PTA Meeting Minutes
4th PTA General Meeting: December 01, 2020
Call to Order: The PTA Executive Board met on Tuesday, December 01, 2020 VIRTUALLY via Zoom video conferencing. President Jessica Sniffin called the meeting to Order at 6:59 pm.
Present: Jessica Sniffin, Catherine Beaudette, Roxana Finkelberg, Shahrzad Spieler, Katie Campana-Scherer, Doug Ryan, Principal Heifetz, Prospective and current PTA Members
– 13 sign-ins via Zoom.
Minutes:
- Call to order from PTA President (Jessica Sniffin)
- Announcements from Glen Haven staff (Principal Heifetz)
- Online parent workshop offered December 08 by Military Family Life Center: “Creating New Holiday Traditions and Managing Holiday Stress”
- Parent survey of virtual learning: 55 responses
- Will be the focus of leadership meeting December 02
- Accessing Parent VUE
- How to find MAP report and Marking Period 1 report card
- MAP report
- What it will look like (e.g., math data, math goals, language arts goals, lexile range)
- Limitation of reports: Virtual data collection was not ideal
- Parent preference survey for virtual versus in-person return due December 03
- The model GHES adopts to return to in-person school will be based on Montgomery County data
- Considerations: creating safe cohorts to control use of and movement within the space; no parents or volunteers in building
- Please reach out for mental health, financial, and food resources.
- PTA announcements
- Scholastic Book fair will be taking place online, and ends December 06 (link in Scoop).
- Fundraisers: Box Tops for Education.
- Drama club fundraiser selling gift wrap will fund their scripts and music, and ends December 03.
- County Board of Education meetings are available to stream online, and are posted on MCPS website.
- Please use Directory link to sign up your families.
- See Room Parent Google form and Suggestion Box form.
- Interactive
- Parent questions & concerns
- How do survey answers impact planning?
- Thoughts about summer school?
- When is in-person instruction theoretically starting?
- January 12 for SCB
- February 1 for large groups, starting with Kindergarten and first grades
- Can we match reading levels with available books at the Scholastic Book fair?
- Lexile level can be found by searching individual titles
- Media Center has resources to search reading level
- What does a virtual room parent DO?
- Suggestions: reach out to teachers and parents regarding support needed; coordinate signs of appreciation
- Parent questions & concerns
- Adjournment:
- Meeting adjourned at 8:22 pm
Minutes prepared by Kathryn Campana-Scherer, Secretary