County wide SIPT meeting

Nov. 29- 3:00-5:15- 2 hours and 15 mins

Rowan counties Title I coordinator Alesia Burnette set up a meeting for SIPT teams to meet and listen to a SIPT "guru." She was a teacher and a principal and now she does presentations at schools and is a consultant for struggling schools.

She discussed a lot with us what SIPT (SIT) teams should be doing, who should be on them, that they should have the best interests of the students at all times, and that every decision or discussion should be because it directly effects students.

She discussed with us what cooperative learning should look like, and if we have ISS then there should be a teacher or counselor working with those students. She should us a "map" of all the pathways that make up people (physical, emotional, psychological, etc). If one pathway is not "working" then none of them will.

One of the most important things that I think she discussed with us that there should be assigned members (chairperson, time keeper, agenda writer) and an agenda every time with the topic, the person, the time and the action that is needed. This is something that our SIPT team does not do well at all and I really think that we need to start implementing it.

I thought the meeting was very eye opening and important. It was beneficial for me to go to this meeting.