Should start hearing. Wait for him to bring the the high sign. All right, this meeting is called to order Quiet, please. Alright, Mrs. Ruckman, roll call, please. Mrs. Konz here. Mrs. Shandy here. Mr. Wilburn here My God. Here. Mrs. Shandy, here. Mr. Salt here. Thank you. Tonight's Pledge of Allegiance will be led by
Kennedy from Village Middle School. If you all please stand. I pledge allegiance. To the Thank you. Tonight we have Antelope Trails Elementary School and Village Middle School here for our Board spotlight if you all could stay after you are done until after our Superintendent's update we'd love to take some pictures and we have a special gift for you Antelope Trails Elementary school is an IB school that provides innovative, targeted, and differentiated learning opportunities for a diverse population of students. Winner of the John Irwin Award and the Governor's Award with outstanding growth and achievement scores for 20/20
An innovative multi tiered system of support is in place including a flood model highly developed PLC program IB primary years program, whole school enrichment through our innovative inquiry lab program, STEAM learning and much more. So please welcome Principal Laura Cresap from Antelope Trails Elementary School. Team lab coach. She has about 6 out of 50 wears This is Lindsay Illsley and at Antelope Trails one of our tenants is going to ensure high levels of learning for all and when we try to do that, when we strive to
do that, it does take all of us so So we have a lot of reciprocal accountability with each other We have a lot of leadership in our building and Mrs. Milan and Mrs. Ilsley are two of those leaders And so we brought our children with us virtually tonight and you'll see. On the slide. So without further ado, go right ahead. All right. So we this I need to go both ways We are talking to you tonight a little bit about how having instructional coaches in leadership roles in
buildings can really make a huge impact on not only student achievement and growth, but also on the community. And the sense of community and we have some a lot of data and great things to show you. We have some sights and sounds of this work in action that you'll see through some videos, little snippets of kids at work, you'll see. Incredibly high levels of engagement, you'll see transdisciplinary learning. And so we'll be going pretty quickly through quite a few slides for you. All right, so Lindsey and I are fortunate enough to work very
closely together and as a team, our goal and our mission is to provide standard based instructional support. So everything that we do as a team, we are trying to support teachers to meet those standards. We also approach everything with a multi sensory approach as well as transdisciplinary learning. So dipping into as many subjects and content areas as we can to make it as enrichment as as enriching as possible. We also believe in enriching and challenging all students no matter where they're at. And also at the same time developing their social and emotional growth. All right, so part of one of the things that
we are really looking out for is making sure that we are giving as much access as possible in as many ways for many, many things. That's everything from making sure that students have one to one technology and we actually are two to one for staff. Our staff all have an iPad and a laptop as they both offer really different things. One of the things that I manage is making that happen financially and we've done pretty well with it. I'm not going to read every bullet on the slide, but just some other things to keep in mind are one of the other things we do is really model for How they can support learners who might need an extension or might
need some additional supports and that can also be things like multi language learning part of the resources that we used to do that, not just technology but also a fully stocked Steam lab with lots. Very very robust and high quality library collection. We spent a lot of time making sure that the books our students have access to will help them in their learning and in their social emotional growth. I'm also the accessibility ambassador for our building. Each school is going to have one now and yeah, it's me, but that makes a lot of sense with my role. Lindsay and I are also kind of antelope trails communication
department and so we ensure that we are reaching out to our community and keeping them informed with what we're doing with their students while they're here with us We're in charge of our Facebook and our Instagram. We're bringing on Parent Square. We also send home newsletters and handouts. We also are part of the Choice Night team for our school. Alright, and again, I promise not to read every bullet point but this gives you a sense of the intensity of collaboration that we do throughout the building, again in the community both she and I attend many, many regional and district level meetings as
well. And again, having us in those leadership roles and then bringing that at back to our building is incredibly valuable. We also provide professional development not only for our grade level teams, but our entire school and the district as well. And so we are very involved in building the capacity of our To support our students, Yep, I've let everything from district librarian presentations and trainings for our staff across the region we also do that with technology. We're doing it tomorrow for IB we definitely spend a lot of time reaching out to our
peers and again, that just makes our building stronger when we have that time and energy to connect. In addition, our role is really to help build the culture in our community, and this is beyond this is our parents. Our volunteers and our kids and there are events that we do that with. There are volunteer organizations that we do. We have our hand in every continuation ceremony, every special event. We have international events such as World Day. So yeah, again, we're busy, but it
it's not to say this is all the wonderful stuff we're doing. It's that it makes sense to have leaders in your building Who are also instructional coaches. It provides power to the building and it gives a chance for mentors to be in place for actual instruction, and that's what we're going to get into in a second. And so, like Lindsey said, we firmly believe in collaboration and modeling for teachers differentiating for students whether that's enrichment or ensuring that students are filling in gaps and getting the learning that they need. Well, at the same time, we're also making sure that there's depth and complexity for all students and that our
learning is held to a rigorous level that they can also achieve and depth and complexity can be challenging for classroom teachers to get their heads around sometimes. And so we find great joy in finding those ways for them. To have that kind of support, one of the ways we do that is through a program called Inquiry Lab. It meets every other week We are the teachers on record for this program, but we do it in a way that directly supports standards that teachers are needing some assistance with. And so we're going to show you a little bit about that it might look like
STEAM learning. It always looks like hands on learning It's supportive of the IB. Learner profile and a lot of what we do is also building background knowledge and vocabulary for students. And I can give you a quick example on this. We did a massive transdisciplinary miniature golf unit. We did math, writing, all kinds of stuff in this unit, but half the kids in the room had never played before, which is surprising, I think, to most of us. So one of the things we're doing is building that background knowledge and making sure that they know what that is so that then they can do something
really cool with it. All right, now's the fun part. This is one of our teachers who's gonna talk to you a little bit more about how we we support her. Study that we had coming up in the classroom and we'll kind of look and see where we might be lacking and classroom movement we're not out of time and so we'll kind of let them know. And so they've been great about supporting us that way. So for example, we're doing a science unit right now are talking about weathering and erosion and so they kind of helped pre teach that and did
amazing. Virtual Reality Day with them where they got to go and kind of learn about that. So then when they came to the classroom, they the kids were. A lot more knowledgeable than they would have been have they not had that had that experience. That's just one example, but they just kind of work to support us and just are always asking what do we need or what do we feel like we need help teaching. So whether it's weathering erosion there's been some math units that they've done where they've helped with time and geometry.
And then there's been a renewable and non renewable resources one time that we were kind of realized that we've gotten through our unit and. Right out of time to teach that aspect so they jumped right in and were super eager to help our kids with that with that concept. Not sure. OK, no subject is off limits for a library and I'm gonna tell you that right now. We teach anything, and IB is intended to be transdisciplinary, and so we make sure that we're really hitting all subjects. You're gonna get a quick peek in some of those right now. All right, so that was a quick robotics lesson
incorporating skip counting and as well as the engineering design process. Oh, this is hard 'cause I can't do this part I'm sorry, I have to wait. All right, this particular lesson you're looking at right here, we actually this is an arts integrated lesson where students were learning to identify geometric shapes by their attributes and they recreated the painting by Paul Clay the famous artist called Castle and Sun, and they learned about the art, they analyzed the art they recreated
it with shapes that you see here and then they graphed how many of each shape that they used in their in their drawing because they also drew it. So that multi steps bringing in multiple standards at a time. This is now kitted and modeled for the teachers so that the hope is that next year they'll do this on their own without us. And you can see them graphing here. Thank God. Rectangle. Blonde short lines? No that short. It's pretty cool or angular, OK. We made a rectangle
OK, yeah, just another example of how we're incorporating physical education in with our learning too. So like I said, there is no subject off limits. All right, you want to do this one. For this one, we had students who were retelling a story that we read as a group. So the students had a code A a robot, as little as I think 1st and 2nd graders to retell the sequence of the story and move it around a map, which was really cool. Here they're using finger puppets to retell a story. So continuing on with elements of plot and as you can see, they're having a great time. Super cute. And go ahead. This is another one where they
coded their retail of a story and the robot would be programmed to stop so then they would say a sentence of what happened with that picture throughout the story. Yeah, and hopefully you can see the joy and engagement as they're doing these hands on activities that is also kitted for teachers now. So again, we model it we share it. This is an example of learning library and information science skills the students have to learn how to use the Dewey Decimal system in order to find nonfiction for their research. And then they have to complete a collaborative breakout activity
to demonstrate their knowledge. It's one of the ways that we assess as well. All right, so I said science and engineering, and this is a science lesson, but it's also a writing lesson and also an art lesson and also a few other things. Do you want to explain or do you want to OK with this one? Students got to create a dye where they were looking at attributes of animals and they would roll the dye to create a new silly creature which they would draw. And then they took that piece to school or took their class and wrote about that creature and their features And this is an example of a direct.
Collaboration with classroom teachers. They said, hey, we need to work more on writing this year. Do you have ideas? And we said yes we do. And we started the he activity but then again coached and mentored the class into taking it it on. And so the teachers took it from there. We always have a public display so that the rest of the building can also see those collaborations at work and it was great. Why are you going sideways? I love that they're using those directional terms. That's a standard too. Woohoo that wasn't even intentional. But this is a circuitry lesson, so.
Here you're seeing engineering at work. They are also learning about 3 dimensional shapes. All right, they were building snow plows here They were trying to figure out. So we're trying to build some real world application too when they're doing some of the robotics and engineering. They were asked to design A functioning snow plow. We often use our green screen at school and so you can see here that we were doing a season unit with kindergarten and so we filmed them talking about their favorite season and then put that season behind them and then shared it out with their families and then then on the left, you'll see we use VR every year, virtual reality
goggles that we borrow from the district, and so we use that to support their standards as well. And there's some vertical alignment here too, because we support this with kindergarten. But by the time they're in fifth grade, they're making their own green screen videos. So we do have a pathway for that as well. It's one of my favorites. So in this you're seeing a a geography lesson. There's a giant map on the ground, the kids have to program the robot to launch a ball when the ball lands in a certain geographic region, they have to do some writing and identification on another map.
To try to figure that out, and it actually varies. So for 3rd grade standards, it's states surrounding Colorado for 4th grade standards it's features of Colorado. And so it kind of expands and grows with time and again my job yes, the robots are fun, but they also provide tense focus. So when you have a student playing with a robot and and aiming for something, what the sneaky thing the teacher is doing is getting them to look at it over and over and over again
and write it down. And that helps with retention, so. Actually seen some incredible results with retention with some of this where we've done pre and post assessments and students retain for, I mean we've seen them retain for three years years or more. So it's pretty neat. OK, these are kindergartners that are doing that, but actually in 3rd grade they start to use this to try to track a life cycle so So they're using those that pattern, but as you can as you can see, the littles are super cute when they're having fun with it. And Lee, why do you like iry labs so much?
