2022-2023 Minutes and Agendas

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School Community Council Minutes

Wednesday, October 5, 2o22

Media Center

4:00 p.m.

In Attendance: Marisa Herd, Chad Hawkes, Jullie Payne, Alex Fife, Sasha Beorchia, McKay Wilson 

Absent: Chantel Labrum, Katie Weber

-Sasha Beorchia called the meeting to order. Chad Hawkes seconded the motion. 

-Sasha nominated Alex Fife for the position of chair. McKay Wilson nominated himself for vice-chair. Sasha Beorchia approved the motion, Alex Fife seconded the motion. 

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February 1, 2023 *March 8, 2023 *April 12, 2023 May 3, 2023 * Date on the second Wednesday of the month

III. Adjournment- Alex Fife motioned to adjourn, and Chad Hawkes seconded the motion. 

Note:  Approving of Rules of Order and Procedures was conducted through a survey and approved by all council members on 10/18/2022.  

Next Meeting: Wednesday,November 2, 2022 at 4:00 pm

Welcome

School Council Members 2022-23

Notification of SCC Election Results to School Community

Contact Information for School Website 

Review Meeting Schedule

New Business

Purpose of School Community Councils- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88dw5vN_pXg&t=117s

Jullie encouraged us all to watch the video from the state about SCC councils. The state provides us funds to use to meet goals. We have $62,913 from our School Land Trust Plan, and $76,543 for our TSSA Plan. 

SCC Handbook  

All newcomers were given their SCC handbook.- Chad will get his from Charity, an employee that just ended her term on the SCC. 

Order of Business Procedures

Everyone was given a chance to look over the North Park Elementary School Community Council Rules of Order and Procedure. We will discuss next month if we want to change or add anything. 

Update on School LAND Trust Spending Plan

Jullie discussed our goals for our School Land Trust plan. Goal #1  is that we will “increase students on benchmark by 4% between BOY and EOY in the 2022-2023 school year”. Jullie showed us the data from acadience from the last several years to show why our goal was a 4% increase. We also compared North Park’s data from last year with the district as a whole last year. $30,300 will be used to pay for paraeducators to teach reading intervention groups. $1,080 will be used to purchase Reading Counts student subscriptions. 

Our 6th grade goal is to “increase the number of students proficient to 85% of the 6th grade students demonstrating they are comprehending text at grade level proficiency by the 2022-2023 EOY assessment based on the HMH Growth Measure”.  Acadience is used for the younger students to help focus on fluency, whereas HMH Growth Measure is used for the 6th grade students to give us more data on comprehension. $15,604 will be used to pay paraeducators will provide math support. $15,929 will be used to purchase technology for students to utilize online math instruction. 

6th grade students were given a BOY acadience test and we will go from there to see who we need to keep an eye on. 

Chad gave us a more detailed account of what Tier II (small group) time looks like for the older grades for students who need more support. 

Goal 2 is a math goal. Our goal for kindergarten is to “increase the amount of kindergarten students scoring 80% or higher to 85% of all students in that grade”. In grades 1-6 our goal is to “have at least 80% of students demonstrate typical growth on the EOY iReady Diagnostic assessment in the 2022-2023 school year.” We talked about the individualized mypath program that we have been using in grades 1-6. 

Overview of School Improvement Plan (TSSA)

TSSA plan goals: 

Goal 1 is that the percentage of students in grades K-6 scoring at benchmark or higher will increase by 4% from BOY to EOY. $2,500 will be used to purchase Reading Mastery materials. 

Goal 2 is that is that North Park will increase the number of students meeting individual growth targets based on the WIDA ACCESS testing from 32% in the spring of 2022 to 45% by Spring of the 22-23 school year. The money spent will be as follows: $2,243 for an hour of daily ESL para support, $1,100 for substitutes for classroom observations, $330 subscription for online teaching resources. 

Goal 3 is that the school will decrease school-wide rates in office referrals that are related to bullying by 10% from fall to spring of the 22-23 academic year. The money that will be spent as follows: $17,00 for the school portion of counselor salary, $300 for wellness center tools and resources. 

Math goal: 85% of all kindergartens will score 80% or higher on their GoMath end of unit assessments. In grades 1-6, at least 75% of students demonstrate typical growth or grade level proficiency on the EOY iReady Diagnostic assessment from BOY to EOY in the 22-23 school year. The money to meet these goals breaks down as follows: $14,259 for paraeducators for math support, $10,140 for a PLC conference (only about 5,000 was spent as Jullie said. This took place earlier this week and was able to take 4 teachers). $3,500 for math manipulatives and resources, $16,805 for Chromebooks or iPads plus operating and management systems. $3,365 for My Path licenses. 

