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School Community Council Meeting Minutes
Eagle Valley Elementary
*All meetings for the 2017-2018 school year will be at 1pm in the office conference room.
SCC Minutes 2017-2018
March 1, 2017
February 1, 2017
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017
- Attending Committee Members:
- Cindi Braby – Co-chair; Jamie Miller – Parent; Peggy Wilson – Parent; Tifini Card – Parent; Wendy Wakefield; Paula Tucker – Principal
- Welcome: Cindi Braby
- Approve Minutes from November's meeting: Cindi called for a vote to approve the minutes. Voting was unanimous in favor of approving the minutes.
- Council Member Concerns
- Peggy Wilson reported a negative encounter with the crossing guard at the far crossing. This was reported to the city.
- Tifani Card asked for clarification on when parents can use the north drop off zone. Mrs. Tucker explained that any time the busses were not in the drop off zone, parents are welcome to use it and that parents should not drop off children from the north parking lot where they run across the drop off lane to get to the school.
- Update on Expenditures for this year
- Professional Development: 2-3 teachers from the school have gone to or will go to the following conferences: USET (science), CITES (leadership), Literacy Conference, Learning Edge Conference (arts), and UCTM Conference (math)
- Technology: The next shipment of iPads arrived today. We are going to try and have UEN come and do a presentation on using iPads in the classroom for the March professional development day. Our technology at the school has increased a great deal in the past 3 years and students in every grade have access to Chromebooks and/or iPads.
- Aides: Aide interviews were held today to fill missing positions. All positions should be filled if the candidates accept the jobs. Aides help with Target Time and Double Dosing.
- Discussion Items
- Math Night is January 13 – What is SCC doing for this?
- Station #1 – Estimation Jars: Mrs. Tucker will get supplies for 5 jars full of candy or other items
- Station #2 – Guess Your Weight: SCC members who has a bathroom scale will bring it
- Station #3 – How Far Can You Jump? Materials needed: tape (for start line), something to measure with (measuring tape, ruler, yard stick, etc.), Twizzlers or Pixie Sticks to measure with
- Posters for each station: Cindi will do these
- Other Activities: Each grade level is providing an activity. We will try to have the computer lab open for questions about iReady, etc., bookmarks with info for logging in to programs at home, punch cards for the students, other activities as needed from Wendy and Mrs. Tucker.
Reading Incentive – Theme: Reading Around the World
- The reading committee is meeting on Monday, Jan. 9 at about 3:45 in the conference room. All SCC members who want to attend are welcome to come.
- Our focus is Reading Fluency. We are working on several ideas for activities, tracking (passports, badges, card, etc.), modeling (videos of students with good fluency), etc.
- For Parents – We plan to do ONE page with a calendar to mark in the corner and a list of activities to do. A hard and digital copy will be sent home.
- What incentives can we provide or do we think would work?
- Bracelet/Card (like Math Ninjas from another school)
- Bookstore (with the books PTA provided)
- Activities from other countries (Chinese Jump Rope, etc.)
- Sign up for a Read Aloud in library
- Read A Thon – maybe Kiva Reading
- Do an activity: "How To" Project, Joke Books, Magic Trick Books, Follow a recipe
- Final activity (May 19): Bounce houses, splash pad, maybe a maze, others TBD
- Teacher Needs Survey for next year's Trustland Expenditure
- Mrs. Tucker will send teachers a survey that is like last year's survey to see what they feel biggest needs are.
- We will review the results at our next meeting.
- Council Input: What suggestions do we have for Trustlands?
- Funds for reading incentive next year
- We would like to see what the teachers suggest
- Collaboration Incentive – presentations by grade level
- Last year we had each team do a written page focusing on what they are doing to meet the standards on the collaboration rubric. We will do that again this year.
- This year we will add:
- Short video about a challenge their team has been working on, what they have done, how it has been going, how they are adjusting and trying new things, etc.
- Grade Level "Yearbooks" where we will put the past reflection sheets, curriculum maps, etc. so that the team can reflect on progress and direction from past years and maintain more continuity from year to year.
- NAEP testing – Feb. 13th
- National test – randomly selected schools, students, and tests; provides nationwide data that can be compared with other countries; parents can opt out; information will go out to parents in the next few weeks
- Adjournment: Cindi adjourned the meeting at 5:15. The next meeting is at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, February 1.
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council
November 2, 2016
- Welcome
In attendance:
Faculty: Paula Tucker, Principal
Wendy Wakefield, Partnership Coordinator
Lora Isbell, Teacher Representative
Parents: Rheanna Dow, Cindi Braby, Tifini Card, Jaime Miller
- Minutes from October's meeting were unanimously approved after a motion made by Cindi Braby.
- We discussed internet use and safety responsibilities of SCC. We talked about what our school does and H.B. 213. There will be a NetSmartz assembly November 14.
- Discussed the spring reading challenge. A few ideas mentioned were to have a magic theme, a fluency parent meeting (parents RSVP), mystery readers, book bucks, use of scholastic money. SCC and PTA may work together on it. Paula will take ideas to the reading committee.
- Discussion of DIBELS data presented by Mrs. Tucker. We talked about how double dosing and target time can help improve scores. We also discussed the Imagine Learning program and the way it supplements reading by helping students improve skills they lack.
- Council member concerns: Kindergarten dismissal time
- Short Term Goals for SIP
We discussed using a book from the battle of the books list for the principal's book club. We decided to try it with the sixth grade. A book will be chosen before Thanksgiving break.
- Discussion Items
- Stakeholders Report: This will be a pamphlet to highlight the strengths of our school.
- Principal's Minute
- Adjournment: Next meeting will be held January 4, 2017.
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council Minutes
October 5, 2016
In attendance:
Faculty: Paula Tucker, Principal
Wendy Wakefield, Partnership Coordinator
Lora Isbell, Teacher Representative
D.J. Conger, District Community Council
Parents: Rheanna Dow, Peggy Wilson, Tifini Card, Cindi Braby, Jaime Miller
We approved minutes from our September meeting after a motion by Lora Isbell, did a quick review of bylaws and procedures, and verified board members' contact information for the website.
Mrs. Tucker presented SAGE testing data, which can be found on the data gateway on the Utah State Board of Education website.
Cindy Braby presented information on Amendment B, and encouraged members to vote yes.
Budget amendments due to increased funds were discussed. Professional development and technology budgets were increased after a motion by Cindi Braby.
Net Smart doing assemblies here at the school on November 14th 9:30am for K-2 and 10:10am for 3-6.
Encourage parents and friends to use all the websites available to help their kids with reading and math including: Raz Kids (K-3), Imagine Learining (K-3), Star Fall, ABC Mouse, and IReady (3-6).
Discussed concerns about upcoming Halloween parade and holiday celebrations. Amending plans a little to be suitable for the current atmosphere at the school.
- Action Items
- Budget amendments due to increased funds
- Review and accept Submitted Trust Lands Plan for 2016-17
- Review and accept School Improvement Goals
- Discussion Items
- Battle of the Books
- Net Smart booth at SEP's
- Council Member Concerns
- Principal's Minute
- Adjournment
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council
March 3, 2016
Attending Committee Members:
Paula Tucker, Principal Jaime Miller, Parent Rheanna Dow, Chair
Tami Page, Secretary Cindi Braby, Parent Becky Jones, Teacher (Co-Chair)
Welcome: Rheanna Dow welcomed all those in attendance.
Approve Minutes from March's meeting: All in attendance were asked if they had a chance to read over the minutes from our previous meeting. Rheanna asked for all in favor to approve the minutes. Committee members were unanimous in favor of approving the minutes.
Council Member Concerns: None at this time
Discussion Items:
- PTA Family Night–Art and Writing Fair, April 15, 2016 5-7pm
We will have a table set up with Mad Libs for the kids and parents. Becky has a poster with parts of speech that we can use. There is a local author coming to talk to the parents and then the PTA will have voting for next year's board. We anticipate being at the table by 5:30. Cindy, Rheanna and Tami will be able to work the table that night.
- Collaboration Incentive–Mrs. Tucker
Binders will be available in the office through the end of the year with the grade level team report.
