Somewhere Over the Rainbow and we are ending with the theme from Jurassic Park. So here are our High Plains ukulele players. Case. Thank you so much again for allowing us to play for you This is Olivia Salamo, Bella Harmeo, Ella Roderick and Karis Hulls. Thank you so much. The ukuleles were awesome and then they started singing and it was so beautiful, so great job. Thank you all for being here. So make sure you wait till Superintendent Haber's done and we'll get to visit with you. Miss Ruckman
n, are there any updates to the agenda? There were updates to the agenda and the board has been made aware of these. Thank you members of the board. Are there any items you wish to remove from the consent agenda? OK. Are there any discussion items to be added to tonight's agenda? May we have a motion to approve the agenda moved Second roll call, please, Mr Wilburn n. Mr. Shandy, Missus Khan. Tonight for board comments, we're going to start off with the CASB winter Legislative Conference, which I believe Miss Shandy you
u attended. So would you like to share any comments? Yeah we had a very productive time we got to to sit on the Senate floor. And while we went into the day not having any formal meetings because everyone's schedules were so busy that we just, we didn't know how that was going to work out. But Senate did their thing. They got done relatively quickly. And we ended up having incredible networking and with D11 different senators from different areas and all that
And it ended up being just an incredible time of getting to meet with fellow El Paso County constituents and different politicians that we probably couldn't have put together if we had tried. So it was really ly great, so. Thank you. Superintendent Haber, did you have anything else? No I just would agree that we had a great time visiting with folks and especially Senator Kipp. After everyone filed out, she came over and talked to us for a while too, even though we didn't have an appointment, so I appreciated her time. Thank you both for that. Does anyone have anything they'd like
to share for their board comments tonight? OK, mostly I just want to say I believe parent teacher conferences are next week, right? I've got older kids, so I'm kind of out of the loop so just want to encourage everyone to attend those. And I want to say thanks to the families who always are so supportive of our staff during conference times 'cause I'm pretty sure most schools are working together to make meals, you know, get donations for all the staff, so
o I just want to say thanks to all of our families for always doing that. Year after year, semester after semester and then just happy Saint Patrick's Day. So try to be festive, so have fun for fun times to everybody next week. So, Superintendent comments we are e starting with Miss Allen since Mr Smart is out of town tonight and she will be presenting our new w administrators on his behalf. Good evening. It is my honor to introduce these 4 administrators
for recommendation and hopefully approval this evening. Some of them are with us already and so it's always a celebration to welcome them. So my first t candidate, I'm pleased tonight to introduce now her name s Amy Mangione OK, but I only only can call her Miss Magnoni because she was my son first grade teacher. So she will ever, forever be Miss Magnoni to me, an outstanding teacher for my son So she is being recommended as Discovery Canyon Campus
Elementary School assistant principal, and she is joined this evening by her mom, Marcia. So thank you for being here. Amy holds a Bachelor of Science in human development and family studies from CSU in Fort Collins She has a Master of Arts in curriculum and instruction from m UCCS, and she was part of a District 20 cohort. Ort 7. We're excited. We're actually about to kick off Cohort 9, so we love and are always proud of our cohort staff. So again, cohort
7 for her principal licensure and Amy began her career here in District 20 at Discovery Canyon Elementary y. She's been a kindergarten 1st, 4th and 5th th grade teacher. She's currently the MTSS coordinator and so pleased to recommend Amy to you u tonight for the position of assistant principal at Discovery y Canyon Campus Elementary. Miss Mannioni, would you like to say anything Thank you. Thank you, Miss Becky Allen, and thank you to the Board of Education and Superintendent
Haber. I am so excited to serve as the Assistant Principal of Discovery Canyon Elementary I am so honored to be the recommended finalist and look forward to continuing to serve District 20 and now in a leadership role this s is a unique honour for me for AS I began my teaching career like Miss Allen said at Discovery Canyon 16 years ago. Thank you to the staff and all of the Thunder community you have been an integral part of f my growth as both an educator and as a leader. You
have been mentors, teammates, cheerleaders, and I've seen first hand the dedication you have to our student success. The work we do is not easy y, but you all sure make it fun. Discovery Canyon is my home and you are my family. It truly is a special place. Thank you, Steve Scott for believing in n me and giving me this opportunity to serve on the leadership team. I don't take this position lightly and look forward to continuing to learn from you. Always put kids first and you have
taught me what dynamic leadership looks like and d lastly, thank you to my family and especially my mom your r encouragement and support mean the world to me. Thank you for instilling strong values and being a guiding light in my life. Your faith in me is the driving force that gives me the strength and the grit to keep pursuing your challenges. I'm so excited to start this new adventure and continue the work that we're doing, but let's all enjoy spring break first. I'm now pleased to introduce Ryan Rafferty
who's being recommended as the Pioneer Elementary School Assistant Principal. Ryan is joined this evening by his wife Lauren, daughter Caroline and mom Kathy Ryan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and d Sociology from Stonehill College in Massachusetts, and he has a Master of Education and Moderate special Needs from Boston College in Massachusetts as well. Ryan began his educational career in Massachusetts. He was a second and third grade teacher. Then he was at Fountain, Fort Carson here in
Colorado Springs as a second grade 4th grade MTSS Coordinator Educational Liaison and finally he is now in District 20 20 and he served there originally as an MTSS Coordinator and is now the interim Assistant principal and we're very y pleased to recommend Ryan to you tonight for the position of f Pioneer Elementary School Assistant Principal. Ryan, do you have anything to share? Superintendent Haber, school board members and directors, thank you for the opportunity to serve as assistant
principal at Pioneer Elementary School. I'd like to take a moment to thank my family who have joined me here today for their encouragement throughout the interview process. I would also like to thank the entire Pioneer staff for their support during my interim year. I would. Lastly, I would like to thank our principal, Annette Zook for her guidance as I navigated through this role. I am looking forward to continuing to serve the District 20 community and build upon Pioneer success and accomplishments. Thank you all. I'd like to now welcome Carrie Mitchell, who's being
recommended as the Academy Endeavor Elementary School principal Carrie is joined by her husband Sean, son Talon and daughter Claire. Carrie holds a Bachelor of Science in early Childhood in elementary education from Evangel l University in Missouri. She is a master of Art in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Phoenix x and another D20 cohort graduate. Cohort 6 Principal licensure program and so pleased that you went through that program and now you're here tonight.
Carrie has spent her entire career here in District 20. She actually started in Edison Elementary. And you're like, where's that? Well, it's where Academy Endeavor Elementary is. It was the name before it became Academy Endeavor. She's been a primary classroom teacher, a lead and mentor teacher, a reading coordinator RTI and MTSS leader instructional coach h, and student growth and assessment coach. She currently serves at Academy y Endeavor as the assistant principal. We're so pleased to recommend Carrie to you tonight for the position of
Academy Endeavor Elementary School Principal. Carrie, do you have anything to share? Superintendent Haber, Directors and Board I'm m honored to continue this journey at Academy Endeavor Elementary and I appreciate the trust and confidence that you have placed in me. Some of you may know and you just mentioned I began my career at t Academy Endeavor 24 years ago as a second grade teacher I'll never forget that first day on the job. I was barely 21 and I had 28 eager students ready to learn over r the years, I've been afforded the opportunity to learn
grow, stretch my teaching skills, and assume numerous roles. I'm proud to have served at D20 as Teacher Instructional Coach h, assistant principal and now principal. I want to o thank my friends, my family, my Endeavor staff back there for guiding and mentoring me for misses Sheila a Hansen for my principles the last four years in helping me e in this position. Thank you D20 for providing me with the coaching and mentoring I needed to become a more skilled teacher not just for our students, but for our new teachers coming into our
profession. I believe in Academy endeavor and what it represents. Go astronauts I look forward to collaborating with the staff, students, parents, district and community to ensure that we meet our shared goals and continue to build a positive and supportive school l. I'm eager to begin this new chapter and I'm confident that we will create an environment where all students can succeed grow ow, and reach for the stars. Thank you. Our final introduction this evening is for Diana Fricke, who is being recommended as the director for Digital Innovation Services. She's joined this evening by her
husband Brian, her sons, her mom and her parents in law, Diana holds a Bachelor of Arts and Communication from UNC Greeley. She has a Master of Library Science from m Emporia State University in Kansas, and she is a ertified educational technology leader. Diana began her career in Harrison District 2 as a library media specialist and LA teacher for Language Arts. District 49 at Skyview Middle School, again as a library media specialist. She served as a graduate
instructor at Emporia State University and then n she was at Challenger Middle School as a librarian English teacher, tech office supervisor and the Dean of Students. Diana currently serves as a a Technology integration specialist in Learning services and we're e pleased to recommend Diana to you tonight for the position of Director for Digital Innovation Services. Diana, do you have any words for us this evening? Thank you to the Board Superintendent Haber r and Dr Field for the opportunity to continue to serve Academy
District 20 in a new leadership capacity Yesterday during a training about artificial Intelligence AI, one of our ur high school English teachers turned to our team and said. This has been transformative It's this kind of transformation, our digital innovation Services team seeks to bring to the teachers and students across our district as we guide and support the integration of meaningful technology in support of teaching and learning, ensuring all of our students are prepared for
an ever changing digital world. Thank you to Lori Hartman and the DIS team, Chris and Jess for your encouragement and support. I also want to acknowledge the support my family has given me throughout my career and as I have pursued this position Thank you. We look forward to meeting and seeing all of you in a few minutes. And now Superintendent Haber, all right, well, we've had a great month since our last board meeting and great happens here in D20. I've definitely been out visiting schools just seeing the amazing work done by our teachers working together within our
students are fabulous. So just a few highlights. I went to Ranch Creek Elementary and I had never seen this s before. This is Smash Math over on the right Students early take the play DoH and they smash it into the math facts that we're solving the problem that was put on the table and that was one of our student volunteers from m our high schools that was there to help facilitate that I just I just thought that was. Was pretty neat and the kids were really into it and on the e left there we also have a teacher who's doing a very interactive math lesson, so a lot of good instruction going on and
d I loved the interactive piece as well. Another interactive e frontier elementary school. I definitely got a workout We were all raising our heart rates, mine probably more so than the kids was pretty worn out and out of breath by the end, but it it was really fun and it's PE teacher was teaching them how when you raise your heart rate, it's good for your health. And so that was super fun to be a part of. And again, some other very interactive math lessons that we observed. Director Shandy, is there anything you'd add to that visit? It was great to see how involved and just in tune the
kids were that were laying on the floor doing math or whatever they were e completely into the topic and the subject they were learning. It was great to see. Yep. And then Rampart High School balled for bucks I didn't get t to go last year. I was out of town. It was such a real privilege to be there. They held their 18th annual ball for Bucks on an assembly on February 28th and as the day of the event, Rampart had raised 40 000. I think they actually went up to 50,000 for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society and they were on track
to pass an 18 year total of 700 000 raised. For that organization, let's give them a hand for that. Men in the lower right. I have the distinct privilege of meeting Greg Anderson I had been in his math classroom, he just st retired last year. And the students, literally had some hand motions and a little. Rhyme that they were saying for calculus problems I was s so impressed with that. But he is really, I think, the founder of the Ball for Bucks and he was sharing with me how that came about. So it was a real privilege to meet with him
and also Lee and Lawrence, who is assistant principal at Academy International because. Several elementary schools came over middle school students, and it was really an absolutely touching and fantastic. Event and I asked if Principal Megan Sanders would just come up and say a few words about all four bucks this year. 1st, thank you, Superintendent Haber and Miss Constant, Miss Chandy for being there. It meant a lot to our students and staff. It is a tradition at Rampart High School. Often confused with Saint Baldrick's but
t it's our own thing. Started from a staff member who had, unfortunately cancer about 20 / 20 years ago and Ryan Park k High School did lose her, but her son was a senior and asked to bring it back his senior year and we've been doing it ever since and nd it's been incredible. I think my favorite part is s that all of these elementary middle schools come together. It's not just a Rampart thing, it's a whole community thing. And it has been very special and this s year we got to honor we have a hero child that is this is
often a child that is related to us as Rampart High School in some capacity, sometimes their students at elementary schools that feed into us that have either cancer are currently and this year we were able to o honor our PE teachers nephew, which was incredible to be able to do. Just a very special event. We have raised over 50,000 0 so and we're having an event tonight called Jazz and Java. As our last little push for fundraising, so it's been awesome and we have some, we have some
bald friends in the audience and some short hair. Stand up if you've shaved Just thank you for being there and we are very grateful for our incredible community. Thank you so much. Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School they recently participated in a an event with at Doherty high School and they won Was it the received a rating of superior, which was the highest rating you could get. So huge congratulations
to our DCC middle school band. Then we have this wonderful opportunity to go on February 24th to see the Air Force Junior ROTC. They participated in an annual unit assessment and this one was unique because they had a national inspector that came out and this was really a big deal They had every single student out there on the floor and every student had their uniform inspected. They were some color guard kinds of events that they had to be
inspected for. But the wonderful piece of this is they had 100 on their evaluation and inspector told Principal Olson that it was the best student mission briefing he's seen in two years as a regional inspector. Our director, the unit earned exceed standards, which was the highest possible rating and d they've also earned the exceed standards on their inspections in 20 22/2018 Twenty and 2012.
