2022-23 Agendas & Minutes

SKY VIEW HIGH Relationships, Character, Knowledge………….for Life!

School Community Council Minutes

August 23, 2022

We were welcomed by Chairman Toni Gibbons and introductions made by Principal Shane Jones.

Shane asked everyone if the meeting schedule that we have done in past years works for everyone? All agreed to keep the 6:45 am time on the 3 rd Tuesday of every month. We will meet in the Main Office Conference room instead of the Presentation Room.

Nominations were opened for Chairman and Co-Chair for next year. Paul Schwartz (who was not present at the meeting) was nominated. He will be contacted and we will wait until next meeting for final vote. Kathy Bullen will remain Secretary.

Shane asked the council if they had any concerns or questions for the new Administration or for the upcoming year?

Heather Moller, is a regular substitute at Sky View, expressed her concern about the DIRS system, drills and emergencies in general for those substituting at the time. Right now, substitutes aren’t able to access the DIRS system. There is a training video shown to them through Kelly’s services. We hope that teachers that are in rooms next to substitutes will be aware and lock their doors and help out when necessary. Heather also commented that too many students are parking in the Circle Drive.

Shane said that all of these items are on the agenda to be discussed: additional parking in the circle drive, locking the school down and other safety issues. Terri Rhodes (School Board) said that the District is in the process of putting cameras and a buzz in system at every school, starting with the elementary schools.

Ruth Mudrow asked about safety issues with windows in the classrooms. Shane said we will look at everything and balance our needs and will get more training with the DIRS system.

Jessica Higginbotham mentioned a couple items: Add on school fees, the dress code inconsistency and servicing the Latino population (ELL). Shane said they have with the District Office and their goal is get all 4 high schools on the same page and set up a common dress code. They have been meeting with students about dress code since school has started and it’s tough – could be doing it all day. Wearing hats is one of the biggest issues, but will address it with students. Our ELL population has expanded this year by 3 new students. We have a LIA team including a parent liaison. Lyndy Agee mentioned that the counseling department organizes a field trip to USU for minority students and are working to help students get invested in the LIA program.

Brady showed a video “Be Better Do Better” that shows that relationships count.

Meeting adjourned until next meeting on September 13th at 6:45am

School Community Council Minutes

September 13, 2022

Present: Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Amanie Crosbie, Janine Justis, Kathy Bullen, Connie Rawlins, Ryan Grunig, Ruth Mudrow, Toni Gibbons, Jessica Higginbotham, Sheri Egbert, John Louviere, Summer Gunn, Heather Moller, Teri Rhodes

We were welcomed by Toni and the time turned over to the Administration. Shane needed to excuse himself to attend a meeting at the District Office. Brady then opened up nominations for Chairman. (Paul Schwartz isn’t going to be on the committee) John Louviere was nominated and he accepted to be the Chairman. All were in favor. Ryan Grunig was then nominated for Vice-Chair, he accepted and all were in favor. Kathy Bullen will remain the Secretary.

Brady told the committee about the video announcements that we have started doing instead of over the intercom on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Brady asked if anyone has heard any feedback from kids? He explained that we are using the leadership students and the Exec students. We still need to work out Media Releases for students to be able to email or post the videos on the Website.

Brady followed up on the discussion from the last meeting about the Dress Code. He said that the 4 high school Principals met about the Dress Code. They are still working on it. They are all not in agreement. They are still working on changes to take to the board. As far as how that affects Sky View- we aren’t going to be trailblazers – we will enforce dress code as it is. We will let teachers enforce the hat policy and we won’t be doing that in the halls. Toni said SV was definitely not the worst school that they have seen as far as students dress not being appropriate.

Shane will be addressing the dress code and other expectations on the on the video announcements. The Dress Code is supposed to be followed at dances and other school activities. Terri asked Amanie her view on the dress code. Amanie agreed with Brady – students need to dress for the activity, sometimes it is a reflection on behavior. Some time in your life everyone will have to comply. Terri asked what we feel needs to be changed. Amanie said we are competing with trends but there needs to be a standard. It is hard to find long shorts, hard to find clothes that meet the Dress Code. Brady said the issue is when it begins to become distracting to learning. But we want students here instead of not coming. Once we have a clear vision, it needs to be enforced throughout the school.

