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Russell: So.

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Leach, Sonji B: Good evening. I am waiting on Miss

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Leach, Sonji B: Goodwin to join the chair, so I'm hoping that she's going to join soon.

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Leach, Sonji B: so we can get started, and she can facilitate the meeting

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Leach, Sonji B: if everyone would. If you would please, put your name in the chat so that we'll have a record of everyone who is in who just joined by the iphone.

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Leach, Sonji B: Hang there for me.

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Leach, Sonji B: hey? Come on, yeah, they're on. Everybody else is on zoom. So yeah, come on. We could. No, it's in person, but

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Leach, Sonji B: no.

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Leach, Sonji B: okay. Miss Goodwin is here, so we will get started, and here is the agenda, and I can pull the agenda. Does everyone have the agenda, or do I need to pull it up real quick?

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Leach, Sonji B: Alright, so we'll get started? I will let

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Leach, Sonji B: Yeah. Would you send them in here?

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Leach, Sonji B: All right, so we'll get started, and I will let Miss Goodwin take over. All right. We're going to call the meeting to order. We're going to welcome any visitors new members coming in. I'm Charlene Goodwin. I am the sic chair, and if everyone would just please introduce themselves.

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Russell: Teacher, oh, Lord, Jr.

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Gilbert, Catia S: Katia Gilbert, parent of a junior.

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Gilbert, Catia S: Jane and Gilbert.

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Shakia Allen: Everyone.

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Shakia Allen: Ikia Allen, the mother of a freshman and a senior.

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Kelvin Simmons: Kelvin Simmons, behavior management specialist.

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0806barbara: Barbara Holmes apparently is on mother of a junior.

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LaTanya: Latonya Floyd.

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LaTanya: grandmother of Taylor. Eugene.

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LaTanya: How did it go

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LaTanya: alright.

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Leach, Sonji B: We have Miss Lawton, who just walked in as well our co-chair?

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Leach, Sonji B: Okay, if that's all the introductions, don't forget. If you just joined, if you would please, type your name in the chat, but we also like, I said, if you didn't get opportunity, you can also give us your name, so we can have it recorded as well. Thank you for everyone being here. And again, we're going to let Miss Goodwin continue.

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Leach, Sonji B: Okay, I don't think so, Miss Bowles? Are you on here to take to record via secretary and record? If not, can we get someone to take notes and and send them to

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Leach, Sonji B: Send them to myself and Miss Goodwin, please.

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Leach, Sonji B: Okay, Karen Williams is here. Okay.

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Leach, Sonji B: Good afternoon, Miss Williams.

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Leach, Sonji B: Alright. Alright. We could do nomination to approve an agenda for tonight.

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Leach, Sonji B: We have anyone for nomination to approve the agenda for today.

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Leach, Sonji B: Can we get someone to approve the agenda.

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Shakia Allen: Shaki Island. I make a motion that we accept the agenda as provided.

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Leach, Sonji B: Thank you. Ms. Allen.

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Leach, Sonji B: Can we get a second.

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Mrs. Roberts: Second, Angela Roberts.

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Leach, Sonji B: Thank you. Ms. Roberts.

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Leach, Sonji B: Alright the

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Leach, Sonji B: You want to talk about the old business yet, or do we want to waste from the last meet. When we had the fence issue with the fence, we wanted to find out if it had been fixed. So we had from from our last meeting. The old business was the fence needed to be fixed. We were supposed to hear back from facilities, so I wanted to know if have we heard anything back

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Leach, Sonji B: about success. Yes, ma'am, we met with

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Leach, Sonji B: Q on last week, and he came out, met with us. He was not aware, he thought that there was another area that we were talking about, so evidently they did not have that on their radar, so we walked out there showed it to him, and yes, it is now on the the agenda to be

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Leach, Sonji B: fixed.

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Leach, Sonji B: Thank you, ma'am.

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Leach, Sonji B: All right. Next we'll have the principals report

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Leach, Sonji B: right?

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Leach, Sonji B: So our 2 focuses that we're working on with teachers is we're working on lesson planning, trying to get our lesson plans down to an art and engaging strategies within our lesson plans. I had a meeting with the principal's ambassadors and went around. They were like 25 or so students in there, and I talked to them

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Leach, Sonji B: about the instruction

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Leach, Sonji B: and

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Leach, Sonji B: they hold on 1 min.