Which qualifies them for consideration to be distinguished to be designated as a distinguished unit with h merit at the end of the school year. We really have a absolutely phenomenal program there and I know Director Shani and I highlight for us was really visiting with h these amazing cadets when we were sitting up in the bleachers and they were telling us about all the fantastic leadership opportunities that t they've had. On the second picture of Village High School senior Olivia Birch, she was in charge of the inspection preparations.
From the Cadet leadership team and she was presented as a top performer award by the regional director, which can only be given by someone from headquarters so it doesn't happen n very often. And some of the other cadets that were recognized as a top performer award were senior Scarlett Williams, juniors Claire Walker, Amari Treho, and sophomore Adam Dibble. And the unique thing about this program is it's a district wide program, so we have students from all of f our high schools there and it's such a wonderful unifying.
Opportunity to come together as a district and Director Shandy did. Would you share anything about this event? Yeah, like you said it was incredible Again, just t to see their organization and the consistency that they y have year after year with what they're doing. Fabulous program and like you said, the cadets they were so so eager to talk to us and us and I mean. One or two of them it would like. English was their like third they third language or whatever. They were just amazing
le students in our district. Another reminder that our future truly is in good hands. Unified Sports, I am so excited about the expansion of Unified Sports in our district and d due to a snowstorm last year, they weren't able to have this event but this year as the first year that Pine Creek High School Unified basketball team has been in the big state competition. It was held at the Gold Crown Field House in Lakewood and it's open to all high schools in Colorado and. The brackets are created based on the level of
play and how the teams placed at regionals and Congrats s to the Pine Creek Blue team, they played range view High School and George Washington High School and they brought home the gold. And also congratulations to the Pine Creek Green team they played birth at high school in n Ponderosa High School and they brought home 4th place So a huge shout out to them and the program. Let's give them a hand. And in that theme, we just this week had an opportunity to see students from across our district come together to play the Search and Rescue team.
And it was really great to see them out there excited to shoot baskets. The search and rescue team was amazing They gave them lots of wonderful opportunities to shoot some baskets. And director, Shani, director Wilburn, anything you'd like to share about that event? This was so much fun. Was this last night two nights ago, Two nights last couple nights ago we had ad so much fun watching these kids and as I was there wandering around talking to parents, what have you, one of the moms of one of f the boys on this team said just thank
me so much for this. She said her son's kind of an introverted kid anyway and this is affected him m in such positive ways. The kids at the school know who he is. They see him in the hallways. They high 5 him and he's just come out of his shell. And I said as long as I'm on this board, I will always vote to o fund this because this you can just watch them blossom right in front of us. It was tremendous. I know the other thing is they're really trying to expand the program amongst other schools and all of that. So I know there are principals in this room out there.
I'm looking at you, Matt and Megan. Expanding this program to your schools would be awesome to see They start soccer next and they do that in conjunction with the switchbacks and actually fly to o away games and play on the same field. Wow. Yeah that's cool. I didn't know that. That's awesome. All right, we recently also had a CTE conference at the new hotel on the Air Force Academy, the Polaris Hotel And it was a great turn out. We partnered with AD
49 and I think D11 as well we had ad Tracy Marquez from the Pikes Peak workforce Center and Bob, Jim, Jimmy Gani from m PPWC and PPBA. They all came e together and helped sponsor the event. We had about 250 people that attended this event and it was centered around college and career counseling career r academies, work based learning and we had industry panels from technology and AII know the session I
went to was very inspirational and like to have her back. It's doctor Jennifer Curry. She's from LSU and she e just gave a wonderful presentation. How even in elementary school. We can help students start exploring like, what are you interested in? What do you want to be when you grow up? What do you, what could, what could we get them thinking about now 'cause I believe we do that. Or instilling hope and motivation early on for students. And she just had some really creative, fun ways to do that. So we plan on bringing her back sometime next year to
talk with our elementary principals and and possibly at some schools that are interested in participating with that. Our wonderful transportation team, they won awards last year and they also won another wonderful review this year, recent review from CDE found D20 Transportation to be in the full compliance with maintenance, inspection, documentation and licensing regulations and when you really think about the huge size of our ur fleet, how many, you know we drive by that on Woodman, right t? It's really quite a feat to get this
outstanding. Recognition. So they do an outstanding job with safety and compliance really being paramount. And I think I see Mr Joey Eisenhat. Is he here? He was here still here. He was here earlier. Just a huge shout out to our transportation team. They really go all out to ensure that our students stay safe And we just recently launched a new system too, where students have cards and they kind of clock ck in when they get on the bus, which will help us track.
Students have help us track where the buses are. It's a new system that we're piloting this year and then it will go into full effect next year, so we're super excited about that as well. We recently had a job fair and we had about 3 04 attendees and did a hundred, 131 of those were walk insurance. So really kudos to the HR department and Mark Belcher's department and communications. Really getting the word out there 'cause we had a huge turn out. We conducted just over 50
0 interviews on that day. And we received over 850 applications. On that day, which is huge So I think people know that we have a great district and they're eager to apply for our positions, which was awesome and the finance department, another department that t earned recognition of excellence, the district was awarded the Association of School Business Officials International ASBO Certificate of Excellence in Financial Reporting for the fiscal year of 2324
Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. This award is a testament to our D 20s finance department and they're consistent seeking of excellence and outstanding leadership. Miss Allen is there e anything you don't want to add to this? Just that I am so fortunate to work with such fine folks. They work hard they have customer service and accuracy and you know what we all and they live it every ery day that we treat the funds that we have with the ultimate respect and because we're the stewards of the
taxpayer dollars. And we really take that responsibility to heart Thank you. Several of us attended the administrator case conference, and I think the highlight for me was really networking with superintendents and other colleagues from other r districts sharing ideas, and I went to one on AI that was really awesome and just really learned a lot about how different districts are using AI to as an important tool for learning. We all had the opportunity to go to the Air Force Junior ROTC ball where you went
last year as well. What a highlight. It's a real formal event. And the speaker this year was a general who actually flew the Stealth bomber, a Lieutenant General Stephen Basham, and he was very inspirational and sharing not only his stories in as a general in the air Force, but also really encouraging the students to know what their strengths are to persevere e and to really shoot for their dreams and not to not give up. And so Director Kahns and right.
Do you have anything you want to share? I'm just always humbled by these amazing students and just thrilled like you u said earlier, that our district just hosts such a phenomenal Air Force Junior ROTC. So it's the future's in good hands yet again, right? Getting to be with them, yes. I was invited to attend The Urban Land Institute reception for the North Nevada the e revitalization for the North Nevada corridor it was s fascinating to really find out how do cities go about
Revitalization of different areas of town They have a panel now that is going to be taking interviewing different people in the community to say what would be the best way to revitalize that N Nevada corridor and I had an opportunity to talk with one of the panelists and talk to o somebody from UC Health and just is could that be a place where we do some research around mental health? Because it's right between UCCS and. Penrose Hospital. So that was one of the ideas that was out there, so that was a great opportunity.
To network with our community leaders Then I had another opportunity. I was invited to be part of a panel with the 2025 Leadership Conference and d it was really fun to do that with my colleagues and we really tag teamed it pretty well and had the same message, which is this is the importance for r our community members, our parents, several D20 parents were in the crowd as well. Just the importance of being involved in director cons. I appreciate you ticipating in parent conferences.