Janine Justis reported on the Counseling Departments Data Project for this year. Every 6 years they have a formal review for State Comprehensive Guidance Program. They have to create a data project and then share with administration, a steering committee and the school board. What made them decide to do this project is because students come in and ask what is the easiest class – it seems that the trend is less academic rigor. They looked at every 10th and 11th student with a 3.0 higher because the majority of students in concurrent classes are 10th and 11th students. Last year there were 2123 requests for Concurrent or AP classes. During the PCCRs, the Counselors tried to encourage students to take concurrent or AP classes. The next year, there were 2141 requests- and became a 4.4 average and the number of minority students requesting jumped. We have also implemented an Honors Diploma which could have had some influence. On reflection – they discovered that 70% of those taking more rigorous courses have a 3.0 gpa or higher, but only 32% of minority students. Summer asked if they have looked into contextual reasons for why the minority students haven’t taken these classes. Could be because of technology, transportation, certain classes they are failing. And we need to look at ELL student’s vs non-ELL students. The Counseling department is looking at taking younger students to USU.

Toni said that the Concurrent Enrollment Dept. at USU was awarded a $5000 Data mining grant for SV to help with minority students. Some schools have used the same to pay a teacher to mentor concurrent students for an hour. She also said that the Department has paid for a virtual tutoring or free tutoring on campus for Math 1050 and Chemistry 1010 students. Sheri asked if the RCK Academy classes are working out well? Joylynn has spent hours working out a curriculum. The Mentors teach once a week. Brady said he was surprised how eager they are to teach. All classes are 3rd period. This is the most applicable class to the rest of their lives that is taught here and seems to be working well. 

We reviewed the goals for the Trustland Plan for the year. Shane would like to change a few items and will hopefully be presenting those changes to the Board on October 6th. The plan can be amended.

There is a Community Council Training on October 4th – 6:00-6:30 through Zoom. We will send out link.

Adjourned until next meeting, Tuesday, October 18th, 6:45am

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

School Community Council Minutes

November 15, 2022

Present: Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Janine Justis, Connie Rawlins, Ruth Mudrow, Toni Gibbons, Cheryl Peck, Jessica Higginbotham, Sheri Egbert, Melanie Chambers, John Louviere, Summer Gunn, Teri Rhodes, Kathy Christiansen, Kathy Bullen

We were welcomed by John. Sheri motioned to approve the minutes from last month’s meeting. Toni seconded the motion. All were favor of approval.

Shane asked if anyone has seen the new Podcast that the District Office is doing. Tim is looking for students who  have received any recognition etc. to showcased on the Podcast.

RCK Hour Survey

Shane said he is trying to have data on hand to help make some better decisions.  We are putting together a data package, but it takes awhile to gather and accumulate the information.  We just got information back from the RCK hour survey.   It was a 5-question survey.  The first question was if they have an adult they connect to here at SV.   78% of the students said yes.  It can be any adult.  That means there are about 300 students that say they don’t connect.  As a faculty we need to reach those students. Seniors were the highest and the Freshmen were the second highest, which was not surprising since that is the goal of the RCK Academy class. 

Extracurricular involvement was another question. 40% are involved in athletics and 73% overall. Another question was how important they rank RCK hour.  Freshmen were the lowest. In RCK academy class we will reinforce usage of RCK hour. 

Ruth talked about one student- some don’t understand how RCK is supposed to be used.  Not all lunch hour.  Summer wondered if it takes them a little bit of time to recognize the value of it.  There are lots of different things going on during RCK – college visits, company visits, recruiting etc. 

There was 1% that didn’t get to take survey. We are still working on attendance issues with those students.

Teacher of the Year

Amanda Saltern was the selection for this year.  She has been instrumental in getting the video announcements going, gives 110% and is really good working with students who fall behind.  She will be recognized Thursday night at the School Board meeting. 

Follow up for 1^st Trimester

Toni said she really appreciated the leadership class that KayeDawn Falslev taught. The class was designed for leadership in curricular clubs but it was open to anyone who wanted to take it. 

Sheri said she believes there is a bigger connection with students and admin/staff and as a school as a whole.   Shane followed up with the comment of “We’ve had a lot of students in the office.”

Melanie shared appreciation of the approval of the fine arts trip. 

John asked how Halloween went? Shane said there were a few students we had to talk to but overall was good.  The students understood because we had addressed it before Halloween.

Cap X/Improvements

We have a lot of community support including money from donors.  Tied to Cache Education Foundation, DeLoy Hansen has some apartments that gives funding to the high schools.  SV has $100,000 to use mainly for building maintenance and updating. 