- Review Trust Lands/School Improvement Plan
Mrs. Tucker presented the Trust Lands/School Improvement Plan to the committee. This plan is based on the information we had discussed in previous meetings.
Action Items:
Trust Lands/School Improvement Plan for 2016-2017: Becky Jones made a motion to approve the Trust Lands funds to be spent as written. Rheanna asked if there was any further discussion. There was not so Rheanna called for those in favor of the motion and the motion passed unanimously. Copies of the plan will be available in the office.
Other Business: No other business at this time.
Principal's Minute: Mrs. Tucker stressed the importance of kids being at school. There is a large number of students who are missing 30-80 days. Another subject she mentioned is the need to get out and talk to our neighbors and see if there are any kids who have not yet registered for kindergarten. We only have 81 kids for next year so far. It is important to have numbers now so we can plan for the faculty.
Adjournment: Rheanna adjourned the meeting at 4:35 pm.
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council
Feb. 17, 2016
Attending Committee Members:
Paula Tucker, Principal Jaime Miller, Parent Rheanna Dow, Chair
Wendy Wakefield Cindi Braby, Parent Becky Jones, Teacher (Co-Chair)
Welcome: Rheanna Dow welcomed all those in attendance.
Approve Minutes from January's meeting: All in attendance were asked if they had a chance to read over the minutes from our previous meeting. Rheanna asked called for a vote to approve the minutes. Voting was unanimous in favor of approving the minutes.
Council Member Concerns:
- It was mentioned that many parents are concerned about other parents who are not following the drop-off and pick up procedures in the parking lot and causing unsafe situations for students. Mrs. Tucker mentioned that we could have a grade level do a data collection about these unsafe behaviors and publish it for parents to make them more aware of the problem.
- It was also mentioned that some parents are concerned about the negative way they see other parents interacting with teachers, office staff, and other school personnel.
- Parents have generally appreciated the opportunity to give feedback through the stakeholder's surveys and have generally felt that the length and type of the survey and questions was appropriate and easy to fill out. Mrs. Tucker mentioned future possibilities for expanding this feedback to allow parents to give ongoing feedback throughout the year in a variety of ways.
- It was mentioned that it would be helpful if Kindergarten students could be released on time every day at both the AM and PM times to help with the parking lot and pick up situation.
Discussion Items
- Review teacher needs survey in relation to parent/community area of needs:
- Several of the grade levels mentioned writing as the biggest area of need. In order to support this, they feel they need more professional development on how to teach writing effectively, time to collaborate, and technology. We discussed some of the issues students are having with writing and how we might improve these areas.
- The committee then reviewed the areas that were included in last year's Trust Land plan and how effective these had been this year:
- Target Time: several of the grade levels are using it in a variety of ways and seeing success with different groups of children. Several teams are in favor of continuing it next year.
- ABC coach: Mrs. Tucker reported that only about 24 of our Kindergarten students are still working on learning all their letters and sounds, so this seems to have been effective.
- Take Home Aide: Mrs. Tucker and Jaime Miller noted the importance of a consistent person to run this program if we want to keep it going. It would not work if we just had volunteers. The committee also discussed that some students have mentioned they don't have books at home, so programs like this, and possibly a book box or book exchange would be possibilities for providing more access to books at home.
- Technology: All of the teams mentioned this as something that has been effective and something they want more of. It has been especially effective for students' writing projects and using iReady. Mrs. Tucker noted that technology will be most effective if teachers know how to use it best with students and if it is used as a means for students to create. She also mentioned that we need to be aware that there are several other costs involved in technology (headphones, carts, chargers, etc.) and that Chromebooks generally last about 3 years, so this would need to be funded on an ongoing basis.
- Double Dosing: Many teams feel this has been effective. Fourth grade has seen great gains in fluency from the fluency practice they have students do during double dosing. Mrs. Tucker has received feedback from aides, from her observations, and from the current academic data that suggests it may not be the most effective use of the Trust lands money.
- Half-Day Subs: Few teams have used this despite mentioning that they would like to observe great writing instruction. 1st Grade has been doing more of an ongoing writing collaboration with the 1st grade teachers at Mountain Trails.
- Fluency Coaches: This seems to have been effective for 4th grade, but not for 5th and 6th. The time of day they were available didn't work very well for those grade levels.
- What is our Area of Greatest Academic Need? From the teachers' survey, writing was the most commonly mentioned area. Mrs. Tucker mentioned that we may want to include Reading as well, as the SAGE test does not separate the two subject areas in score reports
- PTA Family Night – Art and Writing Fair: This will be held on April 15. Mrs. Tucker mentioned that it would be a great time to capitalize on the importance of writing for a real audience and focusing on presentation. She asked that anyone who had writing or art ideas for this fair pass them on to the classroom teachers. Lacey Mason, a 5th grade teacher, will be having all the school children participate in making a circle mural. Cindy suggested that for a parent/student activity, we could have them do the activity where they take turns writing a line and then folding it over to write a story. PTA will be making further plans at their meeting in March.
Action Items:
- Rough Draft Trust Land/School Improvement: From teacher survey and SCC input, choose possible areas to for Trust Lands
- Mrs. Tucker made a motion to accept the items below as possible areas to include in our Trust Lands plan for next year. Mrs. Tucker will calculate costs and prepare the details of each area and then have the teachers vote on them. There was no further discussion and the motion passed unanimously.
- Target Time
- Double Dosing
- Mastery Connect
- Technology
- Summer collaboration
- Take home aide
- Professional Development
Other Business: Rheanna asked if there were any additional items to talk about. Mrs. Tucker brought up the principal's book club. Because of all the other things going on right now, this idea will be tabled and looked at again in the summer when further planning can be done to make this most effective.
Adjournment: Rheanna adjourned the meeting after no other business was brought before the committee. Meeting adjourned at 6:25 and we will meet again on March 3, 2016 at 4 pm.
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council Minutes
January 7, 2016
Attending Committee Members:
Paula Tucker, Principal Jaime Miller, Parent Rheanna Dow, Chair
Tami Page, Parent Cindi Braby, Parent Becky Jones, Teacher (Co-Chair)
Wendy Wakefield Peggy Wilson, Parent
Welcome: Rheanna Dow welcomed all those in attendance.
Approve Minutes from October's meeting: All in attendance were asked if they had a chance to read over the minutes from our previous meeting. Rheanna asked called for a vote to approve the minutes. Voting was unanimous in favor of approving the minutes.
Council Member Concerns: It was mentioned that there is a lot of ice around the building as a safety concern. Mrs. Tucker will make sure that on icy days we have inside recess. The first layer of district approved ice melt goes down at 7 am in preparation for student arrival at 7:40.
Principal's Book Club: Cindi had some numbers for us to consider. For every 5-7 kids in the group we need an adult and each kid would need their own copy of the book. We want to have the book club during lunch and do a trial run with kids in 3rd and 4th grade. It was suggested that we allow the teachers to pick a child from each class that would want to participate. We would try to hold the first club at the end of March or early April. If the trial run is successful we might run it again before the end of the year. Wendy Wakefield and Becky Jones will be getting some book title recommendations to Mrs. Tucker by the 15th.
Discussion Items
- Math Night-January 8, 2016 from 5-7: All the grade levels will have a math booth and the SCC will host one as well. We will do a jumping activity that they will measure, a group of jars for estimation and head measurements. All members that can assist need are invited to attend.
- Literacy Night-April 15, 2016: Possible Art and Writing Fair is being discussed by the PTA. We do not have enough information to make any plans at this time.
- Teacher Needs Survey: Mrs. Tucker is putting together a survey to collect some teacher needs in the school to help assist us with planning next year's school goals. She will have the results available for us by our next meeting.
Other Business: Rheanna asked if there was any additional items to talk about.
Mrs. Tucker said that the school is in need of stakeholder input and is wondering about some possible ways to get that input. Focus groups, peer input and a parent survey are being considered as a way to collect this input.
It was suggested that we have an end of the year reading incentive activity for the students that have completed their goals. We will be looking into putting something together.
