2022-23 Agendas & Minutes

No Meeting Held

Minutes for Ridgeline School Community Council

September 20, 2022

Attendance: Doug Snow, Andy Lund, DeAnna Stallings, Nicole Perkins, Diane Theurer, Adam
Shelton, Ryan Stolworthy, Jef Nielsen, JennyLynn Little, Tara Johnson, Phil Wade, Melissa
Coverstone

Conducting Meeting: Doug Snow
Meeting Start Time: 7:00 am

Welcome and introduction of community council members
Asking all community council members to check their contact information on the sheet
provided and make sure it is filled out and correctly

Motion: Co-chair Nicole Perkins and Secretary JennyLynn Little, majority vote

SCC member training: required, October 4 th 6-6:30 pm. You can watch it online later if needed

Counselor Minute from Tara Johnson: needs assessment survey was sent to parents, teachers and
students. The top 3 needs were suicide prevention, stress management and self-esteem. The
counseling office is planning to do more activities supporting these 3 needs. The Hope Squad has
several members this year. They are planning to visit classes during flex to go over Question, Persuade,
Refer and telling an adult if you know of anyone struggling. There will be a resiliency activity and a social
anxiety group. We also have the Project Aware program now so we have that extra help from another
person in the school. Project Aware is paid out of TSSA.

Update on activities: Homecoming week went well. The theme this year is New Heights. Today 9/20 is
Special Forces Day from 10am-1pm. All the special needs students in middle school and high school
from Cache County School District and Logan School District are attending. RHS student athletes run the
stations and the teachers have been asked to bring their classes out for a short time to cheer them on.

Area of focus: Mike Schmoker is a former teacher and coach and has written a couple books. Our focus
is on how we teach and what we teach. We want quality instruction. Teachers are working on
questioning techniques, posting the learning objective and showing students their success. We want
students to be successful.

Budget: Trust Land is to help provide academic needs. TSSA is to get things that are needed. The
budget for this year was created in the spring of 2022. Went over ACT and Aspire measurements. RHS
had more than any other school in the district to opt out of Aspire testing last year. Aspire testing helps
predict how well students will do on the ACT. Free ACT is available for Juniors but there is a limit of 12
times you can take the ACT. The greatest Academic need is a English Language aide. We also started
the RAPP program with a ISP aide to help students earn an original credit or a recovery credit. There is
also after school math tutoring Monday-Thursday for an hour and a half after school. For PLC the
teachers meet every Wednesday morning. Diversity Discovery takes students to USU leadership activities.                                                                                            Class sizes are growing (approx. 1850 students). Maria Hunsaker helping with Parent Liaison. Looking into                                                                                              sending some teachers to PLC conference.

Parent Teacher Conference: changing to Mondays only from 12-6pm. No school for students. Next
PTC is Oct. 3rd

Concluded meeting at 7:29 am

Ridgeline School Community Council

October, 18, 2022 7:00 AM

Attendance: Doug Snow, Andy Lund, Tara Johnson, Diane Theurer, Mandy Donavan, Nicole Perkins, Phil Wade, Val Damuni, JennyLyn Little

Approval of minutes from last month

  -Motion  JennyLyn Little

Second Diane Theurer

1. Tssa Budget. (CC does not vote on TSSA)

   1. 4 goals

      1. Academic goals

         1. Trust monies are used for paying people-monies are more dependable. TSSA is used more for stuff. Right now some is being used for the Project Aware social worker. Also running TRAPS -an in school program to catch kids up in credits

         2. ESL Improvement

         3. School environment -life skill program and health specialist

         4. Technology- Chrome labs. School needs about 4-5 new labs /year

1. School Community Council training debrief

   1. Anyone is invited to come to the meeting, website is updated monthly, What is to be covered in meetings: data reviews, budget reviews & safety plan

2. Counselor Minute: 33% of seniors have been seen-still working on that. Application fees are being waived this month by many Utah Universities.

   1. Student assistant teams-gather admin, counselors & resource officer to help kids succeed.

3. School Report Card -can be found at utahschoolgrades.utah.gov

   1. Academic & Grown (measured by the aspire Test) -exemplary

   2. English-Developing -post secondary readiness. -exemplary

   3. Overall -commendable

ASPIRE is an ACT predictor with good data to see where kids need more emphasis. Good time to adjust schedule and get kids more help in areas they are struggling.

The ASPIRE results can be found on power school. - school may need to look for a new way to get that out to parents so the can see the value of the test.