If there are little things that anyone sees that need to be improved let us know.  We’ve had concrete issues in circle drive, have had some classroom painted and are planning on doing an audio system in the Commons. 

Ruth said that the women’s bathroom ceilings need to be fixed. Shane said that they are on the agenda – but bathrooms are expensive because they need to be ADA compliant.  The District knows they need to be updated and is on the list.  We also need to look at some equity issues with gender neutral issues- which is also being looked at with the District.  The theater department has dressing room problems with gender issues as well.

Toni mentioned that the football ticket booth needs to be painted. It is noticed from the road.    It was also mentioned that parents need disability parking in lower lot.  Summer said USU has signs that they keep covered except for during games. Shane said we need to look into that and work something out.

Ruth suggested some new blinds in rooms by the Commons. Nicole Burton also needs a new white board. 

Shane reported that we’ve taken a tree down out by the Circle Drive.  The goal is to make that area nice and look like it’s the front of the school and to improve parking, etc. 

Ruth had a  question about school fees?  They have been cut and with expenses going up its hard.  Shane said there is a big push at the state to not have school fees.  Discussions are in the Spring and all fees have to be approved by the School Board. 

Ruth also mentioned that a student was in tears because she couldn’t read an analog clock. We need to replace some clocks in rooms. 

Digital Citizenship

Tabled until next meeting.

Other

Toni asked if we will be streaming the swim meets?  There is no seating for spectators in the pool area.  Brady will talk to Marcus for that

Jessica talked about the use of RCK hour.  There is a small group of kids that don’t need it, her daughter included and seems like a waste of time to her, but then the Math teachers are very busy during RCK and many students have a hard time getting help with Math. We are always having conversations about RCK hour and how best to utilize it.

Brady gave a big shout out to Stu Howell. He has been doing in-school ISO.  He has been  working out with 5 students and has been amazing.  Teri suggested to have Tim and Gary focus on Stu for Podcast. 

John motioned to adjourn the meeting, it was seconded by Jessica. All in were in favor.

Next meeting, Tuesday, December 20th, 6:45am

School Community Council Minutes

December 20^th, 2022

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

We were welcomed by John and called for a motion to approve the Minutes.

Toni motioned to approve last month's meeting minutes.  Connie seconded the motion and all were in approval.

Round About Plans

Shane talked about the circle drive parking lot issues. It is not built for today’s traffic.  There is no parking for visitors. The high number of parents dropping off students often blocks the busses or get they stuck between the busses.  We would like to take the grass out and turn it into parking or some kind of a roundabout  We have already taken out a tree that was an issue.  The north parking lot is even worse.  Shane talked to Tim Smith at the District and he said to come up with a design for a short-term solution.  Having one entry and one exit is one suggestion. 

Cheryl mentioned that the school needs better handicapped parking.

Teri Rhodes said that there is a potential of a bond coming for some modern upgrades for the older schools.

Registration/Welcome to Sky View

In January we will start preparing for PCCR’s/Registration for next year. The incoming Freshmen have already selected their classes but there will be some changes in class offerings that will help build the AP and Concurrent program.  We hope to offer AP Geography for Freshmen.  We are going to be having a Course Fair during RCK hour on January 18^th and 19^th. We need to change the mindset of students and have more buy in by teachers for the advanced courses.  Concurrent and AP classes are the best educational opportunity for students. Sheri said the Index score using the GPA pushes the students to keep their 4.0.  Shane suggested that we have an outdated grading system.  It has been suggested that we moved to a weight grade scale.

Shannon said that USU has a Comprehensive Review Scholarship that gives points for AP and Concurrent classes and throws out the ACT score.

Toni said that they are hoping to offer and Life/College Career Readiness Concurrent class to sophomores.  Aggie Tracks is also a program that is in rough draft but will help students decide what classes to take.

Jessica said that students appreciate teachers encouraging them to take more. Kathy Christiansen commented that Weber State has 17 employees that help with concurrent enrollment in the high schools.  USU doesn’t have as much concurrent enrollment as they do.

Encouragement for trade school is also something we are trying to do.  We will be recognizing those who complete different CTE pathways with different colors of cords at graduation.

On February 13^th, we will be having a Welcome to SV night for incoming freshmen and their parents. We will have teachers and departments involved.

“A Million Little Things”  Presentation

This is a presentation by SUU with a Shakespeare grant.  They would come and do this presentation to small groups.  Last time they did it in the Drama room with the Psychology students and the Hope Squad.  Janine said it was very good and the students were very engaged because of the small setting.  We are looking at offering it again during Yellow Ribbon week or Hope Week.  Hopefully we’ll be able to present twice in the day and would like to invite any of the council members to attend.  More information will be forthcoming.