Adjournment: Rheanna adjourned the meeting after no other business was brought before the committee. Meeting adjourned at 5:10 and we will meet again on February 11, 2016 at 4 pm.
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council Minutes
November 5, 2015
Attending Committee Members:
Paula Tucker, Principal Jaime Miller, Parent Rheanna Dow, Chair
Tami Page, Parent Cindi Braby, Parent Becky Jones, Teacher (Co-Chair)
Wendy Wakefield
Welcome: Rheanna Dow welcomed all those in attendance. Peggy Wilson is excused due to illness.
Approve Minutes from October's meeting: All in attendance were asked if they had a chance to read over the minutes from our previous meeting. Rheanna asked called for a vote to approve the minutes. Voting was unanimous in favor of approving the minutes.
Presentation of Sage Data-Principal Tucker: to be covered later in the meeting when we discuss the Stakeholders Report.
Internet Use and Safety Responisibilities of the SCC–Keeping our students safe online HB 213: The district is putting out information on its policies and safeguards for student internet use but we need to put together some information on what we are doing as a school. The district uses Land School for filtering content and Mrs. Druce has Active Directory which allows her to see all the screens in the computer lab to see what the students are working on while in the lab.
Mrs. Druce is working on educating all the students as they come through her computer class regarding the Digital Citizenship Plan and we will ask her to put together some written information for our plan. EVES already has its policy regarding us on the website under the school handbook and Mrs. Tucker has already sent out links to parents regarding this policy. Computers or devices that are available for use at school include IPad's, Kindles, Mac books, Chromebooks, and desktops. Each grade (3-6) has a classroom set of chromebooks that can be used at will in that grade and open times in the computer lab and for carts available for sign up. Students are not to bring any devices to use from home.
Update on Bookmark Incentive: Seems to be going well. Lots of students are excited to be reading in the lower grades but Mrs. Jones reports that upper grades will not be showing the excitement until March or April since they are using chapter books to meet their requirements.
Council Member Concerns: There were no concerns brought up when Rheanna asked.
Action Items:
- Review and Approve Rules of Order: Rules that we want to amend include no seconds on motions since we are such a small group and no motion is required to adjourn the meeting. Tami Page made a motion to adopt these changes. Rheanna called for further discussion. There was no further discussion. Rheanna called for a vote. The vote was unanimous in favor of adopting these changes.
- Short Term Goals for SIP
- Battle of the Books: We will be assisting Angie as needed when it gets closer to the battle. It was suggested that we include the list of books in the newsletter to get more awareness out to the parents.
- Principal's Book Club: Cindi has been asked to put together a list of possible books to use. They are thinking of maybe doing a January meeting and will be getting enough copies of the books for use. Thinking of doing grade level groups and having two meetings per group. More information will follow at the next meeting.
- Other Ideas: The PTA is doing a literacy night in April. We will see if there is anything that they need for us to do to assist them. Mrs. Tucker expressed a desire to increase pre-k literacy by promoting the Upstart program.
Discussion Items:
- Help with Family Night: Friday, Nov. 13 will be the next PTA family night. They have not specifically asked us to do anything for that night. Three teachers will have experiments set up for the families. They will be setting up for the event at 4:30 pm.
- Stakeholders Report: Ten have been submitted to the district per our guidelines and copies are available in the front office. The report is also available on our website.
Rheanna asked if there was any further discussion. Mrs. Tucker explained the thank you magnets that are available in the front office. This month "gratitude" is the characteristic the school is working on and we are all invited to write a brief thank you that can be put on doors throughout the school. Come by the office to pick up a magnet. We are also invited to join with the students on November 11th for the Thanksgiving luncheon. Cost for adults is $3.85.
Adjournment: There was no further discussion and Rheanna adjourned the meeting at 5:05 pm. Next meeting will be January 7th at 4:00 pm.
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council Minutes
October 1, 2015
Attending Committee Members:
Paula Tucker, Principal Jaime Miller, Parent Peggy Wilson, Parent
Rheanna Dow, Chair Tami Page, Parent Becky Jones, Teacher (Co-Chair)
Cindi Braby, Parent
Visitors attending: Wendy Wakefield Michleene Johnson
Joylin Lincoln
Welcome and Introductions: Rheanna welcomed everyone to the meeting and provided a folder of information, including the agenda, to all in attendance. She welcomed our visitors-Wendy Wakefield (Partnership Coordinator), Michleene Johnson (representing the Reading committee), and Joylin Lincoln (District Community Council rep).
Approve minutes from September's meeting: Rheanna asked if everyone had read the minutes from the last meeting which had been emailed out. Becky Jones made a motion to approve the minutes, there was no further discussion and the motion passed unanimously.
Overview of SCC Training from the 21st: All those attending received a copy of the ASD School Community Council guide for 2015-16 that Rheanna got from her training. This guide explains all the SCC duties for the various aspects of those serving on the council. At our next meeting we will be discussing internet use and safety.
Invitation to visit collaboration: Mrs. Tucker invited all member of the SCC to join any of the collaborations that happen at Eagle Valley. Joylin commented that she has attended some of the collaborations and appreciated such a caring faculty-both for the students academically and as individual students.
Safety Week review: Mrs. Tucker provided a review of Safety Week that Lori Lee had provided for us. The students have been participating in Walk 4 More. November will be covering "Net Safety" in two 30 minute assemblies.
Reading Committee report: The entire school was involved in our September incentive activity based on Mo Willems. There was lots of positive feedback. The activity was pulled off at no cost to the school. The committee is planning another one for February and the end of the year and thinking of basing them on books. They are making bookmarks for students to fill in and once turned in they will be given a reward. There are 175 books from the bookfair, 875 bookmarks, and Mrs. Tucker will help supplement for more rewards if needed. Bookmarks will be distributed after fall break.
Council Member Concerns: Rheanna asked if there were any concerns to be brought to the council. Peggy Wilson expressed that some parents had asked her when Eagle Valley would be getting Resource classes. Mrs. Tucker informed the council that as part of the public school system we have Resource/Special Education classes available at Eagle Valley. She encouraged us all to let parents know to speak with their students teachers to find out the full scope of resources available to students.
No other concerns were brought to the council.
Presentation of Sage Data: The state report card is out and Eagle Valley has a "C", as we did last year. You can access the report card information by going to the USOE website under PACE to view the entire online report. This information is for 3rd-6th grades since 3rd grade is when all students are expected to be at grade level. A break down of all Sage data will be available October 19th.
Kindergarten to 3rd grade will be doing Dibels testing for reading assessments. This is new this year and will provide really good feedback to teachers and parents. It will be testing in five target areas (more than the DRA's) and will provide data at the beginning of the year (BOY), middle of the year (MOY), and end of the year (EOY). The district provides the staff to come out to the school to administer the Dibels testing. Anyone interested in getting trained to administer the test can see the district for more information. Must be willing to travel to various school in the district.
Discussion Items:
Review Progress and efforts on school goals: Eagle Valley is doing some interim Sage testing that will provide data to use as a tool to see growth throughout the year. It will show a little dip (due to the summer break and an expected dip) and then gradual growth. No major spikes are expected. A shortened interim test will be given in January. We have some good tools in place to help us with our school goals: Reading Recovery, Alphabet coach, Target time, our Professional Learning Communities collaboration.
When asked if there were any ideas on ways to reach our school goals, Tami Page asked if maybe some kind of communication could go home that would alert parents of test dates. If parents knew when their students were testing maybe they would work with them a little more at home which could assist in higher test scores. Wendy Wakefield said that the teachers can put up messages on skyward and they would remind them of the email feature to try to get that information out.
SEP nights: The PTA had mentioned perhaps combining September's family night with the SEP's by getting some informational booths to provide parents with various information but Mrs. Tucker did not think that this was going to be the case this time. The PTA will be providing dinner for the teachers both nights.
Reading Incentive plan for this year-Miss Johnson: This was covered earlier in the report on the September incentive activity–bookmarks coming out after fall break.
