SIP Team Minutes from Monday, December 6, 2010

This SIP Team meeting was called to order at 3:25 PM. In attendance were Rob McCarthy, Sam Lewis, Michelle Kumor, Jim Smith, and Jen Kelsall.

The meeting began with celebrations of school improvement initiatives:
Michelle Kumor commented that the planning for the January joint institute is going very well.
Sam Lewis celebrated that the transition of location for Maple Park Academy went very well despite how quickly everything needed to be turned around. Michelle celebrated that she really liked her Rising Star Indicator because it really helps to focus what school improvement initiatives are the most important and deserve the most attention.

The minutes from the November 1 meeting were accepted and approved.

Old Business was introduced. The SIP Team began to review the Rising Star Indicators that are due to be submitted ASAP. It was agreed upon that only two of the indicators had limited implementation and that these would most likely need to be the focus of the school improvement plan that must be submitted to the state by December 13, 2010.

Michelle Kumor reported that the January Institute is coming along and that the PDC is currenlty working with Sam Lewis to ensure that the online registration will be ready to go. Michelle stated that the PDC has the first half of the March institute planned and has ideas for the second ½ but would like to wait.

Sam Lewis reported that the Tech Committee is ready to start training Ridgewood High School staff on developing content for the new site on December 8 and possibly December 15 if needed. Once the initial site is set up, a future training will be set up for a small focus teacher group who will be expected to train other teachers and staff members later this year, most likely during the March PDC institute. The intention is then to provide time for departments and or teams to develop the content they would like to have displayed publicly and to have the public redirected to the new site by the start of the 2011-2012 school year.

Jill Laubenstein was unable to attend the meeting. Information about the PTO’s events were tabled until the January meeting.

The SIP Team then moved opened up the meeting for any specific committee concerns and updates.

The Reading & Literacy Committee has distributed new vocabulary signs that encourage students to choose specific vocabulary instead of generic as part of the passive programming campaign. In addition every teacher and staff member was provided a new “currently reading” laminate sign to show students, other staff members and visitors that everyone reads at Ridgewood.

Rob McCarthy reported that the School Safety and Discipline Committee is still working on a reunification plan that coordinates with local police and fire departments in the event of an emergency evacuation. He reported that Natural Helpers was still going strong with another speaker visiting next week to speak with students. Finally, the Honorable Rebel program that celebrates students exhibit excellence in citizenship continues to gather support from local businesses such as McDonald’s, Twins and Rex’s, who graciously donate certificates to help celebrate Ridgewood’s Honorable Rebels. A suggestion to have these business display a sign that they support this program was made and will be looked into.

The SIP Team then turned to New Business.

Sam Lewis has been investigating how Ridgewood staff and teachers could use Google Documents and Applications more effectively for collaborative sharing of ideas. He has formed a SIP Team distribution group using sip@ridgenet.org. The advantage is having the ability to use ridgenet.org login be the same for Ridgewood accounts and Google accounts. This way personal emails or user names won’t have to be used when collaborating with other members of the Ridgewood community. Sam is working toward having the entire school set up perhaps as early as the March institute.

Finally the SIP Team announced that its next meeting will be Monday, January 10, 2011 at 3:15 in Room 151.

The meeting was adjourned at 4:06PM

SIP Team Minutes from November 1, 2010

Ridgewood High School’s School Improvement Plan (SIP) Team gathered on Monday, November 1, 2010 to discuss the mandated opportunity we have to use a new program to determine our school improvement needs called Rising Star what work committees have been doing and to determine ways to fulfill the mission and vision of Ridgewood High School.
The meeting was held in room 151C, which is the breakout room across from the Community Room, at 3:15 PM. The meeting was called to order at 3:22 PM.

In attendance were Jim Smith (SIP Team Chair), Michelle Kumor (PDC Chair), Jill Laubenstein (PTO Chair), Sam Lewis (Tech Chair), Rob McCarthy (DSS Chair), and Jen Kelsall (Principal). Absent was Jennette Gonzales (R&L Chair).

The meeting began with celebrations that included the sectional win for Ridgewood’s soccer team and a state qualifying student from the cross country team. Best of luck to our school’s great athletes! Ridgewood’s Thespian Troupe 6662 went Trick-or-Treating on Sunday October 31st and instead of asking for candy, asked for donation to the Norridge Salvation Army. The Troupe members collected 460 pounds of food! Way to go! Everyone’s lives are rich and full in and around Ridgewood and great things are certainly happening. Go Ridgewood!

