January 8, 2026 – Minutes

2. Reading Goal – 60% of students will achieve at least average growth or higher as measured by the MAP literacy Assessment. These are the types of things we have in our TSSP Land trust to support this goal to try and achieve it.

Fall Map Reading Data:

MAP Growth Reading scores from this fall, we are looking at the first of the year when they got here, around week two. MAP testing the first round doesn’t show growth score but achievement. Last year we had 85% at benchmark average or above. This year 82% around the same as last year. We also have 50 more 6th grade students. 83% of all Butler Middle Students are at benchmark or above. Break down by different groups allows us to what groups to focus on with interventions that might work best for them. We broke it down by grade level. 6th grade, 7th grade and 8th grade. Comparison chart to other Canyons School District Middle Schools. Butler Middle at 82% compared to 74% for District Middle Schools.

Winter Map Reading Data:

Shift our mindset to growth. School breakdown 83% of all BMS students are at benchmark. Every time they take the test it projects what growth they should be at next time they take the test. 54.3% of all Butler students met their projected growth and 45.7% did not.

Question by Sara Vranes: What were you hoping for percentage wise as a goal?

Bryan Rudes – 60% is our school goal.

Question by Lori Carter: When does the growth just stop?

Bryan – It goes all the way up through High School.

Mindy Robison (Middle School Director Canyons District) – We give it through 10th grade, but it does consider where they start. Some are maintaining if they are really high. It considers their age and their starting point. We are looking more for maintenance with those factors mentioned.

Land trust goals growth and achievement goals last year. The graph presented shows Total tested, Low numbers of students, LoAverage, Average, HiAverage and High. Three grade levels that are sitting in the High growth bracket which is what we want. Out of our TSSP Land trust, we bought white boards and had them installed in their Prep rooms so that the grade levels can do an activity where they identify individual students and their MAP scores. Newslea was purchased which is an instructional support outlet that provides daily, real-world news articles and educational content tailored for K-12 classrooms. It is used to improve reading comprehension and engagement by allowing teachers to adjust articles across five reading levels (Lexile levels). It features quizzes, writing prompts, and content for ELA, science, and social studies.

Field Trip was taken to 8th grade hall.

Each of their teams and the students. Andrew Otto said it was updated with the information onthe board. They choose one student from each of their classrooms and target intervention to getting them to that high growth.

Return to Conference Room

Looking at the breakdown. Achievement on one side and growth on the other.

6th grade – 53% growth

7th grade – 54% growth

8th grade – 54% growth

Math

60% achievement growth

Question: How long have you been tracking those benchmarks?

Bryan – Math is new this year. 78% of our students are at benchmark or above.

Question: Is one of the goals with this type of breakdown is to look at these various groups and intervention needed?

Bryan – Yes.

Winter projected growth goal 55.4% did meet that growth goal. We have same quadrant for math and three different grade levels.

6th grade – 47.1% of students met their projected growth

7th grade – 53.6% of students met their projected growth

8th grade – 66.3% of students met their projected growth

Bruins Den Data:

19 sessions during the first quarter:

7 Tuesday

6 Wednesday

6 Thursday

Tuesday attendance: 39.2%

Wednesday attendance: 22.4%

Thursday attendance: 38.3%

Attendance by Grade Level

6th grade: 34.3%

7th grade: 31.2%

8th grade: 34.6%

Attendance by Subject Area

Math: 31.2%

ELA: 13.1%

Science: 16.2%

Other: 39.6%

Bruins Den Data:

321 Student contacts

176 Students served

Average session attendance – 17.8 students

Session attendance range 3-27 students

Second Quarter Summary Data:

27 Sessions during second quarter

9 Tuesday

9 Wednesday

9 Thursday

Tuesday attendance: 45%

Wednesday attendance: 21%

Thursday Attendance: 34%

6th grade attendance – 105(24%)

7th grade attendance – 147 (34%)

8th grade attendance – 178 (42%)

What subjects are being worked on?

Math – 89 (21%)

Science – 92 (21%)

ELA – 78 (18%)

Other – 171 (40%)

Bruins Den Data:

430 Student contacts

Students served

Average session attendance – students

Session attendance range – students

Bruins Den is a after school program. It is not required but Teachers can recommend. Teachers get paid a small stipend. As a BLT we are talking about how we can service more students after school. As a SCC that we need to discuss is we are looking for money that we can stow away to fund another Teacher. Our 6th grade class being 360 students were other two grades are 300. This would allow us another elective Teacher.

Question: Maybe students who ride the bus, that have Parents who cannot pick them up could be an issue with attending Bruins Den.