SCC

Attendance-

Darrin Johnson, Alina Worthen, Lauren Brewer, Anna Greene, Emily Peterson (board member), Tom Thorley, Kira Frost

1. Review and confirm stakeholder report (due Jan 31st)
   1. Darrin gave us a draft of the 2023-2024 Stakeholder Report. There are a few things that need to be updated.
   2. We went through the draft and edited it and asked questions.
   3. One question was about growth versus proficiency. The goal was for 60% growth but the pie charts show proficiency. 
   4. We lost Title 1 funding this year. This impacted how many aides we can have and how many people even wanted to apply for aide jobs. It also impacted the ML program.
2. Review and confirm final trustlands report (due Jan 31st)
3. Review year-to-date budget, make amendments if needed
   1. No amendments needed.
4. Brainstorm 2025-2026 academic needs for trust plan funds
   1. SCC Budget for next school year $133,456.00.
   2. Discussion about if the goal should remain the same or change.
      1. Should it remain 60% of students make typical or better growth or should we increase that number or measure something else.
      2. How can we best support those students who are not meeting typical or better growth?
   3. How is our DLI program doing?
      1. We have 45 applicants for next year.
      2. We have 62 students in the 1st grade DLI.
      3. There are 27/28 in each DLI class in 2nd grade.
      4. The program is finally growing again after being hit hard by COVID.
      5. There has been a significant number of students who were zoned for Sharon who have joined the DLI program. 
      6. The biggest problem is an issue with the teacher at the junior high.
      7. Taking the AP test in 9th grade can be discouraging for some students because it’s so difficult to pass at that point.
5. Discuss Chinese New Year and Latin Culture Night
   1. Chinese New Year Festival
   2. Math and Art Night has been changed to Art and Latin Culture Night.
6. SCC Elections are next year and we are all finished with our terms. 
   1. How can we educate people more about SCC so we can get people interested in running for SCC?
7. Encourage parents to contact legislators to keep income tax and fund schools and fund mandates the legislature gives.

Attendance: Anna Greene, Alina Worthen, Tom Thorley, Darrin Johnson, Michelle Carter, Lauren Brewer, Amy Seastrand

1. Reviewing to assure compliance.
   1. We believe we’re in compliance.
2. Discussion of School Safety and Digital Citizenship 
   1. School AI? The school uses the free version of School AI. We don’t have paid version of School AI yet. 
   2. The computer teacher has a curriculum for Digital Citizenship. About 20-30% of her curriculum is about this.
   3. Blocksi- it allows teachers to see exactly what is on each student’s screen. They can stop them from doing things. They can block things. They can do heads up, which freezes their screens. It allows screen sharing. It gives the teachers tons of control of what is happening on screens in their classroom.
3. Reviewing the Positive Behavior Plan – ROAR
   1. Responsibility, On Task, Achievement, Respect
   2. There are ROAR signs in different areas throughout the school that show what behavior should be like in those areas (cafeteria, playground, hallway, classroom, etc).
   3. It’s used school-wide.
   4. Students can earn Cougar Bucks for following ROAR. They can earn them throughout the entire school and from any adult, not just their teacher.
   5. They can use their Cougar Bucks to buy things in the Cougar Cave. The teacher puts the Cougar Bucks into the Class Dojo App and then they can buy things from the Cougar Cave with those points. The teachers add them up weekly and the Cougar Cave is open on Fridays.
   6. Every month two students are chosen per grade to receive the Hear Me ROAR award. They get their name announced, their picture taken, and it’s hung on the wall for the school year. 
   7. They have been working on streamlining the “value” of Cougar Bucks so it’s more equitable.
   8. They do a boot camp at the beginning of the year with the kids to establish the expectations for behavior for all the different areas. They go to the actual location. 
   9. The student council runs the Cougar Cave. 
4. Question about cohesion between students as our schools have merged? Things have improved a lot this year. Last year 5th grade was the biggest problem and they have worked really hard with that grade to improve things.
5. Question about split grades? Currently there are split classes for 4th and 5th grades. They have found that it helps unify the students so they aren’t self-segregating by DLI and regular ed students. They aren’t split grade classes. The DLI teachers have two grades, but the students only attend classes with their own grade. Tom’s kids attended Sharon and then came here last year. He said he’s seeing a lot of improvement this year. The lack of integration his kids comment on comes from the DLI program. He likes what he’s seen with the split classes and how it helps with integration. It’s something they would like to continue in the future with grades 4-6 because that’s when they tend to see cliques and stuff starting.
6. Discussion about changing Math and Art Night to be an Art and Culture Night where we can celebrate Latin American culture. Darrin is working with Debbie to put this together. It’s important to have the community involved, sacrificing for the school, showing part of themselves and sharing themselves. We like the idea of having community members bring food and things and we could give them stipends so it isn’t a financial hardship for them to provide this.
7. Discussion about the district split. 

