The School Site Council (SSC) is headed by Hiroko Kurihara, Canyon Steinzig, and Ted Purvis.
The SSC helps provide input and direction over the efficient and effective use of scarce financial resources from the State, ensuring that the results are improved academic achievement of our students.
By State mandate, SSC must develop, approve, and annually revise the ”Single Plan for Student Achievement” at all schools that operate programs funded through the State of CA. The “Student Accountability Report Card” is part of the application for funds.
VIEW THE 2011 SSC SURVEY EXECUTIVE SUMMMARY & RECOMMENDATIONS
SSC Recent News …
The Canyon School Site Council (SSC) has finally finished calculating and analyzing the results of last spring’s School Improvement Plan (SIP) survey. Many, many thanks to everyone who responded to the on-line survey; clearly an excellent way to hear back from you! Thank you to Stacy Vogan (3-4-5 Eliana’s mom) for helping us construct the survey and interpret the data and, of course, to members of the Canyon School Site Council.
The SSC is responsible for obtaining feedback from the community related to academics and school environment, helping to guide funding decisions pertaining to restricted State and Federal funds and monitoring progress of our educational goals, annually.
The SIP survey asked questions in four key areas: the environmental program, curricula, communication and overall educational program that looks at our philosophical approaches. These areas were culled from the 2000 Master Plan. The complete survey report, along with the survey instrument will be posted online shortly.
Overall, results were quite positive in both the quantitative and qualitative responses. A 5-point Likert scale was utilized with 1 being ‘Strongly Disagree’ and 5 being ‘Strongly Agree’. Our results ranged from a high of 4.7 as it relates to the camping trips in the Environmental Program category to a low of 3.39 in Positive Discipline practices in the Program component.
Despite these overwhelmingly positive results, three general areas emerged in which many respondents voiced dissatisfaction. Respondents expressed concerns about the level of neatness around campus and the completeness of our environmental stewardship program. There were also concerns raised about the use of positive discipline and conflict management techniques. Finally, respondents indicated some confusion about our communication channels and how they are used.
This analysis and the School Site Council’s recommendations was presented to the Governing Board of the Canyon Elementary School District who will make recommendations to the staff to improve the quality of education delivered at Canyon School.
Thank you again for your participation and patience. If you have any questions or comments please forward them to us directly,
Chris Kerrigan and Hiroko Kurihara
Co-Chairs of the SSC