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Leach, Sonji B: and they shared their thoughts about how they learn best. And so I will be sharing that data with teachers. But again, our instructional delivery is one of our main points, and working on lesson planning to ensure that the lessons are aligned with the objectives and making sure that teachers are integrating stem as well by using engaging stem strategies. Also, we will have one of our

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Leach, Sonji B: What is she called interventionist. We have a reading interventionist and a math interventionist who will be working with our students. The reading intervention started this week. They'll be here on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All day they will be pulling our students and working with them on their reading and math

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Leach, Sonji B: strategies to help them improve, not only so that they can perform well on assessments, but so that they also can perform well in class. But we're the main thing is also to help them with their basic skills to improve when they take the act, sat as habit in the course.

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Leach, Sonji B: we do have an athletic report. Let me go to that Miss

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Leach, Sonji B: Sullivan sent that

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Leach, Sonji B: all right. The athletic update is that

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Leach, Sonji B: Hold on, it's coming up

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Leach, Sonji B: all right. Our athletic Update fall sports update.

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Leach, Sonji B: Alani Crawford broke the school record at our region meet on October 30th

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Leach, Sonji B: The boys and girls of the Cross country team will now compete. On November, Saturday, November 16, th at Fort Jackson, in Columbia, South Carolina, for the qualifying meet for Senate. We hope to have some runners at the State meet on November 20 second football. The overall record so far, is 4 and 5. We are 2 and 2 in the region, making us 3rd place overall in the region we are in the playoffs, and we'll be hosting the 1st round versus Kings Tree High School on November 15, th at 7

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Leach, Sonji B: Ivion Watson was named region 5 Co. Offensive lineman of the year. Tony Broxton was named Region 5

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Leach, Sonji B: defensive lineman of the year.

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Leach, Sonji B: Our volleyball Sophomore, Samaya Lee, has been selected to the South Carolina Coaches Association of Women's Sports, all State volleyball team. She will be honored at the North South. All-star volleyball game on November 23, rd at Brooklyn Casey High School.

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Leach, Sonji B: Please follow our Whale branch athletics on social media, Facebook, whale branch, early college, high school, athletics and Instagram at whale, branch warrior athletics, winter sports update basketball tryouts are over and we officially begin practice. Boys and girls. Wrestling is in full swing. Our winter sports schedule will be released soon. We are finalizing some dates, and hope to get them out within next week.

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Leach, Sonji B: The Earl Campbell, Thanksgiving basketball tournament is on November 23, rd 25, th and 26th and our warrior letterman jackets are available to order online. Now go to hjjackets.com to order online all sophomores, juniors and seniors at well, branch can and should order a letterman, jacket, order, warrior gear online at Bsn sideline store. You can find the link on our website or social media pages

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Leach, Sonji B: that concludes,

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Leach, Sonji B: my principal report with our focus for instruction, our update on our students receiving intervention, additional support for math and reading, and my athletic report

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Leach, Sonji B: also. Yes, we will have our State ring ceremony for our track team. That will be held during halftime at our Friday night's game. Thank you, Mr. Simmons.

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Leach, Sonji B: Okay. Next we'll have we just need to have the overview

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Leach, Sonji B: from Miss Holmes, the title one overview she's on, she is. Go ahead, Ms. Holmes.

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0806barbara: Okay, Budget report, did you want to share something about the budget?

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0806barbara: It did not change from the last report that was given.

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Leach, Sonji B: I'll go over when you finish with anything else. I'll go over that.

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0806barbara: So that's the same in the Parents resource center.

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0806barbara: Like I said, the last time we've received 2

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0806barbara: desktop still waiting for the district to come and put the drop in so we can

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0806barbara: so they can install the desktop.

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0806barbara: and that's about it.

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Leach, Sonji B: Did they give you a timeline on getting the shelves out.

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0806barbara: No, Mr. Quinney came in, and he said he did not even know about it.

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0806barbara: needing to be removed.

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0806barbara: So

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0806barbara: I haven't heard any more since then.

