• School Community Council Minutes

    April 26, 2022

     

            

    Toni welcomed everyone and Shannon Hougaard motioned to approve the minutes from the last meeting.  Sheri Egbert seconded the motion.  All were in favor of approval.

     

    Mike said he has really enjoyed working with parent groups: PTA, School Community Council, etc.  We are always looking for new people to serve on council, so if you know anyone that would be interested, have them contact Kathy. 

    Mike then reviewed the end of year plans and calendar.  AP testing is scheduled and the Aspire test that will be for Freshmen and Sophomores.  Juniors and Seniors will be doing school work from home that day.

    Lagoon Day for Seniors is a little different than in the past.  It is not on one of the days that other schools will be there, it will be open to the public.

    Graduation will be held at USU this year.  They have scheduled the schools to give each school more time to decorate, do pictures, etc.  It will be better than in the past there.

    The State tournaments for sports are not included on the calendar.                                  

     

    Brady talked about the ACT Data from the State ACT test for Juniors and the ACT Prep class.

    One of our goals last year was to raise ACT scores. They took a big dip last year but couldn’t figure  out why.  We added an ACT prep class for all Juniors this year but ½ of students didn’t do anything.  Our average score for 2021 was 19.2 and the average for 2022 was 20.1. Math didn’t change overall, but raised on other sub scores. Students that were engaged in class, raised their scores,  4.3 points higher. Melanie Daines said her son would forget to check in with teacher.

    Shannon said Brock did do it, but only because she pushed him.  The kids feed off each other- if friends didn’t do it they didn’t want to. It’s hard to impress the importance of the ACT with colleges not requiring it any more. Summer said it’s good for kids to learn how to do online classes. Toni mentioned that USU is transitioning to a lot of online classes including concurrent classes.

    Sheri asked if the students get Aspire scores?  It is sent to the schools, and parents can get them from the school. It was asked if we thought that taking 1050/1060 later in school made a difference in ACT scores?  ACT math questions are typically what is covered in Math 2 and 3.  Most Juniors are taking Math 3.  The reason we have seniors take it as Senior because of pre-req lapses.  Shannon asked if we could Math 1050 in the Fall? Blake said the best way to prepare for ACT math is to do practice tests, but we can look at doing a Math 1050 1st and 2nd tri. Math 2 will be 3 trimesters except for Honors kids.

     

    Mike reviewed the Trustland Plan for next year. He has submitted it and made adjustments from feedback from the council.  Janae’s Sorensen’s salary was only funded half, so he also added that in Trustland plan. Our Technology is in great shape.  We have a one to one access for kids.  There is more value to have each class have access instead of each student being assigned one. 

     

    We have a great graduation committee but could use volunteers to help with decorations etc. Several council members volunteered to help.

     

    Summer passed some information from another parent that RCK hour has been useful for their students.  We have been looking at ways to tweak it because the students that are failing aren’t using it but the top end kids are. New ideas for RCK hour have been presented to staff and the rumor got out that we are getting rid of it but that isn’t true.

     

    Meeting adjourned until September, 2022