2024-25 Minutes & Agendas

No Meeting Held

 

September 17, 2024

Agenda

Welcome                 John

I.                    Nominate new Chairman                                                                   Shane

                      Council Membership

II.                 School Community Council Training

                    Tuesday, October 8th · 6:00 – 7:00pm

III.               Library Items                                                                                         Kandyce

IV.              Trustland Amendment

V.                 Accreditation

VI.              RCK Scores

Next meeting, Wednesday, October 15th

September 17, 2024

 Minutes

Present: John Louviere, Mason Cardon, Connie Rawlins, Lyndee Agee, Amanie Crosbie, Don Darrington, Kathryn Christiansen, Stefanie Thatcher, Teri Rhodes, Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Kathy Bullen

We were welcomed by John and the time turned over to Shane.

Shane reviewed the membership on the council and suggested that we take Ryan Grunig off because he is a parent and teacher and he would be counted as a teacher. He has served several years as well.  Connie asked to be taken off the committee but Mason will stay on one more year. That will leave one teacher spot available and we have 4 parent positions available. We will send out an email to parents to see if anyone is interested and set up an election if needed and will work on getting another teacher.

Shane asked for a nomination for Chairman for the year. Stephanie nominated John to continue and the motion was seconded by Don. All were in favor of John continuing to serve as chair.

Shane reminded everyone about the School Community Council Training that will be on Tuesday, October 8^th from 6:00 – 7:00pm. It will be a Zoom meeting and hopefully we can get some new members by then.

We have a $70,000 carry over on our Trustland budget which is  more than we would like. Shane explained that the target is around 10% overage. If we have carry over for multiple years, they’ll ask why.  A lot of it has been because of wages we put to younger teachers.  We’ve had an increase in students so we would like to lower class sizes in the English classes by adding extra English sections and split the AP Physics class.  Our new Physics teacher Kade Ogden did his recruiting, took classes this summer and now has 39 students in the class.  Our AP Biology numbers are big as well.  We would like to use additional FTE towards Kasey Alder as testing coordinator. Testing space is hard to find so we will probably pull a little from TSSA and buying some computers for ELL and the Success Center.  The Amendment to the Trustland that we are proposing will include these items.

Sky View will be going through Accreditation this year. It is done through Cognia. Shane said that this time will require some work on everyone’s part and we will need the council’s help on February 19th.  The Accreditation team will be here all day. We won’t have to do anything different, but just show what we are doing and fill out the reports.  

We pay $1400 a year, but we don’t use much of their products, then we pay $10,000 for the year of accreditation plus expenses.  As we go through the year we will pass on reports, etc. as we get ready.

John asked why we do the accreditation? The Admin said that it is required, but we are held more accountable to the state than to the accreditation team. Stephanie mentioned that it is also nice to have someone from the outside to do it. Don asked if the state specifies who we have to use.  We must use a regional accreditation company.

Shane talked about something new that we are doing this year. Some teachers got together last year, decided they wanted to push the students to be in class.  They came up with having an RCK score for students. It includes expectations for students, teacher and admin.  Teachers will commit to keeping students in class, to start on time and to keep the first 10 minutes of class as sacred time. Teachers will be in hallways between bells, welcoming kids to class, helping other kids and walk around the hallways on their prep.

Nothing has changed from a grading standpoint but an ongoing conversation with teacher and student about tardies and absences.  10% of grade can be part of RCK score. The goal is to change behavior. Mason said students are communicating more and the number of students using RCK hour is up.  John said he’s been doing a lot of research with community manufacturing and it shows that a high number of employees here in Utah don’t show up on time and don’t let employers know when they don’t show up.  They haven’t seen that anywhere else in the nation.  John commended what we are doing.  Kathy Christiansen said it is important to learn content as well as life skills. Teri mentioned that it is a compliment to public education that helps them learn those skills.

Brady did a first data crunch with attendance with the first 7 days of school this year compared to last year.  At first it showed higher rate of absences this year - then realized that this year was different - teachers are better at taking attendance this year.  