The meeting then turned to special business concerning the mandated opportunity for our school to participate in using the Rising Star program to keep track of our school improvement initiatives and prioritize our areas of need. Several schools around the country have been provided the opportunity to use Rising Star and have seen significant improvements in student achievement. Several Illinois schools are now able to have access to this valuable tool including Ridgewood.

The online tool provides both districts and schools with over 119 indicators that if fully implemented lead to increased student achievement. To understand more about Rising Star, click on this link: (http://www.isbe.net/sos/htmls/state_sys_support.htm).

The SIP Team is the beginning stages of evaluating Ridgewood’s implementation of key school indicators of effective practice called Smart Start and Smart Plan. Currently the District has completed both and Ridgewood has completed the Smart Start indicators and will have completed the Smart Start indicators before the end of this month. Once these have been entered, our next step will be to review and analyze data, identify areas of critical need through the data analysis, identify objectives to address our AYP deficiencies, identify the objectives and tasks, develop an action plan, implement the action plan and revisit the plan to make adjustments as needed and finally conduct a comprehensive revisit of the entire plan before the end of the school year.

Members of the PTO, DSS, and Ms. Kelsall are currently reviewing the Smart Plan indicators for Ridgewood and will be determining Ridgewood’s implementation of these indicators.
To review Ridgewood’s Progress, any member of the community is welcome to visit our school’s progress page with a guest login and password. Visit Rising Star Login (http://www.centerii.org/SchoolRestructuring/login.aspx) and use the following id for both login and password: guestSIL4786.

Once the special business was concluded, the meeting was able to continue on with committee reports, questions and or concerns.

First to present was Michelle Kumor representing the PDC. Currently the PDC is planning the joint institute day with Ridgewood’s partner school teachers. Several ideas for topics and sessions are currently being discussed. The institute days’ focus will most likely focus on differentiating and motivating instructional teaching practices. The PDC will be asking for teachers to volunteer to run sessions and or moderate sessions.

Second to report was Jill Laubenstein representing the PTO. Despite the PTO’s optimistic start to the current school year, there appears to be a continued lack of participation and interest among our school’s parents, even with events like “Pack-the-House”. Jill expressed her and her committee’s frustration and received ideas and suggestion from the team for help. All committees are being asked to consider how to open up to the parents of our community more. In addition, the partner school science fair may be in jeopardy if the communication between Ridgewood and the partner schools does not improve. If you are interested in participating and assisting PTO with efforts, please contact Jill Laubenstein or attend PTO meetings on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30PM in Ridgewood's Community Room. The next PTO meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 9th.

Third to report was Sam Lewis representing the Tech Committee. To celebrate, the Tech Committee is pleased to report that it currently has 10 members! Sam suspects food at the early morning meeting may add to the appeal. Currently the Tech Committee is working on a draft outlining proper electronic communication usage between faculty / staff and students. A copy of the draft will be made available to the entire Ridgewood community after this Thursday’s meeting and will be available on the Tech Committee’s Blog. Drafts of potential website templates were available to view on the blog as well. The current plan will be to revamp our current website by the end of this school year, train the trainers and provide training for the remainder of the faculty and staff possibly during the March institute. Steve Silca presented a DVR grant proposal to the Tech Committee and asked for ideas on ways that Ridgewood could effectively use the money. Finally, additional ideas from the Tech Committee including additional training for using Google Applications for teachers and the ongoing evaluation of using new technologies, like Apple’s Ipad, in classrooms.

Next to present was Rob McCarthy representing the DDS Committee. Currently the focus is on developing an effective Reunification Plan for Ridgewood in emergency circumstances where the school would need to be evacuated. Natural Helpers continues to be a success and although Mr. McCarthy could not directly correlate the success of Natural Helpers to a decline disciplinary referrals it certainly appears to help many, many students in our school.

Finally, Jim Smith representing the R&L Committee in Jeannette Gonzalez’s absence, reported. Currently the R&L Committee is investigating reading strategies for non-fiction. Suggestions for bringing back passive programming, such as “use this word instead of this,” were recommended along with continued research and investigation into numeracy.

The SIP Team decided that deadlines for team members working on completing the Smart Plan Indicators for Effective Practice would be due Monday, November 15 and will be posted on Google docs for team review and or revision.

