PTO Meeting 11/5/2019
Minutes
Led by: Blaine, Allycea, Andrea, Kimya
PTO Meeting 11/5/2019
Minutes
Led by: Blaine, Allycea, Andrea, Kimya
- Group Norms
- Andrea presented a zine on Group Agreements
- Unequal systems exist
- Treat people with respect and dignity
- Everyone can harm and be harmed (using oops, ouch, and snap; or, honor intent
and own impact)
- Move up! Move back!
- We take care of our needs
- Expect a lack of closure
- Land Acknowledgement – we learned the District‐approved Land Acknowledgement
that the kids do at assemblies
- For discussion at next meeting:
- Adoption of group norms
- New land acknowledgment, and how to use it
- Blaine is on the Parent Advisory Committee for the Indian Ed dept and
will discuss what the best use is
- Communication expectations between parents and staff
- Particularly relating to student safety/classroom conflicts
- Some good experiences: proactive and immediate heads up to families without naming
student/s involved
- Some less good experiences: sending emails to leadership with no response
- Recommendation to Principal Butler Ginolfi: having an autoreply that communicates
expectations for response and other options for communication if needed
- Kindergarten update
- There are enough volunteers now, between parents and volunteers
- Principal Butler Ginolfi commits to talking with parents that have concerns
- Recommendation: having a community/class meeting for kindergarten families to
answer questions, open up communication
- Class game night
- Parent/teacher meeting
- Principal Update
- Building move – School Board votes tomorrow 11/6
- Principal Butler Ginolfi has been advocating:
- That the school is a safe haven for students with poor experiences
elsewhere
- That community is important to us
- That transportation is necessary for school to retain its community and
for families to follow
- We have a very large geozone (the geographic area entitled to
transportation)
- BLT Update –
- changed makeup of BLT
- Race and Equity chair is automatically on BLT (Jo and/or Maggie)
- 4 elected certificated staff
- 1 elected counselor
- 1 elected special ed member
- Total of 4‐5 parent guardians
- One from PTO
- 3‐4 principal‐nominated parents, with rep from LGBTQ2S, POC,
English Language Learner, with at least one parent of a child
with a disability (not disclosed)
- Terms: 1yr for staff, 2yr for parents
- Election of staff will occur in fall
- Job description and time commitment will be circulated in the next couple of
weeks
- Most of the BLT duties occur in Jan‐Feb
- Applications for review and consideration, with questions for
applicants/nominees; Principal Butler Ginolfi will write questions with the Race
and Equity Team input
- Parent/teacher conferences will happen the week of Thanksgiving; look for emails
- Staff is collectively reading/discussing Multiplication is for White People
- Interim School Climate Survey will happen Thursday 11/7 with kids
- Sir Herbert Read – no update because Monica is out of town
- Harvest Festival
- Blaine is getting cups and plates and stuff
- Lisa McCaul is having a hard time getting gourds because it was a bad pumpkin season;
so we may do something else; Rachel will help with gourd acquisition and/or corn husk
dolls
- Volunteers:
- Email Lisa if you want to volunteer! lizarinny@gmail.com
- Needs:
- Setup
- Cleanup station activities
- Cake Walk
- Gym activities
- Decorations
- Clothing Swap
- Face‐painting (ideally with their own paints and brushes)
- We’ll have a dance for middle schoolers for the second hour
- Clothing Swap
- Need more little kids’ clothes! (K‐5th grade)
- Need winter coats, hats, gloves, boots, shoes
- Adult size stuff that teenagers would wear
- Suggestion: put out asks on neighborhood groups, etc.
- Holiday Bazaar – no date yet
- Popular items: dad presents, small potted plants, jewelry, a mug with hot cocoa and
marshmallows
- Warm and Well‐Fed Fund
- This happens every year with cash donations given to teachers on the Holiday Bazaar
day
- Parents can also donate; need to figure out how to get donations set up
- This is run by Sir Herbert Reed foundation
- 100 Days of School (January 17th)
- Planning activities likely need to go through BLT to ensure curriculum minutes
are followed
NEXT MEETING: December 3, 6:30pm