Mason came up with a matrix to keep RCK scores. We will see use of 3 stars - Relationships, Character and Knowledge.

We need members to be on our Library committee.  They would need to review some books, some of which are district wide.  Shane said are looking to see if any parents would be willing to sit on that committee, if needed.  It’s pretty straightforward.  He asked if anyone would be willing to serve on that committee.

John and Don volunteered  to be on the committee.  

Meeting was adjourned until Tuesday, October 15th

School Community Council Agenda

October 15, 2025

Welcome                                                                                                      John

I.                    Membership/Nominate Vice Chair                                     Shane

II.                 Elections in Spring Next Year                                                Shane

III.               Follow up on Training                                                             Shane

IV.              Review and Approve Rule of Order and Procedure       Shane

V.                 Digital Citizenship                                                                     Kandyce Barber

VI.              Library Reconsideration Committee                                   Kandyce Barber

VII.            RCK Talks                                                                                    Brad

VIII.         Teacher of the Year                                                                 Shane

Next meeting: November 19th

 

 

School Community Council Minutes

October 15, 2024

Present: Shane Jones, John Louviere, SherRee Jacklin, Kandyce Barber, Don Darrington, Teri Rhodes, Kathy Christiansen, Mason Cardon, Lyndy Agee, Kathy Bullen

We were welcomed by John and then he turned the time over to Shane to discuss the following items.

Membership/Nominate Vice Chair

Shane talked about the requirements for the council. We are required to have two more parents than faculty members.  Having at least six parents is suggested.  Shane suggested that for our council, we have eight parents and six faculty members.  SheRee Jacklin is a new teacher for this year, replacing Connie Rawlins and Mason Cardon has been on the council last year and will remain for one more year. Mason made a motion to approve the membership suggestion. Don seconded the motion.  All were in favor.

John has agreed to serve another term as Chairman but we need to nominate a vice chair.  Shane nominated Lyndy as Vice Chair and motioned for approval. Mason seconded the motion and all were in favor. We will be having an election process for parent members because we have ten nominees that have expressed interest in serving. 

Elections in Spring Next Year

Shane also mentioned that he would like to hold elections in Spring, once we have it set for this year.  Don seconded the motion and all were in favor.  We will put it on the April Agenda and advertise for candidacy.

Follow up on Training                                          

The committee was reminded that if they haven’t watched the training the link is still available. Teri Rhodes suggested that we Vote for Amendment B. It deals with Trustlands and would increase the amount of money that schools would receive. 

• Review and Approve Rule of Order and Procedure
• Every year the committee needs to approve the Rules of Order and Procedure. Copies of it were distributed for everyone to review.
• Teri made a suggestion to take out paragraph of about motioning to approve.  John, motioned to approve and Shane seconded the motion. All were in favor. That paragraph will be removed and then the Rules of Order and Procedure will be posted to the website with the date approved.

Digital Citizenship                                                              

Kandyce Barber is Sky View’s librarian and is over the Digital Citizenship. She said she has sent a survey to teachers about how many of them cover that in their classes. 35 teachers have  responded and only about 30% of them teach digital citizenship.  RCK Academy classes teach it as part of their curriculum.  Kandyce has been going around to the RCK classes teaching it. We are encouraging staff to address it more often.  We would like to add Tech Tips on announcements, etc. The District’s Acceptable Use policy has been extensively revised by the Board and includes private device use. 

Shane said when the Digital Citizenship requirement first came out we used NetSmartz assemblies.  He likes the classroom approach better because we can reach more students.  AI isn’t specifically talked about much, but it needs to be.  John compared it to when the internet first came out. 

A copy of the district’s report on safe technology and digital citizenship was distributed. Shane mentioned that in the past we have suspended privileges for a few students for using the internet inappropriately (sexual, self harm, etc. and has even been a writing site) The District has ability to track what students do.

Library Reconsideration Committee

Kandyce talked about the Library Reconsideration Committee. The committee usually doesn’t do much, but this year is different.  Kyrell Younker and Nicole Zollinger are parents that were asked to be on the committee. There are books with subjective material that need to be reviewed.  Nicole participated just at the school and Kyrell did at the district level.  

