Minutes

Ridgecrest Elementary School Community Council

Monthly Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, Jan 22nd, 2025

4:00pm- Library

• Call to Order: 4:02 p.m.
• In attendance: Sara Allenm Carrie Christensen, Brooke Schnieder, Fengmin Li, Court Bouldin, Jeanne Herbert, Sammy Fan, Anna Whiteley, and Rhea Eggert

• Excused: Chris Hettich, Elias Perez
• Not in attendance: Alex Gibbs

• Previous Meeting Minutes Approved–thank you very much

• SCC Roster Accuracy Check and Update if needed: 
• School Site: https://ridgecrest.canyonsdistrict.org/about-the-school-community-council/

• Submitted Final Report for previous year’s plan- Due end of January

• Submitted on January 15, 2025

• Begin writing plans for the next school year: (Due April 9th)
• TSSP:  

• • Culture Goal: Attendance 
  • 2 options:

• By Spring 2026, we will increase the percentage of students who are on track with attendance by 10% each term, as measured by Early Warning Systems (EWS) data.

• OR By Spring 2026, we will increase the percentage of students who are on track with attendance to 70% each term, as measured by Early Warning Systems (EWS).

• • For parents – the goal may be more reader friendly to use months instead of quarters.  
  • SCC prefers wording of the second goal.
• Possible incentive is to add a “competition” piece within grade groupings for students who have the highest attendance – bell to bell – weekly. 
• Suggestion for home visits for students with high absences to connect and build relationships with students.   Money will need to be set aside, as the state grant has discontinued, if this was a step that we want to implement.
• Attached to this goal is the 
  • Cost of the Social Worker
  • Behavior Interventionist 
  • Incentives/prizes for Attendance programs

• Land Trust:
• Positive Behavior Plan:
• Review to ensure we are on course with Current Year’s:
• LAND Trust Plan

• ST Math (some money comes from a grant) – needs to be included in the budget for purchasing by February – grant application opens in February.    *May need to look at an amendment to the budget.

• Data 

• Acadience administered last week of January.  
• RISE data is being aggregated
• Data updates will be given in February.

• Expenditures

• Extra money due to the absence of a recess aide for two months – money will be used to increase behavior specialist hours during Spring.
• New recess aide will be hired at 27 hours/week.  Extra hours will be used to help monitor behaviors during the morning.
• Support will be given to first grade with an aide.
• Q-Talk will be purchased for DLI.  

• Before/After school supervision (Elias Perez):  
  • Not discussed during January meeting

• Additional school climate updates or principal Report
  • Superintendent visited faculty and staff during a faculty meeting 
  • Guardians in Schools
    • Need to have a plan in place by next school year
    • Two guardians will receive training and the necessary safety equipment
    • There are still many questions and concerns in regards to the implementation – answers will be given once the District is able to clarify the program and receives answers from the state. 

• DLI – no changes will be made for next year as the District looks at programs 
• New playground turf placed under play structure
• Need broken divider in the gym repaired

• Next Meeting Wed., Feb. 19th. (longer to go over data)

• Do we want to have a little potluck of snacks/fruits/veggies
  • Yes on snacks
  • No dietary restrictions
• Meeting adjourned at: 4:58 pm.   Motioned by Anna Whitely; Seconded by Jeanne Herbert