• Minutes for Ridgeline School Community Council

    September 20, 2022

    Attendance: Doug Snow, Andy Lund, DeAnna Stallings, Nicole Perkins, Diane Theurer, Adam
    Shelton, Ryan Stolworthy, Jef Nielsen, JennyLynn Little, Tara Johnson, Phil Wade, Melissa
    Coverstone


    Conducting Meeting: Doug Snow
    Meeting Start Time: 7:00 am


    Welcome and introduction of community council members
    Asking all community council members to check their contact information on the sheet
    provided and make sure it is filled out and correctly


    Motion: Co-chair Nicole Perkins and Secretary JennyLynn Little, majority vote


    SCC member training: required, October 4 th 6-6:30 pm. You can watch it online later if needed


    Counselor Minute from Tara Johnson: needs assessment survey was sent to parents, teachers and
    students. The top 3 needs were suicide prevention, stress management and self-esteem. The
    counseling office is planning to do more activities supporting these 3 needs. The Hope Squad has
    several members this year. They are planning to visit classes during flex to go over Question, Persuade,
    Refer and telling an adult if you know of anyone struggling. There will be a resiliency activity and a social
    anxiety group. We also have the Project Aware program now so we have that extra help from another
    person in the school. Project Aware is paid out of TSSA.


    Update on activities: Homecoming week went well. The theme this year is New Heights. Today 9/20 is
    Special Forces Day from 10am-1pm. All the special needs students in middle school and high school
    from Cache County School District and Logan School District are attending. RHS student athletes run the
    stations and the teachers have been asked to bring their classes out for a short time to cheer them on.


    Area of focus: Mike Schmoker is a former teacher and coach and has written a couple books. Our focus
    is on how we teach and what we teach. We want quality instruction. Teachers are working on
    questioning techniques, posting the learning objective and showing students their success. We want
    students to be successful.


    Budget: Trust Land is to help provide academic needs. TSSA is to get things that are needed. The
    budget for this year was created in the spring of 2022. Went over ACT and Aspire measurements. RHS
    had more than any other school in the district to opt out of Aspire testing last year. Aspire testing helps
    predict how well students will do on the ACT. Free ACT is available for Juniors but there is a limit of 12
    times you can take the ACT. The greatest Academic need is a English Language aide. We also started
    the RAPP program with a ISP aide to help students earn an original credit or a recovery credit. There is
    also after school math tutoring Monday-Thursday for an hour and a half after school. For PLC the
    teachers meet every Wednesday morning. Diversity Discovery takes students to USU leadership activities.                                                                                            Class sizes are growing (approx. 1850 students). Maria Hunsaker helping with Parent Liaison. Looking into                                                                                              sending some teachers to PLC conference.


    Parent Teacher Conference: changing to Mondays only from 12-6pm. No school for students. Next
    PTC is Oct. 3rd


    Concluded meeting at 7:29 am