Rules of Order and Procedure: Rheanna provided some copies of Rules of Order and Procedure. She said that we could adopt any of the procedures we wanted to implement but we would have to be consistent. We need to post the Rules of Order and Procedure that we will be following. Joylin informed us that since we are such a small council that we were not required to have motions seconded. Chairmen/women do not usually make motions and it was suggested that we put a copy of the rules of order and procedure on the back of all our agendas. This will be included on next month's agenda as an action item.
Action Items:
Review and accept submitted Trust lands plan for 2015-16: Rheanna asked Becky Jones to review the Trust Lands proposal and the School Improvement plan. After some discussion and answering of questions, Becky Jones made a motion to accept the Trust Lands plan for 2015-16. There was no further discussion and the motion passed unanimously.
Review and accept School Improvement Plan (SIP): See above. After review Peggy Wilson made a motion to accept the School Improvement plan for 2015-16. There was no further discussion and the motion passed unanimously.
Write short term goals for SIP: Rheanna asked us to review the plans that had just been accepted and come to the next meeting with ideas for some ways to help us work toward reaching our School Improvement Plan goals. This was tabled until our next meeting.
Adjournment: Rheanna asked if there was any further discussion. With no further discussion we adjourned the meeting at 5:08 pm. Our next meeting will be held November 5, 2015 at 4:00 pm.
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council Minutes
September 3, 2015
Attending Committee Members:
Paula Tucker, Principal Jaime Miller, Parent Peggy Wilson, Parent
Rheanna Dow, Chair Tami Page, Parent Becky Jones, Teacher
Welcome and Introductions: Rheanna Dow welcomed all those attending and asked if everyone knew each other. We did so we did not do introductions.
Training: Utah School Land Trusts has a website that has some great information on what the School Community Council works. They will provide some additional leadership training. We have been asked to bring any concerns from the parents or the community that we might hear to the council to try and help resolve matters.
Review of Land Trusts plan for 2015-2016-Mrs. Tucker will be providing everyone with a digital copy. We will be able to discuss the plan in more depth after the training, at the next meeting.
Dates for meetings for the rest of the year:
October 1st November 5th January 7th
February 11 March 3rd April 14th
Action Items: these were moved to next month's meeting.
Becky Jones made a motion to appoint Rheanna Dow as Chair, Becky Jones as Vice-Chair, and Tami Page as Secretary of this year's School Community Council. There was no further discussion. Paula Tucker seconded the motion and the voting was unanimous.
Discussion Items:
Family Nights: The PTA has asked us to be involved in the monthly Family Nights that they have planned throughout the year. The first one is the carnival on September 24. Please promote these family nights in your neighborhoods.
Safe Walking to School: EVES is working with UDOT to get the red walking paths marked on some safe walking maps that we can distribute.
Watch DOGS: At our kick-off event for sign ups we were able to get 100 days signed up for by dads to come and participate.
Review agenda for next month: We will have a training before our next meeting on how to create agenda's and the year plan.
Concerns to report: We have been asked to encourage parents to talk with teachers and school personnel before turning to social media. We want to be proactive in establishing positive and open communication with the school.
Adjournment: Peggy Wilson made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Rheanna asked if there was any further discussion. There was none. Jaime Miller seconded the motion to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously and we adjourned at 5:00.
Next meeting will be October 1st at 4 pm in the conference room at Eagle Valley.
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council Minutes
April 1, 2015
Attending: Cindy Braby, Rheanna Dow, Kristen Cable, Becky Jones, Paula Tucker, Jennie Searle
- Welcome– Rheanna Dow
- Council Member Concerns–
- Student phones being brought to school.
- Most concerns during grade level recess and breaks.
- More zoned control with supervision at recess and breaks.
- Newsletter- include phone policy.
- Most concerns during grade level recess and breaks.
- Post the trust land plan on website.
- Leftover budget from this year to be spent.
- Technology- TV Screen, Projector Mounts, or Chromebooks?
- SCC member for next year- recruit and voting in fall.
- Internet safety- SCC responsibilities
- Reading incentives- parent input, book clubs, battle of the books
- Finalize this year's plan/spending and plan for next year
- Review School Improvement Plan
- Review expenditures
- Clause for leftover funds to be used for technology.
- Flextime- solidify, reteach, enrich
- Complete online submission of plan
- Plans available to post from April 9th until April 17th
- Signatures
- No signature sheet, email for electronic signatures
- PTA- Need help with family night?
- TBA on family night for this month
- Treasure Island play on 24th
- Adjournment
- Jennie Searle makes a motion to adjourn. Kristen Cable seconds the motion.
Unanimous vote: motion carries
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council Minutes
October 1, 2014
Attending: Cindy Braby, Rheanna Dow, Kristin Cable, Becky Jones, Paula Tucker, Jennie Searle, Laura Brown
1. Welcome- Rheanna Dow
2. Council Member Concerns- Create bi-laws for EVES. When a non-member is participating their concern must be on agenda before meeting
a. Parent Concerns about Teachers- Inform Paula of concerns
b. School informing public on social media- Great responses from the public. Keeping everyone well informed the day without running water.
c. Social Media: Policies on professional social media standards for teachers. No contacting the students through social media. Parent-teacher contact is allowed.
3. SCC Job Responsibilities- Training Video
a. School trust lands video- opportunity to make difference in your school.
i. SCC insures interest and dividends get used in schools.
ii. Council creates school improvement plans focusing on academic needs.
4. SCC elections
a. keep elections in the fall.
5. School Improvement Plan
a. SAGE Data- State preliminary sage data
i. booklets arranged from easiest item to most difficult item.
ii. NAEP proficiency rate: Between 30-45% proficient
iii. Sage proficiency rates in 30-40%
iv. School Data available TBA
b. School Improvement plan
i. 80% pass the Spring DRA
ii. Write goals more specifically next year.
iii. Writing part of academic focus
iv. Continue to improve math and science goals.
6. Watch Dogs
a. We need more volunteers. Only 8-10 dads at kick off.
b. Any amount of time volunteering in the school.
i. No commitment to certain times.
ii. Create more clear examples of what our Watch Dogs participate in during the day.
iii. Information for students about watch dogs sent home after fall break.
7. Parking Lot
a. Safety meeting this Friday.
b. Reversing traffic coming in at south end and exiting the north end??
c. Bus parking lot is currently in the North lot.
d. Concerns: students running across lot in front of buses.
e. Get sheriff's office involved
8. Math Night Nov. 14th
a. Math committee is working on topics to cover.
b. Advanced math for high achieving students.
c. GoMath parent logins to use at home.
i. Can challenge students.
ii. Video math models.
d. Money- value, economics, how money works, real world application.
e. SEP concerns- Have a quick show of math strategies.
9. Action Items
a. Review and accept Submitted Trust Lands Plan for 2014-2015
10. Budget $44, 042 (2% increase)
a. Aide salary- classified hourly — $9,040
b. Salary-certified hourly — $5,800.00
c. Professional Development Substitutes — $1400.00
d. Professional Development — $1500.00
e. Take home Reading/ Science Library Materials — $3,623.00
f. Technology — $13,972.00
1. 8,707.00 to reallocate into technology. Use funds to purchase additional technology programs, training.
ii. Total technology — $21,079.00
iii. substitute $1600- to send teachers watch other master teachers.
Becky Jones motions that Eagle Valley Trust lands money be allocated as
a. Aide salary- classified hourly — $9,040
b. Salary-certified hourly — $5,800.00
c. Professional Development Substitutes — $3000.00
d. Professional Development — $1500.00
e. Take home Reading/ Science Library Materials — $3,623.00
f. Technology — $21,079.00
Second by: Kristin Cable
Unanimous vote- Cindy Braby, Rheanna Dow, Kristin Cable, Becky Jones, Paula Tucker, Jennie Searle
Motion carries.
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council Minutes
February 11, 2015
Attending: Cindy Braby, Rheanna Dow, Becky Jones, Paula Tucker, Jennie Searle
- Welcome
- Council Member Concerns- Create bi-laws for EVES. When a non-member is participating their concern must be on topic.
