All right, this meeting is now called to order. Roll call. Please, Mrs. Konz here. Mrs. Shandy here, Mr. Wilburn here. Mrs. Yanez, here, Mr. Salt here. The Pledge of Allegiance this evening is going to be met, led by Adeline, who's a fifth-grade student at at Mountain View Elementary School. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Great job, thank you for the help. All right, tonight we have Encompass Heights Elementary School and Mountain View Elementary School here for our board spotlight If you all could stay after we're done, we'd love to shake hands with the students. We got a little prize for them and take a few pictures. So further ado, we'll start with Encompass Heights Mrs. Yanez. Encompass Heights is the newest elementary school and Academy District 20 opening their doors for the 2021 2022 school year. Their first-year enrollment was
399 students, including preschool, their current enrollment is 587, including preschool. Please welcome Principal Jennifer Sterk. Thank you. I get the pleasure of introducing Sarah Sakamoto. She is our Rockstar ESL teacher. She opened the building with us and she'll share. I don't want to steal the Thunder, but grown the program exponentially so we chose to do a video. So unfortunately our kiddos are not here but you get to see Kittie on this on our video but
But with that Sarah's work and the growth she's done, we're re still not quite full time. That's our biggest wish for next year is that we have the full time support just because it is such a growing population. But with that, I will turn it over. To Mrs. Sakamoto, thank you. Members of the school board. Superintendent Haberer ladies and gentlemen, thank you for this opportunity to showcase Encompass Heights Elementary School. My name is Sarah Sakamoto and I teach ESL at EHES. We all like to start with our why encompass heights because everyone in my family is multilingual many
of us learning by immersion. We lived in Germany and Belgium and my boys went to local public schools, which I can tell you is really really hard for both families and students. But we also learned first hand through adversity and success, that being culturally and linguistically diverse is a superpower. At Encompass Heights, we like to say the power is in the people. I teach ESL because of the people These are my students in the little paw print over there and together with the amazing teachers and staff at Encompass s Heights Elementary, we have a really awesome program Let's look at
t some fast facts Year 1 opening year w school new program we started with seven ESL students and by s and by the end of the school year we had moved up to 10/7 languages other than English represented and at the end of the year we were able to successfully redesignate 2 students at at out of ESL. And now for my favorite part, let's meet a multilingual Husky. Hi my name is Nimish. I'm like m like home. I like Marty and my parents who come from. I have my mom and dad
y brother and my and my I live my own in my house this This language is very awesome. You're gonna love it. It's Martin. What's me about Marty? Cause it's a Indian language just like suffix suffix speaks another language, just like us. That's right. And you guys both come from India, don't you? That's so cool Do you enjoy ESL at your school?
Yes. What do you enjoy about it? I want to get all the colors are painted. And the school is very new. Yeah, Squid. Has been built for many years. What do you learn in ESL Nimish? Some coloring pictures and some more fun things do you enjoy y it? Yeah. Do you think that ESL is important? Yes. Why? As for learning more, learning more more things and just writing.
It helps you with your writing for sure. You've come so far, you've made so much progress and I'm really proud of Year 2 we were doubled our number of ESL students from 9 to 18 and we added some other languages s than English represented. At the end of the year we redesignated three more students. And year three, last school year we went from 14 to 19 Students added yet more languages other than English represented ed, and we successfully redesignated 4 students Now we get to meet another culturally and linguistically diverse student
was a newcomer two years ago. And please remember that these videos were unscripted and unrehearsed. I literally started recording and just chatted ed with them. I'm Sonia. Hi. How are you today? I'm good yeah. What would you like to say about ESL at our school? That is so helps a lot of people that don't really understand English that much and they're from a different country. Cool can
n you tell us about where your family is from? And what languages do you guys all speak? My dad, she has grandparents and he speaks to them to Ukrainian cool my y mom, brother, brother, I, we peak Russian so So do you also understand Ukrainian? Yes, that's so cool. And you're learning English? Heading compass height. You were in what grade?
3rd grade Wow, and now you're in. 5th grade, you've learned so much. I'm so proud of you. You've worked really hard and you've learned so much. Do why do you think that ESL is s important at our school? I don't really understand English. It helps them understand more. What about ESL? Do you really like at your school? I like. It's a really much 'cause it help helps me. When I came here I didn't really know
anything, but now I know a lot. One of the coolest things about ESL at our school is how diverse we really are. Here's a breakdown of home languages across our school district. And as you can see, about a third of our multilingual multilingual learners speak Spanish. Now look at the languages represented just at Encompass Heights we have e a beautiful rainbow of multilingual learners, and it grows and changes every single year. Another cool thing about our school is our non ESL Huskies who also represent global cultures and experiences
I started this project in year 2 and was astounded at how much diversity of experiences we all bring to our community with our military families, choice enrollments and d neurodiverse populations including students with dyslexia, we've literally got the world covered and we all need each other and can value and learn from one another. Here comes another English language learning expert. Joshua came to us from Columbia in Good afternoon, Joshua. Thank you. How are you today? Good. Yeah. Do you? What do you
think of ESL? Sure, Yeah. What's good about it? That makes me smart or. Or. No, all the equations Oh wow. Yeah, yes, that helps with that. What about? Being a student who speaks Spanish at home isn't that super cool? Oh, we're not speak Spanish My brother too. They are three students that speak
Spanish. And you all go to Encompass Heights together. Yeah that's pretty cool, right? What do you want to say about ESL at Encompass Heights? I will say yes, I was very very nice and so good for kids because you can. Practiced and answer the hard equations so you don't even help you in
math Yeah or the equations you don't know. I sincerely hope that from the showcase you can see that encompass heights. We embrace our diversity. We help all to be champions of success, we empower our ESL students, and we savor our stories. Our ESL program continues to grow every year. We continue to successfully redesignate multilingual learners as they acquire English proficiency, and we value and appreciate our diversity as a unique asset. Thank you did
amazing. Thanks, Sarah, Great job. All right. Thank you so much. Next, we have Mountain View Elementary. Mrs. Shandy. Mountain View is one of the oldest schools in the district, founded in 19 965. And was one of the first technology magnet schools in 1992. Please welcome Principal Corinne Gorsh. You can pull the mics down if you need to. Good evening. Thank you so much for the opportunity for us to showcase Mountain View. Our community is truly the heart of our success this evening. We
wanted to showcase some of the experiences and the opportunities that we provide for our students we for many years have been able to offer Robotics MVTV V, intramurals as some of our extracurricular activities. We're really thrilled to be able to offer choir and strings. Art Club this year are some additions that we've made, so we have a quick video that we like to show that just gives a really great overview of who we are and what we do. And after that the star of the show will be our students
We have this is Riley fair we have have Adeline fairing and then switching seats in moment will be Lincoln sorry and writer Andrews and And they're going to tell you how MVE has impacted them. Mountain View. We prioritize social emotional learning throughout our daily routine to help our students develop resilience problem setting skills, and interpersonal skills our r morning meeting prepares students for success, while the closing circle at the end of the day helps them reflect and feel refreshed. We have
adopted the RULER curriculum from the district to teach children to label and regulate their emotions and each classroom m creates a charter to outline the desired community feeling. Mountain View offers 5 special classes to enrich students Education, music, art t, PE, Spanish and 21 C These classes connect with classroom content and standards and bring the school community together through various activities such as Wellness events, musical shows, art galleries, health gems, kids heart challenges and book fairs.
These classes are an integral part of Students Day. At Mountain View, we prioritize the academic journey of each student our classroom teachers and support staff use a wide variety of assessment resources and instructional l practices to identify the strengths and needs of all students. We then tailor our instruction to both challenge and support each child in the ways that are necessary for them as individuals. In the 2019, our students are involved
in standing activities where they learn through the design thinking process this s hands on approach helps to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills. Working as part of the team, our r students have the opportunity to discover their potential and pursue their passions for the future. As a teacher at Mountain View, I love the fact that we have a defined core curriculum that we follow. However, the best part is that we are given the flexibility to use our creativity to engage students and help them better understand the content through experience
or learning. Leave hands on activities, real life simulations and field d trips that are tied to the curriculum to reinforce concepts and skills. Our ultimate goal is to make a lasting impact on our students, allowing them to take with them the knowledge and skills they have learned throughout their lives. Inside the classrooms you can see how technology is s utilized to enhance the teaching and learning experience and to promote creativity. A variety of activities are offered by Mountain View to connect students and families.
I have been called MVTV because I edit and create unique videos, operate and be on camera in a former school and community about special events I like a copy because I do fun things and I do projects that I never done before. Our 4th grade and 5th grade students are doing the musical Lion King this year and I am part of the animal ensemble I love e working with new people and being part of a team. As a member of the student council, I have organized school events, promote positive character traits, and participate in
community outreach. I accident council because everyone is included and has an evil chance to participate in robotics. We get the creator robots and code them to complete missions Alright, problem solving, working as a team, and the feeling of accomplishing intuition. I start on a new elementary school Believes in building strong connections with our students, families es and the wider community. We are committed to promoting awareness among our students about how they can contribute and be involved in community service we collaborate with
h organizations like Karen Share, American Heart Association and local nursing homes to help our students develop socially responsible and compassionate values. Our PTA and parent community take an active role in supporting our school. Thanks to their of neighboring dedication, Mountain View offers a diverse range of opportunities for family and community involvement. We are Mountain View. Hi, my name is Riley Fair. I'm in fifth grade and I've been at Mountain View for six years and that since kindergarten the activities that I
I participate in at Mountain View are tagged CML in the musical Mountain View has helped me grow as a student by growing my my confidence and relationships when I was in the musical l as a fourth grader, I got to know a lot of 5th graders and build relationships with them. I also gained confidence in performing in front of others. I'm so glad to be a part of Mountain View and I'm thankful for the opportunities. They've given me. They've given me to grow as a person. Hi, my name is Adeline Faring and I've been at Mountain View Elementary since first grade. I have participated
in many activities at MVE, some of my favorites are the MVA Musical Tag and Student Council Mountain View has helped me grow because of all my past and present teachers. Ms. Martini, my tag teacher has as helped me learn higher grade level math and ELA. Student Council has helped me improve my leadership skills Our school has amazing specials where I learn a lot They are PE, Spanish, art, music and 21 C. We also have wonderful field trips
s. This year we are going to Ameritown and I'm really excited for that overall I love my school and will be sad when I leave for middle school next year. My name is Lincoln Story and I've been going to Mountain View Elementary for five years now and I'm in 4th grade. I've participated in lots of fun activities at Mountain View and but one of my favorites was participating in intramurals, which is a before school PE activity and I've done lots of fun like sports and things when doing that.
I've also done a STEM club which is just super fun. We've done experiments like the Coke and Mentos experiment which was probably the best thing that we did. Mountain View has helped me grow as a student by being super kind, supportive, and helping me grow my confidence I am very glad to be a part of this. Amazing community. Thank you. Hello, my name is Ryder Andrews and I, I've been at, I've been at Mountain View for five years now and I'm in fifth grade. I'd like to, I'd like to
hare that some activities I've participated in are MVTV, the Musical, and intramurals MVTV has helped me with my public speaking and the e musical has helped me with dancing, dancing, and singing grow my confidence in them. And intramurals has helped me. Has taught me sportsmanship and MVTV and MVN Mountain View Elementary has helped me grow so much and that's one of the most, that's one of the most things I love about it.