3/25/2024 SCC Meeting
Attendance- Anna Greene, Alina Worthen, Tom Thorley, Mrs. Frost, Mr. Johnson

Review SCC Trustlands goals for 2023-2025
This year the reading scores are down overall compared to last year, but that is due to many factors (consolidation, mid-year scores, etc). ML population has quadrupled this year and many of them are newcomers.

Two goals- ML students and general population students. Proficiency and growth goals.

We have three aides who are strictly ML aides. They focus only on ML students. Several of the aides are also bilingual.

Next year we’ll be regular Title 1 and not Title 1 Target Assist. We are going to continue using the Target Assist data so that we can best help students.

SCC will pay one day of summer collaboration time for all teachers. The district will pay for two days.

$122k funding available for SCC.

Our Title 1 funding will go down significantly next year. Two more schools in Orem will become Title 1 schools. We will be down almost $200k in Title 1 funding for next year.

Vote unanimous in favor of the plan.

Mar 4, 2024
Will we qualify for Title I in 2024/2025?

• Cut off is 40% federally,
  ■ Our District has
• Our % came in at 41.5%, however, we haven’t received a clear confirmation one way or another.
  ■ We can expect a confirmation by the end of March
• The state plans to add more schools to title I which will impact the amount of funding we receive for the 2024/2025 School year. This being the case, the
  amount of funds are currently unknown.

Primary plan proposal for the 2024/2025 Academic School year

• $128,000 is the approximated funding from Trust Land Funding.
• Continue on with 95% program and the 95% intervention groups
  ○ Approximately $30,000 to renew the license for next school year
• Maintain the amount of aids moving forward (7).
  ○ $95,000
• Fund teachers reps to attend a literacy conference
  ○ Approximately $5,000
• There should be enough from the carry over from this school year to supplement
  the deficit.

District open house meeting for the SCC president and PTA President regarding the potential split of the district upcoming.

Next meeting April 1st, 2024 1pm

1/29/24
SCC Meeting

Safe Routes to School- Meeting with Orem City They’re working on getting funding from multiple sources. Looking to see if a signal is warranted at 200 N and 800 E. Substandard crosswalks- not wide. A possible cut-in lane to widen the drive thru area. There are bollards or delineators that are an option as well. We could create a parking district. We could add crossing guards. Paint over the bus pick up/drop off in the front.

Add crossing guard at 800 E and 200 N on the west side of the street. Add crossing guard on 400 E and 200 N. Looking at crossing guard on 800 E and 200 N, but a signal is coming in the near future.

We will be notified before our next SCC meeting.

DLI will be continuing. DLI is looking to make it so the students will go to China as part of the program.

Stakeholder report was handed out.

They may disband DCC. The SCC chairs would attend the cluster meetings and other meetings
that DCC has been attending.