I didn't have to talk about retention now. He didn't fail me. All right, now here's what we are excited to share with you So we know this works, but what's really cool is we actually have some results that demonstrate it. I like to make a joke that if you look at our data and we're going to show you in a minute the year that Tia and I were put in our positions is when we started to see an upward trajectory. I'm sure it had nothing to do with anything else that Laura and Gretchen did. No a lot of thing. A lot of changes were put into place at that time. But we do have a
part to play in that, in all seriousness, and we do have some demonstration that. And so as you, I was hired and as put in her position in 2019. I really started ramping up in 2020 and so we two years later we're winning award award, award. We now have another award I have actually this to me is the most meaningful my staff nominated me for certified teacher of the year last year, so that that's when you know you've done a good job, right
We've been awarded multiple grants that support these programs. And then we're also seeing this kind of exciting new thing where we're being reviewed out there on the Internet. On these sites, people use when they're choosing schools, School digger, niche grade schools we're seeing about a year ago we were not seeing these amazing things. Now we are and we're gonna show you. So here's just some of our data. This is our dibbles achievement. And yet you can see it starts in 2020. Dibbles is reading assessment and this is looking at percents of students
that are at or above benchmark. And as you can see that awesome. Upward growth that we want to see. Starting in 2020 and the same for math that we have our CMS math data of students meets or exceeds as well as our map growth beginning to end of the year for K through 5, this awesome upward trajectory of how we're supporting teachers with making sure that we're teaching all the standards that need to be taught. All right. And as I said the community is also noticing so I won't read all the details, but in this
particular review, this the family rated five stars in all categories and specifically called out the Steam programming, the library programming the high levels of learning, personalized learning and differentiation. So I thought that was kind of cool to see that out there. We all know a good review is like the best, and here's another one. So this one also references our talented and gifted programming. We haven't mentioned this yet, but we actually work very, very closely with our tag teacher. She's part of our team Enrichment and extension is definitely a part of what we talk
about quite regularly. This is kind of exciting. Last year we've had a 51% rank change from last year on school digger. So I'm a military spouse My husband served for 21 years and is retired. Hallelujah And when I look at when I moved, this is the first site I went to. So having that kind of increase in just one one year even is awesome. We also have an A minus rating on the show 3 different sites that do these things differently. But all of them are speaking very positively to the work that
we're doing in this particularly calls out IB and what a powerful thing the international Baccalaureate program is. So I want to show you guys that as well. Right. I think that's all we have. Thank you everybody for your time. Thank you, audience again, we believe very strongly that having the instructional coaches in place, that's not a guarantee. It's a site based decision. So having instructional coaches in place we have proven to be. Very successful and hopefully we'll be at a place
where all our schools can do the same. Thank you. Thank you so much. It's really exciting to see the work you're doing there Next is Village Middle School. Mr. Wilburn. At excuse me, at Village Middle School, you will not find traditional classrooms with rows of desks. The learning space. The Hub has a variety of seating available for students, including tall tables and chairs individual chairs with attached desks, soft seating and bean bags. Village Middle School offers unique Explore classes such as food trucks, pickle ball and cosmetology events such
as school dances and talent shows are planned and facilitated by the students. And let me just add, I love this I I love any learning model that moves outside of everybody. Open to chapter 4 and is engaging students and critical thinking skills and developing left and right brain. This is phenomenal work Please welcome to the podium, Ash Angiollo. You got my name right. Thank you. Mr Wilborn. Ash Angiollo principal at Village Middle School. I have a couple core beliefs. One of our guiding principles is that middle
schoolers are the most underestimated humans ever, and I think they're capable of a whole lot. And so when they bring an idea to you, start with yes, they'll go further than you could have ever imagined. So with us tonight, I'm gonna let Caitlin introduce the kiddos. But Caitlin is. Shears a lot of hats. She is a special education teacher with us. She's an academic support teacher, she's a mentor she leads explorers it goes on and on and I'm I'm gonna let her come up with some kiddos and talk about and explore that
they've started. That's pretty amazing. Hi, I'm Caitlin Miller, my official titles are Academic support Teacher and Special Education Teacher at Village Middle School and I have 5 wonderful young ladies with me they'll go around and introduce themselves super quick I'm I'm Carly and I'm in 8th grade. I'm Kennedy and I'm in 8th grade. I'm Emmy and I'm in 8th grade. I'm Bree and I'm in 7th grade. I'm Ellie and I'm in 7th grade. I am excited to share the impact of Helping Hands. It's an elective at Village Middle School. Designed to inspire the next generation of educators and
caregivers. We know that we need more educators, and while there's a teacher conduct program at the high school level, there has not been an opportunity for middle school students to explore teaching and child care until now. Miss Miller created Helping Hints to give students an early introduction into these fields, allowing us to develop leadership skills while serving at Legacy Peak Elementary. Students volunteer in the classrooms lunchroom and recess, getting hands on experiences and working with child children. We also have an opportunity to earn Red Cross certifications
and babysitting. First aid and CPR, valuable skills that prepare us for future roles in childcare and education by engaging in meaningful service and professional skill building students are not only making a difference today, but are also shaping their futures as potential educators and caregivers. Students in the program will not share their testimonials from teachers describing the impact on that Helping Hands has on the students and staff at Legacy Peak. This is a testimonial from Mrs Weich 1/3
third grade teacher. I am so grateful for the incredible help. Ellie and Etica have provided in my classroom. They are both extremely helpful and always going above and beyond with their tasks ranging from filing papers to answering student questions. Their positive energy and dedication makes an invaluable assets to our classroom my students love having Ellie and Etica around. They not only make our classroom run smoothly, but they also create a welcoming and supportive environment for everyone. I truly appreciate their hard work and enthusiasm. This is a testimonial from Miss Johnson, who's the TAG teacher at Legacy.
Each Wednesday, Legacy Peak first graders walk into the cafeteria with excitement of anticipation on their faces They know it's the day they can count on the company of helping hands. The middle schoolers look for any opportunity to help. Opening milk boxes, being a listening ear for a child, having a tough day, wiping tables. Being a friend to someone who is lonely or felicitating a game at recess. Their influence has brought countless positive changes to the lives of our students. It's due for a third grade, Teacher said Carly is an exceptional role model and a true asset to
to our school community. Her dedication to supporting our third grade students during math stations, especially in learning fractions, has made a meaningful impact she approaches each session n with patients and enthusiasm and a positive attitude, making learning both engaging and accessible. The younger students look forward to her visits and her willingness to lend a helping hand. Embodies the spirit of mentorship and
leadership. We are grateful for Carly's contribution and proud to feature her in our Helping Hands Spotlight. Thank you. Thank you. I love the creativity with that and the work that you're doing partnering with Legacy Peak if you ladies can stick around for the picture after the Superintendent update, Mrs. Ruckman are there any updates to the agenda? There were updates to the agenda and the board has been notified of these. Thank you. Members of the board are there any items you wish to move from the consent agenda? Are there any discussion items to be added to the agenda? May we have a motion to approve the agenda with this we have
a motion to approve the agenda moved second roll call, please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr Wilburn, aye. Mrs. Yane, aye. Mr Salt, aye All right. Tonight's board quote is from Mrs. Konz. The ultimate measure of health in any community might well reside in our ability to stand in awe at what folks have to carry, rather than in judgment at how they carry it. Gregory Boyle. Thank you. All right, Next up
our board comments. You're welcome to make comments about anything, but we're also want to make sure that we do our spring leakage debrief during this time. So if you have comments about the linkage from last week go ahead and make those comments at this time too. Mr. President, Mrs. Shandy I thought the student form linkage was really, really valuable. They had great insight. As I always do. It's not necessarily what you think it's gonna be, but it was great. And then the parent linkage as
well was really good. It was challenging for some cause some of we were talking about high school type level stuff and the group I was with were at were elementary parents and so it was really their future that we were talking g about when we were talking about PE waivers and things like that. And so it was. It was a good stretch for them to think through what. What the impacts of our decisions would be but really valuable to see and talk through. So I enjoyed it, so thank you. Mrs. Konz. It was extremely valuable. I even sent an
email to Principal Sanders at Rampart because specifically some of the comments that she shared in our study session helped me rethink some of my positions on what we were looking at just for the community we were looking at PE requirements CTE requirements, core electives, and personal finance possibility. Of those classes and yes, the insight was varied and awesome from all of our different groups and I just commend our
district staff on supporting this work and the timeline. I love the timeline. It's perfect to implement for class of 20 30 when we get through all of our community forums and deliberations, and I was especially pleased to see that, I think. Out of all the districts in the state and area that we looked at, we already have the highest graduation requirements and credits, so I'm proud of D20. The CNS I owe some two teachers, so the teacher conversations were really powerful.
I think it's Mr Catron. Catron at village High School. Is Lindsey here and Mr Powell from Air Academy. We found they had a question about some data and I promise I'm working on it to give it to you, but yeah, they had a lot of really great energy around these requirements and great ideas. Thank you, Mr. Wilburn. My update is of a more personal than a district nature, but I think it's appropriate for those in the room that don't know, and I suspect most people probably do. But if you don't
17 weeks ago today actually, I had to have brain surgery so I've been absent for since October it's went well, I'm pleased to say, and I'm recovering. But for those of you and I saw someone in this room have probably done this. You've been in a doctor's office where you got that news. That you never thought you'd hear. It's tough and mine was go to the emergency room, don't leave the hospital for a very long time type situation. But the outpouring
of love and support and I said this last month and I'll say it again from this dais this community, it's just been tremendous and I and I really appreciate everyone. I've got cards on my desk right now. Hard showing up, Flowers showing up, People helping my wife Renee make me meals, just it's been absolutely it. It's great to be part of a loving community. I ran into a teacher yesterday at the gym My doctor, my surgeon finally cleared me to get back in the gym, which I really needed just for the mental health aspect. I'm lifting with the pink dumbbells now, but at least I'm lifting those
But I ran into a District 20 teacher. I think she's in the room, right now. And. I walk with a decided limp to my gait right now. My brain is recovered but motor skills. Balance. Things like that are still a bit of a challenge. I'll get over that in time, but she noticed me limping and said, Mr. Wilburn, you know what? Is everything all right? Kind of thing and. And so I told her and we talked and she said I just I want you and your family to know that know you're, I really care and for you, I hope you have a full and complete recovery not somebody with whom I have ideological agreement necessarily, but she said
said something very important. She said we have to care about people. When we stopped caring about people, all else is lost. Something we may disagree on this is outside of that. So I just, I hope you you recover and I hope that you go on to live a complete and full life and. I will so just want to thank everybody. Thank you. Going back to the linkages so I was able to attend for all three of them, We had a great conversation here with the board and the high school principals. So thank you to all the high school principals that came. Really appreciated your input through that process.
As Mrs. Konz said, really some valuable insight from some of the principles around CTE requirements, the PE requirements I think it was really beneficial conversation, so looking forward to how this overall progresses towards graduation requirements and making sure that our students are well equipped across the spectrum. And Shane, I just want to thank you. I know you put a lot of work and effort into this. And so I I thought the entire day went really well. And I know that was a long day for you.
A lot of mic time, but I really appreciate the work that you did. It was it was it was done well. So thank you. Mrs. Yanez I know that I mentioned this to you, but I I haven't talked to any of the other board members about it. But the next board meeting I'm gonna be traveling to my son's first of two graduations with the Army. So it's turning green ceremony is actually I travel the day the 13th and then he has that ceremony early 9:00 AM on the the 14th. So I let Mr Salt know that I would not be in physical attendance, but. I'm traveling with four
girls and two Chihuahua puppies and my husband, so if I am someplace where I can call in and everybody's good, then that will happen. I just I actually haven't looked at our flights in a little bit, so I don't even know what time that'll be, but I'll do my best. Thank you. All right. Any other board comments? All right, Mr Smart is out ill this evening, so Ms Allan will be presenting new administrators tonight on his behalf. Ms Allan. I don't have the jokes that you would all say. He always refers to himself as Doctor Smart, so I don't have some of those. But it certainly is my honor. I've had the pleasure
to meet a few of our new candidates and it's just an honor for me to have the chance to introduce them. So our first person is Roy Getchell, and he's being recommended as the principal at High Plains Elementary School now. He currently serves as the Superintendent for. Haynes Borough School District in Alaska he is in Alaska tonight, OK. And so he is not here. I hope he's listening just so that he can hear us honoring him. He has a Bachelor of Science and elementary
education from Missouri southern state University, a Master of Science and elementary guidance and counseling from Missouri State, and he is also a doctor in educational administration and Policy Studies from the University of Denver. Roy has been a 6th grade teacher in Nevada and Missouri. He's been a high school counselor in Missouri IN Fountain, Fort Carson, he served as a fifth grade teacher and assistant principal. He's taught at every level. He actually it's nice to have some friends here
this evening from Antelope Trails because Doctor Getchell used to serve as the Antelope Trails Elementary School principal. From there he went overseas and was a director for the Emirates National Schools in Abu Dhabi. And now, as I said, he's currently on a glacier in Alaska, and I know that he is looking forward to joining us. And I'm just going to read for you what he would have shared if he was here in person. He said I'm deeply honored and excited to be recommended as the next
principal of High Plains Elementary, a place I have always held in high regard. It will be a privilege to work alongside such a dedicated group of staff students parents, and community members as we collaborate to support the children of our district. District 20 has always felt like home and my wife and I are thrilled to return. You can count on me to work tirelessly to help our district fulfill its mission of inspiring each and every student to thrive. I'm eager to learn from and contribute to such a robust learning
community where excellence is the standard for everything we do. I am incredibly grateful for the warm and professional welcome I received from everyone I met last week during the hiring, welcoming, and onboarding process. I look forward to meeting and getting. To know each of you and I cannot thank you enough for this incredible opportunity, please join me in welcoming Dr. Getchell. Next, I'm so pleased to welcome Jeff Giovannone He is being recommended as the Assistant Principal and athletic director at Liberty High School. He is
here with his wife, Brittany. And you may have noticed 2 adorable twins, Jack and Ellie, who are here to cheer Dad on. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education from Coastal Carolina University, a Master of Science in Sports coaching and Education from United States Sports Academy. In Alabama and a Master of Science and Educational Leadership from Western Governors University in Utah Jeff has served in New York. I'm from New Jersey, not too far he
served as a elementary PE teacher in New York. Also a PE teacher at Wide Field High School and he certainly currently now is the athletic director at Wide Field High School So please. Welcome me and recommending Jeff for the position of Assistant. Principal athletic director at Liberty, Sir would you like to share anything, please? Please do. 1st, just wanted to start by thanking everybody here tonight and especially Superintendent Mrs. Haberer
thanking the member of the all the members of the board I want to thank Mr Sisson and the rest of the administration staff at Liberty High School want to thank the Liberty hiring community Committee too as well for giving me this position. I want to thank my family. My wife, as you can see, is God sent She's been playing a zone defense outside for the entire night. So it's been a two on one situation which usually we play man to man at the house, but we're playing
zone tonight and but these guys they're my inspiration, these little guys, you know, big part of me wanting to come to this school district was this is where my little guys are gonna go We live in this community. Extremely just so happy and pleased to be able to teach here, be able to have an impact and and bring value to this community. And I'm just really looking forward to that opportunity looking forward to being APAD at Liberty High School, Mr Sisson has been nothing short of incredible. I'm looking forward to growing our relationship
Thank you for taking care of my kids tonight, too, for the entire night. But you know, this to me feels like home. This is where I live, this community I'm in. I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you guys. A lot better, getting to know the Liberty community better in the entire District 20 community better. Goal Answers. I'm pleased tonight to now introduce Athena Rehorst, who's being recommended as the principal for Timberview Middle School Athena holds a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from the University of Washington in Seattle and a Master of Liberal. Liberal Arts and Education from Regis University
Athena has served at Remington Elementary School in D49 as a fifth grade teacher She was a middle school science, math, technology teacher at Divine Redeemer and also at Carson Middle School. Out in Fort Carson, she served as the MTSS coordinator and Dean at Rampart High School and IS currently the principal at Banning Lewis Prep Academy in District 49. I'm certainly honored to
please to recommend Athena to serve as the Timberview Middle School Principal. Thank you all. It's a pleasure to be here tonight and I'm so excited to start rejoin Academy District 20 at Timberview. It's amazing to me how many people I've worked with over the years Education is such a small world. It feels so large, but it's such a small world in Colorado Springs and so many of the great people that I've worked with have landed in District 20 And I think that there's a reason for that. It's because it's a great
district that supports its teachers and administrators and. And I'm glad to be rejoining it. I am a six through 12 principal right now, but I'm glad to be coming back to my roots in middle school I also agree that middle schoolers are often very underestimated and I love the period of growth that they're going through And I mentioned that education is such a small world I've been telling people that I'm gonna be joining Timberview next year, and so many people have great connections with
Timberview and have said wonderful things about the long term staff that have been there in the support of parents and what a great community it is. So I just feel very honored to be given this opportunity and am excited that it's so early in the year and I'll be able to get in and work with Brian and get to know the teachers and the parents and the students there and to have a good start to the next school year. Now it's my honor to introduce Trisha Anthony who's being recommended as the Chinook Trail Middle School Assistant Principal. Trisha has a Bachelor of
Arts in English Education at the secondary level from CSU in Fort Collins and a Master of Arts in Teaching Humanities from Colorado College. She has served as a 7th and 8th grade ELA teacher at Woodland Park Middle School and at Rampart, also an English language Arts teacher, the AP coordinator, a department chair. And is now currently serving as the interim assistant principal at Chinook Trail Middle School and it's my pleasure to recommend her this evening for the position of Assistant Principal Action of Trail Middle School.