Safe Technology and Digital Citizenship 

Jullie briefly discussed the safe technology and digital citizenship document and shared information about resources used to protect students online (including GoGuardian).  Patti Rash, our media specialist, will talk about this more next month, sharing details about some of the lessons she teaches to the students.. 

Safe Routes

Saferouteutah.gov will show you what the states recommended safe routes are for students who are in the parent transportation zone. Jullie drove the school boundaries and made notes about specific areas  and the safe routes that students should use to safely walk to the school. There are also areas of concerns that we need to be cautious of. 

Other

There is a more detailed, colored version of the TSSA goals in the SCC handbook. 

North Park gets under $100 a student per year as funds for general school supplies and equipment. Sasha asked if the school has a needs list/wish list that the community could help provide. The school is only allowed 1 fundraiser per year (we do Cache Valley Direct), and the PTO gets 1 per year. 

It was asked if there is anyone who assists with grants at our school.  Blake Pickett is over grants in Cache District and can get you in touch with the Cache Education Foundation if you have questions about grants.  

School Community Council Minutes

Wednesday, November 2, 2o22

Media Center

4:00 p.m.

 

In attendance:  Marisa Herd, Jullie Payne, Alex Fife, Chad Hawkes, Katie Weber, Sasha Beorchia, Patti Rash (presenting on digital citizenship). 

Absent:  Chantel Labrum, McKay Wilson

Next Meeting: December 7, 2022 at 4:00 pm

1. Welcome

   1. Alex called the meeting to order. Sasha seconded the motion. 

2. Approval of past minutes

   1. Marisa approved the minutes, Chad seconded the motion to approve the minutes. 

3. Review of Old Business

   1. Rules of Order and Procedures- Approved 10/18/22

      1. Reviewed on the 10/6/22, final approval was on the 10/18/22

   2. Update on Grants

      1. Alex reached out to Teri Lewis and CEF and Blake Picket who is over grants at the district. Made sure that we are utilizing “Tools for Schools”. 

      2. There is a matching grant for technology. This can be supplied by fundraising money. It is not money supplied by the district, and not from the School land money. We have 66 monitors that we need to replace in the next 3 years. We need more teacher monitors in the next 2 years. You can apply for this grant 2x a year. 

      3. Alex also talked to Gary Thomas, and he mentioned that if you have a plan about when computers are “going to go out”- it can make it easier to know when/how much we need to use these funds. 

      4. Jullie showed us a spreadsheet that the district keeps updated, with the technology that needs to be immediately replaced (red), computers that will expire soon (yellow), and chromebooks that are good to use (green). Jullie also shared a spreadsheet that North Park has to keep track of all the chromebooks and when they expire in their cart. 

      5. The “Just my wish” is a grant for specialists. Patti shared that she bought nonfiction“early reader” books. 

      6. There are also art grants, but we haven’t applied for those. 

      7. We are doing good using grants, but Alex asked Blake what else we could do. He mentioned coming up with a list for our top 3 needs. Our top three wishes that Jullie shared are security, technology needs, and building needs. The staff mentioned some top 3 needs were security and building needs (district won’t pay for security cameras). Another need would be enough chromebooks for each class, another possibility is portable bleachers, classroom supplies, student technology and student technology. Safe/enclosed place for the students who have special needs to play. 

         1. During covid, health safety took priority over school security. Alex mentioned the district has been talking about putting a bond together for school safety. 

      8. If we are looking for grants, we could look for things that provide more comfort for the school. 

         1. All the rooms should have swamp coolers, but some of them have stopped working. 

      9. The older grades don’t have enough chromebooks for how often they use them so we talked about how that might be one of our highest needs. For a class chrome cart it is approximately $12,000. For the future, we could look into some grants for technology, so that we could use School Lands for other things. 

      10. There is a grant through crayola, Alex’s mom applied for this one and got around $10,000. If we can get creative looking for grants,  we can open up money in our school land trust grants. You can find STEM grants online as well. Our matching funds only come from our fundraisers, or we could ask the PTO to match. Blake sent Alex some resources that would help us get in touch with grants.  

