2025-26 Agendas & Minutes

September 17, 2025 School Community Council Agenda

• Introductions
• Meeting Schedule
• Member Contact Information Sheet
• Assign review of required website information and Rules of Order and Procedure. 
• Assign training on October 7th @ 4:30 p.m. 
• Elect a Chair and Vice-Chair

Next Meeting: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

September 17, 2025 School Community Council Minutes

 

Attendees:

Ryan Webb, Jake Hall, Kelli Christensen, Troy Bird, Ashlyn Bronson-Smith, Jan Shaw, Ashley Bair, Emallee, Thacker, Bonnie McMullen, Nikkala Stephens

Josh Nelson- Absent

Agenda:

• Introductions
• Meeting Schedule  3rd Wednesday of each month, If a member doesn't show up twice in a row, they vacate their position.
• Member Contact Information Sheet

This was passed out to each member. 

Parent members:

Ashlynn Bronson Smith  208-840-0039  ashlynnjbronson@hotmail.com

Ashlee Bair         435-77-1972       ashleebair2@gmail.com

Bonnie McMullin    801-755-2680     bonbonmcmullin@yahoo.com

Nikkala Stephens   208-604-4738     nikkala@gmail.com

Emalee Thacker   435-770-0877   ecthack@gmail.com

Teacher members:

Kelli Christensen    435-770-4018       kelli.christensen@ccsdut.org

Troy Bird          435-830-7821         troy.bird@ccsdut.org

Non-voting member:

Josh Nelson            208-670-1781        joshua.nelson@ccsdut.org

• Assign review of required website information and Rules of Order and Procedure. Training website found here. 7 minute video about the Rules and Procedure of this committee.  This is done state wide.  
• Assign training on October 7th @ 4:30 p.m. Slides for presentation found here.  At the district but also a digital link. 
• Elect a Chair and Vice-Chair Emallee Thacker nominated as chair by Troy, Ashley Seconded. Unanimous decision.  Troy nominated Ashley Bair as vice chair, Bonnie seconded.  All unanimously voted.

Chair: conducts the meeting, approves meeting minutes from previous meeting, follows agenda

Kelli will take minutes and share with Ryan.  Ryan will share it with all on the committee.

Ryan took a minute to discuss North Cache vision.  John Anderson gave the advice to watch and learn for the first year.  Ryan explained the 4-6 year focus plan.  Our goal as a school is to work on the big five skills classroom management. We have a district team, and a school team.  Our faculty meetings are about professional development.  We are going back to the basics with core values.  BARC= Behavior, Academic achievement, Respect, and Connection.   We are awarding tickets and rewards for these positive behaviors.  Ryan is very good at verbally communicating positive reinforcement over the intercom and in the hallways. 

Jake Hall- counselors are providing SEL lessons (social emotional learning).  They have also adjusted the bells to keep down crowds in the lunch room and hallways. Troy has been doing roping with kids outside before and after school, during BARC and lunch. The school climate is up and very positive this year.

Kelli- teachers are focusing on the big 5, and watching data to ensure all students are learning.  No one should be failing.  Teachers have time each year to watch each other and learn from other teachers. 

Troy explained the roping dummies and kids bring ropes. Kids are teaching those that know how to do this are teaching those that don’t.  This is building decision making, mental fortitude, and teamwork.  This is providing newby’s the opportunity to be involved and learn a new skill that isn’t just sports.  

Ryan discussed the push to build confidence with positive interactions.  This reduces negative behavior. 

Bonnie asked what the big 5 are.  They are:

1. Maximize structure

2. Clarify expectations

3. Reinforce appropriate behavior

4. Respond to interruptions

5. Increase student engagement

Bonnie asked a question about the school trustlands trust.  What is it?  Ryan explained that land owned by the state of Utah generates money. The interest of this is divided among schools.  The state requires us to spend it on the most urgent needs of the core classes: ELA, Science, Math.  We use it for technology. We use it for more teachers.  We use it for aides.  This plan has to be submitted each year. Last year the majority was for personnel and aides.  It is also used for the AMP program which helps struggling students stay on track academically and behaviorally. Ryan mentioned he loves having parent aids in the school.  Our committee will be identifying goals and voting about how that funding will be used this year. After that vote, it moves to the school board, and then off to the state.