Kandyce explained that if a parent complains she asks them to read the book then fill out a form. Then the school committee, which includes teachers and parents, meets. John Louviere and Don Darrington are both on the committee. John said he was surprised to see Moby Dick on the list?

RCK Talks                 

Shane talked about how we are now doing Video Announcements 3 days a week through the Video Production class. Part of those video announcements include  RCK Talks on Wednesday.  Shane started with addressing better attendance goals but will have different groups doing the RCK talks with different topics.

Teacher of the Year                                                                      

Each year every school submits a teacher for Teacher of the Year recognition to the District.  They are then recognized at a Board meeting. We have asked for nominations from teachers.  Shane asked if anyone on committee would like to nominate a teacher to please email Kathy.  The Administration will select a teacher and submit the information to the District to recognize in December.

Shane said the District is making some changes on meetings and trainings.  Meetings for the Administration will now be on Tuesday mornings which will affect the School Community Council’s scheduled meetings.  Shane suggested to meet on Thursdays instead of Tuesday and asked for input on what would work for the committee. John and Don both said that the change would work for them. The next meeting will be on Thursday, November 21^st instead of the 19^th.

Meeting was adjourned.

School Community Council Agenda

November 21, 2024                

Welcome                                                                                                      John

Approval of Minutes

I.                    Accreditation                                                                             Shane

II.                 Testing Updates                                                           

III.               Attendance                                        

IV.              Training Follow-up

Next meeting: December 19th

School Community Council Minutes

November 21, 2024

Present: Shane Jones, Kathy Bullen, Mason Cardon, SherRee Jacklin, John Louviere, Don Darrington, Kyrell Younker, PJ Anderson, Nicole Zollinger, Teri Rhodes, Kathy Christiansen

We were welcomed by John. Don motioned to approve the Minutes for the October meeting.  Nicole seconded the motion and all were in favor.

Accreditation

Shane said that the Community Council will be involved in our accreditation review on February 19th.  They will talk to members individually about parent involvement.  We will keep everyone updated on that.

Testing Updates

Shane reported that the State ACT test for all the juniors will be on March 12. All schools will be doing it the same. It will count for scholarships, admissions etc. Jeremy Young is the new testing coordinator at District and he is a great help.

April 9, 16, 23 will be the Aspire Plus test for the 9th and 10th grades. It is a practice ACT test. The State would like us to get 90% of the students tested.  Those not tested are figured in as 0’s on scores.  Changing the format of testing over a couple days has helped decrease the number of opt outs.

Our ACT Prep class will be starting after Thanksgiving.  It will show as a 6th hour class on students schedules and be independent study but the students will check in with teachers. There is a correlation with those who do better on the ACT to those who actually do the class and finish it.  50-60% of the students enrolled will finish it and will get the .25 credit for it.

Attendance

We have had a big push with teachers on taking and enforcing attendance. They are helping monitor halls on their preps and using RCK scores, etc.  Shane said we have asked if it has been worth it? We think so. There are some students who have turned things around drastically who were struggling with their attendance. 

Shane asked if the parents have had any feedback from students about attendance from 1st tri?  John said he thought it was good to create the culture and good habits for future employment etc. Shane replied saying our goal is to have students ready to prepare for life after high school and not just getting the diploma. 

John said he was at a meeting with the Pepperidge Farms manager who said that their biggest challenge is constant problems with employees not showing up on time or just skipping work. He has been at other places in the country and didn’t have problem until he came here.

Kathy asked if there are any incentives for the students?  Shane replied that hopefully the rewards are better relationships and planning.  This is especially true for athletes where they have a GPA and attendance requirement.

PJ said has talked to athletes and they know they need to get to class or their coaches will get after them.

Shane also talked about how the RCK surveys shows 82-85% of students involved in extracurricular activities. The RCK Academy class has been really good to help students learn what they need to do.

He also said that our initial reports on attendance show that attendance had dropped but actually what happened was that teachers were actually taking better attendance.           

Training Follow-up

The School Community Council training is pretty much the same every year.  Everyone should have recently received an email about watching the training.

