Mount Logan Middle School

Mt. Logan Middle Schools
Community Council Minutes
March 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:
  • No big updates
  • Within 1% of the target to spend this year. 
  • You can carry over 10%  or $5,000- Whatever is greater. 
• Review February Minutes for Approval
  • Motion: Haleigh Beecher
  • Second: Julie Benson
• School Improvement Plan review and approval vote.
  • Big topic here at the school as we have been working on getting the goal set.
  • Need to submit to the director for review by March 20th
  • Main focus:
    • Academic achievement
    • Reading and literacy- strengthen
    • ELL and struggling students
    • Use funds to support student learning
    • Increase motivations and engagement
    • Make school goals more visible and meaningful
  • Meeting with staff:
    • Identified 
      • COncistency in systems across classrooms
      • Clear and rigorous Grading Standards
      • Student motivations and accountability for learning
      • Targeted literacy and reading
      • Support for struggling students
      • Clear implementations, communication, and alignments for the plan. 
    • We took a half day but didn't have enough time so google sheets were used to clarify meaning and help clarify. 
  • 2 Goals for next year
    • MLMS will ensure that all students demonstrate at least one year of academic growth in read comprehension as measured by lexile based data, through weekly electric progress monitoring and a structured accountability system. 
    • 80% of students will make a year’s worth of growth on the school wide math inventory during the 2026-2027 school year. 
  • Questions:
    • How are lexiles taken?
      • Through Achieve 3000- done daily and adapted as you read more and answer questions for comprehension. 
    • Why are we only hoping for 80% and not the whole group for growth?
      • Currently students are well below grade level. What we felt was important was if you are going to put forth a year's worth of effort we want it to be a year's worth of growth. This can go for those who are above and below. 
    • For math 80% why not everyone?
      • With our intervention we are trying to work with those students who are always absent. 80% is due to the chronic absent students.
      • We also want the teacher's goal to be able to be accomplished with what they deal with daily. 
    • Is ALL the right words to use here? As attendance affects reading as well. 
    • Ensure also sounds heavy. Should that word be changed to aim? 
  • Using community council funds to support student learning: Increasing student motivation and engagement. 
    • 1.0 Literacy Intervention Teacher
      • Why don't we create a literacy intervention class?
        • It is hard on the teacher
        • What might be nice is a full time teacher who goes during RTI time and schedules with teachers where she will pull students to do the RTI time and then return them to class. 
        • This will not lower class sizes, but hopefully will give help to teachers.
        • Spencer believes this will be better for an elementary school teacher. 
        • Is it possible to have a control group and test if those who are part of this group make growth versus others?
          • This year would be our control year. If this is what we do. As we have one year of Achieve 3000 data. 
    • 1.0 School Social Worker
    • .33 Math Teacher- It doesn't fit in the budget for a full half- but Spencer will add in the remainder to make the 50%
      • It is hard to get a half time teacher for math
      • This is purely to reduce class sizes. 
    • Questions/ Concerns
      • How do we make sure that the literacy intervention teacher is helping ALL students as that is what the funds are supposed to cover. 
        • The hope this is one effort that will help the whole school. 
        • Everyone should have access to this person but not everyone may see this person. 
      • What if the focus is on the younger kids (7th and 6th), and 8th grade can come and help?
        • 6th grade has already funded another teacher and a half. - total 4
        • Maybe we need to restructure how we are using the 4. 
        • Only focusing on 6th year makes it so the 7th and 8th grade cannot catch up. They are also still behind. 
        • Can we look at lexile levels?
          • Yes, can we pull based on that? Yes
          • We could make 3 of the 6th grade teachers all just reading teachers and no writing teachers. Then 1 will be the intervention teacher. 
      • What about the parent lesion?
        • It would not be funded through here.
  • We want:
    • Students to track their own progress in an electronic document
      • Students in the literacy block students in their class. 
    • Teachers to review the updates students make
    • Overall Lexile Progress report each month
      • Work on every day
      • Discussed once a month
  • Clear and Rigorous Grading Standards
    • Change from 4-1 to A-F
    • Change formative work to count for 22% of final grade.
      • Class work
    • Additional discussion is in place: Categorizing of Final Grades. 
      • Doesn't feel that we are preparing students for moving into Logan High if the percentages are closer. 
      • Nothing to do with the improvement plan- but would like parents in put. 
  • Student motivation and accountability for learning
    • 22% of work will count
    • Social work to help students
  • Voting:
    • Motion: Julie Benson
    • Second: Melissa Dahle 
• Next Steps
  • Talk about grading more
  • Student protest
  • If anything else comes please direct anything that needs to be brought up to Melissa.

Next Meeting: April 13, 202