Mount Logan Middle School

Mt. Logan Middle Schools
Community Council Minutes
February 9, 2026
3:45-4:45

Agenda

• School Mission
  • Our mission is to ENSURE all students leave MLMS ready to create a positive future for themselves and their community.
• Budget Update
  • We are on track. 
  • Received an email from the state telling us we are doing a good job- very positive. 
• Review January Minutes for Approval
  • First: Julie Benson
  • Second: Haleigh Beecher
• Overview of the School Improvement Plan process
  • SIP timeline 
    • Feb 2026 initial conversation
    • Submit plan by March 20, 2026
    • School Board March 20-27
    • Goes to the state April 6-10, 2026
  • Teachers will be discussing on Feb 20th, we will see the data that will be presented to the teachers. 
    • What are the areas of greatest need?
      • Data Gateway- Student Achievement data for MLMS:
        • Language arts: 36.4%
        • Math: 27.9%
        • Science 41.6%
        • Lots of improvement needed. We have put money into this for years. Are we doing the right thing?
        • Comparison for MLMS to schools in the area:
          • Granite Bonneville Jr High-is the most like MLMS. 
          • No other schools in the valley that are like us. 
          • When we look at the schools similar to us we are holding our own. But we still have a lot of growth needed. 
        • Overall school report card- MLMS
          • 20 point for achievement
          • 26 for Growth
          • 4 for English Learner Progress
          • 14 for Growth of Lower Percent. 
          • 99.2 Students Participated
          • How did we compare to the district and state:
            • We are much lower- Achievement
              • We are typical - Achievement
              • We went down in all areas the most in Math- Achievement
            • We are typical for Growth
              • Math and ELA are low for Growth
              • For Science we are Average. 
            • English language learners
              • Critical
              • We made some growth but it is still a big issue.
              • We are working on this by having an ELL Coach (Ms.Ponce). She coaches teachers and helps them with the ELL students in their classroom. 
              • In the literacy block we are doing thinking maps connecting ideas together. Collaboration with the ELL coach and the intervention coach.
            • When we look at who is growing and who isn't it shows as a line with social economic status. 
        • School wide reading performance levels data-IXL
          • 47.0% Far below grade level
          • 7.2% Below Grade level
          • 4.9% On grade level
          • 32.1% is above grade level
          • 8/8% incomplete
        • School wide math preference level data-IXL
          • 51.8% Far below
          • 12.4% below
          • 7.8% on grade level
          • 15.5% above grade level
          • 12.7% incomplete
            • Math practice this year has been different as we are implementing Thinking Classrooms.
            • It started using it in the Washington School district and has had some growth since starting. 
            • These programs get students thinking and collaborating with peers. 
            • Parent comments- they have seen some issues at home with this where they are confused, feel like it isn't teaching and students are having to teach each other. 
              • Students still get direct instruction then students go and complete questions together. If they see issues they do reteach. 
        • We use IXL as a screener to help know where students are. 
        • Why do we not have classes where students are put with like level students?
          • Over kill by having students have double math/ ELA
          • Teachers need more skills to intervene to help the lower students 
          • Only do the essential and have the teacher be able to pull those out to know what students need to pass to get there in the end.  
    • What support can we implement using community council funds?
      • We get more funds this year 2026, $274,000. 
      • Would like recommendations on how to use our money to help the ELL students
        • We should be helping the whole- majority. 
        • ELL strategies are good strategies for all students. 
      • How do we get students motivated to show what they know? 
    • Goals review for the year
      • How much are these goals discussed with teachers?
        • We don't do it all the time here. We talk about it when we have data discussion and our benchmarks. Not discussed at every meeting.
        • Are there goals we can discuss that can be used at every meeting (monthly) that they can do a check. Make them more meaningful/present in the day to day.
      • We are making average growth in literacy for 7th grade and above for 8th grade, 6th grade is not making growth like the others. Spencer will share the data in an email later tonight for everything else for us to look at. 
• Q and A regarding student led walk out. 
  • Move to next time
• Public Input
  • Teaching app to help teachers- TeachFX records the teacher teaching and gives feedback on what they can be doing in their classroom to get better. 
  • Wednesday Late start- Pay Aides to come and help those students who may struggle
• Next Steps
  • Need to complete the SIP for voting- March 20th.