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November 20, 2024 – Minutes (Draft)

Ridgecrest Elementary School Community Council

Monthly Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024

4:00pm- Library

 

  •   Call to Order: 4:01 p.m.

In attendance:  Sara Allen, Carrie Christensen, Fengmin Li,  Anna Whiteley, 

Chris Hettich, Cort Bouldin, Sammy Fan, Brooke Schneider, 

 Jeanne Herbert and Rhea Eggert

Absent: Stephanie McCabe, Elias Perez, and Alex Gibbs

  • Previous Meeting Minutes: 
    • minutes have been approved

 

    • Bylaws review 
      • Article 3, section 8 says, “SCC meeting minutes will be sent to members electronically for approval prior to being posted online and prior to the next scheduled SCC meeting.” 
      • We are required to post the minutes 1 week before the next meeting with the agenda. Technically, they can be draft minutes, but if we all agree to approve them by that time, it saves a step for our web manager. 
  • please approve minutes within a few days of receiving by email

 

  • Review to ensure we are on course with Current Year’s:
    • LAND Trust Plan
    • Data
      • Attendance and Office Referrals
        • Graphs for attendance comparisons between last year and to date this year.
          • To date attendance has increased with the percentage of students whose attendance is severe and off-track decreasing.

 

  • Office Discipline Referrals (anything that is a significant discipline issue)
  • Graphs for ODRs are attached. 
    • To note:Yearly comparisons: 
  • 2023: 328 episodes
  • 2024: 276 episodes
  • 2025: 64 episodes to date for 2024-2025 school years
  • Comparison between last year and this year’s ODRs show a decrease in referrals for the months of September and October.
  • Hourly comparison throughout daily episodes show ODRs tend to spike during lunch and the end of the day
    • Lunch discipline has decreased so far this year which could be due to the change in schedule with recess before lunch.
    • Check-in/Check-out program benefitting student behaviors
  • Major behaviors are outlined by the district. They  include behaviors that are disrupting the learning of all, showing continued defiance, and being repeatedly aggressive.
  • Link to CSD’s Levels of Behavior document: Student Conduct & Discipline Process

 

  • Expenditures
    • Land Trust: on-track with budget
      • Stipends: money used for stipends shown
      • ST Math: covered partially by grants
    • TSSA – on track with budget
      • Counselor expenses could change with transition in counselors and salary levels.
      • QTalk (4th & 5th grade):  program to build more interactions between students in the dual-immersion classes.

 

  • Begin Final Report for previous year’s plan- Due end of January
    • Changes have not been made since first shared



  • Review Attendance Plan
    • Goal: 95% students at school daily
    • Success measures: keep absences to 8 or less during the school year
    • Teachers reach out to families when students are absent for three consecutive days.  
    • Hierarchy is followed by the office staff for 6 or more absences 
    • Tools to Maintain/Increase Attendance:
      • Tiger Cub Club has been developed to help build relationships between teachers and students.
      • Concerns are addressed in conferences with teachers and parents
      • Thrive Time is used as a tool to increase attendance.
      • Monitoring ODR ( Office Discipline Referrals)

 

  • Additional school climate updates or principal report
    • Susan Edwards has requested an adjustment to one of the safety plans –  request for safe walking routes and advocating for sidewalks to be placed on streets
      • Need to include specific roads for Bus 1255 route
        • Stops on Greenfield Way and La Cresta Drive
    • Crosswalk painting request being moved to Community Needs on Safety Report

 

  • School Climate:
    • New counselor
    • A number of long term subs in the building 
    • Celebration for school Reading Challenge – Road to Success 
      • 91% of students are logging minutes
      • Ridgecrest is 14th in the state for schools using Road to Success and Beanstack
      • 1st/2nd place continually in CSD
    • Shadow Day
      • Found there is a need to develop/build students self-efficacy
      • Stamina  in learning as we build students learning skills
      • Something which seems small to the teacher may seem big to our student – little things matter -both positive and negative
      • BLT will look at experience and findings to see if and where improvements and changes can be made 

 

Next meetings Wed., Dec. 18 (if needed), and/or Wed. Jan. 22, 2025

  • December Meeting canceled by majority vote
  • 4:58 adjourned.   Anna motioned and Chris seconded
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