Thank you. Didn't they do an amazing job? Can we give them another round of a buzz? All right, we're going to take just a real quick like 2 minutes so we can take pictures with the kids, hand out some e prizes, and then we'll get right back to our meeting. If you all take my job any day, good job, OK? That's right. That we're doing on site, it's on. Yeah. It's always
I got you alright, 321. Great. Thank you guys so much. All right. I know we say about four minutes left, but we have a lot to get through, so we're going to go and keep rolling. Mrs. Mattsson-Bonett, are there any updates to the agenda? There were there were updates to the agenda and the board was notified of these. Thank you members of the board. Are there any items you u wish to move from the consent agenda? Are there any discussion items to be added to the agenda? When we have a motion to approve the agenda, please moved. Second roll call Mrs. Konz, aye Mrs. Shandy aye. Mr. Wilburn aye, Mrs. Yanez, aye
Mr. Salt aye. Tonight's board quote is from Mrs. Shandy, Mark 12:31 Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than this. We just came from a funeral of one of our 12 year old students. And it was tough, it was beautiful, but it was tough. But it was a great reminder how precious life is and we as a community really need to choose to love each other and bless each other and I'm proud of our board for doing that with the things that we're doing so. Thank you. Does anyone have
any board comments this evening? Mrs. Haberer will talk about it, but I just want to congratulate all of our staff and teachers, students. It was an amazing year. Thank you so much for all the work that you guys have put in. I know we'll see. More on the data later, but it's a big celebration. So thank you for everything that you guys do throughout the year. Clearly makes a difference with that. Mr. Smart, I believe you have an introduction to make. Yeah, Thank you Have one administrator to introduce tonight. I'm pleased to introduce Trisha Anthony, who's being recommended as the Chinook Trail Middle School interim assistant principal. Tricia is joined
this evening by her husband, Chris, who I think just made it a few minutes ago. Here you go. So Trisha holds a Bachelors of Arts in English Education secondary. From Colorado State University, all I know is I heard somebody say the world needs more Cowboys. That's all I know. She also got a master's of arts in teaching. She loves that teaching humanities from Colorado o College. Her educational career began in Woodland Park Middle School she taught 7th and 8th grade English language arts then she
n she came to D20 and has worked at Rampart High School since 2000 She's done a lot. I don't know if she did all these things at the same time, but I'm gonna tell you what she did. She was an English teacher. And literature teacher, she was AB coordinator, I'd be extended essay coordinator, department chair, all those things I'm probably some of f those things at the same time. Yeah. There you go. Wore a lot of hats for sure. So we are pleased to recommend Trisha to you tonight for the position of Chinook Trail Middle School interim assistant principal. Anything you'd like e to say? Thank you to the board. Thank you to Tom and the leadership and the staff at Chinook for the
opportunity. And thank you too, Megan and Pete and the staff and leadership past and present at Rampart for. Feeding my soul and growing me and teaching me to make bold moves. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Smart and welcome aboard, Superintendent Haberer. Welcome back schools in full swing and we're just off to such an amazing start and though even though back one I think there we go. Nope, Nope, Nope there
we go all right, so. Even though we have been in school now for what, 5 weeks? We haven't really celebrated the first few days of school so we just had a wonderful time. I had a chance. There at liberty to welcome in the new freshmen and they just had such a great celebration it was s wonderful. We went to several different schools, some of them air Academy, Liberty, Mountain View, Challenger and Compass Heights and
many more those first few days of school and it was just great to see the energy of the kids and d teachers being there to welcome and embrace our kids. Spent some great time at Discovery Canyon Go the Thunder and. They had a pancake breakfast for their students when they got there, and I just thought that was such a great way to welcome our kids so as s a director, Salt said. We are so excited for 16 years in a row, District 20
0 has been accredited with distinction and it is that is not an easy feat. It's due to the very hard work of our teachers, all of our staff and our amazing. Principles and the support that's given here at the EAC. It really is a team, one effort for this to happen, not many districts, if any, have been had this string of success and so once again we were credited with distinction and we even went up to whole points on our performance framework. And I know that Joann, I'm glad she's here tonight. She's going to tell
us all about the frameworks and some of the C mass results. I know we had ESL represented here tonight and we saw some great growth h with our ESL learners this past year. Was really exciting to see so o we know that the state recognizes different schools the governor's awards, but we really felt like it was important to recognize our schools here in our district as s well. And so just a little bit the Colorado Department of Education n puts together district and school performance
frameworks that provide a school plan and type of accreditation official ratings are based on several different indicators and just like we take a whole child approach with our students. We take a whole child approach with our schools as well, so academic achievement, academic growth post secondary y workforce readiness are all really important components and the state really looks at how we're doing in all of those areas and gives us a special designation as a result. The state board is the one that defines the cut point, so accreditation ratings and based
d on all of the various percentage points that are earned within the framework. So we had 22 schools. Were accredited with distinction, which is absolutely phenomenal and amazing and so what we decided to do is we said well, let's recognize he schools who were accredited with distinction and d share the percentages that they also had on their framework and And thank you. I know that after a long hard day, we have several principles here today. So when I mention your school, also understand that, you know
some principals weren't able to come, but I know that several that were able to so. So. For the 90s, those who got a 90% on their percent performance framework and All Trails Elementary School Laura a Crescent, where is she at? Would you please stand? Antelope trails had the highest percentage of accredited with distinction. Challenger Middle School. Where's Deb s there? Challenger saw some huge growth last year and had the 95.5% growth TCA high school. Not sure if they were able to make it but they had
d a 94.5%. Let's give them a half. Pioneer Elementary School, 92 point h awesome. And Foothills Elementary School. Where's Julie? I think I saw her in the back there. So much hard work and really when talking with principals and with teachers, I think the work that the district has done even before I got here and the focus we had last year on our professional learning communities, it really does make a difference and a lot of hard work's being done and looking at data in n those place groups. So in for the 80s on the
performance framework, we had TCA College pathways. Let's give them m a hat. Village middle school. I don't know if Ash is there. Jody. Yeah. Come on. It just. Thank you, Jody. Discovery Canyon Campus Elementary School at 83.6%. Air Academy High School 82.3 I think I see Dan back there he is. Rock Rimin Elementary School at 82 Point y thank you. Academy International Elementary School at 80 7%. Pine Creek High School at 80.4%.
Chinook Trail Elementary School at 80 Point And then TCATCA Elementary at 80%. And in our 70s, which would be 70 and higher. Discovery Canyon Campus middle school at 70 3%. Chinook Trail Middle School at 76 9%. Eagle View Middle School at 75.7. Discovery Canyon Campus High School at 70 8 there saw Matt back there he is Rampart t High School 74.5 there's Megan. Woodman, Roberts Elementary School at 74.2.
And Village High School at 74.1. And I was saving the very best for last but t Liberty High School, Matt give it up 75.8%. All right. So principals, thank you for being here. It's truly a team one effort and great things happen in schools because we have amazing staff and really strong expertise and leadership. I think leadership matters. And so thank you and thank you for being here. We want to be able to take a group picture when I'm m done with the Superintendent update. So please stay around and we'll take a picture
if you would please. All right. So we had a chance to go to Village Middle School and have a goal again of going to every school each semester and we got a chance to be there at the beginning of the year and they were doing this wonderful chain activity outside where students put their interests on n different strips of paper. And then when they went outside, they found other students who had similar interests. And then they linked their chains together and then n at the very end, they had all of the chains linked And I it was just really fun
n to see. Connecting it really builds that culture that we talk k about the culture of connectedness and then I love this invention that as showed me where they can actually y you can actually be watching the class while you're doing math problems or or whatever you want to write and have it be projected on the wall. And that means students could be watching their peers and having interactions with them while they work. So I thought that I appreciate Village Middle School and their dedication to. Really using Ed technology as tools.
To help student achievement. And then I was at Chinook Trail Middle School and it was really fun to hear Tom talk about the work they're doing riding across the curriculum so their r teachers came up with. Of common writing rubric that they're all going to use to help give students feedback about their writing, and that was really exciting and we were in several classrooms and we saw students writing stories, which was really fun and then I also thought that this was really amazing that they have. How to be a science a student learning guide and they have student learning
guides for different subjects and it's just such a great way for to help students reflect on their learning and we know that in Tom Hattie's research that one of the top ways of increasing student achievement is to help students set their own goals and then n figure out by looking at examples like this how they hey can get there. We went and had a chance to go to Da Vinci and they had all their 5th graders outside and they were doing a lot of team building activities because they really believed
that 5th grade should be the leaders and by putting pulling them together as a strong team, they can then better leave the younger students at the school. This s wonderful woman in the blue shirt, her name's Danny and she goes to out every year to Da Vinci and does these team building activities. And I hear that she's willing to go to. Schools too, and we might even call on her for some team building here at the EAC at some point. But that was really fun to see. And then we also had a chance, and Nicole and I
had a chance to go into classrooms together and students were really engaged with their learning and that was a real joy to go to those various classrooms then had d a chance to go to Eagle View Middle School and they too were working on. Writing which was really fun to see. On talking to students about stories you're writing and then n we caught a glimpse of their outdoor classroom and they use that outdoor classroom to do all kinds of teaching you can kind of see there's a little
benches there, and they also have a community garden They partner with a group called the Flying Pig Farm It's a community garden in Manitou Springs and they come and help teach the students about gardens and how to harvest the the vegetables and vegetables and honey. I think they've got a a beehive. There too, and they use it in science classes and then they use the produce from this garden for their unique world cuisines and cultures class and d I'd love to be there when they do some taste. Tasting experiences had a chance to go
to home school. Academy was really fun to spend time with Keisha Hill. They had their high school students out learning how to paddle board at a nearby lake, so that was great. The kids were all yelling and just having a great time and I asked one student what was s the best experience and they said because we're all really helping each other to get good at this and we weren't really we were kind of scared to get on it at first, but we all cheered each other on and they're just having a Antelope Trails Elementary Laura Cresa, principal and I were walking classrooms and really
what I saw there was just real clear posting of learning objectives and success criteria. So when students are sitting in the classroom, they know what they're supposed to be learning and they also know how they are going to be expected to demonstrate that learning at the end. Pine Creek High School A shout out to Korina Bierman, she sends me all these wonderful. Things that they're doing at Pine Creek and I really do appreciate that and I would encourage all principals to o send me the celebrations from your building. I'd love to know everything that's going on
across the building, so please send them here, but it was really exciting to see what her IT pro Pine Creek it department computer science is doing. Students passed 24 certification exams and those se are not easy to pass and you can see the different t kinds of exams, some of the exemplary students Elliott Bossetti, Joshua Driesman. Brogan, Fogarty, Jacob Marlett, Jacob Sylvis and Jessa V Hill. And we also have a congratulations to Pine Creek
High School teacher Steve Errickson, Denise Garden Brittany Nicolson as well, and I think some of you are here just to tell us a little bit more about your computer science program It's really exciting what you guys are doing, so please come up and just share e a little bit about your program. Hi, I'm Denise Gardner. I'm Steve Erickson. Steve's the talker. OK, Steve. Lay it out for us Well, so I'm a computer science teacher. I'm also a cyberpatriot coach. I do E sports. I'm a DLC as well. I've been at Pine Creek since 2016. I just love it. It's a
a fun time. You just see by the looks on the faces, the kids are having a good time. Those are some of our CF F students that Denise and I and Brittany. I'll share and it's just awesome. It's contagious once ce the kids get going, they Start learning, they start feeding off of each other. Workforce readiness. We have kids earn these certs so they can get jobs right away and experiential learning for post secondary education. I think it's super important but t they're just having fun, so I teach. I've been at Pine Creek
since we opened in 98, so this is my 27th year there. And I love it. I wouldn't have stayed for 26 years, now 27. If I didn't love Pine Creek as a school and the staff and the students. But I teach AP computer Science. AP Computer Science principles, Oracle database programming, one programming to Steve and I both teach cyber security. He does cyber one, I do Cyber 2. I think this past year what helped us be successful with all our students getting g certified is that we have funding to buy a site
license for Certiport. So our students, our tech students could take. As many certification exams if as they wanted included practice tests even if we we didn't directly teach the content. We had students who are highly motivated, like Elliott Bassetti, who's like, I'm just going to do the practice exams and study the content built into Certiport and take the exam on n my own, you know? So she came in after she graduated this past school year for a week taking about six or seven additional certification exam, so
o it was really helpful to have that site license, you know, so our students can go for it and get professionally certified. That's awesome. Thank you so much for the inspiration that you share with our students every day and this amazing success. Thank you. Thank you. So. So a few more celebrations from Pine Creek, a huge congratulations to Pine Creek artist Emma Haisley as s part of our graphic arts contest, she competed in the El Paso County Election Sticker Design competition and she won. So if we hopefully we can
all have a chance to get one of those stickers, it's absolutely beautiful. And this year it will be produced and given out to voters during this fall's election. So that's really exciting. Also, Pine Creek participated the down center awareness walk. They had 100 and Walkers, which was the largest team represented there and they raised 5650 which was the largest amount that was raised at that walk. It was so amazing for them to walk
together and I look forward to hoping it'll fall when I can go. I know I was out of town for that one, but what at a great event. And then also want to share with you this national art. ID buzz and I think they're going to d and turn that on for us, right? They don't work. Oops, was blocked all right. There we go. A picture is worth 1000 words, but some students in Colorado Springs were able to provide some that were worth even more pictures that were even more valuable and Josh. Those pictures were given to kids on the e other side of the world ran. This is a really, really
great story. Last year, the national art honor Society chapter at Pine Creek High School, they adopted orphan children from m Malaysia to create portraits for them. Those kids were asked to share their favorite color, a favorite activity with those artists to help bring in inspiration for those portraits. Now, over the summer, those portraits, as you can see, were delivered to these beautiful kids in Malaysia. So do you remember one year ago when the photographer took your photos and asked you for what is your name and what is your favorite color? Do you
u remember that? Well, we gave those photos to students in our schools who are studying art and they made some really special gifts for you. Thank you, I love this very much. Thank you. Unbelievable look at t all those smiles, those portraits. I mean, hopefully they're gonna last a lifetime. And even the artist, they had a photo of him on the back of themselves, and they traced their hands on it, too so the kids would be able to touch hands with them. So keep in mind, these kids didn't have parents snapping photos with them growing up
p. So these unique pieces of art are very special to everyone involved. We wanna say thank you to you amazing people. You've taken your amazing talent and you have given them a visual that has given them the sense of beauty identity and acceptance. Just an awesome way to connect students, older students with younger er students from the other side of the world and truly.
