• School Community Council Minutes

    Wednesday, November 2, 2o22

    Media Center

    4:00 p.m.

     

    In attendance:  Marisa Herd, Jullie Payne, Alex Fife, Chad Hawkes, Katie Weber, Sasha Beorchia, Patti Rash (presenting on digital citizenship). 

    Absent:  Chantel Labrum, McKay Wilson



    1. Welcome

      1. Alex called the meeting to order. Sasha seconded the motion. 

     

    1. Approval of past minutes

      1. Marisa approved the minutes, Chad seconded the motion to approve the minutes. 



    1. Review of Old Business

      1. Rules of Order and Procedures- Approved 10/18/22

        1. Reviewed on the 10/6/22, final approval was on the 10/18/22

      2. Update on Grants

        1. Alex reached out to Teri Lewis and CEF and Blake Picket who is over grants at the district. Made sure that we are utilizing “Tools for Schools”. 

        2. There is a matching grant for technology. This can be supplied by fundraising money. It is not money supplied by the district, and not from the School land money. We have 66 monitors that we need to replace in the next 3 years. We need more teacher monitors in the next 2 years. You can apply for this grant 2x a year. 

        3. Alex also talked to Gary Thomas, and he mentioned that if you have a plan about when computers are “going to go out”- it can make it easier to know when/how much we need to use these funds. 

        4. Jullie showed us a spreadsheet that the district keeps updated, with the technology that needs to be immediately replaced (red), computers that will expire soon (yellow), and chromebooks that are good to use (green). Jullie also shared a spreadsheet that North Park has to keep track of all the chromebooks and when they expire in their cart. 

        5. The “Just my wish” is a grant for specialists. Patti shared that she bought nonfiction“early reader” books. 

        6. There are also art grants, but we haven’t applied for those. 

        7. We are doing good using grants, but Alex asked Blake what else we could do. He mentioned coming up with a list for our top 3 needs. Our top three wishes that Jullie shared are security, technology needs, and building needs. The staff mentioned some top 3 needs were security and building needs (district won’t pay for security cameras). Another need would be enough chromebooks for each class, another possibility is portable bleachers, classroom supplies, student technology and student technology. Safe/enclosed place for the students who have special needs to play. 

          1. During covid, health safety took priority over school security. Alex mentioned the district has been talking about putting a bond together for school safety. 

        8. If we are looking for grants, we could look for things that provide more comfort for the school. 

          1. All the rooms should have swamp coolers, but some of them have stopped working. 

        9. The older grades don’t have enough chromebooks for how often they use them so we talked about how that might be one of our highest needs. For a class chrome cart it is approximately $12,000. For the future, we could look into some grants for technology, so that we could use School Lands for other things. 

        10. There is a grant through crayola, Alex’s mom applied for this one and got around $10,000. If we can get creative looking for grants,  we can open up money in our school land trust grants. You can find STEM grants online as well. Our matching funds only come from our fundraisers, or we could ask the PTO to match. Blake sent Alex some resources that would help us get in touch with grants.  

      3. Update on School LAND Trust Spending Plan & Budget

        1. We have $15,929 in our School Land Trust Plan allocated for technology.  We already have enough money for the chromebooks we will need to replenish our chromebooks that are expiring. 

      4. Update of School Improvement Plan (TSSA) & Budget

        1. We have $16, 805 for chromebooks and ipads. We already have enough money for the chromebooks we will need to replenish our chromebooks that are expiring. 




    1. New Business

    1. Safe Technology and Digital Citizenship - Patti Rash presenting

      • District has digital citizenship lessons that the school is required to teach. We all are digital citizens because we all use computers. 

      • Some of the lessons include: protect private information for themselves and others, stay safe online, balance the time spent online and using media, respect yourself and others, stand up to cyberbullying when they see it happening, respect copyright and intellectual property, and carefully managing their digital footprint. 

      • Online Safety Contracts will be sent home with all students, and parents can go over the information and sign, and send back with their child. 

      • Patti modeled a lesson for us about sharing personal information online. The lessons are very applicable for students dealing with all types of media. 

      • Patti can pick and choose which lessons to teach. 

      • Look at “commonsense media” which is linked on the school webpage. 

    2. School Community Council Annual Report

      • We reviewed our data and goals from last year. We didn’t meet our goals but will keep working at them. There are funds that we can put towards computers, because only 5 teachers went to a training, we have funds we can use. .

    3. North Park SCC Timeline for 2022-23

    4. Other Items- Updated State Training Video

      • We will watch the video at home. 

    5. Live online council training: save the date! Our annual online council member training will be held on the following dates. Email invites were sent out by the state to all council members on October 21st

      • Nov. 9 (12 pm)

      • Nov. 9 (7 pm)

      • Nov. 14th (12 pm)

      • Nov. 14th (7 pm)






    1. Adjournment- Alex motioned to adjourn, and Katie seconded the motion. 



    Next Meeting: December 7, 2022 at 4:00 pm