   3. Update on School LAND Trust Spending Plan & Budget

      1. We have $15,929 in our School Land Trust Plan allocated for technology.  We already have enough money for the chromebooks we will need to replenish our chromebooks that are expiring. 

   4. Update of School Improvement Plan (TSSA) & Budget

      1. We have $16, 805 for chromebooks and ipads. We already have enough money for the chromebooks we will need to replenish our chromebooks that are expiring. 

4. New Business

5. Safe Technology and Digital Citizenship - Patti Rash presenting

   • District has digital citizenship lessons that the school is required to teach. We all are digital citizens because we all use computers. 

   • Some of the lessons include: protect private information for themselves and others, stay safe online, balance the time spent online and using media, respect yourself and others, stand up to cyberbullying when they see it happening, respect copyright and intellectual property, and carefully managing their digital footprint. 

   • Online Safety Contracts will be sent home with all students, and parents can go over the information and sign, and send back with their child. 

   • Patti modeled a lesson for us about sharing personal information online. The lessons are very applicable for students dealing with all types of media. 

   • Patti can pick and choose which lessons to teach. 

   • Look at “commonsense media” which is linked on the school webpage. 

6. School Community Council Annual Report

   • We reviewed our data and goals from last year. We didn’t meet our goals but will keep working at them. There are funds that we can put towards computers, because only 5 teachers went to a training, we have funds we can use. .

7. North Park SCC Timeline for 2022-23

8. Other Items- Updated State Training Video

   • We will watch the video at home. 

9. Live online council training: save the date! Our annual online council member training will be held on the following dates. Email invites were sent out by the state to all council members on October 21st

   • Nov. 9 (12 pm)

   • Nov. 9 (7 pm)

   • Nov. 14th (12 pm)

   • Nov. 14th (7 pm)

10. Adjournment- Alex motioned to adjourn, and Katie seconded the motion. 

School Community Council Minutes

Wednesday, December 7, 2023

Media Center

4:00 p.m.

Present: Marisa  Herd, Alex Fife, Sasha Beorchia, Chantel Labrum, Jullie Payne, Chad Hawkes

Absent: Mckay Wilson, Katie Weber

1. Welcome 

   1. Alex called the meeting to order, and Sasha seconded the motion. 

2. Approval of past minutes

   1. Alex approved the past minutes, and Marisa seconded the motion to approve the minutes. 

3. Review of Old Business

   1. Update on School LAND Trust  & TSSA Budgets

      1. Ordered 66 chromebooks and 2 chrome book carts since the last meeting. Each cart is approximately $11,000. We also paid for para educators, and math supplies out of the TSSA budget. We still have funds left to purchase reading mastery materials for reading groups. 

      2. The district is using ESSER (emergency funds) funds to give a chrome book lab to every library. 

      3. Other business: Stacey Wright will be the new librarian, taking over for Patti once Patti retires in December. 

   2. Review Grants Searches

      1. Top 3 funding goals: 

         1. Security

            1. District personnel were at the school today looking at our PA system.

         2. Technology

            1. Alex is looking at some grants for a third chromebook cart, to supplement older grades chrome carts (Jullie has purchased 2 since our last meeting). 

            2. If PTO has any funds left over, we could reach out and see if we can have any matching funds for matching grants. 

         3. Portable bleachers? Special needs playground/enclosed playground?

            1. If things are specialized, like ¨risers/bleachers for our musical program" then we could try to get money that way. 

               1. Jullie will contact the district about this, and see if the district has any companies they recommend getting a quote from. 

            2. The enclosed playground would probably be a multi-year program. An enclosed playground in Preston was around $75,000. 

            3. We need to decide what our highest priorities  are, since TSSA and Trustland money can also be spent on certain things. 

         4. Jullie talked to the teachers about Amazon Wishlists, and that we could put them on the school websites. The PTO is working on a website, and the links will be posted on there as well. 

         5. There are some grants teachers can apply for outside of the Cache Education Foundation. 100% for kids match ($100-$1000), 

         6. Alex will talk to Mandy Wilkinson (Art Teacher) about making sure we are taking advantage of art grants. 

         7. There are lots of companies looking to support STEM projects. 

         8. Book Quest: The PTO has allotted $2,500 for the book quest. Alex is working with Rebecca in the PTO has reached out to Candlewick Press and HarperCollins about donations /discounting bulk rates for Lora & Ulysses"and ¨Wishmakers.¨ If we can get a lower rate for the books, funds could be allocated elsewhere. We were talking about ways that we could get different funding options/ so we can allocate the money for other needs. 