Thank you guys. Thanks to the board, Thank you to the wonderful staff at Chinook. Thank you to my staff at Rampart who raised me and taught me that you can do amazing things. I'm really looking forward to spending some more time with my 6th graders who will eventually become 8th graders. We'll see if we still like them then. We love, I love being at middle school and I love the chance to learn and and grow. So thank you for the recommendation. So you can hear that the owls are in the house and they are going to get involved in the next one too, because I am going to highlight Lexi Cyphers who's being
recommended as the Chinook Trail Middle School assistant principal. She has joined this evening by her husband, Jordan her son Jackson, her mother-in-law Jody, and her father in law, John Lexie has a Bachelor of Science in natural sciences, biology and secondary education, again from Colorado State University in Fort Collins. And a Master of Science in educational leadership from Western Governors University in Utah Lexi served as a high school science teacher in Hayden Co She was the NHS sponsor the head volleyball
coach and Owls get ready already the 8th grade science teacher at Chinook Trail Middle School and the recommended candidate for the assistant principal position at Chinook Trail Middle School Lexi. Thank you so much for having me tonight and I appreciate the recommendation. As she said, I've had a stint in high school, but now I've landed in middle school and really found where my heart beats so I'm so excited to continue my career in the middle school world and really get to do that with my family at Chinook Trail Middle. So thank
you too, the hiring committee and the really amazing staff that Chinook Trail has. And thank you to my family for all the support So thank you. Next, I'd like to introduce Rebecca Kiger She's being recommended as the Woodman Roberts Elementary School assistant principal. She's joined by her husband Nick and her children, Grayson and Addie Rebecca has a Bachelor of Science in Human development and family studies from Colorado State University in Fort Collins and a Master of Education in
Educational Administration from Grand Canyon University. In Y field, she served as an elementary teacher coordinator and teacher on special assignment. Also in wide field at the Haven School served as a Dean of students and assistant principal. And she is currently the interim assistant principal at Woodman Roberts Rebecca, thank you. Thank you board for or having me. Thank you, Superintendent Haber, thank you to the hiring committee I'm really excited for the opportunity to continue to serve the Woodman Roberts community. My kids went to school there. I was a parent there
I live in the neighborhood. It truly is an honor to serve my community. I want to thank my family for supporting me and going through all the. Changes with me. I want to thank the Woodman Roberts staff for embracing me and supporting me. I also want to thank my previous mentors and leaders who have taken me under their wing. Offered encouragement, support and kind of pushed into leadership when it was needed I'm I'm looking forward to continuing to learn and grow and I want to thank you for the opportunity. It's my honor also to congratulate Annette Zook, who is being recommended as the Pioneer
Elementary School principal. She is not here this evening. She has she is supporting her family out of state. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a Bachelor of Arts in political science from K State University and also a Master of Education from Regis University Annette has served as a third grade teacher and a high school math teacher in San Diego. At Timberview Middle School, she was a math teacher, social studies teacher, interventionist and coach. She served as a District 20 math TOSA in
Learning Services in Harrison. She served as AK 12 math instructional coordinator and at Pioneer Elementary School she has served as the assistant principal l and now is the interim principal. And it's my pleasure to recommend her this evening for the position of principal at Pioneer Elementary School. I'd like to go ahead and read her remarks on her behalf since she is not here. She says. I first want to thank Superintendent Haberer and the Board for selecting me as the permanent
principal at Pioneer Elementary School. I am grateful for the continued opportunity to lead our amazing staff, students and community. I appreciate the support and guidance that has been provided by my colleagues and district staff during my time as intern principal, allowing me to grow and learn along the way. I am looking forward to continuing the journey that we at Pioneer have been on. Finally, thank you for allowing me the time to be with my family. So that we could be together as my mom ends her battle with cancer. I always tell my staff that family comes first and I
appreciate that. I feel supported when I have to practice what I preach. Congratulations to Annette. Last but not least, I'd like to honor Jen Richardson. Jen is being recommended for the Owls are again in the house tonight, the principal position at Chinook Trail Middle School. Jen is joined by her husband Marin, her children Titus and Xavier, and her mom Denise. She holds a Bachelor of Science and Chemistry from the Colorado of Mines in Golden and a Master of Education again
from Fort Collins CSU. Jen began her career in District 20 at Mountain Ridge as a 7th and 8th grade science teacher. She served as a High school science teacher in D11 and came back to District 20 to Eagle View Middle School as a. Grade science teacher and then at Chinook Trail she was one of the founding cadre of Challenge or of challenger of Chinook trail Middle school she served as a science teacher, department chair, Dean of students and currently is an assistant principal at Chinook Trail
Middle School. So it's my honor to present Jen for the principalship position at Chinook Trail Middle School. Jen and I think this is a Co is evening. I've gained a Co presenter, he has some things prepared. I would just like to thank everybody really, but there's a few too many people and you actually don't want to get me started on. Talking about how much I love Chinook Trail as I'm sure the interview committee can attest to, it gets located away. But two of my three biggest cheerleaders Thank you to my boys for picking me and
Tom and Sean I don't think I want to relive quite every moment of the last seven years. There's some that maybe I would give back, but thank you for taking me me on the ride. This is going to be a problem. Thank you for taking me on this ride and trusting me now with this crazy place I built. I'm just so proud of what we did and then this crew back here is pretty amazing. Even my kids were sharing their trusted adults 'cause they were doing counseling lessons at the elementary school and my kids listed these
people as their trusted adults, which is really something that is really special. What do you got? He had a special presentation to thank his teacher and Titus's teacher at Chinook Elementary because they're really good. That is what I was gonna say. That's it. So thank you and thanks for giving us a good home. We love it. I have a speech I also want to say about that. Oh, OK Thank you. OK. Bye. Love you. Bye. Thank you, Ms Allan, and if all of you could
please stick around afterwards so we can congratulate you and take pictures once the Superintendent update is complete with that. Superintendent Haberer, Hey, what a great night for celebration. So many amazing administrators joining us and just appreciate the opportunity to celebrate all of you So tonight we also have a really important celebration that I'm very excited about and that was the first week of February was our National School counseling week and we
we truly have amazing, outstanding counselors here in D20. In D20, we're fortunate to have 85. Dedicated school counselors who support our students every day to thrive. This year, our counselors have been really transitioning to the American school counseling model, which is called ASCA to better address our students, academic and college and career readiness This model is really important and I appreciate the way under Julie Hendricks, the leadership as well as a director of of counseling that they're really taking this model on.
Because that model really gives us a well-rounded approach for students it. Focuses on academic achievement, career planning, and personal social well being. And it really prioritizes the individual needs of students, so I know that Julia's here if she'd stand up and we have our some of our outstanding counselors here as well. Could you all stand up so so we can give you a very much deserved round of applause? And if you would stay too, we'd like to catch a picture. And we also have some I have some specific more information to share about our
counselor. So in elementary schools, counselors are using the Galaxy platform to help even at an early age, which is really important to start exploring careers and engage in small group activities and discussion around what might you think about when you, as you say, what do you want to be when you grow up, right I was recently with the workforce Center and they were talking about a company that wants to move into town. And that company said by the time they get set up and everything, they're actually looking at our current 5th graders that they would like to have be potentially interested in their company 'cause
it'll take them that long to set up and they really emphasize e with us the importance of having those career exploration kind of opportunities discussions in elementary. So I was super excited to see that our counselors are already doing that. In middle school, we've also shifted to career and technical education, their CTE offerings in our middle schools career fairs and really preparing our students to be thinking about their strengths. And in high schools, we're certainly working closely with students to ensure that their academic plans
and their achievements really align with some of those goals that they have. Because we know the board in says that we want every student to have that plan for success when they graduate I'm just gonna outline a few successes from our individual schools Discovery Canyon, they have met with 174 seniors who've submitted college applications and met met individually with 243 seniors. To discuss their post secondary plans at Liberty High School, there was 990 total college applications submitted as of February
11th at Rampart. Student saved about $9000 by applying to colleges during Colorado free application days and during Pine Creek High School's annual Camping Out for Colorado which is the same as that free Colorado Application Day. Seniors submitted 987 college applications. 825 in state and 160 out of state and save themselves and their families a total of 35,300 and So just really, really appreciate all
these extra efforts that our counselors are doing with their students every day. And can we just give them one more round of So I've been a busy out in schools and it's just been such a pleasure to see the amazing things that are happy in our schools as well as seeing what some of those challenges are and how we can can continue to really support our teachers in the classroom. So some of the wonderful things that I saw at Legacy Peak Elementary, Mr Dahl, a fifth grade teacher, he's been there for a while and is a real strong believer in project based learning and
he was excited to show me some of the histograms that students were making they had to do a lot of research with this and involved writing and then putting it on a poster which they will be presenting to their whole class at Pioneer Elementary School. I was really excited on On the right there you see a couple of teachers. And what they were doing is they were showing their students what are they thinking about when they put their ideas in writing. And that's such a dynamic and important way of helping students learn how to write
And we saw students using those same kind of techniques when they started, when they broke out of the group and started writing independently Director Cons and I had a wonderful visit at Eagle View, and Principal Jamie Lester was eager to show us the place. Resources that he's using, they came away from the conference last December where we had what I think over 125 / 150 staff members. I was able to go people from EAC, teachers, administrators all of us learning together.