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0806barbara: So that's where we are right now.

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Leach, Sonji B: Okay.

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Leach, Sonji B: thank you. The only thing I want to add to the title. One overview budget report is that our school has been awarded an additional $55,000 that I will be working with Miss Rivers to. Possibly one of the things we're looking at doing is we want to purchase

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Leach, Sonji B: a some sort of tool to do that will give, do a diagnostic. We do know that reading Plus will do a diagnostic for our students to determine what reading level they're on. And we also want to find a tool because math nation is not. We don't have all components of math nation. But we want to find a math

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Leach, Sonji B: tool that we can give all of our students an assessment to determine what level they're on and what their strengths and weaknesses are. So we're looking at doing a whole school reading, assessment and a whole school math assessment to determine where our students are, so that our interventionist will have a some data to know what students to pull, so that they will have students that they're working with on Tuesdays and Thursdays when they come to the school

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Leach, Sonji B: at this time. Parents. If you have any input

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Leach, Sonji B: on what you'd like to see done with title, I funds. If you would. You can put it in the chat you can share openly, you can vocally share. And then also you're always welcome to email Miss Goodwin or myself. And you can. Also, we have a survey that we keep open at all times on our website that you can put information in that as well. So does anyone have any suggestions or any ideas

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Leach, Sonji B: of some things they'd like to see done. And again, for title I funds. It's very specific in what it can be used, for it has to be used for things that help the students improve their academic performance.

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Leach, Sonji B: Okay, I'll turn it back over to Ms. Goodwin

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Leach, Sonji B: alrighty. So next. We are going to have

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Leach, Sonji B: Once I discuss our upcoming events. We have coming up.

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Leach, Sonji B: Looks like we do have Thanksgiving dinner, November 14, th and that is for you to be able to come. Eat lunch with your children here at the school, and the time for that is

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Leach, Sonji B: the time lunch starts at 10, pretty much 1050, or 11 to about 1245.

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Leach, Sonji B: We also have a food distribution, November 20 second, and that is from is that 10 to 12,

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Leach, Sonji B: Miss Holmes, what time is the distribution? On the 20 second.

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0806barbara: 10 to 12.

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Leach, Sonji B: In the 12. Okay?

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Leach, Sonji B: And then we have the honor roll. Perfect attendance program. December the 20, th that is, from 9 to 10, and all parents are invited to be able to attend that as well.

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Leach, Sonji B: Next, we have the Med Tech 7 program overview.

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Leach, Sonji B: And this doctor, I'm sorry, Dr. Brantley. I think she's changed it from doctor doctor to Dr. Brantley. I didn't know who in the world they were referring to when they kept saying Brantley, in my meeting, I was like, oh, is that her? But anyway, so congratulations to Miss Lakeisha, doctor, for receiving her doctorate, and she's in here, and she will now give us our medtech 7 program overview.

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Leach, Sonji B: So right now, we are currently working on integrating

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Leach, Sonji B: the medtech, 7 curriculum across all curriculums. We had our meeting today with all the teachers. We also at every

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Leach, Sonji B: program that we have in terms of a community event. We do incorporate some type of stem

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Leach, Sonji B: event or program

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Leach, Sonji B: activity in that as well. So right now, the next step is for us to try to get students involvement and the

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Leach, Sonji B: process as well. But we're currently also working on stem certification, working on making sure all teachers will have their stem certifications as well.

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Leach, Sonji B: And that's it for me.

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Leach, Sonji B: okay? And we do have several teachers who are there's a class that they're working on their certification. So we're we had had quite a few teachers who were doing that. And that's, you know, a wonderful thing.

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Leach, Sonji B: Alright. So now it leads us to any question comments or concerns from anyone. That they want to comment on at this point in our meeting.

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Leach, Sonji B: If there is anything any parent who's currently on have any input from your students of anything that they would like to see different or done here at the school. Please share at this time. Or again, you can always email Miss Goodwin or myself.

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Leach, Sonji B: Okay? Well, if we don't have any questions, comments, or concerns, do you have anything?

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Leach, Sonji B: If they got anything they want on the agenda for next.