Terri Rhodes said that Prop B passed which allows more money for Trustland funding. She also talked about other proposed educational bills: #84 is about school safety.  It includes putting safety film on all glass, pulling deputies out of NOVA to use for school safety.  The problem is that money comes from an educational budget and the safety film has a life span. The representatives have become immersed in school shootings and caught up in the emotion. They want a budget of 800 million for school safety and want to make sure it doesn’t happen in Utah. The head of School Safety in the state level department is a former police officer. The cell phone bill is another one that is being discussed.

Shane gave an update on facilities. We are getting ready to tear down bleachers- the press box was a little shaky as well. We will add about 200 more seats and be safer. There is some trenching that needs to be done for the internet for media use.

We are also upgrading the lighting and technology in the Auditorium  

The school was not built for demand on electricity and technology the we require now. In the Ceramic room we have 3 kilns but not enough electricity.  We have had to pull new lines in and have added some sinks.

We had a great Veterans day assembly.  We always get some good feedback and some was about our flagpole that is broken. We want to move it out in front of the parking with a new sign.  We want everyone to know the west side is the front entrance of the building. The South parking looks like it, but the doors are locked.  It will a project for this next summer. The circle drive is working better after adding in the new bus lane.  We will also be doing something in the center of the new roundabout.

PJ suggest a new sign on roundabout? Maybe some updated signs with the new logo, etc. He also suggested a new scoreboard and suggested approach some local companies to partner with.  With the LED technology that is  out there, we should be able to find someone willing to help. Shane said just a matter of time and money.

The meeting was adjourned until December 19th

School Community Council Agenda

December 19, 2025                     

Welcome                                                                                                      John

Approval of Minutes

I.                    Accountability Indicator Data                                               Shane

II.                 Teacher Merit Pay

III.               Thank you’s

Next meeting: January 16^th, 2025

School Community Council Minutes

December 19, 2024

Present: Shane Jones, Brady Fonnesbeck, Amanie Crosbie, Lyndy Agee, Kathy Bullen, Mason Cardon, Stefani Thatcher, Melanie Chambers, Kyrell Younker, PJ Anderson, Nicole Zollinger, Brooke Pugmire, Teri Rhodes, Kathy Christiansen

We were welcomed by Shane. Nicole motioned to approve minutes from last month. PJ seconded the motion.  All were in favor.

Shane mentioned that Nicole is involved with Smithfield’s Night of Giving that they had here the first part of December.  She is also involved with the PTA.  Nicole mentioned that the PTA is looking for volunteers to help with the Sky View Winter Dance on January 18th that they are helping sponsor.

PJ reported that he is reaching out to his contacts about getting a new scoreboard.

Accountability Indicator Data

Shane talked about having Jeremy Young as a testing coordinator at the District. He has been a great help in coordinating the testing data.

Shane shared and explained the test score data with Achievement scores. Since we’ve come back from COVID we’ve been pretty steady.  We have to test a certain percentage of students. Those not tested get counted as zeros.  Opting out is something that we take pretty seriously. Testing is evaluative and isn’t high stakes testing.  The Aspire will test over 3 consecutive days instead of one day.  Science testing has traditionally had the lowest scores and we think because maybe it is the last section of test given, so splitting up the tests over days may help. The ACT also may be changing to having the Science test being optional.

Shane also explained that we could do better on our growth scores. We need to look at what we are doing with the bottom 25%.

Our ELL students use the WIDA test which measures two ways.  We’ve had more pass the WIDA this year than the last 4-5 years combined.

Stephanie asked what we do when we get students that speak different languages. Shane said that our goal is getting them to learn English.  What we expected of them years ago is different now.  We identify teachers that speak other languages and are ELL endorsed to help. What we teach and grade is not necessarily compliance, but helping them learn. We have a team approach and have the best teachers on the team.  Our ELL teacher doesn’t speak Spanish.  The outreach is better than what we have ever had and technology is a huge advantage.              