Board Member Sara Hacken
Wants to make us aware of things from the District and School Board level. They are doing a study on all special programs- ALL, DLI, preschool, Autism, etc. The District team is preparing a study and will present information so they can receive input from the public. They will have a place on the District website for people to submit feedback. One issue is equity and access to programs. Question from DCC member- Is there a limit from the state on the number of DLI programs allowed? Sara Hacken will check into that. There is a reconfiguration study happening right now. The company is MGT from Florida. They will receive that in January. That will be put online with an opportunity for people to give feedback. They will wait until after the legislative session to make any kind of decision. They will then decide if it should be on the ballot for November 2024. They want a cost per community for us to maintain the programs we already have. They’re a very experienced company.

DCC Member Grace-
They were just trained on PLC’s (Professional Learning Community). The teams and collaboration help the teachers be better and help the students learn more.

Alina-
Note from the district that we need to be very cautious about SPAM and hackers. Do not buy gift cards for anyone!

95% program.-
Email sent to Darrin from Reading Interventionist- They are teaching small group lessons to 68 students and 42 are ML. In addition, 28 students are working on fluency. The 4 kindergarten classes receive target lessons. In Sept and Oct they had 33 students advance in PSI and 8 advance out of interventions or into fluency help. They do push-in and push-out. Kindergarten does alphabet boot camp and they are also doing star trophies. The kids are retaining the information and maintaining their learning. As of Friday 9 have letter and sound fluency (not done testing them yet).

JoMarie Larsen- Coach- Presentation on Priorities

1. School Wide Achievement
   1. Increase proficiency and growth in literacy. Increase the number of students k-6 who are proficient from BOY to EOY on the Acadience Reading Benchmark. We will increase the number of students making typical or better growth from BOY to EOY.
      1. We are at 64% proficiency. K- 45% 1- 64% 2- 76% 3- 62% 4- 62% 5- 57% 6- 80% (5th grade has the highest number of ML and newcomers)
2. Focus Group Achievement (Ours in MLs. We have 140 MLs)
   1. Increase proficiency and growth in literacy. Increase the number of students k-6 who are proficient from BOY to EOY on the Acadience Reading Benchmark. We will increase the number of students making typical or better growth from BOY to EOY. (Comparing growth to national data to see if they increase similar to other students at the same level as them.)
      1. We are at 23% proficiency. For many ML students this is their first experience with English or even at a school. We have to build language and reading background. K- 0% 1- 35% 2- 43% 3- 24% 4- 17% 5- 5% 6-38% (5th grade has the highest number of ML and newcomers). The amount of newcomers impacts the proficiency. Some of these students are also not literate in their first language. Many of these families are also split apart.
      2. We have an ML coach and aides. Looking to hire more aides.
      3. Question- If you remove newcomers from the data does the level of proficiency improve over time (from grade to grade)? WIDA level 3 is a place where students tend to plateau because that moves from social language to academic language. K-3 focuses on learning to read and 4-6 focuses on reading to learn.

    
   How do we accomplish proficiency?
   Tier 1 instruction
   Language support
   Tier 2 & 3 instruction
    

3. Connections Goal
   1. We will focus on climate, culture, and connections. Focus on habits of teaching responsibility, remaining on task, working towards achievement and showing respect. (Data is in process through the school counselor.)

Other items for future meeting- Additionally we will discuss briefly the next items on the schedule as well as upcoming deadlines as indicated by the SLT.

Next meeting is Nov 27th at 1:00pm.
We will discuss cyber security and safety and statistics.

Attendees:
Alina Worthen
Thomas Thorley
Anna Greene
Darrin Johnson
Amber Noel
Kira Frost
• Responsibilities discussed
• Set calendar
• Voted on Chair

Attendees
Darrin Johnson
Tiffinie Littlefield
Amber Noel
Julia Buell
Zoe Tang
Malana Clayson
Kaitlin Fehlberg
Rachel Hall

Not in attendance Rebecca Peterson

• Darrin Johnson introduced the school goals from the Principal Dashboard. Spoke regarding what the goals are and how they are tracked.
  ○ Meeting with the area supervisor.
  ○ Growth goals
  ○ ELL growth. The number of ELLs at the school is growing
  ○ The student connection on attendance
• Showed tracking of growth goals and PM
  ○ Interventions
  ○ 95% Pull-out and in class
  ○ PM
• Went over Cascade’s letter grade of “B”
• Had a conversation regarding start times (earlier or later.)
  ○ Contract times
  ○ LTTRS Training for teachers
• Parent-teacher conference change
  ○ Moving to a more flexible plan
• Safety on 200 North parking close to the stop sign and kids darting in front of cars
  ○ Spoke to interdistrict personnel to try and change the curb to red
• Show a video of Building an Airplane while Flying.