Especially at middle school and high school level, it's a time when sometimes students say, hey, don't be so involved, mom and dad But really that's the time to lean in the most as my experience as a parent as well. So but that was well received and d at the end, we're kind of surprised we actually got a standing g ovation, which was nice 'cause it wasn't really for us, but I think it was really about the importance of public education And they just really resonated with them, like how can we be involved, which ch was awesome. Back one, we had wonderful March stakeholder
meetings and it was about artificial intelligence e and just we've had this amazing cohort as Diane e mentioned, we had a chance, Lori Hartman id amazing job and so did Zach Mathers and talking about cybersecurity and all we we have the best cybersecurity program. I think in the state we have put so many amazing supports in place. And I had a chance to sit alongside it when we had some cyber situations right at the
end of year last year and they were just phenomenal and are phenomenal. So it was really great to hear that t presentation. And then Lori Hartman talked about the cohort that we have, right now with teachers and I had a chance to go to that meeting today y, which was awesome just to hear how teachers are using it in the classroom and board. I would love to invite them to come to a study session. Maybe in April, just to talk more about the cohort, invite some of those teachers to come and share how they just really feel like it's
transforming their teaching and learning. I know Discovery Canyon, since they're sitting here, the elementary A lot of representatives from there and I know school wide, you guys are really doing a a lot of amazing work with AI and I know there's other schools that are ing that as well. And my student group down at the bottom they're re like, we want a group picture. So it was awesome. It's been such a joy to ork with the. Superintendent student group, they just have such great insights and every y time I get insights from them. Then I turn around and I share that at the K12 meetings for principals so their feedback does get shared
with the leaders in our school district because student voice matters. And again, here's the AI cohort just t teachers sharing. There was a couple of teachers there from Discovery Canyon that we're sharing with me how they were using AI and even with students who are on Ieps using it to help really put together. Real, clear, concise goals and potential interventions that could really meet the needs of our students And I know one of the things that the cohorts looking at is what
kind of programs do we want to buy for next year that t will help us help all teachers have access to these different tools. And I don't know about you guys but I was so full at the end of this We had the annual. Chef Future Chef competition, have you ever seen anything cuter than these kids with the chef hats? Right? And a fifth grader from Prairie Hills Elementary there on the right. He won first place as the future chef for the
year. And it was just wonderful. The recipes are made up by the students themselves. They have to put the recipe together. They actually cook it right there in the atrium, and then they have to come up They have to present the food the presentation had d to be. We had to rate what the presentation was. How the food looked on the plate and then. Best of all, how it tasted and that was sparred like I just want to get the top ratings across the board, but t director Kahns, director Shand, anything ing, Director Wilburn, anything you'd like to share about this event?
I think it's a great opportunity that our kids get to speak to an adult group and it was that was really the defining g factor I think yesterday. Was that Thomas the winner here was amazing in his natural presentation and all of kids. To being a pressure situation, putting themselves on the line for success and failure and just encourage them to all come back and try again and I I know that they're petitioning you for a middle school cook
off now as well as some of them are graduating out, but what a great opportunity for these kids. Absolutely. It's great exposure to a potential career path early in life. I know my son when he was in the 5th grade, he knew he wanted to fly jets. And that's what he does. Some of these kids, I mean, they want to be chefs. They really do. They got a hands on, they get they passion stoked and it's just an incredible e opportunity for them as well As for us. A lot of fun. I'll just share a little vignette about Thomas here Besides being an awesome fun personality and great
t cook, he was the most gracious child I have. So he got up and he just started his speech when he won and he said they each had a sous s chef, some of our Sodexo employees helping them. And he turned around and said something to the effect if you're e the best sous chef I've ever worked with before. He was amazing and then he turned d to his mom, of course. So the tears started and he just said mom, you've taught me everything I know and I'm so glad I know how to
Definitely one of the highlights of the year for sure. All right, and without a drum and a roll or a cymbal, the announcement people have been waiting for seniors last t day this year will be May 9th, 2025 preschool May 15th K-11 students last day the 23rd and teachers last day the 27th and doctor fields Anything you would want to share in addition to that
I think this is like the first time we've done it before spring break in a ng time. Does it right, but also just a reminder that if we have any more snow days that we for the secondary schools, we do still have to finish out the year with e-learning for secondary if we have any more snow days, but hopefully we won't have any more snow days, it'll just rain a lot. So anyways, that's it. Thank you. So I am so excited to highlight and board. I'd like to start highlighting some of our
amazing career academies that we have in here in D20. That's been a real focus of ours, along with the portrait of a graduate. And I am delighted tonight to ask Mr Mitch Burke to go ahead and come to the microphone if you would please. So this is our HOSA Discovery Canyon n and oops, the went back. Yes, let's give him a hand. Let's give him a hand. So ho says a health occupation students of America and it's associated with their biomedical program, and I just get
excited anytime I can go to Discovery Canyon to learn more about their biomedical program. It is like world class probably the best in the state if not in the nation. I've just been so so impressed with you, Mr Burke, and what I've seen with your students and your colleagues building such wonderful l opportunities for our students. So the floor is yours. Share with you why the biomedical sciences CTE program at DCC is such a valuable part of our students education and how it aligns with their school's commitment to preparing students for future careers and post secondary success college
e and career readiness the biomedical sciences s pathway is a rigorous 4 year program that builds essential ial knowledge. Am I hitting the wrong button? There we go. Sorry green for go Excellent. Thank you. Sorry A A rigorous 4 year program that builds knowledge and skills for careers in healthcare and biomedical science research, two of the fastest growing industries in Colorado and the rest of the country udents graduate with the hands on experience in critical areas like like genetics, disease prevention, medical
innovations and public health. Making them more. Competitive for both college admissions. And entry level health care jobs CT T programs like this one help bridge the gap between high school education and real world careers, ensuring that students leave DCC with tangible, employable skills. What sets our biomedical science program apart is the focus on hands on real world learning students ts work with advanced medical equipment. They learn how to diagnose and treat patients and complete lab based investigations that will
mirror what they'll actually experience in college. And in healthcare careers. Our program is not isolated within the school walls We have strong partnerships with local colleges hospitals and healthcare providers. Students participate in work based learning. They have opportunities through programs like JAWS, job shadowing and other work based studies. These partnerships give students direct insight into healthcare careers, build professional networks and d give them valuable real world experiences. There's a critical shortage of healthcare workers in
Colorado and nationwide. Our biomedical sciences program is part of the solution we're e preparing students to fill roles in nursing medicine public health and biomedical research. Many of our students s go on to pursue careers in healthcare with aspirations to become doctors, nurses, physician assistants ts, EMTs, physical therapists, athletic trainers, and biomedical researchers. Programs like ours address the healthcare worker pipeline by giving students the skills and experience they need to succeed in post secondary education.
And in the workforce? And our students are thriving. Many are already working in healthcare fields, some even doing so while they are still in high school. And many have earned college credits through dual enrollment The program is now on its 13th year. And I've really started to hear back from our past students. I've heard from students who are now seeing CN AS and EMTs I've e heard from former students who are athletic trainers and physical therapists and one who's an audiologist. And I've received word from students who are now nurses in ERS. Nick
Hughes and orthopedic units. And some have now completed medical school. And they are indeed doctors. These students are living proof of how the biomedical sciences program is making an impact. I would not presume to say that this program is responsible for the success of these young people. I know it's their dedication and their hard work that has gotten them to where they are. But perhaps it has inspired them and helped them pick their path In conclusion, the biomedical Sciences program at DCC is a a critical part of preparing our students for college.
Careers and for life it supports student engagement, workforce development and post secondary success all while e addressing real world needs of the healthcare industry. Thank you for supporting our program and for supporting other programs like this which equip our students for success and strengthen our r community. Thank you, Mr. Burke. And that's the end of my update. We need a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted. Moved second roll call please. Mr Wilburn. Misses Shandy, Missus
Conns and right now we have 60 attendees on our. Live stream of the board meeting We are e going to take a quick anticipated break now for everyone that's been waiting. If you were part of the spotlight or were recognized in Superintendent Haber's update, please head over to Mr Belcher. Will you give him a wave here and misses story so we can take some pictures with everybody y. Thank you. We're going to come back together to continue our business. Mr Saccolidi, I didn't give you the thumbs up, but you were on it. Thank
k you for being ready. There are no items pulled from the consent agenda. The first of our written reports was the accreditation Handbook revisions for the school year of 2020 through 2026. Does anyone have questions or comments? This is Shandy, Yes, was like president, vice president cons. So my questions were around efficacy and how we determine. How we determine the programs that we're using? Besides math scores
so for just for example like last summer's s reading program summer camp that we did how w are we determining the efficacy of that program so that we can speak to it or decide that we need to change it doctor pill? Yes, great question. Miss Shandy and Andy Ruskin our ur Director for Literacy, is gonna answer that question. I'm heard. OK, yes thank you for the questions. So certainly with the summer reading program we first use
e read activated programs and secondly and when I'm most what I lean n on the most. So you I think are aware that we have two dyslexia specialists in the literacy department as well as 2 wo additional. Literacy experts and we actually go through all of the vetted read ACT programs. To actually look through and decide which programs really target students needs the best, so we vet that program and then we do our best and have been really
successful at hiring very highly qualified teachers in fact last st summer all of our summer school teachers were certified academic language therapists. So they use the program and then we also encourage our therapists and language specialists to also use their expertise and really customize instruction for students. So that's specific to the summer program, but literally I asked real fast, did we happen to do pre and post tests for the summer? And I'm not picking on summer, it's just no o. It's a good example to lean on, sure
So we do, we do smaller pre and posts within that time period. So it's 2-3 week sessions During that three week time period, we do see growth from either. Students maintain or grow during the three week time period but what we're actually more interested in is end of year Composite scores with beginning of year scores because we're interested in how the learning really sticks with students over time to be fully transparent t, we've continued over the four year period that I've conducted
this summer program results come back mixed. We have about 50% of students that either maintain their scores and double S or grow a little bit and then we have about 50% of students that regress. What we don't know and can never measure is how much they would have perhaps regressed had they not received. Intervention. We also try to look at their attendance rates and see how that plays into it. So we do look very closely and we keep kind of hitting this 5050 mark, but we're trying every year we try
and adjust this year when we offer Flyers will go up at parent teacher conferences, so sign up but we are going to have attendance be free again. We're hoping to up the numbers and attendance rates for students. And we are doing a We're gonna have two teachers supporting a larger class of students, but with two teachers working tandem, we're hoping that we can really again target student needs and use those vetted programs and teacher expertise to help students as much as
ch as we can. Thank you. Yeah. Anything else ward? Are there any other comment that I have was just as we go about really relying on results now 2.0 to help drive. Changes in Spark. Drastic increases in performance and knowledge learning and all of that. I would just love to see this handbook come more into a line with the principles of results Now 2.0 as we go forward. Thank you. And then the only let me get back
to my questions here. I just had a couple minor r questions on our chart of site plan schedules for everybody. I noticed maybe for the first time e, that the departments do a site plan too. I've been so sed to being in DAC and seeing the schools but can you tell me about if any departments had site plans or any type of external reviews or anything like that this year or what's coming up I don't believe e anybody did this year and departments haven't done
external review in the past. And remember that the accreditation handbook is aligned with the state Colorado Department of Education's accreditation. Handbook and accountability laws and all of that But what I know about the past is before we had a strategic A a district strategic plan, it was an opportunity for departments to do planning like schools do aligned to the board ends. So now that we have a district strategic plan, it's a conversation that cabinet needs to have because so many y of our departments lead all those objectives
and goals. So it's something that we're going to tease out and I will give you a report as soon as I have it all figured out. Thanks. Yeah, it just kind of sparked the question in my mind if it's if it is occurring for our department. So thank you. Mr Woburn, So thank you very much for this is a very detailed report, the fact that you put ut the changes in highlight made life so much easier. Big change, not a lot, but in Section 8 which is the ERT, you note that some e of the challenge issues of the past continue to be.