Shane continued with discussing our ACT scores.  They have dropped but we are working on getting those back up. They are based on a composite score of 18.  We just started our ACT prep class for our Juniors.  The data shows that students that were fully involved with the class, increased their scores.

Shane said that just having students graduate isn’t the bar anymore.  We are helping prepare them for life after high school.

We have good class teaming with our SpEd students. The scores with our students with disabilities have gone up.

This data site is really good.  You can check all schools and compare and can sort data by student groups etc.

Teacher Merit Pay

Legislative leaders in our state want to encourage and reward good behavior for teachers so have implemented House Bill 173.  This is a teacher merit system that will give bonus payments to teachers if they achieve the 25% in testing.  There will be different evaluation techniques for different school districts.  The hard part is some of our teachers wouldn’t have the chance to get the money.  Some classes don’t give the standardized testing. CTE, PE and Foreign language classes are not involved. It goes against what we are trying to achieve and would make it competitive between teachers within schools.  It is a 5-year pilot program with one-time money.  Charter schools that opt in get to go first.  After that is awarded to districts.  There are 250 LEAS in the state and only 41 have opted in.  Some of those have opted back out. It is set up as a business model, but we aren’t a business.

Teri (School Board President) said the hard thing is that the HB 173 started out with good intent.  It’s been changed to be more rigid.  It says that a district can develop a plan, but is very rigid. There is a lot of work up front, but no guarantee that money would be there in 5 years. Most of the District administration was against it but have asked for input from all teachers.  The School Board wants to make sure they do the right thing.  It will be brought up in the Board meeting tonight as an action item.

Other items

Shane reported that we got funded again with Principals Trust money of $100,000 that we will use to upgrade programs and building.

We are upgrading the ceramics program with more kilns. The biggest chunks used are upgrades on lighting in auditorium. We are installing cost efficient LED lights which is costing around $105,000. We are using money from last year as well as help from district.

The football field bleachers are down and will be getting new ones

We also just hired new teachers – a part time English and just replaced a SpEd teacher that left at the first of the year.

Teri said that a Supt. Facilities advisory committee is getting put together. They will make 5-10-15 year plans for buildings in the District. Building administrators shouldn’t have to worry about facilities, need to focus on kids instead.

Amanie said that we will be having an assembly on January 15^th, on “Fight the new Drug: Pornography”.  It will be a double assembly.  We will also have a parent meeting the night before to address any concerns or questions.

Meeting adjourned until January 16^th, 2025

School Community Council Agenda

January 16, 2025

Welcome                                                                                                      John

Approval of Minutes

I.                    Fight the New Drug Assembly                                              Shane

II.                 Personnel  changes                                                    

III.               Freshmen Orientation

IV.              PCCRS/Registration

V.                 Accreditation – February 19^th          

VI.              Other

Next meeting: February 20^th , 2025

School Community Council Minutes

January 16, 2025

Present: Nicole Zollinger, PJ Anderson, Don Darrington, Shane Jones, Teri Rhodes, Lyndy Agee, SherRee Jacklin, Brooke Pugmire, Kathy Bullen

We were welcomed by Lyndy. She asked for a motion to approve the Minutes from the last meeting. Nicole motioned to approve and PJ seconded, all were in favor.

Fight the New Drug Assembly                                       

Shane reported that we had the assembly on “Fight the New Drug: Pornography”. We had a Parent Meeting the night before with about 18-20 parents attending.  The assembly was about the potential harmful effects that pornography has.

Shane asked if any of the committee had any feedback or concerns? There was some follow up in classrooms and in the counseling department. The assembly’s purpose was to educate. It wasn’t about shaming, there were no religious undertones and was research based.  Shane asked the parents to check with their students for any feedback. Brooke said that she appreciates when the community supports what parents are trying to do at home.

Personnel  changes           

Shane said that things are constantly changing at the school, especially with personnel.  Chris Howell has left the District to help coach at USU. Matt Sadler will take over the half time AD position and then we will reevaluate at the end of the year. There is one teacher that we know of that will be retiring at the end of the year. This trimester we have 7 new student teachers and we had shared last month about the 2 new teachers that we added to the staff (Dallin Johnson – part time English and Kaylie Sanders – SpEd)                          

Freshmen Orientation

We will be having our Welcome to Sky View Night for incoming Freshmen on Monday, February 3rd at 6:00. It is great for the parents and students to get information about what to expect at Sky View. We will start with a welcome and introductions that will last about 15 min in auditorium. Then they will be able to check out course options, programs, athletics and other opportunities that are available to them.