Make an impact Hey is there something impacting the school in a a great way someone truly remarkable something remarkable normally so let's give all the great things that are happening at pine Creek and and especially this. Amazing program. All right, so we also have a lot going on with our post secondary readiness programs in addition to the wonderful work that's doing it in the computer science program at Pine Creek, the e Pikes Peak Business and Education Alliance really is a
connects students and talents and interests together with workforce and we had several students, seven students who completed 60 hours summer internships. With various regional business partners, which included Katie Riser from Air Academy High School, Katherine Culp from Pine Creek High School and Haley Clark from Rampart and Luke Wise at Pine Creek High School and Catherine was did an internship at the Marriott and then was also hired for an n internship afterwards. So such great ways of
f connecting with our community. Ryan Wise is at Pine Creek Joshua Driesman, Pine Creek and then Kaylee Canberra at Rampart High School. And we just say a thank you to PPBEA and the work that they do with our students. I had a chance to meet our wonderful students who are in the teacher cadet program. It's a two year career technical education pathway that where students learn the foundation and of nature of teaching They even build lesson plans, practice presenting those lessons and
they have field experiences in the classroom and then n in addition, teacher cadets can apply for college credit. With UCCS, SO and these students, we asked each one of them what did they what t inspired them to want to become a teacher and they all mentioned teachers and how even n back to first grade kindergarten and I said why? And this is because they made me feel special. They saw me and they really cared about me so grade school all the
l the way up, we make a difference in the life of a child d. And so it was really fun. The eight students were Isabella Candela. Lily Carlson, Rachel Fault Sophia Goodwin, Abby Green, Charlize Hibner Kate Henneman, and Hannah McKay. So just delightful to be able to spend time with them and they met with various folks throughout the E E A/C on that day. And then as you know w, we opened our Aspire program on August 7th. Aspire provides a smaller, more intimate
setting for students while maintaining the structure of a high school environment. But in a way that allows for more personalized support. So we're thrilled to be able to launch this program and I know they have plans for growing it as they take on more e students. And then a shout out to Discovery Canyon Campus Middle School, Emily Heinrich, I'm not sure she was able to come. Where is she at? Would you please stand up? Let's give it up for Emily. She's amazing. Emily is the IB coordinator at Discovery Canyon Campus and she's been accepted to the 2020
4 Peace Teachers Program at the US Institute of Peace. Emily Heinrich was selected because of her proven commitment to incorporating critical issues of international conflict, peace, and peace building into her classroom. She's 1 of 26 educators from across the country and the only teacher from Colorado o selected to join this year's cohort. So let's just give her one more. Congratulations, Emily. And next Pete Risting, I think is one who shared this photo with us
We appreciate that. You know, we recently hired on several new security officers and every play, every elementary that I've gone to the principals just can't say enough about how much they appreciate their presence ce. And I see them, you know, bonding with kids really creating that culture connection. So Pete, thanks you for sharing this with us. This is officer Gabriel Madrigal. Who is the security officer at Rockrimmon Elementary School He's a retired U.S. Army soldier with 21 years of service.
And he's again one of the new officers that we hired over the summer, and you can see he's clearly making a difference e with our students. So we just appreciate all of our security officers. I know they have a real heart for students. And then again a congratulations the e Association of School Business Officials International ASBO announced that Academy District 20s budget t received the Meritorious Budget award. This award reflects the districts commitment to sound fiscal fiscal management and budgetary policies. So
So congratulations to the entire business services department and that includes Becky Allen, our deputies Superintendent, CFO, Kathy Watts, executive. For Business Services and Tony Demotte, director So many great things happening here in D20. It's just it's fun. So I had a chance to go to Children's Hospital. It was called Children's Hospital 10 1 event and was behind the scenes. I had a chance to shadow chief medical director for the emergency
room, Doctor Lisman, and he was just fantastic and one of f the things they emphasize is that every single e employee that works at Children's gets special training and how to interact and build relationships with students. And he's been in here, I think for over a decade and I got to go into the emergency room or one of the rooms and here was a little 2 year old and he had his little car and he picked up the car and was driving it up and down the pillow. The doctor was doctor Lisbon wasn't within, I don't know, a minute or two he put his s hand out this to that little child, put his hand in his hand and
d immediately there was a connection and let you know. Doctor Lisman, listen to his heart and all of that. But I really saw that to be true at Children's. They really know how to work with children and. Every person that I saw there just really made an extra effort to touch the life of a child, and then I had a chance to be with Doctor Lauren Eckhart and it's right across from the pond, right up the street from us children's s Colorado Therapy Care. It's a brand new behavioral health program that was started in 2022. And so she showed me around and we started
talking about what would a partnership look like because we all know that we need help here in the schools with behavioral health And so we started to brainstorm what would that look like Could we potentially partner together and apply for a grant at the Anschutz Medical Center r? And so she's going to come out. I told her about our Spire program and she wants to come out and take a tour there. And I'm excited. I think there's going to be some really good. Things that come out of that partnership. D20 Foundation Golf tournament and thank you, Board of Directors
for being there. We know that happened on the 20 because of the support of over 40 sponsors and donors and a dozen volunteers the event was expected to raise about out $50,000. I think they're still looking through their contributions and it's important because these funds go right ack to D20 to support student scholarships. Senior r scholarships, teacher classroom grants and select programs at the he district. And on the right, Buddy and Jeanette Van Doren. They were the ones who started the Ed
Foundation, so it was really fun to meet them in person. So thank you again to the board of directors for you were able to come at a chance. I was invited to go to the Air Force Academy game. They played Merrimack College Warriors and they won 21 to six. But best of all, I had a chance to meet and build some partnerships. I met the new Superintendent and his wife Trisha loves to listen to the Air Force Academy a are the Air Academy high school band. Oi said. Well, why don't you come to Homecoming? So we've invited
them to come to the Air, Air Academy High School, a homecoming game, so that she could actually see the marching band. But just appreciate our partnership, these two young ladies, they the one on the left wants to be a Jag She really wants to go into law, and the other one is excited to be a pilot so o it was fun to hear about their journey and how they became interest interested in those types of careers. This past week, September stakeholder meeting week, we met with all the different stakeholders we have e classified Liaison Council. I met with community connections
which was coffee and conversations, but now it's really we're trying to focus on community connections, parent sounding board patron n council, Superintendent, student Advisory Council and the teacher communication council. And I will tell you, I had so much fun with the students. Definitely the highlight. I asked them about the cell phone policies and I said, what do you guys think about that? I think we need to hear what the student voice. Around that and I said, and what's your recommendation and their recommendation was to find a middle ground and they really all of of them were really supportive of the great work that was already going on in the
e high school and they agreed that hat it's probably isn't a good thing to always have your cell phone out, but could you use it for breaks? And then there was a senior that said that he lower lowerclassmen definitely they shouldn't have their cell phones but by t by the time they're seniors, they should be able to have free access to their cell phones And so they were just delightful. I am so excited to keep working with them this year. Of course, we went t to the state of the city where Mayor Mobilade gave his state of the city
address Road to the Future, where he covered his strategic plan and one of of the things I really appreciated about that as he talked about CTE pathways and he's very committed to growing career pathways within the city and connecting business partners. Speaking of which, the workforce. Pikes Peak Workforce Center has invited us to do a presentation. programs and career pathways on November 1st so we're excited to be able to share that upcoming bond information, Becky and Mark and I have been going to several different venues just to share factual information and just keep encouraging people
ask you questions about the bond. It just keeps pointing them back to our website. We have a great FAQ sheet there and questions that have been asked we put on there along with information. So just encourage you to use the website. And last, we say congratulations to recent Pine Creek High School graduate Justin Charles Cecil. Is Justin here tonight? Yay. Let's s give him a hand. Got his cap on there all right. So he was able to complete his last credit this
summer so that he could graduate And Justin, we invite you when I'm done here to come to the front if you'd like to shake hands and have your picture taken beginning next year. We're excited to actually y host a summer graduation, a full summer graduation for any students who graduate. But let's just give her another round of applause to Justin. Thanks for hanging in there, Justin way y to go. And that is the end of my report. All right. Thank you Superintendent Haber. Lots of great stuff going on and
we're just getting started into the air with that. We are going to take about another 5 minute break. So we can congratulate all of the principals that are here, take a couple photos, congratulate our graduates and then we'll keep rolling on. So 5 minutes. Thanks. I touched his. Yeah, I mean, let's see how it goes to get school principals to come forward for a photo. All right, we have 12 folks who have joined us online. Now we'll move on to our consent agenda. There were no items pulled from the consent. We need a motion to approve the consent agenda
as posted. Moved second roll call Would you like me to do it Sure, Mr. President, Salt Yes. Vice President. Konz, aye Mrs. Shandy aye. Mr. Wilburn aye, Mrs. Yanez, aye. Right now there were no items pulled from the consent agenda and we'll move on to our written reports. Annual monitoring report for EL2 2.2 treatment of parents and general public. Did anyone have any questions or comments?
Right 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 or different evidence or should any part of this policy be changed in the next monitoring report cycle? Do you see evidence which is extraneous or no longer necessary? All right, Item B information regarding ASD 20's Cumbre Vista school site. Do you want to have any questions or comments? Miss Oh, go ahead, Mr.