And he said it was a huge boost to just continuing to create that sense of efficacy and teachers really being able to work collaboratively together Director cons, is there anything else you'd like to share about that visit? I know that Mister Lester is not the only principal in our district reaching out beyond the basics of PLCS, but it was just thrilling to hear about his commitment and creativity. To meeting with not only the incoming
elementary school teachers that are coming into his middle school for vertical alignment. Getting on the same page with vocabulary shared vocabulary, that sort of thing, but also then his place at the middle school level meeting with air Academy to make sure they continue that work. So I think it's a great model that he has and I I look forward to all of our strands just continuing like that. Thank you. So I had the wonderful privilege of being at home school Academy where. Principal Keisha Hill and I had a wonderful
opportunity to see our early learners at work just being busy digging and engage with their learning and with teacher Lisa Coltrane, our K1 teacher so lots of energy going around in that room that day Douglas Valley Elementary School, just another example of how the professional development that we all went to in December is impacting our schools. Adrian Murray, the principal there, showed me this is called the 15 Day Challenge. And tomorrow, as part of professional learning, there's
a whole session on this for teachers and principals who want to learn more about it and d what you see on the right there is our teachers collaborating and saying OK, when we go through the professional l learning community cycle, what are we going to teach? How we know that the students learned it? What are we going to do along the way to make sure students are learning along the way? And what kind of interventions are we going to put in place not only for students who still haven't mastered the learning targets, but also. How to extend the learning for students who already have met the standards? But she just said the excitement
she had a brand new teacher that went to the conference and came back and was so excited She got the rest of her team on board with doing this 15 day challenge. And I also saw evidence of it in the classrooms we went to three different classrooms of the same grade level and they were all working on the same standard. But they all were really the art of teaching. They all had fun. In presenting it in different ways, even though they're all teaching the same standard, which was really exciting to see. At the Da Vinci Academy they are panning for gold these are the 4th graders jumping up and down when they found
gold. They were practicing for a presentation that the whole 4th grade was doing on Colorado history so that was super fun to watch. And then of course, again, just a great work that's happening with our students around literacy and the use of technology to support their learning. Village High School. Appreciate them anyway, that Village High School promotes exploration of students interests and. Principal Lindsey and I were there and this is Dan Takis, beginner guitar class and I will say I see Lindsay back there, you know, they were doing pretty good for
a beginner's class. I tried to sing along, but they said please don't so I didn't. Chinook Trail Elementary School again I saw evidence of I know that Principal Patrick Shoemaker told me that also by going to He didn't go in December, but they went to APLC conference earlier. In the summer and it was a huge boost in really having teachers working on the same standard at the same time, but yet really having that freedom between the classes. As you can even see in the classroom, they were all teaching the same
standard but just different ways according to the talent and creativity of each teacher, which is great. That's what we want to empower teachers to do that I was a Challenger Middle School and I was so impressed with what they did for. National Counselors Week, they put this poster up and then students and staff members could take little sticky notes and put. All the thank yous to their different counselors and what the councilors meant to them. So I just thought that was really awesome. Edith Wolford I was there recently and the 1st
picture is Missus Nicole Duddell and she is phenomenal and I thought I just was so fascinated I could d have sat in there for a long time. This is the Thrive or the Strive program. Take flight. Strive is the overall framework. Take Flight is the curriculum and this is for students who are. Who have dyslexia and it was fascinating just in a quick in a short amount of time so she was doing the sound and then students had to write down what the letters were that correlated with the different sounds that she was
making and it was really fun the students were just very quickly listening to sounds and being able to write down the letters because we know that's really important with dyslexia right students struggle with how do they associate ate and connect sounds with certain letters or letter patterns. So that was really fun to see and then missus Lisa Keller. Had all her students out in the hallway. They were working on different landforms. They were doing writing again. I just keep seeing over and over again. We said we were going to focus on writing this year, and I'm definitely seeing that. To little girls showed us about their avalanche and what avalanche is, and then they're also gonna they have a green
screen and on top of the poster they're gonna get a chance to do a video that they can share with their parents huge congratulations to Pine Creek High School senior Madison Mintinko at the 5A state swimming and diving meet she beat Missy Franklin's 500 freestyle record by by almost 2 seconds. Which is huge and Tenco finished with the four minute 39 point second swim and clinch the top spot in the finals, so we'll definitely all have to keep our eye on her
Discovery Canyon. Congratulations to them They won the 3A state title Tuesday evening in Denver. The Discovery Canyon girls sent 15 girls to state the past two days to compete and for the first time in school history, they are walking away as state. Champions, so that's huge for them as well. Pine Creek I was invited to do this, but it was so cold. I was like, I don't know they every year they
do they host with Lewis Palmer high School the outdoor winter classic and pine Creek high school is is the only one that they invited and they won Pine Creek won, but just a huge. Thank you to D38 and inviting our students up. They had a great time out on the ice. So next year we'll get it all out there and we'll all bundle up and we'll watch it. And we, this student actually came and spoke to us. It's Discovery Canyon Campus High School senior Brynn Macros, and she has been named a semi finalist
for the 2025 Military Child of the Year She's among the other 105 semi finalists across the country and one of only six students selected as a finalist in Colorado. And she, of course, is the one that started the Girls STEM Club one year, I think, she said She started with five and within the next year he had 30 girls that were committed to. Being in the STEM club and learning about engineering. Our unified basketball team in full swing and a big shout out to Pine Creek High School cheerleaders, boys
soccer and girls and boys basketball They all showed up to support our Unified sports teams and they said all of these folks gathered together and they helped us to be the largest group and fundraiser for the Colorado Springs Down syndrome Association walk that happened back in August. So huge. Wonderful shout out to Pine Creek and all of our schools. We really want to grow the unified sports program and I definitely want to make sure I get out to a couple of those games and would love to take you with me if you've never been
to one. I saw a few when I was in Fort Collins and it is really an amazing event to attend. Been to the Capitol first with Deputy Superintendent CFO Becky and Allan We visited the capital with it was K stay at the capitol. Advocating strongly for our funding for D20 and really to encourage our legislators to vote against the governor's proposed legislation to get rid of averaging that will significantly negatively
impact our budget and we talked with some one of the legislators I think I talked to Becky later, I said I think I saw a little flicker in his eye when we were talking to him that maybe he would be willing to. Look at kind of a phase out instead of saying all at once. Next year, No more averaging right now they average your enrollment over like it was a five year time period. That's huge because enrollment can kind of fluctuate the other problem is that the education we don't really know what our full funding is until a bill is
passed like it's usually in May and so that that is a problem if all of a sudden we just said no averaging. So we talked about all that with them and I thought it was a great day. We also have a brand new lobbyist that she's over there on the right. Amy Atwood, she is absolutely phenomenal She got us. She was the one that organized all the meetings and really went with us and helped us to make sure we were talking about the important topics with the right people. Lead team retreat A huge shout out to Doctor Susan Field
and Doctor Jeremy Koselak and the whole learning services team. I see many of you here. Thank you. We really have an outstanding learning services team and we had a great lead team retreat where we had all of our. Principals. Assistant principals. SPED directors from learning services really focusing on PLCS and writing across the curriculum and then a huge huge thank you to HR Cameron Smart in the afternoon we had a great presentation related to substance abuse and related issues again the
the stakeholder means were amazing and my favorite. I love all the groups, but I'm definitely going to say my favorite is our student group. They were just so articulate and thoughtful. About what they had to say around graduation requirements, and they all really liked that idea of having a financial literacy class and in the patrons group and the parent group, they also said that they want to make sure that students are still getting a strong liberal arts education. That was another
piece of a theme that we heard so just really great information and I also. Want to thank Shane Knight for collecting all that data for hosting it. And I'm excited about the conversations and the committee work that's ahead in this area. And then thank you, board members. We were able to go down to the Capitol. And again Amy Atwood was able to get us wonderful appointments with different legislators and would anybody on the board who would like to share about that experience? We had a really interesting experience in the house wherein
one of the representatives requested that the entirety of a bill be read. It was over 102 pages long. You could tell from her body language she was unhappy with some aspect of something and thus and therefore asked for the entirety of this bill to be read. Think like filibuster style. It was going on and on and on. It takes 2 minutes to read every page and they speed it up to time and a half and it's just this kind of monotone voice. So we learned the art of
patience for a little bit there at some point that got pulled and we moved forward, but the conversations we had were. Important and The time was well spent talking about and advocating for funding. Obviously the averaging and frankly the school finance formula a in general kind of hanging in the balance and so we went and did that work and made it's all about relationship and talking about the real impacts to classrooms right with the lack of funding. So we didn't just sit and listen to what I called the filibuster moment forever.
Anybody else? Yeah, it was. Really sting always meeting with. Senator Lundeen and what he has to say about schools and businesses running it as a business and such, it was really valuable to meet with all of all of the representatives and stuff that we got to meet with people that because of Amy, we probably wouldn't have met with otherwise. And so we got to hear some Different views. Then what that what we kind of stand for at
D20, but still very valuable to hear. So it was great, it was a really educational day, Yeah. And we were able to hear from legislators on if both sides of the aisle right. And so it was really fascinating to hear the different perspectives based on who we talked to. I know I took away a lot of great information from that. All right, and last but not least, just a reminder, we have had a few emails about weather and we do have. Our policies posted on And here's some laughs. I get it. If you want to Scroll down just a little bit we do have a very definite process that we
follow every single time there's a team of us that get together that the day before we look at forecasts we've talked to to meteorologists, we use the National Weather Service wind chill factor. There's a whole chart, We even have a spreadsheet and we take wind chill factors from all over the different parts 'cause you know, we have a huge wide range, right, all the way down the front and then we're out east and then. Up for Monument and down to Woodman and we look at what the wind chill factors are everywhere as you rd. Unfortunately we don't have transportation zones
so if it's cold or the wind chill is a certain amount in just one area because of the way the buses and the transportation works together, you can't just say, well, this is just for this. If it's in one place, we really at this point in time with transportation, really have to call it for the whole district but if you do get questions when you're you're in a grocery store. Please just have him feel free to go back to this website and we have put out communications every time a huge thank you to Mark's team
to just keep people up to date to what we do. So just want to thank you guys too for going to the Capitol That was really an amazing day. So that's it for my Superintendent update. Alright, thank you. We did a motion to approve the consent agenda as posted. Moved second roll call please. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr. Wilburn, aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt, aye. All right, we're gonna go ahead and take a quick break. If you were part of the spotlight or recognized that Superintendent
Haberer's update, or if you're one of our new admin, please see Mark and Crystal up here in the corner, and we'll get going. Thank you. They call this meeting back to order. We are calling this meeting back to order. Item 8. There were no items pulled from the consent agenda, so we're moving on to written reports. Item A annual monitoring report for executive limitations policy Two point eight emergency Superintendent succession. Does anyone have any questions or comments, Mr. President, Mrs. Shandy, I agree that we're in
compliance. I did have some thoughts about. How to make the policy stronger, more transparent and operationally sound I I think just adding it lacks a clear guidance on how long the successors in that interim position. And so I would recommend adding some guidelines for duration. Just so that everybody has clarity on how long the interim is in that position before we start hiring a Superintendent, Does that make does that make sense? It does I I don't. I have seen districts that have an interim
for two months and I've seen districts that have interims for eight months and I don't want to put something in policy that's going to. Make it too quick or too long and so if we want to do something like we could do a range but I'm OK with leaving it a little more vague just to provide some sort of. Ability for the board to maneuver as they see fit. Because I mean, what if we put a six month timeline on it and with the applicants and none of the applicants are the right applicants and we have to go back that
draws that process out and then we're out of compliance. And so I don't want to make a decision. Because there's a policy that forces that timeline so. I see where you're coming from. I don't know that I completely agree with that Yeah, Mr Wilburn, there may be another way of doing it. So we could do something like that, like a sunset, six months, two years, whatever it is and then the provision that in the event a new Superintendent hasn't been located and hired, the board may vote to extend that term one more time or whatever, just so there's some sort of
a back end on it. It's probably worth kicking around. We can talk about this. Mrs. Ruckman, can you make a note to add this to a probably a study session first to discuss later Thank you. Any other questions or comments related to two eight. Is the superintendent's interpretation of the policy reasonable? Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section? Are all sections in compliance? Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance. Would you like to see additional different evidence or see any part of this policy be changed in the next monitoring report cycle aside from what has already been
noted? So we'll have a conversation around that. Anything else OK and then do you see any evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary all right thank you next are the primary textbooks for science grades 6 six through 12. Were there any questions or comments? So I had a question Superintendent Haberer we've had conversations recently I say recently within the past year or so about trying to focus curriculum having some sort of a a consistent curriculum. For.
