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MHS School Council Minutes
5/24123 3:00 — 4:00pm
Mansfield High School RECEIVED
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• Meeting came to order at 3:05 20A JAN 22 A q: 35
• Review and approval of meeting minutes from 3/1/23
o Vote to approve minutes passed 11-0 f r', i `S F I E L D
• First agenda item NEASC Collaborative Conference review
• NEASC spent 2 days (4/5 + 416) at MHS
• Held several meetings with a variety of stakeholders
o Parents, students, leadership team, faculty representatives
o Conducted several classroom visits
o Provided snapshot of report and initial areas of emphasis
o Areas of emphasis include curriculum development, implementation of the vision of the
graduate, support of staff instructional capacity, and schedule modification
• Point of conversation: parent, staff, and student members of the school council all discussed the
importance of looking at the schedule and working to build flexible learning time into the day for
both student and staff benefit.
o Many students are involved in several extracurricular activities after school and the time
in the day would be helpful.
o Staff sees the benefit to students and also note the opportunity to support common time
to work with other staff members
• Many of the priority areas have been built into the school improvement plan
• Second agenda item: review draft improvement plan for feedback
• 4 main areas of improvement identified
o Curriculum work in UBD format to support priority areas for NEASC
o Provide PD opportunity to expand staff capacity with regard to instruction and support of
schools VOG
o Evaluate current use of time (schedule) in the day and work to build in flex block learning
time
o Increase student agency through the development and support of Student Voice Summit
(SVS)
Point of emphasis was on the schedule work and the value of moving forward with a flex block
Final agenda item discussed was a review of student handbook updates
Feedback on several changes or updates were discussed: student IDs, cell phone, credit loss,
attendance (daily v. period), student retention
o Student IN were discussed as a safety implementation
o Student reps think it will be tough to get students on board
o Cell phone policy was well liked by staff and parents
o Credit loss policy aims to be more equitable to students who pass their classes and have
their GPA impacted
o Students will need a minimum number of earned credits to be promoted to next grade
o Attendance and the `10 minute rule" was discussed.
o Teacher reps articulated need to have a limit before a student is marked absent in the
class or else students will be gone forever.
o This impact was taken into consideration and is being removed as a possible change.
• Meeting adjourned at 4:08pm