The next SIP Team meeting is scheduled to meet in Room 151c at 3:15PM on Monday, December 6th.

If you have questions, concerns, or ideas on how the SIP Team can fulfill the mission and vision of the RHS Community, please contact one of the committee chairs or Jim Smith.

Thanks to everyone who volunteers their time and effort to a committee!

The meeting was adjourned at 4:51 PM.

SIP Team Minutes from September 13, 2010

Ridgewood High School’s School Improvement Plan (SIP) Team gathered on Monday, September 13, 2010 to discuss what work committees have been doing and to determine ways to fulfill the mission and vision of Ridgewood High School.
The meeting was held in room 151C, which is the breakout room across from the Community Room, at 3:35 PM.

In attendance where Jim Smith (SIP Team Chair), Michelle Kumor (PDC Chair), Jill Laubenstein (PTO Chair), Jennette Gonzales (R&L Chair), and Sam Lewis (Tech Chair). Absent were Rob McCarthy (DSS Chair) and Jen Kelsall (Principal).

The meeting began with celebrations. Jennette Gonzales began by celebrating the fact that one of Ridgewood’s partner schools graciously supported the Literacy Festival (Lit Works) with a $1,500 donation. Other generous donations included $500 from the local Rotary Club and $500 from the RHS Parents Club. With Jennette already booking authors for the 2012 Lit Works, every donation is being used to bring the authors in that our students want to meet and talk to. Jennette also wanted to celebrate that Lit Works now has an awesome logo! For questions, or requests to assist, please contact Jennette.

Jill Laubenstein was next to celebrate her colleagues in the RHS Science Team. She celebrate that her students enrolled in the Environmental Science class developed and presented the best ever Power Point presentations. She commented that the students’ presentations were clean, concise, and the presentations by students were clear and effective (without students reading from the slides!). She also commented that her students enrolled in her Biology class were proficient with conversions thanks in part to the teachers they had in Physics and Algebra!
In addition to celebrating her colleagues, Jill also wanted to celebrate that each of Ridgewood’s main partner schools now has students preparing to participate in a RHS Science Fair! Way to go PTO!

Prior to each committee providing an updated report, the SIP Team had a special motion called to dissolve the RtI Committee. The RtI Committee performed dutifully for the last two years as Ridgewood prepared to implement its RtI Plan. The Division Heads have now taken over the responsibility, along with the PDC, in providing the staff and teachers with the appropriate resources and training required to implement RtI. In addition, the creation the RtI Problem Solving Team has taken on the responsibility to help student and teachers in all three RtI Tiers. The motion to dissolve the RtI Committee then was put to a vote and the motion was unanimously approved by the SIP Team members present. Thanks to all the volunteer teachers and staff members who provide their time and effort while serving on this committee!
The meeting then focused on committee updates, questions and concerns. First to report was Michelle Kumor representing the PDC.

PDC is currently meeting and progressing forward to develop the October 12, 2010 teacher institute. The theme, or focus, of the institute will be “Motivation”. Part of the planning process to prepare for the institute will include meeting with a variety of student focus groups in order to receive authentic student feedback on what motivates them to learn, study and improve academically. The plan may include videotaping these focus groups and allowing teacher to view and analyze student responses.

In addition to the October 12 institute, PDC is also planning to work with Ridgewood’s partner schools in order to prepare for the January institute day. The first meeting date is scheduled for September 23.

Future plans for the PDC include running book talks and scheduling break-out sessions as well as working with the Tech Committee to develop time to train staff and teachers on using the new website. As the PDC meets and plans, additional information will be provided to the staff and teachers.

The PDC meets every other Thursday afternoon from 3:15 until 4:15 in room 114. Please contact Michelle Kumor for details on where.

Next to report was Jill Laubenstein representing the PTO. Jill reported that at Ridgewood’s Open House, several parents signed up for more information regarding the PTO. In addition alld of the informational cards regarding what the PTO is and how parents could be a part of the process were picked up.

Jill also reported on the plethora of events and activities the PTO has scheduled. Included are annual “pack the house events” where parents are working with Pat Woods to get the word out to both parents and students to pack athletic events throughout the school year in order to foster school spirit.

Another idea in the works is the potential to bring back the Family Fun Nights that were formally run through the Ridgewood Assistance Program (RAP). The member of RAP felt the event was consuming in ordinate amount of time from the mission of RAP which is to provide group sessions for a variety of students with a variety of different social and emotional challenges. It is PTO’s hope to bring back the Family Fun Night events in order to foster a positive relationship with other parents and the entire Ridgewood community.