Namely closing the gap between pre and reduced d lunch and a focus on math that really isn't revealing, producing g the results you'd like to see what wheels are turning to o address those? To address, is this on now? All right, Yeah to address the math issue we've we focused very closely for the the last two years on providing really intensive math essional development so all each school has a one or one or two or sometimes a couple math lead teachers. And they come convene 4 * a year for professional
development that they take back. We have two national experts who've been supporting our district for the last couple years and providing research based, evidence based really solid math instruction, all of our math teach all of f our math teacher leaders have received training on best practices on how to instruct at their appropriate level. So from a kindergarten level all the way up to calculus. In ways that are gonna yield positive results for kids. And we just had our most recent one on Monday
and then we've we've already got plans to continue this work next year. OK. And I only ask this because it probably precedes my time in D20. How long have the three year visit structure been in place? Has that been since forever? The external review process every three years, so I was just talking to some of my team that it was changed around 2009 two 10. We used to do when we did an accreditation visit it was like a big giant binder
visit around all these different standards and it wasn't as meaningful for schools. And so we e under our former deputy Superintendent Heidi Pace, we this is when hen I was a principal. We did the whole external review and it's like a action research question that a school gets to answer or ask rather and an expert team comes in and answers the question that. It's just much more meaningful for a school. And it is. Just a great way to learn and grow a staff to learn and grow together. So I
would say 1615 years, yeah. OK. I think that's it. Thank you all. Written report 8B Draft student fee schedule for 20 25 through 2026 school year. Does anyone have questions or comments? Mr. Wilbur. This was very consistent the e only real inconsistency in terms of percentage of increase was the ride pass. And I'm just wondering on page one, I'm just wondering if that is directly related to expenses we're currently incurring upgrading facilities, purchasing new vehicles stuff
ff like that. Those rates have not been increased in some time and so this increase is a big driver is for the e Tyler Tech program that we're implementing next year. It's implementing, but as Superintendent Haber mentioned, it's a pilot now, but that will help fund that. Is that all for this item? OK. C monthly financial report through January 2025. Does anyone have questions or comments Misses Shandy? I had a couple questions on 2
two line items where we're already over 100 of our budget, the non salary expenses, other purchase services and equipment purchases. Can you an you just explain why we're already over 100%? Absolutely so. Missus Shandy, what do you do me a favor? Let's look at the one that's under non salaries first. And it's kind of like a package. They're all. Purchase services so o what happens is those dollars typically go into one main line
when we allocate it at the district and the schools and the departments move it around. So it is hard for us to guess where it's going to be Where I look, I put most of my energy is at the total where I say OK, so right now we've spent 14.469 million. Out of the 19.4 million available so o I look at that bottom, yes, if you look at the 100 and 2%, you can see wow, that doesn't
t make sense. But where I look is really that bottom line because I look at those 3 as a package and the same occurs in the three supplies, equipment and other expenses the The majority of. Our discretionary budgets for the schools go directly into supplies. We don't know. Are they going to need it in equipment? Are they going to need it and what qualifies as at other expense They do budget amendments throughout the year to move the money to the other lines. So again
I look mainly at that six point is what we have spent out of a $16 million budget. One thing that we could do if you would prefer r it, is we could bundle them so have. Of where the purchased services those 3 lines purchased professional purchase property other purchase services if If you would prefer we could put it in one line moving forward or start that next year where it just
t says purchase services and it encompasses all three and then we could do the same. We still would have the different t line items in our own budget, but from a reporting stance we could also then package and say supplies, equipment. Other expenses in one line or you could say what just leave it and I know that it's typically going to be off and because we can't predict how what the needs at the schools and that they're going to slide the money around and I'll focus
s on the bottom line total, but no need to answer me now If you would prefer that we change it, we'd be happy to OK, the accounting will be the same, but in the presentation of the report t we could combine. But great question. I think I like seeing them separated I just wondered why you y were already over it and we're halfway through the fiscal, yes. Is that right? Yes and then n anytime I see other, I wanna know what that is type of thing. So other purchase services I'll give you an example on
that. One of the reasons that expense is high that was the he big place conference. So that has travel in there. So that hit it it pretty hard. But. But please think about it and if you think know there's a better way that we could present this, be more than happy to do it. OK, Thank you for equipment the the variance to actual is actually a negative number in a couple spots. Does that simply mean we didn't purchase things that we budgeted to purchase? Well, we don't really. Again, the equipment is the when
most of the money that goes to the schools goes in the supply line. So when schools. Want to move it? Then they would move that money do a budget amendment over to equipment so we don't poll everyone and ask what they y think the equipment and they manage that as they go through the year. Oh, we have to buy laptops, they move it over to equipment, things of that ture they might yes. So that's why I kind of just mentioned well if you think it might be if there's a
there's a better way, we could go ahead and present this, be happy to look at that. And I, like I said, I always look at it too and I look down at the main line that subtotal for each section and I say we're in good shape for that cluster. Anything else board? OK. Thank you all. Item D legislative updates. Does anyone have any questions or comments? All right. Moving on, E Board of Education proposed discretionary budget for the fiscal year of 2025 through 2026. Does anyone have questions or
comments? I know we'll start with Missus Shandy. We're doing a really great job of staying within our budget as a board. A heads up on the election fees that miss Allen will make adjustments as needed at the mid year. Should they come back higher than we have budgeted for and we had no increase from last year's adopted budget and. We're just doing a really good job of staying within our means so. Thank you. Anything else? OK. OK, we are on to agenda item number 9, presentations, the Strategic
plan update. Superintendent Haber. Yes, Doctor Field. I can see everybody better from here than my seat. All right, so this is a mid year update on our strategic plan and several of us this evening that will be sharing information with you. Feel free to ask questions along the way if you wish so you can see e this is our strategic plan team it encompasses s many people on our cabinet as well as many members of the learning services team. And just a reminder for everybody that.
This is our global end statement, our vision for District 20. It's actually been in place for nearly 25 years that all students will have the knowledge, skills and character necessary for successful transition to the next level and upon n graduation, we'll be fully prepared for success and we e focus on two big monitoring reports as the board knows knowledge and skills, which we call E 1.1 and character hich is E 1.2, which is coming up in April. So we have as a total strategic plan
we have. 6 strategic priorities tonight, the ones that we will focus on that have mid year data are the ones that are bolded. So the first one which h is ensure academic excellence for all we have mid year data, we're going to share #2 create a culture of f connectedness for all students, staff in our community of stakeholders s. And then #4 so we have 3 areas use effective and nd transparent communications to build trust. So Miss Ruskin is going to start us off and talk about our third grade reading goals.
All right. And I'm at the time in my life where I can either see you clearly I can see this clearly. So just shout out my name if you have your hand up. All right, so our first academic excellence point literacy 1.1, is 75% of third grade students will achieve on or above grade level benchmark status according to double S8. And we use the composite score to measure that. At mid year which our testing window was in n December, 74% of third grade students
achieved on or above grade level status. So we are in good standing and I'm feeling very optimistic that we will hit that 75% mark by the end of the year. And it's important to note that we have an additional month of learning between our mid year and end of year this year rather than less. You do it OK the second d literacy target 57% of third d graders will meet or exceed on the C mass ELA test. There is no major version of the
C mass to assess progress. We are fortunate we can use the third grade map growth to predict C mass success and WEA the developers s of map growth have researched the correlation between MAP growth and C mass and at mid year third graders scored at a median achievement percentile of 65% based on this s score and the comparison report is very likely we will hit ll hit our third grade end of year target. All right, Literacy 1.3
elementary C mass ELA growth goal so rather than n focusing on 3rd graders, this focus is on the growth that our 4th and 5th graders show. Again, we're able to use MAP growth as a predictor to success on the C mass at mid year 4th grades MAP growth median growth percentile was 53 and 5th grades was 50. And again, using that correlation research. These mid year map growth scores would indicate that we are likely to meet our CMAS growth goal for 4th and 5th
graders. And then our final literacy focused goal, 90% of 6th grade and 9th grade students will successfully pass their ELA courses at mid year after first semester, 95% plus of our 6th and 9th grade students are passing their ELA classes. Do you have any questions about our literacy targets? OK. Thank you. I'm back, guys. All right. So I'm gonna take us on to math. So we've got a couple math goals. The 1st is that
90% of our 6th and 9th grade students will pass their math courses and d I'm gonna refer you to you've got a little blue folder here on the left hand side. You've got a couple sheets that t look like this. That's just a the data broken down. Miss Superintendent Haver asked that we give you some disaggregated d data by school. That's not reflected in this, but you can see how schools are the two little blue lines on the 1st chart our population sample sizes that are just too small l to report, but basically we're hoping
to get 90% of our 6th and 9th grade students passing their math courses, 90, just about 93 1/2 a little bit t better than that of our 6th graders pass in the first semester and just under 95% of our 9th graders passed in the 1st st semester. And we always see second semester pass rates higher than our first semester pass rate. So we are on good track there. To the next slide, our next goal is 90% of our 9th grade students will pass Algebra 1 and this is looking to hit our overall goal of
Algebra 1 completion, which is a graduation requirement right now we're at t 92.06. And that number's changing just a little bit as we clean up some of our data for students who are in the data set that are like home school students and such. So we actually have a little bit higher percentage of students who are in passing algebra one first semester and the great t thing about that as our high schools have done amazing jobs for those kids that have not passed Algebra 1 during first t semester. The schools have set interventions for those kids to help them catch
up for that first semester credit. And then to get back on track for second semester. So we anticipate a much higher pass rate of algebra one by the end of freshman year and on the back sheet of that first t page is some disaggregated data by student demographics, so you can see where student demographics lie and the departments that are in charge of some of the areas that are in red there are taking direct action to help support students in a in a more specific way. And then the next one is
95% of our students will be on track to graduate by the end of their freshman year. Now that's a difficult 1 to assess at So we looked at the pass rates of their classes in the core content areas, math, language arts and science, and we're a little over 94%, almost 95 and all three subject areas. So we're on track for that measure as well Any ny questions about the mathematics? All right, I'm gonna go on to one more slide. And this is the culture of connectedness and
and that's the third. Page there or the second page there on the left hand side and that is 90% attendance at each level elementary. Middle and high school and you can see at the elementary level 93.58% so 90 almost 93.6% of our students attendance rate in in elementary. At middle school it's a little bit lower and a high school it's a little bit lower. 90% is our goal. This is a nationwide crisis of attendance after COVID and it's something ng that we're very attentive to. So our high school MTSS coordinators met
earlier this week to talk about this issue. Several of us are on a tenants task force with the state to try and figure out how we can increase high school attendance rates. But overall as a district or 92.6 attendance rate. And that's the final chapter the pages s on the right side of your folder, Andy and d Jolin will talk about later in another report. Thank you. All right. I think I have communication coming up next, Susan, if you wouldn't mind advancing us a slide? All right. So we have some mid year stats
updates for you all on our KP is it's a little easier for us to pull these KP is in a more regular basis than some of our other friends have to do so starting with four we have a whole district wide push to share the D 20 story and we're happy to share out and report that 98% of f coverage about ASD 20 is either positive or factual and we've broken that out there. And we do have about 2% of that coverage is negative, so we're surpassing that goal there. Moving to 4.2 we e are looking at about 500,000 engaged users on our
ASD 20 website this year. That's about a 6% increase and we're shooting to always have at least our engaged populace, our families, our staff working with and using the ASD 20 website. So we're really happy with that and nd next year, we'll probably look to update and increase what we're expecting to see so that we're not beating it by so much moving forward. In 4.3 we want to make e sure we're additionally creating an engaging environment where individuals can find information as well as uplifting stories
on our social media pages. So we're shooting for about 5% growth annually. We did see that this year to this point and we'll continue to report out on that. That's bringing our engaged followers on social media platforms to a combined total of about almost 20,000 individuals moving to four As you well know, we are engaged in a push to adopt and roll out Parent Square. We started that push district t wide in January. Thank you to our IT team for engaging in that push with us side by side. It's
of good feedback. And we're solving for the very few issues that we've heard about, and we're happy to report we're beating our 20 24 measures right now. We've got about 21% of our families opted into our alerts so that they're getting them anytime we post anything. And then we've got 24% who have downloaded our app. Moving forward this spring, we're gonna engage in a campaign to get folks to increase their app downloads. But still this is really, really great adoption rate for just being a few months in so So that is our communication update. Do you all have any other questions that we can answer for you?