So the report stipulates that. The difference between if the city were to pay for commercial versus designated schools use comes out to almost a little over $61,000 an acre. So we're talking about around 300 and 53155 55,000. Do we have a way of knowing? Or that will we not know until they publish a report or reach out and let us know? Thank you for bringing that up. So the way it works is those
numbers, the 76,006 O2 that is the price per acre if if you will, that a school district gets compensated for land, that other amount, the 137 and 37694 that is Parkland. So we have reached out. In fact, we sent a letter earlier this year to the city advocating for the fact that we don't really understand why school. Property would be valued at almost half the rate as a park. Parks are very important, but
certainly so are schools. So please know that in our messaging to the Colorado Springs Parks, Recreation and Culture Services department, we have said that we expect to at least get one 37694 in the proposal they give us. So we are asking that we be compensated at least the park rate and that we're not interested in 76,006 O 2 OK, so you're reading that so the word expect was in our
and we told them they know that we're not interested in anything lower because we e simply think that it's not fair to District 20 to our taxpayers. It's just not right. So we expect the proposal to come in at least at that level. If it doesn't, then we're going to send it back and say remember, we said that we expect this amount at least, Becky Allen playing hard. Well, we'll try. We'll try. Thank you. When do you expect to have the closing documents ready? It is hard to say because it could take several months for them to prepare it. They need to do a formal appraisal we wanted
d to see that and all of the paperwork associated. So if you think about closing on a very complex home that's kind of what this is. So certainly when we get those documents as s long as the board meeting isn't the next day or something if we don't have any questions and certainly council in terms of Tanya Thompson takes a look at that, make sure there's no concerns. We will review it as well. We feel it's in a good place. Then we will certainly request it to be on the agenda and prepare those documents for
presentation to you for the board's consideration. Thank you, Miss Allen Thank you. Any other questions if I may just point of f clarification, those dollar amounts that Miss Allen just offered were price per acre, not the total purchase price proposed. Thank you for the clarification Any other? Comments or questions? Board, right? Item C District technology advisory committee report any questions or comments? Mr. Wilburn, this was thank you to everybody involved in this was a
a immensely informative report. And I noticed the makeup of the committee and this isn't necessarily a bad thing, I'm just wondering how it was done. The students on the e committee were all from Pine Creek, except one, I'm assuming that was just for logistics and ease of moving people around and what have you is there a reason other schools weren't pulled from other than that? OK, again, I don't, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. It's not a bad thing. I was just curious. Is this on OK we e were really soliciting for students so it was
open. We didn't get a lot of students applying so we started reaching ng out to the Honor Society. Advisors and Pine Creek was the one who really solicited and so that's how we got those students. We took all students that applied, OK. OK, really, really good report. Thank you. They worked hard. Yeah, it showed. I thought it was a great report, especially after going through the street conference that was such a focus. It was really great to see that we were already engaging in this work, so appreciate everyone's time involved. I know that was a lot of community members. Next item D 2024 Summer Project
status update Were there any questions or comments? Item E New license Staff orientation Any questions or comments? How much do you bribe the individuals coming through Mr. Smart to give you the top score every year? What are you talking about? We're just awesome. My team is great, I don't know if you remember I stopped by and heard you talking about how important it was that they rated you highly so o maybe let the cat out of the bag. Yeah. To everybody else, Yeah. I don't remember recall that discussion. No, it was great. I enjoyed bouncing to all the different sessions
So thanks everyone for letting me pop in and out. It's great to see the energy at that point. Director Wilburn. Want to back up one I I'm sorry project status update I did have I’ve a couple curiosities. I'm curious when it comes to relocating. So we relocated some portables Hold on, hold on one second we're going to see if we can catch Oh yeah, it's not a new they just left. Hopefully it didn't get too far. I can see Pete through the door. Make it worthless while to be here. All right, I would like to happily present very happily. Mike, you almost made it. You got to hustle a little faster
r next time. All right, You got to move quick stealth out of here. Director for Facilities does an outstanding job. Mike Redmond has customer service to our buildings. Just unbelievable so o a few questions are going to come your way. OK, Perfect. Thank you. I thank you for. Yeah, Theodore, if you were a little quicker, you'd have made it up lead a foot anymore Good update on page 6. I'm just curious. So we relocated portables. I'm assuming that happens all the time. Our portables, I assume they're e deconstructed and moved. Is that done all with district resources or do we have to rent equipment for that? We actually have to contract
that out. Yep. And they take e it apart in two pieces, drive it down the road and then put it back together and they're on the big flatbed truck. Yeah. And then Put it back together and do the basic maintenance that you need to do. OK, page 8 discusses stage curtain fire treatment. I just don't know anything about stage curtains What is that something that's sprayed on? What does how often do we do it is is we have a five year cycle that we go through all the stage curtains that aren't built in with an actual
al fabric that has a fire retardant in it. So every five years years we send the curtains off. Different groups have them get clean minor maintenance. And then we have the flame retardant added to it and we do that, like I said, every five years, stall the curtains that need it is that at done through a local vendor or do we have to mail them somewhere? It's a local vendor. OK, I want to say it's Coit actually. Who does it for s. And page 11, we have some great pictures of the elevator renovations s and stuff. I'm just curious, was that Yeah, right. There was all of that cosmetic r did we have to have some mechanical work? It's actually about a three
0,000 upgrade. It's some cosmetic. And then there's a lot of the the internal mechanisms buttons. Is different. All that stuff, the pulleys and all the different pieces in the elevator that we upgrade the picture strategically done because one thing we learned is the floor is not included so you u have a beautiful elevator with an ugly orange carpet over there at at Eagle View. So we're getting that fixed though. OK, Thank you. Great t, great report. Is he we officially dismissed Run, run. Thank you, Mike.
Great last call on new license orientation for Cameron runs All right, 2425 student enrollment update. Were there any questions or comments? Hiring report item G Were there any questions or comments? Director Wilburn. I'm curious about the INRs SO or INR is because final sentence within 30 wait 67 were INRs but 32 ended up filling positions. Is that right? So I'm just curious how that happens I'm
m not an HR guy. Well so last year we had 113, so 113 that's an INR is basically a one year position. We hired 67 of those back of the 113. OK, So that's what that means. So they're basically most of them came back to the position they were in an INR, if that was something that we realized we needed to continue some of them because of late hires, that's how it becomes an n INR. Some of them are just due to temporary situations So that's why they're not all brought back necessarily. So most
of those were just returned to the position they were in INR with the previous year. So of the 32, how does that compare to say prior last couple years? Is that par for the course? Yeah, that's probably what we usually have over 100 INR each year and then? Usually more than half will return. Thank you. Right summer school 2024 summer year report Any questions or r comments? Item I fair campaign practices act Any questions or comments? All right, Item J 2024 CASB Boardsmanship meeting debrief. So I believe I don't believe I was there. Mrs. Yanez, myself and Superintendent
Haberer were the only ones who were able to make it. We had some others who intended and weren't able to come at the last minute. This is the changeover so CASB has a fall. Meeting every year Region 6 they do the different regional meetings It's been Pueblo before. It's been in some other places they usually call you in for a night and have dinner, talk about some stuff and send you home. This is replacing that. And so the idea here was this Boardsmanship Academy and was really geared and
ed and I'll speak for my interpretation really geared toward new board members. And so I, they asked me about the he format. I said, I think this is great for new board members. The problem was with the 1st part was legal updates and kind of implications and the second half was really board dynamics and kind of the operation side of the board, the legal update was nothing but updates. So if you're a brand new board member, it was a little much to get your head d around and dive into because you have to have a base understanding of where
things were. And then in the afternoon it was very. Matt Cooke did it, which he came and did some work with us and I would say is very comparable. To the type of information that he provided so very good for new board members. So I thought it was kind of interesting that the legal update seemed better for people who had been on the board for probably a couple years, but then the afternoon session about the Boardsmanship itself was really geared towards new board members. And so I told them they really just kind of need to reconcile A little bit and focus more on either being new board members or replacing it, but kind of in the capacity it is, I felt like it wasn't a direct replacement, but I thought it was a really interesting thing
I've only been able to go a couple times. They've been in the weekday evenings before and I just t made it difficult for me to get down there. So I like the Saturday format it made e it easier for me to get down there personally. But I'll let others speak well as the newest board member, it was information via fire hose, one of the best questions I got asked was, well, we all got asked, were you surprised by, shocked by, challenged by any part of this job thus far? My hand definitely went up.
But learning all the time and taking advantage of these opportunities to know how to serve learn as much as s I possibly can about every system I possibly can. And. Thanks for letting me tag along. Director Conns. I did not attend this year, but I just want to give kudos to Miss Thompson because when I have attended the past couple years, it's the e legal update is pretty redundant because you do such a thorough job keeping us appraised of everything. That's why I didn't go this year because it's we know it all
l from you. So just thanks for your work. I would say that was or for the he course that the legal update actually. The attorneys, they had their struggle to answer a couple of questions that we had that you you've already talked to us about. So we didn't have any questions about that, but when other members there asked, they were struggling a little bit and lots of get back to us. So thank you for the work that you do I want to take a jump back to H to the summer School Report real quick because there's a couple things in here that I'm
sure Miss Patterson, Dr Field is on your radar. I can't imagine it's not in looking through. So we had a pretty significant jump in just raw number of f students in summer school between 23 and 24 maybe some COVID catching up still going on that type of thing, but I don't know if I was a board and as an administration, we want to gin looking at and addressing. PE so by far just t like when I was in school, the largest number of kids taking summer school or taking some sort of mathematics course and the
e second largest by a pretty good margin is those that are taking PE because they need to make up for it, right. The truancy would have you and d I mean for most of us, those of us some silver in our hair summertime was your PE, right? You're out, you're riding your bike here you're playing baseball, what have you. And this is a trend that's nationwide. And we're having kids falling behind and having to chew up part of their summer or part of their lives getting caught up. Because they're failing physical education Don't know where that leads us as a board, but I think it's discussions, it's probably worth kicking around because it won't be long, but figure 20
percent is 44% and it's 60% and it's a vital resource. I think it's vital education component that we're seeing numbers continually move in a direction that I don't think is healthy. Just want to bring that up. So for something as a board, we might want to put on an agenda at t some point and talk about what's happening. What you're seeing. Why you think you're seeing it and can anything be done Does that make sense? Sure. So we require, excuse me, 3 semesters of PE to
graduate and I'm looking at slide number, I think it's 5 and in our summer school, 80 82% of our kids who are in summer school are for advancement. They're trying to o get ahead. And yes, we do have students who fail PE, but we also have a lot of students who like taking PE in summer school. So they can take other courses during the school year. So that's another big reason and I'm m sorry Mr. Royer left so and he's long gone 'cause he was he he was moving, yeah
So that's really good context, really good od. OK, good. Bye. All right, moves us to 10 A presentations Teacher externship program report Superintendent t Haber. Yeah, so I know Doctor Fields going to speak to this and maybe Doctor Paraso, but I'm just super excited about externships. I when I got here last year I know it's something that I'd experienced in other districts and it's t's such a great opportunity for our teachers to be in businesses s and for them to hear directly from business partners. What
re those skills that we need to be thinking about in our r schools to prepare? Them for the workforce and also the business partners really enjoy hearing the educational perspective too. So it's definitely a program that we want to grow And I thank you to Doctor Paraso for getting that started, I think with Integris last year and we want to grow it this year So Doctor Parasol, thank you. It's great to be e with you tonight to share about the teacher externship program that we developed. Last spring and so an externship for
a teacher. It's a professional learning opportunity, very similar to a job shadow, which allows educators to complete a period of service in the workplace. This collaborative experience gives educators and business professionals a structured time to connect with one another for mutual learning. So educators ultimately are able to enhance their instructional practices which result in n improved student performance and relevancy for students And the kind of structures we have is the ability to cover sub cost if it's something that we want to do during the instructional year. But then also have stipend resources
available over summer if they if a teacher wanted to do 1 for or a longer period of time, whether it's a full day or a week of things of of that sort. Also we put together and I part put it as part of the board docs, a program guide that goes through it and if you notice if you had a chance to look at that it it creates a lot of reflection type opportunities for those teachers to reflect upon with the industry partners and industry partners also reflect upon the experience they had with educators. And that's something that we feel is extremely important. It's an academic endeavor, not just.
A field trip, so to speak, or just a kind of a show and tell at a business. It's something that really enables them to reflect upon what is needed for students to be successful in different type of fields in particular. So our first kind of dabble in this externship notion was at our mini conference that we held back in February of last year as part of that mini conference all the he CT teachers were invited to a mini externship in the afternoon. With Jackson Engineering that kinda covers the advanced
d manufacturing engineering sector. El Paso County government offices which is governmental services in all its variety. So it was kind of a pretty large group that for that, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers which is a construction sector. Great Wolf Lodge, that's where we hosted the Mini conference. So we got to do tours around there for the hospitality sector and culinary and then Children's Hospital was a partner. Where they were able to tour. The Children's Hospital facility and talk with professionals there and so it was a great experience for us to initially dabble in it and
d then we also established an externship opportunity at t INTEGRIS last spring and here's some pictures from that experience We had teachers Adam Truex from air Academy high School, he's an an engineering teacher, Michelle Holmes from m Chinook Trail Middle School, she's a computer science technology teacher. Also, Sarah Ballard also attended. From but she's not here tonight, but I do have some of them here to talk to you and then Kendra Tate, who's our coordinator and I briefly want to introduce I have Kendra Tate who's our CT coordinator if you want to stand. She attended and is an
Integral part in our CT programming. And then Tala Harmon is our work-based learning coordinator and she's instrumental in facilitating a lot of these partnerships and doing a lot of outreach, a lot of outreach with industry and trying g to develop relationships and friendships. So I appreciate them. And their support and what they do. So I'm gonna turn the time over to a few of the teachers who had some experiences with the Integris externship and then also we're gonna conclude e with Steve Erickson, who had an amazing experience over
summer working with the National Science Federation the School of the Mines. And I think they did some projects revolving around general Motors, if I remember correctly. And he'll come up here and share a few few minutes of that experience. And so, Adam, why don't you come on up? Join the hot seat here. Hello my name is Adam Truex I teach engineering Technology and then I'm the department chair for CTE at AIR Academy High School. I'm excited to talk about the integers externship opportunity It was extremely y impactful professional development. I just wanted to highlight a few
of the key takeaways and future goals from the opportunity. So first, I want to also thank the Office of College and Career Services. Jamin. Tala and Kendra for setting up this opportunity, It was extremely significant During the externship, I had the privilege of touring a cutting edge automation factory and it was a forefront with engineering and manufacturing the facility's use of the automation cells
s directly relates to one of the courses I teach, which is computer integrated manufacturing. We got to do first hand. Work as if we're on the floor doing a gimbal walk, being able to see a factory cell look at how it's operating, and then find ways to make it more efficient. Then we were able to go back and sit down with the leaders in the company and actually y talk about ways that we can improve their factory cell and they were we're taking our
our input valuably. One of the other exciting aspects was how Integris develops their employees. Press with how many employees that started as interns or co-ops and how committed they are to bring in high school students for interns where they might be able to grow right after graduation and into the company I had the opportunity to hear from a a lot of young engineers and professionals at Integris where they had really engaging talks and
personal stories that I think would be. Extremely motivating for my students. Where they can offer a glimpse of exciting possibilities of what? Engineering and manufacturing careers are like looking ahead, I have three main goals and most of that is to enhance our work based learning opportunities. So first and foremost the guest speakers with those young engineers, I think they can really motivate and guide my students working on field trips so that we can organize and get kids to
o see what. They're doing in the class and how it's not much different than what it's like in the actual factory. And then lastly, getting those students to engage in the internship opportunities. So I was grateful for the opportunity for the INTEGRIS externship and I just like to thank you for allowing me to share with you guys today. And thank you again to the offices of f College and Career Services for this opportunity Thank you. Thank you, Adam. Now we hear from Miss Holmes.
