Union Middle School

Union Middle

School Community Council

March 10, 2015

Attendance

Mary AndersonMisti RosenbaumLisa Willis

Dave ChristensenBryan StephensonMichelle Zoetmulder

Christian DaviesStacey Timmerman

Doug HallenbeckJacque Todd

Jody KochKaren Trujillo

Tonya RhodesChristina VanDam

Lorraine RogersHolly Wheat

Minutes

I.Mary Anderson welcomed the SCC members to the meeting and reviewed the agenda. Union Middle School will submit its CSIP (Comprehensive School Improvement Plan) in the coming months. CSIP includes three parts: Literacy, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), and PBIS (positive behavior intervention support). The SCC divided into groups to review Union’s proposed CSIP plan as it relates to each of the above categories.

A.STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) – Performance Goal(s)

1.95% of students who are at benchmark on the MCOMP and MCAP at the beginning of the year will still be at benchmark midyear.

2.40% of students who are below or well below benchmark on the MCOMP at the beginning of the year will move to benchmark at midyear.

3.60% of students who are below or well below benchmark on the MCAP at the beginning of the year will move to benchmark at midyear.

4.Science teachers will write comparable tests to the MCOMP and MCAP (called S-COMP and S-CAP) to be used in the 2016-2017 year.

a.The SCC discussed Union’s plan to achieve the performance goal(s). See attached STEM spreadsheet for information.

B.PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention Support) – Performance Goal(s)

1.Reduce school wide ODR’s (office discipline referrals) by 10% in the area of classroom disruption with 50% of the school goal being achieved with tier 1 students (0-4 ODR’s) and 50% of the goal connected to tier 2 students (5-9 ODR’s). Quarterly data derived from Skyward/Data Dashboard will be used to measure achievement towards reaching this goal.

a.The SCC discussed Union’s plan to achieve the performance goal(s). See attached PBIS spreadsheet for information.

C.Literacy Performance Goal(s)

1.All basic readers will make greater than the average rate of growth (ARG) in reading comprehension as measured by the AIMS web Maze progress monitoring and the SRI. AIMS web Maze will be administered twice a month through the basic reading sections of data monthly and will distribute the list of students not making ARG to the CATS Time teachers and their interdisciplinary team.

a.The SCC discussed Union’s plan to achieve the performance goal(s). See attached literacy spreadsheet for information.

2.SBO Update – Christina VanDam

A.The SBO’s are currently fundraising for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Their goal is $1500, which is a lofty goal, and they are working hard to achieve it. They are raising money through penny wars between classes. To encourage the kids to bring in coins; teachers of the classes that win the penny wars have agreed to participate in a pie throwing contest. The SBO’s have scheduled hat days when kids can wear a hat for $1. Also there will be an event where students can pay $1 to help duct tape a teacher to the wall. After two days students have raised $158.

B.March 26th is the talent show. There will not be MCs this year and instead projections will be used in between each act. There are a good variety of acts.

3.Counseling Update – Lisa Gardner

A.The counselors are continuing 8th grade college and career ready meetings. Union would like to see an 80% participation rate by parents and to date there has been a 50% parental participation rate.

B.7th graders are also meeting with counselors. Parents are not invited to these meetings.

C.This year 8th graders have had the opportunity to visit one college campus. There have been visits to the University of Utah, Westminster, and Utah Valley University and will be visiting BYU and Salt Lake Community College in the coming month. Students were randomly assigned a college campus to visit. The expectation is that 7th graders can have some input for next year’s visits.

D.May is “college month” – lessons will be taught in the classrooms on financial aid, STEM career search, college applications, scholarship applications, and Shmoop. Students will have the opportunity to take college virtual tours and take pictures of themselves in caps and gowns to get them excited for graduation. The focus is to help students get ready and excited to participate in higher education opportunities. This will be school wide.

E.The counseling center will sponsor a school wide service project and would like as many students to participate as possible. This year’s service project is focused on beautification of the atriums.

4.Miscellaneous

A.Honors Classes

1.5th graders - last year - all tested high on MCOMP so they are all in honors classes but this was not very accurate.

2.Union will use Sage test data in the future to be more accurate.

3.Willing to offer as many honors classes as needed. 4. Instead of top 70% - use what score is highly effective? For example, SRI scores, SAGE scores, Utah Composite scores, AIMS Web and attendance.

B.Parking lot – pick up and drop off.

Yield to Pedestrian sign- Where is the sign?

*Mary will look into this.