Bonnie asked about the PTA.  Ryan told everyone that they can do fun extras like birthdays etc. 

Nikkala moved to close the meeting. Bonnie seconded.

 

September 17 agenda (Printable)

September 17 minutes (Printable)

October 15 School Community Council Agenda

Date:  October 15th, 2025

Attendees:  

• Minutes Approval
• District Community Council Member?
• Counselor Contribution
• Review 2025-2026 School Land Trust Plan (SIP)

Conclude:  call for a motion to adjourn

October 15 School Community Council Minutes

Date:  October 15th, 2025

Attendees:  

Ryan Webb

Annette Hepworth

Kathy Christiansen

Troy Bird

Kelli Christensen

Emmalee Thacker

Ashlyn Smith

Ashlee Bair

Nikkala Stephens
 

• Minutes Approval Kelli went over the minutes. Emmalee moved to approve.  All in agreement.   Bonnie McMullin asked to be released due to conflicts.

Ryan talked about the steps to do all council activities following state rules of order and procedure. Everything is on the website, including minutes.  Today the state is requiring us to go over the Lands Trust plan that was approved in the spring.  Before we do that, Ryan gave Annette time.

• District Community Council Member?
• Counselor Contribution Annette Hepworth talked about having an advisory council. Counselors in our school spend time in CCR, Collaborative classroom instruction, assessment of students to determine curriculum, SEL lessons are created from this, and systemic program management.  Right now, counselors are meeting with 8th graders individually to have PCCR meetings for academic progress and goals along with high school registration.  They also are working on a data project.  They are working on the goal of decreasing tardies in populations that are more likely to be tardy.  Counselors are also in charge of master schedules, although the state has said they are not necessarily in charge of that. 
• Review 2025-2026 School Land Trust Plan (SIP)

Ryah referred everyone to the printed trust lands plan.  Ryan talked about the goals he has seen in the past. North Cache has put more thought into our plan to make it more specific and thorough than other schools he has seen.  The majority of the goals are to increase scores over the year for end of level testing, or other academic achievement.  Our goals have built in progress monitoring over the course of the year. Ryan will work with Josh to revisit the goals over the year.  At the mid-point of this year, teachers will provide data to show progress.

 

Looking at the action plan and expenditures, Ryan discussed where all the money is going.  Ryan reiterated that the money needs to be spent on core subjects ELA, Science, and Math.Ryan also mentioned that the need for human connection for students is critical. 

1. One FTE to support our AMP program.  This program supports students that need more support academically and behaviorally.  Afton Reed is in charge and oversees 6 aides.  These aides are focusing on specific students who they check in with all the time.  Each aide has a caseload of students that they oversee. Data is being taken to determine progress. Josh oversees Afton.  This includes all students that need this type of support.
2. Classified specialists ,ISO,and RISE coordinators.  Sydney Downs is the person who does this and she works with technology. She will coordinate RISE testing.  Also this includes learning strategies teachers who support students who need an extra class to build skills and finish work. This is Katie Enright, Craig Day, and Laurie Baldwin. This also includes In School Suspension. This is Afton Reed.
3. Professional Development for teachers.  This covers outside opportunities that teachers can attend to improve their craft.  The district also does professional development. This year, the plan is to focus on school culture building for next year.  They are creating a committee for this.
4. Software. MINGA is for hall passes and BARC time scheduling. PTC scheduler, and some that are specific to content areas.  We bought BRISK, it is an AI tool to help teachers streamline their jobs, create content, and give feedback.  It also checks plagiarism.
5. Supplies for reading incentives. Minnie Dayton
6. Technology and supplies replacement. This is for Chromebooks and anything that needs to be replaced.  Troy mentioned that the district might want to issue individual chromebooks to kids for their own use. Then families are responsible for fixing. Ashlee liked this idea for a daughter who does not have her own device. Troy said to mention this to the district.  Ryan said a chromebook lab is about $15,000.  Ryan tries to rotate teachers.  He said the district is looking at centralizing purchase of technology.Nikkala mentioned that subs should be able to use go guardian.
7. Assemblies 

Total: $230,000 is our budget each year. This goes up every year. The question was asked if this will change next year. Ryan said it is per student and it won’t likely change.  This plan is on the school website for the public to view.

