10/23/2024 MIN
Community Council Minutes
October 23, 2024 @ 3:30pm
Main Office Conference Room
Members | |
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Kym Allen | Jill Beer (Principal) |
Jodi Barro | Sarah Braden |
Candie Miller (Teacher) | Doralice Diaz (Teacher) |
Debbie Brough |
Agenda
- Welcome
- Public Input (10 minutes)
- Discussion about Seal of Biliteracy
- Questions about ballot measures related to education funding.
- Training Video follow up (5 minutes)
- Reminder: All members must watch the video & email principal
- Review ByLaws (5 minutes)
- Discussion about the process for electing members to the community council
- Discussion about having representation form the different programs and language backgrounds.
- Discussion about helping all parents better understand what community council does
- Discussion about possible amendments to bote about in the future
- Public input time
- No meeting in August
- Teacher appointment to community council instead of school-wide employee voting
- EOY and BOY data for 5th grade (5 minutes)
- Students maintained learning targets from the end of 4th grade to the beginning of 5th grade.
- RISE data- school wide proficiency levels in LA, math, and science.
- Discussion about efforts to improve RISE scores
- Plan to work with the instructional coach
- Comparison with similar schools
- Discussion about what it means to be a DLI school and how that does or does not impact test scores
- Takeaways on Visit to Wasatch
- HC needs to Increase rigor
- Discussion to clarify on what is meant by rigor
- Triangulate data
- Effective use of PLCs (teacher work groups)
- PLCs with other schools=one approach
- HC needs to Increase rigor
- Discussion about efforts to improve RISE scores
- School attendance rates at Hillcrest and other comparable schools.
- Discussion about vacationing and other reasons why people let their kids miss school
- Revisiting SIP (School Improvement Plan)
- Currently have Portuguese and Spanish-speaking aides.
- Lots of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking volunteers!
- Trying out AmeriCorps volunteers to help with attendance tracking & calling.
- Raz-Kids for Spanish and Elefante Letrado for Portuguese paid for by the state BUT we may lose Elefante letrado funding next year.
- Currently have Portuguese and Spanish-speaking aides.
- Discussion of Responsibility System (positive behavior support)
- 99% of students now on “Y”
- the system is working with almost 5x fewer behavior incidents this year as compared to last year at this time.
- Concerns about students getting labels as “good” or “bad” students as a result of the system have not played out – students taking longer to get to “Y” have had their progress framed positively to avoid stigma.
- Now that students are on the “Y” to maintain enthusiasm for this there will be a pins/sticker/badge system to recognize students who are, e.g., “on the Y for X# of days” as a way to continue positive momentum.
- Comparison data with similar schools (15 minutes)