Open Meeting Law
Required to complete the Certificate of Receipt of Open Meeting Law materials in addition to the principal.
Who are all School Council members?
A School Council must meet this often.
What is it doesn't matter as long as it is decided up front?
The reason that curriculum materials have an approval process.
What is Massachusetts General Law and PPS School Committee Policy?
This assessment will be given to all students grades PreK - 12.
What is FastBridge?
How many schools use a shade of red in their color?
What is three?
The purpose of the Open Meeting Law.
What is to ensure transparency in the deliberations on which public policy is based.?
The co-chairs of the School Council.
Who is the principal and an parent/guardian member?
The students who are required to complete a Civics Project per Mass DESE.
Who are all grade 8 students and all high school students before graduating?
This assessment includes three one-minute prompts.
What is CBM Reading or Oral Reading Fluency?
Pittsfield High School is affectionately referred to as this.
What is Our Home Under the Dome?
Individuals who must complete a document certifying that they have received Open Meeting Law materials, and that they understand the requirements of the Open Meeting Law and the consequences of violating it.
(100 extra points for the timeframe!)
What is within two weeks of a member’s election or appointment or the taking of the oath of office, whichever occurs later, all members of public bodies must complete the Certificate of Receipt of Open Meeting Law Materials?
A teacher who is also a parent/guardian can serve as a "teacher" member on the Council.
What is this is false?
Why a Curriculum Bias review in conducted according to DESE.
What is to identify material that is likely to significantly favor or disadvantage one group of students for reasons that are not educationally relevant?
MUST go to all families whose students are instructed by an educator for more than four consecutive weeks.Includes subs, even for a maternity leave!
What is the Right to Know letter in Title I schools?
The number of schools named for their street or neighborhood rather than an individual.
What is five?
What constitutes a deliberation?
What is “an oral or written communication through any medium, including electronic mail, between or among a quorum of a public body on any public business within its jurisdiction?”
An email thread is deliberation
An individual who is a teacher at another school in the district serve as a community member of the council.
What is the Law is silent on this matter?
To ensure that no student is disadvantaged by content that is insensitive or disrespectful to the student’s ethnic, religious, or cultural background
To think of “culture” in broad enough terms to include disability, language proficiency, socio-economic status, and regional differences
To identify and eliminate content insensitivity, which is not the same thing as bias but is a potential source of disadvantage
(Adapted from Massachusetts DESE 2016)
What is the purpose of a bias review?
Explain why an Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) measure is a good choice for universal screening and progress monitoring (including secondary).
What is because it is normed so we can rank, compare, and see if gap is closing; .91 correlation with RC; quick & easy; accurately identifies students at risk for reading failure.
The school that sits on a hill (donated by its namesake) that must be used for a playground or school?
What is Crosby?
Information that must be contained in the Open Meeting Law notice. (4 components accepted)
What is meeting notices must be posted in a legible, easily understandable format; contain the date, time, and place of the meeting; and list all topics that the chair reasonably anticipates, 48 hours in advance, will be discussed at the meeting and he list of topics must be sufficiently specific to reasonably inform the public of the issues to be discussed at the meeting?
School Council parent/guardian participants are selected in this way.
What is by the parent/guardians of students attending the school, in elections at the PTO?
It is the collective responsibility of this team to ensure academic excellence for all learners.
What is the Curriculum Selection and Review Team?
True/False
Reading research findings are a pendulum that swings.
What is false?
The number of school houses in Pittsfield in 1876.
What is the membership of pupils in the forty-one schools was 2,126 and there were twenty-five schoolhouses owned by the town?