Good evening. My name is Mrs. Michelle Holmes and this is my 17th year as a public school teacher, my 6th in the world of CTE and STEAM, and my third at Chinook Trail Middle School when I was presented with the opportunity to do the e externship at Integris, one of the things that really appealed to me is the fact that I also teach. Robotics and automation, Yes, at the middle school level I do teach robotics and automation, so I was excited. At the opportunity to witness
first hand the real world use of how this is incorporated into the manufacturing process because e basically I'm a teacher and have been for 17 years and don't really get out of the classroom much so o definitely it was really exciting too, as Adam mentioned, walk along the factory floor and truly see what is happening. And so I can explain these things to my students and get them really excited and then bring that back to the classroom and we can. Actually start building the manufacturing
arms on all the different axes and grabbing and d all kinds of great stuff. We actually built the claw bots after that. It was super exciting. One of the other things, and Adam did mention this as well, is we had the opportunity to basically witness a workstation in action happening and we were tasked. With watching this and seeing how we could improve. Upon the processes that we were seeing and coming from a design school, Chinook Trail Middle School
it was fabulous to be able to go through that opportunity and take that back to my classroom and d present that to my students. Watch what's happening here How can we improve upon what we are doing? And it's all about that, taking that back to the students. Thank you very much. Thank you thank you. And we'll conclude with Steve Erickson from Pine Creek High School Yeah, and Steve Erickson, Computer Science DLC Pine Creek High School. And so I was part of even though I am a die hard
d Virginia Cokie, I graduated. Yeah, go hokey hokey nation. There's six of us in our house and half of us are Hokies. Yeah, there's six of us. So I have 4 kids. I got one there right now in a core cadets and d so anyway, I did wear my mind's T-shirt because I was part of the research experience for teachers at at the Colorado School of Mines this summer. It was a 2 month program. Basically I worked for them. I worked in a project with their materials and metallurgy engineering program and
mechanical engineering again computer science and a digital learning coach. And so there are a couple questions that come up a lot of times. First of all, why would you drive up there every day and you're a computer science teacher. And so the biggest thing is. This program allowed me to stretch as a person. And as a teacher and just to show w me that there are other things out there, this is how the other half lives It's an extremely valuable program because I was doing things I wouldn't normally do in my own classroom, so
especially as a digital learning coach and helping teachers teach on a daily basis, it gave me a lot of respect for what our science teachers are doing, our math teachers. And everything that's within, outside my comfort zone. And so it's definitely helped me a lot. The program in essence was about additive manufacturing, which is a very fancy way of saying 3D printing. There's actually seven different types of AM technologies so I work with h lasers, we did welding working with
h imaging machine and equipment and stuff like that. I was part of a ongoing one year project. That's been contracted out to Colorado School of Mines with General Motors. And so we did fatigue testing. I did everything you can think of. And so it really opened my eyes to what's out there in STEM and steam. And I'm approaching 50 it's s hard to say that, but the reality is that I'm showing my students that at my age, I can still go out and learn new things and showing them all the different opportunities that are out there and
exposing them to another world that even at my age, I thought I understood everything and I don't. And so trying to be a good role model to the kids. Coming up with new projects and new ideas out of this experience. New job opportunities, not for me, but for my kids It just was an amazing experience and so I could talk about it for hours. I really can. One of the coolest things that we did was we presented to a industry consortium which include Lockheed Martin, Beehive Industries 3D Systems, a whole bunch of big names
s. And so they made us do posters. And so here I am, I'm like, I'm a teacher, you know, I work with kids every day. And our professors up at Mines wanted us to make posters and so then we had to present to the consortium. So at the end of the day, I was a way for me to stretch And these RET programs, even today there was 8 us in our cohort and we were just talking today I haven't seen haven't seen these people since July. And so I do have a lot new connections and if if they have the program again, I would definitely do it again. It was definitely worth
the drive. Lot of fun. And on top of that, icing on the cake is that it was a paid experience and so I was contracted as an n employee for two months at Colorado school of mine. So super fun and I like to thank Jamen and d Tala and Kendra and Diana Fricky actually hear within DIS because they were very encouraging to me during this program it t definitely took a lot. To it was a huge commitment so o hopefully we can get more programs like this year.
And thank you for your time. Thank you, Steve. Thank you. Steve and I were just talking recently about different ways we could maybe create some connections to bring some of those experiences and those projects into Colorado Springs area, so the distance isn't such a trial for a lot of individuals we're e really working on this year we're going to be pushing an advertising quite a a bit with our teachers. We're going to focus primarily on our CT teachers and hopefully be able to expand that out to a much broader audience. And so that's something that we think is just brings value. And really creates these aha moments and these are things we want to we
multiply in these types of experiences. So thank you and if you have any y questions, I'm here. Thank you, Mr. Jamison, very valuable programs. Love, love hearing it. Director Konz I just want to in addition to thanking your team as all the e teachers did, I just want to thank the teachers who participated because our r youngest daughter's a junior in high school in the last few nights she has e has just been. You know, the Sky's the limit for her, but she feels so stifled with not knowing about so many careers and
Jokes. So just for our teachers to expose themselves and share that with the students it's so beneficial. So I'm really excited that this program is taking off. I remember saving all these externship articles last summer a year ago when it the programs really started to o come out statewide. So thanks to all the teachers and I just can't wait for more of that to come for our students to be exposed to it you. I know when you first came on, this is one of the things that you and I talked a lot about. You'd done this in Washington and
I was really jazzed about bringing it here. And so I'm really excited to see that we were able e to get this. Off the ground so quickly be able to offer it to o our teachers and really appreciate everyone involved in making sure this happens, the teachers who win as director Khan said now ow looking forward to how that comes back and really effects and impacts our students. So thank you for r everyone. Appreciate it director Wilburn, thank you Dr. P I'm this is great. I'm big on the internship externships as as you're finding out. Yes, we're already working together on a couple of things. Have we ever crossed the bridge of once
teachers get back into the classroom, setting up something that looks like a field trip for their classes to go back to the place they were? Prior working and give them a walk around and get them excited about whatever the position was. Definitely it's about connections and developing those relationships and that's something that in my experience as a director r over college services, not just in this district but other districts too, is that it's about relationships, right, 'cause there's a lot of red tape in bridging with different industry sectors and different partnerships. And so we want to make sure that
t we have our processes in place, which we've been working on the last few years. To make sure that we have all our IS dotted and TS crossed. So it's a good experience for everyone involved, but I think that's exactly what we want is as we have these experiences and develop these connections, we want to expand it and work based learning at the student level. It's a continuum of experiences and it starts something as easy as like a guest speaker, then you can go on to maybe like an industry tour, a job shadow and the ultimate goal is internships and pre apprenticeships s and things of that sort that really, really.
Faisal's experiences having a son that served in his internship, it really was transformational for him, and those are experiences that we want to provide for our students as much as possible and d really develop and foster those relationships. Any other comments, questions, board? No. Alright, thank you so much. Thank you. Take your time. Next report is the 2020 C Mass results and district and school performance Framework results. Superintendent Haber, Yes we're super excited about learning more about t doing with CMOS and our amazing results and we know that we still have work
to do as well. So Dr. Susan Field Good evening Board. It's my pleasure to introduce Jolynn Patterson, our director for for assessment, who is going to give our annual report. On our 2024 CMAS results as well as our district performance framework, you want me to come sit next to you or you? Good, I think I'm going to be alright, but maybe we'll see getting ng used to this desk part. I'm like, whoa, I'm used to being able to move around You all received some spoiler alerts regarding our assessment results, but we're going to go through those tonight. I also at your seats tonight
provided you with some handouts. I'll let you know when I'm speaking to each of those. We've also been sharing. Our assessment results over the summer and then I want to say it was just this morning might have been yesterday morning one of my mitosis put all of our school performance frameworks in your OneNote so you would be able to see the full reports on those I just didn't want to forget to tell you that part and I also just want to give e a big shout out to my team. I work with two amazing TOSA, an assistant, and they are the ones that stand me up every day and I get to come talk to you, but without them
we would not have all this. I just want to say thank you so much. The one note I I don't know. That was I love it. It's phenomenal. I reference it all the time. It's way easier to do that than go o back to the big giant notebook. So thank you for making sure that data awesome put there. We're always open to feedback and we are hoping that would be a good way and we could get it to you faster too, more timely, right all l right. Oh, I'm in charge of slides too. Let's see here so. The first handout that I gave you tonight is kind of colorful on the front of it. This is a overview and you've probably seen our
balanced assessment system framework in the past. Used to be long and skinny. We'd bedazzled it a little. The contents the same. Just try to get it fit on one page and have a little bit different format. So what I think is important tonight is we're looking at our state assessments that we also think about that we have lots of other assessments that we're conducting in the district. And So what this handout does is it just walks through the different types of assessments and why we use them. So tonight we'll be looking at CMASS and PSAT SAT and that is a form of a
a summative assessment, I think. Back to a long time ago in my days of high h school, you might have taken a final exam. It's kind of those big one or two times a year that lets us know how we're doing additionally y, in the district, we work with map growth throughout the year and I know I provide reports for you all and so that's a benchmark k assessment that we do 3 * a year. So instead f waiting for C mass for that one big grand finale, we're re able to monitor students and how we're doing throughout the year. And then another example I would.
