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November 8, 2017 Meeting Minutes

North Ogden Elementary

Community Council Meeting

November 8th, 2017

In Attendance                                   

  • Sharon Brown yes
  • Kim Wahlquist yes
  • Phil Nestoryak yes
  • Jolaine Garner yes
  • Jen Sacre
  • Trevor Ward yes
  • Mike Hipwell yes
  • Matt Deamer yes
  • James Wright
  • Jason Chambers yes
  • Kellie Johnson
  • Melissa LeeMaster yes

Agenda

 

Review of minutes  We went over the final report and reviewed the plan for this year. We gave out our roles and responsibilities.  Expenses, and after school  and summer programs were discussed. Can we offer it to more students? We are limited because we have one teacher doing that now. Sidewalk safety was also discussed. Bond was voted on yesterday and an official report will be given soon.

Digital Citizenship-   Lynn Raymond was present to share what we do as a school district with filtering in technology on our school's computers. By law, internet provided to schools must be filtered. All traffic that goes in and out runs through I-boss servers by category, word search, etc. Computers are constantly analyzing pictures and content using algorithms. They are constantly being updated. If they go down, no internet can go through. Social media such as FaceBook is blocked. Twitter is used.

What about devices used in school if a teacher purchases his or her own? It has to be purchased through WSD. They must have a filtering agent or is bricked so it cannot be used out of school.

Child Internet Protection Act - Every teacher has to go through several hours of training about cyber security and what is appropriate by age. We mandate several hours of internet education. WSD uses Common Sense Media.

Dibels testing is through the curriculum dept. Selling k-12 information is big business. If teachers sign in to a free website, information is collected. Remind site for example can track your phone and put together a footprint of you and a child. They sell this info.

Why can’t parents create their own programs? WSD has their own programs for grading and messaging parents. Attorneys are working on more agreements because so much data is being processed.

Google was discussed. Texas sued Google about kids’ protection. Google signed a pledge saying they will not sell it to 3rd party vendors. They’ve encouraged other large business to do the same. There are only a few school districts who are compliant with the law, including Weber School District. Are there penalties for not being compliant? The law doesn’t tell you how and the state has to write board rules. Directors are meeting next week to address this issue. In 2011 big conglomerates leaned on fed. admin. and laws were changed that allowed companies to make money on students’ information.

 Data brokers combine a person’s information to create a “footprint” about you. WSD’s goal is to keep your kid’s info. secure. WSD gets over 500,000 attack attempts a day for out of country cyber stalkers.

Update on Reading Progress- Melissa LeeMaster - We do not have data for 4-6 anymore because we don’t have access to dibles.net.

See attached information about District, State, and North Ogden Elementary percentage on reading.

Every student at NOE has a growth goal for reading progress.

We will continue working with k-1st to pull them to their growth goal. A student who is at or above grade level still must be pushed and extend their learning.

Phil and Melissa begin with a reading plan after testing of all students k-3. We continue to get money from the district if we continue to meet the goals. We’re graded on the uniform growth goal. Teachers goals are to move the students forward from the yellow into the green areas.

NOE’s goal is shoot for 80% of students in k-3 will read at benchmark by end of the school year. 65% of our students will be proficient on the end of year SAGE math assessment.

2013-2016 school grade got a C grade. 2016-17 NOE got a B grade.

 

NOE has a variety of aides, volunteers, as well as teachers to assist with reading.

Update on Current Plan- Phil If there is a substantial boundary adjustment, a per pupil fund impacts trustlands monies. Plan budgeted $55, 661. Actual allocation amount $52,284.

See attachment for Trustland Quick Look Chart.

Chromebook / devices budget moving forward- Phil

Every 4 years they rotate out. We have 36 on 1 year lease and 80 on another lease. The 80 we just got this year will cost us $4552/year. 36 chromebooks costs $2730.85/year.  5th grade chromebook lab is completely paid for. Purchasing is the same as the 4 year lease. They are updated by the district.

I-pads are not allowed on a lease; they must be purchased.

Next year, NOE should budget for America corp salary, computer needs salary, after school reading, etc.

Future Meetings: Next mtg. in January and will submit a plan in March. We will figure out in the next 2 mtgs. on budget matters.  Meeting dismissed at 4:07 p.m.

Jan. 17, 2017 at 3: pm

Feb. 21, 2017 at 3: pm

March 7, 2017 at 3: pm