Butler Elementary School
SCC Minutes
2/11/25
Parents:
Christy Phillips X
Annalisa Spencer X
Richard Medina X
Abby Bacon X
Natalie Bletzacker X
School Representatives:
Aubrey Doyle (3rd grade) X
Briana Williams (5th grade) X
Tracy Stacy X
Welcome — Ms. Stacy
Motion to approve January minutes: Richard Medina
Seconded: Christy Phillips
Discussion on Acadiance test data to plan our goals for next year.
Ms. Stacy has been encouraging teachers to look at the data differently this year. Used the
data to look at celebrations, what things we might need, and what might be impacting growth.
Then used sticky notes on concentric circles to discuss what things are outside of our control,
somewhat in our control, and inside our control.
Diving into acadience data benchmark assessments to do this exercise with our SCC board.
Kindergarten reading data: beginning of the year, 67% at or above benchmark. In January, 94%
were at or above benchmark. For Math, numbers were similar. We can look at a dataset that
shows their rate of progress. Also looked at first grade, first assessment at beginning of the year
is reading CVC nonsense words. January challenge is reading a passage with no pictures, so
there is a large jump in proficiency data here. Ms. Stacy has some ideas on how to help this.
We don’t have a math intervention program the way we do for reading intervention, so the
students who are well below stay there in first grade. Would like to focus on that. The district
has no math intervention program. However, they have a new math committee working on
curriculum because they believe it doesn’t meet the current demands.
Second grade reading is pretty steady beginning to middle. Students who are well below tend to
stay there. Second grade math has some growth from beginning to middle. The second grade
PLC focuses on implementing standards students might be missing from first grade.Third grade is steady
beginning to middle for reading scores. Effectiveness of instructional
support shows good progress. A lot of students above benchmark. For math, beginning to
middle is pretty steady. Students well below benchmark tend to stay there.
Fourth grade had some struggles in math. Many students moved to well below benchmark from
beginning to middle of year. Students who are below or well below benchmark tend to stay
there. In reading, most students are above or well above. Reading is steady from beginning to
middle. Students below benchmark made good progress in fourth grade.
Fifth grade looks similar to fourth in reading. Maze is administered four times per year and
moved from paper to online. Their scores have gone down and students say it is harder. It’s a 3-
minute timed test. On paper they can see the whole test but online they could only see one
sentence. Teachers have been helping them to shrink it down so they can see the whole
passage. Math for fifth grade is steady beginning to middle.
Discussion on our goals for next year.
(1) 80% of students in grades K-3 will display understanding of phonics skills by scoring 80% or
more on 95% Phonics Core Program Unit Assessments. Discussion of action steps to reach
this, including utilizing more aides and parent volunteers for independent work time, buddy
reading, etc.
(2) 80% of students in grades 4-5 will display comprehension by achieving 80% or more on
Wonders Progress Monitoring Assessments. Discussion of action steps to get there, including
reading journals, purchasing more books for classroom libraries, art integrations, purchasing
iReady and brainpop, etc.
Budget discussion
Current ELA Budget – 5 aides $65K, subs $13K, iReady $7.K, volunteer coordinator, $43K
Current Math Budget – subs $8.5K
Science – $3.6K Brainpop software
Climate goals – $11.9K Kim, $50K Kelsey, $21.7K penny
Our climate goals are to keep these aids, tier 2 aides with one French speaking, BLT subs on
Fridays, 2 data days, brainpop software, iReady, Marcie integration hours.
We are getting an assistant principal next year. We will be cutting our volunteer coordinator
$43K and making our assistant principal in charge of that area.
TSSP $128,687.01 (this year, but will increase by a percentage)
Land Trust $94,162.81 (next year’s projected land trust)
Next time Ms. Stacy will have more solid budget numbers for us. Teachers feel very good about setting goals
around things they can control. Teachers need to feel like they have efficacy. It will also will be helpful to
identify what pieces of this are outside teacher control.
Motion to adjourn: Christy Philips
Seconded: Briana Williams
Next meeting: March 11, 7:30 AM.
