School Community Council Minutes

Date: 1/26/2021

Present:

Trudy Wilson
Tammy Groll
Laura Saunders
Laylah Zayin
Kaitlyn Call
Kathy Christiansen (School Board)

Minute Approval from Last Meeting:

Approval: Tammy Groll
Second: Kaitlyn Call

Acadience Report

      Everyone is reporting 20% loss of retention (Covid/Remote Learning)
      This year’s goal is 85% of K-4th grade being at or above benchmark.
      Overall improvement in our scores from beginning to middle of year
      Overall, older kids have been able to retain better

TSSA Budget

       Almost all spent
       Previously discussed spending some on counselor

Math Proficiency

COVID and possible federal to state to us funding to help kids catch up

       Money can help with all of the COVID problems

Goals for Trustlands for Next Year (start thinking about)

       -Website is down
       -Possible issues: not having the baseline that we have had in the past
       -Goals have typically been due in April

Multitude of electronic resources/professional development opportunities

Covid and Students

       -Not seem any more stressed than usual
       -Kids are doing really well
       -Discussed different strategies teachers are using (having quarantined kids join class via
              streaming; strategies used last year when school was completely out; how kids seem to be doing
              who are mainly homeschooled)

Hats Off Award: Nominate Teachers!

Printable Version: January 2021 Minutes