February 2, 2012

Our February 2nd half day will be semi-dedicated to NEASC (from 12:30-2:30). Our committees will meet their parent representatives as well as their student representatives. Once introductions have been completed, committees will have the opportunity to read the Endicott Self-Study and discuss and analyze this important document. If there exists any particular lack of evidence, committees will make plans to find and document this evidence. Though this is an ongoing process--for the next two years--most committees will begin to write their self-assessment reports after this meeting.

Here is the agenda:

NEASC Agenda for February 2, 2012 Agenda (12:30-2:30)

1. Meet and greet student and parent committee members
2. Overview of process for new committee members (students/parents)
3. Read/review Endicott Self-Study Report (copies will be provided)
1. select information to use in writing standard committee report
4. Review Roman Numeral 2 in Self Study Guide (Collecting Data Relating to the Standard)
1. Review/discuss to make sure appropriate evidence acquired (From the Self-Study Guide: “As soon as evidence has been collected, Committee members should begin to review and discuss the evidence according to the prompts in the Self-Study guide.”)

                                                              i.      Any lack of evidence should be remedied

                                                            ii.      What remains to be found? How? By whom? (All evidence should be gathered by 3/1)

5. If appropriate evidence has been gathered for an indicator, proceed to Roman Numeral 3 in Self Study Guide (Analyzing the Evidence, Drawing Conclusions, and Providing Supporting Details)

Letter to Students

The following is a letter that went out to our student representatives.

 

To: Student Representative to NEASC Committee

From: NEASC Committee Co-Chairs (Mr. Sturma and Mr. Abrams)

Welcome to the self-evaluation process and thank you for taking part in this important role as a representative of the NHS student body. You have been assigned to one of the following committees: assessment, instruction, school culture and leadership, community resources, school resources, curriculum, or core values.

Your job is quite easy—be a student. Let’s take a for instance. Let’s imagine that you are on the assessment standard committee.  One of the elements of this standard is the use of school wide rubrics. Your role would be to speak about your experience with school wide rubrics. As part of the process, your committee will have already gathered these rubrics to show you (or, hopefully, you will have already seen them). Your response might be, “I’ve never seen a school wide rubric,” or, “Yeah, I’ve seen them sometimes, in some classes like English, but not in history.”

The commitment is a series of half-days (starting this Thursday, February 2), where you’ll be asked to be at school from 12:30-2:30 to offer your input.

That’s essentially it. We want to hear your voice because it’s your school.

The following students are on committees:

Core Values: Jamie Orosz, Sam Wahlgren
Curriculum: Sydney Hitchcock, Kate McCauley
Instruction: Sydney Skaff, Blake Quintal
Assessment: Nick Mombello, Amy Morse
School Culture: Steve Simkins, Meri Adsit
School Resources: Emma Bartol, Graeme Potter
Community Resources: Ben Hanke, Matt D'Angelo

Unassigned: Catherine Ryan, Rachel Wallace