Washington School

School Site Council

Meeting 1

Monday October 27, 2025

Via Google Meets

1. Attendance

1. Jeffrey Haines - Principal

2. Diane Cahill-Zdon - Teacher, SSC Member

3. Kelly Tierney - Teacher, SSC Member

4. Sara Buczynski - Teacher, SSC Member

5. Laura Katz - Note Taker

2. QIP - Year 2

1. More work with culturally responsive teaching. Some of this is done by the SEL team and ILT teams who will be looking at data. We invited people to be part of those teams. The first ILT meeting occurred today. The first SEL meeting is Wednesday. A big part of this work is looking at HALS data. Mr. Haines appreciates those that were able to participate. He’s looking to include more parents in the school and the ways they can accomplish this. This will be discussed on Wednesday at the SEL meeting.

2. HALS data

1. School culture is trending back up and how we scored in regards to treating students from other countries with respect is also trending up according to the data.

3. Collaboration

1. PD days have been spent on ARC training, PDs for specialists through their perspective groups,  MLL teachers meet monthly.

2. HALS data regarding this ebbs and flows. It is trending up again. 

4. Walk-Throughs/Peer Observations

1. Jeff, Diane and Cate will be talking with Fatima regarding this process. The union has concerns that people may feel forced to do this and Mr. Haines wants to make sure that everyone knows it is voluntary and non-evaluative.

5. TCI and TAT Process

1. Continuing this process in X2

6. Data Review

1. Looking at this during CPTs. Will be looking at DESSA data soon for social emotion support. Will continue to use EDCAT data. 

7. Goal 5

1. Will be further embedding Second Step. The district is moving away from Second Step. Our school is looking to continue to use this, but some staff are using other social emotional learning tools (Wayfinder or Zones of Regulation).

2. Our social worker is making calls for attendance. Jeff, Krista and the district will be meeting regarding attendance in November. 

8. Any Questions

1. There were no questions. The meeting was adjourned.

School Site Council

Meeting #3

6/12/25 8:30pm

1. Attendance

1. Jeff Haines - Principal

2. Laura Katz - Teacher

3. Sara Buczynski - Teacher

4. Shannon DeChiara - Teacher

5. Marcie Comtois - Teacher

6. Diane Cahill-Zdon - Teacher

7. Sreang Heng - Parent

8. Mary Luz Benitez - Parent

2. Budget - School Committee

1. Voted to reinstate the $2 million to school. 

2. We will keep all four mainstream paras. We are still reducing a tutor position, going 4 tutors to 3 tutors. 

1. We are all in agreement to keeping the para and dropping the tutor.

3. I-Ready Data

1. Lots of growth in ELA and Math. We will probably opt to take the test again in May instead of opting out like we did this year.

2. Mr. Haines thinks ST Math and classroom interventions are responsible for these gains. 

4. Focuses

1. The coming year will be maintaining Letterland for phonics and the new ARC curriculum. 

2. MLL teachers went from 3 to 4 teachers and they had 

3. CLSP - We made two teams. One formed multicultural night and it was a huge hit

4. SEL - we had PD for trauma based instruction

5. Attendance - moved in the right direction by 2/10th of a point

5. Questions

1. No questions were asked at this time.