Beach Court

Budget CSC Meeting

January 2023

Check in!

What’s your weather?

Budget CSC Meeting Agenda

1. UIP Priority Performance Challenges and Major Improvement Strategies
2. Review Budget Timeline
3. Preliminary Projections for 2023-2024 School Year
4. Budget Priority Survey
5. Things to Consider in Upcoming Conversations
6. Questions? Comments?

Present and Roles:

January 9th:

​

-Leah Schultz-Bartlett-Principal

-Dawson Little-2/3rd grade teacher

-Luke Gorka-4/5th teacher

​

Absent:

Lana Luther (parent representative)

​

​

Information was presented to staff on Jan. 9th, 2023 during Nuts and Bolts Team meetings and shared with staff on Jan. 10th

​

Major Improvement Strategy 1

Major Improvement Strategy 1:

Educator as Facilitator: In the lesson planning phase in all content areas teachers will identify protocols and standards-aligned comprehension questions (thinking strategies) to ensure that students are lifting the cognitive load and teachers are facilitators of thinking.

Major Improvement Strategy 2

Major Improvement Strategy 2:

School Family: Intentionally prioritizing space and time for belonging and trust strengthens connections and provides transparency in order for all learners to achieve.

​

EQ: How does belonging and trust create success for everyone? How do we ensure our Black students feel that they belong?

CSC Role-

• Survey
• Staff Representatives on CSC
• Role of CSC to advise around budget

We make decisions by consensus:

Budget Timeline

• Dec. 12th: Leah meets with CSC
• Dec. 16th: Leah meets with her budget partner
• Jan. 3rd-6th: Budget Survey window for staff
• Jan. 9th:CSC Budget Meeting #1-budget overview, budget survey results, scenarios
• Jan. 17th: CSC Budget Meeting #2-budget overview, budget survey results, scenarios
• Jan. 23rd: Additional budget meeting to finalize scenario for 23/24 school year (if needed)
• Jan. 27th: Leah finalizes budget with DPS
• Jan. 30th: Hold for additional budget meeting (if needed)

​

​

Information we have so far:

• We have a increase in Title 1 Funding-We can add an additional Senior Team Lead
• We have a decrease in stimulus funding
• We have a decrease in Tiered Support Funding
• We are projected to be down by 7 students
• We received Budget Assistance last year and won’t this year
• We are receiving less funding for MLE
• We are down a total of approx. $210K=2.1 FTE

​

​

Budget Specifics at this Point

• We are projected to be down 7 students (from 208-201). I will be arguing to increase 7 students so that we are hopefully at 208 instead of 201.
• We will be receiving no funding from Tiered Supports and ½ Stimulus Funding.

​

​

​

Budget Specifics at this Point Cont.

• We are still receiving assistance from the MLE team to support one ELA-S classroom teacher and 1.6 ELA-S paras which is down from 2.0 ELA-S paras.
• Majority staff intends to return next year according to the Intent to Return Form (few leaving/retiring)

​

Beach Court: Summary of Estimated MLE Allocations Based on Preliminary Data

Budget Priority Survey

Link to this year’s survey results

​

https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/l8vsKdpwddcA5I4d6nNTzFoqNlPl5aj0ZmHCWhcGo7Y_3D?tab_clicked=1&

​

​

Things to Consider in Future Conversations:

• How can we maintain a high level of student support with budget cuts?
• How do we ensure the same supports for our advanced learners?
• We continue to partner with PEBC, UNC and DU with para to teach and student teaching residents
• How can we get the word out about our amazing school to increase enrollment?
• Continue Facebook and Instagram advertising
• Send postcards to boundary and Adams County
• Add in Northstar
• How to we advertise our GT and Cluster grouping model specifically in K/1?
• TNLI-We are a true TNLI! (highlight what it is, not just the acronym)
• Head Start!
• How can we market on a Family Night? Can we invite parents?

​

​

Thank you!