2022-23 Minutes

Attendance: Megan Armstrong, Julie Broschinsky, Stephanie Adams, Larissa Yahne, Rebecca Ginos, Mariah Checketts, Danny Greene

Select Chair, Vice/Co-Chair & Secretary
     Chair: Megan Armstrong, Vice Chair: Terra Stanko, Secretary: Danny Greene

Motion to nomination positions as listed above by Rebecca Ginos, 2nd by Larissa Yahne. Voting for positions unanimous 

Training
     ○ Video:What's New: School Land Trust Program 2022-23
           We watched the video and ideas on maybe Zoom link for meetings
           Be careful of scams via email 

     ○ October 4th @ 6:00 (Virtual)
     ○ Additional State Trainings:
           ■ Nov. 9 (12 pm)
           ■ Nov. 9 (7 pm)
           ■ Nov. 14th (12 pm)
           ■ Nov. 14th (7 pm)

Rules of Order and Procedure
      We read over these from the school website link: https://www.ccsdut.org/Page/7294
      No questions or concerns were raised on procedure overview 

Review Plan & Expenditures
     Stephanie presented the overview budget spreadsheets and then goals 

    ○ Trustlands  (about $70,000) 
          Our reading goal is to increase percent of students scoring benchmark or higher on the acadience reading composite score (RC) on the mid year assessment from this year’s 70% at benchmark to 75% by end of year
assessments in acadience.
         To achieve: we will hire paraprofessionals (reading aides) to help with small group instruction for students marked as needing additional support from the acadience beginning of year reading.
         Our math goal is to increase percent of student scoring benchmark or grade level from 56% to 59% based on the Rise test math portion.
        To achieve this we will have time dedicated to working on student math paths via iReady mypath

*Title one question: How can we get the word out to the school community about the importance of applying for free or reduced lunch?
         Filling out the form regardless of qualification or usage
         Can we send out a flyer?
         Deadline to apply is Oct. 1 

    ○ TSSA  ($85,000) 
          Goal to identify students who are in need of mental and emotional support
               Achieved by hiring full time school counselor
          Goal to update technology and equipment
               Achieved with new ipad cart, doc cams, and new chromebook lab 

Grant: SRTS 2022
    ○ Any sidewalks that need to be put in on our routes to school?
           -Are there any pathways in need of sidewalks as part of our safe walking route?
           -We need to establish and map our school safe walk route and put it on the state safe route website: https://saferoutes.utah.gov/school-mapping/
           -Can we apply for safer signage or lights for certain intersections?
       Research and response from Stephanie
           -Can we survey the school about some of these intersections and their concerns?

Other Items?
      Council members will be sent an email confirming their acceptance of membership on SCC this year.
      All parents can join the meeting as a non-voting participant and must wait for the floor to be opened before giving feedback or concerns.
       Deadline to amend school plan, goals, etc. is in November

Motion to adjourn meeting by Terra S. 2nd by Rebecca G. motion to adjourn
approved. 

Meetings for 2022-2023
(Third Wednesday of each month @ 3:45 in the Media Center.)
● October 19th, 2022
● November 16th, 2022
● December 14th, 2022 (Second Wednesday. Meeting will only be held if needed.)
● January 18th, 2023
● February 15th, 2023
● March 15th, 2023
● April 19th, 2023
● May 17th, 2023

Attendance: Megan Armstrong, Rebecca Ginos, Mariah Checketts, Terra Stanko, Julie Broschinsky, Stephanie Adams, Danny Greene 

     Motion to approve Sept. minutes by Megan, 2nd by Terra, motion passed. 

Trustlands: Presented by Stephanie

     We have purchased most of the technology. Some of it, like document cameras, come under the supply budget. 

         $3300 for new tv monitors in 3 classrooms

         $8800 for iPads in the classrooms and small groups 

         $1100 for a chromebook cart 

         $2200 on two software licenses (iReady for math and Go Guardian for monitoring safe internet use)

     Remaining budget for supplies is about 10% of the year's budget or about $6600. 

Safe Routes map is submitted, approved and available for viewing: https://www.saferoutesutahmap.com/map/school-maps/greenville-elementary-409  

     We are looking to write a grant under Safe Routes and Public Works so that we can paint the sidewalks marking the safe routes to the school. The grant can include safe route signs. 

     Areas of concern for walking etc: 

         -400 east and around 2800 north across from Meadow View Park 

         -Canal Road (600 east and 2500 north), It is not well maintained and is   sometimes gated off. 

         -400 east and 2000 north to 2200 north. There is no sidewalk currently until the roundabout at 2200 north. 

         -400 east and eastbound along 2200 north also needs sidewalking by agricultural field

School Report Card: 

     Growth was typical in some areas but there are a couple of grades/cohorts of students who we believe need additional support. They may have been adversely affected during the Covid area. 

    We have a few additional programs that are being utilized for support including Amira for reading: https://www.amiralearning.com/ 

         Another program is iReady MyPath for math: https://apps.ccsdut.net/ (iReady)

     ELL students made commendable progress. 

     Our overall school grade is a C with 54.3% of our students being proficient in grade standards. We don’t anticipate this being our grade for next year’s results. 

