Sky View High School

School Community Council Minutes

October 18, 2022

Present: Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Amanie Crosbie, Janine Justis, Kathy Bullen, Ryan Grunig, Ruth Mudrow, Shannon Hougaard, Toni Gibbons, Stefani Thatcher, Sarah Nelson Hallock, Cheryl Peck, Jessica Higginbotham, Melanie Chambers, John Louviere, Summer Gunn, Teri Rhodes, Kathy Christiansen

John welcomed everyone and called for a motion to approve last month’s meeting Minutes. Jessica motioned to approve the Minutes. It was seconded by Toni.  All were in favor of approval.

John talked about the purpose of the committee, how we need to be used as a sounding board and as a place of discussion. He then turned the time over to Shane. Shane reiterated what John said and then said that Sky View’s story will get told, but will be nice to get told by those who know what’s going on. He talked about how we are updating the conference room with new technology, paint and a refinish on the table that the Woods classes will do.  The Interior Design classes will update the décor.  We have some CapX and Principals Trust money that will be used for it. We will talk about that at the next meeting.

The required Community Council training wasn’t recorded and we aren’t sure if everyone was able to view it, so Shane reviewed the training and commented on the following items.

Elections

We need to get back to holding elections and need some continuity so that not everyone’s terms will be up at the same time. Then we won’t have a bunch of new people coming in that don’t know what is going on.

School Website

There are requirements of what we have to have on the school website about the Community Council.  We need to list direct contact information for each member, so each member verified their emails and if that was what they preferred instead of their phone number. Many members have received spam emails from the Principal because of being on the Community Council. The website will be updated with preferred emails. The Rules of Order and Procedure used need to show the date of approval on the website. They committee reviewed the Rules of Order and Procedure and Summer motioned to approve and Melanie seconded.  All were in favor.

There was a discussion about whether there needs to be a motion to have the meeting adjourned as noted in the Rules of Order and Procedure. The consent was if the Agenda items were covered and discussion was over then there doesn’t need to be a motion, but probably needs to show on the Agenda. The council was asked to let us know if there is anything they see that needs to be updated on the Sky View website.

Shane talked about how we will be putting together a data package for Sky View that will be used to drive the goals and direction and Trustland Plan. The School Trustland Plan has changed over the years a little from just academics to helping with social and behavior issues as well.

Digital Citizenship and Safety Principals

The State used to suggest resources on how to implement this, but that has changed.  The school can decide how we want to do the training.  We are looking for input from parents on this.  We deal with this issue weekly; a lot of stuff happens at home and not at school.  It’s a tough navigating tool.  Cell phones are the number one reason students aren’t on task.  We struggle with engagement-can’t compete with the internet.  Stephanie asked if the plan address the positive of social media? Shane said it  depends on what the presentation is.  It’s a challenge for teachers on how to address.  We’ll run it by the committee when we plan it.  We have usually presented it in an assembly – but kids skip assemblies.  Toni asked if we could  broadcast the assembly into classrooms and to parents also?   Shane will be at Herriman tomorrow with UASSP, can see ideas from other schools. Summer said student behavior is what we need to work on.  We can use same teaching skills with this issue as other topics.  Sara said she talked to her son about it and he said that adults aren’t aware enough of what students are dealing with.

We will add a  follow up on Digital Citizenship to next month’s agenda.

Newsletters

We email 3 Newsletters out yearly to parents.  Shane asked if they are valuable and if they are read? Are they worth it?  We will need to send them in Spanish and English.  Parents replied that they do read them and do like them. The format makes a difference, makes it easier to read through the items that they are interested in.  The consensus was that we will keep doing what we are doing.

Style Guide and Logos

The different colors of blue that Sky View has used in past years is all over the place and also is the same with logos.  We would like to create a style guide and logo for Sky View. Everyone will need to have a buy in and we would have a roll out date.  This year would be for creating and would roll out next year and change gradually.  We will put a committee together and start working on it.

Student Testing

We are just starting to ramp up on testing. It’s part of what we do.  We just gave the PSAT last week. Shane said we will do everything we can to do what we need on testing, but it is not our end goal.  The big trend right now is for students to opt out. It’s usually the lower end students opting out and then gives us inflated scores.  Summer said parents will opt out because of anxiety or pressure on students to perform.  Shane said It should be a measure of instructional needs for future.  We need to help students through all of it.  They are going to be assessed in different areas for the rest of their life.  We need educate teachers to help educate students.  If parents have question, they need to ask before day of the test so we don’t have lines of students opting out the day of the test.  Summer asked if there could be a process that we could work with students when they have anxiety.  We need to better communicate how and why we are doing it. Shane said he hopes teachers would make accommodations for students with any learning needs and get rid of the 504’s.

Trustland Plan

Shane reported that some goals in the Trustland plan that were set up were going different directions than the new Administration wanted to go.  So, he has made a few changes in the plan and they were presented to the School Board 2 weeks ago.

He talked about the changes. There is a new program called Panorama that we will be using, that can track attendance, failing students, and helps identify at risk students.  Then we can make sure we take care of the 90% and intervene with the 10% needing it.

We have implemented a Student Success Center.  We are adding money for personnel to help.  Stu Howell is working with students.  He is good with the students, calling them in morning if they aren’t here. Teri Rhodes mentioned that the same thing has proven to work at Cache High. We have also implemented a Parent Liaison position and Learning Strategies class.  We have also added .25 FTE for a full time Social Worker. A grant from the District pays for most of it. Goal #2 and 3 will be combined increasing academic performance on the school report card – using Aspire and ACT. The plan also included a reduction in class sizes in Math, Science and English. We are also hiring an ELL aide. We will enroll students in an ACT Prep class again with the goal of 50% of students completing the course.

Summer mentioned that the team-taught classes made a difference with her daughter. 

Shane said next year will be better on developing the plan with more of the council’s input.

The School Board will vote on amendments to this year’s plan this week.

Meeting adjourned until Tuesday, November 15^th, 6:45am