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Mrs. Roberts: I was gonna bring up something that my son, my oldest son that's alumni of the school he was bringing up to me this evening, but he had another meeting at 5 30, so he was gonna try to get on the zoom. But he was brought up the fact of if we could get something together where alumni that came that went through the echo program

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Mrs. Roberts: and.

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Leach, Sonji B: That's what program Ms. Roberts.

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Mrs. Roberts: The echo program. Early college.

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Mrs. Roberts: great opportunity.

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Leach, Sonji B: Okay. Gotcha.

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Mrs. Roberts: The echo program if they can come back and do a panel during winter winter, break to talk to the juniors and seniors.

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Mrs. Roberts: And I think he was looking at trying to organize some alumni. But I told him, you know, to kind of check with you all 1st to see if that's something that you all would be interested in, and how we could get that set up for them to come back and do that.

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Leach, Sonji B: That would be great.

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Leach, Sonji B: yes, please, yeah. Have him to to to send me an email, so we can get something set up.

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Mrs. Roberts: Will do.

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Leach, Sonji B: Thank you.

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Leach, Sonji B: Now, is there anything anyone would like to add to our agenda for next month? Anything? If you think of anything, please make sure you reach out to Dr. Leach or myself, so we can add it to the agenda. I'm going to be in charge of the agenda next month. So please reach out to us and let us know. But is there anyone that wants to add anything to our agenda that we need to discuss

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Leach, Sonji B: at this time.

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Leach, Sonji B: Next meeting is

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Leach, Sonji B: December 17.th Yes, and we can send out a list of those dates. I don't think we sent out a list of the dates yet, and so that is something that we'll do. I'll make sure we send out a list of the dates, so everyone will have a list of all the meetings, upcoming meetings that we have. Okay? So we will do that.

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Leach, Sonji B: I want to know. So can I try to do anything I can?

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Leach, Sonji B: Let me make sure I don't have anything else in here.

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Leach, Sonji B: so I can try to prove.

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Leach, Sonji B: What exactly are we trying to improve at the moment? I want to know, so I can try to do anything I can.

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Leach, Sonji B: we're just. We're right now. We're working on, of course, facilities. And we're getting there with that. And we're just trying to find ways to make sure that our instructional strategies are meeting the needs of our students different learning styles. So we are very fortunate again to not only have 2 instructional coaches, but

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Leach, Sonji B: soon we'll also have 2 additional staff members who will be working with our kids, actually pulling our students, some students who I would like them to work with any student who is on a grade of 3rd

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Leach, Sonji B: a 5th grade reading level or below, and we do have quite a few students who fall in that category. And so they will be pulling those students and working with them to help them improve their reading levels and their math math levels math skills so that they can perform better in class in their classes, on their assessments, and which will hopefully in turn help them to pass their classes. They're in the course test and

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Leach, Sonji B: and everything that they're working on so that they can graduate on time. So

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Leach, Sonji B: that's the biggest thing that we're working to improve right now is helping our students get on level. We also are working to try to make sure that as many of our students as possible who come to 9th grade together, that they graduate together.

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Leach, Sonji B: which is where we get our graduate from. So we we try to get as many of our students, college and career ready, which we're grateful that Miss Doctor is doing a great job with helping us to improve that percentage as well.

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Leach, Sonji B: During the Earl Campbell tournament. We need info to join sic and get more parents involved. Also provide title, I info. Yes, and, miss, we will be at the basketball games. We will be using those for parents to have some meetings with our counselors, because

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Leach, Sonji B: parents going through the Igp meetings is very important, but we do know that some parents, it is very difficult for them to come during the day, for those meetings, so counselors will be set up during some of our games to meet with our parents during games.

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Leach, Sonji B: Yes, ma'am, Miss Ashlyn, I'll see you tomorrow.

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Leach, Sonji B: Any other questions.

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Leach, Sonji B: Alrighty. All right. Well, that concludes our meeting today. We are going to adjourn for today, and if anyone has any concerns, questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Dr. Leach or myself.

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Leach, Sonji B: Thank you all so much for for being a part. Don't forget to please make sure you put your name in the chat if you didn't get an opportunity. Please do that before you. You log off. Thank you for your time in attending our sic meeting.

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Leach, Sonji B: and we'll see you on the 17.th