Members were given a token of appreciation for serving on the council and wished a Merry Christmas.

Meeting Adjourned Next meeting, Tuesday, January 17th, 6:45am

No Meeting Held

School Community Council Minutes

February 28, 2023

Present: Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Janine Justis, Ryan Grunig, Shannon Hougaard, Toni Gibbons, Cheryl Peck, Jessica Higginbotham, Melanie Chambers, Summer Gunn, Stephani Thatcher, Teri Rhodes, Kathy Christiansen, Kathy Bullen

John welcomed everyone and asked for a motion to approved the Minutes from the December meeting. Toni motioned to approve and Jessica seconded the motion. All were in favor of approval.

Climate Survey               

Shane talked about the Climate Survey that the State requires that we do. We had students do it yesterday. It was also emailed out to parents a couple weeks ago. We would like everyone to please share either good or bad.  We don’t know what we need to work on unless someone lets us know.  When we have the Student of the Month lunch, we ask them if there are things we could work on.  Teri said it is very important that the silent majority share – we always hear from the loudest minority.  When we get the results from it we will share with the committee. The survey is not usually about academic issues, but more about safety, connectiveness, more centered around the climate of the school. Happy students do better in school.

21-22 Final Trustland Plan                                        

Shane said the one complaint about the previous Trustland Plan goals is that they don’t match up very well to what we are doing now.  There is a window of time that we need to get information uploaded. It’s tough to write goals – want to write a plan that will be easy to manage.  The 21-22 data was hard to find.  Having the RCK Academy 1^st tri helps a lot.  Attendance, grades drop in 2^nd tri, then usually re-coup 3^rd tri. 

We’ve created an SV Data plan that we will have to use for the Trustland Plan.

23-24 Trustland Plan                                                  

Shane talked about this year’s plan. We’ve needed to spend some money, so we added another teacher.  The “StuVention” program that we have in place this year using Stu Howell as a mentor has evolved into a great program.  It’s a short-term placement for some kids and others a long term for those that are struggling.  It’s small enough that we’ve been able to personalize for the students. Stu is teaching 3^rd trimester, so we have brought in Tyler George who is being mentored by Stu to help out.  We’ve got a lot of students with issues, drugs and home/family struggles. We’re looking at a couple different things for next year.  We need to work on classroom instruction.  A lot of money will  be used towards FTE’s to lower class sizes.  The PLC’s program – with new teachers, teachers teaching new classes.  It’s better to have some collaboration between teachers. Jessica asked what is the most helpful way for a parent to address issues about teachers that are struggling?  Shane replied to let counselors and admin know.  We are making some massive changes – common prep hours, better PLC’ing within departments. We need to watch placement on new teachers- sometimes it helps putting them teaching the right courses.  The best teachers need to be with the struggling kids.  Some teachers we need to work with on structure, some on accessibility.  The goal is to make everyone better.  Better students and better teachers.  It’s not about grades, or points, it’s about learning. Jessica said they appreciate Shane’s desire to help students.  It would have completely changed the trajectory for her student if they had the same focus.  That’s where we’re headed.  Last year’s plan goal using Mastery Connect was to have about 75% of teachers up and running.  That didn’t happen. It’s a great program that  focuses on learning.  It enables a student to own their learning.  It goes along with standard based teaching.  Mastery Connect help kids and teachers know what the kids learn.  It integrates with PowerSchool, and is a tool for teachers to measure students.  There is feedback within the system.  We couldn’t use it years ago because of technology issues, but the District now has purchased it.  The class has to be set up to use a standard based grading system.  Some teachers will probably start picking it up next year. PLC’s will  be big.  There will be some team-taught classrooms with ELL and SpEd.  Next year’s schedule will be better built to accommodate these classes.Summer said she was at a meeting at NC and they have the same issues.  Do we have a collaboration with them? Shane said with ELL there are challenges. It’s a tough population in a lot of areas, but we can’t lower the bar.  We need more communication with parents. We tell teachers we don’t have an ELL program, we have ELL students. Summer said her daughters’ friend is from Ecuador.  Engagement with families needs to start at the lower grades.  Sky View hired Mari Vasquez in January as a Parent Liaison – she speaks Spanish and is from that community. She’s working great with parents a lot and plans on focusing on PLCS and ELL students and parents.Toni asked Melanie to explain the new class concurrent enrollment class at USU.Melanie has helped develop this class. She said they collaborated with the admissions office, library, career design center and Finance Office. It’s designed to work with counselors and PCCRs.  There is a resiliency and social work module included.Shane asked who they see teaching it in the schools? She said Counselors, Psychologists - someone with a Master’s degree. The class is called Habit of Mind/College and Career Readiness USU1045 and is a 3 credit Elective credit class. Green Canyon is piloting it with their LIA students. It is not currently offered online.  Teachers will need to modify to meet the needs of the students.

