Call to Order: Meeting called to order by Sue Larson at 6:32 PM.

Budget: $656 expended for WASC support.
$1850 expended under Technology Support.
$526 expended under Staff Development for a math teacher attending a Mathematics Workshop.
$6500 under Staff Development encumbered for attendance of 32 staff to ASCD conferences in the upcoming spring and fall.

Communications:

General School Activities:

Sports: Fall sports season is ending. Winter sports are beginning.

Drama: Mort and Just A High School Play were presented in the Small Gym. Another play, The Importance of Being Ernest, is coming up in late January/early February. Upcoming spring musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Trying will also be presented in the Small Gym.

Music: Winter Concert will be held this Saturday, November 14. Band received awards for first place band, first place drum major, and second place color guard in the San Jose Veteran's Day Parade.

Speech/Debate: Last Saturday Fremont hosted its first Speech and Debate Tournament in 5 years. Five hundred students attended. Our own team is rebuilding, with 5 members placing in the 1st Ð 6th place range.

Assemblies: Today a live theatre group presented a play, The Other Side of the Closet, in the Big Gym. The play involves discrimination and homophobia as it occurs in the high school environment and how teens deal with it. A Focus group investigated and invited the group to Fremont. Teachers signed up on a first-come, first-serve basis. The house was packed.

Action Items:

A. Newspaper Funding
1. Request for funding to pay for a color issue (approx. cost: $1000) approved.

B. GATE Funding Requests
1. "Practical Strategies & Classroom Techniques For Gifted & Highly Capable Students: A Differentiated Approach" by Dr. Roger Taylor (approx. cost: $924 for 3 staff members to attend seminar) approved.

Discussion Items:

A. Proposed New Courses:

- New district-wide courses proposed to go to the board for approval.
- These include AP Economics-Macroeconomics, a course on principles of economics as applied to economics as a whole, Chamber Orchestra, for advanced music students looking to improve, Environmental Science, the course to follow freshmen entry course Biology, Money and Banking, a course focused on markets and finance, Principals of Business, a course for students who plan to pursue business interests during and after college, and Bilingual Tutor, to offer credits to students who would tutor other ELD students.

B. Modernization:

- Big Gym renovations are complete, including replaced lighting, new fire alarms, new doors, new mechanical bleachers, and a new sound system, with new bathrooms to be added in the summer.
- The music building was dedicated with a good turn out the night of the last SSC meeting.
- The library now has a roof and they are putting in wiring and ducts.
- Landscaping to begin at the end of the school year.

C. WASC Accreditation:

- The self evaluation of Fremont, the 1st chapter of the WASC report, explaining what the school believes it is in terms of demographics, test results, etc., has been received, and the school will be receiving feed back.
- Five more chapters of the report are to be written.
- Chapter 2 will explain how the vision statement and ESLRS were created.
- Chapter 3 involves where we are going as a school.
- Chapter 4 includes reports that have already been written by the self-selected focus groups of staff members, each addressing an aspect and certain criteria of what the staff and school does well, with evidence, and what they donÕt do well. The reports are peer-reviewed and peer-edited and feedback is now being requested from students and community members to help in the final editing phase.
- Chapter 5 involves the Action Plan. What the school needs to do and why.

Adjournment: Meeting adjourned at 7:20 PM.