Mount Logan Middle School

Mt. Logan Middle Schools
Community Council Minutes
December 8, 2025
3:45-4:45

Minutes

• Highlights: 
  • Get Logan High to come- Basketball team and coach came to meet with the 8th graders. We have great connections. 
• School Mission:
  •  It is the mission of the Mount Logan Middle school to ensure all students leave our school ready to create a positive future for themselves and their community.
• Budget Update- $219,692.33 Available $222,001 Planned, Carry Over $10,000
  • Amendment: Finding from a grant for the social worker so we have $26,000 dollars and amend the money to go to PLC time for teachers. Pays for sub coverage. 
    • During PLC time
      • Essential Standards Review
      • Increased CFA Rigor
      • Higher-Order Thinking Instruction
      • CFA Response Plan- Reteach, reassessment and advanced tasks
      • Unit Alignment and Rigor Audit. 
  • Motion to approve: Melissa Dahle, Second: Julie Benson, All approved
  • Spencer Holmgren will take this to the Board- They meet tomorrow. 
• Review November Minutes for Approval
  • First: Julie Benson
  • Second: Haleigh Beecher
  • All in favor: Approved 
• Digital Citizenship Review
  • Why we review digital citizenship
    • State Legislation (H.B. 213) requires annual discussion
    • Ensure safe, healthy, responsible technology use
    • Provides transparency about filtering, data privacy, and instructional practices. 
  • Means- appropriate, responsible, and health behavior related to technology use. 
    • Digital literacy
    • Only safety
    • Privacy and security
    • Respectful communication
    • Ethical online behavior
  • SOPHOS, GoGaurdian (teachers can use for students in class), Age appropriate filtering, iBoss (internet filter), JAMF/ZenWorks (district)
  • Filtering is blocking harmful inappropriate content, applying restrictions, managing apps,  guarantee is not 100% protection, and does not replace supervision or conversation at home. 
  • Learn digital literacy in the following classes:
    • 6th grade- Study Skills- Ms. Turley
    • 7th grade- CCA Ms. Killpack- Required
    • 8th Grade- Digital Literacy- Ms. Kendall- Required
  • Alerts at MLMS- Total, explicit, profanity, tech misuse, other
    • August- 467, 344, 321, 33, 57
    • September- 1364, 513, 260, 95, 671
    • October- 2196, 769, 384, 939, 435
    • November- 1634, 667, 382, 245, 651
    • December- 332, 111, 48, 48, 152
  • When flag it will send an email to admin and tech safety which will then go to the resource officer
  • Only about 6% are frequent offenders
    • Most problems are on the cell phones that we don't control
  • Other category is self harm/suicidal
    • 76 notification- represents 6.62% at MLMS
    • Comes through GoGuardian Beacon Alert
    • The school will then
      • Notify Parents
      • Provide Supportive Measures
      • Perform a Risk Assessment- done by councilors 
      • Report on Results of Assessment to Parents
      • Spencer Holmgren will look into how many total students we do have here at MLMS.
• Public Input
  • Could we get Logan high clubs to come in and get MLMS students interested. 
  • Are parents pretty good when the school calls regarding self harm- and do they have the resources? 
    • Yes, Kate helps with it when it comes to getting the resources and where to go. 
  • Cell phones- How are they doing this year?
    • The system is the same. 3 strikes your out. The phone goes to the offices on the 3rd and parents are contracted. We have the backing now from the state which helps when parents are upset. 
  • How you find out about cell phone use and the self harm issues/ bullying/ harassment/ ect. 
    • Students will report it. We will direct it to Officer Olson when needed. 
• Next Steps
  • We will get Kate Cobb to come in
  • School Improvement plan 
  • Attendance- what are we doing?

Next Meeting: January 12, 202