The district is trying to create a district community council. Kathy Christianson said it will be three times a year during the day.

Ashlee motioned to adjourn, Ashlyn seconded.  Kathy mentioned that Emmalee can just adjourn this meeting. She adjourned.
 

Conclude:  call for a motion to adjourn

 

October 15 agenda (Printable)

October 15 Minutes (Printable)
 

November 19, 2025 School Community Council Agenda

Date:  November 19, 2025

Attendees:

Minutes Approval:

Counselor Contribution:  Safety Items

Assistant Principal Contribution:  PBIS efforts

November 19, 2025 School Community Council Minutes

 

Date:  November 19, 2025

 

Attendees:

Ryan Webb, Troy Bird, Kelli Christensen, Josh Nelson, Brynley Godfrey,Terry Roads, Nikkala Stephens, Kathy Christianson, Jan Shaw, Ashley Bair, Emmalee Thacker, Ashlyn Bronson-Smith

Ryan welcomed,

Minutes approved by Nikalla and seconded by Ashley Bair.   

Ryan met with the district to align school efforts to scrutinize school efforts for school improvement plans. Ryan met with John Anderson about this. This would affect core content areas.  We have been asked to form a small committee to analyze data to look at where we need to go for the next school year. We look for holes and reasonable expectations for improvement. Ryan wants to shy away from cookie cutter goals.  More specifically, goals for different teams that are aggressive. Then mid to end of March they want this ready to go. Maybe one teacher per content area and a counselor.

Safety:  we have our positive behavior plan in our school.  Ryan- on safety… Ryan passed out the protocols we use in different emergency situations.  These are district and state wide. The goal is to correlate how we respond to emergency situations throughout different arenas.  These protocols are the “I Love You Guys” foundation protocols.  Ryan explained the origination of these and that they came from a situation in a school in Colorado. We use these to practice survival and safety. We know the chance of an emergency is low, but we treat it as it is very high. We are trying to make this place that feels safe and where kids want to be, while still being safe.  Ryan asked if anyone wants to go through the protocols. No one wanted to.  Josh and Annette Hepworth are in charge of safety drills. Ryan described a situation that happened with a seizure early in the week.  Our new software, CrisisGo, has a different format.  The front doors will be locked soon and no one would be able to get in without buzzing. Cameras and Buzz ins will allow people in after identifying them. All faculty and staff are asked to wear badges at all times. Visitors have to wear a sticker. All staff are asked to redirect people if they haven’t checked in.

Nikalla asked about how substitutes can get this information. Josh said that they are working on having this pop up for whoever you are subbing for. 

Ashlynn tells her daughter that there will be a drill so she is prepared. She asked if that was a problem.  Ryan said no.  Josh said we often announce ahead of time. The district has asked us to do drills without notice so we can practice in realtime.
 

Agenda:

• Discuss School Safety and Digital Citizenship Reports with school leaders
• Provide input to the principal on the Positive Behavior Plan (as needed)
  • Josh will give an update on our PBIS efforts and the data we’re collecting

