School Community Council Meeting Minutes
Sprucewood Elementary
April 17, 2023
Members Present:
Faculty | Community |
Cathy Schino (Principal) | Cheryl Becerra |
Emigh Lo (K-2 Teacher) | Mindy Cupello |
Jen Dean (3-5Teacher) | Jason Dyer |
Parker Lindsay (Vice Chair) | |
Brooke Mathews | |
Theodore McClure (Chair) |
Members Absent: Cheryl Becerra
AGENDA
- Call to Order
TJ @ 4:05pm
- Approve March minutes
Move to approve by Jason
Seconded by Mindy & Brooke
- Review next year’s LAND Trust plan, and share changes (highlighted in yellow) to next year’s TSSP budgets- No changes to Landtrust
Math Goal
Analysis Summary
63% of Sprucewood students demonstrated at or above benchmark skills according to 2023 Math Acadience Winter Pathways scores. A strategy for improvement is implementing standards based planning that incorporates common routines during six daily elements of math instruction: 1)number talks, 2)review, 3)vocabulary, 4)teacher clarity, 5)concept/skill development, and 6)skill based instruction (SBI).
Goal
By May 2024, 80% or more of Sprucewood students will demonstrate typical to above typical growth according to Acadience Pathways of Progress.
Action Plan Summary
1) Teachers will utilize backwards design and plan standards-based lessons
2) Teachers will maximize tier 1 and tier 2 math instructional time by implementing common routines during number talks, review, vocabulary, teacher clarity, and concept/skill development, and SBI as per Sprucewood’s Math Block document
3) Provide professional development focused on the systematic vocabulary routine
4) Hire and train three Multi-tiered Systems of Support aides (or equivalent hours) to support students who are below benchmark ($30,000)
Measurement
All grades will use Acadience Beginning of Year to End of Year Pathways of Progress data.
Budget
TSSA projection(to be split between math and school climate goals): $55,000
- $30,000 will pay for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) aide salaries
School Climate Goal
Analysis Summary
27% of students are demonstrating internalizing behaviors according to 2023 Winter SRSS-IE data. A strategy for improvement is to focus on using feedback best practices in all areas of the building to provide students with timely and specific feedback when they are demonstrating the desired behavior or skill.
Goal
By May 2024, 100% of Sprucewood teachers will demonstrate 4:1 positive to corrective feedback, and follow up 85% of corrective feedback with a feedback sequence to reinforce when a student demonstrates the desired behavior/skill as evidenced by informal and formal IPOP data.
Action Plan Summary
1) Provide professional development on feedback and feedback sequences
2) Plan for public practice to occur to improve instruction by having teachers observe peers teaching any content lesson of choice multiple times per year.
3) Pay for a portion of our social worker’s salary so she can work with students full time ($20,000)
4) Pay for substitute salaries or stipends to allow the Building Leadership Team (BLT) 4 days to analyze data, and make recommendations for school wide tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 intervention plans ($5,000)
Measurement
Informal and formal IPOP feedback data
Budget
TSSA: projection (to be split between math and school climate goals)=$55,5000
- $20,000 will pay for a portion of our school social worker’s salary to allow her to stay full time in our building
- $5000 will pay for substitute salaries or stipends to allow the Building Leadership Team (BLT) 4 days to analyze data, and make recommendations for school wide tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 intervention plans
- Review current year’s LAND Trust plan, data and expenditures and review if on course or if amendments are necessary.
Budget
$45,942.88- Entire budget will be used to pay for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) aide salaries. We are on course to have aides complete their year of instruction in May. No amendments are proposed.
- Discuss elections, open seats; especially if SCC holds a spring election
Vote: Do we want to hold elections in Spring or Fall? | |
Member Name | Member Vote/ any additional note |
Cheryl Becerra | Not present |
Mindy Cupello | School is starting in fall, better turn out there |
Jen Dean | Fall is a good time, roles can change for staff too |
Jason Dyer | Vote in fall, lots can happen over the summer, changes etc. Lots of family engagement in the fall as opposed to the Spring. |
Parker Lindsay | Open to either |
Emigh Lo | Fall is best for teachers & families for holding an election |
Brooke Mathews | Fall is better, could be the same as this year but still best to make those changes then |
Theodore McClure | In agreement with fall |
Cathleen Schino | Fall is a better time to ask parents to volunteer to serve- beginning of the year is when people will commit |
Vote Summary: Fall Election to be held based on a unanimous opinion | |
- Other
- Cell tower budget update (monthly spending for staff morale)
- Safety Updates
District Canyoneering Night is this Thursday at Butler Middle. All of our community has been invited twice in April.
Thursday is Great Utah Shake Out – drill will happen here at Sprucewood at 10:15 like most other schools in the state!
- Adjourn until next month’s meeting May 8, 2023
4:22 adjourned meeting
