2022-23 Minutes & Agendas

September 19, 2022 Minutes

Community Council September 19, 2022

Main Office Conference Room

Members in attendance: John Anderson, Ruth Seedhall, Jim Crosbie, Nan Koebbe, Nicole Oksness, Rhonda Wright, Heather Taylor, Rachel Merkley, Julie Olsen, Monica Edelmayer, Kim Bagley, Grant Calverley, Darren Perkes, Christi Carroll, Rory Anderson, Shannon Walker, Matt Fuller.

Introduction of New Principal, John Anderson Went around the room and introduced everyone.

Voting of new members of Community Council 2022-2023

• Chair: Rhonda Wright
• Vice-Chair: Nicole Oksness
• Secretary: Heather Taylor

Went over stats of last year:

Attendance:

• 1st Tri 1% down
• 2nd tri: 1 1/2% down Pass /fail grades:

How many students had at least one F:

• Freshman: 111 Students with F's /prior year: 125 Sophomore: 107/ prior year 78
• Junior: 91/prior year 89 Senior: 50/ Prior year 46

Graduation we gave 1.3 million scholarships awarded.

Pack Survey

Kids with an Adult connection Freshman: 83.6%/ 76% prior Sophomore: 83%

Junior: 89%/ Senior: 86.6%/92%

Proposed Plan Amendments

$40,000 carry over from trust land funding. Went over Amendment. passed: Rory Anderson made motion

Julie Olsen 2nd motion It passed

School Safety: Jim

The School is doing drills every month. We do not lock the exterior doors of the school. All class rooms are to lock doors.

Internet Safety:

3 fold plan. #11 on the amendment plan proposal: will be planning an assembly, will go over covering digital footprints etc.

Average time on screen per day is 7 hours and 22 minutes

Council Training meeting is Oct. 4th 6-6:30 pm zoom link will be sent out.

Meeting Canceled

Attendance	(committee): J. Anderson, Wright, Crosbie, Calvarley, R. Anderson, Olsen, Seedal, Merkley, Carroll, Perkes, Koebbe, Oksness, Walker, Fuller   (Non-committee) Terri Rhodes, Debbie Brough, Gordon Peer
Re-introductions	Terri Rhodes (school board president) Sharing first names of community council members
Plan Amendment update	School board voted in October and approved that. There were no questions from the school board.
Netsmartz assembly update	This fall, but fall break made that hard. Now it is planned for February. This fulfills the school's digital literacy teaching
Update on plan spending-projection	A grant now pays for Netsmartz for 3 years so now there is 1k available. Two vista intern funding is there, but they can’t find interns. This also creates 15k extra money. Vista organizes and shares the cost of getting people in the community to do service. These are used in the counseling office mainly. An area that could use it for after-school or during school to pay for aides. The principal is going to have a conversation with team leads about concerns or needs. As a committed, someone supported adding more people. A teacher suggested looking into SPED needs.
Sharing proposed ideas and seeking input for Positive Behavior Plan	Deedra Hinds, Gordon Peer, and Mike Rigby met with district personal to help improve behavior in schools. The state has given 4k with 1k being split between this sub-committee. Deedra and a former VP created a plan to support current structures. Areas to push forward are: gyc (substance abuse), stand for courage (bullying), and hope squad (suicide). These are student-sh led. A thought is these are underutilized. Could these have more student ownership? When asked what student demographic could be looked at, suggestions were    The admin mentioned lack of respect for the school and how the school could address it. They are considering sending emails to parents and teachers are going to be more visible to hopefully. A conversation happened about how PACK is utilized. Suggestions were made about supporting a student of the month and making a citizen of the month. Try to highlight kids in the middle. Someone mentioned praising positive behaviors to encourage ownership for helping the school be better. Clarification was made that the issue is a very small group and that Green Canyon is still a great school with a strong culture–best in the valley. Whatever happens, it needs to be intrinsic. Wolfpack academy was suggested to reinforce what is being taught. What is being brought back to the committee: give resources for activities and signage, have announcements to help create intrinsic motivation, sending positive notes to kids at home, and possibly doing it at school during the announcements.
New district policy: recognizing constitutional freedoms in public schools	Faculty were trained on this and were asked to review it on their own so they can reflect and make changes. This can be found in policies under the 3000 section. This will be towards the bottom since it is in alphabetical order.
Final thoughts	December meeting: there won’t be one as the school is preparing for the new year and trust land funds. If there is a vote needed, there will be an electronic one sent out.

