Agenda items:

Approve last month’s minutes and review actions

            Minutes were approved. Julie will get them posted.

Data from our most recent mid-year Acadience & RI testing

            Overall, results were positive in both reading and math.

            In Math:

• All grades showed increases in proficiency from Fall to Winter.
• Winter Proficiency + Growth is at or above target (85%) in all but first grade.

In Reading:

• Some drops in proficiency from Fall to Winter in first grade and third grade.
  • Low Fall proficiency in fourth grade likely due to these being new tests for these kids and the test having an end-of-year benchmark.
• Winter Proficiency + Growth is at or above the goal (77%) in all but first grade.

Teacher of the Year nominations

            Please provide input, make a nomination

Initial Discussion of our TSSP plan for 2023-24

            Quick recap of previous year’s goals

• Close to reading goal last year
• Met math goal last year
• 100% teachers implement morning meetings

2023-24 Discussion

Julie Met with BLT – Building Leadership Team

Would like to continue spending in the same areas as the past

All of Land Trust funds (~$70K) on aides:

Would like to maintain the same # as this year

Reading, math, traveling grade to grade

Aides received a pay increase this year, has increased costs some

TSSP $ (~$72K total) mostly for personnel

~$50K – Part time Behavior coordinator, Janae Powell

Some $$ for Hardware and Software

Dreambox – state grants pay for 50%, TSSP for the rest

ReadingPlus for higher grades

Some $$ Professional Development for teachers and staff

In the past, b/c COVID, few teachers have participated in things outside school hours. Would like to provide opportunities to increase this participation now.

Substitutes for teachers to take a planning day

Julie will have the exact numbers to go over last time.

School happenings

STEAM night went well – food trucks were missed

Literacy night – will try to have food trucks back

All new events in the Monday Minute

Additional Discussion/Questions

Enrollment at Silver Mesa

Enrollment is currently ~575 students, highest was 630

5th grade cohort is currently ~90 kids

Incoming Kindergarten cohort ~75

Some increases in state funding has offset that drop

Any insights into why our enrollment has dropped?

Housing prices have jumped, many new families with elementary age kids have been priced out of the neighborhood

Overall birth rate has fallen for past several years

The full-day Kindergarten at Silver Mesa has pulled some new kids in

Dual immersion has also pulled additional kids in

Ginger: Could dual immersion classes increase to allow more to come from outside boundaries

This would mean that the neighborhood class is the same group of kids each year, this can be problematic

Adding a third Spanish class could be possible, but the logistics are tricky:

Would need part-time teachers to facilitate the mid-day swap Eng/Spanish

 Min number of students per class is set at 28

Some exceptions can be made (for siblings in same grade, ex.)

Wes: Did Beehive Academy’s full time Kindergarten impact our enrollment

Julie: Yes, some did leave, but a few also came back afterwards

            Wes: Do you see possibility of some advertising/promotion to increase Silver Mesa enrollment

Julie: District team does work on that efforts to promote our schools