- Social Media: Policies on professional social media standards for teachers. No contacting the students through social media. Parent-teacher contact is allowed. Issue throughout community
- Work with community leaders technology safety and etiquette
- Social Media: Policies on professional social media standards for teachers. No contacting the students through social media. Parent-teacher contact is allowed. Issue throughout community
- Volunteers from community at school
- Get parents involved in being responsible for student learning-active partners
- One time volunteers
- Moms in art with paintings, music, etc.
- Principal book club
- Poetry Café with parent host
- Responsibility from the community
- Respecting the school staff members
- Kindergarten registration: PTA memberships and volunteers
- communication with parents is key
- First year kinder parents meeting in Fall
- Girl bullying books
- Invite all to read
- Review Teacher Needs Survey School Improvement Plan
- Review teacher input of school improvement plan
- Technology
- Guided Reading
- Non fiction magazines
- Professional Development
- Flex-time
- Review teacher input of school improvement plan
- Rough Draft Trust Lands/School Improvement
- School Improvement Goals
- Reading and Writing
- base upon a year's growth rather than a hard percentage?
- Allocation of time in schedule
- Expenditures about $40,000
- flex-time/double dosing aides
- Nonfiction magazines
- Professional Development
- teacher book club
- Teacher input on budgeting plans for next year.
- PTA needs help with literacy night?
- Friday February 13th family night
- Guest readers
- Dance with Disney music
- Adjournment
Eagle Valley Elementary
School Community Council Minutes
March 11, 2015
Attending: Cindy Braby, Rheanna Dow, Kristin Cable, Becky Jones, Paula Tucker, Jennie Searle
Scout Group Attending for communication merit badges.
- Welcome– Rheanna Dow
- Council Member Concerns-
- Rough Draft Trust Land/School Improvement
- School Improvement Goal:
- K-3 On the Fall 2014 DRA 46% of students were reading at or above grade level benchmark. On the January 2015 DRA, ________ if students were reading at or above grade level benchmark.
- Specific Goal: All students K-6 will show growth in literacy as measured by DRA. 75% of students will achieve 1 year's growth or minimum benchmark according to the DRA District Benchmark chart from Fall 2015 to 2016
- Action Plan- How will we assess the goal.
- Improve Tier 1 instruction
- Professional Development
- Technology—Chromebooks vs. Laptops for K-2
- Add a second goal for Math and Science to fit expand our focus on student needs.
- Action Plan- How will we assess the goal.
- School Improvement Goal:
Rhianna Dow motions to add Math and Science Goals to school improvement plan. Jennie Searle seconds motion. Is there any more discussion before we vote? No.
- Unanimous vote- motion carries
- All students in 3-6 will show growth on the state SAGE assessment to increase the percent proficient by _______%.
- Academic areas of need reading, writing, math, science.
- Main measurement- SAGE
- All students in 3-6 will show growth on the state SAGE assessment to increase the percent proficient by _______%.
- Trustlands Proposal for 2015-2016
Flex-Time $ 5,425.00
Summer Collab. $ 8,100.00
K ABC Coach $1,250.00
Guided Reading Supplies $2,000.00
Take-Home Aide $1,938.00
Double Dosing $4,650.00
½ Day Observation Subs $1,500.00
Fluency Coach 4th-6th $1,500.00
CITES Conference $3,800.00
Technology (Plus additional in Fall)$10,000.00
Mastery Connect $4,200
Total $40,163.00
Becky Jones makes a motion that our trustlands funds for 2015-2016 be spent as follows:
Flex-Time $ 5,425.00
Summer Collab. $ 8,100.00
K ABC Coach $1,250.00
Guided Reading Supplies $2,000.00
Take-Home Aide $1,938.00
Double Dosing $4,650.00
½ Day Observation Subs $1,500.00
Fluency Coach 4th-6th $1,500.00
CITES Conference $3,800.00
$30,163.00 Remaining used for Technology
Technology (Plus additional in Fall)$10,000.00
Mastery Connect $4,200
Total $40,163.00
Kristen Cable seconds motion. Any more discussion before voting? No.
Unanimous vote: Motion carries.
- PTA Family Night Art Friday March 13, 2015 6-8pm
- Voting for new PTA board
- Teachers to help?
- Next Month's Agenda:
- Signatures and final trustland funds
- Collaboration Presentations Tues. March 18th
- Book Fair
- Adjournment
- Jennie Searle makes motion to adjourn. Cindy Braby seconds. Unanimous Vote: motion carries
Paula Tucker and Jennie Searle abstained from voting.


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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
Obviously I procrastinated so much posting this. I actually finished this post in January but I delayed the posting because I don't have the perfect photo for this post (and still doesn't but I need to post something on my blog so who cares about perfect photo). By the time I'm posting this, I'm already 17 years 1 month 15 days old.
I turned 17 on January 11th! Yeay, I finally can take the KPP test. Actually, I already took it and praise to Allah, I passed the test🙌 I was so nervous before taking the test, the idea of needing to pay if I want to repeat the test made me really anxious. Luckily, I passed. So. Back to my birthday. I didn't have a celebration, my parents were busy and still are, but I did get some birthday wishes from the people I love and it was enough for me.
I've been meaning to write this post since my birthday last year, but I figured that probably it would be better if I write this when I am older than 16. 16 sounds too young, and 17 still sounds young but 17 means I have 3 years before I turn 20 so if it's rounded up, it's closest to 20 and it means 17 is quite mature for teenagehood, whatever that means.
So today, I'm doing the honor of sharing 17 main lessons that I learned during my 17 years living on Earth:
1. I actually don't know anything yet. Maybe today when I'm writing this, I'll see myself as a quite wise person for my age, but next year when I read this post again, I'll think that I was so immature and say "girl, you don't know anything."
2. Read more. It'll show you a lot of things, types of people and bring you to many different places. If you can't experience it yourself, at least you know some perspectives from people who experienced those things.
3. Don't spend too much time on planning, spend it on doing what you want. Just imagine how many time you will waste to plan the perfect way to do something. Most of the times, improvising is a much better choice.
4. When a friendship ended, most probably you might have done something wrong too. Don't blame just the other party. Try to see it from their side. Or if you haven't done something wrong, just think that it ended for a reason. Everything ends eventually, right? Your friendship with that person just ended sooner than you expected.
5. You don't need specific time to be better. Why wait until the next morning if you can make at least a little difference right now?
6. Practice what you preach! Remember the times when you be yourself and don't belittle other people's pain? Well it applies to you too.
7. No matter how much people help you, if you don't want to help yourself, nothing is going to be better. Like people said, after all, in the end, you only have yourself because people will leave.
8. You don't always have to label yourself based on what you believe in. Just because someone doesn't label herself as a feminist, it doesn't mean that he/she worship sexism and fight against equality. Just because someone says he/she is not a Potterhead when he/she already watched the movies or read the series, it doesn't mean he/she hates it. Maybe he/she is just not that crazy of Harry Potter like a lot of people do. I am a Potterhead, though.
9. You have to accept that you're a Ravenclaw at heart even when you're sorted into Gryffindor on Pottermore (because you probably manipulated the quiz a little bit so that you'll be a Gryffindor). Accept what you are! Practice all the knowledge you have from the many self-love articles you had read! I am a Gryffindor at heart, though.
10. Mental illness isn't supposed to be romanticized at all. If those emo songs and pictures with really dark quotes will only trigger you when you're already triggered beforehand, it'll be better if you stay away from them. Some people find them comforting because they don't feel so alone and they can see that other people feel it too. Some people find them triggering.
11. It's not good to download things illegally because these things are the source of money to some people. Money is tight right now to buy music and movies, but try not to get too many things illegally.
12. DO NOT COMPARE YOUR PAIN TO OTHER PEOPLE. You are not in their shoes so you don't have a right to judge whether their pain is valid or not. Don't say "you never get hurt" to other people because everyone has their own definition of what hurt is.
13. Learning is hard, but it's most probably worth our time. Most of the times, what we don't even use the things we learn at school in our lives. Who use indices and logarithms in their daily routine? But it's good to learn a lot of things, who knows how we will use it in the future?
