September 17, 2021 – Minutes

Members In Attendance:

Principal:
Nicole Svee Magann

Teachers:
Joyce Park

Michelle Erb, Vice-Chair Parents:

Hollie Parry, Chair Kimberly Tillotson Rochelle Grin, Secretary Ryan Romero

Agenda

1. Opening Check In
● Members introduced themselves

2. Approve April Minutes
● Members from last year’s SCC to

Members Absent:

Mindi Nielsen (Parent, excused, ill)

Non-members In Attendance:

Ashley Lennox, CSD Teacher Specialist

Altara SCC Meeting Minutes September 17, 2021

approve

3. SCC Chair/Vice Chair Elections

• ●  Hollie Parry nominated as chair

• ●  Michelle Erb nominated as vice-chair

  Voting for chair and vice-chair was unanimous in the armative by all members present.

● Rochelle Grin appointed as secretary

4. Procedures

• ●  Raising of hands encouraged going forward

• ●  Roberts’ Rules of Order reviewed

• ●  Only items listed on agenda should be discussed

○ Agendas will be emailed to SCC members in advance of posting publicly; this is the opportunity for SCC members to add items to the agenda

5. PrincipalNews
● Beware of phishing scams

○ Check emails for “canyonsdistrict.org”
● Arts Teacher new this year is Eric Shiring, teaching Dance

○ Arts program likely to happen in spring

• ●  Adopted Two-Teacher Model in all grades but 4th

  • ○  Done with an eye toward building community, boosting performance, and taking care of our teachers

  • ○  How it looks:

    • ♢  Dual Language Immersion: One teacher ELA, one teacher Math in Spanish

    • ♢  K-2 One teacher ELA, one teacher Math w/ ELA support

    • ♢  3-5 One teacher ELA, one teacher Math, with Science and Social Studies divided according to teacher

      preference

• ●  Learning loss in K-3

○ “Letters” program being used to remedy
♢ Teachers are doing multiple modules for this

• ●  No COVID at this time

  • ○  Field trips have resumed

  • ○  Assemblies will continue to be deferred

• ●  Parent Teacher Conferences next week

• ●  S.E.L. (Social Emotional Learning) Curriculum

  • ○  Our program is Second Step

    • ♢  Teaches recognizing emotions and responding

      appropriately, listening, and advocating for oneself

      positively

    • ♢  Letters will be sent home with each lesson explaining

      concepts discussed

  • ○  Botvin Life Skills curriculum is state-mandated, taught in 4th

    grade

  • ○  Social Worker at the school to aid where needed

6. PTA News
● Book Fair next week

7. Review of current CSIP/TSSA/Safety Plan

• ●  See Teacher and Student Success Plan

• ●  ELA Goal: By the spring of 2022, 88% of students in Kindergarten

  will be on benchmark as shown by scores on NWF-CLS (nonsense word fluency – correct letter sounds); 60% of students in grades 1-3 will meet typical or above typical growth; and 15% more students in grades 4-5 will score on the advanced or proficient level on RI (Reading Inventory) by the spring of 2022 than score on advanced or proficient levels on the Fall 2021 assessment.

  • ○  $1,500 — Instructional Professional Learning Communities (substitutes for this professional development time)

  • ○  $34,400 — Three instructional aides for small group instruction

  • ○  $11,200 — Instructional aide to extend higher learners

    • ♢  We have not been able to fill this position

    • ♢  If it’s not filled soon, we will need to create a plan B for using the money

  • ○  $17,100 — Kindergarten aides for small group instruction

• ●  Math Goal: By the spring of 2022, 80% of our K-5 students will be on benchmark as demonstrated by MCOMP (math computation) or QD (quantity discrimination).

○ $17,604 — Two intervention aides
● School Climate Goal: 75% of students (K-5) will be in the low risk

range of externalizing behaviors by Spring of 2022 as measured by the Student Risk Screening Scale (SRSS-IE).

• ○  $42,000 — Pay for other half of social worker position in order to have one full-time social worker

• ○  $20,800 — Two behavior assistants to support students

  8. Review Budgets

• ●  Everything is on track

• ●  Land Trust budget funded on October 1st.

9. Approve Future SCC Meetings

• ●  Oct. 22

• ●  Nov.19

• ●  Dec. 17

• ●  Jan. 21

• ●  Feb. 18

• ●  Mar.18

• ●  Apr.22

• ●  May20

  Future SCC Meeting dates were unanimously approved by all members present.