November 15, 2021 – Minutes

School Community Council Meeting Minutes

Sprucewood Elementary

November 15, 2021

Members Present:

Members Absent: Terri Avery

• Call to Order
• 4:08 pm 
• Approve last month’s minute
• Minutes approved by Mindy & Bo
• Approve bylaw updates

Changes include:

1. Updated codes 
2. SCC needs to vote on elections being held in Spring OR Fall (and must adhere to this for 4 years)
3. Chair creates agendas in cooperation with principal
4. Updated items that are appropriate for discussion to include 5 more items directed by district (digital citizenship plan, school safety plan, positive behavior plan, electronic devices plan, safe walking routes plan)

• Proposal to amend TSSP budget to include ordering an additional set of phonics readers
• Additional $5,300 
• Question about monies being used for additional security cameras inside and outside the school
• There will be money from other areas that can be used to spend on cameras, can be brought up during our safety plan discussion 

• Proposal to spend cell tower money to support staff morale

• Review current year’s LANDtrust plan, data, and expenditures

Reading Goal

Analysis Summary

29 % of students demonstrated below typical growth according to Acadience Winter Pathways of Progress data.  This pattern is most common in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades.  We believe the problem is a result of students needing more effective scaffolds and meaningful reading practice opportunities during Tier 1 instruction.   A strategy for improvement is implementing common comprehension strategies that incorporate scaffolded classroom discussion routines.

Goal

By May 2022, 80% or more of Sprucewood students will demonstrate typical to above typical growth according to Acadience Pathways of Progress.

Action Plan Summary

1) provide professional development on unpacking standards so all planning is standards-based

2) provide professional development focused on the 5 foundational reading skills (Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary and Comprehension)

3) provide professional development focused on listening comprehension and speaking skills (read aloud) 

4) provide professional development on comprehension strategies (schema, inferring, visualizing, determining importance, questioning & summarizing/synthesizing) that incorporate using sentence frames during discussions

5) provide professional development focused on school-wide writing routines (using graphic organizers and color coding)

6) continue implementing best practices during foundation block to follow up from 2020-2021 school year (Kilpatrick PA games, ECRI, REWARDS, 95% Group, Blending Routines, Multisyllabic Phonics Routine, Syllable Types)

7) teachers will deliver Tier 1 and Tier 2 reading instruction within the master schedule time frames

8) plan for public practice to occur to improve instruction using two methods:

1. a) Teachers will videotape themselves teaching a comprehension lesson that can be viewed individually and/or with a peer or coach
2. b) Teachers observe peers teaching reading comprehension lessons (can be cross grade)

9) hire and train approximately four Multi-tiered Systems of Support aides (or equivalent hours) to support students who are below benchmark in reading

Measurement

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

Budget

Landtrust: projection=$48,000 (actual amount $53,635.78)

•  approximately $37,000 will pay for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) aide salaries
• approximately $7,500 will pay for teacher stipends for professional development
• approximately $5,300 will pay for phonics readers that has delayed shipping due to COVID (they should have arrived last May and monies should have come from LANDtrust from last year’s budget, however, we rolled this amount over and will pay out of this year’s budget)
• approximately $2,500 will pay for texts supporting reading and writing instruction (including but not limited to: high interest texts, phonics readers, writing manuals, reading intervention manuals, common anchor posters, easels)

• Receive School Safety report and Digital Citizenship report from district and begin discussion

Scott McCombs from CSD:  Content Keeper- filtering system being used currently.  

Websites can be allowed or blocked by committee decision.  Changes are proposed and then voted upon.  Can take some time to go through the process.  

COPA/ CIPA/FCC/FIRPA Protections taken to block obscene information and websites

Recommendations can be sent in when needed 

Sara Lee Digital Citizenship Media coordinator & Library booster teacher:

Training material link has been sent to all SCC members

Common Sense Media is our Digital Citizenship curriculum – Monthly information sent out to parents; Teacher are teaching the curriculum in the classroom as well as in Library boosters, continue to increase engagement with our social media so parents can get the message about what we’re doing here at school  

Email sent from Susan Edwards on October 4, 2021.  Principal Schino forwarded to all Sprucewood SCC members October 7, 2021 and TJ McClure forwarded it again on October 12, 2021. 

Hello SCC Chairs and Principals!

As promised, here is the link to the updated School Safety and Digital Citizenship Report from Canyons District. As discussed at training, please share this link with your SCC members so that they may read and study the items ahead of your SCC discussion. In your SCC meeting you should discuss the safety and digital citizenship items. Then your SCC will complete two reports that your principal will submit on CSD Dashboard prior to holiday break in December:

1. Digital Citizenship plan describing whether your SCC feels that adequate internet safety, student and parent training on internet safety is happening. If not, suggestions for ways that your SCC will help in your school and/or suggestions for the district to consider. 
2. School Safety Plan determining your schools top one or two safety concerns and how your school SCC will work to address these items. You may also note that the items need district/city/county attention. A follow up report in May is due for this plan to state what was done to address these concerns.

https://www.canyonsdistrict.org/scc/school-safety/ (informational page)

https://www.canyonsdistrict.org/safe-schools/ (School Safety and Digital Citizenship report)

As always, please let us know if we can be of any assistance.

Sincerely,

Susan Edwards

Public Engagement Coordinator

801-856-3712

Alice Peck

Elementary School Performance Director

801-826-5130

-Sara Lee, Sprucewood’s digital citizenship coordinator, spoke to the council. 

-Scot McCombs, Canyons School District IT Director, spoke to the council.

Questions council must answer so Principal Schino can record in district form:

Safety Report:

Did you feel the information presented in the District School Community Council School Safety Report was helpful? 

The committee agrees that the plan is thorough 

What, if any, school safety items did your SCC discuss that were not in the report? Request for more surveillance outside the school and perhaps inside the school.  Can we get more security cameras?

Add to December agenda 

Your SCC has been asked to determine the #1 safety concern at your school after reading the report and discussing safety topics at your school. What has your SCC determined to be the #1 safety concern for your school? 

Security & surveillance

COVID

Mental health with regard to ongoing pandemic 

What additional items did you identify as primary concerns, if any? surveillance is the number 1 priority for the committee, we will escalate and see how to move forward 

Also discussed COVID and the mental impact of the ongoing pandemic 

Does your SCC have an action plan to help address the concerns? Do some research on the cameras, cost, and route necessary to implement this idea.  

Digital Citizenship:

Does the SCC feel it has received enough information to determine if the filtering systems and supervision practices are appropriate? 

If no: Identify Action plan for filtering/systems. 

Does the SCC feel it has received enough information about the school’s educational efforts to instill in students a desire to be good digital citizens? 

If no: Identify Action plan for student education. 

Does the SCC believe the school has a viable plan to present important Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship information to parents in the community? 

If no: Identify Action plan for parent education. 

• Other
• Adjourn until next month’s meeting, December 13