4. New Business

5. School Goals and Improvement

   1. We don't have Acadience data yet, because we will take that test in January. 95% of kindergartens are reaching 80% or more on their chapter tests. 1-6th grades are using I-ready to track making typical growth. The majority of our students (337 of 398) so 59% have made typical growth. The end goal is to have 80% make typical growth. 

6. Safety Update

   1. There is a new buzz-in system by the front doors. Yay! The district ended up paying for the buzzer. We are still working on locking doors on the interior. There is work being done on the PA systems. 

   2. Chad brought up  the idea of having walkie talkies at each bus duty station, so we can communicate if there is an emergency. 

7. Supporting for the Holidays

   1. All the families that needed support are being supported. Over 70 students are being supported. 

8. Cache Valley Direct Fundraiser

   1. We raised $5,170 dollars from our fundraiser. We will use this money for technology. 

9. Any other items

   1. Alex will be gone January 4th, meeting moving to January 12, 2023.

10. Adjournment

    1. Chad moves to adjourn the meeting and Chantel seconds the motion. 

Next Meeting: January 12, 2023 at 4:00 pm  (Rescheduled from January 4, 2023)

School Community Council Minutes

Thursday, January 12, 2o23

Media Center

4:00 p.m.
 

Absent:

Sasha Beorchia, Katie Weber

Present: Jullie Payne, Alex Fife, Mckay Wilson, Chantel Labrum, Marisa Herd, Chad Hawke

1. Welcome

   1. Alex welcomed everyone and called the meeting to order, and Chad Hawkes seconded the motion.

 

2. Approval of past minutes

   1. Mckay Wilson approved the past minutes

 

3. Review of Old Business

   1. Update on School LAND Trust  & TSSA Budgets

      1. We were able to purchase the 2 chromebook carts with our funds. The district is also letting us house another full cart of chromebooks  in the library in our school. 

      2. Fundraiser note: Fun run at Canyon Elementary makes a lot more money than we do. We can talk to them and figure out with the PTO if we want to do a bigger fundraiser. If we can make it a bigger event, and involve more of the community, we might be able to make a bigger profit. At Canyon, food trucks were there and donated half of their profit. If we make it bigger, we will only have to be asking for money once. Jullie will talk to the principal at Canyon, and see what all is involved with their fundraiser. 

   2. Any Updates on Grants Searches

      1. We got a lower price for “Wishmakers”, which is our book for our North Park Family Book Quest. This will allow us to allocate money elsewhere. 

      2. We talked about letting parents know what the book is soon to find available audio options for the book, if they wish to do so. 

      3. The district’s new direction moving forward with cameras is that the district will be providing cameras for exterior carpool areas, playground, and by the main office. The district will also be paying for the renewal of licenses. 

4. New Business

5. School Goals and Improvement

   1. Our Acadience reading test is next Tuesday, so we will look at data in February. 

6. Academic Data Discussion for current budget implementation

   1. What academic needs the council should address in the upcoming school year?

      1. Our data discussion will take place next month, after we have our scores back from Acadience.

      2. Chad and Marisa talked about what reading groups and reading enrichment looks like- and we will have a more in depth discussion next month. 

7. Teacher and Student Success Plan

   1. We will start to talk about our goals for next year- when we have the data. 

8. Any other items

   1. TSI

      1. TSI stands for Targeted Support and Improvement. TSI is something that the state has been asked to do by the federal government. Every subgroup in the school should be something we are looking at. In order for a sub group to be measurable, there has to be at least 10 in a subgroup that take the RISE (end of year testing). Some of our subgroups are students with disabilities, English Language Learners, Hispanics, Islanders, Asians, Blacks to name a few. 

      2. Our school has been identified as a TSI school for our Hispanics. That means that they have been performing in the bottom 5% of  the state on assessments such as the RISE testing . For 2 years they have been lower performing on the RISE and WIDA Access. We are also on alert for our Students with disabilities, and our English Language Learners. 

      3. Thisidentification started in 2018, and now CCSD has 16 schools on TSI. We have 4 years to see if we can get out of TSI. There are no extra funds, but it does let us know that we have a population that we need to be extra aware of. This subgroup also has a high percentage of absenteeism. 