Josh talked about the transition about PBIS means positive behavior interventions and supports.  Josh is asking all committee members, community members to help us in the efforts. The goal is to make it a friendly environment while making it a safe place.  Josh hopes the efforts will be spread in the community. Josh said we want a culture of not just enduring but making kids feel seen and noticed. One thing they have really tried to do is listing the behaviors we want to see, modeling those, and rewarding the positive. We pass out Bulldog BARC tickets when we see someone doing something we like. The tickets go into a jar to be pulled out for a reward. At the end of the week, the names are drawn out and names are mentioned over the PA.  The kids come down to the office for a reward.  The data  is 30 7th and 25 8th in Aug.  September had bigger numbers, from September to October the numbers have doubled.  The goal is to reinforce the things we want to see versus punish the things we don’t want to see. Josh is also looking at data for tardies and discipline referrals.  The teachers who refer more often, have less referrals for bad behaviour.  When we make a connection with kids, they want to do what you ask them to do. Ryan added that when we started this in August, but as we go forward, the data drives the behaviors. Our efforts to reinforce the good impact the data.  Ryan wants it to go from giving out cards to actually seeing the results of so many less discipline referrals. Ryan suggested that everyone look at the commons walls and look at the pictures of examples of this happening in our school. 

Troy brought up a student that was in the middle. Troy found a way to reward him, and the negative stuff went away.  Nikalla asked how behavior has changed.  Emmalee mentioned that if they are always in trouble they quit trying. Ryan talked about the cards and treats but the kids care about the interaction. Ryan said it is something we all have to work on noticing. Ryan invited everyone to come visit at lunch. 

 Kathy Christiansen followed up with the one on one computers. The supe said it's more expensive and many districts are trying to get back to class. There are some parent groups that want to remove computers entirely.  There is some impending legislation.  Ryan asked if there is any input on the cell phone plans. The state has just said no phones out during class time. That excludes lunch and passing time, before and after school. At North Cache, we see some struggles. We have standards and norms the teachers are supposed to follow. Ryan reviewed these protocols. Josh gave numbers on confiscated phones last year, first trimester= 76 phones.  This year, First trimester=20 phones.  There may be legislation coming that would make this mandatory. Parents have been pretty supportive with these policies. Ryan said the overall feeling about it has changed. People are more on board to get rid of them entirely. Terry said the district has had a no cell phone policy for 15 years. Ashley brought up that Sky View has not enforced this until this year. Josh mentioned that parents have been more intentional and helpful.

• Discuss Character Education Assembly Options

Kelli moved to skip the meeting in December.  Nikalla seconded

Emalee adjourned the meeting.

 

 

November 19 Agenda (Printable)

November 19 Minutes (printable)

December Meeting Cancelled

January 21, 2026 School Community Council Agenda

Attendees: 

Items of Business

• Welcome
• Reading and Approval of Minutes 
• Counselor Minute
• Safety Update
• School Transition Update 
• Budget  Update
• School Improving Plan/ Discussion
  • Superintendent Presentation Overview
• Current Teacher Efforts
• Q&A

 

January 21, 2026 School Community Council Minutes 

Attendees: Ryan Webb, Troy Bird, Kelli Christensen, Josh Nelson, Terry Roads, Nikkala Stephens, Kathy Christianson, Jan Shaw, Ashley Bair, Emmalee Thacker, Ashlyn Bronson-Smith, Trent Johnson. Josh Nelson came in 5 minutes late.

Minutes approved by Emmalee Thacker, Seconded by Ashley Bair.

Items of Business

• Welcome
• Reading and Approval of Minutes (Kelli Christensen)
• Counselor Minute (Trent Johnson) Trent updated for registration for next year.  Counselors are working on registering 7th graders. Then they will get the 6th graders by visiting schools.  They will be working with all the schools and figuring out all the kinks.  In the next couple of weeks there will be dates available.

Ryan brought up concerns 6th grade parents will have.  They are looking at this and planning to organize the school differently. The 6th graders will have their own hall. There will be adults in the hallway to make sure there will be tons of support.  We will know more when the teachers know where they will be and staff can be on board.

