Mount Logan Middle School - 9/9/2021 MIN

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9/9/2021 MIN

Mt. Logan Middle Schools
Community Council Minutes
September 9, 2021
3:45-4:45

Minutes	Item	Owner
5	Welcome and Introductions	Principal Wagner
TBD	School safety - (COVID Cases general procedures and guidelines) COVID numbers and policies are included on the district’s website at: https://www.loganschools.org/covid19-information	Principal Wagner
TBD	Training (demo Canvas, watch video) Watched a 4-minute training as a council. Principal Wagner will send an email to the council that includes links to other trainings that each community council member should watch. Recommendation – set up a mechanism for teachers to provide input on the items that the council is considering. Follow-up: Principal Wagner will link to the minutes and agenda in announcements to the community and to teachers and specifically ask for input on upcoming agenda items from teachers. Emails to families will continue to include links to the minutes and agenda where they can find contact information.	Principal Wagner
TBD	Mission-vision-goal MLMS Mission: Ensure all students leave our school ready to create a positive future for themselves and their community. Very important, discussed at every faculty meeting, SCC meeting, etc., everything we do should be focused on this mission. MLMS Vision: Mount Logan Middle School provides a safe environment that inspires life-long learners who have the skills necessary to be engaged citizens in their community, country, and world. What does the mission look like when we are meeting it? MLMS Goal: 90% of our students will master essential learnings as measured by team- developed common formative assessments for each content area. Measurable – while the mission remains all kids, we aren’t there yet, so we have a measurable goal to get to 90%. Essential skills apply to every content area including PE, music, etc. Teachers identify essential learnings and grades are administered based on whether students meet those standards. Proficiency measured on each essential learning based on formative assessments. Reviewed data from 2020-21 school year for essential learnings by grade and subject area, looking at percent of students proficient for each learning essential and trend data for percent of learning essentials mastered. Reviewed comparison data for statewide assessment proficiency and growth (MGP) data (2019), compared to schools that are like ours demographically across the state. It is important to not just compare MLMS to the other middle schools in the valley because 65% of MLMS students qualify as low-income and 22% are English Learners. Compared to similar schools, MLMS ranked 5 th out of 22 similar middle schools and junior highs in the states. Rank about average on growth. Our proficiency ranking compared with similar schools has increased over the past five years. Efforts the school, supported by the school community council, are paying off. No comparison data are available yet for 2020-21 data, but our proficiency trend data on SAGE/RISE show a dip from previous years, but we have to consider the context for that due to COVID – many students were learning online and weren’t assessed on the essential learnings by the teachers. Question – why the drop from 2017-18 to 2018-19 for 8 th grade math (from 49 to 40%). Likely due to teacher retention and difficulty hiring and retaining high quality math teachers. Large increases in previous years were due to really strong teachers who unfortunately did not stay. Data we have right now are discouraging but understandable. Professional Learning PLNs, PL Academy, funding teacher development Required for teachers in provisional years as part of mentorship, beyond that based on voluntary engagement Instructional Coaching Prioritize insturctional coaching for new teachers Literacy Academy Targeted for students who aren't reading on grade level Selected based on STAR scores, currently serving about 90 students but could be serving 300-400 students Applied for a GEAR UP grant for math academy, expecting to get it and Focus on English Language Learners John Hattie – Research-Based Best Practice – research has shown that the thing that impacts student growth most is teacher efficacy – teachers believing all students can learn and havingstrategies to teach efficiently. We will be reviewing data as a community council Follow-up – Principal Wagner will besending home packets of data for community council members to review. We will spend time as a council reviewing the data, identifying challenges for the school based on the data, and strategies to address the challenges we identify.	Principal Wagner
TBD	Nominations for leadership positions Shelley- current chairperson unable to continue as the cahir for this year. As chair, you meet with the principal to set the agenda for the monthly meetings. Nomination for chair - Sarah Ann Delaney Nominated by Elizabeth Blanchard 2^nd Michelle Selui All in favor Nominations for vice-chair - Elizabeth Blanchard Nominated by Elizabeth Blanchard 2^nd Melissa LaMalfa All in favor Nominations for secretary - Sara Doutre Nominated by Elizabeth Blanchard 2^nd Melissa LaMalfa All in favor	Principal Wagner
TBD	Adjourn	Principal Wagner