2024-25 Minutes

Meeting Canceled

OCTOBER SCC MEETING MINUTES

October 3rd, 2024 - 3:45 p.m.

Lincoln Elementary School Media Center

Attendees:

• Audrey McKell
• Deseree Wyatt
• Megan Bartschi
• Brian Chambers
• Daneal Schmidt
• Mady Treasure
• Kendra Kenning
• Gina Vincent
• Kaitlyn Muir

Agenda Items:

Welcome! (Deseree)

Review of Minutes from last meeting (Kendra)

Review Trust Lands Budget (Audrey)

Review TSSA Budget Balance (Audrey)

New Business

Minutes:

• Introductions:
  • Deseree (Chair)
  • Daneal (Vice Chair)
  • Kaitlyn
• Budget:

• Recent teacher professional development in Salt Lake
  • Great success and helping teachers work with their students
• New Chromebooks for 3rd grade
  • Mrs. Treasure says they're working well
• Budget will be adjusted to include the professional development conference and new Chromebooks
• Additional budget item - full-time school counselor (half-time paid by CCSD)
• Only 10% of the annual budget is eligible for carry-over, so we try to spend it all
• Website Follow-Up (Daneal):
  • We are in compliance with website rules.
  • One past meeting was inaccurately labeled as cancelled; need to fix.
  • Ensure we update whenever the next meeting is at least a week prior to the meeting time.
• Rules and Procedures (Deseree):
  • Missing Items:
    • The statement, "We will provide training for those serving on the councils."
    • Clause for appointing a new SCC member if a current member is consistently missing meetings.
    • Missing Chair delegation clause
    • The Chair may be an employee or a parent.
    • The Principal cannot be a Chair or Vice Chair
  • Recommended Item Additions:
    • "The Council will provide a calendar for what we will cover in our meetings over this year with a recommended schedule."
    • Policy on handling public comment
      • Comments in meeting?:
        • Follow School Board procedure
          • Write down ahead of time if they want to add
          • Every other month there is a public meeting
          • Invite public to participate how they see fit
            • If we have additional issues, we will add it to our bylaws.
            • Ask for questions or comments!
      • Can they comment ahead of our meeting?
    • Agenda items should be added 2 weeks prior to the meeting. The Agenda has to be posted a week prior to the meeting. 
      • Deseree will edit the Word document version of the website to add in the missing items and will send that back to Audrey.
        • Website needs to be updated by October 20th
• Motion to Amend Rules of Order and Procedure (Deseree)
  • Seconded (Audrey); Majority Vote
  • Amend Motion = want to alter something already brought to the motion
  • Point of Order = bring everyone to attention
• Community Councils Training Meeting on Tuesday
  • Virtual - don't need to show our faces
  • Audrey will resend the Zoom link for next week's training meeting
  • Can watch the videos in batches with discussion of new items
• Creation of Title I Plan:
  • Primary Goal: 65% of students will grow in math and reading
  • Measuring growth is better for students and teachers to encourage getting closer to benchmark
  • Pay attention to funding page and the goals we have set for the teachers
  • Reach out to Audrey with any questions and concerns
  • Form to sign
    • Do NOT change anything
    • Sign if you agree
    • Reach out to Audrey with any issues
    • Have the Title 1 Training signed and reviewed by October 8th
  • We showed commendable growth at the end of the last school year!
• Safety (Megan Bartschi)
  • Strong education background in family
  • Dad works for Sheriff's Office and does a lot for school safety
  • What we are doing here:
    • Safety posts covered by aides
    • Teachers are in classrooms when students arrive
    • Bus duty at the front
      • Ensure bus area is blocked off
      • Aides on playground, by parent drop-off, and monitoring where students are
    • Standard response protocols are found on the back of all teacher name tags + DIR-S App that alerts all teachers to what protocols are needed moment-to-moment
      • Hold Protocol
        • Still teaching; door shut
      • Secure Protocol
      • Lockdown
        • Locked tight; out of sight
      • Evacuate
        • Fire Drill
          • Shut doors
          • Stay outside the door for 60 seconds before knowing if it's an actual emergency or not
          • If an actual emergency, go out the door
    • One drill/month
      • Sense of normality - different location for students and staff to help everyone learn what needs to be done
    • TSSA budget goes toward safety supplies for teachers
      • Safety buckets
      • Backpacks
    • District is working on identifying what is going to be stocked in all buckets and backpacks district-wide
      • Always working on improving and taking notes on what we can do better
      • District is working on a grant to get more funding
      • Working on adding reflective coating to all windows to make it harder to break into windows
        • Currently on all entrance windows and doors
    • Increase situational awareness and communication
    • New law passed
      • All high schools and middle schools must have a full-time resource officer
      • Our elementary schools have two resource officers that rotate between the south side and the north side
      • Deputy Merrill and Deputy Price are the officers that rotate in our schools
        • They are great at working with our kids and the community.
        • They are very involved.
    • Question about digital citizenship and safety (Deseree)
      • This will be addressed in January or February
    • Positive Behavior Plan will be addressed at next meeting
  • Thanks for attending, especially School Board member Brian Chambers!
  • The Nov. meeting is moved to Nov. 14th
  • Motion to adjourn (Daneal)
    • Seconded (Deseree)