Yeah, Thank you. Not a question so much, just a thumbs up. This has been a great report We're ahead of schedule on virtually all metrics, especially ELA 6th and 9th grade ELA, that was just outstanding. And you guys really knock it out with this report. It's our r teachers. Yeah. Always the teachers. Thank you learning services team. So I assume when you refer to the other handouts, this is for our next presentation, correct? I was kind of like, are we done OK? 9B Mid year assessment update
and WEA map growth and Acadian's READ ACT Read ACT data. Excuse me Superintendent Haber. Doctor Phil. Yeah. So Jolynn Patterson, who's our Director for Assessment and d Andy Ruskin, our director for Literacy, are gonna go a little it deeper into our mid year data with you. So Andy and I are pleased tonight to provide. I'm on, right, Yes, sorry ur mid year assessment update, you will see that much of this data is also reflected in the prior report through the strategic plan And so I think that just helps us see some of our
connections. And so my portion tonight is going to be e looking at MAP growth. Our vendor for that is N.W.A, so sometimes you'll hear people refer to it as N.W.A or or our math MAP growth assessments. Just a few reminders, this is an interim assessment within our balanced assessment system. So what that means is this is an assessment we do 2:00 to 3:00 times a year. It helps us see how we're doing to prepare students for C mass and classroom instruction. It is computer adaptive. It is
nationally normed. It is aligned to the Colorado Academic Standards, which are the standards that our teachers are teaching in their classrooms every day. And it provides the students instructional level so o it really tells the teacher what are students ready to learn next. We test in District 20 in English Language Arts or reading. We test grades four through 10. K 3 is optional because they're doing a lot of the read act requirements and testing with different assessments that Andy will share about here in just a minute and then in math we
we do test grades K through 10. So what we have here are our overall performance pieces in your handy dandy blue notebook You'll see that on the right side, the 1st 2 pages look at reading and math by school for you. So tonight on the screen you will see our overall scores by grade level over time. So starting in 2021 and going through to this current year of 2025. But we also wanted to o provide you with that additional information and I highlighted math
in yellow because they look very. At the top to help you kind of just determine which one was which. So looking at this, you'll see our scores over time. One piece that I want to point out is the vendor has made some changes in their reporting mechanisms. So we still have access to the same scoring that we've used in the past. But for achievement, you'll see there's the achievement percentile, the blue line going up and down, which is the same correlation and the same numbers that I've shared ed out with you over years and over time.
The way that they're going to start reporting it out in the future So I wanted to prepare us and have us just to start look at that information is instead of using an average, they're going to be using a median. So when we think of elementary math, we're going to o go back in our brains of mean, median, and mode A median is where they line up all the students scores and they're looking for that center score. And then when we look at at an average, they're adding up every student's score. And dividing that by the number of students. So I just wanted to
give you both views tonight because in the future I anticipate that I will be providing you with the new version that the vendor is looking at. So you have on the right side, you have achievement scores. Remember, achievement looks at those students that took the test on that day and then en on the wait, I did that wrong. That's the left side says achievement, the right side says growth and remember r, that's looking at kids over time. So in that growth column, we're looking. For a score of about A50 or higher
that's what that median is. We're going to look for growth what we know in Colorado when we look k at our achievement scores, this testing system would say if our students store scored a percentile of f about 41 to 60, they would be meeting those expectations. What we know in the state of Colorado is the C mass test is extremely rigorous and so we know our students have to score closer to a 60 to hat meets on the sea mass assess. So that's something we're constantly correlating and watching and
learning about. So you have our math performance there and then on when I click it t the next slide, you have reading results s as well and they're lined up similarly to the math And so you can see over time from 20/21 to 2025, again, I've indicated ith orange highlight that new. Median percentile as well as the average percentile and then you have achievement. On the left and growth on the right. So what's important is that we have this data and this
information, but the most important part is what do we do with it? What's happening to make changes in classrooms and changes for kids. So this is a huge piece of our professional learning communities when our schools are working and also at the district level, we've spent a lot of time this year with the learning services lead team and our principal supervisors. We actually did a data protocol. That, let's see, I came up with, I called it life size. I was like, I tried to think of something creative where we did this with chart paper and we took those visualizations that are typically
y digital and we did work to put out each school with a dot on the church 'cause sometimes seeing it on the computer's one thing, but t then also kind of living it and looking at those places and it takes up a whole wall and learning services right now. So we were able do work with our principal our al, our principal supervisors, the learning services team. And really spend time thinking about where we aligning resources and we have a giant spreadsheet that looks at what schools we've already supported and when. So we could say oh wow, we've put a lot of support here and we're seeing a
positive result. Best hope, right? Sometimes you put a lot of support in and sometimes we don't see something positive, but we want to see what's making a difference. So those are some of the pieces our data cycles that we continue to work k on. And then the last piece is a family report, so we report out every time we do. This assessment, which would be fall, winter and spring we send home a very detailed family report, it looks similar to what our families get from sea mass as well from the state. And so I just put a link in here if people
are interested and would like to learn more about those reporting mechanisms because e it's important that our families understand and know how our students are performing as well. Now we're going g to transition to Andy. All right, so a little more information about our redact data. Just a reminder, redact is comes from Colorado legislation and actually focuses on kindergarten through 3rd grade and it's tied to our strategic priority that we just mentioned, so 75% of third grade
students will achieve on or above grade level benchmark status on Dibbles 8. Just want to talk about why 3rd grade? Why that focus research h finds that third graders who lack proficiency in reading are four more times likely to become high school dropouts We know and have certainly experienced the intervention in kindergarten through 2nd grade is more effective than in later years, targeting that end of year third grade mark also gives us the opportunity to intervene with students in
a more. Intensive way prior to those students. Moving on to secondary schools and then as far as Colorado standards themselves at 4th grade there tends s to be a bit more of a shift to reading to learn focus standards rather than learning to read d standards. So it's very important to all of us that we really catch and teach and grow students as much as s we can in those early years. A quick key. So we'll look at some data. Just know that those red bars the
Indicate well below yellow elow green is on grade level and vel, and blue represents above grade level. Outlook animation, sorry All right, so the first really bar chart we wanna look at is our third grade students at mid year, so you can see that 540 or 33% of our students are scoring on level 614 or 41% of our third graders are scoring above level
el according to that Dibbles 8. Mid year benchmark. So at mid year we're at that 74%. Mark as far as students performing on or above you can an see in your handout on that right side we do have the schools and their r individual performance on that mid year benchmark Something to keep in mind too when you look at those numbers, it's just t enrollment size of schools, some of our schools are very large and some of our elementaries are relatively small, so
one or two students can really impact that overall percentage in different ways. So just wanted to remind you of that. There was also a question that the board asked and so I wanted to make sure that I shared in your second hand out addresses this, but the question about how many students have moved out of that well below range from the e beginning of the year and we have had five students K through three move out of that well below from that August benchmark to the
e December benchmark. So a lot of progress is being made there. And just a comparison, look so in this slide, the top again represents what you just saw, so o in 2425, we're at that 74% mark Last year at the same time, our third graders were at 70%. At or above, so this different group of students is a little further along at this time of year r. It's also a month earlier that they were assessed So all good trends that we're looking at for this year.