I just highlight is formative assessments are really what our teachers are doing in the classrooms probably every day. They're monitoring how kids are doing. They might do an exit ticket as kids are leaving the classroom to see who got it today, who might need some extra instruction, or maybe what do I need to do differently as the teacher to bring back students tomorrow All right, so tonight we are focusing though on C Mass, which are the Colorado measures of academic success This also includes our PSAT SAT
testing at. Tate level. These assessments are really much like a road map that help prepare students. They're matched to the Colorado academic Standards so that we can ensure we are preparing students for after high school, whether they want to go to college, enter a career field or for life in general and d then as we just saw on the balanced assessment framework that this is just one body of evidence 1 assessment that students s will take throughout their school year. So this next slide just looks at C mass
over time, most of you, a lot of us were here for COVID. So in 2019 we e see a pretty traditional testing year and then you'll see that Gray bar in 2020 that signified that year we didn't have any testing in 2021 the state did. We had a lot of variety between content area and grade levels. So it's really been since 22 and then 23 and 24 that we've had consistent. Testing years and so this year you'll see in the data
when we look at it in a minute, we're able to look pre pandemic and then see where our kids and our students are performing today. So when we get our scores, they come in two different types when we first get scores s released, their performance ratings and there's five categories that go from exceeds to do not meet typically what you will see in the press. So we will see reports coming out for the state that talk about the number of students that are meeting and d exceeding. That's where those two categories are coming from, and that's where that data is coming from. If a student is in the approaching category, it doesn't mean
that they don't know any of the standards for that grade level, but they haven't mastered enough to be meeting that expectation. The second set of data we get, which is going to be closely tied tonight to our district performance framework and our school performance frameworks is the state accountability ratings and so those have 4 ratings of exceeds to does not meet. So I just want you u to have that overview as we start. To look at some data So what we want to o consider when we think about our assessments is participation
in our assessment. So for tonight I prepared. Last year's participation rates for 3rd grade through 8th grade at the top and then PSAT SAT at the bottom in both math and ELA and you will see that in most grade levels we have. Students participating at about a 90 rate in most categories. We will look at science and we will see some differences when we look at that data and information. Quick drink. This cough is several months old. It's just still chasing me around so I'm trying to remain calm and not call for y'all
OK so when we're looking at this data, the 1st that we're going to look at is grades three through 5. There are three different t data points here. The first one, if you're sitting at the back of the room, you'll see a lot of white numbers that looks at our r testing over time from 2019 to 2024 4 and this is meets and exceeds. So when I talked about those two o top categories going down the left side, we will see third. And 5th grade in English Language Arts and we will see 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade in math the e center section that's more blue from the back of the room is
our average scale score. So those are going to be our achievement scores s. How did students do that day on the assessment The next and final one on the right that has more green on it are our growth scores. Growth is very y important because on our frameworks, I'll share in just a little bit he state rates that more highly than they do achievement. Because we're tracking students and student by student overtime, so we're looking to see if they've made a year s growth. And so it's very important that we see that we're growing
students as much as helping them achieve grade level standards. So the next slide's just going to look at some highlights that I pulled for us. So for 3rd through 5th grade, D20 outperformed the state in all categories, math achievement scores in grades four and five are higher than they were in 20 023. And we met the expectation, the percent of students meeting and exceeding for math increased or remain stable and then English language e arts and math achievement and growth scores remain stable as well. So next
we're going to see some charts that look very similar, but this is for grades six through 8. So again we have grades 6-7 and eight ELA and math going down the left side meets and exceeds in that white section. Our overall scale scores which really looks at achievement. Achievement for our students and then our growth scores, they're on the right. And then once again, I pulled out some highlights for us. So District 20 outperformed the state in all categories in achievement and growth except for Grade 8
ELA. So at the district level, we're looking at data and information that we might want to look deeper into when we can go to the school level and the student level. And so that's where when we highlight some of these areas, that's work that we will continue to do in n our schools and our principals continue to do with their teachers as well. Grade 8 ELA raised their achievement score, but did not make as much growth. So when we just talked about not meeting the growth for those eighth grade students, the students are achieving at a higher level but not growing as much And then grade 8 math and achievement is an area of
continued strength. So now we're going to move to PSAT, SAT. This looks similar but different, so I want you to know on this slide we're looking at English language arts in both charts you may see the letters EBRW which stands for Evidence Based Reading and Writing. That's what College Board refers to for the English language arts portion of PSAT and SAT. College Board is the vendor that prepares this test for the US and the state of Colorado and nationally. Again looking at 2019 to 2024 4, the last column represents how the state of Colorado compared.
Compared to District 20 and 2020 for PSATSAT, we're only looking at those accountability ratings because it's a different vendor, a different way we receive information. And then at the bottom there we have growth scores as well. So we're going to look ok at math next and then I will share some highlights. So same layout. 9th, 10th, and 11th grade for math and then at the top would be those achievement scores and at the bottom would be our growth scores. I know you all been studying all day so we got these
memorized for PSATSA T growth and achievement scores exceeded the state once again and all grade level assessments Grade 11 math on the e SAT average scale score was a 518. This is an important number for us to watch because for students to graduate from high school in the state of Colorado, they have to meet et specific requirements in ELA, English Language Arts and Math. One way that they can demonstrate that is through their math SAT score. And so looking that score.
Currently it might be changing and I'm gonna let Shane our new CNI person n, share that when we're but there's some things coming from the state The state board just voted to make some changes, but that's just a little spoiler alert. But at the moment, our current reality is that 500 for our students. So looking at that average for our r students being at a 518 and then grade 10 maintained their achievement in exceeding rating and English language arts grade 10 math achievement exceeded.
All grades in ELA and Math maintained OR increased their growth scores and then our participation rates and PSAT SAT are much higher than grade e 11 science. Jolin, thank you I know the voices from OK, I if I can interrupt and discuss a question about SAT work first of all, congratulations to Oliver Schools for for continuing this excellence. Because SAT's are so important.
I want to dive into just what your whole Team Learning services team are seeing as some areas of opportunity maybe in our curriculum m, just general. How can we help students achieve even higher so as over w over the last year we have had a focus on math and so we focused a lot of our professional learning communities we do as a learning ng services team, we do a lot of modeling of the best instructional practices. This summer and feel free to Doctor, Field or somebody else
e. I'm going to give him my best college tryer We built an instructional playbook for our teachers so that they can look. Oh, thanks, Shane. That they have access to that instructional playbook where we as a district, we're looking at best practices that we could put on our district intranet for our staff to access. Meet Shane Knight, our new director for curriculum and instruction in my next door neighbor at work. So I think one of the strengths of our r district is that most of our 8th graders. Engage in Algebra One in eighth grade
which puts them ahead of what most of the kids are in the state and d you'll see that when we look at our SAT scores and APSAT scores compared to the state average significantly higher. But there's greater work we can do so o from a professional development standpoint, we've got a strong focus on math and supporting math leaders within each school and so Brian Thompson, one of our Tosas, our teachers on special assignment pulls all the math leads from each of the buildings together four times a year. To provide very intensive professional development, we've got
professional trainers from outside, ones from UT Austin. I can't remember where the other ones from. I'm not that good, I know, but I think South Carolina, fancy places. It's South Carolina yeah, but both national and international experts in n math instruction. One for elementary and one for secondary, and the one from Austin, Not only is she an elementary math expert, but she's also an expert in supporting students with disabilities in mathematics instruction. So they're coming out in October and then also in March, and they're providing great, very intensive training on
how the math leads in each school. Can help support coach their teachers to increase the effectiveness of their math instruction and then two additional times Brian will facilitate training with the math leads as well In addition to that we had. Smoker Mike Smoker here last summer who talks about the importance of writing across the curriculum and so o Andy Ruskin has been working to develop increased proficiency in writing and so much of math
h assessments rely on reading And we know from Smoker and many, many others hat when we write, it strengthens our learning and so some of of the work that we're going to embed in all professional development regardless of area, is riding in response to the learning. To strengthen the level of learning and Brian is intentionally developing that into his training and then Andy's intentional Andy and I are to intentionally supporting schools to integrate writing across all disciplinaries and you'll hear more about that over the
e course of the year. I appreciate all that information very much and I appreciate all the diligence and you know just in the Superintendent Haberer and I couple our first couple visits, it is just evident how how much more the students are writing. Cross curriculum every day, every period. So not only that, but I appreciate all the work you're doing to help students increase their math capabilities. So thank you so much. Thank goodness you didn't leave yet. You did that real good.
All right. So next, are we good? Yes Oh, OK, we're going to look at science So this is the second year that we've tested science after the 2020 standards were implemented from the state, so last year we were scored, but it was not part of our frameworks this year r it is part of our frameworks. It is only an achievement rating not a growth rating for us. So you can see our scores there with the color coding compared to the state of Colorado in the bottom right corner. One of the things that we've
been doing a lot of talking about is participation rates. So you'll see those science participation rates on the right side of the slide. In high school we only had 23.7 of our students take the assessment, so that's something we need to o consider and think about. Superintendent Haber has her student council and we are able to talk to them about some of their thoughts on why attendance for that particular assessment would be lower and they y definitely share that their parents put a lot of emphasis on SAT and PSAT and that sometimes
the science doesn't carry the same weight it's also taken at t the same time of the year when students are taking Advanced Placement test t, AP and IB. There's a lot going on. So, but we are not ignoring it and we are given that some thoughts. So I just want you all as I've shared with stakeholders too o recently that our students for CMAS get a family report that goes home with them. Each of those individualized students reports has a QR code on it so that parents can access that and learn more about the estate assessment and why it's
important. And then I also included. I also included some resources from CDE as I was getting ready to do all of our C mass results I found a lot of great resources there for parents. In our community and stakeholders too, if they're interested in more information. And then what do we do with all of this? We use all this data and information as s we're doing our strategic planning, our schools participate in site planning and so during that process s, we review this data as well and use that as our planning
It's also included in our external review processes and then just knowing our district and school performance framework ratings. And then as you've seen tonight, we have a great team a learning g services team that represents a lot of departments. And so one of the processes we're doing right now is our unified improvement planning. And so the state of Colorado requires our schools biannually to write an improvement plan. So we're working and coaching schools principals right now on that process. We also have through learning services our support to
schools model where we do professional learning that's planned for them m, but they also can do customized support. They often reach out and say, hey, we need extra help with this at our building. And then everything is focused around our professional learning community. And those 3 pillars of that collaborative culture a focus on learning and results orientation and so o that takes the results piece. Of course I have the e assessment part of all this, so I keep circling back to assessment, but we think about those common formative assessments and
continued data analysis 'cause we don't want this to be the one moment in time. We want to continue to look at this data a and information and as we get more data on our students. And then finally I just gave everyone access to CDE. Prepares a lot of information about our schools and districts across this, the color across the state. And so that's just a way that any of you can access information as well. So next tonight I have two starring shows for you. The next one is we're going to
start looking at our performance frameworks and so the performance frameworks are prepared by the Colorado department of Education. Superintendent Haber talked to this a little bit here in the e beginning tonight each of our schools s get a framework as well as the district This really gives the state information on how are we performing and d if we were a school district that was not performing well, they're able to align. Sources and support struggling schools as needed. So when we get these plans at the district level
there are 5 ratings from distinction to turn around and then our schools get 4 performance levels from Performance to Turn around. And so this just looks at what those ratings I just gave you a little e bit more detailed information about each of those ratings. And then on the back of our school performance framework So tonight your second handout that I gave you all is a copy of the district performance framework, which we'll look at here in just a second. But the backside of that has this scoring rubric. And so these are all the cut points that
are used for each of the data sets within the scoring framework. So there are key indicators. So if you think about the front of the school performance framework here or the district performance framework, there's indicator ratings. Those 3 indicator ratings are academic achievement, which is that mean scale score we looked at t academic growth, which is a median growth percentile and then post secondary workforce readiness shows up up at the high school level and the district level Thank you. You're going to bring me that. Sorry, I could tell with I'm
