Accountability Meeting 4/6/22 Erick Finnestead
In Attendance – Rod Anadon, Lauren Kohn, Steve McNichols, Tracy Knick, Erick Finnestead, Karen Norris
Celebrations
Boettecher Scholar and National Merit Finalist Adithya Bhaskara
Daniels Scholarship Winner Alex Noble
Many seniors are taking action and selecting schools, careers and enlistments – colleges include Princeton, Cornell, Cal Poly, Chapman, CU, CSU, DU, Mines, Western, Mesa, Ft. Lewis, Coe, Mizzou, Berklee College of Music, Skidmore, Front Range, Aims, OK St. , Ariz, UCCS, TCU, Oregon State, Purdue, Marines, Air Force
Evening of Excellence May 9 for SCLA projects
Performing Arts Trip to Disney was successful for 94 students.
AZ baseball Trip while not as successful in the wins losses column has helped jumpstart the season
Pep Rally schedule for 4/18/22 to help kickoff Wish Week
Padres Unidos Cafecitos 3 meetings thus far, with over 20 parents attending last meeting
Spring sports have started
SCLA Capstone projects have included Unified Sports, Technical Balance Screen Free Day, DeStress with Yoga, Creating beds for Animal Sanctuary, Benefit Concerts for Kumari, Wish Week, Soles for Souls, Prom Dress Repurposing, Day of Champions and many more
Next year we have 60+ capstone projects which will be our greatest amount ever
New courses for next year include: Unified Percussion, Coaching and Officiating, Astronomy and Geology
Prom is April 30 at Embassy Suites by Hilton Boulder
Outstanding Student Awards Night April 26 in person
Senior Night and Graduation in person
Senior Last day and Senior Walks on May 20
We bring back foreign exchange students in 22-23 – Currently have 4 from Italy, Brazil, France
Spamalot Musical on May 5,6,7
Public Comment –
Two teams headed to coding competition at Colorado School of Mines this weekend
Homecoming is set for next year September 19-24
Doing Democracy Day tomorrow 4/7/22 – Silver Creek has many students participating in this event
We have been identified as a Unified Champion School under the leadership from Mr. Blair. Opportunities abound for student involvement examples include Super Smash Club, Technical Student Association, Coding Challenge at Colorado School of Mines.Mr. Anadon provides significant opportunity for differing ability students in these areas.
Successful Winter Sports Season – Mr. DeCamillis currently covering athletics event
Multiple All Conference Athletes
Basketball competed in 5A tournament and won the first 5A playoff game in school history
Girls basketball made the field of the 5A tournament
Wrestling sent 4 wrestlers to state
Girls Swim took 9th overall at State
Unified Basketball successfully won every home game and beat the Longmont Police
We opened the Aquatics Center
Registration and Scheduling Karen Norris
Website information – LINK
Where we are in the process: We have completed the registration process and the 22-23 schedule. We are reviewing all schedules to fix any conflicts prior to releasing May 3.
- February: Goal – accurate requests
- Counselors met with every student to review and ensure accurate requests.
- We visited middle schools to meet with students and had open labs for assistance.
- We provided students access to final requests in advisory – one more check.
- March: Goal – create a schedule to meet as many requests as possible
- We cleaned up and ensured accurate aka clean requests.
- A master schedule for 22-23 was created – 98.51% met
- April: Goal – review all student schedules prior to release on May 3.
- Teachers are provided with their teaching schedules, not released.
- Schedules are reviewed to ensure they are accurate and correct prior to May 3. – The focus is on required and requested classes, not teachers, friends, lunches, etc.
RaptorTech Update
Class of 2025: 32 students, 37% non-male, 35% first gen
- First Front Range College class – lots of support
- Three college classes next year.
- Fourth major mentor/mentee event April 20, sponsored by Comcast.
- 33 of 35 continuing on with the program –
- Personal Finance taken this summer to ease schedule restrictions
- After school “team” activities
Class of 2026: 34 students, 37% non-male, 51% first gen
- 34 students enrolled for next year’s program,
- Health and Work Place Readiness (aka RaptorTECH Camp) taken this summer
- Working with industry partners to identify mentors
- March 16 – Family Night
- April – 13…their first “team” activity
Special Education and Co-Teaching
19-20 reviewing and learning about co-taught
- Creating and reviewing information / learning
20-21 working to create plans – begin working with each other on the concept of co-planning
- Creating plans
21-22 complete implementation of co-teaching:
This year:
- Completed their 3rd after school co-teaching workshop
- Focusing on the 3 pillars of co-teaching:
- Co planning
- Co delivery
- Co assessment
Test Prep Eric Ottem and Erick Finnestead
42 Students are participating in the Khan Academy SAT prep course we have
70+ students are showing to the SAT crash course we host (4 sessions) with Eric Ottem and Kaelynn Vargo
26 Freshmen and sophomores are in the PSAT prep class we host in Khan Academy
AAA Tutoring
Focused tutoring in Math second semester 6 freshmen, 2 sophomores, 1 junior – Mr. Brownell
Drop In tutoring – T-Th in the library Science Teachers Barb Keith and Lize Nel, Math Teachers Ericka Pilon, Carla McManaway, Carmen Rubino (student Support Reman Shrestha), English Support Kaelynn Vargo.
This will continue in 22-23
Summer
E credit June 6-24
Brownell Math
Blair English and Social Studies
Ottem English and Social Studies
8-9th Transition
July 25-Aug 5 Reaching out to incoming freshmen who have been identified by their middle school counselors.
Brownell and Coppinger for Math
Olsheski and Bachus for English
Ernie Flores for Counselor and Co-Facilitator
Ryley Allen Health Clerk
Robert Nixon on hand
Capitol Improvements for 22-23 Erick Finnestead
Brick project completed from last meeting
HVAC in D and E wings
Tennis courts reconstruction
New LEd sign located at entry way
RABC looking at gymnasium sound upgrade
SCEF looking at new LED Sign for front of building
23-24
Turf field on main playing field
School Goals Erick Finnestead
Tracking towards 94.5% for Graduation rate for Class of 2022
Explanation of the student tracking process
Explanation of calculation of Graduation Rate
Increasing access to Honors and AP courses –
We’ll be running these numbers next week as it relates to the current master schedule
Hiring for 22-23 Erick Finnestead
Special Education
Science
Paraprofessionals