Lehi Elementary School Community
Council
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Meeting Minutes
Welcome and Pledge of Allegiance
In Attendance- Joel Miller, Susan Archibald, Lance
Madigan, Liz Ash, Brittany Gray, Amy Grace, Rae Garn, Cathleen Tronson
Good things: The school play is underway and doing good, kids excited
about it. Discussion about costumes for
play staying in our school to be used on future projects. Possibility of making a working agreement
with Lehi Arts center.
Robotics
class-10 week class
Ballroom
dance club-Fridays at 8:15
Music grant
of $1500 approved. Using money to buy
ukuleles.
Spelling Bee
went well
Science
fair-Jan. 31 12:30-2:00; discussed need for a few more judges.
Voting on Nov. 21 minutes:
A motion was
made by Susan Archibald and seconded by Rae Garn to approve last meeting’s
minutes
SAGE Testing: Discussion of information learned at a
meeting held about it at Lehi High School-
David Smith
from Research and Evaluation at the district office presented. Alpine school district previously used a
fixed from test. All questions are given
to the students in the same way in a fixed form test.
SAGE test is
an adaptive format test. It adapts the
level of questions-difficult/easy based on students answers to previous questions.
-Lower end
students-this test will show exactly what they know and pinpoint which concepts
are not mastered.
-High end
students-Questions get more difficult as student shows a level of mastery until
the questions get to difficult.
-Shows a
greater depth of student knowledge.
SAGE test is
50% multiple choice and 50% higher level questions
Currently
Alpine district is 90% proficient. This
year will show a dramatic decline in test scores due to new testing format and
new common core. Expected to drop to
about 65% proficient.
Website is
available with sample tests to help teachers and students prepare. Sageportal.org
SAGE test
covers:
Language
Arts (reading and writing)
Math
Science
Concerns
about testing schedule-Will students have enough time to complete test? Does our school have enough computers to test
all students on an efficient manner?
Principal
Miller explained that with the use of the mobile computer labs, etc. we should
be able to get through the testing fine.
Lehi Elementary Writing Rubric:
The council reviewed the new writing rubric for our school. It is available on the school website for
parents to view.
Update on Double Dosing:
Discussion of double dosing. Is
it helping? What kind of results are
teachers and parents seeing?
Principal
Miller showed us some reports from the Double Dosing teachers (with kid’s names
removed) to show how they are improving.
Double Dosing is a tier 2 intervention for those that need extra
help. If this program is not successful
for them, then the next step is looking into testing for special education
program. Principal Miller would like to maintain the number of teachers we have
doing Double Dosing for next year.
Update on Gifted & Talented: The kids involved are having a great time with this new
program. Mrs. Lish is being paid $500
from a grant from the district and we would like to increase her amount and
also add another teacher to this program; while looking at expanding and
bringing in more students in the future.
Discussion of plan for next year: Teachers want to keep the IXL &
Timez Attack programs. Principal Miller
suggests we maintain our language arts and math Double Dosing programs, add to
our Gifted & Talented program and give a little bit to science. He would also like to see some money go
towards supporting the arts in combination with a grant that the school is
applying for.
We discussed
that as long as we are seeing progress, we should
continue what we are doing. Parents like
that we are using money for students on both ends of the spectrum.
Final plan due on April 4th
Upcoming Meetings:
Feb. 20 and Mar. 20 at 3:30 pm in the Conference room.
Voting members please try to attend to finalize and vote on next year’s plan.
Adjourn—Motion by Susan Archibald and
seconded by Lance Madigan.