like sorry, this brain doesn't miss much. May look like I would do it Thank you. Sorry, this is I know annoying. This is what happens to me OK, so. Gary work for his readiness. Thank you for the Ricola looks at graduation rates, drop out rates, matriculation rates and specifically the SAT at the high school level and on the district performance frameworks So each of those categories. So when I talked about before that the state is weighing growth more highly more heavily than
n they are achievement, this just looks at that first com looks at elementary and middle school. So achievement gets 40 f the rating. And growth gets 60% at the high school level, 30% achievement, 40% growth and 30% comes from that post secondary workforce readiness at the bottom of the DPFI put the e screenshot up here. You can see where we scored at each level. So our elementary schools overall scored an accredited rating and then our middle and high
school's overall scored a distinction rating and that's where they take the points for each of those categories. So our district performance framework as already advertised what we were credited with distinction which is super exciting and very important to us as a district. And we did score a 77 on that piece and then each of our schools as s I shared get a framework as well and earlier in the meeting if we were were all here, we got to see some of our schools that were higher
performing and honor them tonight. So the next piece inside the framework within those categories, what I did is just pull out some highlights for you tonight. The other piece I gave you on your seats tonight is an overview. It's very green, an overview of how each school scored on their performance framework compared over time So it also starts in 2016 to 2024, so you can see how each of our schools performed And then the second page looks at those indicator
ratings that I talked about on the front of the school performance frameworks, just so you know where that information came from. So this year. Achievements Some of the areas that we exceeded in were middle school, ELA, Grade 6 through 8 middle School math grade 6 through 8 in high school ELA grades nine through 11. Some areas that we will want to watch where we did not meet were elementary ELA, math and science students with disabilities so that t will be something that we would continue to watch and remember this is
s under the achievement category. So next we're going to look at growth and so areas that we exceeded in growth where our English language proficiency students and then n there's another category that where they determine if our students who are non English speakers are on track to proficiency. And so we exceeded in that area as well and then areas to watch would be that approaching for our r students with disabilities. But what we want to think about is on that last side when we think about achievement and our students were not meeting
that means grade level standards. So students with disabilities a lot of times are working below grade level, but what we want to do is catch them up and so o when we see that we're approaching and growth, we know that we're re moving those students more than a year's worth of growth. Sometimes students could be two or three years behind, so it's going to take time to catch them up. Sorry, it's like I'm chewing gum. I'm trying not to do that. Secondary workforce readiness where we exceeded is in our dropout rates of .4
Our graduation rate is 96%. Our graduation rate for our minority students is 95.5 and then for our r multilingual that's our English language learners is 97.7 and then again an area to watch is our students with disabilities specifically on n the SAT test 'cause remember in post secondary workforce readiness ess, it's only looking at that 11th grade assessment. There's a page in the DPF that looks at the high school s overall with the PSAT included. So looking ahead, we continue
to look for areas of strength and growth this year. We did receive data from the state much later than we typically do. So we're still in the middle of some of those processes cause we've e only had this data for a little bit of a bit of time We're continuing to collaborate with teachers and principals and through our support schools model this week, the learning services s team is working with our high school principals through their meetings and and we're doing data cycle work. Where we're looking at how teachers performed and how teacher teams performed. So getting more granular than the picture
that you looked at tonight. And then of course the e UIP plans are being developed as part of that continuous improvement process. That's it Any y questions? Any questions, Doctor Shandy? Hey I I didn't think of this question for before so I apologize Just with the special being on all the watch lists s. I'm just curious during our professional teacher learning times, what is special Ed doing during
ng that time? Do they have certain goals or certain things that they're doing that can you know? So I'm going to have o have Doctor Lindsay come up as well, but. We expect our teachers to be part of those teacher teams and those PLCS at the schools that are happening at the same time. I think it's hot to see. Yep. So the expectation is that they're included in those PLC times, that they're part of those bigger conversations and that we don't forget that those students who are part of the data set. And so they're included in those discussions and then we're also doing work with them to go o over their data. Part of our discussion was how are students doing on their
individual IEP goals and are they making progress there because the hope is s through that collaboration that those goals will impact their achievement and their growth. But they're all included in those conversations, which is good. I mean, I I like inclusion, but it would, it would it be beneficial to maybe look at since. They're on every watch list to maybe pull them out sometimes and do something specific to the areas that we're really low on. We are doing it through the professional learning calendar. We're pulling them in through Java likes and then through quarterly meetings. We are connecting and then we do have facilitators that are meeting with
them in the schools to coach, ask questions, check on the strategies and the implementation of the strategies to make sure students are making growth and that we're matching our work with the goals for the students s. Thank you. You're welcome. Don't like there's a pattern in the other? Any other questions or comments? Director Sandy just t with I had the pleasure last year of being at a school visit with you and seeing Antelope Trails and what they were doing with their reading programs and things like that. An increase of almost 20% I
I mean, we should all be looking at what they're doing. Because that's amazing. And then secondary to that is Challenger Middle School We again, should all be looking at what they're doing and copying that so. We've been, we meet as with the PSG, I meet with them and Susan, then the PSG supervise the principals and we've been really looking at that and just had a conversation actually with Tacy who works with Challenger and saying OK, let's go into those classrooms and see, you know, what's the same, what's different because
know we can all learn from each other for sure. So I appreciate you bringing that up. Last call. All right. Thank you Thank you. Wow, it's that good, but. Great. Next is our strategic plan update, Superintendent Hammer we're excited. We took a look at the goals that we had for last year and where did we hit those goals and where do we saw some work to do and then also looked at our strategic plan to see what do we need to update and setting even some e new goals for this following year so that we can achieve the board
of Education vision, which is that all students have the knowledge, skills and character. To reach that high academic success and achievement. So Doctor Susan Field good evening board. So we are going to share our r strategic plan update. I think you might recall that we were here in June and we shared as many of our measures that we had data for. Remember we said we are waiting for C mass data and our SATPSAT data to make some final. Just to determine if we had achieved our
goals, we have also established new goals for this year. Many are very similar to last year and Superintendent Haberer said it's all about achieving our mission, which is student learning and everything is about students and this strategic plan is about everything that we can do from a systemic level to ensure that students are learning. So would you go to o the next slide please? Yes, so this his is our team. It's a pretty comprehensive team, many of us, as you can see
are from learning services but also our deputy y Superintendent and Chief Financial officer. Sits on this team as well as well as our chief f Communication Officer and our Director I'm sorry, and our assistant suit for HR, OK next slide. Thank you. So just and this s is for actually everybody that's sitting in the audience too, so our big global ends vision statement as a school district this has as been in place for probably 25 years. Is that all
students have the knowledge, skills and character necessary for successful transition to the next level and upon graduation will be fully prepared for success. So knowledge and skills which you just heard about are C mass. Data, our district performance framework. We also do a really big report in December that includes other data just to determine how our students are achieving. So we look at a body of evidence to determine how our students are performing, the other piece of our big global end statement and vision is around character education. This
has been in District 20 like I said for AT at least 25 years and this is another area we monitor and d in April we will provide a report to the board about character education. Next slide, please. So these are our strategic priorities These have been our strategic priorities for the last several years and under each h of these strategic priorities we have measures and each director or assistant Superintendent is going to explain the why behind why we have these like third grade reading is super important, but you
can see we start with ensuring academic excellence for all the way down to community partnerships. All of these strategic priorities help us improve teaching and learning in District 20, and that's why we focus on these areas because we know that we can improve student learning next slide. OK, so Andy is going to talk about literacy specifically y 3rd grade reading. Hi, good evening. Yes, we'll start with goal 1.1. So under that academic excellence and to
begin we have third grade reading because. As Doctor Phil just said, third grade reading is really important. We want to make sure that our third graders are on the right path to continue to grow and succeed. You'll see some changes, we have learned that we need to It would be e best to take a step back in a sense, I like to think k of it as monitoring the forest from the district level. We want to make sure the health of the forest is good. I love the weeds, my literacy
team loves the weeds. Services loves the weeds and the trees and all of that good work is going to continue to happen. Again, when we talk about students, we talk about name and need, and we're not abandoning any of that work But when it comes to the goal itself, you'll see that the 2025 goal is that 75 of third grade students will achieve on or above grade level benchmark status on double S 8. So a bit of a shift from the previous year.
And again, the main reasoning behind that is because while we will continue the work in the weeds, we really want to have that higher level view of how are things going. And again we learn Dibbles is a one minute test that happens s one day out of one year and it's a cold raid for our kids. So that 75% mark is rigorous and strong, but we e will look at other measures as well, which really takes us into. And by the way, please feel free to jump.
Ask questions, Shane will keep his eye out for any hands up and let me know kick me under the desk. But that idea that we rate and fluency is an extremely important. But when we think about our third grade readers, we also want to layer on comprehension and application of reading skills. So looking at the 20251.2 e point two goal, we are layering on a sea mass goal, 57% of third graders will meet or exceed on this CMASS ELA English Language Arts
Assessment. That number is up. It's an increase. We were at 54% meet or exceeds last year. The state is at 40 meet, meets or exceeds just for some context. So we want to continue to push and d increase that percent, but that will really layer on another measure and really kind of looking at another skill set for r our third grade readers, which again is that. Comprehension and application. Any questions so far? OK, our next measure.
Is really layering on that growth piece. So while of course our third graders are very important, they really are important throughout our elementary years and we will make sure we prepare all of our students for that transition to middle school. So we have layered on which I feel great about our 4th and 5th grade students when it comes to literacy by looking at the. Elementary C Mass. Ela growth measure, so meaning growth percentile and our goal is 55.
Questions there. OK. And then our final literacy goal again kind of looks closely and keeps closely monitors those entry level grades, so 6th grade and 9th grade. So really we're just going to continue to ensure that 90% of our 6th and 9th grade students pass their English language arts courses. And that's it for literacy. All right. Thank you, Andy. All right as s exciting as data is, I'm, I promise not to take more than 20 or
30 minutes on this slide. I'm just kidding guys all l right, So had Jolin had talked with you guys about the importance of the SAT and that cut score of 500 0, that's the level that the state has used to determine whether students have acquired the skills necessary in mathematics to qualify to graduate. That's one of the areas. Yesterday, the state board voted to reduce reduce that cut score down to 200 or 7 even. Sorry, 480. Reduce it down to seven
Yeah. No, to reduce it down to 480 for two years because when the state transition to the to the online only PSAT, there was a significant drop in test ores across not just the district, not just the state, not t but across the country in that shift. Colorado saw a significant drop ASD 20 we e didn't see much of A drop at all in our average scores. So while the rest of the state and d the country dropped, we stayed about level
So the goal was for us to increase the number of students. Hitting that 500 cup point by about 5%, we didn't meet that. We actually stayed about where we were last year and for next year we're going to continue to o keep that elevated goal of 500. We're still going to. It's brand new, this idea of moving the score down to 480, we'll l consider that, but I think it's wise for us to keep that more ambitious goal of 500. So that's going to be our continued goal, the next goal we
have for mathematics is a minimum of 90% of our 6th and 9th grade students will successfully pass their math courses Passing math courses in 9th grade is vitally important, but we also want to make sure that 6th grade was included. And 91% of our 6th graders last year passed math and 90% of our 9th graders passed. And that's a level that we want to continue over the course of the year. So that's a goal we met. And then the next goal we have is a minimum of 90% of 9th grade students will have passed algebra one by the end of the freshman year. And so as I mentioned earlier
this evening, many of our kids take Algebra one in 8th grade and have a very high success rate of that but there's still a number of kids that need to get pass it by 9th grade. And there's quite a bit of research that demonstrates that if kids pass Algebra one by the end of 9th grade. Their likelihood of success through high school and beyond is much, much greater, and so we want to continue to keep that goal of 90% last year, only 88% of our kids met that goal, and so we've got a little bit of work to do
there, but it's very close. Any questions about that? All right. And then the last one is a minimum of 95 of our students will be on track to graduate by the end of the freshman year. This was a difficult one for us to measure last year just because our data system wasn't such that it was easy to easy for us to collect our counselors, our high school counselors meet with every kid and develop a plan to make sure they're e on track, but it's done very analog and so o this year we're establishing data systems that we can collect that reliably collect it every year.
