February 8, 2023 – Minutes

February 9 SCC

Member Attending: Deidre, Brett, Stephanie, Jessica, Natalie, Alyssa Andrus, Amanda, Katie, Sydney

Business Items:

• School Wide Data update from January Winter Benchmark—Goal is 80%
  • All grades have made good growth
  • Deidre is positive that the gap can continue to close and each grade will be able to meet the 80%
• Scores
  • Reading
    • BOY 58%/ MOY 60%/ AVERAGE COMBINED 73%
  • Math
    • BOY 59%/ MOY 67%/ AVERAGE 91%
  • Some grades have already met the goal so teachers will continue to meet together to maintain and push students to still see continued growth.
• Attendance Goal
  • 80% will have less than 10 absences.
    • Term 1: 51% of student body has had more than 10 absences.
    • Term 2: expecting an even higher percent (lots of illnesses)
  • To help Deidre is amping up the Mr. Potato Head rewards and incentives
  • Continue to bring awareness to parents
    • Play “Ticking Time Bomb” clip during PT
  • Follow up Item-BLT/ Teachers Survey
    • Keep BTS music
    • No theater or dance
    • Open to Meet the Master, but only once a month
    • More interested in Math Dashers or Lexia
    • No Jr. Achievement
    • The challenges teachers are facing with regards to academic achievement:
      • Class sizes too large
      • Want to add more teachers or interventionalist.
        • How can we move money around from funds/fundraisers to find money to pay for another teacher?
      • Deidre will ask district about the following questions:
        • Can cell phone tower funds be used to pay for teacher salary?
        • What can we do a fundraiser for? Where can we use those funds?
      • Council Members
        • We will accept Suzie’s resignation.
        • Who is interested in filling in her spot? Discuss at next meeting who we found that is interested

Next Meeting: February 23, 2023

Follow up Meeting: March 30, 2023