PTO is moving forward with its plans to start Active Parenting discussion groups.
Another idea in the works is to have a parent movie night. Ideas being discussed include have clubs, like Varsity R, offer babysitting services for parents while they enjoy some time together in the auditorium to watch a movie.

The Science Fair is now official! The plan includes having several of Ridgewood’s students serve as mentors and assist our partner school students in developing their fair project, hypotheses, analyzed results and paper. The project is tentatively scheduled to begin in January with the fair sometime in the spring.

Finally, Jill was proud to announce that “good news postcard” templates were issued to all teachers and staff members. The hope is that anytime a staff member or a teacher wants to communicate a positive moment for a student, he or she can fill out the postcard and send it home to celebrate with parents and or guardians.

Whew! Great job Jill and the PTO! If you are interested in participating or providing your thoughts with the PTO, they meet on the second Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM in Ridgewood’s Community Room.

Next to report was Sam Lewis representing the Technology Committee. Currently the Tech Committee has a good representation from the staff, but they are working on developing connections with students who would like to serve and provide their input on the committee.
Currently the goal of the Tech Committee this year is the development and launch of Ridgewood’s updated and new website. Several considerations have been made and a company package has been purchased to develop several sample templates for the committee to review and revise as needed. Once the website has been developed, the plan of the Tech Committee is to work along with the PDC to provide a “train-the-trainer” professional development sessions so that the staff can learn how to use and update the new site.

The Tech Committee meets on the last Thursday of every month at 7:15 AM in room 151c (the community break out room).

Finally, Jennette Gonzales, representing the R&L Committee reported. Currently the R&L Committee has yet to meet. The plan however is to provide feedback on the SIP Team’s revised school improvement plan and begin discussions on providing professional development and or materials regarding numeracy.

The SIP Team introduced New Business that will be the focus of the next meeting. The current school improvement plan is required to be revised and re-submitted as a result of our school not meeting AYP. The team plans to use the majority of the next meeting to review the current plan and make revisions.

The next SIP Team meeting is scheduled to meet in Room 151c at 3:15PM on Monday, October 4th.

If you have questions, concerns, or ideas on how the SIP Team can fulfill the mission and vision of the RHS Community, please contact one of the committee chairs or Jim Smith.

Thanks to everyone who volunteers their time and effort to a committee!

The meeting was adjourned at 4:33 PM.

SIP Team Minutes from Monday, April 12, 2010

Ridgewood High School’s SIP Team met on Monday, April 12th to discuss and review the progress being made on completing the goals set forth in the school improvement plan.

The meeting was called to order at 3:25.

In attendance were, Jim Smith, Jennette Gonzales, Sam Lewis, Rob McCarthy, Jennifer Kelsall, and Michelle Kumor.

Celebrations!
Jennette began celebrations by announcing that next year’s 2011 Lit Fest has already booked seven of the eight authors and has already guaranteed two authors for 2012!
The PDC was congratulated on running a successful March 26th Institute Day. Sam Lewis was grateful for the Borders gift card.

Committee Reports
Discipline and School Safety Committee
Rob reported that Natural Helpers is winding down for the year and that those selected to be Natural Helpers next year will receive training next month. Rob reports that Natural Helpers has gone well for the first year. He admits that more student involvement would be better but that he had ten consistent members all year. Rob added that Justin Gates has been doing a tremendous job this year.


Professional Development Committee (PDC)
On behalf of the PDC, Michelle Kumor again thanked everyone who provided their expertise during the March 26th institute.
Michelle asked for and received suggestions for next year’s professional development focus. The discussion included focusing on improving student motivation and improving students’ abilities to use informational texts to learn. A needs assessment of the faculty will be used to verify that these are genuine concerns and interests.


Reading and Literacy Committee
Jennette Gonzales reported that the committee has not met in the past several weeks. However, the RAFT strategies are still being distributed to the faculty. Jim Smith added that it would be a good idea to load some of the blackline strategies onto Google Docs where they could be downloaded and manipulated for specific classroom use by teachers.
Jennette added that the focus on the R&L Committee would turn its focus to numeracy and that the members will educate themselves about numeracy over the summer.