The next meeting will be held on January 10th at 10:00 am

Cascade Elementary SCC minutes 10-5-17

Business:
Mr. Campbell introduced the council to Grace Rex who attended our meeting today. She is the DCC member, i.e. our SCC district representative. It was great to have Grace at our meeting.

There was some discussion about the Cascade re-build and possible move. The decision was postponed by the school board until November. We await their decision. They are considering the effects on the entire district as a whole, on good spending practices and what will be best in the end. Change is hard but usually turns out well. Example: Hillcrest spends roughly $8,000/student/year while Cascade spends roughly $5,000/student/year.

Amending this year’s budget:
Mr. Campbell sought feedback from other schools that purchased Dibels for the older grades (4-6) and all the feedback was that it wasn’t worth it. With resources such as Lexia and Wonders, we will use those to assess grades 4-6. This makes a necessary change to the school goal wordage on this year’s trustland plan. It also saves us $3840.

Collaboration cost $4000 less than we planned, saving us another $4000.

Attendance Advocate: Mr. Campbell wrote a grant and received funding toward additional pay for our Attendance Advocate Heather Peay. This saved us an additional $4000.

Mr. Campbell suggested 1) we increase spending for the STEM resources so that each teacher gets $100 to use. $1800 would go here. 2)Pay for school aide Jennifer Nelson to do double-dose for grades 4-6 in reading before/after. Budget $5000 3) This leaves $5040 for Professional Development conference and subs for Ron Clark attendees. (More than double what he had hoped.)

Shelley Colton moved to approve Mr. Campbell’s suggestions. Julie Walker seconded the motion.
Motion was unanimously approved.

SCC Elections/meeting Rules of Order:
Elections will be via email over the next couple of weeks as in the past. Discussion regarding adopting something similar to Hillcrest’s rules of order for meetings. We discussed membership numbers. Shelley Colton motioned to adopt putting a cap on our SCC numbers of 15 with a minimum/maximum for employee members of 3/5. Doug Wyatt seconded the motion. Motion approved unanimously.

Agenda items for the upcoming year:

• School design
• Get a group to tour newer schools for input.
• Hope for single-story plan (district has 2 basic new school floor plans. One is single floor, one 2-story. We as a SCC will have the opportunity to five input to modifications and unique needs of Cascade.
• We will make a list of suggestions and ideas at our January meeting with the opportunity of looking at the floor plan options. Include safety issues with our plan suggestions.
• STEM FEST- plans for projects will be made available for Eagle Scout projects. Tracy Naval will contact Dr. Shumway for plans for the earthquake simulator.

Doug Wyatt motioned to adjourn. April Chrystal seconded the motion. Motion approved unanimously.

In Attendance:
Boyce Campbell
Doug Wyatt
Tracy Naval
Julie Johnson
Julie Walker
April Chrystal
Shelley Colton
Grace Rex (DCC visitor)

Cascade SCC Minutes 3-16-2017
In Attendance:
Julie Walker
Jessica Nelson
Sara Mead
Doug Wyatt
Tracy Naval
Shelley Colton
Boyce Campbell

Discussion:
Mr. Campbell explained that along with the Core Standards, each grade’s teachers (as part of collaboration) picks out the “Essential Standards,” skills students MUST master each particular year. These are typically focused on during Target Time at Cascade.

The district is considering, and allowing the schools at their discretion at this point, altering the grading
system as follows:

Currently, K-3 have report cards that are skill-based (3-4 pages of individual skill mastery line items with points 1-4 given, or NE if the skill hasn’t yet been introduced/addressed). Grades 4-6 have letter-grade reporting: A,B,C,D and F.

