Minutes from March 9, 2016 SAC Meeting

The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Kim Beitz. Mrs. Beitz asked that the minutes from the January and February meetings be read for accuracy. Present at the meeting were: Linda Arnold, Shvawn Baker, Kim Beitz, Marilu Calderon, Maria Clemente, Varetta Cooper, Lissy Cordoves, Aimee Fretwell, Kevin Maccagli, Carol Mendelson, Paul Micensky, Maria Orjuela-Mestroni, R. Osorio, Beth Passman, Laura Sadule, Ana Sayre, Mindy Siegel, Julia Valent, Mia Wong, Shirley Wong, Judith Franco, Max Devant, Laurie Manning, Paul Passman, Julie Sikorski, Jessica Winter, Kathleen Dillmeier, Cheryl Barrios.

A motion was made by Mrs. Cordoves to approve the minutes from the January SAC meeting. The motion was seconded by Ms. Shvawn Baker. The minutes were unanimously approved.

Another motion was made by Mrs. Winter to approve February’s SAC meeting minutes. It was seconded by Mr. Passman. The minutes were unanimously approved.

Mr. Micesnky spoke regarding the memorial that Mrs. Sant Angelo and students created on campus for Cody Cohen. Cody was one of our students that was killed in a tragic car accident. Mrs. Fretwell and Mrs. Valent, from the PTA, were able to procure two Converse shoes from the store in Sawgrass Mills. Each shoe is a different color, just like Cody used to wear them. These shoes were donated by the store manager.

Mrs. Nissen -Reviewed discipline data. Reviewed accreditation surveys. She will present discipline plan required for SIP next month.

Mrs. Wong inquired regarding a posting on social media regarding one of our students. Mr. Micensky stated that the school had dealt with the parties involved and that the situation is under control.

Departments Head:

ESOL- Ms. Franco- Buenos Dias: We are continuing be very busy in the ESOL classes with many new students arriving from all over the world daily. This week we have been studying about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. The students are reading several articles where they are learning how to prove their answers through textual evidence. Monday Ms. Roberts and I began the WIDA testing for the A1 & A2 ESOL students. This test replaces the CELLA test from last year. Today the rest of the ESOL students will be taking their tests. This test consists of a listening, reading, writing and individual speaking portions. The individual speaking test will be given this week to all the ESOL students. The selected Immigrant/ESOL students are continuing with afterschool tutoring. The students are using the Imagine learning program along with other teacher lead activities. Last week the names of all students who have been attending tutoring were entered into a drawing and the tutoring company awarded two luck students tickets to the Cougar Challenge. The next raffle prize will be for movie tickets.

ESE- Mrs. Winter- In the SVE classes, they are preparing for the Special Olympics Basketball Program, which will be held in April. A coordinator from the program will be coming to help train and work with the students on skills such as dribbling, passing, and shooting. SVE classes have also begun their FSAA (Florida Standards Alternative Assessment) testing, which is administered one on one with each of their

students. Support staff was able to assist with completing WIDA testing of ESOL students this past month. Mainstreamed students were also tested in their small groups and all accommodations were in place for the writing component FSA testing on March 1st. We will continue to review IEP's and accommodations, as well as work with the general education teachers, as we prepare for Math and ELA FSA testing in April.

Math- Mrs. Cordoves- Our Math teachers are working very hard to finish teaching all of the standards required for the FSA test, as well as reviewing standards already covered. Our teachers are integrating specific FSA practice into their daily warm-ups, class activities, and homework. We are also using the benchmark practice test available on USA test prep to provide the students with as much practice as possible. After Spring Break, Math teachers will be administering an in-class, practice FSA test to get the kids familiarized with the system and the tools available on the test. Remember that you as a parent can also access this practice through the FSA website (FSAssessments.org)

We have a lot of material to cover and review so we are requesting the help of our parents. Please encourage your child to review and practice at home. The district has put together a Parent and Student Resource page at tiny.cc/msg1. This page is designed to be a resource for all parents and students across Broward County. Resources include, activities, strategies, interactive worksheets, digital tools, and other practice for the Mathematics Florida Standard Assessment (FSA). Students can also log into the textbook website (my.hrw) to review past lessons.

