Dr. Arsenio Romero

Roswell Independent School District Administrative Meeting Agenda

Agenda Embracing diversity through valued partnerships with families, students, staff and community, it is our mission to inspire, empower and educate each student to become successful life-long learners. Team Norms Be On Time Refrain From Cell Phones and Texting January 11, 2017 Respect Others Opinions No Sidebars 9:00 a.m. Contribute to Achieve Positive Results AESC Library Dr. Arsenio Romero  Celebrations AESC Library  29 people from RISD went to the UVA mid-year retreat in Bernalillo last week  Sierra –“ you inspire me to come to school because”, students would answer this question about teachers. There is a video about every teacher at Sierra. On the January 3rd PD day the day started with the video of what the students said.  Review Interim District Data with Principals  Zone exemptions – school board adopted a new policy. Will try to incorporate advertising for one exemptions from January to March. It will be advertised in the paper when the window will be open. You can plan ahead as you build class lists. If you know you have room you can accept them if not you can put them on a waiting list.  Instructional guides – if you have teachers with feedback please have them email with feedback. There is another meeting today.

Sean Benedict  The principals appreciate that they can call Maintenance and they respond  It is noticed that the attitude of the department is good, much better than in the past.

Tracy Wells  Please call or email with any recommendations or request.  As they menu for next year is planned keep in mind there is over 10,000 students in RISD to serve and not everyone can be happy and the food services has government guidelines they have to follow.  Need feedback from elementary teachers for breakfast in the classroom.

Royce Braggs  2017-2018 class scheduling – Mr. Burris would like schedules in student’s hands by May. Make sure students going to high school and middle school are actually going to the schools they are supposed to go to.  Feb 23 training for middle school from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm  Feb 24 training for high school from 8:30 am to 12:00 pm

Tom Burris  lack of water cancelation days – Teachers come in for half days for Pd, etc.  Snow days – time depends on several factors; cafeteria preps meals at 5:30 am, buses start around 6:00 am and the auto dialer needs on hour to an hour and a half. Look at several factors prior to delaying or canceling school. Roswell was supposed to only get an inch of snow.  PED Legislative Priorities – Mr. Burris is in Santa Fe today for the meeting. Raises for teachers is an issue he will bring up.  Cash Fund – Governor will now be looking at taking cash reserves down to 5% and not 8% that we anticipated. This will directly impact the District. The state is also looking at a change in ERB money with teachers having to put more into their own retirement.  Principals Advisory Council – Similar to SAC but through Principals. This will help in the effort to improve communication. The principals form their own advisory council, meet at 8:00 am before the regular monthly admin meeting at 9:00 am. Then on the following Monday meet with the cabinet to debrief the cabinet.  IF you have the School Board Members and downtown admin on your school letterhead please make sure you this list is complete and correct. Let Holly know if you need the list.  Change of date for the January SAC meeting – January 24, 2017  District Calendar – more complete master calendar in one place instead of several individual calendars  Admin meetings  District activities and athletics – will add an activities calendar  Mr. Burris will be out of district January 17-19, 2017

Harry Tackett  Professional leave reimbursement – leave forms must be sent to Mr. Tackett’s office before anything else will be done with Title I money, we have had less Title I & II funds available this year.  Title I funds must be encumbered by February 15, 2017.  K-3 plus meeting this afternoon at 2:30 in the curriculum conference room. K-3 Plus will be funded again but with stricter guidelines.  Migrant meeting soon, watch for details

Chris Thweatt  lack of water cancelation days – Teachers come in for half days for Pd, etc.  Snow days – time depends on several factors; cafeteria preps meals at 5:30 am, buses start around 6:00 am and the auto dialer needs on hour to an hour and a half. Look at several factors prior to delaying or canceling school. Roswell was supposed to only get an inch of snow.

Dr. Christian Northrup  Test training – required by PED, February 17th from 8 am to 10 am in the tech lab  Data Day March 10th in the tech lab, please send the same two people that you sent last time. The time will be the same time as the first data day. The times will be sent out to you  SBA testing – just sent out a new i-tester to be downloaded, there are issues but those being resolved  Teacher evals – over 75 data discrepancies were sent to PED. We heard back from 11. Please have teachers email you about concerns and you can visit with Dr. Northrup.  STC’s need to remember to Cache the test  SBA Science test moved, will be in March

Tamie Pargas/Brian Byrd 1. Be sure that your secretary has created a “preferred list” in Aesop for substitutes at your site. Each teacher can/should have their own preferred list – subs are complaining that they are not being called – however, to me that’s not a “bad” thing. 2. Please remind your secretaries how to answer your phones – i.e. “Good morning, you have reached Roswell High School – this is ... (please give their name!) 3. Updated 2015-16 evaluations – NMPED has reviewed the list that we sent them. Most of them did not change. Those that did will be given to the site principals to sign, date, have the teacher sign, make copies and return the original to HR. We will replace the old for the new in the Personnel Files. 4. Emails going out...  Retirements and resignations – we need letters not just notice please  Course/grade level changes (we do still need the Action Forms as well) – this has become very important – we must have licenses and course codes 100% correct for testing!  Internal “freeze” for transfers lifted from Monday, March 6th through Friday, July 7th. Yes, they must still do a transfer form, apply, interview and be offered the position.  Remember – you need to have a transfer form, and have reviewed Personnel Files (sign off on them) BEFORE you interview internal candidates. THEN, please (once HR has notified you that your recommendation has accepted), please call all those that you interviewed and thank them. 5. Please encourage your staff whose licenses expire in June of this year to get the license renewed before the crunch time (May and June). Just send them to HR, and we will help them. They must wait until Feb., but I would get it done before the end of April. 6. Please help us to remind all teachers about the dossier class that is offered free to all RISD teachers! It will start up again on Wed., January 18th from 6-8pm in the Central Office Computer Lab. These are not mandatory – nor do teachers need to attend every Wednesday, or stay for the entire two hours – but they pretty much guarantee that the dossier will be approved. 7. You will be getting survey monkey addressing the PPP. It will come from Dr. Romero’s office. The board would like more input on the PPP grant.

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