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Richmond Site Council

New parent members sought

Be a Part of Richmond's Site Council! As a parent member you can:

• Help set academic goals for all Richmond students & select strategies forachieving those goals.
• Collaborate with PTA, the Richmond School Foundation, Oya No Kai, and other language immersion programs.
• Foster family involvement in the school.

We are looking for two parents to join our Site Council. We meet one Tuesday afternoon each month from 2:30-4:30 p.m. If you're interested in becoming a part of the team, please contact Council Member Mona Ozaki by November 14th.

Under Oregon law, the stated mission of Site Council in every public school is to work on implementation of the School Improvement Plan. For me, though, the question that guides the work of the Site Council is this: given the existing resources and realities, how can we best serve and educate the students who are at Richmond now and who will be attending in the near future? I have come to think of the Site Council as creating a forum for clear communication between different groups in the school community, providing oversight of how the school is operating, and planning for the future needs of our students and the school.

More specifically, over the last couple of years, we have tackled the major issues we could identify that impact Richmond. Among other things, we have worked to:

• recruit students to meet the district's growth targets
• identify staffing needs that are not being met by district and state funding
• support the creation of a grant-writing committee
• figure out how to most effectively and painlessly do school fundraising
• maintain and strengthen the 5th grade trip to Japan
• clarify the roles and responsibilities of parent support groups
• understand the changing demographics of the student and family population of Richmond
• find support and funding for curriculum revision and staff development

Members

Members are elected to two-year terms by their corresponding group (i.e. parents elect parent reps, teachers elect teacher reps). Our Site Council members are:

• Ann Fyfield, Richmond parent
• Tim Smith, Richmond parent and Site Council Chairperson
• Dawn Uchiyama, Richmond parent and Site Council Secretary
• Lynne Cummings, Library aide
• Atsuko Ando, Grade 4 teacher
• Jaina Kapranos, Pre-K teacher
• Gary Kuney, PE teacher
• Kathryn Anderson, Principal

Mission, goals, and bylaws

The purpose of Richmond's Site Council is student achievement and outlined in Oregon’s Educational Act for the 21st Century. The duties of the Site Council include:

• Improvement of Richmond's instructional program
• Development of plans to improve the professional growth of Richmond's staff
• Administration of grants for school improvement
• Fostering family involvement

Meeting dates

Site Council meetings are open to every member of the Richmond school community. Please join us on the second Monday of every month at 2:30-4:30 pm in the staff lunchroom.

• February 11, 2008 - minutes (doc) (pdf)
• December 10, 2007 - minutes (doc) (pdf)
• October 8, 2007 - minutes (doc) (pdf)

Reports

• Draft School Improvement Plan, 2006 - 07