• School Community Council Minutes

    Wednesday, March 8, 2023

    Media Center

    4:00 p.m.



    Present: Katie Weber, Alex Fife, Chad Hawkes, Jullie Payne, Marisa Herd, Sasha Beorchia, April Martin, 

     

    Absent: Mckay Wilson, Chantel Labrum 



    1. Welcome

      1. Alex called the meeting to order and Sasha seconded the motion. April Martin is with us to talk about math data. 

     

    1. Approval of past minutes

      1. Katie approved the past minutes and Alex seconded the motion. 



    1. Review of Old Business

      1. Trustland and TSSA Funds- Review how funds have been spent

        1. We still have money to purchase reading mastery materials, and Holly Harris, our reading facilitator, will propose a suggested order in the next week. 

        2. We still have money for subs, and we still have some money that we can spend on technology. The funds are to be used for student outcomes, so we have to double check to confirm if teacher computers fall under that category. 

        3. Birch Creek has an excessive amount of chromebooks requiring a replacement within the same year so we can buy their chrome chart and 30 chrome books for $5,000. 

        4. We have $16,000 left for technology purchasing. 

        5. We have $42,000 in technology needs next year.

        6. We have expended all our paraeducator funds within our Trustlands funds. 

     

    1. New Business

    1. Winter Student Data- GoMath and iReady

      1. Our math goals this current year was to have 85% of kindergartners reaching 80% or higher on GoMath tests. As of now, we have 97% of kindergarteners reaching that goal. We attribute that to full day kindergarten and wonderful instructional strategies from our skilled teachers. 

      2. Our other math goal is for i-Ready. Our goal is to have 80% students grade 1-6 make annual typical growth. Middle of the year last year, 34% of students had already made typical progress (100% of year-end progress). In the middle of this year, 59% of students had made 50% of their growth. Because it’s the middle of the year, we wanted kids to have made at least 50% of their growth. We have 47% of the students proficient right now. There is a strong correlation between being proficient on i-Ready and doing well on RISE (state end of year test). The district’s growth median is 58% so we are right there. Next year, the district will be participating in the adoption process for a math program. 

    2. Discussion of Goals for 2023-24 School Land Trust and TSSA Plans

      1. Proposed new goals: 

        1. ELA: We will continue to use Acadience Reading for our ELA goal in K-5 grades.

        2. Goal K-2: The goal is to increase students on benchmark by 4% between BOY and EOY and the 2023-24 school year. 

        3. Goal 3-5: The goal is to have 70% of our students reaching pathways 3-5 on the Acadience Reading assessment using the BOY to EOY report. We talked about this and moved the goal from 75% to 70%. 

        4. Grade 6: The goal is to have 85% of the 6th grade students demonstrating they are comprehending text at grade level proficiency by the 2023-2024 EOY assessment based on the HMH Growth Measure. 

        5. Math: Our goal for kindergarten is to increase the amount of kindergarten students scoring 80% or higher to 90% of students in the grade. 

        6. Grades 1-6: in grades 1-6, our goal is to have at least 65% of students demonstrate at least typical growth on the EOY iReady Diagnostic assessment in the 2023-24 school year. 

          1. There was a lot of consideration put into this goal, as there are pros and cons to each. One option would be to have a middle of the year goal. We could also do a proficiency goal- but then we are not measuring everyone’s growth, just those proficient. Right now, April feels that 65% would be a great goal.  If we want to be ambitious, we can do 70%. Last year, across the district, the numbers fell between 58s-70s. 

      2. Complete Signature Page

      3. Proposal for how to spend funds for next year: We will get the exact funds available in the future. School Land trust plans proposed goal: Jullie would like to propose around $44, 000 for paraeducators. We need to replace 66 monitors in the next 3 years and will be staggering those purchases over the next few years. We will need approximately $18,000 for technology in Trustlands next year. 

      4. TSSA proposed goal: we need at least $17,000 for our counselor. We need about $4,000 for Reading Mastery materials. We have to pay for the My Path subscriptions which $may be about $4000.  $1,100 will be used for roaming subs. $330 for English Language Learner resources. $2,000 for math manipulatives. $300 for wellness center materials. We will need approximately $25,000 and considered the remained for paraeduator wages or to add to the other categories above due to increasing costs.

      5. Katie motioned to accept the 23-24 goals and proposed expenditures and Alex seconded the motion. 

     

    1. Any other items of discussion- None




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




    Next Meeting: April 12, 2023  at 4:00  pm- School Media Center