September 8, 2026 – Minutes (Draft) – Canyon View Elementary

Date: 09/08/2026 Time: 4:00 pm

Location: Media Center

Members in Attendance:

Kristin Longston

Elizabeth Huff

Youna Ha

Emily Wallis

Holly Uphold

Ann Fischer

Jenny Hefner

Katie Cartwright

Kali Agy

Anna Whitmore

Julie Jackson

Amy Jo Royall

Shawn Walker

Shawnya Klingler

Aliecia Jones

Visitors in Attendance:

Agenda Items:

Welcome and call the meeting to order

Approving the minutes
1. Youna Ha and Kali Agy were the first to approve

Review LAND Trust plan

Goal 80% of all students will be on benchmark in reading, and we reached 83% we above benchmark
1. For those who start above benchmark 80% will show typical growth and we had 63%
1. First grade had an increase of 6%- not as strong as we would like

Student well-being

Some growth was smaller than we wanted but we did see growth. All students 1-3 showed strong growth and 4-5 showed less growth
1. Kali mentioning that understanding for context that there isn’t necessarily a ton of space for growth
1. Teacher is saying that we are glad that even though 6% doesn’t seem big it is an increase and is tremendous growth.
Reviewing current plan for Goals 26/27

Reading
1. Transitioning back to Acadience 80% make typical or better progress
1. 85% of kindergarten students will be at or above benchmark in nonsense word fluency
1. 90% of 1^st grade students will be at or above the benchmark in nonsense word fluency
  1. Action steps
    1. Identifying essential standards alignment by team
    1. Continue the school-wide process for teaching writing
      1. Evaluate effectiveness
        Research shows that if you are not on grade level by 1^st grade you might not get on- and we have also seen research that if a student isn’t on level by 3^rd grade it’s even less likely to get on grade level afterward
    1. Hire a new teacher
    1. Increase teacher support
    1. Pay our BTS teacher 8 additional hours per month for art integration

Math
- Implement amplify math
  - Action Steps
    - Walkthrough for fidelity

Student well-being
- Principle pride program
- Thrive Time Curriculum with integrity
- Hired a cafeteria aide. And she is doing great.
- We don’t want K-1 to have to deal with being left out so the older kids we give that opportunity to have free seating. The younger students still have assigned seating but this can change later in the year.

Budget of 26/27

Just at SCC training today we got some roll over numbers
1. Looks like we have 25,900 to use strategically.
1. Teachers pay on budget seat is updated as if they don’t miss a day
1. On the agenda we potentially want to talk about that every off week we pay BTS person for integration- total cost is 7691 for the whole year
  1. Alecia asked that if we still have enough money to add to interventionalist to help with the large 3^rd grade classes- add 6 hours
  1. Teachers have always been in favor for as many hours is the interventionalist as possible.
  1. You can use interventionalist for behavior or academic intervention
  1. Mr. Walker -Interventionists must be supporting one of our goals – reading or math
    1. How can we support teachers in classes when our interventionist can only help with our specific goals
    1. We can amend our plan- especially if we need to because of the loss of a teacher.
    1. Do we need someone who already is involved in our community to add another behavioralist?
      1. Can we find someone who fits the bill of behavior we have.
      1. A behavioralist doesn’t need a degree- they are the first line of defense.
  1. Mr. Walker will find out if the interventionalist want an increase in hours- but if they don’t, we can hire someone.
    1. Four reading interventionalist and one behavioralist – math they could adjust too.
    1. A more successful student in school is less likely to need behavioral help.
    1. Teachers prefer behavioralist
      1. We need someone who can connect with kids
      1. Volunteers are more likely to help with reading and writing.
    1. Do we need the hours from BTS to focus on an interventionist instead.
    1. SW can do counseling and other programs- Amber is putting out fires- we could still need another Amber, but we have to figure out how we help
    1. But now we have 5 large classes that really need help
    1. Mr. Walker thought that we would be discussing more about allocating funds to our interventionist.
      1. Research backed that the behavior interventions make a difference
      1. Amber comes in and helps take over classes so that the teacher can work with the students to help with the behaviors.
      1. Amber’s role is to be a trusted person and the fun Bengal bucks store runner.
      1. Do teachers prefer having an interventionalist or behavioralist.
      1. Shawn is going to meet with BLT to get more information for budget and hour adjustments

Aleicia moves to extend the time to 5:15

Mr. Walker seconds that

BTS is something that brings people to our school and it is something people are interested.
- What if we need this money for something else

Mr. Walker moves to vote the increase on the BTS hours to (8 hours every other week) 7,691

Liz seconds the vote

All in favor