     How do we keep the individual student from falling behind? 

         Progress monitoring

         Student assistance meetings 

Next Meeting Date: Nov 16, 2022

Title 1 numbers will hopefully be available by the next meeting. Next year we could display the annual income numbers for those that would qualify for free or reduced lunch (which is the criteria for meeting title one status).

• Community Council November 16th, 2022

  Attendance: Megan Armstrong, Julie Broschinsky, Terra Stanko, Reconda Meier, Danny Greene, Stephanie Adams, Rebecca Ginos, Mariah Checketts  
       Approval of minutes: Motion to approve minutes by Terra, 2nd by Rebecca, motion to approve Oct. minutes approved. 
        Next meeting is January 18th, 2023 (We may meet in December if a need arises. Final decision to meet will be made by Dec. 14th. 

  TSSA expenditures: We do have some very old teacher computers that need to be replaced, but the budget is still able to do that. 

       Trustlands budget is stable and allocated appropriately.

  Holidays: Are there families in the school community in need of clothing and/or holiday gifts for the winter? 
         -Please let the office or an SCC member know ASAP

  Safe Route: We are still looking to get the sidewalks added and painted for the safe route to schools based on identified “at risk” areas of the walking routes to school. (As identified in October’s meeting).

  Title 1? We have not gotten the numbers yet for that from the state. 

  TSI? We have not heard if we are on TSI status yet.

  Front Entrance access: When will the new entrance system be installed? No update yet on when that will be installed. 

  Positive feedback from parents on the Halloween parade tradition continuing.

  Fundraisers: We are hoping to do a walk-a-thon fundraiser instead of Cache Valley Direct books since we have a limited number of fundraisers we are allowed to do.  

Meeting Canceled

18 January 2023 / 4:00 PM / LIBRARY 

INVITED ATTENDEES

Stephanie Adams, Megan Armstrong, Reconda Meier, Mariah Checketts, Rebecca Ginos, Julie Broschinsky, Terra Stanko, Danny Greene (secretary)

AGENDA

-Minutes from the November meeting were approved. 

Business

• Approve November meeting minutes

• The school hit 39% for Title 1 assistance….need to hit minimal of 40%

• Upcoming Meeting Date: February 15

• We will be able to keep three all day Kindergarten classes next year. Only half day AM will be offered and they simply leave after their morning session while the rest stay full day. 

• TSSA Budget Review 

• TL Budget Review 

  • Software and computer/iPads and other tech equipment budgets are used. Budget that is left is mostly for the aide salaries for the remainder of the year. 

• Mid-Year Acadience Report: Looked at the graphic chart of how grades grew from beginning to middle of the school year in reading (Acadience)

  • Each grade level of teachers has met and looked at the data on an individual basis to see which students moved up and down. 

  • Our school is TSI status in EL and so we are monitoring those students more frequently to check for growth. The school district also provided some extra aides to help with that. We currently have 30 kids in the school who are EL. 

  • Next month we will go over the findings to offer explanations as to why the growth in some grades was stagnant. 

Safety 

Intercom/doorbell safety update: It has gone really well. No negative comments to date. Bringing ID to the door is the new procedure for everyone after school begins at 9:05. 

Digital Citizenship

• Computer and Internet Safety Update-Mrs Thompson

  • lessons given to the grades on internet safety and appropriate use. More lessons are given to the upper grades. lower grades have basic lessons on safe websites and having adults help on the internet

  • see attachment to the lessons that are taught 

    • website: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ 

    • Chat sites is the current challenge we have with some students 

School Inservice Training

• No agenda items

Health and Wellness

• No agenda items

• 15 February 2023 / 4:00 PM / LIBRARY 

  INVITED ATTENDEES
  Stephanie Adams, Megan Armstrong, Reconda Meier, Mariah Checketts, Rebecca Ginos, Julie Broschinsky, Terra Stanko, Danny Greene (secretary)

  AGENDA

  Business

  • Approve January meeting minutes Motion to approve minutes in January by Rebecca G. 2nd by Terra S. motion to approve January minutes passed. 

  • Upcoming Meeting Date: March 15, 2023

  • Review TSSA expenditures: Budget continues to be on track 

  • Review TL expenditures: Grant matching funds will show us on track when it is applied to that budget. 

  • Review of final report: 65% started in Fall 2020 which turned to 73% in mid-year of that school year. The goal was to increase to 76% by year’s end.  

  This school year we started at 70.8% proficient, then went down to 70.2%. As to why we had a slight drop, we are still looking at the data. Factors may be increased absenteeism since the pandemic, less time for tiered instruction or loss of title one funding helps. 

  Math was to rise from a 62% proficiency in 2018-19 to 64% when we retook the Rise math test in 2020-2021. We actually scored 49% [for] 2020-2021, which was a 13% drop. This was due to a gap of no testing on Rise due to the pandemic and coming back with severe math gaps but still administering the Rise math test. 

  • 2023-2024 plan discussion: We are looking to increase reading proficiency by 5% from 70% at the start to 75% at year’s end this year. 