Meeting Canceled

January 9,2023

Items listed in order of Discussion

 Attendance: Rhonda Wright, Heather Taylor, RachelMerkley, Nicole Oksness, Matt Fuller, John Anderson, PhilMorris, JimCrosbie, Nan Koebbe, Grant Calvary, Ruth Sedall, Monica Edelmayer, Darren Perkes and Teri Rhodes

1. Items of business: Accepted the minutes from September and November/Motion to approve was Matt Fuller and 2nd was Ruth Sedall
2. Went over the Rules of Order and procedure to conduct Community Council Meetings: Be on time for meetings, Come prepared, value opinions etc., a handout as passed out.
3. Pack Pick Day: This event will be held January 11,2023. This gives teachers a chance to promote their passion in their subject area. Students are given the opportunity to ask questions and find which classes and teacher would be a good fit. Clubs also will be present to allow students to learn about them. This event has been happening for 4-5 years. Seniors will be in the Auditorium.
4. Accreditation and TSI School Improvement Plan: Making sure schools meet certain standards and Schools Accountable. GCHS Faculty was meeting January 10, 2023 to discuss further. They are prepping to finalize for February 2023. This process happens every 5 years. TSI : Target School Improvement we are below 5% and we have 3 years to get above.This is a moving target. Faculty is gathering information to increase test score aspire etc. for ELL students. Gathering and review with Stakeholders and getting data. Meeting with staff and ESL certified teachers together info.Some ideas to help learning: Guided notes, restating information, aides for classrooms, routines etc Discussed Wida Test
5. Update on Trustland Budget: Money used for teachers salaries looking at were the remaining money should be allocated and best used Vista Aide and assembly (paid by district)
6. We discussed Aspire testing. This is a pre ACT test. Prepping underclassmen for ACT. We need to educate parents so they understand and not opt out of test.

Green Canyon High School Community Council

February 13, 2023

Attendees - Rhonda Wright, Monica Edelmayer, Christi Carroll, John Anderson, Jim Crosbie, Grant Calverley, Rachel Merkley, Shannon Walker, Julie Olsen, Matt Fuller, Phil Morris

The meeting was called to order at 7:00 am.

We approved the minutes from our January meeting - Matt Fuller moved to accept the minutes as written; Monica Edelmayer seconded the motion.  The voting was  unanimous  to accept the minutes.

John updated us on the Trustlands budget.  Teacher payroll has a sizable amount left but  most of the remainder is earmarked for summer work.  We added an AmeriCorp intern.  Looking at other budget categories - we also have money left that was originally for textbook allocation.  In speaking to faculty and staff, we have requests for funding in the following areas:

• Professional Development - including help to add FTE and stipends for curriculum and department leaders

• SPED/ESL prep and testing

• ESL aides

• SAT team

• Wolfpack Academy

• Tech needs

Most of the budget allocations are on schedule.  John will keep us updated.

Our onsite accreditation visit was last week and went well.  We had a good response and expect to get the report in May and June.

As far as our TSI plan, we are continuing to work on providing best practices and updated information regarding Elevation, which is a tool with strategies to help ESL strategies.  Our main focus is to maintain the best teaching strategies.

We will vote on our 2023/2024 Trustlands plan at our March meeting.  We will send it out prior to the meeting for members to review.  If you are unable to attend, please review the plan and send your proxy vote by email.

We will also be planning our 2023/2024 election for our council.   Anyone who is planning to leave after this year, please let us know in March.  Once we know the openings that we have (including those members who have served more than one two year term) we will solicit nominations and have an election if needed.  

The meeting was adjourned at 7:35 am.