The discussion was whether grades 4-6 should change the reporting system to an essential skill-based report for the parents rather than the letter grades, and should this become a district-wide way of reporting? The district is asking for feedback from the SCCs and Mr. Campbell will report our opinions
and concerns to the district.

The new reporting would not be the full 3-4 pages of skills we currently see with K-3. It is a front/back of one sheet that addresses just the Essential Skills for that grade level. (Chinese would be a separate sheet). This changes the focus to essential skill mastery rather than the letter grades that often aren’t a
true reflection of skill mastery.

With collaboration happening district wide, and the general focus changing to measurable reporting on knowledge and skills, along with training at Ron Clark academy for our teachers, this kind of skill-based reporting makes sense. There was general agreement of reporting in the higher grades with a focus on skill-mastery, with the following concerns discussed:

Julie Walker brought up one concern: Would this make it harder on the teachers? Specifically, teachers would have to know where each student stood, individually. Would this be a factor in making it more work for the teachers?

The teachers already know the skill-level for individual students and use this for Target Time. Sara Mead, a teacher, who worked previously at a school who utilized essential skill-based reporting said that what can make it harder is that Skyward’s reporting is not set up the same way as the skill-based reporting, so having to come up with ways to enter in grades, or having to do both letter-grade based and skill-based reporting can be frustrating from the teachers’ standpoints. Also, parents may get frustrated when they see no credit on Skyward for certain subjects because there won’t be a grade reported there until a final assessment. It would require parent/teacher communication and it would take time to help parents understand, a paradigm shift.

She also brought up the issue she has seen from experience that the essential skill-based reporting may not necessarily break their mastery into learning components, because it groups certain skills together in the reporting.

Some examples were given in the area of science. Mr. Campbell and the council looked at those areas. Effort is made to group together learning components where the mastery of one component naturally goes with the others. In other words, the students couldn’t really learn one without learning the other.

Charles brought up the concern that by sixth grade, he would like to see his children have the skills of achieving letter grades, of turning in assignments on time, organizing their time, preparing for exams, etc., in order to prepare for Jr. High. Everyone agreed that sixth grade is considered middle school and is a good time to be introduced to letter grades. Also, in order to apply for certain Jr. High honors classes, there are letter-grade requirements for sixth grade.

The questions were posed: could sixth grade teachers do BOTH kinds of reporting? Can Skyward be altered by the district so that it goes along more with the skill-based reporting?

Along with this discussion, the subject of Cascade having an inordinately high amount of homework came up. All the parents agreed to the tune of too much daily homework, and making it a pain for parents having to sign so much. Particularly second-grade seems to be a culprit of having even more homework than the upper grades. And all parents strongly agreed that the kids need to come home and just be kids, that homework should be largely limited to reading, and that the instruction and learning needs to take place during the hours they are at school.

Tracy Naval, a teacher, also strongly agreed with the need for less homework, and kids needing to just be kids. She affirmed that studies show that students do better in school and with learning when they can leave learning at school and go home and play.

Everyone agreed that reading should happen every day, but that other homework should be limited and
that there should be a school-wide homework policy to that effect.

Budget Proposal 2017-2018
Charles added up the proposed line items in a spreadsheet and they totaled closer to $80,000. This was approximately $12,000 over budget, with several line items being negotiable but hopeful. This gave the council an idea of what to cut from the negotiable items. It was decided that there would
be one new literacy aide hired, not two, cutting that line item from $10,000 to $5,000. Also, because the council feels that Summer Collaboration and Professional Development are similar, and there is already so much in Summer Collaberation, Professional Development would be cut completely for now, and then when we know the actual allocation amount, which is usually higher, we will put the extra, or slush-fund amount toward Professional Development, as we have in the past, and get what we can out of it.

That put the total of the line items to $69,140, close enough to the estimate that we can bridge the gap when we know final numbers.

Motion to adjourn. Adjourned.