Seattle Schools This Week

Monday, Nov. 10th
Curriculum& Instruction Policy Committee meeting, 4:30-6:30 pm.  Agenda

Among items of interest:

Items Requiring Board Action on Nov. 19/Dec. 3

- BAR for Policy 3201, Disciplinary Appeal Council (McFadden/Sander)
- BAR for Policy 2190, Advanced Learning (Martin) 
- BAR for 24 Credit Waiver Application (Heath/Stoen) 
Standing Agenda Items
- MTSS
- Special Education RC-CAP
Also, policy on attendance, Native American Education Report, waiver of basic instructional materials,program evaluation&assessment, research activity and test administration and selection/adoption of instructional materials.

That's a lot of ground to cover in two hours.

Tuesday, Nov. 11th
Veterans Day - No School
Wednesday, Nov. 12th
 Executive Committee meeting 8:30am-10:00am.  Agenda
Among the items: Growth Boundaries, review of agendas for upcoming Board meetings, continued discussion about MOU with the Alliance for Education, Africatown MOU, "tech vision summit," Board retreat agenda for Dec. 10th

Again, big agenda and a lot of interesting items there.
Work Session: Head Start Grant Training/Board Self-Evaluation, 5:30-7:30 pm

Thursday, November 13th
College Application Event
Chief Sealth Int'l High School from 3:15-6:00 pm

Audit& Finance Committee Meeting from 4:30-6:30 pm.  No agenda yet available.

2014 LGBT Families Dinner 
From 6-8 pm at Nova High School.  Questions and R.S.V.P. to Lisa Love at 252-0982 or LLove@seattleschools.org
Saturday, Nov. 15th
Community Meetings
Director Blanford from 10 am-11:30 am at Douglass Truth Branch Library
Director Martin-Morris from 10 am to noon at NE Branch Library

Comments

Charlie Mas said…
I see "Annual Report – Policy 2090, Program Evaluation & Assessment (Heath/Anderson)" on the C & I agenda.
I wonder if this year's annual report will actually include any of the elements required by the policy. Last year's report had nothing to do with the required elements.
11/10/14, 4:40 PM
app dad said…
Any word on Sped and HCC discussion / adoption?
11/10/14, 7:20 PM
Charlie Mas said…
Did anyone get a copy of the revised draft of the Advanced Learning policy?
11/11/14, 12:50 PM
Lynn said…
Charlie,

The revised policy and procedures are available on the Advanced Learning webpage.
11/11/14, 10:46 PM
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