Site Council

Site Council Notes 12/7/2020

• Introduction of members
  • Christy Otley- Principal
  • Laycie Rader- Assistant Principal
  • Emily Serblin- Primary rep
  • Megan Soden- Specialists rep
  • Devon Maccio- Intermediate rep (Maria Murray substituting)
  • Amber Thomas- PTA rep
  • Eleanor Robinson-Parent rep
  • Navneet Suman- Parent rep
  • Jenn Jamieson- Parent rep
• Note taking → Emily Serblin and Megan Soden
• Roles of Site Council
  • Site Council is an advisory group → takes community, parent, admin and teacher views into account to provide suggestions and goal setting for Clark.
  • School improvement plan: Literacy goal: 80% of students at standard with a focus on students who receive Special Education services
  • School improvement plan focuses include:
    • Engagement for online learning
  • Current data-students meeting literacy standards
    • First grade- 54% of students below or approaching standard
    • Second grade- 61% of students below or approaching standard
    • Third grade- 37% of students below or approaching standard
    • Fourth grade- 28% of students below or approaching standard
    • Fifth grade-42% of students below or approaching standard
• Metric for School return: 5% or below of percentage of positive COVID tests
  • Family survey going out to families
• Community Questions:
  • Question: How are other schools fairing academically with virtual learning and academic trends?
    • Some schools are fairing well.
    • Success and growth influenced by the disparity of resources impacting families served by different schools
  • Question: What are ways to support students at Clark?
    • Protentional ideas/suggestions
      • Reading logs
      • High school volunteers
      • BASC literacy intervention
      • Volunteers (consideration of legal ramifications of breakout rooms)
    • Current supports available
      • Individual daily schedules
      • Laptops and tech support available through ISD
      • Tools and books distributed to families
      • Timers
      • Headphones
      • Para supports
      • Partnerships between classes and students (Buddy Classes)
  • Additional supports at Clark
    • 2 teachers field testing emergent phonics and reading curriculum
    • Heggerty for emergent reading skills K-2
    • District reallocating Title resources
      • Clark currently receives 3.5 FTE → will move to 4 FTE next year
    • District response program to dyslexia to roll out fall 2021
    • Special Services and TLS supports
      • Outside consultant available for Clark staff training in PBSES
        • Building in Social Emotional focuses
  • CCIS plan → Elementary School Sanctions placed
    • Supporting schools where disproportionate numbers of SpEd students are students of color  
      • Clark does not have disproportionate numbers. IHS has disproportionate numbers. Feeder schools are targeted for additional supports
• PTA update
  • Low turnout at meetings
  • Struggling → want to support student’s with reading but are unable to
  • Potential parent volunteers tired from supporting their children at home
  • Events to build community → Zoom events?
    • Would there be turnout? Interest? Feasible?
  • Spirit wear events
  • Author visits?
• MISC
  • Recently completed projects
    • Staff handbook revamped
    • Food celebrations updated for nutrition policies
    • Updated parent handbook
• COVID Mitigation Plan
  • Plan in place
  • Powerpoints and videos will go home to K-1 families to preteach expectations before they return in person
    • Will be sent out to 2-3 prior to returning
  • Individual supplies prepped for K-1
• To do/Upcoming:
  • Send out electronic bylaws
  • Consider new goals or ideas to send to Christy Otley for Site Council to advise/consider this year
  • Document will go out to Site Council members for feedback about upcoming School Improvement Plan
  • Next Meeting-Feb. 8

SITE COUNCIL AGENDA
April 27^th, 2020
8:00-9:00 

Attendees via Zoom: Otley, Foryan, Merritt, Ferguson, Serblin, Gacayan, Scott, Ms. Jenn Leme, Ms. Kate Bick, Mr. Ed Connery, Mr. Neveet Simmon

1. Approval of Minutes – approved with one fix.  Our newest parent rep has a child in 1^st grade and one coming to kinder- 2^nd was listed incorrectly
2. Who will take minutes this meeting – Abby Ferguson (with help from Patti Foryan- Thanks Patti!)
3. New Business
   1. ENL Feedback from parents –
      • Nice to have clear expectations
      • A little confusing if teachers using different modes to communicate
      • Seesaw has a learning curve, but once figured out, very clear and easy for parents and students
      • Appreciate work teachers have put in
      • Staff has been quick to respond to emails and address concerns
        
   2. Year End Report Card – We will work in teams on a shared document to update for OSPI; Parent members of this committee will read after revisions made and give feedback;
      Team will finish section noted and send to Christy by May 7^th
      • Welcome – Emily/Abby
      • Highlights – Emily/Abby
      • Improving Student Achieving – Patti/Alex
      • Special Programs – Laura/Megan
      • Before/After School – Christy
      • What’s New – Not Assigned
        
