Call to Order: 3:10
Attending: Selena Terry, Miguel Echeverria, Kole Krahenbuhl, McKenzie Christensen,, Emily Hessey, Lindsay Manning, Trampas Williams, Janna Thalman, Mick Mullen, Stefanie Anderson
- Minutes from 13 November 2019 meeting approved
- Schools-to-watch Resignation
- Redesignation Application submission process and reason discussed
- Redesignation committee from Schools-to-Watch will visit school and review 4 different criteria
- Staff self-study rubric discussed along with improvements made over the previous 3 years
- Mr. Williams discussed changes that have happened since designation
- Advisory (set of time for students to complete work everyday)
- Collaboration between teachers and teams
- More staff being able to participate in attending the Schools-to-Watch professional development opportunities
- Discussion about the history of our road to get designated originally as Schools-to-Watch school.
- Student Club Request
- Review of district’s school clubs policy and discussion of clubs offered in the past at RHMS
- Review of student proposal to form an LGBTQ+ club at RHMS
- Questions about the group were discussed
- Denial of club for now was decided based on:
- Purpose was unclear
- Against school district policy 3450 section 8.2.3 and 8.2.4 based on the proposal information
- No outline, mission statement, or charter information on what the club would do.
- Concerns of the club becoming exclusionary, and no way to address that concern given in the proposal.
- Discussed ways to support the group in meeting these parameters and and allow them to re-submit when concerns are addressed.
- Discussion of ways community could support students in need
- School Report Card (RISE Scores) Data discussed
- Discussion of what scores indicate
- Discussion of technical problems during testing
- Next year’s vendor discussed
- What this school data will do to help build trustlands plan and support school goals.
- PBIS
- Introduction of the new district PBIS coordinator, Jolee
- Goal is to build on the good PBIS work schools are already doing.
- Cone structure and collaboration
- Have common threads from elementary to high school
- A specific vocabulary and expectations that are across schools
- Use the community to help support the work of the schools
- Talk and plans this year to be implemented beginning of 2020-2021 school year
- “CAT pride” across all schools in Richfield attendance area
- Allow schools to be able to individualize for their students, but be apart of the whole
- Introduction of the new district PBIS coordinator, Jolee
- Upcoming activities were discussed
- Open discussion from council members
- T-shirts for Kindness Matters project donated, and date scheduled to distribute
- Discussion about NJHS service project in the month of December and the positive impact on school and students.
Meeting adjourns at 4:05