School Improvement Training Fall FY2005

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School ImprovementTraining Fall FY2005
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Florida Legislation and School Board
PolicyFY2005
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School Board Policy 2.09 (11)

• District-Wide Meetings
• At least 2 district-wide meetings per year
• Fall
• Spring

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School Board Policy 2.09 (7)Florida Statute
1001.42

• School Improvement Plan
• SIP must address
• Budget
• Training
• Materials
• Staffing
• Student services
• School safety discipline strategies
• Technology
• Other matters of resource allocation

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Florida Statute 1001.42(16)(a)

• FY2006 School Improvement Plan
• SIP must address
• Student health and fitness, including physical
  fitness
• Parental information on student health and
  fitness
• Indoor environmental air quality

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School Board Policy 2.09 (9)

• Training and Support
• Training, support, and written materials shall be
  available to SAC members including
• State and local SAC requirements
• Roles responsibilities of members
• Use of data for decision-making
• Budget process
• Timeline for developing SIP

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School Board Policy 2.09 (6)

• SAC Powers and Duties
• SACs shall have access to the districts website
  as a means of providing information to the public
  and other SACs

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School Board Policy 2.09 (2) Florida Statute
1001.452 (1) (a)

• Composition of School Advisory Council
• Majority of members NOT school employees- 501
• Each Advisory Council shall be composed of
• Principal/Director
• Appropriately balanced number of
• Teachers
• Education support employees
• Parents
• Business and community citizens
• Students (Voc/Tech High School shallMiddle and
  Junior High may)
• ...who are representative of the ethnic, racial,
  and economic community served by the school.

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School Board Policy 2.09 (2) Florida Statute
1001.452 (1) (a)

• Composition of School Advisory Council
• Education Support Employee - any person employed
  at a school who is not defined as instructional
  or administrative whose duties require 20 or more
  hours

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META Agreement

• Multicultural Education Training Advocacy (META)
• Parental Involvement
• Establish Parent Leadership Councils (PLC)
• District LEP Plan
• Parent Leadership Council reflects LEP population
• PLC reviews ongoing implementation of ESOL
  program and SIP
• LEP parents are encouraged to participate in SAC
• PLC interacts with SAC

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School Board Policy 2.09 (3) Florida Statute
1001.452 (1) (a)

• Selection of Council Members
• All members elected by peers except business and
  community representatives and principal/director
• Any SAC member may recommend business and
  community members
• Business and community members are appointed by
  the principal with the advice and consent of SAC

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School Board Policy 2.09 (3) Florida Statute
1001.452 (1) (a)

• Selection of Council Members
• Bylaws include procedures for ensuring wide
  notice of vacancies and elections
• SAC bylaws will establish term of membership
• SAC bylaws will establish process for ensuring
  staggered terms

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School Board Policy 2.09 (3) Florida Statute
1001.452 (1) (a)

• Selection of Council Members
• The school bylaws must set forth a process for
  the appointment of additional SAC members if the
  election process does not produce representative
  membership
• If the SAC process does not produce
  representative membership, the School Board will
  appoint additional SAC members

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Whats Appropriate? Whats Not?

• Appropriate practice
• Parents are elected by parents with a
  representative from each attendance area.
• Not an appropriate practice
• Interested parents are elected by the SAC as
  community members or business partners. All
  business and community members are elected by the
  newly formed SAC parents and teachers.
• Why is it not appropriate?
• Business and community members should not be
  parents at the school. The principal appoints
  business and community members, with the consent
  of the School Advisory Council.

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Whats Appropriate? Whats Not?

• Appropriate practice
• Teachers are elected by teachers. Each grade
  level team selects a teacher to represent the
  team. Support staff representatives are elected
  at a support staff meeting in the fall.

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Whats Appropriate? Whats Not?

• Not an appropriate practice
• The assistant principal is a member of the SAC.
  If the school has too many school based
  representatives, the AP would become a non voting
  member.
• Why is it not appropriate?
• The law provides for the membership of one
  administrator at the school the principal.

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School Advisory Council Membership

• In FY2004, 100 of the district SACs were in
  compliance with Florida legislation.
• Majority of members NOT school employees 501
• Membership was appropriately balanced
• Members were representative of the ethnic,
  racial, and economic community served by the
  school.