PCCRS/Registration

Shane said that the Counselors will be starting the PCCRS/Registration meetings with all the Sophomores and Juniors. Brooke asked how the PCCRs worked. Lyndy explained the things they go over during the PCCR’s.  Shane said we will have our upcoming Course Fair during RCK hour so students can check out classes and programs.  We will also have a Career Fair on March 20th.  Teri asked if they see big gaps between interest and aptitude.  Lyndy said sometimes they do.  Counselors haven’t really seen that much data yet.  This will be the first time they the information from the YouScience program in the PCCRS.

Teri also asked Lyndy how prevalent the stackable credits are with BTech and USU? Lyndy said it is hard to know what the students are doing after graduation. We haven’t heard that many students using it.  Counselors pass the information on about it but most students don’t know what they want to do yet. 

PJ has experience in the field of automation and he said he thinks it will eventually wipe out the work force.  Automation is the future of all manufacturing.  The Legislature is trying to get more high-tech manufacturing coming into the state as well.

Matt Fuller from BTech is good about coming into school to encourage students to go into that field.

Accreditation – February 19^th

Our Accreditation review will be on February 19^th. Shane said he wasn’t sure how they want the SCC involved yet.  We may move our scheduled meeting from February 20^th.  When we find out what the accreditation team would like we will get the information out to the council.

Other

RCK Scores: Teachers are still monitoring kids for tardies and attendance and using the RCK Scores. The ironic thing was SV was recognized for good attendance in past years. We’ve got a great population – the vast majority of students and parents want to be here.  But looking at data, what we have been doing has made a difference. The number of tardies are down. There is more dialogue between teachers and students about tardies and absences.  SherRee said it has been a chance for a conversation with students.

Brooke shared some feedback from her son.  He has classes that are spread all over the school so he says has a hard time getting to classes.  Shane said they should be able to get to classes on time, but that would be the best opportunity to talk to the teachers

Nicole mentioned that when she was here with the PTA during RCK, she saw Joy and Vanessa out in the halls and she saw the shift with kids when seeing them they head to class.

There is more an awareness about attendance since we’ve started this push.

Meeting adjourned until February 20^th, 2025

School Community Council Agenda

February 19^th, 2025

Welcome                                                                                                      Lyndy

Approval of Minute

I.                    Nominate new Chairman to replace John Louviere      

II.                  Portrait of a Graduate                                                           Dave Swensen

III.               School Trustland Update                                                        Shane

IV.              Other

Next meeting: March 20, 2025

School Community Council Minutes

February 19^th, 2025

Present: PJ Anderson, Don Darrington, Shane Jones, Kathy Christiansen, Nicole Zollinger, Brittany Foster, Gary Thomas, SherRee Jacklin, Dave Swenson, Lyndy Agee, Kathy Bullen.              

We were welcomed by Lyndy.  She called for a motion to approve the Minutes from last month. SherRee motioned to approve, Don seconded the motion.  All were in favor.

Nominate new Chairman to replace John Louviere

John Louviere has resigned as chairman and as member of the committee because of employment conflicts.

Shane nominated Nicole Zollinger to replace him as Chairman. Lyndy seconded the motion. All were in favor (except for Nicole😊)

Portrait of a Graduate

Dave Swenson, Brittany Foster and Gary Thomas were here from the District to present some information. Dave said the Superintendent has asked for strategic plan for the district. They have met with a lot of groups of people to come up with a mission statement, a vision, core values and a 5-year strategic plan for the school district.  It includes a document called a portrait of a graduate.  They then were asked to implement that with administrators, teachers, and students asking what is the end in mind? It was hard to connect the portrait of graduate to fit in with the strategic plan.  There was nothing talking about knowledge and skills. They came up with 3 basic things they would like to address that they would like our students to have when they graduate:  Knowledge, Skills, and Dispositions.