I'll say strands I don't know I know that's been a discussion how How does this relate or do we have the information on that? Yes I'm gonna go defer to a doctor, Susan Field, who I think is gonna have Shane Knight talk about this. Yeah. So just a little bit of background. We are on a adoption cycle and I think Shane can share a little bit about that in a second for different content areas. And when those adoption cycles come up, I think that we're on year cycle. We have teachers come in and look at standards
and best practices and textbooks. And it's actually in the last few years we have been talking about having, for example, at the elementary level, the same language arts or the same math textbooks. There are a lot of positives for that would be financially helpful when 21 schools are looking to do professional learning versus 2 wo or three. It's just a lot more cost effective to do something like that. Currently, we allocate textbook money to
schools and so schools often will save for years and years and years to buy like a new language arts or math textbook adoption because they're extremely expensive. And so that would have to, we'd have to completely overhaul that, but not something that we couldn't do I think the piece that would be most supportive for teachers is looking at the same set of resources really helps with planning and professional learning, so do you want to add anything to that, Shane? Can you hear me OK, sweet
Alright, yeah, to Susan's point, I think there'd be a lot of value to aligning our resources, our curricular resources, our instructional resources, even if it were just by feeder strand to Susan's point, the benefits of site based decision making in regards to textbook adoptions is that schools get to select something that's consistent with their own school goals and philosophies and perspectives. Really unique to the community, but I do think
there's some economies to scale we can save some money and increase our educational effectiveness if we had a more unified approach to it. Professional development being 1, I think getting some common formative assessments and common *** summit assessments aligned would be another. I think would also make sure that we're getting the absolute best evidence based programs in front of our students. The challenge? Is some schools just purchased curricula and into Susan's points they've
invested they've saved for many years and one thing we know is that rapid change in a school community causes a decrease in student achievement and over time if you continue to do rapid changes, you're gonna see a line in achievement so any anytime we anytime we want to shift curriculum, we've gotta do it in a measured way. And give schools ample time to prepare for that. Financially, but more important, instructionally and then and so if it's something we wanted to do, we'd have to think about it a couple years out
and give Becky Allen some time to save up $1,000,000 or so. I don't know how much money it would cost to outfit 21 schools, but it would be expensive from that Susan mentioned in our time, in our time frame for how we roll through textbook adoptions by poor policy, we roll through every year. Subject area I think we're up for language arts again in three years. Do we do social studies next year? Math and then language arts? So
we've got a couple years before we get to the big numbers. OK, so yeah, about Right. Do you think it's something that we should explore for? Just for example, today we did our middle and elementary principles, we did walkthroughs together we did 5th and 6th grade classrooms. It was super fun. And I was sitting with the Discovery Canyon strand after the visit and two of the elementary's have a textbook called Envision and the other one has I I can't remember what the other one is, but it's not Envision and we
were talking about how it would be great if all three of the feeder schools had the same textbook and. We could do a lot of professional learning together and work together. It'd be a lot easier for mitosis. Lot easier for them. I appreciate that. I think part of my concern is if we continue to approve curriculum on this cycle, Like what we're doing, then we're never gonna get to a place where it makes sense 'cause we'll always have someone who just adopted this other curriculum And so that I think that's my concern is we've been talking about this
We keep continuing to approve new curriculum for these different subjects and I don't know that we're. So all that to say. Nothing pro or con with the what we're looking at here. It was sort of a question that I had to sort of philosophically about. What are we looking at with curriculum and SO and how do we, I guess it we understand all the benefits. So it's financial. It's gonna help our kids. Sounds like the right thing to do. So how do we start moving that and if continue to approve annually is the
right thing, that's fine. But I think I'd want to see something that's a little bit more. Focused and I appreciate that and we have had conversations about that before Susan and I and think a good way to start potentially is within the feeder team so So I know there's at least one feeder team that's working on. Kind of more alignment with what their middle school math program is and what their elementaries are and they're really kind of took that on themselves and saw the benefit of that so it could be that we start with one subject and maybe try to get some alignment at least within the feeders and then maybe
do some cross. I would agree too with what Shane had to say and that just having one across the board. Doesn't like guarantee increase student achievement? And I struggle just a little bit because when I look at D20, it's a special place of in different places. And I think that there's a lot of power and value also with teachers and principals really coming together within their own school to be excited about a certain
curriculum, to all be invested in it. So I kind of see both sides of it. And there's many factors I think that make D20 a district of distinction. But I've been in other places where we've done like we have the committees that come together and they do a district wide math adoption or whatever and you definitely see an implementation dip because even because you had a committee of teachers, not all teachers can be a part of even though they had a chance to, but it's usually limited and
there's always going to be teachers and maybe principals who feel like they weren't a part of it. They're not vested in it can feel like something that was. Push down to them that now they have to take on and so then you also can have teachers and sometimes administrators that have to do it out of compliance rather than really being something that they're vested in. So I think we really need to have some good conversations with principals and two and say know what would make sense 'cause I I understand the other side of it and I understand the importance of
being able to get people together and it's better for professional development if. One I just would want to really make sure that principals and teachers that they're really vested in that vision and like I said, when Susan and I've talked, we said maybe a good a good start is the feeders and maybe math, which is kind of what we're working on. Not all feeder teams are doing that, but I recently talked to 1 feeder team and they're like, yeah, we're pretty much already aligned with between elementary and middle in math, so I think kind of growing it that way and maybe we have
an overall plan that, you know, by this time we can at least maybe. Math aligned within the feeders and then how does that align between the feeders The thing that all of the schools have in common, are we all are teaching the same essential standards, right? So we have equity, I think across the district in different schools, even though they're using different resources because we're teaching the standards So but I appreciate also what you're sharing, Director Salt and it's definitely something that we want to keep exploring
and looking at what would be the best way. To do that within our system, we do that with elementary science already, so it want to be something entirely new, but it would be new in the core content Yeah. And I think for me specifically doing the feeder or the strands I think would make a lot of sense I I know I've heard from some of the middle school teams and they struggle because they have 5 five different elementaries that come up and they're all effectively speaking
different languages. And so they have to kind of get. Everyone together on the same page and so we lose a lot of time in that first couple little bit of middle school trying to give everyone talking the same language and making sure I know your math curriculum called it this but you guys called it that but we actually call it this other thing altogether and so just trying to make sure that we're efficient with the curriculum and so. I like the strand idea a lot. I love the district, but I understand some of the limitations that we have and what that would be. So anyways, just working towards a plan on that I think would
be helpful and so I can see kind of when we're approving these the science curriculum, how does that work into the plan of moving us where we're trying to go from a curriculum perspective makes sense All right. Wisconsin's I just want to thank all the staff and teachers who reviewed these books and especially the parents and community members who it's valuable to read all the different perspectives. So thank you. Miss Sandy, one review. I did look at and we talked a lot today about accessibility and how that's forward, how we're moving forward with that a lot
of things. There was one textbook, it was page 8 and 9 where they talked about the online version curriculum did not have speech to text or text to speech or closed captioning available for the special education students. So is this true for all the books that we have or is that just kind of a as it becomes more? You know, in everyone's forefront of their mind is that something that we need to say our curriculum must have going forward or is that
not really adaptable yet in the curriculum? Let's say that's definitely a goal, Doctor Field or Knight. What do you think as far as maybe what we already have and how have we rolled that goal forward or as we're thinking about accessibility and I know March Shelly's excited is our accessibility month. So we definitely want might be. To really highlight that. So I think that's a good question and it was a good perspective that you brought in fact our team highlighted that as being potentially the question that would come up
first and foremost, all technology all technology components of curriculum have to go through the technology team to make sure that they meet the requirements of our district's technology accessibility being one of those features. The one curriculum that you referenced is open scied, so open scied just to give you a brief history lesson on how this was a curated. Open source curriculum or resource rather with just PDFs of good science lessons on topics that
has been purchased by the same company that provides our elementary science kits Carolina. And when Carolina purchased it they created online versions of that different from the open source so in in our behind a paywall. We can access the fully accessible features. And so each lesson has a little bar on the right side that has all the accessibility features in addition to that, if teachers go to the open resource, there are other district approved
accessibility features that are third party that they can load up the PDF to make it accessible. But the piece behind Carolina is actually a much stronger piece with it in terms of accessibility. So access and in the other ways it that's another other expense though, correct? Because it's behind the paywall, probably for the schools that adopt it. OK. Mr Wilburn, so I would echo what Mrs. Konz said, having all the peer, the stakeholder reviews was really, really, really helpful and there was a ton of them. Thank you to
everybody that did that and reading through those very helpful, didn't produce any really red flags, at least not for me In fact, hardly any yellow ones. I mean, it was just very thank you to everybody that took At the back of the report it gives historical pricing, I think from 2022-2023, which is a little bit depressing, but for current it, it's just locked in on. Preliminary vendor pricing, has that been finalized now? And if not yet, when does that typically happen? First, I just want to thank the team so Beth and Brian over
here did a tremendous job of facilitating the process of helping teachers go through the standards. Analyzing the qualities in the benefits and drawbacks of each resource, they did an incredible job. It's a good thank you guys for your hard work on that regarding pricing, vendors are reluctant to release current pricing until you actually put out a request for proposal and so when schools are interested in looking at it, then they'll get a full accurate bid. What I've learned in this job I
been in it for a couple months now, is that vendors don't. Have a lot of flexibility on how much each unit costs. The place we get flexibility in the economy is to scale Isn't shipping and professional development when we make purchases and so that's the flexible part, not in the actual cost of the book itself. Yes, he knows. I know because I've been through the process myself of curriculum adoption and the professional development around that is very time consuming, very expensive, all of the things I will kind of echo Mr Saltz
thoughts about, you know, when we adopt via a feeder strand and that shared language piece that can be really important depending on the curriculum, what kind of vocabulary they're using and how that also might support the PLC process, right, even within the same school. So if Intermediate and primary. Just kind of it's starting to make me think a little bit about how to be most efficient doing that and still have a curriculum that what the standards are, what we teach but the curriculum is the resource, right? And I've yet to
find one that I didn't have to supplement. So there's also that there's not the perfect one out there. Thank you. Any other questions or comments related to the primary textbooks? Science All right, thank you, Shane. All right, Thank you, guys. Thank you, Doctor Phil all right, next is the school calendar for 25/26 27/28. Were there any questions or comments? External reviews for 24/25 did anyone have any questions or comments? Mrs. Konz. I just want to commend the entire
staff principals. Every year these get better and better the questions and the responses by the external review team and so just I think Superintendent Haberer's and her whole team focus on team one and our goals and objectives is really evident in every single school review because. They're just so honed in on excellence and. And the desire to just see every student succeed to their maximum level. So I was really
thrilled to read them. Miss Henry, It was really, really good and comparing it to smokers results now two point O with that type of lens and stuff you really pulled out the place part of it and how engaging each of the schools were and then also like where they need improvement. It was good because they could also see where they might be fragmented with that or whatnot. So it really kind of cool to take. His emphasis and how we've studied that and compare it to. The report and stuff and
see just how important a lot of those elements are in what we're doing. So that that's really great. Appreciate that at emphasis. I think kind of to Mrs. Konz point it's been interesting sitting here for the past three years going through this and watching the questions look a little bit wider and then I think every year the questions get narrower and narrower. And our admin are being really almost surgical in the way that they're approaching these external views. I think it's really incredible work. So any other questions comments.
Right building fund updates anyone have any questions or comments related to that? Monthly financial report through December 2024. Anyone have any questions or comments? Ms Allan, I noticed that the graphs did not seem to track quite the same as the other ones that it seemed like there we were a little broader where our skinnies get in the graphs. No, sorry. Yeah, if we could Nope the financial report.
Because we have the expenditures in revenue and they get really skinny through kind of February and March and we were tracking a little bit wider. So good But I just noticed how consistent my time on the board those I mean those graphs you can almost lay them on top of each other year over year and And this one just seemed a little anomalous in the sense that we ended up with more revenue, less expense, something to that effect to make it a little bit of a wider gap. The revenue piece has to do with the. The way now that we opted into the
program with the state, so instead of us getting so lean in January and February and waiting until March when we first start to get property tax revenue, that's why we opted to get the more equal payments over a nine month period to front load more of our revenue so that we were not as lean during those months. So this year that new revenue curve will establish the new baseline
that should lay pretty close starting next year, but this will establish the new baseline I I forgot about that program. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? Right next are the legislative updates any Any questions or comments? Mrs. Shandy, I would just say it's a question, Jinger or Superintendent, however, and I go back up to. The capitol the week after next or whatever And so through all of those besides the averaging, is there any of those that you want
us to hammer on or talk with? Legislators about. In particular. Mr Wilburn, Yes, 10 9. Very vague, so the bill encourages each local education provider. What is that? We need to know if is that school is that district? Is that? Is that district? Are we sure? So provider usually it's a like an Lea local education agency, some type of provider and it's gonna be the district. It could be a BOCES, I think in some cases
depending on context, it could actually be the like a charter school as well, but it's whoever that entity is. Typically it is the district. OK, thank you. That would be my only question. Is there anything else that you want us to really discuss why we're up there doing that? Are you guys going back? It's next week speak after next week after next 27th or 28th, I think probably closer to time I've been working with the cabinet and Superintendent and have her her on our we have weekly call, biweekly calls with Amy
Atwood. Yeah. And so we've been tracking a couple bills It's a little premature to say this one's good or bad because there's a lot of time between. When you're going back, so I'll keep track of that and I'll let Superintendent Haberer have sort of the notes there. I know she and I have talked about a couple of bills, so she'll have probably most of my notes from those calls where we're talking with the rest of cabinet and some of those implications. OK, sounds great. Yeah. And we'll be sure to ask Amy too, when she sets it up. Like what are those talking points that we think? And I think we get a presentation too by
CASB that will help us to know. Yes, as a state, you know, level, what are people really wanting? It's mostly around averaging in the finance formula. Yeah, we've already talked about, but if there's some other ones on there, we'll definitely make our address those, yes. Miss Tina's OK, Mrs. Shandy, May I please just add one thing I completely agree with Superintendent Haberer on the averaging the other aspect of that I would say and Superintendent mentioned this, that if it does need to go, please phase
in and that any savings from eliminating the averaging stay in K12 and do not go to balance the shortfall over the state's wide budget. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Business. We got to meet with Senator Marchman about the. Handle with care notice. So that's Senate Bill 25-064 I would imagine this has bipartisan support, but this is a really interesting one where. It's reverse safe to tell, right? So it's law enforcement after
a child has an adverse I can't remember how they let's see adverse childhood experience. So maybe that's some type of domestic violence in the home. The night before, law enforcement would have the opportunity to send a Safe to Tell message in reverse to school districts, like to an infinite campus allowing. Teachers, administrators to know that something had happened and that the notation in the student file is simply handle with care
so that everybody on staff or whoever is Privy to that information would just know that maybe an extra check in with that student are keeping eyes on that student is an important thing to do that day. Fabulous work by Senator Marchman. We had to We met with her and heard all about it And yeah, that would be 1. I would one I recommend Thank you. Thank you, Gordon. Anything else? Right next is the Board of Education meeting scheduled for the 25/26 school year. Were there any questions or ns or comments? Second quarter Board of Education discretionary budget update, are there any
questions or comments? All right. Annual monitoring report for governance process policy 4.10 Board members code of conduct. Does anyone have any questions or comments Mrs. Konz? OK, Board. So there were just a few. Things that I left to be decided in this memorandum, Mark would d you mind pulling up the final page of this that's titled memorandum? Thank you. So I just left since this is a discussion
item for us to decide together. On how a few of these things are worded there e are two noted dates of perceived violations noted because we have already addressed them pursuant to step one in GP 412, which is addressing Board member violations or perceived violations. So those are on here the first one on August 13th, 2020 was a mistake that was immediately corrected at that incident and it has not happened since.
