March 13, 2023 – Minutes

School Community Council Meeting Minutes

Sprucewood Elementary

March 13, 2023

Members Present:

Members Absent: Jason Dyer

AGENDA 

• Call to Order

4:08 pm TJ McClure started meeting

• Approve February minutes

TJ McClure  moves to approve last month’s minutes

Brooke Mathews seconds the approval 

• 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. 

• Finalize development of TSSP and LAND Trust plans for next school year. (signature page must be signed)
  • TSSP will be worked on by school and goals/direction shared with SCC for input. 

BLT met January and February to create proposed Math and School Climate goals and TSSA funding focus

• SCC will write and develop a LAND Trust plan to address one or more goals from TSSP.

BLT met January and February to create proposed ELA goals and proposed Landtrust funding focus to SCC during February meeting

Proposed 2023-2024 TSSP

Reading Goal

Analysis Summary

57% of Sprucewood students demonstrated typical or above typical growth in basic reading skills according to 2023 Acadience Winter Pathways of Progress data.   A strategy for improvement is implementing standards based planning that incorporates common routines during daily read aloud, main selection, independent reading and writing learning opportunities.  

Goal

By May 2024, 80% or more of Sprucewood students will demonstrate typical to above typical growth in basic reading skills 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 ELA instructional time by implementing common routines during foundations, read aloud, main selections, independent reading, and writing as per Sprucewood’s Literacy Block document

3) Teachers will make tier 2 skill-based groupings based on timely data (6-8 week fluid intervention plans)

4) Provide professional development focused on common writing routines (deconstructing prompts, writing process & universal scaffolds)

5) Hire and train five Multi-tiered Systems of Support aides (or equivalent hours) to support students who are below benchmark

Measurement

All grades will use Acadience Beginning of Year to End of Year Pathways of Progress data.

Budget

Landtrust: projection=$45,000

• $45,000 will pay for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) aide salaries

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

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):  $55,500

• $45,500 will pay for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) aide salaries
• $5,000 will pay for math manipulatives to support daily math instruction, and storage bins to house manipulatives

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. 

Measurement

Informal and formal IPOP feedback data

Budget

TSSA: projection (to be split between math and school climate goals)=$55,5000

• $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 Positive Behavior Plan
  • Our school uses DOJO care cards to reinforce our three school rules; take care of yourself, take care of others, take care of our school
    • Students have received positive feedback over 75,000 times so far this year!
    • BLT created a list of whole school rewards to be celebrated incrementally
    • Our next whole school reward will be celebrated at 75,000 and will be a pajama day (will coordinate nicely with Read-a-thon)
    • Classroom teachers also set smaller goals as group contingencies for their students to earn short term rewards in between the whole school celebrations
  • Our school also uses High Flyer awards to reinforce our school values; creativity, assertiveness, resiliency, effort, safety
    • Every student is recognized at least once a year for a specific value listed above
    • They receive public recognition in their classroom, a positive visit to the principal’s office, a positive phone call home, a high flyer color-changing pencil, and public recognition with a  selfie on the Falcon Report

• Other
  • Cell tower budget update (February staff morale purchases)

February purchases were under the $400 monthly limit.  The receipt and line item list were shared with SCC members in a March 6th email, one week prior to our meeting.  

Principal Schino asked the members to clarify if the $400 was a hard number per month, or if there was flexibility to roll unused amounts from month to month.  The example shared was January and February spending were both about $100 dollars under the max amount, so we plan to roll that unspent money into March’s purchases.  We would go over $400 for the month of March.  However, the overall spending January-March would be within the original budget.  

*All members present agreed that rolling the unused  money over from month to month is acceptable, as long as the total spent stays within the overall budget.  

• Adjourn until next month’s meeting April 17, 2023 

4:51 meeting adjourned

Jen Dean moved to approve 

Emigh Lo seconded the motion