OK, no more animation all l right, again, as Jolynn mentioned, the most important thing is how we use this data. So as she mentioned as well those e professional learning communities in that time that teachers have together to look at data, we say over and over again it's about name and need. So our teachers knowing their r students and working collaboratively to ensure that they're receiving the targeted instruction that they need is really where a e a lot of. The magic happens, the hard work
happens. We plan intentional interventions and extensions so our schools have things or times called win time, target time Through our MTSS process, we're really able to have fluid intervention and extension for students based on their needs Our principles are highly collaborative, which is amazing. We certainly build in time at our level meetings to talk about data. But really it's the community of professionals that t reaches out to each other constantly so
they support each other in that learning and that growth and d then again, communicating with families is always big We are and will be sharing at the upcoming Parent Teacher conferences. Any read plans with parents? And we always make sure that they're an integral part of that process and conversation. One piece that I failed to mention is today mitosis Put your put some of these sheets in your electronic folder. Remember we have the assessment. Just so you have that historical data there as well and d if you have trouble finding that, we can help you find that and Cheryl, that might
be new for you so I'll help you find it as well. Also I'm I'm sorry, just wanted to mention the last handout that you had has to do with the cohort of students that we follow. So I think you remember that at the end of every year we take all of our third grade students that haven't moved out of well l below or. Haven't demonstrated reading with 95% accuracy and we continue to follow those students. So this handout represents. The now 4th graders and 5th graders that we've been following and I'm just really excited about the movement
t that we've seen in the progress that all of these students have e made, again, thanks to the hard work of our teachers and principals. Any questions? So I just want to take on I have the wonderful opportunity y and a huge thank you to Jolynn and learning services and Shelly and your team we We had Plant Moran here that we were partnering with them. I had a chance to see our brand new. District dashboard which we're e calling the Foundations for success. It's really exciting, I think it'll be a tool that teachers will find
helpful to really learn more quickly too, than having to look up individual students in IC to be able to see their r classes at a glance, to be able to go across in a student and see, you know what t are the different interventions that have been done with students. It'll help I think principals get to know the students at a deeper level and be able to give. Continue to give those supports with teachers and I'm excited at the district level because it'll really give us. On time data to look at attendance achievement scores, we have the capacity of looking even
n like behavior, all the things that are so important in that whole child approach we take. So that was super exciting today and I would like to eventually maybe in May possibly do that as a study session too 'cause I think you guys will be excited about about that too. Any other questions or comments board OK K, Thank you all. Thank you. Moving on to item 10, public comment section number Belcher, how many people have signed up to speak during public comment Section 1? There are three speakers. Thank you. The Board welcomes the comments of our community members
We greatly value all comments from the public, but in order to adhere to board policy and accomplish the work already on the agenda, the board and Superintendent will not respond d at the meeting. Speakers may offer appreciation for or criticism of school operations and programs as concern them. But are encouraged to exercise their speech rights responsibly as they are personally responsible for any legal consequences attributable to their comments including claims for defamation. Please keep in mind that students often attend board meetings. Speakers
remarks therefore, should be suitable for an audience that includes kindergarten through 12th grade students, including no use of profanities or obscenities. Comments concerning personnel matters should be directed to the Superintendent or board president. In writing with your signature supplemental written materials can be given to the security guards and they will be delivered to the board secretary the he Board acting president tonight will recognize each speaker and consistent with GP 4.04, Section 4
comments will be curtailed if remarks or or behavior become inappropriate, the Board President may y interrupt, warn or terminate a speaker's statement t that is unrelated to. The business of the school district inappropriate for K through 12 students or disruptive to an orderly, civil and productive meeting And I just want to add tonight that I have always respected everyone's passion. I've said that to many people
of all types of ideologies that. I totally respect people who are here. When we're looking at people who aren't here, so I'm excited to have the passion in our district and I know that we're all emotional and about our district and I just want to say that. I would love for us all in this room to collaborate for a productive meeting so we can hear each other and d you've always been respectful when I've run the
meetings before. I've reminded you this has been in place for a long time that we've transitioned a long ng time ago to showing appreciation for speakers silently with our ASL applause. So I just want to say that is preferred because it helps us all be able to hear each other. For us to hear you. So I thank you all for your cooperation, Mr Belcher. First speaker is Rob b Rogers, followed by Katie Jukes. Just to recap what's happened over the past month, Sport
is making up arbitrary decorum rules, applying them selectively restricting speech even when there's no disruption, and clearing the board room over polite applause, which has had just happened 17 times tonight, by the way, then there's executive sessions. Last meeting after 30 minutes behind closed d doors, you returned with a motion ready to vote on vote on no minutes, no recording. And was that even a valid meeting considering Mr Salt rage quit and nd then never adjourned it? Then a short notice special meeting. Yet another executive session citing the same vague justifications of security and legal advice, supposedly
this was about GP44, how board meetings are conducted but what could possibly require attorney client privilege about that? Or is this about ensuring the public doesn't hear that you don't value the 1st Amendment and yet t somehow a resolution on 4.4 was already written before this meeting? This meeting tonight, despite no public discussion. So o now we see the red line revisions which are likely. Institutional, at least they would be in any courtroom that isn't operating under the Brad Miller version of constitutional law, like banning signs and expressions of support. Courts have ruled that non disruptive
protest is protected speech and we're allowing the board president to close blic comment at will that's likely viewpoint discrimination and let's let's talk about the vague overbroad language in these rules. Who decides what's distracting and to whom I find d public prayer and speaking in tongues distracting. So is that now prohibited What about wearing coordinated T-shirts? Is that a protest Where does this selective? An end an executive session Tom is increased ed 419% from 2023 to 2024 A quarter of your discussions now happened behind closed doors
s and then I find out that unelected administrators are using y tax dollars to lobby against financial transparency more and d more you act like the public is an inconvenience to be managed rather than han people that you serve. More and more consequential decisions are happening out of sight, and this district is looking more and more like Woodland Park every day. I wonder why that might be. Next up is Katie Chukas, followed by Bernadette Guthrie. My name is Catherine. Hello. OK, My name is Catherine Chukas. I live in the district. I'm an Air Academy High school parent. I'm the. I'm still the SAC chair my
topic today is about report 8B, the draft fee schedule at t our SAC meeting this winter, our air Academy community had a long discussion about t athletic and activity fees, and it's interesting to me that looking at that schedule in 8B and the rate of inflation that's been going on, that the fee hasn't changed at all for most of these high school activities and athletics. At our SAC meeting, we discussed how parents as parents, our needs to pay or fundraise have definitely gone up over the past couple years. We discussed setting g expectations with families about this, how the fee and then the need for
fundraising is not it. It's not equal, right? Like it we have o do a lot of fundraising or paying out of our own pockets and nd that's the nature of our conversations at Air Academy. We're coming up with ideas and solutions, a lot of them about teaming together between n families and activity leaders and better communication. And we're implementing these at our site and that's s the point I want to make is as a Kdec community we are trying g to figure things out. We let the students grow and change in the ways they want to be the leaders of tomorrow in arts in n athletics and science and business and in the military. The curtain just
t went up on our spring musical and tip off is in 15 minutes at the Denver Coliseum for our #1 ranked girls basketball team and nd we've also grown and shaped leaders within the education and professionals who make up the fantastic staff at Air Academy. But we're having a real hard time right now. And we know our site leadership is in transition and nobody wanted this transition. We've been having a hard time with this in all of February and it now looks like this process will continue to linger at least until April 10th or maybe longer if the e district isn't able to able to find us a principal shortly, we cannot have a
leadership vacuum as Mr Cameron Smart has outlined in emails to many ny of us, the wish list is long for a new principal there are many demands on our site. We are a 60 year old building with h no budget. We're on a military base that has changing demands. Is Bernadette. I'm here tonight just 48 hours after undergoing a double mastectomy and attached to drains and wound back under here so that's why y I've got a blanket on. Frankly, this is the last place I should be, but it's hard to ignore the timing of tonight's agenda, it feels intentional that these items were scheduled for this week, likely assuming I wouldn't be
able to attend due to my recovery. The goal is to silence me once again n, I'm sorry to disappoint you. The proposed changes to GP4 4.4 are clearly retaliatory. I clapped at the February meeting, which is a constitutionally protected form of speech. And now the board wants to ban clapping, cheering and other expressions of support That's not governance, it's punishment. Even more concerning these policy changes were discussed in a nearly three hour executive session n where policy decisions are not allowed under Colorado law. That alone violates the Colorado Open Meeting Law, but it also violates the board's own policy under GP 4.14, which requires
that policy changes be discussed during at least one public board meeting before being approved. That never happened. Second, the formal complaint resolution. This is unprecedented to display a. Name and the full content of an email public in Borjox without t redaction. There was no reason to publish that information other than to intimidate and silence me. Elevating a private citizen's mail to the level of a formal resolution without following your own procedures that at I was told you would follow is retaliation plain and d simple. I shouldn't have to be here, still recovering from major surgery, defending my
right to engage in public discourse without fear of retaliation. The Board s actions are not just inappropriate, they're unconstitutional, unlawful, and d beneath the standards of good governance. I would strongly advise you to carefully consider the consequences of voting on these resolutions this evening. I will have quite a bit of time on my hands the next few weeks while I recover, and fully intend to use that time wisely also Colorado law makes it a classics felony to knowingly falsify alter, or forge a public record with the intent to mislead or conceal the truth. The board secretary knowingly falsified the minutes from last meeting. Such as such as stadium as result
properly adjourned the meeting but there was a mic issue under the he Board's direction, this could rise to the level of criminal misconduct. Thank you. There we go #11 decision items. We need a motion to approve resolution 18325 appropriation from the General Fund Public Schools on Military Installations program PISMET assigned fund balance and contract award for pre construction services for a new PK8 school at Douglas Valley. Moved second discussion, please, Superintendent
Aber. Yes, Miss Becky Allen. It's on even though the light isn't on. It's great. OK, I'm m probably the 10th person to bring this up right all ll right, So you have a resolution before you regarding the public schools on military installations program, specifically at Douglas Valley. As you know, we've already embarked on the design phase. We have been awarded the design grant for this project and back in September. The board approved an appropriation of just under 2 5 million. For our match, for that process
well, now it is time we're starting. We're not done with the design phase but we are certainly moving through that process So now it becomes time for the second phase of that project and d that's the construction well in order to get get to that point, we need two things First of all, we need to finish the design work, but we also need o do what's called pre construction services. Pre construction services, one of the big pieces of that. Is really now looking at the designs estimating what the cost will be and that would help us
determine what we can or cannot afford. If you recall, we had fully funded about 12 point llion is the amount that's been in the public schools on military installations reserve to pay what we think will be approximately that 20 I say approximately because obviously there could be. Unexpected fluctuations as we look at. Just costs or escalation with respect to longer time or shorter time, but we feel confident in that amount being certainly a maximum that we would