Technology Committee
Sam Lewis reported that Steve Silca was now a member of the Tech Committee as a representative of DVR.
Sam also reported that progress is being made on the advancement of a new website. He announced that there will be a meeting on Wednesday, April 14 at 3:15 in Room 151 (that’s the community break-out room by the school’s library).
A question was raised regarding a timeline to launch the new website. Sam responded by saying right now the committee has completed the first phase of the school’s website redesign – what to do. He said the next phase will be exploring options on how to do it that includes Wednesday’s training session in Room 151. Next year’s plan will be to begin implementing the new website that includes a road plan for training and informing staff and faculty.
Next year’s 2011 March institute was suggested as a good deadline for training.


PTO
Jill Laubenstein was unable to attend this meeting but sent along a note that the PTO has agreed to meet every second Tuesday of the month at 6:30PM. In addition, Jill added that the PTO’s goal at its next meeting, April 13, was to make a year-long calendar for 2010-2011 that would hopefully provide an increase in participation.


RtI
Michelle Felde was also unable to attend the meeting. She did, however, provide the SIP Team with information on the upcoming Universal Screenings in May. At the time of the meeting, Universal Screening days were scheduled for May 3 and May 4. The SIP Team discussed the potential issues raised by the RtI team and provided a few possible solutions. The details of this discussion will be shared with Michelle Felde and the RtI team.


The next, and last SIP Team meeting of the year is scheduled for May 3 at 3:15 in the school’s Board Room.

This meeting was adjourned at 4:40 PM.

Minutes from the March 8, 2010 Meeting

Ridgewood High School’s Improvement Team (SIP) met on Monday, March 8, 2010 to discuss the school improvement initiatives and activities carried on by the team’s committees.

Attending the meeting were:

Jim Smith (co-chair), Michelle Kumor (co-chair and PDC chair), Jill Laubenstein (PTO chair), Michelle Felde (RtI chair), Rob McCarthy (Discipline & School Safety chair), Jennifer Kelsall (principal).


Kudos!
The team began with celebrating the new classroom decorations that are helping motivate students in Jill Laubenstein’s science class. The windows were covered up due to the construction of the band room. Jill’s students wanted to add their own decorations and it has produced a student-owned learning environment. Many team members have witnessed or know of teachers that are using Scantron Performance series data with their students to monitor growth. Sonja Birazian was celebrated for her use of goal-setting motivation that encouraged her students to use KeyTrain. Finally, Kasia Butryn was celebrated for her facilitation of a book discussion group during third quarter.

Updates
After celebrations, the SIP team turned the meeting over to the committee chairs to provide an update of school improvement initiatives and activities:

RtI Committee
The division head and leadership team has begun coordinating efforts with the RtI committee to expedite the planning and implementation of RtI at Ridgewood High School. The division head team is developing the problem solving model, while the RtI continues to plan for the final universal screening day and monitor pilot interventions.

Professional Development Committee (PDC)
February 2nd Institute update
The Professional Development Committee has designed and implemented two successful institute days focusing on differentiated instruction.
March Institute 26th
The PDC is still seeking volunteers for the March 26th institute. Another e-mail will be sent out to solicit presenters.

PTO (formally the Community Relations & Communications Committee)
PTO/teacher involvement update
The PTO is working through its beginning stages of development. There is a hope for higher participation rates during meetings and events in the future. An e-mail data base is being developed to in an effort to increase communication.
Next Meeting Dates
Meetings will now be held every second Tuesday of the month. The PTO will be developing a Calendar so parents can sign up for upcoming events.
Partner School Science Fair update
This will need to be postponed until next year.
Help Cards update
Tracy Jopa is developing these cards to be distributed at Parent/Teacher Conferences.

Technology Committee
School Website update
Results of Survey
107 students/teachers/parents/community members responded to the survey about the school website. Overwhelmingly, the New Trier Website scored the highest in all assessed categories.
Internet Safety Instruction
Most of the student body received Internet Safety Instruction during the Universal Screening day in January. There are still a handful of students who need to receive this instruction. Jim Smith and Sam Lewis will be developing methods to ensure this instruction takes place before the end of the school year.

Reading & Literacy Committee
RAFT update
The committee is in the process of distributing the RAFT strategies to the staff. Vocabulary posters are a big hit with students.

Discipline & School Safety Committee
Update on Natural Helpers
Staff members have provided names of students they believe would be positive “Natural Helpers” for next year. There is a need for one more speaker for the Natural Helper’s April 20th meeting. Rob will contact the Leyden Health and Family Services for possible volunteers.

