LSAT Members in Attendance: 

• Nick Kushner - PTO Rep 

• Jeff Giertz - Parent Member

• Jamie Euken - Parent Member

• Jason Yoho - 2024-2025 CoChair, Teacher & WTU Rep

• Dominique Quigley - Teacher

• Dr Carrie Broquard - Principal

LSAT meeting guidelines and norms from the previous school year were reviewed and accepted.  

Reminder to follow open meetings requirements, including posting of agendas, taking meeting notes and posting, recording meetings, updates in the Miner newsletter, etc.  

Need to recruit Community Member representative(s) for the group.  Can reach out to those who have served in past years.  Members of Christ City Church or daycare staff may also be interested.

LSAT Chair 

• Jeff Giertz volunteered to serve as Chair.  Nomination was seconded and approved.

• As in past years, we will have a Co-Chair that is a Miner teacher.  Mr Yoho will address the teachers in the next two weeks, as we need to elect two more teachers to LSAT and there will be an election for the 24-25 WTU Rep.  After the teacher election for LSAT and WTU Rep, we will see if any of those teachers are interested in serving as Co-Chair.

LSAT Secretary 

• Jamie Euken volunteered to serve as Secretary.  Nomination was seconded and approved.

Group reviewed the Miner LSAT Annual Schedule Outline.  Upcoming action items for the September meeting are to discuss the Comprehensive School Plan, Enrollment, and Staffing.  

Dr. B provided LSAT with a Data Presentation from the 2024-2025 School Year

• Benchmark Data showed big improvements from 2023-2024 to 2024-2025 end of year in DIBELS, IReady Reading, and IReady Math

• Biggest improvements were seen in grades K-2.  Grades 3-5 had improvements but not as large.

2025-2026 Comprehensive School Plan

• The CSP is currently being drafted, but should be finalized in September.

• This year’s CSP will work to address student safety and sense of belonging.  CSP will include working to help students feel organized, structured, and supported so students feel comfortable and have a feeling of belonging and safety.  3-5 grade student survey last year showed the number of students feeling safe was lower than previous years.  Factors leading to that survey result included:  

  • Last year there was staff turnover in those grades that affected stability.  

  • The school did away with in-school suspension, instead working with students in the classroom after the rules violation to have better behavior in the future.  Work is ongoing to find other supports that are needed to make that successful.  Will not have in-school suspension moving forward.  Is exclusionary and sometimes rewards negative behavior rather than properly addressing and improving. But as a result, there was a perception from other students that there wasn’t accountability for inappropriate behavior.  Not the case, working on better communicating consequences for negative behavior without stigmatizing students.

  • There were special education students that needed better IDPs or didn’t have IDPs.

• Not sure if data from end of year surveys is shared with parents or just teachers/staff.

• Dr. B can provide more details on the surveys at the next LSAT meeting.

Mr. Yoho will talk to teachers in next 2 weeks about LSAT elections and WTU elections.

We will need to hold an election for the vacant LSAT Parent Rep slot.  Needs to go out through PTO, Nick will help facilitate.

Moving forward, LSAT meetings will be on the third Tuesday of every month at 5:30pm.

LSAT’s next meeting is September 16 at 5:30pm via Zoomext goes here