Date: 11/14/24

Time: 3:45 pm

Location: Lincoln Elementary Media Center

• Attendees:
  • Audrey McKell
  • Deseree Wyatt
  • Deneal Schmid
  • Mady Treasure
  • Kendra Kenning 
  • Carl Francis
  • Cherry Howe
• Welcome! (Deseree)
• Review of Minutes from last meeting (Kendra)
  • Safety talk
  • Adjusting the 
• Review Trust Lands Budget  (Audrey) 
  • Make sure paras are getting paid out of the right budget-Audrey
  • Meeting with spencer Jensen to talk about new tech specialist-and also they’ll make sure all of the tech in our school is up to date
  • Audrey will likely put in a bit order for new tech
  • School counselor money doesn’t show BUT she will be paid monthly it’s just no longer in account with the budget
  • Teachers are going to be possibly observing other teachers in the school teach
    • That would help teachers feel like they’re all teaching the same best practices
    • Budget taken out for substitutes so that can happen
• Review TSSA Budget Balance (Audrey)
• New Business - Add agenda items as you see fit!
  • We need to teach digital citizenship every year-
    • Cherry Howe, librarian, teaches it
      • Use commonsense.com
      • Movie reviews, book reviews-curriculum for digital citizenship teaching
      • Teach age specific lessons
      • 6 lessons/year-about 1/month
      • Media balance, digital footprint, privacy, communication, cyberbullying, news and identifying fake news, AI, etc.
      • Positive Behavior Plan
• 3 Tiers
  • Tier I-all kids; Safe, Kind and Responsible
    • Tour through the school to various areas where expectations are different
    • Signs to help students remember the different rules
    • Re-boot camp: Lincoln Leaders will video some skits to help refresh on the expectations in those areas
    • By following the rules, they get to earn a Lincoln Leopard card-enter into drawing to win a prize
  • Tier II- Kids that struggle; Gen ED kids that need extra connection and support
    • Give students a check in mentor-specialists other teachers that interact daily with students
    • Tracker to show progress-they get to earn a reward for good behavior in the areas they are struggling
    • More one on one help with being Safe, Kind, and Responsible
    • Parents get a colored flyer to explain how it works-parents receive a paper for them to sign to see how they did during the day
  • Tier III- Frequent visiting office, fights, leaving class without permission, accepting feedback struggles, etc.
    • Asking teachers for feedback on what their grade is struggling with
    • Small group “academies” to talk about the behavior struggles in a kind way; getting to a deeper reason that they’re struggling with it
    • It will be a slow moving discussion and lessons-slower turnover for corrected behaviors
  • Audrey explained how to get a student a behavior aide for a student or a Behavior Plan under an IEP
  • Deseree asked-Do you (Audrey) advise parents that they can request a behavior plan? 
    • NO-most kids don’t qualify. Parents can request it-but it’s not worth their time-without having any proper data to show if they qualify or not.
  • Deseree question: What have you heard about disbanding Department of Ed at a Federal Level
    • State of Utah hasn’t said anything about that
• Next year will be the LAST year for 6th grade in Lincoln
• School choice works by the school determining if they have openings based off their capacity-new website to make it more 
• Cameras are motion sensored to record; hoping to upgrade the ones that are glitchy
• Adjourn
  • Next Meeting: January 9 at 3:45
• Adjourn
  • Deseree motion to adjourn, Deneal second
• FOLLOW UP: 
  • Audrey-what did we spend our tech money on? *She has a meeting 11/18