Elections                                                                      

Shane mentioned that we haven’t had an election cycle.  He asked how the parents feel about it?  Would they like terms? We can keep the meeting open, but just have to have voting members. Teri said we don’t have to have election if we have volunteers. Several committee member's students will be graduating so they won’t be on the committee next year. We will continue the discussion at our next meeting.

Meeting Adjourned. Next meeting will be on April 18^th at 6:45am

School Community Council Minutes

March 21^st, 2023

Present: Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Amanie Crosbie, Janine Justis, Kathy Bullen, Connie Rawlins, Ryan Grunig, Ruth Mudrow, Toni Gibbons, Jessica Higginbotham, Sheri Egbert, Melanie Chambers, John Louviere, Summer Gunn,

We were welcomed by John and he called for a motion to approve the Minutes from the last meeting. Sheri motioned to approve and Toni seconded the motion.  All were in favor.

Shane reviewed the list of the council members and terms.  We have 11 parents that we adjusted the terms on. Next month we may have some nominations.

Shane talked about the School Trustland Plans and has expressed his frustration to  the District Administration. We don’t get data back into time to write up Trustland plan so we have been writing a plan without a base plan.  Tim was talking to Teri to propose a bill to move it back a month. We will plan on doing an amendment but we’ll give an outline of plan.

Feedback on ACT Prep class:  We saw a jump in scores last year - they are back to where we should have been.  Teachers had about 13 students in the class.  Melanie said her daughter that did the class didn’t do as well as her son who did the Canvas course independently.  Sheri said her student had taken it before and thinks the class helped – but need to wait to see the scores. Toni’s response was the same as Sheri’s. Blake Heaton was really good to help the Juniors.  Ruth suggested to maybe not pressure kids to do all subjects?  She had maybe about 6 kids that really did it.  John said his son was beaming after the test – he attributes to the test prep class. We think it was a positive experience and that students felt better prepared.  Summer said she wishes her daughter would have continued access to the course to review at a later time.  Brady said if they would let him know – they can leave the course open.  We might need to do on a case on case basis –  or will check with Mary at the District. Jessica said her daughter’s teacher didn’t reach out to her, but she had decided not to do it.  Shane reminded everyone that there was no negative impact for not doing it. Summer asked if it was introduced in an assembly and wondered about having it introduced by the teacher.  Maybe they would connect better throughout the tri if the teacher started it.  Brady said they did meet with  teachers 2 days after the assembly.  Teachers are supposed to keep a contact log and encouraged them reach  out to the students.  We have discussed putting teachers with students that they have already.  Students in Special Ed get Sped teachers and ELL.  Sheri asked why we don’t get scores back quicker on the online test?  Janine said someone explained that ACT reviews the questions if all got wrong or not very many got right they throw them out.

A handout with the School Climate Survey results were distributed and discussed.  The survey link was sent out via text.  John said he was interested in the difference between student and parent perception. Some things we haven’t changed but number increased. Research shows students perception is the easiest to change, then staff, then parents. School safety awareness might make them feel more unsafe.  There were incidents last year and have had none this year. Jessica asked if it was it before the bomb threat last year? The school atmosphere hasn’t felt the same as last year-it’s better. Partly is because of the new Administration. Shane said they have discussed addressing the issues when dealing with students. We will do this again next year and will focus on getting it better out to parents.

Shane reviewed construction updates and plans that we are doing. We have extra money this year to do some things that need to be done around the school. The big issue that we have is the parking and we are trying to figure out what to do.  The District has realized and are going to help. We are going to set up Commons better so it can be more usable with technology, etc. We have painter that is painting and trying to update everything the same. The bathrooms are another thing that will be addressed. We have changed an art room to Portuguese classroom. We will be doing some changes to the photo lab for video announcements and UDOT will be doing roundabout at the 4 way stop probably this summer. If anyone sees anything else that needs to be addressed, please let us know.