    • Math: we hope to make a gain of 56% from the 2021- 2022 year to 59% proficient in math for this year’s Rise testing. 

  We will continue to do all day Kindergarten and in school pre-school sessions to help our school community. 

  We have 44 EL students and have been given more aide time to help support these students. 

  Be on the lookout for coming bonds to build additional middle schools for our school district. We hope the communities will support this next bond. 

  Safety 

  • No agenda items 

  Digital Citizenship

  • No agenda items 

  School Inservice Training

  • Teacher training and work day this coming week. Feb. 17th and Feb 21st. Parent conferences the following week on March 2nd and 3rd

  Health and Wellness

  • We have some red air days and keep students inside when the weather is that or if it is below 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

• 15 March 2023 / 4:00 PM / LIBRARY 

  INVITED ATTENDEES

  Stephanie Adams, Megan Armstrong, Reconda Meier, Mariah Checketts, Rebecca Ginos, Julie Broschinsky, Terra Stanko, Danny Greene (secretary)

  AGENDA

  Business

  • Approve February meeting minutes

  • Upcoming Meeting Date: April 19

  • TSSA Expenditure Review 

  • TL Expenditure Review 

  • TL 2023-2024 Proposed Plan Review 

   

  TSSA: The budget is still on track to be used up to about $1000 by year’s end. 

  Trustlands: Budget has to be adjusted due to some school personnel drawing from this budget that should not be….finance team is working to reconcile this budget. To be updated at the next meeting. 

  Goals: 

  Reading: We will move 15% of our students, in each grade, who are not proficient in their Fall 2023 Acadience Reading Assessment to proficient by Spring 2024 Acadience Reading Assessment….Proposed goal

  In our current year, we had 0% movement in proficiency from Fall to Spring. 

  To help with our reading goal we do tiered reading groups for grades K-4 each day for about 30 minutes. SCC believes we should continue to fund these reading group programs. We also prioritize keeping technology education tools up to date and used for support for this goal. 

  Math: Growth goal based on the iReady math program. We will have 60% of our school population meet their math growth goal from the Fall assessment to the Spring assessment. These growth goals are individualized/adapted on the iReady program. There is a mid-year assessment to check for mid-year progress for each student. 

  iReady has been made available to the school for the foreseeable future. 

  Safety 

  • Pick up/Drop off issues getting more loose as the year goes on. 

  Parents getting out of their car in the circle drive to get kids loaded in their car. It causes delays and backups along 400 E and in the circle drive itself. 

  The west lot is being used for pick up and should only be for parking. Temporary bus duty position for the west lot. 

  For now, we can move the visitors slots so they can be better used for parking drop off. 

  We will also have some North Logan officials come and give us some recommendations for how to best utilize our parking for safer drop off and pick up. 

  Digital Citizenship

  • No agenda items 

  School Inservice Training

  • No agenda items

  Health and Wellness

  • No agenda items

19 April 2023 / 4:00 PM / LIBRARY 

INVITED ATTENDEES
Stephanie Adams, Megan Armstrong, Reconda Meier, Mariah Checketts, Rebecca Ginos, Julie Broschinsky, Terra Stanko, Danny Greene (secretary)

AGENDA

Motion to approve minutes from March by Terra S. 2nd by Julie B. minutes for March approved. 

Next meeting will not be until September 20th

Business

• TSSA Expenditure Review 

Budget is on track with tech expenditures.

• TL Expenditure Review 

 We have $332.31 left. We had a part of the Trustlands leave the budget because we had an excess amount that the district monitored and reclaimed. We now have 1.13% of the budget left in TL. 

• TL 2023-2024 Proposed Plan was approved by the district and so our goals, as we discussed in March, are now in effect for the 23-24 school year.  

-Sidewalks: With new construction around our area, sidewalks are required by the developers. The remaining sidewalks in built areas will be covered by a grant that the city will apply for and will be used to get sidewalks on our identified most needed streets for safe student walking to the school. 

-Parent Input: Survey concerns included behavior support as well as recognition for good behavior. We have our positive character ticket drawings each month. 

We would like to add onto it by having a poster board with pictures of the kids who are being acknowledged for these positive character behaviors i.e. kindness, perseverance, sharing.

Each class has two kids per month for the posterboard (roughly 18 kiddos) 

Award assembly (fast one) each month to introduce the next month’s character theme and recognize student excellence. Invite parents to these assemblies. 

Another thought is to bring back WatchDog, the dad specific volunteer program. The hope is to have it so it is worth it for everyone, meaning they have things to do in the classrooms and we have a way to schedule them effectively. 

Back to School Night: Do we want to do a parent assembly as part of Back-to-School Night? Go over PTA, Free lunch, introduce faculty….etc. and after this general assembly let the parents meet the teachers. 

We can also do an open house still a couple of days before school starts…a couple of hours, informal, to let kids and parents peek in and see the class. 

Another suggestion is to have a Back-to-School Night a few days after school has started. 

 

Safety 

Drop off and pick up has improved. 

West parking lot is still being used for pick up. 

Digital Citizenship

• No agenda items

School Inservice Training

• No agenda items

Health and Wellness

• No agenda items

Meeting Canceled