So I left that just as a perceived violation Second one is an event lawsuit filed on December 10th, 2020 and I left that as a perceived violation after I checked with Ms Thompson, we did not find that there e was any law prohibiting one citizen from filing lawsuit against another citizen. Just because of their elected official status. And I wanted to open it up to comments because I
will not be the sole judge or jury on how much someone can or should take of alleged or actual defamation or slander. So I open it up to other board comments. Christina's OK, so because of current legal proceedings, I'm just going to stay high level in my comments, but in accordance with four Point 12, I've already addressed these two perceived ctly with Mr. Wilburn on several occasions. Our interpretation of the policy was not the same, but I know in fact that my concerns were heard
and so I just honestly look forward to a time when we just solely focus on kid outcomes and academic achievement rather than this. So right now it's listed as the status is TBD my y personal opinion is that we marked this as not in compliance. And the reason rationale is that if we're invoking 4.12 for addressing board member violations then it feels unethical to say that there weren't any violations to address. And so I think because we've implemented
412 that we need to acknowledge the fact that this was not in compliance for the monitoring cycle. I concur with that. Mr. President, Mrs. Sandy I I would just say that I agree with what Tonya's perspective was, and that we followed policy and perceived violations, but no violations. So that would be my So I'm OK. I don't want to finalize the discussion if you were going to see something else. OK, so Mrs. Ruckman, so if we
could just edit what we are submitting The first part is monitoring report status. So that would be out of compliance. Agreeable. Understandable. Evidence was already there. And then? Let's see 4th paragraph from the bottom where it says after reviewing all evidence. There is indication is that the correct wording There is indication that the BOE is out of With any section of this policy. And then? Conclusion. This report will reflect that the BOE is out of
compliance with GP 4.10. Help me if I if anyone sees anything else that needs to be amended. No, that looks right to me. Thank you. Any other comments? OK, Marie, is she back out? Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section? Is there sufficient? Are all sections in compliance which we e noted no recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance? I think those have already been addressed through the 4.12 policy. Would you like to see
additional or different evidence which any part of this policy be changed in the next t monitoring report cycle? Do you see evidence which is extraneous are no longer necessary? OK. Next is the annual monitoring report for governance process policy for 13 cost of governance. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Right. Is there sufficient evidence to determine compliance for each section? Are all sections in compliance? Recognition of exemplary performance or concerns regarding performance. Would you like to see additional or different evidence or to any part of Do you see evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? All right, next is the report for the citizens
Bond Oversight Committee. Superintendent Haber. And Deputy Becky Allan. Good evening, I would like to welcome Mr. David Brockway, our Co Chair of the Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. Thank you Ford and Miss Allan. I'm David Brockway, the Co facilitator of the e Citizens Bond Oversight Committee. And since there are two bonds out there, I'll clarify which one I'm talking about. This is the 2016 bond, our Group C Bach met on January 22nd, 2025 led by
Mr Chris Gerhart Gerhardt and he briefed us on on financial activities for October, November and December. I can be pretty quick on those. Summarizing them, expenditures and any of those three months was in the five figure low 6 figure area, so not a ton of activity, but it all related to finishing the Rampart High School and the Liberty High School pools. In looking in the bond at the bond in totality as of f December it's 97.5 5% of the funding has been spent. There's about
6.8 million of funding that remains to be spent. And of that 6.8, about 4 million of that is the contingency fund. So it is getting toward the end here. Remaining areas of work, the largest of that remaining 2.8 million is 2.2 and technology infrastructure little bit of facility audit work, things like that But All in all this bond is scheduled to be completed with the e voter approved language prior to June ne 30, 2025. So that's this June. That's exciting.
This group met again and one of the things that was discussed was the 2024 Bond, the 83 83 million bond that passed in the last election cycle and I think some of the members of the citizens bond d Oversight Committee will be invited to be on that bond oversight committee for that group too. Happy to answer any questions and. Board discounts. Thank you again, Mr Brockway, for, I believe, agreeing to be our chairman for this new bond as well. So we're super
r fortunate to have his expertise and amazing longevity in years of service to the District and to the e community. So really thrilled to still have you It's been a while since I read your report, Remind d me, please, I know Rampart and Liberty Pools and maybe. Chris will know the answer to these as well We had enough money to get new timing systems and. What else? There was one other thing. Thank you. Starting block, starting blocks. So I think they're both going to be done around this spring summer, but remind me of
f the cost and that we've already allocated that Yeah. So what happened in the big project of replacing the boiler the the filter and the water control system m, We had some savings back when we closed out that guaranteed maximum. From both Rampart and Liberty. And so we had a list of projects that still fit into that category. And it was sound system. It's the timing system. And there's a few other things, some
starting blocks and that'll wrap that up. So that'll spend the rest of that money that was originally appropriated that dollar amount. So it was within that amount, right? Thank you for reminding me of that. I just want to thank you both for the time that you guys have put in so far. Excited to see you guys take over and start working on this 24 bond. I didn't call you up while we were doing all the written reports, but seeing the pictures of the bus barn, that thing looks awesome. It was really exciting to see all that together. So yeah, it's a different environment for the mechanics out there. They get a lot more space, so the interior where the new dispatch
is and the new driver's lounge, they already got drywall hung, taped and finished and drywall. They'll be painting it. We'll probably move them in. Here within a probably about 5 6 weeks down the road and then we still got a little bit of work in the balance of the building. So it's coming along real good. It looks really good. So thank You both. Appreciate you guys being here. Thank you. I just wrote that down actually. Comment section #1. Maybe this mic hates me a little less We've got 9 signed up for this evening. All right. Thank you, Board welcomes the comments of our community members and we greatly appreciate 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 to the meeting Speakers may offer appreciation for criticism of school operations and programs has concerned 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 n 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 and writing with your signature Supplemental written materials can also be given to the security guards They'll be delivered to the board secretary. The board president will recognize each speaker and consistent with. 4.4 Comments will be curtailed if remarks or behaviors become e inappropriate, the Board president may interrupt, warn, or terminate a speaker statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district and appropriate for K12. Students are disruptive to an orderly, civil, and productive meeting Thank you for your cooperation.
Right, first up, we have Lisa Humbarger, followed by Suzie Bauer. On October 4th, 2023, I attended student LED candidate forum at Chinook Middle School. During that form, Mr Wilburn chose to engage in reckless and inappropriate political grandstanding herein aloud several passages from a book titled Push. The passages that he read to the crowd included references to sexual assault, incest, and threats of physical violence. He began reading without giving
anyone the opportunity to leave or allowing time for parents to remove. Kids from the room, thus taking away our parental right to decide what our children should or should not hear. I teach my kids to hold themselves accountable when they make a mistake or a poor choice Not only has he not apologized or admitted any wrongdoing, he's gone so far as to file a lawsuit against AD twenty parent for speaking out and rightfully trying to protect her children from future. Poor behavior on his part. Why did Mr
Wilborn not take into account the age range of the e audience members and youth age appropriate language? Why didn't Mr Wilburn take into account how triggering reading the graphic text about sexual assault could be to survivors of sexual assault? Mr Wilburn n's behavior displayed either an atrocious lack of judgment or callous indifference to how his words would impact the young children, students, parents and staff present that night. I believe his behavior that evening
renders him unworthy to serve on the BOE. He should also be forced to resign his position. On the board since he blatantly lied when he prefaced his performance by instructing attendees that the book he was reading from was available in our middle school libraries It's not. I don't want an individual with such poor judgment having a platform that allows him to make education or curriculum related decisions for my children. Our kids deserve the best of us. Next up is Suzie Bauer, followed by Meagan Gaetke.
I'm sorry if that happens again, we will ask you to clear the room, no applause please. Thank you. Integrity and excellence, the D20 website says desires for our school district we believe in how we behave to demonstrate excellence, nurture relationships rooted in honesty and integrity there is a conflict an An adult in education should be a mentor, protector respect, teach and respect and be respected by by students, teachers, peers. His words were unprotected the The adult should use words to inspire and demonstrate
excellence. Appropriate words to cultivate honesty. What he said was not and they were actions of benevolence. The words of the book did not match the age of the audience. When I read words, I take pride being thoughtful without remorse. He delivered those words with expedience. He was callous with his, with his violating words with disregard my son, myself, teachers, parents and other students. Words that need permissions respect not insensitivity. Ego full of impudence.
The recklessness of the of his choices and his words left all of us feeling violated. Instead, he felt congratulated. Excellence, honesty and integrity. What is priority, his ego or our teachers and students for their prosperity? We want him dismissed from the school board with sincerity. He has violated provisions of GP P 4/10. His behavior has damaged the district's public image and credibility for students. Or what? Then vote today that Mister Wilburn is a violation of the Code of Contact.
A resignation is requested so excellence and integrity is still a part of the construct stay vigilant to our beliefs for the success of our school district. His actions do not reflect integrity excellence, This is a conflict. Next up we have Meagan Gaetke followed by Jennafer Stites. Alright, we will clear the room. Thank you. This 1 OK, Shelley, go ahead and go ahead and talk again. You're breaking in and out. Can you sound check? Yeah, you sound good
All right, Board, I need a motion to move. Item J Presentations to now and then postpone the rest of public comment until after the. The rest of the business portion is complete Moved second roll call please. Mrs. Konz, aye Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr Wilburn, aye. Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr Salt, aye. All right now we need a resolution to approve or we need a motion to approve Resolution 160-25. Proposed relocation of Village Middle School from the Center for Modern
Learning to Mountain Ridge Middle School in 20/25/2026 oved second. Discussion please. Superintendent Haber. Hey, we have a decision item that we're really excited about and that is the location of moving. The Middle School Village Middle school to Mountain Ridge and I just want to really say a a huge thank you. To Principal Jeff Sturkey and Ash Angiollo and. And Keisha Hill, our principal, the three of
them, they just really worked hard together and we met several times to say what makes sense because what we know is that both Village Middle School and the Home School Academy both have waiting lists, right? And they do such a magnificent job, both of those programs are truly sterling, and I've been there several times. And I see students actively engaged in their learning and we have constituents who really would like to have their kids there, but when they're both in the same building, that just we're
not able to accommodate what our parents you who want to be in there, we're not able to accommodate that program. And so we started looking around to say, what space do we already have? And looking at Village Middle School, we thought well, maybe that would be a good opportunity. To give. Village Middle School More room within Mountain Ridge And what would we we think about that idea? So we've been talking about this idea, probably or several months and kind of going through some different
ideas and so just really excited I shared with you the preliminary ideas earlier when hen we first started talking about it and now it's really in fruition so. I believe this is a decision item and I would invite. Probably our principals up to just kind of talk about this change and if you have the PowerPoint, you feel free to go through that, However you guys have that organized. I'll just start. Yeah, I'm Principal Jeff Sterk at from Mountain Ridge Middle School. Is it working all right
I just want to share on a personal level I have a senior son at the Village high School, so I it's been perfect for him, so I really appreciate just the non brick and mortar, in this case, hybrid model of Village and Middle school both. Homeschool Academy and Village Have waiting list demands popularity for secondary students? 6th grade through 12th grade are looking for different routes to get to high school and to get their diploma
On another personal side, I have a sister 1 sibling in Kansas City area. She home schooled all four of her kids and she partnered as they got closer to high school with many community partnerships and I think the home school Academy is something that hat could really. Continue to escalate on a professional side. We are thrilled to partner I think if anybody knows me, I'm about all kids and 26,000 kids is what I'm looking at right of course
e I I'm a little biased to my 700 just under 7 700 kids at Mountain Ridge. But when we're talking about this s entire school district, I want everybody to thrive It's gonna be great. Over the years, Ash and I have talked and you'll hear from her in a moment. And I've had a handful of kids that for r whatever life circumstances have come to those students way. The village middle school would have been a great option And she oftentimes says, Jeff, I really want to, but I can't because there's such a long wait list. And so I think this is gonna give the expansion of both incredible programs the
e chance to grow and meet more kids needs and I'm excited about t that. So to have her literally right down the hall might be really good for partnerships moving forward so So thank you. Awesome. I guess it's my turn. I have been very excited and fortunate enough to partner with Ash over the last year and even though this is exciting. Opportunity for us to expand Excuse me, I am going to miss my partner in crime because know we tend to talk a lot and know I'll run up she'll run down and it's just been a really positive relationship but
But we both are growing and I'm excited that we're both able to meet the demands that our community is looking for one of f the things that I think I'm most excited about is being able to say yes to families instead of saying I'm so sorry I don't have any more room. I'm so sorry I don't have any more room. I don't even know. I probably said that 50 times this school year And so to be able to know that, I'm going to be able to say yes, we have space, yes, we have space and take our time o grow intelligently and with
fidelity over the next few years. I'm very excited about that. My community is excited and I'm just really looking forward to expanding our programming. I've been asking in the last few. Parent Square 20 alerts parents what kind of programming would you like to see? And my parents have been extremely engaged in sharing what they'd like to see. Monthly I've been doing coffee with Keisha and they have also been able to tell me what kinds of things they're looking for So I feel like we're gonna meet a need here in the district and I'm just really excited to be able to lead that charge.