Electives- Mrs. Sikorski- The peer counselor’s Everyone Matters display is in the cafeteria. There are over 200 pictures of students, teachers, administrators, secretaries, custodians, cafeteria workers, and our SRO. Please take a moment to go by and see it and embrace all the differences at TTMS. The peer counselors also sponsored the 2nd Annual Hoops for Heart basketball game this year. We raised $6,020 all of which goes to the American Heart Association. I took 100 students to Nova High School to see Weight Of Words play about bullying. My students learned how to be an upstander, not a bystander!!One of my peer counselors, Sophia Cury, was recognized in the Sun-Sentinel for Kids of Character. For the past 2 years she has purchased Dunkin Donut gift cards and passed them out to all the custodians. Also at the beginning of the year instead of donating one Cougar care package she donated 12 bags filled with protein bars, snacks, water, and personal care items with a personal inspirational message on the outside of the bag. The girls’ volleyball team won the 2016 County Championship. It has been a long dry spell athletically for TTMS and it was exciting to win another banner for our school. All 8 th grade technology students have completed the unit on HTML webpage coding. Some are extending their learning by coding at home. 1st hour is exploring the world of 3D design utilizing Tinkercad and will have the opportunity to have their project 3D printed with Makerbot 3D printer. 2 nd hour is working with LEGO Mindstorm Robotics Kits. After assembling the robot, students will learn to program their robot. 5th hour students are learning about Civil engineering and are designing and building toothpick bridges, that will be tested for efficiency through a destructive test. 6 th hour students are learning the fundamentals of flight and can be seen in the courtyard testing their metric gliders. Speech/Debate is Drama: We received all superiors and one excellent at State, as well as 2 Best of Show. Very, very strong showing!!! They are in rehearsal for the Spring musical--Zombie Prom on May 11-13 at 7pm at Western. : )) In Art: Two of our students will have exceptional quality artwork on display at the Youth Art Exhibit at KC Wright. They are Shayden Labbe (7th) and Elle Tallgren (8th). In Computers: This quarter in computer class students learned how to use the software applications Pages, Number, GarageBand, ComicLife and the paint and database components of Appleworks. During the 4th quarter

the students will learn to use iMovie and KeyNote. They will create an animation project, a podcast and film a commercial.

Literacy- Mrs. Manning- We recently completed our 2016 TTMS Literary Fair with huge success. We had over 130 entries in every category except two. (The extensive list of winners is included below). The next step includes our first place winners moving on to the district judging which will take place on April 8th. Each category will have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner districtwide. Winners will be notified by April 15th via email. I would personally like to thank Mr. Melmood for all of his effort with this year’s fair. His hard work and passion for literacy was evident in the amount of quality projects and displays. Hopefully, we will have district level winners from TTMS. As written in our February SAC minutes, the literacy department is busily preparing our students for the FSA ELA. We completed the FSA ELA Writing test on March 1st and our next sections of the ELA test are April 11th and 12th. For FSA information or practice tests, we encourage parents to visit the fsassessments.org site. Additionally, we completed 8 weeks of the TTMS Literacy Workshop just before the March 1st FSA ELA Writing. We will resume the 2 weeks before the FSA ELA with a focus on reading strategies.

2016 TTMS Literary Fair WinnersPROSE CATEGORIES:Children’s Books - Amelia DiGennaro- Mrs. PagnantFable - David Vinerean- Miss SmithFormal Essay – Nico Dodson- Mr. MelmoodInformal Essay- Nikhil Reddy- Mr. MelmoodLiterary Comic Strip- David Abadie- Mr. MelmoodManga –Veronika Bonilla- Miss SmithMyth – Angelina Kinney- Mr. MelmoodPersonal Narrative- Lilah Grom- Mrs. BazySatirical Cartoon – Wiktoria Markowska- Mr. MelmoodScene Writing – Abby Siegel- Mr. LobetoShort Story- Joseph Mullen- Mrs. WilsonPOETRY CATEGORIES: ABC Poetry – Alysa Paz- MelmoodCinquain – Reni Alakiu- PagnantEkphrastic Poem – Christina Yoon- LobetoFree Verse- Tie: Kaitlin Wicklein and Jamie Happel- Mrs. WilsonOde – Katherine Sanford - MelmoodPoem for Two Voices – Isaac Fuenmayor- Mrs. WilsonRhymed Verse – Marissa Farmer- Mrs. WilsonSestina Poem- Taylor Watson- SmithShrinklet Poem – Chloe Griffin- MelmoodSonnet – Sara Prieto- MelmoodTritina- Ravin Anderson- Mrs. Wilson