14. Say yes more but don't be afraid of the word no.
15. Celebrate the little things. Be grateful for the little things and you'll feel more happy with your life.
16. Tell the truth but don't be afraid to keep a secret especially if it's other people's secret.
17. Learning about other people will teach you something about yourself. And the more you know yourself, the better. It's important to know yourself.
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The Norwegian economy in a more volatile world
Speech/statement | Date: 2016-09-29 | Office of the Prime Minister
Lecture by Prime Minister Erna Solberg at Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), 29 September 2016.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you very much for inviting me here to the Norwegian School of Economics – NHH – to give this year's Lehmkuhl lecture.
And thank you for this opportunity to make an extra trip to Bergen!
First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your 80th anniversary. And on the 100th anniversary since Kristofer Diedrich Lehmkuhl founded and became the first chairman of the "foundation for the establishment of NHH in Bergen". Lehmkuhl has given his name to this lecture and is often referred to as the founding father of NHH. It should be no surprise that it took a citizen of Bergen and Conservative politician to found Norway's first proper school of economics and management.
Since it first opened in 1936, NHH has prepared thousands of students to take on management challenges in a rapidly changing world. Today, in 2016, NHH is popular place to study, with high academic standards, and an international profile in terms of both study programmes and research activities. I gather, for example, that more than half of all NHH students take part in exchanges abroad during the course of their studies at NHH. Many international students also come to study at NHH each year.
So the subject of this lecture – the Norwegian economy in a volatile world – couldn't be more fitting.
Norway is a small country with an open economy. Everything that affects our economic and political partners affects us too. I would like to start by pointing to three global trends that are significant for us in Norway.
The first is a new sense of global unease. During the course of the three years that I have been prime minister, a number of developments have created anxiety and uncertainty:
- Russia's aggression in Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea
- A sharp drop in oil prices, which has had major economic consequences
- 65 million people – more than three times the population of Scandinavia – forced to flee their homes. 2015 was the year that the refugee crisis hit Europe.
- Senseless, brutal acts of terrorism in several European countries
- The referendum in the UK and the majority vote for Brexit
- The attempted military coup in Turkey.
In addition, there is great uncertainty about economic developments in China and other emerging economies. All of this affects Norway and the Norwegian economy. As an open economy, we have reaped the benefits of globalisation, but at the same time we have become more vulnerable to the many great uncertainties in the world around us.
To me, it is clear that the answer is closer international cooperation and more joint solutions. Unfortunately, we are seeing signs that nationalism and isolationism are on the rise – both in Europe and in the US.
I am worried that we will see more protectionism and more countries trying to go it alone. If we reach the stage where it is no longer possible to solve problems and crises through common efforts, we could see greater political unrest and weaker economic growth.
In order to avoid this, Europe's leaders must face up to the unease and lack of confidence that many people feel today. As politicians, we cannot claim with any credibility that we are doing a good job, if we fail to address the problems that affect ordinary people in their everyday lives. This will be our greatest challenge in the time ahead.
The second trend I would like to highlight is climate change. In much of Norway, we have had a record warm September. Even in Bergen, people have enjoyed an Indian summer. Many people probably have no objection to that. But the trend in Norway is towards stormier and wetter weather.
In other parts of the world, the challenges are much more serious. Some countries are even at risk of being wiped off the map. In others, drought, extreme weather and flooding are creating ever increasing problems and causing ever greater suffering for the population.
We need to act, and we need to act fast. The challenges caused by climate change are global and need global solutions. Fortunately, there is growing recognition of these challenges, and of what we must do to address them. The green shift has started, and we all have a responsibility for ensuring that it is a success.
The Paris Agreement gives grounds for optimism. It sets a clear course for global climate efforts in the time ahead. Earlier this month, the world's two largest economies – the US and China – committed themselves to fulfilling the Agreement's objectives. This is a strong signal of support to the global climate efforts.
The Paris Agreement gives another clear signal – that green solutions must offer good returns on investment. I am convinced that the transition to a low-carbon society will pick up speed, but this will not happen if green solutions threaten to put investors in the red.
The third trend I would like to draw attention to is the increasing importance of new technology in our daily lives – both at work and at home. We are on the threshold of a new technology revolution, which will link robots, intelligent ICT systems, our physical environment and people together in completely new ways. What will this mean for us as employees and citizens? It will mean that the way we do our work and the way we interact in other areas of society will change fundamentally.
Of course, the new technology revolution will open up huge opportunities for value creation and for improving and simplifying our lives. We will be able to produce more in a shorter space of time. We will be relieved of many dull routine tasks. And we will have the technology to help us deal with many of life's everyday challenges.
I must admit that the idea of a domestic robot that cleans the floors while I do something more enjoyable sounds very appealing.
For Norway, the new technology revolution is good news, on the whole, because our labour market and out population are well equipped to meet the demands of an even more globalised and knowledge-intensive society.
However, it will also mean that, in Norway too, jobs will be automated at a rate we have never seen before. In 20 years' time, one in three Norwegian workers may have been replaced by technology. Globally we are talking about several hundred million jobs that could be automated.
The advantages and the opportunities are obvious, but we also risk millions of people finding themselves outside the labour market, with no livelihood and no job to go to.
I have painted a picture of a world that is less stable and more uncertain than it has been for a long time. But the global trends I have highlighted also offer major opportunities.
- Opportunities to create the jobs that will give us livelihoods in the future.
- Opportunities to improve and safeguard our welfare services.
- Opportunities to make Norway a winner in a more volatile world.
I believe there are three questions that we – as a nation – must have good answers to:
- First, how can a small open economy flourish in a world where isolationism is increasing?
- Second, how can we make the green shift a commercial success? and
- Third, how can we make sure that there are jobs for everyone in the new labour market?
Do we have the answers to these questions? Yes, I think we do.
I believe we can only address the new international unease by cooperating more closely and finding more joint solutions. There is a lot at stake here. We must defend the world order.
International law, including the law of the sea, and the strong institutions that have been established internationally and in Europe contributes to Norway's security and competiveness. Norway has played a leading role in the efforts to build up these institutions, and we must shoulder our part of the responsibility for defending and strengthening them. We must do this even when it is costly and when populist forces are seeking to undermine them.
I have been asked to co-chair the Sustainable Development Goals Advocates, together with the President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama. This is an important task. The sustainable development goals are ambitious. They are also crucial for securing our common future. We must eliminate extreme poverty, but we must do so in a way that safeguards the environment and addresses climate change.
The key to success is to get every UN member state to back the UN's processes and to help to ensure that they remain relevant for all members. We can only resolve the huge challenges facing the world through binding cooperation and joint efforts towards common goals. And Norway must be at the forefront of these efforts.
The UK's decision to leave the EU has created uncertainty about the future of European cooperation. This comes at a time when it is more important than ever that European institutions do their job and help to develop solutions to the challenges Europe and the EU member countries are facing:
- They must help to maintain stability and predictability. This means stabilising Europe's unpredictable neighbouring areas and ensuring that Europe is able to deal with the large flows of migrants and refugees crossing its borders.
- They must promote economic growth and job creation. Otherwise we risk a whole generation being left behind, without hope for the future and without livelihoods.
- They must find answers to the challenges that affect the everyday lives of people in Europe.
I can promise that Norway will shoulder its share of the responsibility and take part in international processes to address these challenges.
For a small and open economy like ours, there is no alternative to international trade and binding cooperation. And we all benefit from this.
Norway faces a twofold challenge in the time ahead. Our oil and gas industry still gives us substantial revenues, but in the future, it will no longer be the engine of economic growth that it has been during the past few decades. We need to create new jobs in other productive and profitable industries.
At the same time, Norway must help to ensure that the world achieves the two-degree target, and we intend to be climate neutral by 2050. We will make the transition to a low-carbon economy.
The key to tackling these two challenges is to create green jobs that generate tax revenues and benefit society as a whole. There are more than enough ideas for subsidised jobs. But we cannot live off subsidies. We can't have a green shift that puts us in the red.
This doesn't mean that the state has no role to play in making the transition to a green economy. We need to do our part if we are to exploit the full potential of green technology.