Yeah, I'll miss you too. I won't abuse the pony, but I might send you some things in the pony. So when I first. Ginger's first visit to village middle school, I it was probably August of last school year. I did say hello and then I said, and where are we going to grow? Welcome to Village Middle School. And so to for those of you that don't know, this is our evolution. And Jeff, you might think those trailers outside what
will be kind of our wing. Our garbage and ready to go that is where this school started in a trailer and d so when I first visited the campus, I was like can we use one of those for storage and so to think about the fact that like this trailer. A similar trailer is where this school started is now like I'm like, can we can we use that for storage for supplies for r our kids, for our explorers is just mind-blowing. That's s full circle. There's space for yoga and. Jeff, I think Renee and Kim are still
here. I promise you that we will be good neighbors and d the food truck rodeo. Keisha has been a guest judge for all kinds of food competitions, so you will get invites. And just having space for our kids to continue to capitalize on the crazy wild ideas that they y have that we say yes to is really special, and I'm excited to be able to start having some conversations with them and involve them in the design and the e planning. Because, right, I'm the manager of this space. I'm the leader of this space, but not the
consumer. And they'll have better ideas than I I could have ever imagined. So fun chapter ahead. It's awesome. I'm really excited about this and I'm really glad that you know this is a solution that works for everybody. Any guess as to what this means enrollment wise for each of your programs? Is it 20 more, Is it 30% more? Have we gotten that far to see kind of what does it actually mean for our kids go for it. So currently for this year coming up because we are anticipating sharing space
for the first half of the year. There's only so much growth I would be able to do on the main level. However, there is an anticipated additional 50 students for me just this first year prior to expanding upstairs So I'm excited I could see, I mean we're currently low 606 O 8 I believe and I I am pretty confident we would be pretty close to 800 students So that's a significant area of growth, but over time I'm I'm hesitant to you know. Look at the future too much and say this
this program is gonna know. Yield 75 students. I really want to make sure that I'm hearing from the community and our staff as to what that looks like, but super excited just even to grow this year. So because we're going to start the year in our current space we're looking at maybe 5 to 10% more next year because we don't have more room for semester and also being really cognizant of for adults change is hard and we're going to have to take a group of middle schoolers, which man, it's going to
to be, they'll rock this, but. I want to give them time second semester to feel it, live it. Adjust and then say, OK, we're ready, let's bring on some more. So this next school year, it'll still be ted right I just don't have more space August through December the mber, the following school year, 2627, I would anticipate 200 kids comfortably check back in with me in February after we've, you know we give them knives in the kitchen. Know, there's yoga mats, there's robots, there's roller coaster
designs and I think after we live it for a little while we'll have a much better feel for how quickly we want to scale. And I think continuing to watch what enrollment does at Mountain Ridge and whether there's opportunity down the road who knows. So knives would have robot yoga mats? Nothing compared to when I first walked through Timberview and they showed me the plasma cutter and I was like, you got a plasma cutter in middle schoolers? But they're like they're supervised I'm like, God bless you. So knives are cool, man knives are cool. Board. Any other comments questions?
I just want to say I think it's super exciting and I commend you, Superintendent, however, for having that mindset of growth and not just being stuck in what we've always done and listening to. It to your people that are saying I need to grow, I need to grow, I have a room and so I commend you for that in being with that mindset of being open to change. So this is I think it's really exciting and d I think it follows. Our district goals and student needs. I think it checks all those boxes, so. Wisconsin.
Well, I'm super thrilled for all three of you that it is such a good decision for everybody. I was trying to review the report notes again, so I forgive me if I'm missing it but how much room for growth does the new space give you ash student wise percentage wise? So I've had one e conversation with a furniture designer and we're still waiting for some structural engineers to weigh in on which walls can and can't come down. So I can't
give you a clip. The furniture designer's like, Are you sure that the sink would go there if this is approved? And I was like, no, I cannot assure you that's where the sink's gonna go. You know, I look at what we currently have kind of mapped out for access space plus three explore rooms, which is an entire additional room I'm gonna say from where we are are now, 50 kids. But again, not next year. But I feel comfortable with 50 kids with how we've kind of imagined using
this space. That's wonderful. And then so Jeff, conversely, how much space does this allotted village middle school location still give you if your numbers do increase or like where you at on that? Yeah, we're good I mean, I been at Mountain Ridge for a while a while and I was a teacher at Mountain Ridge on a cart with like. Ten other roaming teachers and so like we've had the luxury of space we
really have right now and so it's gonna be a change for for Archie teachers and as we know, change hard sometimes especially for us adults but at the same time it's we know that change is inevitable and our staff is in a a good place. We had a great meeting just over hours ago and. We're excited. We're excited to partner with the village And make the best for both schools to reach more kids And so we're gonna be fine. Yeah, we're gonna have to make some adjustments, but we're planning on expediting that for our staff and our community as
fast as possible so that so that they can kind of just let it soak in the changes that are gonna be made physically for the beginning of next school year. But it's all gonna be happening. We're gonna we're gonna move forward and there's a possibility. Of some facility upgrades in a few areas of our part of the school as well. So we're thrilled about that as well. I'm excited for you guys. All right. Any other questions, comments? All right, roll call, please, Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr. Wilburn, aye. Mrs.
Yanez, aye. Mr Salt, aye. All right Thank you, guys. Congratulations. We're excited for you. Right, we're going to go ahead and resume public comment Section 1. I'm going to remind you that. We're not going to continue to permit disruptions so please refrain from clapping and making noise in between speakers. Mr Belcher at your wedding all All right. Next up is Meagan Gaetke, followed by Jennafer Stites.
OK. Hi, my name is Meagan, Military mom of three kids in D20. I'm also a former member of the Navy Ladies Dragon oat team. I agree our school district does a lot of great things, but there ere are things that need immediate attention. I'm here to speak on that Proverbs 31 nine. Open thy mouth, judge righteously and plead cause of poor needy. Recently we found out that VMS is going to be moved into Mountain Ridge Middle School. It was added to the agenda after the email went out I thought it was pretty upsetting to find out this the way we did, obviously.
This has been ongoing for a long time, but there wasn't any chance for parents to step up and talk about what is happening. At least that is the perception I have taken away from parents at MRMS My biggest concern is our SPED students. These students are often overlooked in our district. I am beginning to think that our district prefers to pay lawyers over the services of our students perhaps with more transparency when it feels so off putting to have this thrown at us. I want to say that space has different meaning for different students and needs. Taking away classroom space from middle school with 15
of their. On Ieps while failing to meet the upgrades, they have been needing for years is not a solution teachers need to be in areas free from distraction when they're helping their kids. How distracting is it going to be? The downside the speed rooms of MRMS by more than half. Where are all the items and supplies for the teachers going to go? I'm very proud of the kids at VMS. I want them to have more opportunities to grow I think it's great they exist. However, this isn't the solution taking rom one of the poorest schools in the district to give to VMS is not.
4K increasing the gap between the haves and the have nots is not OK. What needs are you going to meet for MRMS? All our students deserve to have their needs met. Next up is Jennafer Stites, followed by Leah McMann. Thank you. Tonight's hearing was a long time coming and I am grateful for the board's discussion and the opportunity to be heard and in August 13th City Council meeting Director Wilburn first introduced himself as a District 20 Board of Education member. And then proceeded to call another district parent, a true cop
hater. Director Wilburn went into the effort of making and distributing. Packets of information about Mr Hoffman and he assembled a a group of no less than 7 individuals to support his public. And personal attack on him this organized multi pronged petty attack on Mr Hoffman was aimed at preventing him from being offered a position on the Law Enforcement Transparency Advisory Commission Director Wilburn used his position as an ASD 20 Board member in furtherance of his personal attack and it was successful
Director Wilburn's behavior at the now infamous candidate formant all for Forum also showed a shocking lack of judgment to look out into a crowd of people that included families with. Children and still carry on with his political stunt is beyond any explanation. The reaction to this stunt was foreseeable and immediate parents were outraged and horrified instead of taking a step back listening, accepting responsibility for his actions and and apologizing for the harm he caused Director Wilburn
doubled down and dug in. This course of action has LED us to tonight on December 10th AD twenty parent was served with a defamation lawsuit in which Director Wilburn is seeking to to intimidate. And silence this parent through the legal system she has already incurred thousands of dollars in legal fees and spent countless hours of her time in defending against this lawsuit that seeks to limit her First Amendment right to voice her political opposition. I would ask you, does this behavior exemplify D 20 values? Do D 20s leader leaders engage in targeted
bullying, personal attacks and lawsuit? Is it it ethical and business like behavior? Next up is Leah McMann, followed by Erin Stevens. Good evening. My name is Leah McMann and I am both AD 20 staff member and resident. Tonight I want to express my appreciation for the board member who had the integrity to speak out about Derek Wilburn's repeated violations of the Board's Code of Conduct Every board member is elected to represent the voices of our community and to prioritize the continual improvement of student achievement. A core value of this board is maintaining a neutral environment, ensuring the focus
remains on academic success for all students. Yet Director Wilburn's actions on August 13th and December 10th are clear violations of GP4 4.10, and these are just two examples. We have yet to address his appearance on a podcast where he was physically present and clearly acting in his capacity as an elected official. Labeling his behavior on August 13th is a mistake is a distinct slap in the face to the parent who has single handedly shown up in more ways for this district than Woburn ever has, turning her cheek because his
decision to sue a parent is technically legal doesn't mean that he is fit to continue in this role. The fact that he neglects his official responsibilities but finds time to attend events where he disparages parents and seeks to grow his personal following. Is a blatant insult not only to this board, but to every educator and staff member in our district. It is beyond time to request that Derek Woburn resign from the board, our students parents and educators deserve better. Thank you next up is Erin Stevens, followed by Bernadette Guthrie. I actually had the most brilliant comments you've ever heard
but I just rewrote them so I had comments planned out tonight with regards to accountability, which I talked about last time but now I see that you are willing to hold people accountable for their actions we just witnessed it. You said a rule about clapping, which came along with an arbitrarily set consequence if the rule was broken. It's kind of like how 4.1 and the board code of conduct comes along with steps towards accountability and enforcing consequences. Is because otherwise why would those things even
need to exist? You formally admitted non compliance but since everything is an exercise in futility these days I'm sure this will be the end of that. So recognize how it looks to kick engaged citizens out for clapping Which is fine because you set that as a rule, but you're unwilling to hold elected officials accountable It's not a great look no matter what you believe in, no matter what side you fall on, no matter. Why you sit up here no matter what, you're willing to hold us accountable, but you're not willing to hold yourselves
accountable. Thank you. Next up is Bernadette Guthrie followed by Tymm Hoffman. I want to start off by thanking you, Mr Salt for assisting me in demonstrating to the public this Board's selective enforcement of policy. Let's be clear about what's happened here tonight. You held me, the parent of a traumatized child, accountable to non existent, non documented, unconstitutional role, but you refuse to hold your own board member accountable to a documented written adopted policy because he didn't break the law. Let me remind you, the law is not the standard here. Your
own policy is. This is a double standard that parents see plainly. It's selective enforcement. It's retaliation, these aren't just bad optics, they're constitutional violations Stacking up the 1st Amendment protects my right to speak and to advocate for my child and to clap in support of others without removal or retaliation. Selective enforcement and viewpoint discrimination are both unconstitutional. Targeting me for punishment because I spoke out against one of you is also retaliation. And is illegal. Every time you apply one set of rules to parents and no rules
to yourselves, you stack another constitutional violation on top of the harm you've already allowed, Urine Action has told my child and every child in this district that their safety is secondary, secondary to political loyalty. It is told every parent that we will be punished if we speak out against those in power. You failed in your your duty tonight. And I promise you, we're not going to stop fighting for what's right. I will continue to fight for my child, for my family and for every parent who dares to speak truth to power in this district. I will fight
for my rights, the rights you violated tonight, and I will pursue every Ave to hold you all accountable. I will fight so that no other parent is ever retaliated against for standing up for their child. Next up is Tymm Hoffman, followed by Christy Simpson. On their favorite poem, but they love to sue I'm tired. Passion darn near expired. Exhausted from fighting fires has left me less than inspired. The conduct that's required from a board member should be admired. But y'all acquired liars and this mire they can't be fired on. August 13th is the first day of D20 school a full of
stool. Thought that it would be cool to gather up his minnows from his icky icky cesspool and attack a district parent like some radical troll. The hatred he spewed when exactly his plan while Rep in district 20. He went on to demand through defamation and slander that I could not be the man. Telling lie upon lie about the person I am, but he didn't stop there. Because this man doesn't care about D20, about his role about them. They are there when he should have hyper focused on his personal affairs He was busy doing podcast plotting litigious scares then on the 10th of December, this pointless board member, this code conduct offender, this advocacy pretender, this decorum dissenter made a move to remember
when he sued a district parent and really showed his distemper and that parent, I stand behind her because morally out of line with her that might strike a chord. And it's probably a minor. So here we are today with one member who said, hey, are we listening to parents of students and what they have to say or is this just a game we play, allowing hate to stay, pretending we're above the board, pray and they go away. But if it's not just a game and you really care about things man, you listen to the hatred that this board member brings. You pay attention to his agenda and the way that he swings, and then you do the right thing and get him out of the springs. So which one is it? Directors, cons, Yannis and Salt. Will you look at all the
facts and hold the guilty at fault? Our eyes. Open your eyes upon the truth and bring the hate to a halt, or you turn a blind eye and this behavior exalt controversial poet Bobby Ray Simmons Junior said. Will you run or will you share your light? Tell our stories of living triumph. See it when we're given hope that we know that we can grow. We're trapped inside the matrix, forced to play our hand. You're filled with so much hatred. The kids don't stand a chance, man, give the kids a chance and do what's right as leaders. Leaders be a leader. Come on, you know what to do
Our final commenter for Section 1 is Christy Simpson. Hi there. Is it on OK integrity and excellence is what this entire 20 board operates on as a mom of three teenagers I'm so thankful for Mr Wilburn's boldness to speak against inappropriate sexual materials for students under the age of 13 back in October of 2020 This boldness and truth telling is something many parents in our district applaud. And are thankful for after Mr Wilburn's exposure of these sexually inappropriate books in
children's libraries in our schools one month later, a majority of constituents voted to elect Mr Wilburn as AD 20 school board member I'm so thankful that Mister Wilburn is healing from his surgery and is back in this boardroom I'm so so thankful that Mister Wilburn is such a man of integrity. I'm so thankful that Mister Woburn has chosen a higher path and has chosen to stand for Truth Against.