They are asking for feedback about what things we think would fit in those areas.  What are the key indicators for those 3 items?  After the high schools, they will then go to the middle schools, and elementary and add things to build upon what we have added.

These are some of the things that our committee suggested.

Knowledge: value of knowledge,  need to know how to properly learn, being teachable, want to learn,  life skills, Financial literacy, self-management, Basic Math and reading, how to advocate for themselves.

Skills: Ability to identify and diagnose, Self-management, social skills, responsible decision making 

Dispositions:  Willingness to work, courage to take educated risks, Grit, self-awareness, knowing strengths and weaknesses, social awareness- respectful, kind, etc., common courtesy,

Shane mentioned that with the Accreditation, they have asked what we have focused on, which really reflects the SV mission statement.  When the seniors walk across the stage with a piece of paper, we would love something that showed what they truly learned in high school.  Our goal is to get students graduated but we would like a higher bar.  For example, what certifications would you like to have, what are your goals for future education.  For us the portrait of a graduate is going to fit with SV mission statement, for our counselors, etc. Hopefully each high school will take this District Portrait of a graduate and make it fit what the school needs.

School Trustland Update                   

The District is moving the trustland responsibilities to the business office at the District office.  Shane just submitted the final plan for 23-24 school year.  We focused on transition of 9th graders with 4 measures.

The first goal was tracking the percentage of freshmen that are on track to graduate. Our goal was 95% and we are at 97%. 

Our attendance overall was 95%/ We tracked how well our students did on the Aspire test. English and math scores were above the state and district average. The science was below. Last year, our science and math increased, and English dropped a little bit. We met our goal with the freshmen

The second goal was working with the ELL population. We made really good improvements. Our ultimate goal was to be removed from targeted list.

We know what we need to work on and are trending well. We need to keep the expectations for them.

Shane reported that the District has warned us that we have $70,000 left over in our budget.  Most of it is put into salaries for teachers and programs that we are focusing on and it is hard to spend because we can’t make decisions in May.

We will soon be starting to look at next year’s plan. 

Nicole asked what the growth is looking like in next few years and what the size of incoming freshmen class. It looks like the numbers are staying steady the next few years. Kathy Christiansen said that it has been reported that the birthrate is down in Cache Valley. 

A member of the Accreditation team joined us part way through the meeting.  The parents on the council will be meeting with her afterwards.

Meeting adjourned until March 20, 2025

School Community Council Agenda

March 20, 2025    

Welcome: Lyndy

Approval of Minutes

1. District Community Council replacement                         Shane
2. Data
3. Trustland Plan

Next meeting: April 17, 2025

School Community Council Minutes

March 20, 2025

Attending: Shane Jones, Nicole Zollinger, Kathy Christiansen, Teri Rhodes, Kyrell Yonker, PJ Anderson, Mason Cardon, Brooke Pugmire, Don Darrington, SherRee Jacklin, Kathy Bullen

Nicole Zollinger motioned to approve the Minutes from last month.  It was seconded by PJ Anderson.  All were in favor of approval.

I.                    District Community Council replacement

Brooke Pugmire nominated Nicole Zollinger to replace John Louviere as our District Community Council representative. It was seconded by PJ Anderson. It  was approved unanimously.

II.                 Trustland Plan

The Trustland Plan is general to allow for flexibility. We don’t have data from this year yet but the plan for next year is due in April. The TSSA plan is more flexible so it can pay for what SLT Funds cannot.

Shane reviewed the SLT Plan from this year. Most goals have been met. He presented data on AP Tests & Concurrent Enrollment scores, as well as from the USBE data gateway.  Shane said that “Every kid should graduate with AP, Concurrent, or Pathway completion to move forward after HS.”

Next year’s goal will be the same as this year’s “To Improve rigor….” with the addition of Chromebooks to use any funds still available after paying for Action Plan steps 1-6.

There was a discussion about the need for higher quality writing from our students and what SVHS is doing to teach better writing skills.