      4. Jullie presented some information about TSI. TSI started annually in 2018-2019. It is part of the Every Student Succeeds Act. You have to have 2 consecutive years of progress to get out. 

      5. There is a group of teachers that will be on a TSI committee with Jullie, and we will create a plan for our TSI status. 

      6. Alex brought up that we might be able to look at some grants, that we might be able to qualify for with our TSI status.

      7. The question was asked about what contributes to this, and  the following was discussed. Behavior issues and absences sometimes contribute to students having difficulties learning. Chad brought up here are sometimes focus issues and issues with distraction. Every family situation is different as well. We are working to support students while they are in school.

      8. Previously, schools didn’t know if they were on “alert”. Now, we know we are on alert. 

      9. If you have a language other than English on the “Home Language Survey”, they are screened as English as a Second Language. If the students qualify, they are pulled from the general education classroom and given 30 minutes of instruction language daily. 

   2. ID Badges

      1. The protocol is that a person who rings the doorbell needs to show their ID. North Park has been asking for IDs if we don’t know the individual. 

      2. Chantel talked about how with her daughter’s school there was a key card that everyone had to have in order to be let in the school. 

      3. IDs will be asked for people that we don’t know, but if Vardee knows the person,  ID will not be required. It will be handled on a case-by-case basis. 

9. Adjournment

   1. Alex motioned to adjourn the meeting, and Marisa seconded the motion. 

Next Meeting: February 1, 2023 at 4:00 pm

School Community Council Minutes

Wednesday, February 01, 2o23

Media Center

4:00 p.m.

 

Sasha Beorchia, Katie Weber, Jullie Payne, Alex Fife, Mckay Wilson, Chantel Labrum, Marisa Herd, Chad Hawkes

 

Present: Sasha Beorchia, Katie Weber, Jullie Payne, Alex Fife, McKay Wilson (via zoom)  Chantel Labrum, Marisa Herd, Rusmary Cantaro

Absent:

 

1. Call Meeting to Order

-Alex called the meeting to order and Sasha seconded the motion. 

2. Welcome

 

3. Approval of past minutes

-Alex approves the past minutes, and Chad seconded the motion. 

 

4. Review of Old Business

   1. Update on School LAND Trust  & TSSA Budgets

      1. Headphones were purchased for  $1300. 

      2. We are continuing to use funds for paraeducators, and we will also plan to purchase more Reading Mastery materials. 

   2. TSI Update

      1. The TSI committee met and discussed ideas that we could implement school wide. Some of those strategies are aligning our writing curriculum, using 1 graphic organizer schoolwide, and using the “7 steps” book for the staff to keep implementing ideas. 

      2. We are also still trying to hire paraeducators to help with math and reading instruction. Spread the word that we need paraeducators. 

   3. Follow-up on School Fundraiser ideas

      1. Jullie will follow up on this in a week about fundraiser ideas. 

   4. Any Updates on Grants Searches

      1. Nothing to report on grant updates. If we have any specific grants we are looking for we can bring it to Alex and she can look into it for us. 

 

5. New Business

1. Academic Data Discussion for current budget implementation

   1. Beginning of the year all students were tested, and the middle of the year students were tested K-5th, and a group of students in 6th that we wanted to keep our eyes on. 

   2. From the beginning of the year to the middle of the year, kindergarten grew 22%, 1st grade grew 6%, 2nd  grade grew 6%, 3rd grade maintained, 4th grade went down by 3%, and 5th grade went down by 4%. The 6th grades goal is based on growth measure, which will happen at the end of the year.  The % of growth or decline could only be the difference of a couple of students. 

   3. For our Iready math goal, we have an ambitious goal of having 75% (on TSSA goal) and 80% (for our School Land Trust plan) students will make 100% of their growth on the Iready assessment from beginning of the year to the end of the year. 

   4. What academic needs the council should address in the upcoming school year?

      1. Chad talked about math in 5th grade, specifically challenges with fractions. Chad talked about reteaching when necessary, and redoing some of the questions on the test, as a grade level. 

      2. Some of our goals come from our TSI plan. 

      3. We have been able to see lots of growth with using  iReady as opposed to Go math, which is what we used last year for our goal. Kindergarten still uses Go math, because they don’t use chromebooks. Iready lets us know how they are doing across the board, whereas Iready measures where the students are across the board. 

