Third Meeting, April 24, 2008

April 24, 2008 Transition Team Meeting

Present at Meeting:

Ann Frye, Kathryn Corrigan, Sue Fedorwich, Kelly Simmons, Joann Byrne, Marisa Potter

Discussion Topics:

Overall student program checklist that travels through each grade level which states all the services that the child receives. One for each child to go in the cumulative folder.

Information needed on the chart: AIS (Reading and Math), 504, CST/SST, Summer School, Considered for Retention, tutoring services, Nurse, Other Intervention Services.

Set dates and times for the students to come over and visit the fourth grade.


All curriculum maps should be reviewed for vertical alignment among grade levels.

Ideas:

Have third graders plant a seed in the school community garden as a symbolic transition from third to fourth. In fourth, they will be able to harvest what they grew. Third grade will check with the other third grade teachers about the planting.

Evaluation

Give new fourth grade students a little entry survey about if they remembered certain events and how comfortable they felt.

Family survey asking if they attended events, how they felt about the transition, and what might make the transition easier.

Questions:
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Things We Need:

4/3/08
-Some kind of data chart to know what interventions a child has received.
-Sue will share IEP summary sheet with Chris for help with CSE students.
-Transition information for families (possibly a transition pamphlet): grading systems, recess policy, homework, learning links.
-Time to meet with each other as a whole grade level.

4/7/08
-3rd grade teachers would like New York State ELA and Math Tests from the 4th grade. Fourth Grade AIS will provide the scores to the 3rd grade teachers.
-Fourth Grade Information Night should be earlier in the year to accommodate the transition.
-Third and Fourth grade transitional meeting between all teachers at the end of the school year.
-Current ELA curriculum maps that include writing, spelling, written expression and grammar and is aligned throughout the grade levels.

4/24/08
-Before final new fourth grade classes are in place, Angie will look at the lists.
-Put school supply lists at the stores in case families lose the list.