• Safety Update (Josh Nelson) Josh mentioned that at the elementary schools they have a buzzer system to buzz people in.  Josh said we will implement this at North Cache.  He thought the end of January, but it is looking like it won’t be that. South Cache rolled it out deliberately, but we don’t know if they have started it. We will roll it out in a way that all visitors will be aware of how it works and what to do.  Alicia Jenson is our secretary, and is amazing at being aware of who is in our school.  All visitors have a sticker.  It will be a doorbell system with the intent to have a safer place for kids.  We have our SRO, Chad Sorenson, who is out and about in the school.  The kids know him and love him.  Today he was teaching in Angela Walker's health class. Ryan said he reached out with a BARC time activity. Josh said we are always trying to be diligent about safety.  PTA helps with this, and parents follow the protocols during parent lunch.  We have district support in this.  

Ashlyn asked about what we talked about with the drills. Do we explain to the students why we do what we do?  Josh talked about the system and protocols we have in place for each.  Josh explained Holds, and evacuations, and what we follow. Josh talked about the verbal notifications. We talk about this with the kids ahead of time. Lock down-  locked doors are always safest.  We find a safe hard corner where we all sit quietly.  We communicate through crisisGo.  The hard corners were determined by safety officers.  Ryan mentioned that evacuations are different from some of these drills.  We can be proactive about telling kids why we do what we do. Ryan said we will bring that back to the safety team.  Troy talked about what he does in his classroom and shows them exactly what to do. He mentioned that in an actual emergency situation, teachers will do everything to keep the kids safe. Troy talked about why shootings happen and how locked doors can keep kids safe. The windows have safety film on them.  We don’t always practice evacuation drills through windows.  It can go both ways about wanting them to know and not scaring them.  Ryan said to go to the I love you guys foundation and the protocols all work. Website  Outside school districts in the state of Utah have complimented our district in making it more safe.  We are advanced in our communication with safety personnel.  Our new regional safety specialist says we are doing extremely well. 

• School Transition Update (Josh Nelson) Josh is abandoning North Cache for Juniper Ridge.  He asked what questions everyone has?  No one had any questions. Josh talked about how we see 6th grade coming into middle school.   Here at North Cache- we will be full completely.  Everyone will fit, but it looks like 1170 enrollment. There will be room for everyone.  Lunch will be adjusted for the number of students. Staff decisions will be here in the next couple of weeks.  Kathy Christensen commented that her kids were 6th grade middle school, and she taught that age. The 6th graders did well and adjusted easily.  Coming into summer, we will plan more how Back To School Night will be.  We have done orientation in the past, but they are still deciding how this will look for next year.   This would mean having 5th graders tour our schools this spring.  Construction is on time.  Schools will be ready to go.

Ashley asked about the 6th graders currently in the system.  Ryan said all 6th grade teachers will have a job.  The last few months principals have met to plan how this will look.  The challenge is that 6th grade teachers may have to get new endorsements if they teach above 6th grade.  They are trying to accommodate all preferences.  Most 6th grade teachers moved to middle school.  Tim Smith said there are 400 teachers who are moving. Nikalla asked about the DLA teachers and whether they will take all three grades.  Josh said they can’t speak to that until teachers know their placement for sure.  Nikalla asked if counselors don’t do scheduling.  Trent mentioned that in the secondary setting counselors do most of the scheduling, with support of the administration.  Ryan said the main responsibilities are his.  Ryan also mentioned that a big ticket item with the transition is what the bell schedule will look like.  The challenge is that there will be three grades.  Our staggered schedule can be challenging with three grades.  Our current schedule really helps with behavior issues.  Ryan thinks the staggered schedule may not be possible.  Ryan said there will be three separate lunches.  The overlap will likely not exist since there will already be small lunches.  Ashley mentioned that if we have separate halls, there may be less issues.  She likes the same lunches for making kids happy.  Josh said that as people are out in the community, be aware that all students will be taken care of. It will work out. Kids will adjust and make new friends.  Make sure to have positive conversations in the community. 

