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May 19, 2026 – Agenda

Date: 5/19/26 Time: 4:00 pm Location: Media Center

Members in Attendance: 

Visitors in Attendance:

Agenda Items:

  1. Welcome and call meeting to order
  2. Approval of minutes from our last meeting: 
  3. Discuss how we publicize our year’s work and plan successes to the school community and Legislators.
  4. Welcome new members of SCC for the upcoming school year:
    1. Anna Whitmore
    2. Holly Uphold
    3. Kali Agy
    4. Aleicia Jones
    5. Amy Jo Royall (odd year position)
    6. Liz Huff (odd year position)
  5. Review School Safety Report action items. Principal completes School Safety report follow up report on CSD Dashboard.
  6. Closing

Upcoming Meetings:

● August 4th

CVE School Improvement Goals 26/27

Reading:

  • 80% of all students will make typical or better progress in Acadience Pathways of Progress 
  • 85% of kindergarten students will be at or above benchmark in Acadience Reading Nonsense Word Fluency – Correct Letter Sounds (NWF-CLS) by End of Year (EOY) 
  • 90% of 1st grade students will be at or above the benchmark in Acadience Reading Nonsense Word Fluency/Whole Words Read (NWF/WWR) by End of Year (EOY).

Math:

  • Implement the new Amplify math curriculum with 100% fidelity by the end of the school year as measured by classroom walkthrough observations.

Student Well-Being:

  • Students will act responsibly, be safe, and demonstrate increased competence/understanding of specific social-emotional skills supported by the Thrive Time curriculum as measured by surveys and/or conversations with student focus groups.

Action Steps

Reading:

  1. Identify essential standards and curriculum alignment by team
  2. Continue with the school-wide process for teaching writing
    1. Evaluate effectiveness in PLCs (3 times a year) using rubrics, etc.
  3. Intervene/extend on behalf of individual students
    1. Intensifying T1 instruction 
    2. T2 instruction (intervention/extension)
      1. Pay for 4 interventionists to support T2 instruction (Land Trust $31794, TSSP $41735)
      2. Use alternative programs/strategies for students not showing growth with current programs
  4. Fund one additional teacher to lower class sizes and create a better student to teacher ratio (Land Trust $47000, TSSP $47000)
  5. Increase and support teacher expertise through providing ongoing professional learning, team collaboration/planning, data analysis and peer observations (TSSP $7000 for subs).  

Math:

  1. Identify walkthrough protocols for implementing Amplify math with integrity
    1. Do walkthroughs 3 times during the year
      1. Use data to follow up in whole faculty/PLC/individual professional learning to accomplish our goal of 100%
  2. Increase and support teacher expertise through providing ongoing professional learning, team collaboration/planning, data analysis and peer observations (TSSP $7000 for subs).  
  3. Pay for 1 interventionist to support deepening math concepts by working with small groups of learners (TSSP $4000).

Student Well-Being:

  • Each teacher will continue to use the Thrive Time curriculum with integrity on a weekly basis
  • Continue to support BA hours at full time to allow for more opportunities to teach Thrive skills and intervene as needs arise (TSSP $23000)
  • Create a safe and orderly environment in the cafeteria by continuing to pay for 1 support aide (TSSP $6566) 

Our 3 to 5 year plan:

  • Steps that need to be taken:
    • Celebrate/recognize current achievements/successes
      • Understand that focusing on growth is part of continual improvement not an indictment of current efforts and progress
    • Identify essential standards and common formative assessments – include rigorous learning targets for all students.
    • Set goals per student per unit/standard
    • Regularly review student progress individually by name (data meetings with principal, instructional coach, and teacher)
    • Improve individual teacher practice and build the team’s capacity to achieve its goals – ongoing PL on best practices
    • As a school, provide a systemic process for intervention and enrichment
    • Intervene/extend on behalf of individual students
      • Intensifying T1 instruction 
      • T2 instruction (intervention/extension)
      • Research/Implement other best practices
    • Review and refine our processes
Land Trust (4110)TSSP (5678)Combined Budgets
Expenditure79,189122,924202,113
0
Interventionist 1 (22 hrs)18,89718,897
Interventionist 2 (22 hrs)12,8976,00018,897
Interventionist 3 (22 hrs)18,89718,897
Interventionist 4 (22 hrs)16,83816838
Interventionist 54,0004000
Cafeteria Supervision/Intervention (10 hrs/week)6,5666566
1 FTE (Teacher)47,00047,00094000
BA2300023000
Admission/Registration0
General Supplies$0.00
BLT Trainings, PL, Peer observations1400014000
From Educator Salary Adj and TSSA District Accounts-13500-13500
Adding time to interventionists0
BTS – ~$3300 (4 hrs every other week)0
0
0
Total Spent78794122801201595
0
Amount Remaining395123518

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