Flag Salute – led by SSC president, Alfred Renteria
Call to order
SSC Chairperson, Alfred Renteria called to order the regular meeting at 5:00 PM in the school library.
SSC quorum was confirmed by the school site secretary
SSC members in attendance
Parents- Teresa Navarro and Pat Gomez, Sarita Mota, and Esther Mejia
Students- Gabby De La Rosa, Kristal Perez, Sydney Woo and Jaelene Rodriguez
Classified Staff- none
Certificated Staff- Martin Martinez, Freddy Larrache, and Mary Chapman
Administration- Sam Genis
Visitors in attendance- Aurora Alvarez, Margaret Renteria
IV. Approval of minutes from last meeting
School site council members individually read the December 7, 2011 meeting minutes. Sam Genis motioned / Kristal Perez seconded approval of the meeting minutes as read.
School site council members individually read the January 10, 2012 meeting minutes. Sydney Woo motioned / Gabby De La Rosa seconded approval of the meeting minutes as read.
- Information/Discussion Items
- Student representatives report-
Jaelene: December: Christmas tree decorating; Juniors came in 1st, seniors 2nd, sophomores in 3rd and freshmen 4th. Powder puff was great and the juniors beat the seniors.
Sydney: Students came back from winter break and began preparing for finals. We had our annual Blue Pride Day (to prepare for academic decathlon) on a Thursday rather than the traditional Saturday to encourage more staff appreciation. We hosted ERHS’s first annual blackout game against Whittier, and as a result received many compliments from both ER and Whittier staff. There was a three day testing window for finals.
Kristal: Sports: The soccer team is ranked number 1 in the state and number 8 in the nation. They are currently 16-0. The basketball team is off to a 4-2 start. The wrestling team has league finals this Saturday. Spring sports are currently holding tryouts for their seasons
Gabby: Upcoming Events:
We began the new semester Monday. We are hosting a staff appreciation basketball game (2/3), parent night and winterbelle (2/10), winter formal (2/11), Open house (2/16) and teen read week (2/27-3/2).
- DAC report-: Meeting held on January 19, 2012 at South Ranchito Elementary. Information about changes to the Con application was given. It’s now web based and submitted to the state for categorical funds.
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- DELAC report : Meeting was held January 18, 2012. Sarita Mota reported the meeting was lead by Mrs. Ruth Naro-Basket’s presentation regarding title 1 funds being used to give student support in English.
- Special Education: Mr. Larrache-Nothing to report
- EIA SCE/ EIA LEP: Nothing to report
- GATE- No report
- Administration- Mr. Genis
- New semester began Monday (1/30/2012). Schedule changes were completed in a timely manner.
- Thank you to SSC, ERHS was the first to submit the SPSA to the district.
- Due to teen court not being scheduled in January, ERHS hosted its first Law Day, during which, students were able to listen to a panel that consisted of judges, members of law enforcement, district attorneys, assistant district attorneys and representatives from Chapman College. Students were able to sit with each panel member for 12-15 minutes and ask questions. This was a great opportunity to expose students to different careers. The plan is to make this a yearly event.
- Last Saturday 1/28 was day 1 of the LA county Academic Decathlon hosted by ERHS. The decathletes felt they did well and they will continue the competition this Saturday 2/4 at USC, where they will take subject tests and the super quiz. We will have results 2/8/12.
- Monday 2/6/12 is a staff development day were there will be an overview of Common Core Standards which are supposed to be implemented in 2014.
- February 16th is ERHS’s 1st Open House. Teachers in the S.W.A.T promoting the ranch have been putting this event together. They have publicized it on posters, in the Whittier daily news, at the middle schools through the 8th grade teachers, etc. There will be food trucks, LA galaxy, ER clubs, athletics and departments present.
- Friday 2/10 Potential Middle School students who may not want to attend ERHS in the fall will be shadowing ERHS Link Crew members to give them insight and it is an opportunity to showcase the school.
- Due to Disneyland changing their grad night to an all day event, ERHS has moved graduation from Thursday night to Friday night. This will give grads a longer time at both parks. We are in need of chaperones. Middle school promotions will take place all in one day.
Separate Action items
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- a) 8th to 9th grade projections: See attached. There are currently 769 8th graders, we will see 2-3% not attend ERHS in the fall. The problem is the declining enrollment has reached ERHS so we have gone from having 900-1000 incoming freshmen to around 700-800.
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- b) Title 1 approvals
- Mr. Genis would like to hire a retired teacher to come teach two periods a day of CAHSEE prep classes to students who have been targeted as “at risk” of not passing the exam. This information is based on current data that has been brought to administration from consultants whom collected 3 years of CST data. The teacher would be paid per diem and benefits, which totals $16,000. Mr. Genis ensures we will be looking at the rate of success of these students on the exam and analyzing it.
- Esther Mejia motions for approval of this expenditure/ Teresa Navarro 2nds. Motion carried.
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Public Comment- None
Agenda Forecast
- Debrief Open House
- Title 1 approvals.
- IX. Next SSC Meeting to be held on Wednesday March 7, 2012
Teresa Navarro motioned/ Kristal Perez seconded the meeting adjournment.
Chairperson Alfred Renteria adjourned the meeting at 5:28pm.
Minutes respectfully submitted by: Mary Chapman/SSC Secretary