Attempts and words that are. Not even appropriate that adults should say I'm thankful for Mr Wilburn's stance, and I am glad that I voted for him to be on this board. Thank you so much, Mr. Wilburn. We're gonna roll right into Section 2. Our first commenter is She's coming up. I'm going to please remind if you have a coughing fit, please step out into the hallway instead of disrupting the speakers Thank you. Hello, today I'm just here to pray for the meeting, for the board, for D20 and for everybody. Under the sound of my voice, I didn't bring any
notes because I just want this to be from the heart, so. Father God, I thank you for this day, for every single day that you've God, I want to pray that your presence would be here in this room, God, and that you would help joy to be brought back to this district to its parents, to its students, to this board. To all those that can hear me today God, because joy is something that feels so fleeting. It comes in moments we celebrate its moments we We celebrate it deeply and then so quickly
y it's gone in the face of polarization and all of the fights we have got it's like we forget it so quickly God, but you don't. You don't forget God. I just pray that you would help Joy to return to these meetings God as well that it wouldn't be something that anybody has to dread to come to either and that even from people who are on opposing sides ideologically, that we would just be able
to speak civilly and still see each other as human at the end of the day to care about each other. God, because if we don't care about people, what are we really doing here? What are we really doing here if we don't care about people? So I pray that you would help us to do this Scott and I thank you in Jesus’ name, Amen. Next up is Angela Blount, followed by Patrick White. Dear Heavenly Father, please strengthen and encourage every board member. May there be peace in their hearts and minds with every difficult but necessary decision. I speak boldness in their
decision making as their goal will always be guided by what is best for all students. I pray for every worker I speak peace and blessing over their lives. May they realize the significance of everything that they do that will benefit the life of a child. May they make the most of every opportunity to positively pour into students. Strengthen them when they are weak or uncertain. Let them know that they can come to you to be replenished in all ways. I pray for the teachers who work tirelessly way past the end of the school day, into the night and over the weekends and breaks to accomplish and to serve every student well. Strengthen them in their
weaknesses and into their discouragement. May a student a a parent, or an administrator give them a word of encouragement tomorrow to bless them, help them see past their workload to the significance of their role in the lives of every child. Cover them in your love. May your love also cover their buildings in ways that are undeniable. May they sense the breadth of you that provides what they need for survival. I pray for every single child and parent in D20 I speak protection over every life, help them through the rough spots and lead them to the solutions that they are looking for. Make it clear that nothing is hopeless and there's always a reason to go on. You've given us life and life abundantly
May hope come back to every single person. May giving up never be an option. May they be encouraged in ways that are unexpected and realize the importance of their lives. I pray that every child knows that he or she is loved and may truth be prevail in their hearts May every school be a safe haven for the youngest of the children to the oldest ones. Know that they are important and special and loved by you I pray for those students who are being tormented by negative self image lack of self worth and periods of confusion. May they feel your love stronger than they feel any emotion. May they know that you have a
plan. Plan for every aspect of their lives and that their lives have purpose. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Next up is Patrick White followed by Veronica Baker. Good evening. Just a little bit of a safety in particular talking about Ranch Creek Elementary and snow removal. If you've ever been there, the South coming out of Chinook out of Ranch Creek The 3rd, 4th and 5th graders have to exit out and when there's snow it gets pushed onto the sidewalk. So.
It kind of creates a barrier between for students and parents leaving. Between that southern exit and Wolf Village Rd. I have witnessed students and parents slipping and falling there. I don't know if there's a way to like push it further off of the path like more into the grass or not like obstructing people walking just a little bit bit of safety, you know? I don't want people slip and fall That's all I have. Next up is Veronica Baker, followed by Katherine Gayle.
Recently, my son and I attended a transition program open house for Project Searchlight. I was very impressed with the collaboration D20 has with UC Health. The program provides meaningful engagement in the chance of genuine productivity for our transition students. The transition after high school can be can be stressful and dark for both parents and students, so it's nice to see a promising program for these very deserving kids. Now I do have some concerns for the quality of services that we're offering to our school age students with special needs Last month I spoke about Air Academy being without a speech pathologist half
of the academic year. I know that other middle schools and elementary schools have also had this problem later. Learned that speech services were in progress however they would be provided remotely when D20 provides remote therapists for services such as speech mental health, they are technically in compliance with individualized education Plans. Indeed, they are checking a box, but we are not truly meeting a need. Remote services bring us back to the dark days of COVID. For many of us, this is a time we were, this is, this was a time we were unhappy. We are happy
to have progressed from and we are not looking to revisit. I'm having a hard time squaring the amazing speech services we had last year and reach this in which the speech pathologist worked alongside my son at the school coffee shop to learn how to ask peers questions to listen and respond to their answers. He gained so many valuable skills such as learning facial expressions, understanding body language and evaluating pragmatic language. These are skills that would be very difficult to teach through a computer screen, and they would be even more
difficult to generalize to the much needed real world. Experience furthermore resources such as as PARA support are being rerouted to trans to transport and SIT with kids as they receive their minutes in front of a computer screen this is taking away from students who need that paraeducator support for behavior and academic needs. I do not find this to be a wise use of resources. We need to look at how we attract nals for these valuable. Thank you. Next up is Katherine Gayle, followed by Brett Dayberry. Good evening. I'm Kat Gayle my
position prior to returning to Colorado Springs was working in the Democracy and Governance section of the US Embassy in Port au Prince Haiti. One of our primary goals was teaching transparency and accountability in government Now I'm the chief legal advisor of Integrity matters We're continuing our mission locally. This brings me to. Tonight's legal topic. Is the right of the people to petition the government or redress of grievances this applies to you on the local level through
the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, the 14th Amendment incorporates the protections and privileges of the Bill of Rights into state and local governments and agencies. What's key to both of these elements of due process? Is that these are protections for the people against government overreach. 1st is notice Colorado o's Open meetings law is part of this Second, the opportunity to be heard Third, finally, an impartial tribunal since you Aaron
Salt arrived on this board, the people's opportunity to be heard has been severely diminished. First comments went from three minutes to 2 minutes, then the window of registration to speak was pushed back to 1:00 PM from 4:00 PM, which is very difficult for parents who are taking their children to school. Also, meetings were reduced to one a month with the astonishing decision to cancel the July meeting the last meeting before the school year started, if that weren't enough, your further attempts to quell speech by threatening legal action against anyone who should dare to speak against a
board member, contrary to our constitution. Then the hubris of this board, in particular of Mr Wilburn, despite having been a publicly elected official. Chose to bring a suit. Thank you. All right. We'll clear the room again if that happens. Thank you Next up is Brett Dayberry, followed by Emily Vonachen. Diet Praise God for your continued recovery as of January 20th there's a new sheriff in town. Here's a parcel transcript from a recent speech my Department of Education
will inform States and school districts that if any teacher or school l official suggest to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body, they will be faced with severe consequences Consequences including potential civil rights violations for sex discrimination and the elimination of federal funding. As part of our new credentialing body for teachers, we will promote positive education about the nuclear family. That's an idea the roles of model of mothers and fathers and celebrating rather than erasing the things that make
men and women. Different and unique. I will ask Congress to pass a bill establishing the only genders recognized by United States government or male and female and they are assigned at birth. The bill will ill also make clear that Title 9 prohibits men from participating in women’s sports. And we will protect the rights of parents from being forced to allow their minor child to assume a gender which is new and an identity without the parents consent. How does this relate to D20, the three members of this board who
are up for re-election have failed this community by not requiring parental consent in the ACA. These are the same 3 board members. Who effectuated 3 vile books to remain in the libraries? I'm suggesting that Aaron Salt Nicole Konz and Lauren Yanez not muddy the waters at the next school board election. Announce that you will not run for re-election so D20 can move forward with actual conservatives who will have the fortitude to do what is right for the kids.
Finally, Emily Vonachen. Good evening, D20 Parent and taxpayer. First, I would like to remind everyone that Ramadan starts on February 28th. I know that this is a culture of Christianity around here, but let's remind everyone that in the EAC there is a minor with the hijab, and there are Muslim families who do practice openly in D20. OK, so let's remember all of that. Secondly I would like to remind. Aaron Salt, October 2021. You hadn't been elected yet.
That was when the auditorium was open and in this particular meeting, FEC C United, who was run by Joe Altman, Derek Wilburn, you'll remember because Conservative Daily has a podcast in that platform. You actually your podcast was on the same platform FEC United's militia DUADF which there are D20 taxpayer residents who have come and spoken is s a member. They were here that night. So let me be very clear that t if you try to clear the room again, I will not.
Going out there because with this climate political climate, as we just saw, just literally 30 seconds ago, I don't feel safe being in that hallway with individuals in this political climate and if you if there's any harm caused, 'cause I I mean, let's face it, pain and Buck, they're great But also there's a lot of ******* crazy people around here, OK So sorry, didn't mean to drop the F bomb. I get it OK, But I do want do want.
Everyone to re to be reminded of October 20 21, when a lot of people weren't here. OK, Joe Altman might have went to Texas, but his followers still remain, and they're active Third, Mr Wilburn, I still hold that you are petent for this position OK and I do think that it's only only a matter of time before something happens. Miscons You will get reelected if you rerun. He is now your problem, so best of luck to that. Hey, no thank you.
We're done.