      Christy will send out document in Google Doc for Revisions
   3. LAP/TITLE Report –
      • Laura shared about funding for Title & LAP (Language Assistance Program).  Funding is year to year based on two factors: number of students receiving free/reduced lunch and test scores.  LAP funds must be used towards literacy. 
      • Megan shared how students qualify:  Rank order based on several testing scores 
      • Laura shared data around the new Kindergarten Jump Start Clark did this year.   Kindergarteners were identified via the kindergarten screener. 21 students qualified and were served for 4 weeks. All made growth!  13 of these also were at or above grade level in March when tested!
      • All Title/LAP students (60 students) have made growth!  5 exited the program because they are reading at or above grade level!  20 students made 1 or more years of growth this year!  
      • Megan also shared about the models used
        -Direct instruction 4-5 days a week with Reading Club and Lexia
        -3 days a week plus Lexia
        -Lexia only (5 of these kiddos made it to grade level by March!)
      • Building Plan provided for review- check in with Megan or Laura with questions
      • Related Topic- Summer School
        1. Pre-K summer school is canceled for now
        2. Waiting to hear regarding other grade levels

4. Committee Reports
   1. PTSA Report
      • General Membership Meeting tonight (April 27^th) via zoom
      • Plan to fill board positions for next year
      • Discuss fundraisers moving forward
      • Ideas for remote staff appreciation

5. Old Business
   1. Device Communication – Will add language to staff/student handbook language specifically around watches: texting & taking pictures
      • Will add to preexisting section on phones
      • Focus on safety
      • Abby will look at this and make revisions then bring back to Site Council

6. Misc. Business
   1. Community Questions
      • How will we distribute items left at school? Working on a plan to best accommodate families, coming soon
      • 5^th grade promotion? Need to wait for further direction from state regarding requirements before we can make any decisions/plans
      • Laptop and/or Hotspot Access? How is this going? Many distributed; using all available laptops in all schools; turnaround time is about 4-5 days; at one point over 200 laptops were going out a day
      • Staff Support – Are teachers feeling supportive by families/students? Upper elementary: communication picking up now with ENLs, was a learning curve & is settling; Primary: Zoom meetings are driving engagement, a lot of parent involvement with learning activities at K, have gotten positive feedback albeit families indicate they are getting a lot of info via email…
      • Site Council Reps – will need to think about replacing those leaving as their children move to middle school

Next meeting:

End of year report card revision, new members, & look over proposed addition to the handbook

Site Council Minutes
February 10th 2020 from 8-9 in Clark’s Library

In attendance: Megan Soden, Abby Ferguson, Emily Serblin, Navneet Suman, Jenn Jamieson and Christy Otley

Introductions & Review of Agenda

Minutes to be taken by Abby Ferguson

New Business

• New Members Navneet and Jenn introduced themselves
  •  Navneet is a parent of a 3rd Grader
  • Jenn is parent of a 5th Grader and upcoming 2020-2021 Kindergartener
• Instructional Goals for the year
  • SIP (School Improvement Plan)
    • goal to have 85 % meet standard
    • gap goal in LRC is to have 15% more meet standard
    • Focus on early intervention especially in Title and Kindergarten
    • Focusing volunteers on this early intervention as well…
    • Grades 3,4,5 are doing IAB in the classroom to prep for the SBA
    • Letter from Christy will also go out to encourage at home practice for the SBA as the time gets closer
    • Christy will share our goals and plan with the School Board
  • Celebration & Food for Celebrations Plan
    • Form for this shared with the staff
  • Clark Kitchen Scratch Cooking Pilot
    • April will be participating in this pilot for making lunches from scratch
    • 7 recipes on the lunch menu will be piloted
  • Snack Plan
    • $2000 budget from ISF
    • Eastridge Church agreed to donate Cheeze-Its and Goldfish (instead of Nutrigrain Bars) for the remainder of the year
    • Looking into other ways to receive donations
    • Abby to check with friend at Costco Corporate regarding possible donations
    • Continued conversation with PTA about donations too
  • Devices Conversation
    • Continuing conversation around parents and students using phones and watches throughout the day to communicate with each other instead of communicating through office and/or teachers
    • Looking for input from parent community regarding the reason behind watches and phones with students instead of communicating through the school- Should we do a poll of some sort?
    • Christy to check in with other principals and schools about their communication around watches and phones at school
    • Parent Reps to check in with their friendship groups about:
      • If students have phones and/or watches
      • What the purpose of these are for families

Committee Reports

• PTA Report – None at this meeting

Miscellaneous Business

• Community Questions – none received