December 12, 2019 at 5:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Discussion:  Concern about Menards - bill: Mr. Hayes explained a shed has been built with limited access.

Discussion:  Board Consultant Linda Richards assisted Board members with the Superintendent Evaluation On-line Survey tool. 
Explanation of the process, marking the most accurate descriptor, evidence and opportunity to write in a suggestion of one improvement per standard. 
Standard I:  Mission Vision and Goals 
Standard II:  Policy  
Standard III:  Budget Management and Planning
Standard IV:  Educational Leadership
Standard V:  Organizational and Cultural Leadership
Standard VII: Community Relations
Standard VIII:  Professional Leadership
Standard VIII:  Board and Superintendent Relationships

Results from Board survey and Mr. Hayes conducted a self evaluation, will be tallied by NASB and results  will be given to President Moose. 
Board can assign 4 goals if needed. 
Results will be signed by President Moose. 
 

Discussion: 

• Supt Hayes and Business Manager Ron Meyer attended the NIISA conference in Las Vegas last week. 
• Attended a FISEF-2 day training on the Impact Aid and the application process. They gained ideas on recruitment of teachers, it was a very informative time.
• A payment will be coming in January. 
• There is a new application process and the Board will need to authorize Mr. Hayes as the Impact Aid user for IAGS and Impact Aid Grant System for SCS.

Discussion: 

• Supt.Hayes gave the Student Achievement Handout with benchmarks to the board. Ms. Richards ask the the board what they found helpful with this document; they repsonded with seeing the comparison from last year to this year, tracking and trending. Ms. Richards inquired how frequently it would be provided to the board.  It is reflected in the BOE calendar.  It will be given to BOE after spring assessments.
• Progress monitoring benchmarks show if we are making improvements year to year.
• Questions concerning Social and Emotional Development was brought forward, Mr. Hayes explained this data will be coming.
• As a leadership team we moving forward and assessing data.

Discussion:  Supt. Hayes informed the Board, at the end of  January the bids will be opened.  Its a process, it's progressing and moving along. 
 

Discussion: 

• Principal Lor, shared an overview, of the Senior class.  Number of Senior students on track to graduate.  Number of 5+ year Seniors, who enrolled in regular classes and APEX in order to earn the required credits to graduate. Number of students in the Future's Academy taking only classes on APEX to recover credits.  We will continue to work with students on maintaining passing grades and attending school.
• Our Guidance counselor Mrs. Snowdon and Ms. Lor are looking at alternative ways for students to recover credits.  (i.e. service learning projects, credits from working, etc.)
• Concern from Board: - that parents are notified of the Senior students status.

 

Discussion: 

• Principal Lor, shared an overview, of the Senior class.  Number of Senior students on track to graduate.  Number of 5+ year Seniors, who enrolled in regular classes and APEX in order to earn the required credits to graduate. Number of students in the Future's Academy taking only classes on APEX to recover credits.  We will continue to work with students on maintaining passing grades and attending school.
• Our Guidance counselor Mrs. Snowdon and Ms. Lor are looking at alternative ways for students to recover credits.  (i.e. service learning projects, credits from working, etc.)
• Concern from Board: - that parents are notified of the Senior students status.

 

Discussion:  Special Education Director Mrs. Corderman shared what Restorative Justice is and what it like looks at here at SCS. 

• It is a shift away from the traditional, punitive approach to wrongdoing. The restorative perspective views misbehavior as an offense against relationships. This approach maintains a focus on accountability of actions with a specific emphasis on empathy and repairing of harm. To that end, restorative practice seeks to address underlying issues of misbehavior and reintegrate wrongdoers back into the school and classroom community.
• At SCS this is yet another shift in reducing our problem behaviors, but one (as research addresses) clearly can have an effect for all students, staff and parents. At SCS, we want students to experience (after a wrongdoing) a way to rebuild trust, earn respect, find optimism and learn to be intentional - to get results (i.e., apologies)
• We continue to work on practices in the classrooms and around the building.

Next Steps: 

• Phase one: September PD; Introduce
• Phase two: PLCs, WIT teams, culture, postcards
• Phase three: Greet at the door, Behavior interventionists; meetings with parents 
• Phase four: Tuesday PD from 8-8:30 with staff, Mr. Thomas (Fridays) with staff
• Phase five: January PD and restorative circles, Dr. Mausbach assisting with PD
• Phase six: Training and PD for the leadership team
• Phase seven: Reflection of 2019-20; ongoing plans for 2020-21

 

Discussion: 

• First nine weeks of school we were at 94.1% 

• First nine weeks of school we were at 92.86%

• First nine weeks of school we were at 83.70%
• Seniors - including ALT Ed students - 76.77%

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Ms. Richards shared a concern:  how are we informing parents?

Board was interested in how Truancy Diversion program is working - Mr. Hayes stated he was on a conference call with DTSU - concerning Truancy and the tribal SARB board and how that looks and SCS will be collaborating on with on this process.  Weekly emails will be sent to three DTSU staff.
implement with fidelity = we have sent letters and made phone calls. 

BOE requested that this be put into a document and provide it to the board.

The student handbook will need to be updated as the tribal council passed a policy, reverting back to 2013 and SARB board.
Principals communicate by making phone calls, and creating personal plans for families. 
Weekly, our secretaries print out attendance and tardy informatin for the principals, they relay Truancy information to the Supt by Thursday and he contacts DTSU. 

It was also noted that we had a Tribal Council member-Derek LaPointe - present a $1000 donation from the tribal council to use for the Little Warriors Learning Center.
We will be delivering a thank you note will be given to the Tribal Council.
Supt. Hayes shared information from a donor he has worked with in the past. Jeff Cole - is interested in working with us and donating a "Think" mobile lab trailer (7 x 12) with different stem activities for students. We look forward to collaborating with him. 
Supt. Hayes is also looking for grants for FCS and AG program with green house possibilities.  
Opportunities for summer and after school enrichment programs in Omaha.