Bella Vista SCC Meeting—February 10, 2025

Attending:

• Barbra Winder, principal
• Kelly Edwards, teacher
• Sonia Klonoski
• Tricia Jensen
• Juli Jackson
• Tracy Keck
• Korina Jagiello

Agenda:

• January minutes approved
• Brighton Feeder School Lunch—Wednesday, March 5^th, 11:30 a.m. PTA Presidents and SCC Chairs invited.
• Teacher of the Year Committee—Sonia will represent SCC and PTA. Will coordinate with Principal Winder on a date.
• TSSP and LAND Trust plans:
  • BLT (Building Leadership Team) discussing goals—growth vs. proficiency. Considering where and how they want to set goals for Bella Vista. Discussion of difference between growth goals and proficiency goals.
  • Historically, goals were growth-centered but were changed to proficiency due to not hitting proficiency.
  • SCC likes the idea of the hybrid/combination to best serve varied student needs.
• Review of academic data
  • Brief review of reading and math composite scores (percent on benchmark, growth, etc.).
  • Aiming for 70% proficiency for both reading and math.
• Behavior
  • As of now, 130 office referrals.
  • Seeing a bit of a decrease frequency as the year goes on.
  • Anecdotally, a lot of the difficulty is from kindergarten. One teacher with 20ish kids, no paras, difficult to have as much constant and personal intervention. ABS students have most of their needed interventions dealt with in classroom vs. needing office referrals.
• Attendance
  • Goal is to increase on-track attendance by 5% from previous school year.
  • Have already increased percentage in double digits. Yay!
  • January attendance incentive—less than .5% difference on tardies and early checkouts. But Friday early checkouts did decrease. Good reset and refocus in new year. Kids really loved the prizes (like the stuffie cart!).
• Budgets and safety drills:
  • Land Trust budget: $16,628.58. We’re about halfway through the year and halfway through the budget.
  • TSSA: $47,307.64. We underspent last year, so Principal Winder is putting focus on making sure we spend it all this year. Hopes to spend it on people. We don’t have enough for a half-time teacher but maybe a para or aide.
  • Cell tower: $26,929.72. Once it’s all spent, the amount we get each year will be lower, so it’s not safe to use this to hire someone (not sustainable long-term). We could potentially hire a 28-hour support aide—would cost approximately $7,800 for the remainder of the year. Would primarily support kindergarten teachers and Miss Gabi. SCC heartily supports this spend—unanimous vote.
  • January drill—fire. February drill—hazardous materials (shelter). Crisis Go app is taking a pause. It’s not mandated to be on employee devices, and if it’s on an iPad or computer, there are potential WiFi connection issues. Another factor is the behavior specialist is out on medical leave and she was the safety specialist—good time to pause.
• Playground rules
  • One parent has noticed a trend of kids not being allowed to play and explore on the playground within appropriate amount of risk.
  • There has been an increase in training and meetings for recess team, and that’s probably causing them to be more structured and enforcing.
  • Playworks coach has been hired full-time and will be receiving more training.
  • Don’t want to remove kids’ ability to make decisions and be imaginative, take risks, etc.
• Adjourn 4:49PM