Meeting Adjourned. Next meeting, Tuesday, April 18th, 6:45am

School Community Council Minutes

April 18, 2023

Present: Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Amanie Crosbie, Connie Rawlins, Rth Mudrow, Shannon Hougaard, Toni Gibbons, Sara Hallock, Cheryl Peck, Jessica Higginbotham, Melanie Chambers, John Louviere, Summer Gunn, Teri Rhodes, Kathy Christiansen, Kathy Bullen.

Present: Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Amanie Crosbie, Connie Rawlins, Rth Mudrow, Shannon Hougaard, Toni Gibbons, Sara Hallock, Cheryl Peck, Jessica Higginbotham, Melanie Chambers, John Louviere, Summer Gunn, Teri Rhodes, Kathy Christiansen, Kathy Bullen.

We were welcomed by John. He asked if we followed up on having access to the ACT Prep on Canvas.  Brady said if someone is interested we just need to let him know.                                                                                      

John also asked if the deadline to have the Trustland Plan changed?  Shane said that Plan should have been done last month, but the ACT Data is just now available.  Teri said they won’t approve plan until this week.  She said we need to find a legislator to sponsor bill to change it.  Teri said it might have something to do with distribution of funds.  If the date is pushed back that might be too. Toni asked if funds are based on student population?  Teri said that it was. 

Connie motioned to approve the Minutes from the last meeting. Toni seconded.  All were in favor of approval.

I. Trustland Plan

Shane has done some revisions and updates, which include the following.

Goal #1:  Increase graduation rate, starting with 9th graders. Want 95% on track beginning sophomore year. Data shows 9th graders failing over 40% of classes.

Will fund additional FTE, lower classes sizes, including team taught classes with Sped and ELL.  Will hire a RCK Academy coordinator. Data shows less students failed during 1st tri with RCK academy class. 

Jessica said she had talked to a parent that has never been on Canvas or Powerschool.  We’ll use our parent liaison (Mari Vasquez) to help with that and our Gear Up person.  Connie said parents need to know they can sign up on Canvas and shadow their kids. Toni suggested that we continue the conversation with North Cache, have them start early.

Budget includes training all  RCK Academy advisors and supplies.

StuVention - those 5% of kids involved influence other kids.  We used TSSA money to help with kids.  We’re spending more money than we thought, but has been very valuable so money is budgeted for the Student Success Center. We will fund ½ social worker, other ½ by grant- Janae Sorensen is our Social Worker

Goal # 2 -  Better meet needs of  ELL students

We’re on the Targeted list for ELL students. We’ll be making changes with our ELL program.  The District has given more support than ever before.  We’ll find out specifics on measurements.

With Targeted Student Intervention – we need to meet needs for 3 years consistently. The ELL coordinator, data management have been in place, just funding now with Trustland money.

The budget includes PLC’s training, ELL Coordinator, additional ELA aides, team taught classes, appropriate level library books, etc.

This includes working with refuge students as well

Summer said she would like to see coordination between us and NC with their targeted intervention.  Shane said we should see that because District is taking more direction with it. 

North Cache is doing a LIA program as well.

Ruth said she would like a Spanish course for teachers to help her communicate with parents. Kathy said they had experience with some workers that had an App.  Teri asked if Marty could help with it? 

II. ACT Data - Brady

The ACT Prep class was longer this year. We need to get more students engaged. There is room for improvement across the year. 

Shannon said her son went up 1 point after completing the class then did an online course and went up 2 points on the ACT

Summer said it would be interesting to know how many student athletes participated in the class.  Amanie said not very many engaged in it.

Teri said it was impressive to move up 2 points average in 2 years.

III. Elections/Numbers

Shannon Hougaard, Cheryl Peck and Sara Nelson-Hallock have students graduating so they will be leaving the committee. Shane suggested that we replace the 3 leaving.   We will send out an email and have members do some recruiting. 

Melanie suggested on having an ESL parent. We could have Mari send out an email.

IV. Other

Summer said house bill #61 has some good info for School Safety.  One thing would be to fund a safety coordinator. There is asummer conference about inclusion for educators, and one for parents. Summer will send information.  Would be good for student leadership to attend or even club leaderships, choirs, etc.

Kathy Christiansen expressed thanks to everyone on committee.  This has been a great committee and a great year.

Meeting Adjourned- John motioned to end the meeting, Sheri and Shannon  seconded the motion. Meeting adjourned until next fall.

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