2. School Goals and Improvement- We will talk about our ideas for goals at the next meeting. 

3. Teacher and Student Success Plan-We will talk more about data and goals next meeting. 

4. Any other items

   1. The Knights on the Run fundraiser  is the 24th of February. It was brought up that some kids don’t like to run, or it stresses them out. Having special assignments for students on a case-by-case basis. There will be 3 different options so the parents can donate. You can pay the flat rate of $15, or buy a shout-out poster for $5, or parents can buy more raffle tickets for $2 a raffle ticket. Everything will be digital. 

 

6. Call to Adjourn Meeting 

   1. Alex motioned to adjourn the meeting, and Chantel seconded the motion. 

7. Adjournment

 

Next Meeting: March 8, 2023 at 4:00 pm

School Community Council Minutes

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Media Center

4:00 p.m.
 

Present: Katie Weber, Alex Fife, Chad Hawkes, Jullie Payne, Marisa Herd, Sasha Beorchia, April Martin, 

Absent: Mckay Wilson, Chantel Labrum 

Next Meeting: April 12, 2023  at 4:00  pm- School Media Center 

1. Welcome

   1. Alex called the meeting to order and Sasha seconded the motion. April Martin is with us to talk about math data. 

2. Approval of past minutes

   1. Katie approved the past minutes and Alex seconded the motion. 

3. Review of Old Business

   1. Trustland and TSSA Funds- Review how funds have been spent

      1. We still have money to purchase reading mastery materials, and Holly Harris, our reading facilitator, will propose a suggested order in the next week. 

      2. We still have money for subs, and we still have some money that we can spend on technology. The funds are to be used for student outcomes, so we have to double check to confirm if teacher computers fall under that category. 

      3. Birch Creek has an excessive amount of chromebooks requiring a replacement within the same year so we can buy their chrome chart and 30 chrome books for $5,000. 

      4. We have $16,000 left for technology purchasing. 

      5. We have $42,000 in technology needs next year.

      6. We have expended all our paraeducator funds within our Trustlands funds. 

4. New Business

5. Winter Student Data- GoMath and iReady

   1. Our math goals this current year was to have 85% of kindergartners reaching 80% or higher on GoMath tests. As of now, we have 97% of kindergarteners reaching that goal. We attribute that to full day kindergarten and wonderful instructional strategies from our skilled teachers. 

   2. Our other math goal is for i-Ready. Our goal is to have 80% students grade 1-6 make annual typical growth. Middle of the year last year, 34% of students had already made typical progress (100% of year-end progress). In the middle of this year, 59% of students had made 50% of their growth. Because it’s the middle of the year, we wanted kids to have made at least 50% of their growth. We have 47% of the students proficient right now. There is a strong correlation between being proficient on i-Ready and doing well on RISE (state end of year test). The district’s growth median is 58% so we are right there. Next year, the district will be participating in the adoption process for a math program. 

6. Discussion of Goals for 2023-24 School Land Trust and TSSA Plans

   1. Proposed new goals: 

      1. ELA: We will continue to use Acadience Reading for our ELA goal in K-5 grades.

      2. Goal K-2: The goal is to increase students on benchmark by 4% between BOY and EOY and the 2023-24 school year. 

      3. Goal 3-5: The goal is to have 70% of our students reaching pathways 3-5 on the Acadience Reading assessment using the BOY to EOY report. We talked about this and moved the goal from 75% to 70%. 

      4. Grade 6: The goal is to have 85% of the 6th grade students demonstrating they are comprehending text at grade level proficiency by the 2023-2024 EOY assessment based on the HMH Growth Measure. 

      5. Math: Our goal for kindergarten is to increase the amount of kindergarten students scoring 80% or higher to 90% of students in the grade. 

      6. Grades 1-6: in grades 1-6, our goal is to have at least 65% of students demonstrate at least typical growth on the EOY iReady Diagnostic assessment in the 2023-24 school year. 

         1. There was a lot of consideration put into this goal, as there are pros and cons to each. One option would be to have a middle of the year goal. We could also do a proficiency goal- but then we are not measuring everyone’s growth, just those proficient. Right now, April feels that 65% would be a great goal.  If we want to be ambitious, we can do 70%. Last year, across the district, the numbers fell between 58s-70s. 

   2. Complete Signature Page

   3. Proposal for how to spend funds for next year: We will get the exact funds available in the future. School Land trust plans proposed goal: Jullie would like to propose around $44, 000 for paraeducators. We need to replace 66 monitors in the next 3 years and will be staggering those purchases over the next few years. We will need approximately $18,000 for technology in Trustlands next year. 