It was also reported that more students are engaging to do well on ACT.

III.               Data discussion:

The State should come up with 10-12 measures of best practices to evaluate schools. What data do parents want to see? How do you know your kids are in a good school?

Currently our data shows that the Student to teacher ratio is  26:1

IV.               Other discussion items

We have hired a new Drill coach and girls volleyball coach.  We will be interview and hiring replacements for art teacher Lester Lee and a FACS teacher KayeDawn Falslev because they are retiring.

There was a discussion on the Accreditation process which not as expected. Parents expected that a team, not just one person should have done the accreditation process such as visiting classes, interviewing parents and students, etc. The parents that were involved feel the funds spent on accreditation could have been used in better ways. Parents want more information for comparison and evaluation of school.

Meeting adjourned until April 17th

 

 

School Community Council Agenda

April 17, 2025                

Welcome                                                                                                      Lyndy

Approval of Minutes

I.                    Bear River Health Dept.                                                          Madi Taylor

II.                 FTE’s for next year                                                                   Shane

III.               ACT Scores                                                                                 Brady

IV.              Other

Next meeting:  May 15^th, 6:45am

School Community Council Agenda

April 17, 2025

Present: Shane Jones, Nicole Zollinger, Madi Taylor,  Brady Fonnesbeck, PJ Anderson, Kathy Christiansen, SherRee Jacklin, Kathy Bullen, Don Darrington, Teri Rhodes

We were welcomed by Nicole.

Approval of Minutes

Don Darrington motioned to approve last month’s minutes. PJ Anderson seconded the motion. All were in favor

I.                    Bear River Health Dept.                                                                     

Madi Taylor, with Cache Cares Coalition, and Molly Dursteler from the Family Place talked about their organizations. One of their goals is r educing substance abuse with youth through the coalition. 

Bringing together different organizations, they would like to educate families and provide different activities and opportunities for youth and families.

Molly teaches Mental Health first aid at the Family Place and has talked with the District about using it with teachers. 

Shane added a note about some students playing sports for 1st time this year and the difference it has made in them trying their best to be eligible. 

The Sharp Survey gathers data on drug use and social behaviors.  It gives us incredible information.  We’ve usually done the survey with the majority of the students.  This time we only had 162 take the survey so it won’t give us a good cross section on results.  We’ve had to have parents opt in to have the students take the survey and not very many parents did. Next year we need to get the word out to parents  that they need to opt in for students to take these surveys. 

The parents were not sure about receiving the emails.  Communication needs to be more clear, a lot to go through because there are a lot of emails to go through.

Teri Rhodes said that Utah Parents United, minority group in Utah speaks loudly with the State Legislature.

Shane asked if it is a Trust issue?

Teri read the legislation and parent permission needs to be completed once at the registration.  We need to work with district on better communicating with parents.

II.                 FTE’s                                                       

FTES for next year is about the same as last year, maybe up just a little bit. It works out to about one teacher per 29 students.  This is what drives our Master Schedule.  If our student count goes up by Oct 1 we will get more money.  We build for growth, if it doesn’t happen, class sizes are smaller.  It is hard to hire teachers in Oct.  We have 2 teachers that are retiring this year.  Our Art teacher position had about 20 applicants.  We hired Ben Szabo from Preston High School.  We will also be hiring a new math teacher, and a part time English teacher.

III.               ACT Scores                                                                                

Brady talked about how after split with schools our ACT scores started to drop, then hit bottom.  He said partly was because students were being told the ACT scores don’t matter.  Brady’s goal was raise our students ACT scores. The last couple years, the scores have consistently gone up, especially our English scores.  Our English teachers have focused on improving the English ACT scores with their students. 

ACT has benchmarks, like 18 on composite, then you are ready for college.  We have climbed in every area during the last 5 years. It will help the students with scholarships and paying for college.

Shane said he is a big believer in ownership for school, teachers, students. 

We had a student get a perfect score on Junior ACT test this year.

IV.              Other

We will look at membership for next year next month.  We need new parent members.

Next meeting:  May 15^th, 6:45am