Agenda of Coalition for Glen Cove meetingNovember 8th, 2004, 7:30 PM at St. Paul’s Episcopal Churchcoalitiongc.org Michael Griffin, Glen Cove School District Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction, and Grants, will be the guest speaker at the November Coalition for Glen Cove meeting on Monday, November 8th, at 7:30PM at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 28 Highland Road in Glen Cove. Dr. Griffin’s talk, Investing in the Schools and the Community, will discuss the opportunities and problems created by this year’s austerity school budget. Glen Cove teachers and administrators are discussing revising the existing middle school computer literacy curriculum, more chances for high school students to accelerate their studies, more chances for minority students to take advanced courses, increased student-to-student peer mediation, and exploring the possibility of moving the fifth grade from the middle school to Landing and Connolly schools. The new $800 000 per year Federal Twenty-First Century Grant, shared by the school district, the Glen Cove Interagency Council, La Fuerza Unida, the Glen Cove Youth Board; the Glen Cove Citizens Committee Against Substance Abuse, and the Boys and Girls Club, will let the schools provide extra help classes after school, on weekends, and in the summer. Dr. Griffin, who has a Doctor of Education degree in Administration from Teachers College of Columbia University, has taught English in Rochester, NY, has administered technology and instructional services for Eastern Suffolk BOCES, and has been superintendent of schools in East Islip. |