August 4, 2026 – Minutes

SCC Meeting

August 4, 2026

In attendance:

Michelle Van Diken

Liz Huff

Alicia Jones

Katie Dahle (School board member visiting)

Anne Fisher

Katie Jenkins

Kali Agy

Anna Whitmore

Shawn Walker

Kristin Longson

Julie Jackson

Holly Uphold

Amy Jo Royall

Welcome

Conducted by Kristin Longston

Organize SCC

Election

Chair: Jenny Hefner (unanimous vote)

Vice Chair: Kristin Longson (unanimous vote)

Secretary: Amy Jo Royall (unanimous vote)

1. Rules of orders and procedures:

1. We want to follow these as much of these as we can- Learn more in SCC training
2. When we make a decision there needs to be a majority of us all together. 15 total members.
3. Notes we post a week before the meeting
4. Everything is public

1. Schedule
   1. Stay on schedule and discuss if we need to extend the time for meetings- can move to extend meetings if necessary.
   2. We need to post a schedule
   3. Second Tuesday of the month proposed as scheduled.
   4. Approve our plan in March. Digital safety plan due October and one in December.

1. Post roster on website
   1.  Must have an email, you must be contactable
   2. Watch out for phishing

1. Safety update

1. Mr. Walker had a conversation right before the meeting. Told it is already illegal to park there. They will take it into consideration but the representative he spoke to doesn’t think it will make a difference.
2. Should we consider a more public route?
3. Katie Dahle said she can reach out and see what can be done.
4. The law states it is illegal to stop, stand or park in a bike lane. This is a new law as of 2025.
5. The difference between someone actively waiting to get into the waiting line than people leaving their car to get their kid.
6. Should we put up an A-frame sign? Would that be more impactful?
7. Reminder that it is against the law to park in the bike lane regardless of a red painted curb.
8. Kali asking Katie Cartright about getting an A-Frame sign.

5. Classes
6. Able to add another Kindergarten class.
7. Total numbers affect who we can hire.
8. 2 Kinder classes of 20 and 1 of 18 so far.
9. We are still paying for a teacher to make class sizes smaller.
10. 473 total students as of yesterday
11. Four 5th grade, three 4th grade, three in 3rd, four in 2nd, four in 1st, three in Kindergarten

6. Hiring
7. Smith moved to Weigel’s old room so kinder could take her room
8. Possible Drama teacher finalized in a couple days
9. No Math club
10. All full on hiring except have to confirm drama.

7. Goals
8. Reading
   1. 80% of all students, 85% of kinder, 90% 1st grade
9. Math
   1. Lots of patience and support with all of the manipulatives and implementing the new curriculum. How to help make sure it is being implemented.
   2. Teachers let us know how we can help so its not more of a burden

8. Student Well-being

1. Mr. Walker saw solid, strong growth from the pretest to the post test- we need to pick a number to gage
2. How did you pick the focus group? Mr. Walker tried to get a variety
3. Thrive time is about once a week
4. Sending home thrive time sheets
5. Who teaches? Split between teachers, Kaylee, Jessica, and Mr. Walker

9. Budget
10. BTS (the grant) is actually 8 hours on her off week to be implementing more art into the classes- above and beyond the art night. Not quite enough in the budget right now but Mr. Walker feels confident there will be enough left over.
    1. Can we start at 6 and pump it up if we don’t have enough. If there is a fair split between the hours?
    2. Is the PTA able to give a grant? Discussion about PTA donations being used to push in on supplies etc. for interventionalists etc.

• The BTS grant has different requirements

1. BLT training, PL, Peer Observations- any wiggle room? Difficult year to do that.
2. There will be leftover money in budget from when hourly employees take personal leave days (unpaid).

1. Actual number for the new teacher is about 96000
2. We need exact numbers from our interventionists. Can we look at how this is historically? Get the new numbers and see what is realistic?

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1. Started 17 hours last year and bumped up to 22 hours for interventionalists.

Moved to extend by 15 min

Kaly 2nd

All in favor

10. Cafeteria
11. You have to sit on a dot
12. Grades have their own lunch time
13. Continue to use traffic light system still going
14. If you have to strain to hear music you have to tone it down
15. Basic expectations- stay in seat unless you have to throw something away
16. Leave your place clean. The table doesn’t get dismissed until the entire table cleaned up
17. Goal**** Get students to be self sufficient
18. There is a plan in place for those who repeatedly don’t meet expectations.
19. Reward is that they get to continue to choose their seat but they also get to leave a little early to recess. When their table is ready and clean, they will be allowed to be dismissed.

House bill: SB241

1. If a student by grade 3 is not reading they will be retained starting in 2030.
2. The goal is to have 80% on grade level in 3rd grade
3. The last two years met that goal
4. Our funds would need to be used for intervention if we don’t meet goal
5. IRP: Required to put the student on Individualized Reading Plan
   1. K-4 you have to make the composite on Acadience Reading
   2. Required to communicate with families
   3. Two years ago we would have had 8 students on an IRP
   4. It is not annually- you can get them off an IRP as soon as you can show they are meeting goals.
   5. Retention doesn’t start until 2030
      1. Can only be retained once
      2.  Parent, teacher, reading specialist and admin are part of the literacy team
      3. Exception is showing progress, summer courses, IEP that affects, etc.
      4. Right now there is the legislation but now education gets to decide what we think and give feedback
      5. Any student not meeting benchmark will have an IRP

Encouragement to go to SCC meetings

Next meeting scheduled for Sept 8th at 4:00pm

Move to close: all in favor