Our next meeting will be on Monday, March 7th at 7:00 am

School Community Council Minutes For March 13, 2023

Attendance: Heather Taylor, Ruth Seedall, Jim Crosbie, Phil Morris, John Anderson, Nan Koebbe, Terri Rhodes, Monica Edelmayer, Shannon Walker, Julie Olsen, Rachel Merkley, Rhonda Wright, Nicole Oksness, Christi Carroll, Rory Anderson, Darren Perkes

Acknowledged the minutes from February: Motion to accept minutes was from Julie Olsen and Rachel Merkley

Turned time over to John Anderson and we went through the proposed Trustland Plan. *The Goal for the trustland is as follows: Green Canyon High School Ell students will perform above the lowest 5% of all schools in the Achievement portion of the Utah accountability system. To do so, we will adjust our instructions to more closely match the ACT and ACT aspire tests, provide practice testing opportunities and utilize school-wide tier 1 instructional and engagement strategies, and focus on our El and SWD populations to improve our Schools Achievement Scores.

Solution Tree PLC event is for 10 teachers who attend a conference for professional training to learn how to benefit students

Green Canyon is staying at budget proposed of 247,198.14

We discussed a way to educate parents and students to not opt out of the Aspire test. There was discussion of making it a competition.

Rory Anderson brought up #3 under Action Plans of the proposed trustland and it was discussed to modify it to say core classes. 

Will carry over from last year and this proposed plan looks like 269,500 is the budget. No hard numbers have been set.

Motion to accept the 23-24 Trustland Plan was motioned by Rachel Merkley and second by Julie Olsen.  Meeting wrapped up and discussion of future middle schools/ elementary was discussed. Nothing is concrete.

23-24 Proposed Trustlands Plan

Green Canyon High School ELL students will perform above the lowest 5% of all schools in the Achievement portion of the Utah accountability system. To do so, we will adjust our instruction to more closely match the ACT and ACT Aspire+ tests, provide practice testing opportunities, utilize school-wide tier 1 instructional and engagement strategies, and focus on our EL and SWD populations to improve our school’s Achievement Scores.

Academic Areas

• College and Career Readiness
• Educational Technology/Library/Media
• English/Language Arts
• Financial Literacy
• Fine Arts
• Graduation Rate Increase
• Health
• Mathematics
• Physical Education
• Science
• Social Studies
• World Languages
•  

Measurements

With an emphasis on the performance of our SPED and English Learners (EL), 

• Teachers will work on implementing and/or improving one instructional or engagement strategy per month. This will be reported and recorded monthly in their department meetings.
• All teachers will identify and utilize a mid- and end-of-term assessment for each trimester emphasizing reading, writing, science, or math. With the assessments, we will measure the percentage of all students passing classes, with the EL and SPED subcategories identified and reported separately.

Action Plan Steps and Expenditures 

NOTE: Based on our 22-23 budget of $247,198.14, anticipated carry-over, and additional funding increase for 23-24.

1. Solution Tree PLC event for 10 People: $9,500 
   1. Registration ($8,000)
   2. Meals ($500)
   3. Parking and Mileage ($1,000)
2. Compensation for staff (Totalling 500 hours at $32/hr): $16,000 (100 and 200)
   1. Literacy Team
   2. Curriculum/Professional Development Team
   3. Department Leadership Team
   4. ELL team (Phlote analysis, screening students, ELLevation, parent communication, student scheduling, EL parent meetings). 
3. Provide 2 FTE (in addition to 1-2 FTE from TSSA) to lower core class sizes $150,000.00 (100 and 200)
4. Hire two EL aides (totaling 36 hours/week at $15/hr) for $20,000 (100 and 200) 
5. Hire a Vista/guided PACK assistant (~30 hours/week at $15/hr) to work with Tier 1 at-risk students. The focus will be on attendance and academic help. $19,000 (100 and 200)
6. Hire a Data and Testing coordinator (~30 hours/week at $15/hr). Duties include assisting our Tier 1 at-risk students, providing data to teachers and administration about attendance and academic needs, and being the director of surveys, testing administration, and testing coordination. $19,000 (100/200)
7. Student Assembly focused on Internet Safety Education (Net Positive) $1,000 (3400)
8. ELL Field Trip Travel $1,000 (5800)
9. ELL Field Trip Activity $1,000 (6100)
10. Supplies for ELL parent meetings, etc., $2,000 (6100)
11. Summer teacher PLC (12 hours/teacher x 80 teachers x $32/hr) for curriculum design, assessment, and instructional improvement $31,000 (100 and 200)

Totaling $269,500

If additional funding is available, or significant carry-over, we will hire additional EL aides to assist in the core classrooms.

Meeting Canceled

Meeting Canceled