Hillsdale High School Site Council October 16, 2006 Agenda

Administrative Business: Items	Tasks	Who is leading	Time
Passporting	What is the school policy and process around passporting students out of core house classes? How is the policy/process different for Special Ed students?	Jeff

Prof. Development/ Curriculum	Tasks	Who is leading	Time
American Ex	Determine the relative autonomy that each house has in designing and implementing American Ex.	Jeff

Norms:

• Assume positive intent
• Make sure all voices are heard
• Respect time
• Rotate Role of Secretary
• End each meeting with a meeting wrap up and clarify decisions, next agenda items, and to-dos
• Use consensus as a decision-making model

Passporting:

1. Do we have philosophical disagreements, or are they process issues?
2. What is the understood process for passporting a student and what criteria is used?

Hillsdale students are assigned to core academic classes in their respective SLC house. Students will not be passported out of house classes except in extremely rare cases.
Students will not be passported because of:

• Parent request
• Personality
• Teacher style or reputation
• Size of class
• …

In order for a student to be passported, the following criteria must be met:

• The move is necessary to meet the student’s academic needs
• No other reasonable option is available
• ____, _______, ________, must agree to the move
• …

The process for passporting Special Ed students also includes:

• ….

American Ex:
What is a school-wide assignment?
What criteria do we use to decide if an assignment is completed in all houses?
If an assignment is schoolwide, what autonomy does a house have to alter the assignment?
Look at the different American Ex proposals for 2006-07. How should the teachers proceed?