need. So back in December an RFP was posted and it was for two things, pre construction services and construction services as a package and so that process. Was gone through and the vendor the vendor that the e evaluation team. Recommended was non construction and so that what this resolution would do is go ahead and award that work to them. Now it's important to know that right now we know the amount of money for the pre construction services are
the full portion is about 48,000. That's not just our 20%, that's the whole piece once that process were to be done. At that point, non construction would go ahead and give us what's called a guaranteed maximum price or GMP. It's the maximum price that it would cost to for the construction of the project at that .2 2 things could happen. The 1st is the district feels that is a reasonable cost that it's justified. We say yes, we're able to move forward and then
I would come back to you with what that would look like in terms of what the appropriation n would be and the proposal for construction would be e submitted to the federal government. A second RFP would not need to be done because the team already identified pre construction and construction services for non construction. That's pathway 1 Pathway 2 is none would complete the pre construction services and they would give us the GMP and the district was not satisfied with that, so at that
point the district would have the right to put a new RFP out and go through that process specifically. For the construction services. And then again identify a company find the GMP work on the proposal and come back to you with the appropriation so o that is what the overview of this particular resolution you would be approving the appropriation of 48,000 out of that reserve for the pre construction services you would also be
be approving awarding that pre construction and construction to none, none. But remember if that GMP later is not something that the district is satisfied for within n a new RFP would be posted for the construction services. Any questions for me? It's an exciting step because we're getting closer to the construction proposal and I can't thank Superintendent Haber. Missus Shandy, you have both been involved in the DAG work, Chris
Garnhart and his team, the teachers folks are excited. So this is just one step closer. So thank you so much. Thank you, Miss Allen. Roll call please, Mr Wilburn. Misses Shandy, Missus han's. Item 11 C We need a motion. Oh pardon me, Item B. We need a motion to approve Resolution 184 25, Language Revision to governance Process Policy 4.4 Board meetings
s moved. Second discussion please. I I'll start if that's OK. OK. So this red line provision was just presented to the board for discussion starting tonight And a few things just to point out So we're I know we've all gone through it, Mr Wilburn. Thanks When you saw it just a couple days ago, you asked Cheryl l to make some more formal language grammatical changes. Oh h, let me say this. Because I said it before and I think this document just has
an issue because I tried to correct it last year too under #2 the last bullet point t says a again instead of I this document is. I think we need to like retype it because it's not letting g us change that Every year it says a instead of I. So o that's a minor thing. So we. Well, I'll let. I think Miss Shandy has some things she wants to talk about guidelines. But basically we are looking at just making sure there are some guidelines we currently have putting them
m in policy instead, just so we're all a little clearer the whole public, the board about certain things. We are cognizant of discussing material disruptions for r instance, if you can't hear us, the next speaker being called. That would be a disruption to our board meeting being conducted effectively. So we're looking at just addressing those types of things if my microphone had
d been working, I may have called a point of order on the last one because we couldn't hear me, but my microphone wasn't working so o let's see what else we are. Looking at. Should this revision be approved tonight? We are looking at if any disruption if we have to o recess the meeting for anything could be a natural disaster it t could be a massive disruption. We would recess the
meeting until the following day and so I just want the public to know that if that happened, we hope not. That there would be two options you could if we we had to recess the meeting before public comments. Finished. You could either come to the meeting the next day and still give your comments verbally to us or if you're unable or unwilling g to attend the continuation of the meeting, then you can submit your comments in written format
to be recorded in the public What's the word? I'm looking for? Minutes Thank you. I want to say comments again and that was not correct. What else? Board, would you like to offer for discussion? I know from going up to our state legislative bodies and having the honor of sitting on the floor on both the House floor and the Senate floor and experiencing what that is like they y are very strict. In their decorum and
their expectation of how you behave. This includes clapping. I mean Superintendent t Haber and I were just at the Senate floor. We literally got a postcard that spelled out for us. Now clapping. No cheering like 5 or 6 things and. I think that there's such an excellent example for us to look at. At elected politicians there to do work. For our for our state in
n similar fashion, elected politicians, we are here to do work for our district and for our students and we e have every right to dictate the decorum in our meetings and clapping being one of those the Senate te does it restrict it the House of I think it's just a great example for us to follow to hold ourselves to a high sense of how we're going to behave in our boardrooms and during
our board meetings. Thank you, do we have any other comments? Yeah, we, I think Amy's right. We do have a right and responsibility to dictate to decorum in our meetings the behavior that we e see here would get a person walked out of the state Capitol. I don't know if we want to go that far. We don't want to do that, but this is our meeting It's the board's meeting that the public is invited and allowed to attend, and rightfully so, should be allowed to attend. Should be allowed to speak. But conducting the meeting in a manner
that is civil. And in accordance with a set of decorum and rules that we have established isn't unreasonable. It isn't unreasonable, but all I don't want to see anybody removed from this room. I don't want to see anybody silenced. And the last thing I personally want to do is turn this into the Jerry Springer show ever. I don't want to see that here. If you want to come and be critical of me and a lot of people do, or if Amy or of any of us, that's perfectly fine. But doing so within the framework of the rules and decorum standards that we have set isn't unreasonable
in my opinion. Roll call, please, Mr Wilburn, Mr r. Chandy, Missus Kahns. Item C We need a motion to reject. Excuse me. We need a motion to reject the request for corrective action on resolution 18525 Formal complaint. Moved second discussion I will begin. Heard the complaint item number r one. No executive session deliberations occurred
whatsoever when we e cleared the room, the board's efforts to restore order. Were lawful and content neutral especially y looking over the span of time as we have monitored public comments over many board meetings. The meeting was adjourned properly. I actually after Mr Salt said his final thing in the microphone, I turned to him and said please e adjourn the meeting and he said this meeting was adjourned. And then public comment rules were
enforced uniformly. So we have the motion already to deny acting upon this complaint. Any other comments board? No I agree with your statements. Hey, roll call, please, Mr Wilburn Mrs. Shandy, Missus Kahns. We are. On to public comment section number Belcher, how many people have signed up to speak during g public comment Section 2? We have 12 speakers. The board acting president will recognize
each speaker and consistent with GP 4.04 comments will be curtailed if remarks or behavior becomes inappropriate e, the Board President may interrupt, WARN or r terminate a speaker's statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district. Inappropriate for K through 12 students, or disruptive to an orderly, civil and nd productive meeting. Thank you for your cooperation. First speaker is Allie Johnson, followed by Jenny Diedrich. Hi, I'm Allie. I teach and I run the business career
Academy and I've been at this podium actually several times and mostly to celebrate the greatness that happens at AIR Academy and in D20. And tonight I'm here with my amazing staff to do exactly y the same thing. As a business teacher, I teach my students what it takes to run a successful organization, and a theme comes up often right strong g leadership. Most successful leaders will argue hat mentoring, talent retention, and succession planning are key to maintaining stability in an organization and when you feel feel secure and stable, you can operate from a growth mindset.
But of course, when you're living in fear of what's to come, your growth is stagnant. So we've been lucky at Air Academy to have great examples of strong leadership in our admin team and of course after Dan's s announcement, many of us felt a little unsettled, a little unstable, but know that ultimately that our next leader will carry on those Kdet traditions and move us forward into these next really exciting challenges So we at Air Academy have been a shining example for many years. You've invited us many times. We owe that success to our leadership team who recognizes our talent.
And then they just let us do our work. They remove barriers and they have tough conversations so that we can focus on educating. So if you'd like that important work to continue, I please recognize the highly qualified talent in our admin team and let them do the work. This ask of you really comes from a talent retention concern I am painfully aware of our talent retention problem here in D20. Some of our best leaders like Dan and Lindsay Keller and Nathan Gorshin have left for neighboring school districts in our city, and we need to have the conversation about what?
We're doing to retain our talent, so please consider reconsider your decision and allow Sean Whitson and Anna Kyleman and Liz Walhoff to interview for the position of principal so we can get back to stability and growth. You have a great opportunity here to listen to your team 1 and demonstrate that our people our homegrown internal talent, truly are at the heart of our success. Thank you very much for your time. Our next speaker is Jenny Dietrich, followed by y Veronica Baker. Good evening members of the school board, administration and community. My y name is Jenny Dietrich, and I'm here today to address a matter of great concern regarding
the hiring process for the Air Academy High School principal position Transparency, fairness and trust are cornerstones of any y successful institution, and it is with these values in mind that I bring this issue to your attention. Recently, the principal position was announced d and three of our current assistant principals dedicated qualified, award-winning and deeply invested in in our school community. Applied for the rule, however, just two business days before interviews were set to begin, the job announcement was revoked and reposted with new requirements. These criteria
specifically the mandate of three to five years of principal experience e, effectively disqualify our assistant principals from consideration this s sudden change raises serious questions about the fairness and integrity of the hiring process. It is difficult to ignore the appearance that these e changes were made to deliberately exclude internal candidates. Who have proven their commitment to air Academy high school these e individuals have years of experience in leadership roles, a deep understanding of our school's climate and culture, and the respect of f students, staff and parents to disqualify them
m based on a technicality that was not originally part of the job description feels unjust and undermines the trust that we should d be able to place in this board, but definitely cannot since every member has committed shady, unethical, and in Derek's case e, illegal transgressions. I urge the board to reconsider this decision and ensure that the hiring process is transparent, equitable, and inclusive. Our district deserves leaders who are chosen based on their qualifications, dedication and ability to to serve our community, not excluded by arbitrary criteria
ntroduced at the last minute. Let us prioritize fairness and give all qualified candidates, including our current nt assistant principals, the opportunity to compete for this vital role. In addition, I will not be gaslit into thinking that last month's meeting was adjourned. Our next speaker is Veronica Baker, followed by Nate Lewis. Hi there, to quote Smoking the Bandit, I've got a long ways to go and a short time to get there. Let's go Many parents of f special education students have been concerned about changes with their staff rumblings about allocation changes shifting from a school
decision to an administration decision are troubling taking tonomy away from principals in their schools make staff and and parents upset. We understand that District 20 has many student needs, but it's confusing to see specifically robust resource programs being stripped of the much needed. Educators and case managers, I've spoken to many in the community who wonder why we are so ready to cut lower level desk side supports when we are keeping upper level costly administrative e positions, especially when parents routinely complain about
receiving conflicting or erroneous answers regarding policies from these same administrators. Another issue that I've spoken about before, but it still remains a problem, is that students qualifying for speech services are receiving their minutes remotely. The previous D20 director and special education compliance Matt Mantoya reported that research showed Zoom speech services were ineffective. It's confusing then to see that we are supporting this form of therapy when we have determined it to be
inappropriate. With Zoom speech services, we are paying more due to the contractor fee, and we are getting less. D20 is utilizing an approach that they have already deemed ineffective. And is lacking an educational benefit my y final concern regards the principal job listing for Air Academy Dan n Olson has done a tremendous job creating an inclusive environment for students in the special education program for my son a new and incoming sophomore in the AN program he has been welcomed into o the culture of Air Academy so warmly. AP Anna Kyleman