The above report card/goals are used to keep TSSA money, TSSA money has goals if we meet goals we keep the money. Easy way to see if we are hitting goals is with the grades and ACT reports and assessments. ASPIRE is the pre to those

5. Dec. 8th is digital safety training using Netsmartz which changed names to BeNet positive.

Meeting adjourned

Ridgeline School Community Council
November 15, 2022 7:00 AM

Attendance: Doug Snow, Andy Lund, DeAnna Stahlings, Nicki Ellis, JennyLyn Little, Dianne
Theurer, Tara Johnson, Phil Wade, Shelton, Mandy Donavan

Approval of minutes from last month
-Motion: Dianne Theurer
-Second: Nicole Ellis

A. Vision & Mission of Ridgeline Discussion
     a. Safe, treated well
     b. Learn at a high level
     c. Want to amp up anti-bullying campaigns -social media
     d. Aiming to focus on ACT -Utah has some of the highest scores
     e. Hardest job is keeping a high achieving-high level. How do we contribute to learning the skill for the ACT? We are looking for a way to integrate in each class no matter the subject.

B. School Safety

C. Counselor Minute: Senior month college apps extended throughout the whole month instead of just one week. Have seen 63% off the seniors.

D. Role of Sports and Behavior Discussion
     a. Behavior at the games- statewide having trouble finding officials because of the abuse.
         i. Did make a fan code of conduct for students
         ii. Training coaches to set role model

E. Fees are going away per the state and will be supplemented by the state. We are only expecting 50% of the budget we usually are able to get through the  collected fees.

Meeting Canceled

Ridgeline School Community Council

Jan 17, 2023 7:00 AM

Attendance: Doug Snow, Ryan Webb, DeAnna Stahlings, JennyLyn Little, Dianne Theurer, Adam Shelton, Phil Wade , Nicole Perkins, Tara Johnson, Val Damuni, Mandy Donavan, Melissa Coverstone

Approval of minutes from last month

  -Motion Doug Snow

 -Second Adam Shelton

*Ryan Webb is the new Assistant Principal taking Andy Lund's place who moved to Spring Creek.

1. Review of Budget

2. Most money has been paid out in salaries for the current teacher & paraprofessionals -The Parent teacher liaison Maria Hunsaker is paid through the para budget

3. There is still money for conferences that many teachers will be attending in the Spring

4. We used money to bus the Discovery Class

5. There is still room for more Tech/Chrome books and also software updates

6. Safety Audit and Discussion

   1. Parents: Biggest concern is Kids are safe and learn well.

   2. The school paid for an independent Safety Site evaluation which looked at prevention and physical safety.

   3. Most importantly we want to create a culture of safety - Kids know kids best and need to be comfortable enough to talk to adults if they feel another kid needs help.

   4. The team has decided to continue to train office and staff and administrators on the school's techniques for safety protocols. 

   5. Things to work on: safety for accidents (in the parking lot)-is there procedures? Do we need to up the health counseling on anti-bullying 

7. Testing

   1. ACT Juniors will be taking the test on March 7th with Sophomores taking the practice at the same time. It will all be online this year.

   2. Aspire - for two weeks in April the kids will take the aspire tests in the morning with extended flex. 

      1. District is sending home letters about the importance of the Aspire testing as a practice to ACT’s and a guide for helping plan students' personal high school schedules to cover areas they need help with.

8. Future River Hawk Night -8th Graders are invited to attend January 30th to meet teachers and coaches, get a tour of the school, and learn how to be involved in clubs and when sport sign ups are.

9. Counselor Minute: Registration meetings are starting to happen to plan students next year schedules.

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Ridgeline School Community Council

March 21, 2023 7:00 AM

Attendance: DeAnna Stahlings, Ryan Webb, Nicole Perkins, JennyLyn Little, Dianne Theurer,

 Philip Wade, Melissa Coverstone, Mandy Donovan, Jef Nielson, Tara Johnson

A few expanded details on a few lines of the budget for 2023-2024:

1. a.Approval of Minutes:Motion to approve Dianne T. Second Phil

2.  Budget Review: Reminder that the overall goal of our Trustland budget is to increase above the state average. Science is currently below (our own mark, but above state)  and has the largest gap

3. Project aware counselor 

4. Flex program -

5. RAP budget is for kids to make up classes to get caught up or make up for poor attendance.

6. After school math tutoring

7. Bimonthly leadership team meetings & training

8. Class size reduction- To pay teacher to teacher during prep

9. Parent liaison/Minority Community outreach specialist, is a full-time position

10. Counselor Minute: Registration is almost done, U Science- is a career exploration program that includes aptitudes and talents in the assessments. Link to interests and gives a list of job possibilities. The Legislation funds it takes 90 minutes and is done in 9th grade in flex over 3 days.

11. Mandy is forming an Irdgeline Alumni. Their main focus is on creating a scholarship program

    1. Three pillars

       1. Foster an going connection and bring back alumni by inviting them to homecoming, creating a class flag design to display at homecomings and graduations

       2. Have an annual alumni award -first need to set up a database to track graduates and success beyond high school

       3. Scholarship endowment- hoping to encourage alumni to give back and have annual scholarships to give out to current students.

Meeting adjourned.

Meeting Canceled

Meeting Canceled