| SCC Council Meeting Minutes |
| Agenda for SCC meeting on May 20th, 2010 · Call to order – 7:00 PM · Reading of minutes of last meeting – Have been approved by email voting. · Healthy Lifestyles and Gold Medal · PTO · Fundraises Rick Titus · Jordan School District Budget Information Terri Summers · If there are any new and returning members for next year. o Elect a Chair o Elect a vice chair. o Elect someone to take the minutes. It would be nice to elect a Chair so that they will be able to start working on the upcoming year if that is all we can do. This would include training the chair should go to. · Set time for first SCC meeting for the 2010-2011 year. · New Business · Adjourn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- School Community Council March 18th, 2010 I. Call to order. In attendance: Michelle Johnson, Christine Christensen, Terri Summers, Laura Husband, Angelina Atkinson, Spencer Singer, Sharla Moody, Amy Kelley, Rick Titus, Heather Richards (Healthy Lifestyles Coordinator) II. Minutes approved by email. III. Healthy Lifestyles and Gold Medal – Terri Summers a. Guest: Heather Richards from SL Valley Health Dept. b. Lunch before recess or 20 minutes seated eating time policy explained. Do we need to change too much of our own routine to do this? It is now clear that we can allow them up to 20 minutes and not force them out if they are not finished with lunch and if they want to stay they can for the whole lunch time of 40 minutes. Since this is how we operate our lunch – why not? We could adopt Platinum Program based upon these conditions that the children are not forced out after 20 minutes. Kids are asked to stay for 10 minutes and have up to 40 minutes to finish their lunch. c. Motion made by Michelle Johnson to adopt program. i. Second: Angelina Atkinson ii. Vote: Unanimous. IV. Trust Land Funds a. Update on our progress using Trust Land Funds to improve reading. Identifying resource needs, moving kids up the tiers, and getting them to grade level or above. We are getting better as we have a greater understanding of how to provide instruction, etc. Our math and reading test scores still show we need help in these areas but we will see a significant jump with this years’ test scores. b. There was a bill in the State Legislation to identify kids at “below grade level” in reading scores for kids between 1st and 3rd grades. At first the bill was to hold the kids back if they were below grade level. That part was talking out but it looks like but sill was about getting kids to be reading at grade level by the end of each grade (1st to 3rd). c. What are our needs? If we want this money to go to reading we can or we can identify another need and propose to use the money in a different way. We need to take serious this responsibility because we can dictate where these monies go for the benefit of our school. The money has to be spent on something “school related”. We need to justify this as a “need”. It has to be content specific and people working directly with the students in academics. This year we hired reading assistants with TLF and in the past we have hired computer assistants. Anyone who works directly with the students in areas of technology, science, math, and reading should be our focus. d. “I can read” now called “Star” program needs volunteers! This is a one on one program. We have the program, all we need are volunteers. Mark the child, grab the book that is on their level, go through the lesson with the child, and progress. e. Motion made by Angelina Atkinson to continue using Trust Land Funds for reading purposes to improve reading in all levels/tiers. 1. Second: Amy Kelley 2. Vote: Unanimous V. CSIP: identified ideas and will write it up and present to the committee. Anything we buy – it has to be tied into our CSIP. We’re open to suggestions if you have concerns. VI. Safe Walking Route: signed and approved. It was prepared with consideration of the Hazardous Route that was bussed and due to the lack of District funding, it was cut. We have an alternate route for that Hazardous-bussing Route. We need to be the eyes and ears to let the school know if there becomes a Hazardous Route that does need to be addressed differently. The Parking Lot will be our biggest issue for increased parent driving in the event of the bus loss. We might want to put Parking on our next meeting agenda to discuss further once we know whether or not we have a bus. Sharla Moody volunteered to watch the traffic and see how many people are there, how many cars, etc. so we can analyze. VII. Chinese Immersion details: Meeting last night. It got funded. ¼ of our students are interested. (25 of 100 of our 1st graders) Application process will be open for next two weeks. After April 9th other students within JSD can apply and then outside of JSD can apply. We need to decide the track. It will be a random selection just like tracks. This year we hire a teacher (no cost to us) a Chinese teacher and English teacher to teach the class of 50. The next year in 2nd grade, the Chinese teacher is integrated into the grade and have a current 2nd grade teacher help in the Chinese immersion program and serve as the English teacher. So in 2012 and subsequent years, it will be available for another incoming group of kids. So the Chinese teacher that is hired for 1st grade teaching, stays in the 1st grade and then we hire a 2nd grade Chinese teacher, 3rd grade Chinese teacher, 4th grade Chinese teacher, 5th grade Chinese teacher, 6th grade Chinese teachers, as the program progresses and then we will be fully staffed 1-6th grade. The reason the State of Utah has chosen this is because of Gov. Huntsman being familiar with Chinese and our children will have a better future/opportunity for the job market. We will be completely supported with monies. We get a $6000 grant to pay for supplies etc. VIII. Recognition Awards: Terri Summers was awarded “Administrator of the Year” by the UAEOP Utah Association of Educational Office Professionals. IX. PTO: Sharla Moody – Musical coming up, Evening of the Arts in April, and Teacher Appreciation. We have 17 Science Fair winners going on to BYU! Book Fair on May 4th. Brandon Mull is here at the school at 1:30 for an assembly. Carnival is May 21st. X. Jordan District Information: 11 million in program cuts, 3 million in classified and 2.5 administration cuts. Southland shouldn’t be affected too much. We do have a couple of teachers retiring and a couple that may resign for personal/family purposes. We’ve been very fortunate to have our staff at Southland. XI. Next Year’s School Community Council Members: Invite to our next meeting so they can have a voice to elect new council members to take effect in July. Terri Summers will have Connie Erickson take care of that. Next Meeting May 20th at 7:00. XII. Motion to Adjourn: Amy Kelley, Second: Sharla Moody. Vote: Unanimous. Meeting Adjourned. |