{"id":9736,"date":"2025-01-15T21:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/?p=9736"},"modified":"2025-01-15T21:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:57:03","slug":"1-13-25-sac-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/?p=9736","title":{"rendered":"1\/13\/25 SAC Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Attendance:<br>Jeremy Peckens<br>Jennifer Aragon<br>Helen Dundas<br>Lora Sedore (Chair)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update on School Activities<br>Social\/Emotional School Survey- Jeremy presented the findings of a statewide<br>Social\/Emotion School Survey. This used to evaluate how students feel about safety in<br>school and home. Ninety percent of the student body responded to the survey. A copy<br>of the results will be included as an appendix to these notes.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent land purchase- 21 St Century Academy has recently completed the purchase of<br>the lot where the portables and playground are located. This purchase has been in the<br>works for some time and the acquisition will mean the school will be able to make<br>permanent changes to the lot. Some recommendations from the SAC are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Grass or artificial turf<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Permanent playground equipment upgrades<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Buildings- music annex etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Superintendent Search-Mary Tarango is retiring at the end of the school year. The<br>Governance Council is tasked with finding a new Superintend. A job description to be<br>used for the search has been completed and will be voted on at the next Board meeting.<br>Progress on the search will be posted on the website as we go. The Selection<br>Committee will be looking for people to help with this important task. Contact either Lora<br>or Jeremey if you or are interested in joining the committee.<br><br>Title 1- Title 1 is a Federal program used to enhance educational experiences for low<br>income students. Jeremy shared information that the Title 1 funding is used to hire<br>additional EAs for the school.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next Year calendar- Work has begun on next year\u2019s calendar. The administration is<br>working with the teachers and will soon be reaching out the Dragon community for<br>input. The proposed start date for students is August 18, approximately a week after <br>APS begins. Some of the change included, return of fall break and the Wednesday off<br>before Thanksgiving are being considered. Some suggestions from SAC include;<br>Monday and Friday short days<br>Support for some coordination with APS<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next Meeting Date- February 12, 5:45 PM via Zoom. An email reminder will be sent the<br>prior to the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adjourn 6:30 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Attendance:Jeremy PeckensJennifer AragonHelen DundasLora Sedore (Chair) Update on School ActivitiesSocial\/Emotional School Survey- Jeremy presented the findings of a statewideSocial\/Emotion School Survey. This used to evaluate how students feel about safety inschool and home. Ninety percent of the student body responded to the survey. A copyof the results will be included as an appendix to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9737,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9736\/revisions\/9737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}