Printable Version: november 2024 minutes

Meeting Canceled

Date: 1/9/24

Time: 3:45 pm

Location: Lincoln Elementary Media Center

• Attendees:
  • Audrey McKell
  • Deneal Schmidt
  • Mady Treasure
  • Kendra Kenning
  • Carl Francis 
• Welcome! (Deseree)
• Review of Minutes from last meeting (Kendra)
  • Audrey-what did we spend our tech money on? *She has a meeting 11/18
  • Behavior plan
  • Digital citizenship
• Review Trust Lands Budget (Audrey) 
  • Everything on track
• Review TSSA Budget Balance (Audrey) 
• New Business - Add agenda items as you see fit!
  • Audrey-what did we spend our tech money on? *She has a meeting 11/18 
    • Big order after thanksgiving
    • Mrs. Mkell new computer
    • 8 new teacher computers 
    • Microsoft software and other software
      • 2 teacher monitors
      • Replacing our Chrome lab (computer room) 
        • In but not installed yet
        • 80 student chrome books
    • And software 
    • 5 TVs installed in classrooms
    • Not enough for a cart 
      • Would like a new chrome cart but not room in the budget this time
• Review the 2023-2024 Final Report
  • We are performing better than the state average, but under the district average 
    • Questions about aides and how they are qualified or if it’s the same qualifications 
    • Depends on the job
    • If giving instruction needs to be highly qualified (bachelors degree or take the PARA test)
    • Behavior aid not required to be “highly qualified”
  • Make recommendations about the TSSA Plan
  • Discuss academic data on current School Land Trust Plan (next time)
    • Doing retakes
  • Ask my kids teachers-do you like growth goals over data goals?
  • Think about goals for next year
  • Where do want money to go next year?
    • Tech, people (aides), professional development, etc.
    • Is there better product options than chromebooks?
      • Can look up tech purchasing standards on the school website-help to understand the process of what gets chosen and why 
• Adjourn
  • Motion: Kendra
  • Second: Carl 
• Next Meeting: February 6th
• Follow Up:
  • How did Audrey’s presentations go?
  • Discuss academic data on current School Land Trust Plan (next time) 

Date: 2/6/25 Time: 3:45 pm

Location: Lincoln Elementary Media Center 

• Attendees
  • Audrey McKell
  • Deneal Schmidt
  • Kendra Kenning
  • Carl Francis
  • Calista Herzog
  • Kaitlyn Muir
• Welcome! (Deseree)
• Review of Minutes from last meeting (Kendra)
• Review Trust Lands Budget  (Audrey)
• Review TSSA Budget Balance (Audrey)
• New Business - Add agenda items as you see fit!
  • Audrey showed us that there has been reading and math growth, she will get us specific data later to show student growth-cause that’s our goals is on growth then specific percentages
  • New Playground addition options–will be put in over the summer
    • Look at options, do survey for 1st and 2nd choice
      • 2/20 need to submit survey
    • Leave ANY feedback
    • Check with neighbors, family, kids, etc to get good feedback
• Teacher choice-after spring break
  • Parents can submit information to select teacher choice and kids don’t want in their class
  • Email PTA to change date on newsletter again for march and april
• Adjourn
  • Second: Audrey
• Next Meeting: March 5 (Wednesday) at 3:45
• Follow Up:
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Goals for next year!

Date: 3/4/25 

Time: 3:45 pm 

Location: Lincoln Elementary Media Center 

• Attendees: 
  • Deseree Wyatt
  • Audrey McKell
  • Deneal Schmidt
  • Kendra Kenning
  • Mady Treasure
• Welcome! (Deseree)
• Review of Minutes from last meeting (Kendra)
  • Audrey showed us that there has been reading and math growth, she will get us specific data later to show student growth-cause that’s our goals is on growth then specific percentages
  • New Playground addition options–will be put in over the summer
    • All filled out survey?
  • Teacher choice-after spring break
    • Parents can submit information to select teacher choice and kids don’t want in their class
• Review Trust Lands Budget  (Audrey)
• Review TSSA Budget Balance (Audrey)
• New Business
  • Review state expectations for School and Trust Plans
  • Reviewing data-
    • Acadience
      • We are below the state with being at or above benchmark
      • But we are showing the same on growth
    • RISE
      • For proficiency-our students perform better than the state, but not as well as the entire district
      • Growth-we are showing a good steady increase
    • Attendance is still an issue-27% of students at our school are chronically absent
      • We are one of the highest percentages of ELLs in the district, probable correlation
  • Prepare and Approve School and Trust Plan
    • Minor adjustments on wording or grammar checks
  • We spent time talking about funding we get from the state for education and how it compares to the rest of the USA
  • Council Members sign district created assurances after approving the school plan
    • Audrey will include the changes, we will sign and review again
  • Talk about volunteer opportunities in the school
• Adjourn
  • Next Meeting: April 9 or May 1 (optional) Thursday at 3:45
• Audrey motioned to adjourn, Deneal second

Meeting Canceled

Date: 5/19/25

Time: 3:45 pm

Location: Lincoln Elementary Media Center

Attendees:

• Audrey McKell
• Deneal Schmidt
• Kendra Kenning 

I. Welcome! (Deseree)

II. Review of Minutes from last meeting (Kendra)

III. Review Trust Lands Budget  (Audrey) 

• Transfer money to Technology from Professional Development 
  • It was unused, it will go towards speakers and such that many classrooms need

IV. Review TSSA Budget Balance (Audrey)

V. New Business

• Deneal will be leaving-she’s now an aid
• Kendra and Carl will be here next year
• Need to find one or 2 more parents to join for next year
• Graduates coming may 27th for Rock the Halls! And any teachers that used to teach here that could come.
• School gets out 1:05pm
  • We will serve lunch

VI.  Adjourn - Audrey motioned to adjourn; Kendra second

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