitator, Bill Fulton, to post updates. Watch your email for this request. Thanks for the nudge.

Michael

Comment on Agenda for 1.19.09 Meeting by Todd DeShon

Todd DeShon — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:14:44 +0000

What is the current status of the Task Force. There are not meeting minutes for January.

Has there been a Febuary meeting. Hate to see this all go for not or become silent.

Also was going to attend the CSC meeting on Feb 17 to get overall school status, budget and possbily Task Force update but meeting was postponed/canceled.

Comment on School Culture Article by Bill Fulton

Bill Fulton — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:15:35 +0000

Thanks, Leane! Great resource.