Indian Hills Middle School Community Council
Agenda: March 6, 2024
4:00 p.m. – Warrior room
Voting Members: Susan Leete, Shelly Karren, Katie Atkinson, Karlie Aardema, Jason Dyer
Non-voting Members: Lisa Kendrick, Rochelle Griffin, Adam Martinez
Agenda for March 6th, 2024
- Welcome & Approve February Minutes
- Alan Layton approved to move the minutes. Shelly Karren seconded.
- Student Center/Counseling Center Update
- We have been collecting information for next year (course cards/requests) to help build the board for next year.
- We have been working with Alta to help students learn about all the different multicultural opportunities available. Alta will be visiting during lunches next week.
- We taught a mindful lesson in 6th grade this week and it was fun to hear how the students are mindful
- We finished our data project. The project was to go in to our Multilingual classroom and teach mini lessons and to increase their sense of belonging and empower them. Students were given a pre and post survey and we saw growth on that survey, which is great. This was about 12 students.
- These students and others got to go to the multicultural assembly at Alta and they reported having a great time and enjoying it a lot!
- PTSA Updates
- Submitted names for the nominating committee and will vote at the next meeting.
- Spirit wear purchases ended on Friday. We only got 29 orders and needed about 90. PTSA student group is going to design water bottle stickers instead of shirts, etc.
- Teacher appreciation – we fed them dinner for parent teacher conferences. They will get a gift out to staff for March.
- Memory book – finishing up on pictures and get it in for April 1st deadline.
- Pushed Mario spirit day to April because of Make a Wish dress up days.
- March 27th – Classic Fun center night
- Land Trust/TSSP: Review the draft of the plan for 2024-25 (final plan is due April 9th)
- Ms. Karren went over our testing data. Math is something we want to continue to invest in so that we can see the growth there that we are seeing in other subjects.
- Ms. Karren talked about our previous goals.
- Mrs. Aardema talked about tardies and what we have been doing to help motivate students to get to class on time.
- Mrs. Aardema and Mr. Layton attended QTEL training as well as other employees to help support our ML students.
- We are looking at making some changes to Math Lab to make it the best intervention that it can be.
- Ms. Karren went through our current proposed goals.
- Mr. Martinez presented some data about his role to our SCC. We would like to fund his position out of TSSP funds.
- Technology discussion
- Ms. Karren updated us on the different groups she had spoken to about cell phones in school with the PTSA student board being the biggest group. They gave feedback about the pros and cons to having the cell phone in school.
- Based on the feedback, we will probably be moving to a cell phone policy like Butler’s. This will be a slow process with a lot of reminding.
Mrs. Aardema moved to adjourn. Susan seconded.
Next meeting: April 9th, 4:00 p.m.