• Budget Update (Ryan Webb) Ryan talked about the budget and what we are spending- In school Land Trusts, we have to spend all except 10%.  The district prefers we spend all of it.  Teacher salaries- we have one that has been approved.  Ryan doesn’t want money to go to teachers, because it might not be there next year. Paraprofessionals and subs- are all on schedule, we may use more.  Our travel expenses- Ryan is planning to do a training for culture building.  This was difficult in the last transition.  Ryan has formed a culture committee so we can be ready to mesh cohesively. This group will attend a conference and will have a round table to plan for culture building next year.  Technology supply has spent 83% . Ryan likes to spend so teachers are taken care of. The supply budget was 15000.  We are at 13075 balance.  We will need to spend more here.  That is the only area Ryan has any concern about meeting the target.  Ryan talked about John Anderson telling him to do the budget conversation on the monthly.  Ryan is committed to have this discussion each month. Nikalla asked what supplies.  Ryan said consumable items. It is wide open.  It is not toilet paper or paper towels.  We do use sanitary wipes.  All supplies are intended to support the goals.  Josh mentioned that we started buying cleaning wipes when the government stopped supplying.  Our school supplies that to our teachers. Ryan said two line items are software subscriptions and consumables.  MINGA, Read180, Copylinks, MobyMax are some software subscriptions. Ryan will have a better picture next month. Terry suggested you can always amend the plan if you need as things change in a school year. She said you just submit it to the school board and you don’t have to even attend. Ryan was happy about that. 
• School Improving Plan Presentation/Discussion (Ryan Webb)
  • Superintendent presentation overview: Ryan talked about how the superintendent wants us to put process goals in place, which are little steps that help us reach the goal.   Ryan talked about breaking goals down into smaller pieces when coaching. He wants us to change from only thinking about end goals, and start thinking about all the processes we need to engage in to get to the end goal. Ryan gave us a list of things to discuss as we think about this. He told us to come to the administration to talk about this.  He plans to meet with each team to look at data and processes to come up with a school improvement plan.  Luncheons will happen in February.  The plan will be presented here in our committee meeting, then go to the district. No one had any questions.  Terry commented that each school is creating these plans, and then using targeted funds to support the long term goals.  Kathy added and title one goal.
• Ryan mentioned about Josh leaving our school.  He said Josh will be phenomenal over there.  Josh knows what he is doing. Ryan said Josh keeps him in check.

Our next meeting will be February 18th.  Ashlyn will be absent.

• Current Teacher Efforts (identifying processes)
• Q&A…

 

January 21 Agenda (Printable)

January 21 Minutes (Printable)

February Meeting Cancelled due to Weather

March 18, 2026 School Community Council Agenda

Attendees:

Minutes Approval (From January)

Items of Business: 

• Counselor minute
• Celebrations (National Board Certification for Marla Trowbridge)
• Next month we’ll discuss our efforts to create a 2026-2027 school improving plan.
• Safety-  Walking routes re-established (Josh)

 

March 18, 2026 School Community Council Minutes

Attendees:

Troy Bird

Marla Trowbridge

Emmalee Thacker

Kathy Christiansen

Teri Rhodes

Annette Hepworth

Jan Shaw

Nickole Terveen

Shawn Godfrey

Ashlee Bair

Josh Nelson

Ashlyn Bronson Smith

Minutes Approval (From January)

Items of Business

• Counselor minute - Annett talked about registration being well underway and they are doing well for both NC and JR 
• Celebrations (National Board Certification for Marla Trowbridge)
  • 3 others still working on it and are close  Shawn Godfrey, Azya Gornik,  Nicole Terveen) - the certification process was outlined and discussed along with the great amount of support from the district for the teacher the get this certification even though the state has stopped funding for the certification our district still offer incentives and funding
  • We have been pushing the concept of teachers teaching teachers via observation and reflection.  To date we have had approximately 100 observations done by teachers of teachers.  
  • We met as a new faculty this past Friday.  Here is a list of new teachers coming to NCMS! 
  • Tour of 6th and 7th grade halls (Annette)
• Next month we’ll discuss our efforts to create a 2026-2027 school improving plan.
• Safety-  Walking routes re-established (Josh)
• Move Minnie to do digital citizenship next meeting
• Next meeting April 15
• Land grant stuff to be done by Mar 27, 2026

 

March 18 Agenda (printable)

March 18 Minutes (Printable)