Media- Mrs. Dillmeier- Thank you to the PTA for a wonderful Book Fair, we sold just under $5000.00 in books. We are planning a BOGO Fair at the end of May 20-26. This will be our kick off for summer reading. If we sell over $2200. We will earn an extra $1000.00 in scholastic dollars. Interactive Flat Panel: IFP all middle and high school media center have received and interactive flat panel to use in the

media center. We received a ½ day training and plans for additional training over the summer.Media Mornings: Our media center is very active before school. Students challenge each other to chess or checkers, design part for our environmentally self-sustaining leggo village, computer games, study groups, projects and classwork. STEAM: Thanks to the PTA, $650.00 worth of materials have been ordered for students to design, create, construct. All students are welcome to join us in the mornings. Research Class is writing and practicing their original songs about Digital Citizenship. JHS: “Fight like a Girl” Folleyball game raised $1171.00 to help one of our teachers. Environmental Committee and Friends of Cody planted plants in the memorial garden. Mrs Cohen was present for the planting. They also planted a tree for Jo Tylek a retired Social Studies teacher. PAL tutoring will continue after Spring Break . Relay For Life in April 9 at Cypress Bay High School.

Social Studies/Civics- 7th grade Civics students are leaning everything about courts and the law and are preparing to simulate the trial process and the role of juries in the administration of justice in a mock trial. To get some real world experience, students are watching the critically acclaimed courtroom drama “12 Angry Men.” The Social Studies department, in collaboration with Kids Voting in Broward, held an online student vote for the Presidential Preference Primary on Monday, March 7, 2016. We are also charting the results from the Republican and Democratic primaries and keeping an eye on the Florid primary set for March 15th. 6th Grade has been working on ancient India. Mauryan and Gupta Empires, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as India’s caste system. Testing, enrichment and remediation are taking place between March 3rd and March 11th. 8th Grade is in the middle of Junior Achievement where students learn finance, budgeting, money credit and loans, etc.

Science- Mr. Passman- We are soon ending the third quarter of this school year. Our science teachers report that they are conducting lessons that are both challenging and preparing our students for their upcoming assessments. We are beginning our 4th learning cycle in each grade level. Mr. Passman’s 7 th

grade students have completed making 3-dimensional models of human organ systems to share with their classmates. We just began our study of change over time and how cell division occurs. We will soon study the role of DNA. All 8th grade science classes have started their review to prepare students for the science FSA on Wednesday April 6 th. 8th grade students are reviewing the science standards that they had learned in 6th and 7th grade, as well as the 8th grade standards. Our teachers continue to hold regular PLC meetings to exchange ideas and monitor student performance. We recently placed an order for the science materials desired for the 2016/2017 school year.

SAF- Ms. Baker- The emphasis at the last SAF meeting was the Parent Engagement that took place on Saturday, March 5 and also in the Parent Survey- The District is shooting for 20% participation.

PTA- Mrs. Orjuela- We had a book fair in February and planning on having another one in May. Box Tops- We collected 9,000 which will traduce to $900.00. Mrs. Bello’s class came in third, Miss Sanders in second plance and Mrs. Goldwyn in first place. Currently, we are planning the Teacher’s Appreciation Luncheon. Fifty-six Panthers tickets were sold.

BTU- Mrs. Passman- Elections are occurring now for BTU Officers and Executive Board. Negotiations update. The BTU/District committee's are in the process of meeting with school board members to share concerns and ideas. Teacher concerns and ideas are being shared through our Faculty Council to administration.

Meeting was adjourned.