2020-2021 GO Team Archive

 2020-2021 Morningside Elementary GO Team Information

All GO Team meetings will be live streamed and available at this location:

https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary

Please scroll down the page for:

Any Meeting Notices

GO Team Members

Meeting Schedule

Public Comment Format

Meeting Documents

Morningside GO Team Norms

Strategic Plan

Advisory Committee Meeting Schedule

 

  GO Team Members

Name	Officer	Role	Email Address
Audrey Sofianos		Principal	audrey.sofianos@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Randy Fink		Parent	randy.fink@gmail.com
Lisa Olmsted	Chair  Cluster Representative	Parent	lolmsted@hotmail.com
Shannon Thibodeau	Chair, Family Engagement Advisory Committee	Parent	sc.thib@gmail.com
Marva Nelson	Vice-Chair	Staff	mnnelson@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Lynn Slater	Secretary	Staff	Lynn.Slater@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Wendy Westwood		Staff	gwestwood@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Max Weiss		Community Member	max.aaron.korn@gmail.com
Barbara Crum		Community Member	Barbara.Crum@perkinswill.com
Yolanda Foreman		Swing Seat	yolanda4man@gmail.com

 Meeting Schedule

Date	Location	Time	Time Allotted for Public Comment (Yes or No)
9/21/20	https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary	5PM	No
11/10/20	https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary	5PM	Yes
12/8/20	https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary	5PM	Yes
1/19/21	https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary	5PM	Yes
2/9/21	https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary	5PM	Yes
3/1/21	https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary	5 PM	Yes
3/9/21	https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary	5PM	Yes
4/13/21	https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary	5PM	Yes
5/11/21	https://www.facebook.com/MorningsideElementary	5PM	Yes

 Public Comment 

 ALL GO TEAM MEETINGS ARE OPEN FOR PUBLIC ATTENDANCE AND COMMENT UNLESS SPECIFICALLY INDICATED OTHERWISE IN THE AGENDA. Pursuant to GO Team rules, opportunities for public comment shall be provided at least four (4) times in a school/fiscal year and noted on the meeting agenda.  Public comment opportunities are available for GO Teams to hear from interested members of the community. GO Team members will not provide responses or engage in direct conversation during meetings. Each GO Team may determine a consistent method for receiving public comments and for parents and other citizens to sign up to address the team, provided that the team offer at least 20 minutes of time to the public to make comments, when available, and that the public receive at least 2 business days’ notice of the protocol for signing up to speak. 

The Morningside Elementary School (“MES”) GO Team hereby provides notice of its Public Comment protocol to the MES Community. The MES GO Team welcomes and encourages citizens to attend its meetings to become better acquainted with the programs of MES and the role of the GO Team. Unless otherwise provided by law, the GO Team meetings are open to the public. Citizens are welcome to attend the meetings but must refrain from interrupting or distracting the GO Team proceedings. For those people wishing to provide comment, designated time periods for public comment are identified on each agenda. Public comment is planned as an official agenda item of every regular meeting of the Morningside GO Team.  Please refer to each published agenda to confirm the time periods, but it is anticipated that there will be two 10-minute time periods during each meeting for the public to offer comment. The first period is scheduled for the first ten minutes of the meeting and the second period is scheduled for the final 10 minutes of the meeting.

For in-person meetings, a sign-up sheet will be available at the door and must be used by any person who wishes to speak during the public comment period.

For virtual meetings, please sign up no later than 30 minutes prior to the meeting start by clicking on this link https://forms.gle/874mUQLsoAT7fHri8                            

Each member of the public will have two (2) minutes to speak. At the close of the two (2) minute period, the speaker will be asked to take their seat so that others identified on the sign-in sheet can be provided with an opportunity to speak. The public comment period is designed to gain input from the public. It is not for immediate responses by the GO Team to the public comment presented. At the end of each public comment period, the period will be closed and the GO Team will move on to the next agenda item. If there are questions or information that you have for the GO Team, you may also contact one or more of the GO Team members before or after the meetings.

 

Meeting Documents

 

Meeting Date	Agenda	Meeting Summary or Draft Minutes	Approved Meeting Minutes	Documents Presented at Meeting
9/21/20	Agenda	9-21-20 Meeting Summary	May 18,2020 Approved Minutes	20-21 Strategic Plan
11/10/20	Agenda #2	11-10-20Summary	Approved Minutes 9-21-20	Data Review Oct. 2020
12-8-20	Agenda 3	12-8-20MeetingSummary	11-10-20ApprovedMinutes	MIssionVisionReview12-8-2020  Principal Report 12-8-20
1-5-21	Work Session #1 Agenda		WORK SESSION	WORK SESSION
1-19-21	Agenda 4	Meeting Summary	12-8-20 Approved Minutes	Strategic Priorities Rev Draft
2-9-21	Agenda 5	Meeting Summary	1-19-21 Approved Minutes	MES Initial Budget Presentation
3-1-21	Agenda 6	Meeting Summary	2-9-21 Approved Minutes	Family Engagement Committee BudgetPresentationMar1st
3-9-21	Agenda 7	Meeting Summary	3-1-21 Approved Minutes	Final Budget FY22
4-13-21	Agenda 8	Meeting Summary	3-9-21 Approved Minutes	Principal Report April 2021  Inman Building Listening Session APS Presentation
5-11-21	Agenda 9	Meeting Recording Meeting Summary	4-13-21 Approved Minutes	Data Review May 2021  Family Engagement Committee Report

 

Morningside GO Team Norms

At each GO Team Meeting, only members of the team may participate in the discussion.  Any members of the public present are here to quietly observe.

We will be fully present.

We will follow the agenda as noticed to the public and stay on task.

We will be respectful of each other at all times.We will be open-minded.

We invite and welcome contributions of every member and listen to each other.

We will respect all ideas and assume good intentions.

We will approach differences of opinion with curiosity.

 

Strategic Plan

 

 MES Strategic Plan

 

Go Team Role + Responsibilities

Go Team Role + Responsibilities 

 

Cluster Advisory Committee Meeting Schedule

See specific meeting information, including location plus minutes for previous meetings, at the link below:

 Link to Information on Grady Cluster Advisory Meetings

 

Committee Name	Date	Time
Grady Cluster Advisory	11/19/2020	4:30 - 6:30PM
Grady Cluster Advisory	12/10/2020	4:30PM
Grady Cluster Advisory	2/11/2021	4:30PM
Grady Cluster Advisory	3/18/2021	4:30PM

 

Family Engagement Advisory Committee 

Committee Chair: Shannon Thibodeau.

Committee Members: Fabricio Moraes, Jim Pursley, Caroline Wainright

Meeting #1 - Wednesday, January 13 -- 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. (Link to Recording)

Topic: Review and discuss MES Strategic Priorities (Link to Agenda)

Meeting #2 - Monday, February 22 -- 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. (Link to Recording)

Topic: Review MES  Budget Presentation from 2/9/21 Go Team Meeting (Link to Agenda)

Meeting #3 - Wednesday, April 21 -- 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. (Link to Recording)

Topic: Review APS Presentation about the Future Use of the Inman Building (Link to Agenda)

Meeting will take place via zoom.  MES families and community welcome and encouraged to attend.  

Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/6399515323?pwd=RzRhYU1peGRoWWpBQWdxUTBpUCtKUT09

Meeting ID: 639 951 5323
Passcode: science

 

 

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