BES SAC Meeting

March 19th, 2024 5:30 PM BES

Welcome! Let’s Review Member Norms

• Meetings will begin and end on time;

• Members will respect the opinions of others and be considerate of differing points of view;

• Only one person will speak at a time; no side conversations;

• Monitor personal technology (turn cell phones off/on vibrate, close laptops during discussion)

• Members will take care of personal needs at their own discretion;

• Discussion and decisions will be limited to topics that are within the scope of the SAC responsibilities and on the agenda;

• Stay properly informed about the roles and responsibilities of the DAC

• Each committee member will have an equal voice.

• Members will make every effort to attend each meeting either in-person or virtually, with the expectation to attend at least half of the meetings in a term in-person.

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Agenda Review

• Celebrations
• Approval of Minutes
• Reports (Principal, DAC, SLC)
• Approval of Minutes

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Agenda (Continued)

• Previous Items
• Community Member still needed
• Member-Suggested Topics
• Math intervention
• Parking Lot Items: nutrition program, volunteer system, teacher duties
• Continued Discussion of Year-End Assessment Results
• New Items
• MidYear (23/24SY) Review of School Budget

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Approval of Previous Minutes

• SAC_MeetingMinutes_02_08_24
• No suggested changes were submitted by members as of 3/18

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Reports!

• Principal’s Report
• SLC Report: Jen Nichols
• BEF approved and funded our SLC budget of $19,100 for 2024.
• Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024
• Next SLC Meeting - April 3rd at 8:15am
• BES Book Club with Lisa Lowsky, BES Counselor
• May: BES Outdoor Movie Night (date/time TBD; partner with Basalt Library)
• BES Art Days - contact Desirae Pimentel @Desiree Pimentel if you are able to volunteer.
• DAC Report: Sarah Dogbe

Proposed Additional Member Norms

• Proposed: items outside of agenda will be placed in “Parking Lot” to be revisited at end of meeting, if time allows, asynchronously via email, or at a future meeting.
• Members will reach a consensus whether “parking lot items” merit further discussion based on scope of SAC responsibilities.
• Each agenda items will be assigned time limit, with time keeper for each meeting. Unresolved items will be put in parking lot.
• Members will follow the GROW Framework to guide SAC discussions.

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MidYear Assessment Results

Continued Discussion

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Presented by Grant Waaler & Whitney Bell

Disaggregated Data Highlights

• Achievement = how students do at that particular time of assessment. This is more of a snapshot of how a student is doing.
• Academic growth = compares specifically how a student does over a period of time. This is often a greater picture of how a student is doing versus achievement only.
• CMAS at BES: 3rd and 4th grade students. So the growth data is only for one cohort of students. Ex: the growth data we have from 2023 CMAS is for our current group of 4th grade students only. Many other schools in the district go K-5 so they have two years of growth data to use for this calculation.
• Many of our students at BES take CSLA - which is the Spanish Language Arts assessment as well as CMAS Math in Spanish.
• ACCESS: students who are identified as "emerging bilinguals" when they start with us at BES. 55% of our student population took this assessment this year.

Disaggregated Data Q&A

• Academic achievement in Math:
• How long will it take to have enough meaningful data to determine the impact of the new math curriculum?
• Why is growth data unavailable for 2022?
• Academic achievement in ELA & SLA:
• For both CMAS and ACCESS, there was an increase in growth between 2019–2023, but a decrease in growth between 2022-2023. What were the contributing factors?
• Are we seeing similar trends in DIBELS and IDEL data when compared to CMAS and ACCESS?
• Looking at the root causes identified in the Action and Progress Monitoring Plan, how can SAC/DAC support BES's existing efforts to remove these barriers:
• Instruction: Lack of impactful instruction in English for ELL students (are there more specifics here?)
• Behavior Systems: SEL Challenges
• Lack of student ownership of learning

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Disaggregated Data Q&A

• What other patterns does the data reveal about students' needs?
• What additional supports and interventions are currently in place for the following sub-groups? Are there any adaptations needed to make intervention more effective?
• ELL
• FRL
• Minority Students
• Students with IEPs
• How transportation challenges and bus schedules adversely impact students.
• Missing instructional time/breakfast? Are they arriving at school dysregulated due to behaviors/situations on the bus?
• Are there any factors that prevent students from receiving enough intervention (budget, absences, behavior issues, group size, staff training, etc)?
• Is performance data analyzed by the teacher/classroom? What supports are in place for the teacher if a teacher's students consistently underperform?
• Please define “Multilingual learners” and “Non-Multilingual learners”
• Is it possible to obtain comparison of assessment results of English-only class compared to Dual language class?

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Budget- Reviewing this Year so Far

• Review Staffing & Budgetary allocations
• Recommend school budget priorities for 24/25Y- April

“This review should ensure that funds and spending priorities align with the school’s Unified Improvement Plan (UIP) and core values of the school to benefit all students.”

• RFSD SAC Manual, Appendix H: Engaging with the School Budget

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Guiding Questions for Budget Discussion

• Are dollars allocated appropriately for student count?
• Are dollars from the district for SPED and GT spent on these items?
• Does the general budget support the goals of the school?
• How are PTO/PTA dollars being appropriated?
• What concerns, if any, does the SAC see with the current budget?
• What recommendations does the SAC have for budget items? (document in minutes)

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Budget Review by Principal

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Closing…Thank you!

Looking Ahead…

April:

• Review Family Engagement Plan
• Complete SAC Responsibilities Inventory
• Review UIP Implementation, current vs 24/25SY

Parked Items- if time

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