October 9, 2019 – Minutes

1. Welcome – Introductions

2. Approve last meeting minutes

• Honor Steele made a motion to approve the minutes from the September meeting. Monica Alm 2nd the motion. The vote: “ALL in Favor”

3. Bylaws Update and Approval

• Becky Parkin made a motion to approve the updated bylaws. Lori Carter 2nd the motion. The vote: “ALL in Favor’

4. Update on Middle School DARE—Officer Potter

• The new “DARE” program started last year after the holiday break. They got through 5 lessons.
• The kids loved it and are excited about the class. It will start again after the holiday break, it will be taught in the Health and UT Studies classes.

5. District SCC Trainings/State Website – Doug

• October 10th is the last chance to attend the trainings.
  • 9:00 am – SCC Training
  • 6:00 pm – SCC 101
  • 7:00 pm – SCC Training
• Web Sites:
  • State website: schoollandtrust.org/public
  • Canyons District website: org/scc
  • Butler Middle website: butlermiddle.canyonsdistrict.org/sccinfo

6. School Safety—Doug *Informational

• October 3rd Fire Drill went very well. We were completely Evacuated in 3.20 minutes and fully accounted for in 8.59 minutes.
• We asked all SCCC members to read the School Safety and Digital Citizenship Report found on the district SCC website, we will discuss the report at our next meeting.

7. Review Data—Doug

*Informational

• Attendance: We currently are 82% on track for the whole school, our goal is 80%. We are at 84% of our ELL students, our goal is 80%
  • Attendance incentive program, Build A Bruin: 47 bears have been built so far
    • 34 classes with 1 completed bear
    • 12 with multiple bears
  • ODR’s: The cell phone policy has really made a difference in the classrooms. Students are more engaged and paying attention, teachers aren’t having to deal with the phone issues as much. Teachers as teams are doing some great problem solving around discipling concerns.
  • School Connectedness: Student Survey given after the first 2 weeks of school, 5 questions. (we plan to survey the students 2 more times though out the year) 86% of the students strongly agreed that they:
    • I like school
    • I feel successful at school
    • My teachers know my name and know something about me.
    • I have friends at BMS
    • I know an adult at BMS I can talk to if I need help.
  • Reading Inventory:
  • Math Inventory: We have seen massive growth. Our starting place is a little bit lower but there has been a consistent Up ward trend. The Illustrative Math curriculum is new this year for the 7th and 8th

8. Review 2018-2019 Land Trust Final Report—Paula

*Informational –

• The report has been submitted and is pending a state to review. Once that is done we can post it on our website. (Carry Over, Planned Expenditures, Actual Expenditures that WE enter and then the District reports what they have for our school.)
• Reading Goal: As a whole school we went from 66% to 77%
  • 8th gr: 72% – 83%
  • 7th gr: 64% – 75%
  • 6th gr: 64% – 72%
  • Special Ed: 20% – 28%
  • ELL: 9% – 13%
• We budgeted $16,000.00 but only spent $12,288.00.
• Math Goal: As a whole school we went from 32% to 59%
  • 8th gr: 11% – 48%
  • 7th gr: 43% – 67%
  • 6th gr: 44% – 52%
• We budgeted for the Math Lab classes but ended up paying for that out of curriculum/district money. We did pay for some afterschool math help.
• Grades Goal: Not a lot of shift or change. We did implement the plan as stated, we saw great results with students passing more from the interventionist. We also saw an average of 31 students at Bruins Den (after school tutoring). More students are receiving additional support . One thing we are seeing is that while math and reading scores are impressive and we see good growth we aren’t seeing a growth in classroom grades.

9. TSSA/LandTrust Monies and Adjustments—Paula

*Informational:

• LandTrust: We had a carryover of $2,443.00, allotment for 19-20 of $114,00 giving us a total of $116,443 for the 2019-20 school year.
  • After school math help will come from the U-Star grant.
  • We had put in the plan to hire 3 – 25 hour aids. We hired 2 but had 1 quit already and no luck finding anyone else.
    • We would like to propose that we change from 3 – 25 hour aids to 1 – 35 hour aide with benefits, running about $35,000 for the year.
  • Honor Steele made a motion to approve the change, Monica Alm 2nd the motion. The vote: “ALL in Favor”
• TSSA: We received $102,000, we had budgeted for $104,000. The district ended up paying for the printing of our Second Step program so that put us back on track.
  • We had budgeted for a full time Social Worker at $74,000 but we are sharing her with Crescent Elementary so that will be closer to $46,000.
  • We would like to spent the additional money on the following items:
    • NewsELA – $8,000. This is a great recourse for ALL teachers.
    • iPad lab for the art classes (40 iPads and cart) – $16,000
    • Replacement of Emints Computers and updating teacher iPads – $8,000
    • Pay Mrs. Griffiths for an additional class period to run Lunch Time Reward Activities – $4,000
  • Monica Alm motioned to approve the purchases, Inga Plucinski-Holbrook 2nd the motion. The vote: “ALL in Favor”

10. Upcoming Calendar Events:
    • October 10: GREAT Store at lunch
    • October 12: District Cross Country Meet at Union Middle School
    • Red Ribbon Week – October 14-16
    • October 15: Red Ribbon Assembly – Colton Brockbank
    • October 25: End of 1st term & Reality Town
    • Paula will be out for an extended period of time, she’ll be back in January. Doug will be the interim Principal until her return.

11. Other – see attached

• TSSA Framework
• MTSS Framework
• School Climate Framework