December 11, 2024 – Minutes

Attendance

Faculty:
Margaret Swanicke – Principal
Ashley Jordan – Teacher

Parents/Guardians:
Zack Franzoni – Parent
Shaylee Hansen – Vice Chair
Daniel Pipkin – Chair
Mike Williams – Parent

Present – Wendy Heath, Brooke Gundersen 

Excused – Zack Franzoni

Agenda Items

• Mike Williams made a motion to approve last meeting’s minutes, Ashley Jordan seconded the motion
• Review school data that may have come in at end-of-year or over summer, previous year’s plans and current year’s plans
  
  • 2024 School Accountability Report – Margaret sent out an email with the links for SCC to further look into the data, no further conversation was needed.
  • Federal Programs Report –

    2023	2024	2025
    141	198	141

  • The data above is how many MLs attended Midvalley at the Oct 1st count by year
  • SCC discussed why so many students came in 2024 and then left this fall
  • Utah is a great place to land and get supports
  • Discussion on what Midvalley is doing to support ML learners which includes a current focus on 50% of the time students talking and utilizing sentence frames
• Behavior/Attendance
  • Referrals per Month – 12/3
    

    August	September	October	November	December
    23	115	84	61	3

    • Behavior referrals follow the same pattern as last year
    • Social Workers continue to push in for whole class social skills lessons
    • Focus on the positive – Portrait of a Husky, Reverse Office Discipline Referral (get sent to the principals’ offices for positive behavior and academic growth), Jr. Coaches
  • Attendance – 12/3

    	SEVERE	OFF-TRACK	AT-RISK	ON-TRACK
    TERM 1	17 (3%)	71 (13%)	138 (24%)	339 (60%)
    TERM2	13 (2%)	54 (9%)	106 (17%)	445 (72%)

  • Discussion on absence vs tardy
  • Attendance is a top concern as a school – how to get students to come EVERY day?
  • School is doing home visits, reaching out to families, putting positive reinforcements in place, trying to make school the place where kids want to be
• Safety drill report and budgets
  • Crisis Go is going great!  The app helps with organization and accountability.  
  • Land Trust
    • Allocated – $100,005
    • 11/5/24 – $76,990.51
  • TSSP
    • Allocated – $137,769
    • 11/5/24 – $107,781.87
• Input from the Community if present
• Adjourn

Upcoming Meetings

• January 15, 2025
• February 12, 2025
• March 12, 2025
• April 2, 2025
• May 21, 2025

To Do

• Final Plan – 1/27/24
• Land Trust Plan – 4/14/25
• Teacher Student Success Plan – 4/14/25
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