   4. TSSA proposed goal: we need at least $17,000 for our counselor. We need about $4,000 for Reading Mastery materials. We have to pay for the My Path subscriptions which $may be about $4000.  $1,100 will be used for roaming subs. $330 for English Language Learner resources. $2,000 for math manipulatives. $300 for wellness center materials. We will need approximately $25,000 and considered the remained for paraeduator wages or to add to the other categories above due to increasing costs.

   5. Katie motioned to accept the 23-24 goals and proposed expenditures and Alex seconded the motion. 

7. Any other items of discussion- None

8. Adjournment- Alex motioned to adjourn the meeting, and Chad seconded the motion. 

School Community Council Minutes

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Media Center

4:00 p.m.

Present: Jullie Payne, Chad Hawkes, Marisa Herd, Alex Fife, Sasha Beorchia, McKay Wilson, Katie Weber

Absent: Chantel Labrum

1. Welcome

   1. Alex proposed that we call the meeting to order, and Sasha seconded the motion. 

2. Approval of past minutes

   1. Alex approved the past minutes. 

3. Review of Old Business

   1. Trustland and TSSA Funds- Review how funds have been spent

      1. We have used all of our trustland funds. 

      2. We have 23% off our TSSA funds remaining. We still need to purchase the reading mastery books and some novels. 

      3. We need to purchase 4 projectors. Jullie talked about how we will space how many projectors/TVs we will need to buy each year. The district will pay ½- we have to pay 1,500 for each projector. 

4. New Business

5. Safety Discussion Update

   1. The state is allowing $3,000 for each school to have a “Safety Specialist” in each school. This will be a stipend position. There are currently stipends for the PBIS team. 

   2. The district bought the entry camera. The entry camera has good sound but not a good picture. They fixed it but then it had a good picture but not good audio. The district is working on it. The company will be coming out to help. 

   3. We did have a safety review a couple of months ago, and a man was walking around the school. We had another one a couple of weeks ago. 

      1. All of the classrooms have class numbers in the exterior windows of each room. So that if there was an emergency, local authorities would also know what rooms need help from the exterior of the school. 

      2. We talked about locking the doors and how  it’s hard to keep the doors locked all the time. We talked about maybe getting “door pinch guards” to help us be aware if our doors are open. 

      3. We got our climate survey back. We are doing good as a school- but we did score a little lower on building resources like air conditioning, PA systems etc. They will hopefully get started on replacing our PA system soon. 

      4. Next week, April 20th is the “Great Utah Shakeout”. We will have an earthquake drill. 

      5. Our playground is not fully fenced. There is an expense for putting this in. The district will not fully fence our school. There are security cameras on the exterior of the school. The district will also put in another camera for us. 

      6. We have talked about the carpool line- and Sasha brought up how it seems like anybody could take a kid. We talked about how long we want carpool to take- we also brought up having a tag that would hang into the car to let us as the school know that they can pick up their child. We also talked about finding the balance between restricting access but also being safe. We do need to make sure that there always is an adult outside. Sasha will come and watch with Jullie to see how we could improve our carpool line. The idea was brought up to have an aide be in charge of the carpool lane. Jullie will look at the schedule and see if we can make that work with their hours. Sasha also proposed an idea to have 2 adults back at the carpool lane to help the carpool pickup go smoother and safer. McKay looked up the stats of abduction, and it is really low. So we talked about how we can tighten up our physical safety procedures at the pickup lane. 

6. Discussion of School Needs 

   1. The Positive Behavioral Intervention & Supports (PBIS) committee has made posters to streamline expectations for specific areas of the school. The “learn” and “safety” posters have been made in “tag” form so that paraeducators and teachers can wear it and easily refer to it. 

   2. We did talk about lunch times. Lunch is 15 minutes- and Nan lets them go outside at 10 minutes. There also is an overflow table if necessary, and for kids who need longer to eat. 

   3. We don’t have any updates about the grant that was proposed to put a sidewalk in along 800. There were only like 13 kids who were over there. There also isn’t a bus over there. This is through North Logan City. It was through Alan Loose. We don’t know if we got the grant yet. 

7. Any other items of discussion:

8. Adjournment

   1. Alex moved to adjourn the meeting, and I, Marisa seconded the motion. 

Next Meeting: May 3, 2023  at 4:00  pm- School Media Center

Meeting Canceled