School Community Council

The Cyprus Community Council consists of parents, administrators, and faculty members. Its purpose is to:

• promote student achievement through parental participation
• maintain communication between parent and school
• Include parents as active participants of school decision making

Watch this video to see what a Community Council does.

Community Council Video

Meeting Schedule and Agenda

Community members are invited to attend council meetings, but do not hold influence over council discussion points or decisions. If you have a concern for your Community Council, please reach out before-hand to one of the council members. Cyprus High School Community Council meetings will be held via Zoom.

• Location: Cyprus Main Office
• Time: 2:30 PM
• Next Agenda: Review the agenda for our upcoming meeting.
• Schedule: Every 2nd Tuesday in the Cyprus Main Office.
• Meeting Dates:
  • 9/24/2024
  • 10/15/2024
  • 11/19/2024
  • 1/21/2025
  • 2/18/2025
  • 3/18/2025
  • 4/15/2025
  • 5/20/2025

Council Members

All parents are encouraged to participate in our school community council. Elections are held at the beginning of September every year. All council meetings are open.

Invitation to serve on the council: We warmly invite parents to serve on our school's community council. Information about council vacancies, declarations of candidacy forms, and elections are emailed sent out in August of each year.

Serving on the Community Council allows parents to directly influence the way LAND Trust funds are used during the school year, which can include programs, materials, and other education-based solutions.

LAND Trust

Please visit this LAND Trust Public Report page to see the dollar amount our school receives each year from the School LAND Trust program, our school's final reports from the last two years, and a copy of our school's current LAND Trust plan.

The actual, current, and expected funding history for each school can be found online using the LAND Trust Funding Report.

2024-2025

• School Plan / Final Report
• Funds received: 454,305.40
• Funds used for: 1. The school will hire two instructional coaches to support improved Tier 1 instruction and student interventions. ($90,000 to cover half the salaries) 2. The school will hire an additional counselor so we can reduce the per-counselor student load so students have greater access to services available through the Counseling Center. ($90,000) 3. The school will hire a testing coordinator to spearhead planning, overseeing, and administering testing to include PSAT, WIDA, ACT, AP, and ASPIRE+. This position will take the duties away from the counselors and allow counselors more time to focus on working with students. ($57,000) 4. Provide stipends for teacher PLC teams to meet during the summer and outside of contract time to plan and evaluate curriculum and instruction to improve both Tier 1 instruction and student interventions. ($35,000) 5. Purchase Edgenuity software to run the school\'s credit recovery program so students have access to a pathway for recovering deficient credits so they can graduate. ($35,000) 6. Academic Mentors will work with students who have attendance issues to track their academic progress. The mentors will work with the school\'s most egregious non-attenders to try to get them back in school and caught up on work/credits so they can stay on track for graduation. ($60,000) 7. The school pays teachers to staff a summer credit recovery program so students can make up deficient credits and be on track to graduate. ($20,000) 8. Provide money for English class sets of novels (selected from the district\'s approved novels list) and the school library to purchase books in support of the school\'s literacy efforts which impacts student learning in all classes. ($15,000)

2023-2024

• School Plan / Final Report
• Funds received: $404,794.22
• Funds used for: Provide two instructional coaches to support improved instruction and student interventions. Provide one PBIS coach to support student sense of belonging and support teacher use of incentives to get students to school and to stay at school. Hire a counselor to meet with students about their academic progress and any barriers to learning. Provide stipends to create a SIOP/ instructional yearlong cadre for teachers to implement strategies to meet at risk learners, including multi-language, special education, and struggling learners. Provide stipends for teacher teams to meet outside of contract time to plan and implement instructional and intervention strategies. Provide stipends for teacher team leaders to meet outside of contract time to create schoolwide practices to be used by all teams. Hire a testing coordinator to help oversee testing and data, allowing more time for counselors to meet with individual students and to give data to leadership teams to use to inform instruction.

Land Trust Plan 2022-2023

• School Plan / Final Report
• Funds received: $356,862.16
• Funds used for: 1. Build the capacity of PLCs to target and impact graduation rates. PLCs will build this capacity by attending a PLC conference, receiving stipends for PLC work outside of contract time, including work associated with the PLC conference. 2. Examine our equitable practices to ensure all students have a greater opportunity to graduate. This will be addressed by attending the AVID conference, continuing our work with Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS), staff professional development, and providing stipends for work associated with equitable practices outside of contract time. 3. Provide comprehensive instructional coaching to build both teacher and PLC capacity to impact graduation rate.

Rules of Order and Procedure

• Council members will receive training to understand the responsibilities of the council. Council members receive training before preparing and taking action on School LAND Trust Plans and reports.
• All meetings are open to the public and the public is welcome to attend. (required)
• The agenda of each upcoming meeting, with draft minutes of the prior meeting, will be made available to all council members at least one week in advance, and will be posted on the school website. The agenda will include the date, time, and location of the meeting, and any proposed action items.
• Written minutes will be kept of all meetings, prepared in draft format for approval at the next scheduled meeting.
• Approved minutes will be retained for three years.
• The chair conducts the meetings (required), makes assignments and requests reports on assignments. In the absence of the chair the vice-chair shall conduct meetings.
• The council must have a quorum to vote. A quorum is a majority of council members.
• Meetings shall be conducted and action taken according to very simplified rules of parliamentary procedure as required in 53G-7-1203(10). Council actions will be taken by motions and voting with votes and motions recorded in the minutes. These rules of parliamentary procedure can be found in the district community council handbook.
• The council consists of the principal,  2 school employee(s) who is/are elected in even years,  2 school employee(s) who is/are elected in odd years, and  3 parent / guardian member(s) who is/are elected in even years,  3 parent / guardian member(s) who is/are elected in odd years.  (Size of the council MUST BE ADOPTED BY VOTE OF THE COUNCIL and consistent with 53G-7-1202. Elections are required to be staggered with half of the council elected each year.)
• In order to ensure that a quorum can be present, the following process shall be in place to remove and replace a member, as needed: The Community Council will vote to remove any members who miss multiple meetings during the year. A replacement member will be placed to complete the removed member\'s term of service by advertising the opening.

School Community Council Handbook

School Community Council Handbook

Teacher and Student Success Plan / Continual Improvement Plan

Teacher and Student Success Plan / Continual Improvement Plan

Council Elections

Elections are not in progress at this time.

We encourage parents to serve on the Cyprus community council.

Meeting Archives

We only keep minutes for the current school year and the previous 3 school years. If you need older minutes, please reach out to a council member, and we'll do our best to accommodate you.