Hardwood Heights Police Department
Active Shooter – March 30th – Staff are invited to participate

New Business
Before closing the meeting, new business was introduced:

The committee heads will review the School Improvement Plan expectations with their committees and return with feedback for the next SIP meeting.

Next Meeting
The SIP Team’s next meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 12 at 3:15 in the Board Room.

Special Thanks
Special thanks to Michelle Kumor for taking the minutes for this meeting.

Minutes from the January 11, 2010 Meeting

Introduction

The School Improvement Team met on Monday, January 11 to discuss the school’s progress towards meeting the requirements of Ridgewood’s School Improvement Plan. The meeting was called to order at 3:15. In attendance were SIP Team Co-Chair Jim Smith, PDC Chair Michelle Kumor, Tech Committee Chair Sam Lewis, School Discipline and School Safety Chair Rob McCarthy, RtI Chair Michelle Felde. Reading & Literacy Committee Chair Jennette Gonzales arrived by 3:45. Community Relations and Communications Committee C hair Jill Laubenstein and Principal Jen Kelsall were not in attendance.

The Team began with celebrations. Of note was Michelle Kumor’s work on adding SIP Team and Committee links to Ridgewood’s website. Everyone is encouraged to view the new additions at SIP Team Home Page.

RtI Update

Michelle Felde and her committee have been hard at work developing the January 28 Universal Screening Day. The entire day has been planned including assigning teachers and students to specific areas including screening times, and speakers have been lined up. Left to be done are notices home and staff and teachers to be informed of their specific duties. This has been a tremendous effort on the part of the RtI Committee and they all deserve the school’s sincerest thanks. Great job RtI!

PDC Update

Michelle Kumor and her PDC Committee have been working on setting the agenda is set for the professional development day on Tuesday January 19. To date the current plan for the day is to have an hour and a half of collaboration time, lunch followed by another hour and a half collaboration to develop a differentiated lesson that will be taught. The lessons will also be expected to be peer reviewed. After a brief discussion on who should peer review, the SIP Team recommended that teachers be allowed to choose either a peer from their own team or outside of their team. The PDC has worked hard on developing a way to establish a common language for differentiation to Ridgewood staff and their efforts deserve all of our sincerest thanks. Good work PDC!

Technology Committee Update

Sam Lewis and his Tech Committee are hard at work developing a survey for students, staff, parents and the community regarding website content and navigation. The survey should be ready to launch by the end of January. The information gathered from the survey will provide guidance when it comes time to rebuild Ridgewood’s website. In addition, Sam requested that the Student Service Interns assisting the RtI Committee with Internet Safety meet with him to ensure that key points will be covered. Finally, Sam presented additional information regarding COGNOS reporting. Sam viewed a webnar to answer some of his questions. COGNOS reporting has pre-built reports and dashboards for easy report building and navigation. As a SIP Team, we have made a request that a COGNOS sales representative visit our next meeting to offer additional information to our many questions. Thanks to the Tech Committee for all their work!

School Safety and Discipline Committee Update

Rob McCarthy reported that Natural Helpers will meet on January 26 to discuss the issue of cyber-bullying. Thanks Rob!

Reading and Literacy Committee Update

Jennette Gonzales and her committee have created a method for distributing literacy strategies for reading and learning called RAFT (Ridgewood’s Activities For Teaching). The R&L Committee will meet again on January 13 to discuss these strategies and to create a plan for distribution of the RAFT activities including black lines and student samples. In addition, the R&L Committee has distributed the first series of vocabulary posters, will do so every few weeks. The next items on the R&L’s planning list is to being working on numeracy. Thanks Jennette! Great work!

Community Relations & Communications

Jill Laubenstein couldn't make it to the meeting, but forwarded her committee’s updates to the SIP Team. The CR&CC is working on finalizing a science fair with our local partner schools. Jill reported that the newly formed Ridgewood Parents-Teachers Organization (PTO) was unable to meet prior to break but are planning a meeting this month. Finally, Jill reported that the help cards that are being developed for additional resource information for our school’s parents will be completed by next meeting and will be available at front desk. Thanks CR&CC for all your efforts!

Next

The SIP Team's next meeting is scheduled for Monday, February 1st. If you are interested in what the SIP Team is doing to improve Ridgewood, please contact any committee member.