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=**DREAM Team- Decision and Response Evolving Around our Mission**=

Utilizing the principles of shared decision-making, the **DREAM Team** at Heritage Heights serves as our schools building leadership team. The DREAM Team is comprised of members from all the stakeholder groups that make up our school community. It meets monthly to help to coordinate and communicate activities and initiatives leading our school toward its mission and vision. Assuming important responsibilities of instructional leadership, The DREAM Team provides support and direction for the school’s efforts to improve instruction and learning for every learner. Its members work with our school community to examine student achievement information, set goals and develop a focus for professional learning. They support school-wide initiatives and develop support structures to help teachers apply what they learn while assisting parents in understanding their role and gaining their support. With a focus on continuous improvement the DREAM Team assess our progress toward our building-wide goals and our effort to improve instruction and learning throughout the school.

The DREAM teams responsibilities include:
 * Modeling the characteristics of a professional learning community
 * Supporting and facilitating (as needed) the collaborative efforts of our smaller grade level teams.
 * Reviewing assessment data and identify strengths and needs in our instructional program.
 * Mapping professional development activities for the year.
 * Exploring factors that influence student achievement and help us achieve our mission.

We are committed to operating by the following group norms and principles:
 * Everyone in the group is valuable and we will respect others ideas.
 * Practice good communication and listening- “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
 * We will be purposeful in our work by always having an agenda for each meeting and work diligently to follow it.
 * We do what we do for the good of our students and school community.
 * Our decision-making needs to be transparent and understood by all members of our school community.

2015-16 DREAM Team Membership/ Stakeholder Group Representing

 * Amy Cress: Interventionists-Consultant Teachers/ ESL/ Counseling/ Speech/ School Psychologist
 * Darcy Spengler: At-Large- Interventionists-Consultant Teachers/ ESL/ Counseling/ Speech/ School Psychologist
 * Tracy Langlotz- Special Area Teachers
 * Marilou Nesteruk- K- Grade 1
 * Susan Stephens: Grades 2-3
 * Margaret McDonald: At-Large Teacher
 * Jennifer Battel: Grades 4-5 (Co-Facilitator)
 * Morgan Chase: Primary Literacy Coach
 * Heather Reichmuth: Intermediate Literacy Coach
 * Frank LiCausi: Math Coach K-5
 * Chris Lycett: Support Staff
 * Parent: Amy Battaglia
 * Scott Wolf: Administration (Co-Facilitator)

DREAM Team Meeting Notes

 * ===[[file:DREAM Team Meeting Summary 8.5.15.pdf|August 5, 2015]]===
 * ===September 16, 2015===
 * ===October 14, 2015===
 * ===November 18, 2015===
 * ===December 9. 2015===
 * ===January 13, 2016===
 * ===[[file:DREAM Team Meeting Summary Feb 10 2016 .pdf|February 10, 2016]]===
 * ===March 9. 2016===
 * ===April 13, 2016===
 * ===[[file:DREAM TEAM Meeting Summary May 11 2016.pdf|May, 11, 2016]]===
 * ===June 8, 2016===

__Future Meetings__
August 3, 2016 from 12-2 pm (voluntary summer meeting)