Mt. Logan Middle Schools
Community Council Agenda
October 8, 2020

Welcome and Approve Minutes

• Celebration: only school without a COVID cased traced back to this school
• Michelle Selei Motioned to Approve Minutes
• SaraAnn 2^nd
• All in Favor
• Double checked all SCC members e-mails. Greg’s needs to be fixed.

School Safety Review (COVID-19 Response)

Up to this week we had 4 students test positive all had been home except one had been on the outskirts of class, so few had to be quarantined. One teacher tested positive, but was testing so few had to be quarantined

We are constrained by the nature of confirming cases. Hard to know when they are contagious….about a 4 day window of possible exposure. Once a person tests positive the brhd does not get the data until the hospitals give the data, then they call the investigator who calls the student. Can’t send the kids to be quarantined until the investigator gets a hold of them. This means most kids are only quarantined 7ish days of school. Not a simple system

Some teachers are a bit worried about “don’t ask don’t tell” about testing.

Going to standard based grading was a plan pre-covid

Community Council Training Requirements

Watch 4 minute video (done today) and competed canvas course. Will verify by sending out a google survey that says you completed

FY21 School Improvement Plan Amendmen

• Reviewed current goal: 90% of our students will master essential learnings as measured by team developed common formative assessments for each content area.
• Measured by assessments the teachers are creating.
• Current plan for Trustlands: All dedicated to teacher and support staff salaries
• .69 FTE-instructional coach (Proposal: move to .59)
• 1.0 FTE- for a literacy/math academy teacher
• .5- FTE for an ESL teacher (Proposal: move to .41?)
• Instructional assessments for ESL and academy classes. (about 11 hours a day. Most went to ESL as that is where our greatest need is). Every Wednesday teachers can attend an academy class.
• Our best guess estimate total: $196,000
• Our estimated costs were too low. We are about $10,000 over on our Trustlands. Additional $10,341 in TSSA funds.
• Proposal: shift the FTE of the instructional coaches and shift FTE for an ESL teacher
• TSSA: Teacher and Student Success Act (improve teachers salaries, PD for teachers, and a bit of flexible money)

SCC Tasks

• Make sure we are trained
• Meeting time will be limited to 7 more meetings 1 hour each
• We need to have a School improvement plan by Feb 11. Present our draft to school board by March 11^th.
• Need to do a needs assessment
• Digital citizenship review (for our students to be safe online)
• Consult on a school wide PBIS plan (reinforcing positive behavior and correcting poor behavior, refocus, M&M tickets, team meetings, student of the month…)

Discussion questions:

1. What does the data suggest are the greatest academic needs of our students?
• Last year we said this is our greatest need: Reading, literacy numerousy and ELS students.
• Many 6^th graders come in reading below grade level. We are battling an achievement gap that starts the day the student is born. If we focus on a literacy academy class it will benefit the achievement of these students.
• Suggestions…questions…
• What about the Middle kids?
• What are the most impactful things we can do to improve our ?
• Research says: exceptional instruction (working with a PLC. How do we strengthen our PLCs?)
• What is the teacher feedback/input for instructional coaching?
• Our data suggests that what we are doing is working since 2014.
2. What other pieces of data would you like to see and consider?
3. What concerns do you have about student safety?
4. What other solution would you like to council to discuss and consider as we pursue was to address the greatest academic needs of our students?

Next Meeting: Paul with come data of impact of instructional coaches on students learning.

Community Concern

Adjourn

• Kate Champman motioned
• Karlee Fryer 2^nd
• All in favor