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School Advisory Council Membership

• SAC Compliance Calculator
• Enables schools to check their membership
  compliance to ensure racial/ethnic compliance
  prior to entering on the TERMS E25 screen
• Located on the School Improvement web page at
• http//www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/SchoolImprovement/
  sip_sac.htm

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Membership of the School Advisory Council
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School Board Policy 2.09 (5) Florida Statutes
1001.452 (1)(a)

• Validation of SAC Membership Composition
• The School Board will review SAC membership for
  compliance.
• December 2004
• The School Board shall vote to appoint additional
  members to achieve proper representation.

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School Board Policy 2.09 (5) Florida Statutes
1001.452 (1)(a)

• Validation of SAC Membership Composition
• Deadline for entering SAC membership is October
  4, 2004

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School Board Policy 2.09 (4)

• SAC Government
• Each SAC must
• adopt bylaws including membership selection
  procedures
• review bylaws annually for alignment with
  legislation and policy
• submit bylaws to School Board with School
  Improvement Plan

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School Board Policy 2.09 (4) Florida Statutes
1001.452 (1)(d)

• Each SAC shall adopt bylaws establishing
  procedures for
• Replacing any member who has two unexcused
  consecutive absences from a SAC meeting that is
  noticed according to the procedures in the
  bylaws,
• Recording minutes of meetings, and
• Maintaining a record of minutes on file at the
  school site.
• The district School Board may review all proposed
  bylaws of a SAC.

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School Board Policy 2.09 (12)

• SAC Sample Bylaws
• Incorporates Florida Statute and Board Policy
• Assists SACs in the development of their bylaws
• Serves as an example only

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School Board Policy 2.09 (6)Florida Statute
1008.36

• Florida School Recognition Program
• 100 per Full Time Equivalent (FTE) student
• Dispersed to schools by September as determined
  by school staff and school advisory council
• Used for
• nonrecurring bonuses to the faculty and staff
• nonrecurring educational equipment or materials
• temporary personnel for the school to assist in
  maintaining and improving student performance

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School Board Policy 2.09 (6)Florida Statute
1008.36

• Florida School Recognition Program
• If the school staff and the school advisory
  council cannot reach agreement by November 1, the
  awards must be equally distributed to all
  classroom teachers currently teaching in the
  school.
• Classroom Teachers are defined as teachers, media
  specialists and guidance counselors at the
  school.

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School Board Policy 2.09 (7) Florida Statute
124.121

• School Improvement Funds
• 10 per student
• Principal may not override recommendations of
  SAC
• Not for capital improvements
• Cannot commit funds for more than one year
• Only for programs and projects selected by SAC

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School Improvement PlansFlorida Statute
1008.345 (c)

• DOE will not release funds to any district in
  which a school does not have an approved school
  improvement plan, after one full school year of
  planning and development, or does not comply with
  school advisory council membership composition
  requirements.

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School Board Policy 2.09 (8)

• Waiver of Local or State Regulation
• Should a school identify a local or state
  regulation that presents a barrier to improved
  student achievement and implementation of the
  school improvement plan, the SAC may submit a
  request to the District Waiver Committee.

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School Board Policy 2.09 (10)

• School Budget
• Each SAC shall assist in the preparation of the
  schools annual budget.
• SAC shall have access to
• Previous years June 30th Budget Status Summary
• Current fiscal years Budget Status Summary
• Proposed fiscal years budget

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School Board Policy 2.09 (10)

• School Budget
• Information on other resources, such as Internal
  Accounts, will be shared with SAC on an annual
  basis for information only.
• If requested by a majority vote of the SAC,
  quarterly reports of the current years budget by
  project, function, and object, including a
  percentage comparison of amended budgets spent to
  date, will be provided by Budget Services.

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School Board Policy 2.09 (10)

• The principal will present the school budget to
  the School Advisory Council during a regular SAC
  meeting. This discussion must be reflected in
  the SAC minutes.

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Websites

• Sunshine Law Guidelines for SAC
• http//schoolboardlegal.com/P-10211-CCSB.htm
• Advisory Legal Opinion
• http//schoolboardlegal.com/AGO2001-84.htm

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Florida Department of EducationOffice of School
Improvement http//osi.fsu.edu

• Office of School Improvement. Florida State
  University. Education
• Ride the Wave to Reform
• Technical Assistance Document
• School Improvement Plan Template
• Resources

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School District of Palm Beach County Department
of School Improvement
For additional information please
contact Sharon Brannon, Manager 561-434-8848 bra
nnon_at_mail.palmbeach.k12.fl.us Jerri-Lyn Burns,
Specialist 561-357-7667 burnsj_at_mail.palmbeach.k12.
fl.us