Norway has been through many difficult restructuring processes. In the 1800s, we made the transition from an agricultural to an industrial society. The early 1900s saw the development of hydropower and the first major industries, which gave rise to new jobs and revenues. The latter part of the twentieth century brought rapid and far-reaching technological advances that made the oil age possible.
Time and again, we have seen that new challenges result in new technology, new industries and new jobs.
Now the situation is different. We need to make the transition from a highly profitable oil and gas industry to something that may have a more normal level of profits. In the past, we have always moved in the direction of something more profitable.
The New Climate Economy report from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate has shown, however, that making the transition to a green economy can be profitable. Technological innovation and investments in low-emission alternatives can lead to stronger growth, more jobs and higher profits for companies, and can spur economic development.
I would like to mention three examples of how new technology is being used in combination with Norwegian resources to create growth and a greener society:
- Fosen Vind is to build what will be Europe's largest onshore wind power facility, an investment of NOK 11 billion.
- Hydro's plant at Karmøy is developing more climate-friendly aluminium production, with NOK 1.5 billion in government support channelled through Enova. Parts of the plant's electricity need will be supplied from Fosen Vind.
- Elkem produces the world's most environmentally friendly solar grade silicon, and is currently developing new operations with support from Enova amounting to NOK 72 million.
Just over a month ago, I visited Slovakia. There I had the chance to visit the Norwegian company TOMRA's manufacturing and distribution facility in Senec. TOMRA started out in the 1970s in a garage in Asker, some 20 kilometres west of Oslo, with the development of the first machine for returning empty bottles. It has since grown into a global company offering smart solutions for promoting effective use of the world's resources.
With sensor-based technology, the facility in Slovakia takes 15 minutes to sort enough waste to fill an entire football stadium. Technology developed in Norway by TOMRA has turned waste into a resource. This is good for the environment and good for business. Proof that the green transition and green technology can be profitable.
I should also mention Norway's electric vehicles policy. There are now over 70 000 electric passenger cars in use in Norway, and nearly 9 000 electric vans. A couple of weeks ago, I was given the opportunity to test drive Norway's first electric lorry by the company ASKO in Oslo. It was a lot of fun, but I must admit I was glad I didn't have to reverse it around a tight corner!
Most of the electric vehicles in Norway have come onto the roads during the past five years, and now account for 3 % of all passenger cars. This means a 70 000 tonne reduction in CO2 emissions and improves the air quality in our cities. It also shows that targeted policies and good use of market forces produces results.
The new technology revolution is first and foremost an advantage for Norway. The factors that made the oil adventure possible, now give us an excellent starting point for exploiting new opportunities and creating new jobs based on new technology:
- We have a knowledge-based business sector with extensive digital expertise.
- We have highly skilled workers and engineers who are able to apply new technology.
- We have established close cooperation between the trade unions, the private sector and the authorities.
- We are making major investments in research and development.
This summer, we saw a good example of what we can achieve. Kværner announced that it is moving much of the production work for the Johan Sverdrup platform back to Norway for the simple reason that this is cheaper in Norway than in Dubai. Who would have thought?
Automation, the use of robots and better production planning are the reason why. The result is the creation of a lot more jobs at Kværner's plants at Verdal and Stord as well as at subcontractors elsewhere in the country. It also means that Kværner can take on 120 apprentices a year.
New technology can encourage companies to bring highly skilled jobs back to Norway from low-cost countries.
It can improve the competitiveness of the Norwegian business sector.
It can help usher in a new golden age in Norway's industrial development.
But how can we make sure that everyone is able to take part in the new technology revolution? Will there be room for everyone in the new labour market?
My answer to this is that we cannot afford to leave anyone behind.
There are a number of things we have to do:
- We must make sure that our education system gives everyone a good start in life. Education is the most effective tool we have for ensuring opportunities for all.
- We need to make sure that no children fall behind in their crucial first years of school. That is why I have announced that our next education initiative will focus on the first few years of primary school. We have also strengthened the focus on learning in schools through the 'knowledge promotion reform' and a major effort to boost teaching skills.
- We must ensure that enough people have the level of education needed to safeguard our welfare system in the future. In recent years, it has been said that too many people are taking masters' degrees. I disagree. We need more, not fewer, highly qualified and highly skilled people.
- But we must also make more people aware of the high demand for skilled workers. We must show them that vocational training can lead to an exciting and challenging career path.
- We need to see better results in maths and science subjects. A quarter of the pupils leaving lower secondary school in 2015 had only the lowest or second lowest grade in maths. The Government has therefore drawn up a targeted strategy to improve the teaching of maths and science subjects in schools, and to improve preschool activities in these subjects. The Government has also given priority to maths in its major initiative to improve professional development for teachers.
- We need more people who dare to set up on their own. As politicians, we can, and must, create the right conditions for those who want to transform their ideas into business ventures. The Government has increased its allocation to business-oriented innovation by NOK 2.4 billion, and we have drawn up a plan to promote entrepreneurship.
- We must give people access to lifelong learning. The knowledge needed changes. If you don't have the right skills, you are more likely to be left behind. We also know that the proportion of elderly people in the population will increase. A high labour market participation rate is essential if we are to maintain good welfare services.
- And we must ensure that newcomers to our country have the right skills to be able to participate in the Norwegian labour market.
In the future, Norway will be part of a globalised world where capital, knowledge and jobs are moving across national borders at an increasing pace. Our future value creation and welfare depend on our success in building a knowledge society. In terms of production costs, Norway will never be the cheapest country, but we can be the smartest. Knowledge is therefore a key factor for success, and for enabling us to hold our own in the face of international competition.
The Government has presented a long-term plan for research and higher education, which stakes out the course for policy in this area for the period up to 2024.
The Government will increase allocations to research and higher education in six long-term priority areas:
- oceans
- climate change, the environment and clean energy
- public sector renewal and better and more effective welfare services
- enabling technologies
- an innovative and adaptable business sector
- world-class research groups
Cultivating more world-leading research groups is one of the key priority areas.
Norway is lagging behind countries we tend to compare ourselves with when it comes to the quality of research. The Governments ambition is to ensurehat more Norwegian institutions are able to compete with the very best institutions in the Nordic region, and that more Norwegian research groups are among the world leaders in their field. Research results must as far as possible be measured on the basis of quality and level of productivity.
Professional study programmes at universities and university colleges must be designed to meet the labour market's need for skills and knowledge. In a global labour market, it is a great advantage that Norwegian students pursue their studies – or part of their studies – abroad, and that foreign students study at Norwegian educational institutions.
It has also been necessary to change the structure of the higher education sector and to concentrate resources on fewer, stronger institutions. The Government's aim is to create a structure for the research and higher education sector that ensures outstanding research and top-quality education. Several universities and university colleges have already agreed to merge, and the Government is allocating a total of NOK 175 million to support these mergers in 2016.
Another important aim is to increase the overall level of investment in research. In the long-term plan, the Government sets out its intention to increase allocations to research and development to 1 % of GDP by 2020. Changes in GDP and short-term initiatives may mean that this figure will change somewhat from year to year. Nevertheless, our efforts have paid off so far, and we were able to exceed the 1 % target in the budget proposal for 2016.
In the years ahead it will be important to ensure that the plan is fully implemented. In addition, we will encourage private companies to carry out more research. The Government has therefore strengthened the SkatteFUNN tax incentive scheme, which – together with a number of other schemes – will help stimulate increased private investment in research and development.
Norway can be a winner. We have what it takes to succeed, even in today's more volatile world.
We have the knowledge and skills, we have the resources, we have the ideas and we have the manpower.
Many of you here today will play a key role in society and in the business sector in the future:
- By creating new jobs in profitable industries
- By helping to ensure a place for everyone in the labour market
- By helping to finance our welfare system
- By taking part in common efforts to solve global challenges
- By safeguarding Norway for the future.
And in this way, you will help to determine whether we succeed.
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The OSI Group's Success
It is common practice for most people not to question the origin of the food they consume. Research has shown that most people rarely question even how the ingredients were mixed. Food production has become an ordinary business in the society. With the rise in the number of the organizations that involve in OSI business, it is vital for one to be careful about what they feed on. One of the most trusted suppliers that we currently have out of all this is the OSI Industries.
