Date

Agenda

Notes:

Tasks Assigned-To Whom and When Completed

Topics for Next Meeting

5/7

Attendance

Keeping attendance on the agenda for SCIP next year. Potentially get broader, more inclusive to connect with families to get more child attendance. Highlight, incentivise, motivate “fun” activities/Specials/etc. (Fun Run pays for Artist in Residence.) Site Council can have conversations with PTA/Foundation for suggestions for funding to support “Sense of Belonging.”

Engagement in surveys.

Attendance trends reviewed from past 3 years: Making gains, attendance in the 90%age, roughly. 95%+ would be ideal. Chronic absences-include more trusted adults to help support, reach out.

Communication-blue folders, Remind. Friday Flyer once/week. Room Parent info to shift next year.

1/8

Attendance

Discussed the whole-school goal for attendance. Collecting weekly grade-level attendance and having the beagle move up the mountain with paw prints of each grade’s progress. Pixar Shorts movie surprise at the end. Track for a month, maybe soon. Goal would be 92%. Bridlemile whole school at 94% at this current moment.

Looking at Successful Schools Survey. Celebrating and showing growth in Sense of Belonging and Student Engagement school. Share the data-Katherine will share goals aligned with the SCIP.

Rachel, Rachel, Dana, Katherine will meet to talk logistics about how to start the project and get it set up. Committees meet Monday, 1/13, so more tasks to come. Maybe parent volunteers to help with the making of the visual?

SCIP data and goals 1, 2, 3-math and literacy assessment growth data

12/4

Look through SCIP goals

Discussed making attendance a focus for Site Council.

Strategies for improving school attendance include:

Starting in January, create a school goal of improving attendance–consider grade level competition?

Visual to display in school or daily reminder.

More days in school

Reduce Tardies

Bedazzled alarm award.

“When you miss school, you miss out, and we miss you!”

Increase # of adults who reach out to students/families when student is absent.

Increase point of contact AND immediacy.

School is documenting efforts with both.

Consider morning announcement to encourage students to come to class on time to hear the announcement. A grade other than 5th grade?

Staff?

Disaggregate attendance data—is there a day of week of higher absenteeism, grade?

Reviewed FIT data for 24-25

Site Council Feedback will be shared with school staff.

Will likely go to a committee to continue the suggestions.

Continue Attendance blurbs in Friday Flyer

Promote taking the morning bus in Friday Flyer

Next meeting, January 8th. What are the specifics of start of attendance challenge?

10/4/24

Introductions

What are the duties of Site Council?

Roles

Handbook, Site Council Feedback Form

Next Dates

Christina- Secretary

Kelly- Chairperson

Feedback form on Bridlemile website

Team votes for future meetings to be virtual. First Wednesdays 4:30-5:30 pm

Oct 4, Nov 6, Jan 8, Mar 5, (Maybe April 2?), May 7

Enrollment/Attendance for current year

Budgeting Questions

Talk about State Assessments results w/

iReady and MAP assessment correlation with students meeting benchmark standards

Free breakfast and lunch increasing wellness-dig into tardy data see if it relates to breakfast-but causing schedule issues-no more extra time table working better

Looked at attendance data, by grade as well as by subgroup

Sense of Belonging-Who do those people go to at the school?

Read and review SCIP goals

SCIP goals