Wasatch Junior High Community Council

Members:

Alicia Odell
Tom Allen - Vice Chairperson
Mary Draper - Chair person
Neol Applebaum
Cheryl Phadnis
Paul Watson
Doug Bingham - Principal

All community council meetings are held at 6:45 am in the Wasatch Jr. Main Office conference room and are open to the public.

Meeting Dates:

October 21, 3009

November 18, 2009

December 16, 2009

January 20, 2010

February 17, 2010

March 17, 2010

April 21, 2010

May 21, 2010

Minutes from October Meeting:

Community Council Meeting
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

 In Attendance:

Doug Bingham Mary Draper
Tom Allen
Paul Watson
Noel Applebaum
Alicia O'Dell
Cheryl Phadnis

Reviewed Remediation/Tutoring Data from the last two years

Overall, students made improvement by attending remediation. Only two students improved grade levels (“F” to “B” or “D to A”)

Of 41 students, 16 made 1.0 improvement or less.

Twenty three students improved their grades into the B range (about 50% of the students)

Is it working? Is it worth continuing? It seems to be helping!

Remediation letters were sent home at midterm to those students who received a “D” or an “F” grade.

Students must attend 75% or 3 out of 4 times per class to be able to make up missing assignments.

Do we need to make adjustments? Sometimes students don't know how to talk to teachers and maybe we need to make some teacher changes.

In the past remediation/tutoring was funded through the QTSA budget – this year there is no QTSA monies. We do have the option of charging students $10.00 per class/subject, this seems to bring a more serious commitment to attending. This would put money back into the program. However, at this point Trust lands monies have been budgeted to cover costs of remediation/tutoring.

Review Trust lands Budget Worksheet

* Worry about continued economic recession and its impact on education. Money budgeted from Trust lands budget as carry over to defray these possible costs

* Expected budget shortfalls may increase FTE ratio. This could raise class size ratios.

AVID

* Mindy Wallace is working extended hours as AVID Coordinator. Monies budgeted from Trust lands to cover some extra time 1 ½ hours per week.

* Expand to 2 classes next year

Noel Applebaum attended the Back-to-School Open House

We need to be proactive in retaining students who come during the Open Enrollment period

December 1 – February 19, 2010.

More and more Charter Schools are opening, however, the legislature seems to be leaning against money for new Charter Schools. It is proving more difficult to run two systems. Last year during Open Enrollment when we completed the process we had 950 students enrolled, by the time school started in August we were down to 850 students.

Next Meeting:AVID Presentation November 18, 2009