contributed significantly to the success of this transition. She answered my phone calls over the summer, met with us before school started, and was s an active participant in our IP meeting. Thank you, Miss Baker. Our next speaker is Nate Lewis, followed by Elizabeth Clay Del Rio. This meeting will come to order is
s there any unfinished business? OK. We will move on to the continuation of public comment section #2 Mr Belcher in Just t a moment, will you please begin to announce the individual signed up p to speak? The board president will recognize each speaker and consistent with GP 4.04, comments will be curtailed if remarks or behavior becomes inappropriate e, the Board President may interrupt, warn or terminate a speaker's s statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district and
d appropriate for K through 12 students or disruptive to AN orderly, civil, and productive meeting. I also ant to just say if you run out of. Your speaking time, the two minutes tonight or any future board meeting? You're always invited to email your full comments to us It helps us get to hear you out and if any issues ever arise out there in the seat, please address them in a non disruptive e manner in the hallway with a member of our security team and they'll be happy to help you so
o thank you for your cooperation, Mr Belcher. All right, we're going to resume our speaking section with Nate Lewis and followed by by Elizabeth Clay Del Rio. Nate. And please begin from the beginning if you want. Let me come back and let us come back to express how we've been feeling. It does show you guys care about it just a little bit. So I'm speaking today as both a former student and current staff member at Air Academy High School on behalf of a community that believes in fairness transparency, and leadership development. We are here because the requirement change has made that prevents our three assistant principals who have dedicated years of service to our Air Academy for me being considered for the principal
pal position, this is not just unfair, is a logical, inconsistent and damaging to our school community. The question that needs to be answered is s simple. Why was this change made? Is there a preferred candidate n mind for the job? Do you not have trust in our APS? We can only speculate these thoughts since we haven't had any insight to why this decision was made in the 1st place. But one thing is clear, it seems that we were the only school in D20 currently who has this new requirement. A review of district job postings like I showed yesterday shows that we are the only school currently who has this requirement. If this new
w requirement is truly in the best interest of district, why is it not being applied consistently? What makes their Academy different t? Selectively enforcing a rule that limits opportunities for more than qualified candidates raises serious concerns about transparency and fairness since its hiring process. The new requirement states that to become a principal, a candidate must have already been a principal for at least three to five years. To most of us, that logic is deeply flawed. Every principal started somewhere by enforcing this s requirement, you were creating a dead end for future leaders within our own school. How does that benefit our school? How does that encourage leadership growth in District 20 and most t importantly, what message does that send to our students
We teach them that if they work hard, gain experience, improve themselves, they will have opportunities to grow. But this decision contradicts that lesson. It tells students that no matter how hard they work, the system can still be unfair. It tells them that decisions are made. Behind closed doors, not through merit. That kind of message discourages students and damages their trust and leadership. Let me be clear, Air Academy is not opposed to new leadership. None of us here are against that We are not asking for favoritism. We are asking for fair and open hiring process We're all qualified candidates, including our assistant principals, are given an opportunity to prove themselves that they can do this job, not through restrictive rule that only benefits certain
applicants. In closing, I encourage you to reflect on this decision. It is unjust. It is Thank you, Mr. Lewis. Next speaker is Elizabeth Clay Del Rio, followed by Catherine Gale. Thank you. Hello, is this on? It's on. OK. Hi I'm Elizabeth. I'm 23. I'm a college student. I care very deeply for the students of this district and all the people that come together on their behalf and the way that I want to show that care for me e personally is just for praying for the meeting. Father Khan, thank you for the stay, for every single day that you've given us. I just wanna pray over this
place, over these board meetings, God, that you would make this a place of goodwill. God, there's so much division in this day and age and at the end of the day y, we're still all here for a common reason, which is for these kids, God, because we all care about and we love these kids and the people that come together to support these kids. So I just pray that you would help this to be a place of goodwill amongst men, between the board and the public, between the public themselves. Just of open communication
and the ability to see the humanity in the other side, even if they don't share your viewpoints. Because at the end of the day every single person here, everybody under the sound of my voice and everybody is deserving of respect simply y by the fact that you are alive and you are here today. We all have stories. We all have many, many things that we've lived through. And that's culminated in a many different viewpoints in each of s. But. We each were born. We have. Life breath in US, and I think that's deserving of respect on all
sides. So thank you for this. Thank you for hearing us in Jesus name. I pray and give much thanks. Our next speaker is Catherine Gale, followed by Richard Brown. Good afternoon. I'm Kat Gale, AD Twenty parent, AD 20, taxpayer and a scholar of the 1st Amendment at the e February meeting, I branched out and spoke about the 14th Amendment and due process m dismayed that this board is attempting to hold itself above the law while hile simultaneously trampoline on our constitutional rights in In order for a regulation to be legal, it must be applied impartially
and with equal application to all. I'm going to branch out a little bit with the principal My son was originally at Air Academy High School. We've loved Dan Olson and we also know that there e is a unique set of qualifications for working on a military installation. Dan Olson brought millions of dollars to our district with the help and support of his team of APS One year ago, the principal of the village stepped down.
Who replaced him? The assistant principal. For due process, for equal protection for r transparency and justice, there is absolutely no reason that these credentials and standards should change. It would be logical, beneficial and d fiscally responsible to have an experienced AP who knows the particular needs of a school and the faculty located on a military installation. I'd also want like to address Aaron Salt who already had a conflict of interest in his dual
roles of school board president, PPLD board member and the COO of Woodland Park, but he took that to the next level when he became the acting Superintendent of Woodland We have competition between school districts for state and federal funding since people here like the Bible so much. Matthew 6 24. No man shall serve 2 masters. James 18. Such a person is double minded and d unstable in all that they. Thank you Miss Gayle.
Our next speaker is Richard Brown, followed by Brett Dayberry. Richard Brown, are you in the room? Our next speaker is Brett Dayberry, followed by Tim Hoffman. I want to start out by thanking Amy and Derek. For all the efforts you've done towards doing what's right for the parents and kids of D20 unfortunately the list your viewer accomplishments is shorter than it should be because you have to deal with the other 3 three board members these members ran on on conservative platforms. That is why these three members were originally elected or appointed these
three members are Aaron Salt, Lauren Yanez, and Nicole Cons. They effectively kept 3 extremely vile. Books in the libraries? How vile are they? Vile enough to get you thrown out of a board meeting by trying to read from them, but apparently according to the same 3 board members, they're perfectly fine for your kids to read. On another topic, these same 3 board members cause language in the ACA to read
Do not require parental approval. D11 and D49 among others. Got this done to require parental approval but not D 20 because we have Aaron, Lauren and Nicole on our board. I mention all this again because there is AD 20 board election later this year. The three seats that are open and available are these same 3 individual seats we as a district need to continue to vet quality candidates
to replace. These three, excuse me. Board members this district cannot afford to have Aaron, Lauren and Nicole re-elected to this board. It's time that we as a community provide Amy and Derek with fellow board members who will enable this board to do what is right for the students and for the parents of this district Our next speaker is Tim Hoffman, followed by Megan Gaiki. First off, I want to say thank you to Rich Payne and his team. Situations like
last night escalate quickly and I appreciate the efforts not only last night, but their willingness to communicate at length with my family today. Thank you. I work in the production field. My entire career has been in production web, digital, music, print, film, all production We have a saying in that space that says trash in, trash out. What that means is when you can expect to get a final product that's no better than the resources you bring to the table. And the same goes for these meetings. As long as certain individuals on this board continue to rally support from the same pool of narrow minded, hateful, vindictive, angry and largely incomprehensible individuals. You'll continue to see results like the debacle last night. I've seen it here
repeatedly. I've seen it in D49 repeatedly with some of the same players. I've seen it online repeatedly. I even saw it at the Colorado Springs City Council meeting when the same group of Golden Calf loyalists showed up to defame me in public. Trash in, trash out And let's talk about the quorum for a second. It's wildly comical and fully embarrassing to listen to a particular board member. Ramble on about the quorum in this space when said board member has time and time again displayed the absolute lack of scruples, morals, maturity and decorum. And bored. Clapping. That's the hill you want to die on you
u guys have so much you could work to improve upon communication for example it it shouldn't take 21 days and three prodding emails for a parent to receive a one line non answer from the board secretary or Or how about working towards stopping the lies and the gaslighting in an attempt to make things look perfect from your end? Policy adherence conduct on becoming a board member er, etcetera. But clapping? Come on. And I know there's a new sheriff in town, as we were so eloquently and ridiculously reminded last month. But you still represent all the parents in this district, not just the ones who voted for you Look, I raised three kids. I know toddler behavior when I see
it. I hereby put all of you in time out. No more screen time. No more friends houses. No more sports are hanging out. No more board meetings until you can come out here and act like adults. Thank you Our next speaker is Megan Key, followed by Emily Vonachen. Fagan Gatekeep, Mama 311-D20 military family I wanted to start off by thanking our security team for all the work they have done at our school this week at Encompass Heights elementary School I also wanted to thank k our school administration and principal for taking our situation seriously and
doing their best to ensure all our kids are safe. I love our school, they work really hard to be welcoming and kind to all the kids. My kids love giving fist pumps to the wonderful Mr Pace and officer r JJ is a local celebrity. Luckily, the kids have only noticed some cool new cop cars around the school. I want to speak on the fear many parents at our school are feeling with the individual who doesn't seem to understand when a meme slaps or when it's a threat. This individual has been threatening lawsuits against parent groups, neighbors, Lifetime fitness
and other individuals. Many parents have expressed they don't want to o volunteer in our parent groups because of this person's explosive behavior. A lot of their complaints are beyond anyone's ability to even address. For example, they have time and time again ask the PTA to build a fence around a school which we're not allowed ed to just do so. This past month we've seen major escalation and it's becoming really frightening. A lot of we want something done We've had this person for three years showing the erratic
behavior. We want to be able to walk our kids to school without being afraid. We want to plan events without worrying about what asinine thing may set this person off. We want our teachers to feel safe and to be able to focus on their entire class without the looming doom of dealing with someone who is frankly frightening and is constantly asking for things that are unreasonable. We'd like to not have those parent volunteer in the school anymore and not be allowed to go on field trips, and a lot of parents would like for them not to be able to even step on school property so.
Our final speaker is Emily Vonageen. Emily, are you in the room? That's the end of our speakers. Thank you all for coming back today and sharing with us. For our debrief, Superintendent Haber, do you have any clarifications or next steps? I do not. Board was our business last evening and today focused on activities that promote and honor our mission statement, our belief statements and our global end d statement that reminds us all that all students will have the knowledge, skills and character necessary for successful transition to
the next level and upon graduation will be fully prepared for success. Did the board hear information that would require the review or revision of a policy? Did the board hear information that would require a new policy? And did the board hear information that the board would like to include on a future agenda? Do we have a number of How many are on live stream miss s Brookman? 33131 people are viewing with us today. There is no executive session this evening. This meeting is adjourned.