Glacier Hills Elementary
School Community Council Agenda
November 14th, 5:15-6:15
1. Opening – Welcome!
2. Attendance:
- Present: Julie Winfree (Principal), Katie Hughes, Wendy Buchannan, Lisa Moon, Auri Jennings, Kristine Wilson, Lori Salter, Dustin Hughes, Stephanie Robbins
- Guests: Halley Nelson (Vice Principal), Kristie Koyle
3. Approval of Agenda – Motion – Lisa Moon, seconded – Kristine Wilson
4. Approval of Minutes from October – motion – Kristine Wilson, seconded – Wendy Buchannan
5. SCC Chair Update & Calendar
6. Safety Drills Report – Bomb Threat in November
- Goal 100% accountability with Crisis Go
- December is a hold
- January evacuation fire drill
- Have asked district to help with subs during the drills
- Teachers can take roll for other teachers to help with subs
7. Review of council’s stewardship items – Land Trust Funds, TSSA budgets
- Land trust – payroll on track
- TSSA – book vending machine, items for blizzard blast zone, paid the summer PD
8.USBE Accountability Report Data
- ELA
- Rise grades 3-5
- 40% below, 26% approaching, 21% proficient, 12% highly proficient
- Rise dropped from 44% to 33%
- Working with staff to find reason there was a drop
- Math
- Stayed about the same
- ELL decreased in score
- Added math small groups and seeing growth within the students
- Science
- Stayed about the same
- Stepping up in small group instruction
- Increasing reading at home
9. Avid $600 Trip expense
Motion: Lori Salter
Seconded: Stephanie Robbins
- Title 1 school in St. George took their scores from 30% to into the 90% range
- Julie Winfree and Jeny Warner travel down to see what they are implementing
- Grades have goals that help their students excel
- Lots of small instruction to help support the core instruction
- Parent components – things like clubs, dog tags, etc.
10. Attendance Policy and Reading Incentive
- Last year was averaging about 80%, Now we are averaging about 93%
- Implemented reading program for at home
- Home reading log sent home every month
- Officially a TSI school
- When looking at the growth of students, Special education students are not growing the rate they expect us to grow at
- Julie has to have 3 meetings a year with District
- Meetings with Special Education teachers
- Looking at data to find out which group is not making enough growth
- What is it going to take to get the students to step up a step?
- Working on a plan to help with the students growth
- Worries about how students are being accommodated in class but then they are tested at grade level. Students cannot complete it since they are overwhelmed
11. District Focus Items (if any)
12. Member Concerns/Comments
- Approval of removal of December 12th meeting – Unanimous
13. Adjournment –
- Motion:
- Seconded:
