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10/23/2024 MIN

Community Council Minutes
October 23, 2024 @ 3:30pm
Main Office Conference Room

Members
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
  • 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.
  • 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)