The products that we have enjoyed from OSI Group are many. Although most of the people do not realize this factor, the OSI Group has been in operation for a long time. The company has its headquarters in Aurora, Illinois. Despite this locality, the business firm has extended its impacts to many other countries around the globe.
OSI is a popular business entity due to the wide variety of food and services that they offer. Their ability to produce quality protein makes the OSI a competitive company on an international scale. This makes their products to be served at world-leading restaurants worldwide.
The OSI is currently operating in seventeen countries under the leadership of CEO Sheldon Lavin and President David McDonald. A Century of Innovation at OSI Group.
In the recent past, the OSI Industries has made acquisitions in Europe. One of the most notable acquisitions made is the purchase of the stake in Baho Food. Baho Food is a Dutch business organization with subsidiaries throughout countries such as Germany and Netherlands. At the time the acquisition was being made, the company was providing food commodities to more than eighteen countries in the European continent. The OSI leadership has better plans for Baho.
The expansion of OSI has not stopped at this purchase. The OSI Group purchased Flagship Europe. This step has made them take over the production of the firm's production of commodities such as frozen poultry and condiments.
With the massive support from the OSI Industries leadership, Flagship Europe will be able to get new opportunities in Europe. Flagship Europe has the capability of leveraging some of the tactics that have been used by OSI Industries to be successful in the US.


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Spain Team: More Pictures for our Prayer Warriors
Photos from the Spain Team - take a look and pray for the people you see in these photos, pray for the buildings and streets and everyone who lives there and works there... this is a great way to visualize where our team is and the people they are with in Lugones.
Roy and Phil prepared for the morning ESL children. They are seated in the little Evangelical Church who partners with us called Betel. Behind them is the "library" for the congregation - please make sure to pray for our fellow Brothers and Sisters in Christ. And pray they receive some more resources for the believers (adults and children) who want to learn more...
Below: In this picture you see Lenski and Kate at the ESL registration table inside Betel- pray for all the children who are attending! Pray for their parents. Right next to Kate is a window which outside there is a bus stop. Pray for everyone who gets on and off the bus to be curious about what is going on at Betel Church that they enter the door to find out and hear about Jesus.
Pray for all the children you see in this picture! Pray for their brothers and sisters who may have not come to the ESL camp. Pray for the people who live in the apartment buildings surrounding the park where the children are currently playing. Pray for the grocery store right next to the park and everyone who enters it. Let the Holy Spirit lead you in what specifically to pray. These are smart, kind, wonderful people who are super family oriented and they would certainly covet your prayers.
Pray for continued good weather.
Pray for continued fun! What a blessing. And pray for our team as they have an entire week of teaching and games. Pray they keep healthy and energized. Pray they have times to share their faith.
Finally, below are some of the adults who attend Betel Church (a few brought their grandchildren). Let's pray for them again and for their Church to be refreshed and encouraged by our Missions Team.
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L.B Green's new book of poetry is sheer artistry. Lou is a visual artist and photographer, as well as a poet whose lyricism carries her readers into the heart of the Milky Way itself. Printed in a limited edition of 300, this book is a collector's dream. For more information contact the author at P.O. Box 583, Davidson, NC 28036.
You can see how the night sky spreads out when you open the book!
(L. B. Green)
L. B Green's poems take me to a new place. An old place. They take me backward and forward, but best of all they take me HERE. Right here to this, not that but this, place where the imagination lives intertwined with the world, both the interior and the exterior landscapes of what we call, for want of a better word, our world. World and word. The world, the flesh of it in image. In language. There is no duality in Lou's poems. They exist in a universe where everything, as William Wordsworth wrote, is "more deeply intertwined." Lou Green's photographs are interspersed with her poems below.
History is as light as individual life…
—Milan Kundera
The snow falls
on two lovers. So
entwined their hair
and eyebrows a cloche
of diamonds. They rouse
from sleep. They kiss.
They wade the deep drifts
that lead to mourning.
The plain before them—
for now—
snow-bright, and alert.
There is no one
in the swimming pool now,
surface unblemished,
and inviting
as a mirror on the wall, one
into which my blonde boy,
blonde girl disappear, over
and again,
as they jump, and sink,
their small bodies—like boxes
laden with treasure
and thrown over the ship's rail—to lilt, then settle
in the deep end's netherworld,
hair flaring and drifting, while
I wait for them to rise—their breath
floating toward me, in perfect o's,
like pearls on a string.
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there is rhythm in the tilt of her head, in the animal-
like curve of her neck, where, though holding him
as a lover would, she holds him at a distance. Her hair
long and awash with night and the light of stars.
In the black and white ad for the Eau De Parfum
in the market arena innuendo unfolds
on a silk blouse, on the tawny skin
of youth, his Armani coat, her lips, blown and glossed.
Though his face is turned from view his posture tells you,
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The designer, worth her fee, knowing all along
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Once Again: December, My Father, and Nietzsche
That year each evening my father read Nietzsche,
my father the scholar, my father the farmer: one and the same.
In the front room
after supper: two men who in one circle of light, mull intellect
and chicken-shit, the broken latch
on the barn door, wonder of wonder, the way
my father said reason would at times hurl itself
red flash and dart in spring,
same as the cardinal to the top of the pine.
For hours he read, only to look up, stare through the window,
into the darkness, I wonder now if hoping
to discover each night before morning a place
beyond good and evil, consider how—in the context of his one
life—heaven appears, even smells, he once said: with any luck
wide-open to those like him who were most alive
inside the barn, working with the animals, in that place:
hay-strewn, lantern-lit, flies abundant
and swarming the warm dung, the cow, strapped with the weight
of her unborn, heat from her belly rising in the air, moaning
loudly, frightfully, pushing down, and ready: to calve.
Stone Light
…in the visual patterns of Morocco
for the painter, Sean Scully 1945-
Space: filled with blocks, bars, stripes
and vectors, you enter each construct,
remain distanced from it,
form and color synthesizing things
inherently incapable of synthesis, mental
and physical grip on the world to continually
all the while life in its immediacy,
if only, in remote echoes: where light
continues to bathe a garden wall, the hammer
hammers, tea rose trails a trellis, firmness
and fragility: one, and in organized contrasts—
between shape
and pattern—libretti:
of loss, of love, of an awakening: painted fields
that tend to build toe to head, and further,
no rules or guidelines for the seeing:
of a clear and orderly ambiguity, a future history,
the artist notes: All There Is…
…an infinitely complex cathedral of concepts
on shifting foundations, a cathedral built
as if it were on water…
What Is Light Without Shadow?
At dawn the plain, so white with snow
it aims to blind, until, like a bird,
your eyes come to rest on the ancient tree
in the distance, a tree that, bowing, lifts
and cradles you above the staggering
light, as, on the snow, it begins to bleed
its lovely darkness, trunk and limbs omniscient
among the newest angles of one more morning.
The Nests
-after Henri Cole
-for the painter, Barbara Schaff
Because you
have flown as
the bird has
to a yellow-
blended field,
carried in your bill
those wayward
strands of hair, various
blades of grass, the castoff
twine and twig—
like a needle
in the vein,
each nest burns
to the green
beneath the branch's
gray, where ever so quietly weave
the gestures
drawn carefully,
others randomly, as is
one trail of orange
that levitates.
The nests: your pluck,
your mettle, your blessed blood, your signature:
each nest a world:
a study
on a little square of paper,
each paper the size
of the heart:
as organ: the way
line—glorious, vibrating, miraculous line—in both pain
and joy,
tends and serves.
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The German Department at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor invites applications to its Ph.D. program for the academic year 2018-19.
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Phase 1 of this process involved 6 focus groups representing Council, residents, staff, young professionals, developers, realtors, corporate citizens, and students. Facilitated by Greg Dale of McBride Dale Clarion, the sessions included a presentation, discussion/feedback, and a map exercise. Phase 2 sessions will be held on May 19 and will provide a quick synopsis of the Phase 1 results and will solicit further direction from the public regarding several identified areas of interest. Information on Phase 2 can be found here.