And throughout the course of the year, but the way we're looking at that are e they passing their core content classes? And are they meeting the benchmarks the e assessment benchmarks to demonstrate proficiency are the on track to graduate and d so we expect that 95% of our students will be on track to graduate by the end of their freshman an year. Any questions about math? Not a question but I just wanted to acknowledge e the keeping this score at 500 for the math I think is, especially since it's a temporary y drop down that keeping that at the 500 makes a lot of sense. So I appreciate the wisdom there. Yeah
h, thank you. Any other questions, comments, anybody want more data? All right. Yes, but I think we're good on math thing. All right, I'll turn it over to da. Right, you said the green one. OK for students with disabilities just to o reference what Doctor Field mentioned, it is a body of evidence and so our students with disabilities are included in the general education setting getting ng all of their instruction with their peers. But the other component that's really y important is their IEP, you know, team has done a comprehensive valuation and we've identified needs that the students have whether her it's in reading, writing, math or social emotional learning. So it's a
gamut of goals that they're working on every year. And so we feel it's important that t that's an important component that we need to track. And we need to make sure that we're writing very specific goals so that we can ensure their progress because we do need to close their gap they y either have 2-3, maybe four year gap in their instruction and so that IEP P is that support to help them close that gap so they can have that transfer of skill in the general education setting. So we did a first roll out of tracking IEP goals for our students in grade 6 through 12. And so our
goal was over three years is that we would have a long term goal of of a 50% increase whether they meet our approach. Their IEP goals and when I say goals, it's all l of the goals that a student has, so please know that a student can have anywhere from 1:00 to 5:00 to 10:00 ls on an IEP. And so we are tracking those individual l goals for every one of our students. So thousands of goals And so we're proud to say that we did meet our target last year our baseline was 33 and we went up to 52% in n tracking those goals for those students. And so next year we're going to go
another five points going from 52% to 50 And working and collaborating with general education teachers to make sure that all of that instruction, that they're working in tandem with one another so that we can ensure transfer of skills for our students, do you have any questions for me? The next goal revolves around college and career readiness and d so the data we look at is for those seniors. So we're comparing seniors each year in the sense of what they're able to accomplish toward meeting college and career readiness goals. And so those the five goal areas is regarding being
able to be a pathway completer, which is a minimum of see r higher and a pathway sequence that they completed. Work based learning. So that's on the higher end of the work based learning continuum Such things as internships, pre apprenticeships. Supervise entrepreneurial experiences things on the e higher end, or clinical experiences, even if they were able to earn an industry certification if they earned college credit. So that's with concurrent or dual enrollment and then also with the AP and IB. So when it comes to that it's not just students who took an AP or IB class it's
s those that received a three or higher on the AP test and also an IB 4 or higher. That's usually the minimum m of what colleges will accept in the sense of transferring that over. So if you see, we have our beginning data we had was from the year prior and the first number is the number of seniors and then the percentage is the percentage of the senior class. So as you look at the data sets for example e, CTE last year 563 students which represents 1% of seniors and then you could
d see growth from year to year from year to year we met met in all areas. So for career technical education it was nine point Work based learning was 40% growth. Industry certification was 98.9 growth. College credit was 49 5% and then AP and IB was seven point So you could see the CTE and IBA. PS been around for a while and so those gross a little bit lower and you can see that we've been paying more attention in the last few years to develop work based learning
g industry certifications and really building a robust t concurrent dual enrollment program. And so you see those numbers are increasing. Dramatically so. Our goal for next year is to continue with a 5 increase in that area. The next one is regarding the ICAP individual career and academic plan. The goal is 90% of all students in grades nine through 12 are engaged in the career exploration or the ICAP process. And this year we just missed it at 80 Part of that was due to us in the middle of a transition to a new platform and re identifying in the sense of
what it means to engage in the ICAP process. And so that's why we didn't meet it. But we're right there. So our goal for next year is 90%. Any questions? Directory units. Thank you. So I think it was Mr. Errickson from Pine Creek that talked about a system. We were really excited about it. That brought in more opportunity for industry certification is that t part of the jump that we see? So those like just increasing opportunity and is that something other schools are considering Absolutely. That's something that we're trying to embed in every one of our
CTE programs. That's as much as humanly possible the state of f Colorado has what's known as the C Dip program. Which they reimburse us for industry certifications as students earn, so it creates a financial incentive for the teachers to have money to redo it. So when they said that they had certiport that software by us receiving that money back, it enables us to be able to purchase the licenses and the assessment structures and all those things in place to be able to perpetuate more and more of that. And the C dip list is very rigorous. It's not like ACPR
certification that qualifies. It's ones that meet et industry need within our region and state. And there has to be a connection with the Workforce Center and industry in the sense of industry search that are legitimate in the sense of being able to have a living wage off of the industry cert. Any other questions? Thank you Thank you. All right. Our next strategic priority is our 2.0, which is culture of connectedness So we know that when students have
connections in school that they are more likely to achieve and grow. So we want to make sure that students have connections to their peers, teachers trusted adults, and also to content areas and areas of interest. So we have a few measures that we're looking at. 2.1 the goal is 85% of 6 through 12th grade students report participation in a school district extracurricular activity club athletic team
am or other non academic opportunity so o last year we had a goal that was s similar to this or actually. Pretty much the same other than we said 90 What we struggled with though last year was we didn't have a great way to measure what this goal would look like because when you're e thinking about all of these areas, school district sponsored extracurricular activities, volunteer opportunities, how do you track that for 26,000 students So what we're
re looking at is trying to get a little tighter in the way that we collect data only to say that. We want to make sure that we are looking at all of the opportunities. That we're providing students this year, so we're going to start with data from all of the extracurricular clubs. We're going to look at things that are just outside of the realm, like maybe it might be a title one night for an elementary school We're going to look to see how many students are actually coming to participate in that title
one night. We might look at color runs at the high school, how many students are coming to participate in those? We want to start collecting how many opportunities are we giving students to actually engage? And then the approximate number excuse me, of students that are participating in those. So that's one measure of data we're also o going to have our clubs rostered in infinite campus now, so we will start from elementary through high school. We already roster our sports
and so that's a simple starting place for us, but we're going to start creating a, it might be an eighth period, a ninth period, 1/10 period for some e students. Where we're actually rostering who's participating in our clubs and we can pull that data. From infinite campus so o kind of a body of evidence for this goal we're also o looking at adding a question to our student experience survey so that our 6th through 12th grade students can identify if they are participating in a
club or activity or at least attending something throughout the school throughout the school year. So those are kind of the three places that we're looking together. Evidence that we're meeting this goal. And I've learned tonight that I need glasses 'cause I can't see that. No, it's OK. So I'm trying to look at my phone as well culture of f connectedness 2.2 We are also o looking at attendance so we want 90% attendance at each of our levels, elementary, middle and high We did meet this goal last year
r overall. Overall we were at 91 6% attendance which is great. But we know that attendance is another area that can impact students if we have a a student that is having poor attendance, we need to start looking into that to figure out why so we have an n early warning indicator system where we can track 3 things for students. We look at attendance, grades and behavior so we can correlate if we're seeing poor attendance for a student, is there anything else going on
for that kiddo and what can we do to possibly? Or at the attendance piece perhaps they need d to be more connected to their peers, their teachers, and to the content or their interest in school. And then finally. We have. Goal 2.3 which is a new goal this s year, so we're wanting 80% of 6th through 12th grade students to indicate that they feel included as part of the school community as s reported on the Student Experience survey
So again with this survey, we're going to use it for a a second data point, but there is a question around whether or not students feel included and so we're going to use se the data from that survey and really our students feedback. Are they feeling that connectedness? Those are the three any questions Board d, are you gonna ask? Sorry, I didn't think about this earlier as a mom who has had kids involved d in district activities and sports and clubs and things
and then some outside more citywide opportunities just to make our job that much harder. How do at and include that in the data where? My son was part of a delayed entry program for the Marine Corps actually with. Other students from District 20, right And so that was something they got up on Saturday mornings and took 25 LB buckets of sand up the incline. That matters and d then I bought them a lot of Taco Bell So just something to consider. I don't know, would it be
impossible to measure? Is it something we would consider at some point Actually, you are right on track with what a couple of our principals have said. They thought the same thing because we know we have students that are connected, maybe in the community. Even a little bit more than they are to what's happening actually at the school. And so we are going to start having discussion around how can we track volunteer opportunities and then maybe those connections to the greater community that might be a part of that as well But that question just came up from a principal
today, so we will talk about that. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. We're still going. OK, sorry. All right now w we're on to 3.1, which is Vest in and value our staff. One of the main areas we focus on is retention 'cause we know if we can retain staff that that's s better for consistency for students and staff and like so we did not quite meet our goals that we had set and when looking at at our data, there's three main reasons people left our district in the last year and it's pretty consistent over time.
Is family reasons moving and retirement? So some of those things we can't always control, but we wanna do what we can to encourage staff to stay in the district as long as possible. So we've set some new goals, some new benchmarks, and we're gonna continue to monitor, monitor, you know how w we're doing and what we can do to continue to improve that retention rate. Let me hit that the next t one is 3.2. I'm sorry I'm hitting buttons on my screen here. And that was we wanted 90 0% of staff to participate in professional learning training
that was outside of what was mandatory. There are certain things that are mandatory for teachers in classified staff, but we wanted them to have the opportunity to continue to grow in their craft and to continue expand their learning. And we did meet that goal. We had 90% of of staff complete in that. There are some areas that. Kind of trying to figure out how to get certain folks if you're a plumber or electrician or certain areas that we just don't have maybe some professional learning for, but we're looking at how we can include them. And so we wanna continue that as our goal continuing to
o provide that opportunity for staff to learn and grow. And then the next one is getting ng feedback. We had a goal of 80% of staff. We'll share input and we did a survey and I will tell you although we didn't meet that goal, that was one of the highest participated surveys that was for r staff only. And so we did get a lot of great feedback. But what we learned from surveys is we don't get to ask questions and get and get clarification. So when people fill out a survey, you get answers, but then you can't have dialogue. So this year we're changing
kind of how we're doing that. We're going to have a committee of at least 40 to 50 staff representatives that are classified, licensed and admin as well. We're going to meet six times a year and have that kind of. Continuous feedback where we can have the dialogue, we can ask questions, we can get input. On really about how we can retain and recruit staff as s well as how we can improve the work experience for district staff, so we're looking forward to having that opportunity to get that real time feedback. Good questions. Get you back to 3.1 please. Yes Sir. I think we can go back. Boom. Wait, I don't know how to make this I
I did. But it's there. Oh, there it goes. OK. It was slow. Thank you. So what I wanted to just mention and I really liked the his is trending and so you look at 2024 and 024 and what the measure was and what the 2025 goal is. In 2024, we were trying not to lose people in n 2025, we're trying to retain people and just that shift in n the way that language is done, I really appreciate that we're framing this in the positive. And so I think this is a really positive change. So I just t wanted to make that comment. So thank you. Need to go. I need to go forward again. All right
other questions? All right. Thank you. You're OK? You're running mine as well? That'd be awesome. Oh, just going to hand it. Sure, throw it Thank you. All right, happy to share some new communication goals with you for this year given we don't wait on any test t scores or embargo data. We don't have any relevant updates for you, so we're going to focus on the 2025 goals, all of our 2024 stuff is the same as when we updated you in June So again, kind of what we focused on for 2025 is firming
up what I called squishy goals at the time and now hopefully they are e far less squishy and we think they'll continue to evolve in coming years, but. We're excited about where they're at for this year and I'll get right into em. Hopefully it's this green button n. It is. Oh, perfect, So in four and 2025, we're gonna be focused on monitoring and impacting media overage in this area. We are monitoring and d measuring through tools that we use that stories published in the Colorado Springs DMAKAR market
re five major outlets that cover us are positive or factual at l at a 90% rate. In 4.2 we're focused on there e we go. In 4.0 we're focused in 2025 on n facilitating an engaging website experience. We think that if we're serving our parents really well on the website, we're giving them good information. So we we want to focus on that. Our target is that engaged users on the website meet or exceed our parent population annually, and we have a good way to measure that engaged parent. Figure and happy to go into more detail on that if you'd like.
In 4.3 we're focusing we're focusing on fostering an informational and uplifting social media environment and in that t we're gonna measure the number of followers on social media platforms at a a combined level, growing at 5% or above annually And then in 4.4, we are, this is new his year. We are gonna focus on parent Square and we are going to l it promote parent engagement measuring that all l schools are a onboarded to parent Square and that families have opted d into the alerts function at a 20% rate.
That may seem a little low at the first year but the adoption is a little slower on the alert side because people actually have to go in and take action on that and we're going to do a lot of communication n around that. So do you have any idea where we're at with adoption now with our pilot schools? I would be happy to pull that number and get it to you. I don't have it at my fingertips, but it's kind of consistent with what we're seeing here. So that this is kind of f set to measure or report out at what I think Will be at in June. Perfect. Thank you. Absolutely. So I have two new goals under resource
optimization. One is 5.11 is 5 2. They are both related to the public schools on Military Installations program. The first one is related to Douglas Valley Elementary School. Our design proposal has already been submitted. We're finalizing a few pieces with that with the online portal where we have to put the information into the system. Our goal for this year would be to complete a construction proposal for that project. And then secondly for Air Academy High School
certainly the goal if we have the matching funds have a way to identify those would to be go to go ahead and submit a design proposal this year for AIR Academy High School. This is the last one. Thank you Which is a community partnerships and you can see that we had two measures this last year that we met and I think we talked about them with you in June our new goal which our Superintendent may even want to give you a brief update about is re establishing the business roundtable participation
including potential business community partnerships. And we just reached out been n working with Mary, we just reached out to our businesses and our first one is in October and we're excited to get that started again. So in so we can really. Find out what are the needs from our business partners and how could we create more opportunities for students to either have speakers come in or we have internships with them or even those externships because they're an important part of team m 1. So we're excited about that. That's it. Y'all have any more questions any
y questions board? Hold on, I was just gonna say I really love the format of this. I love that we say we met and we didn't met and and that we owned all of the results here. So thank you. Go team one. Go team. It's great. No, I love the format. It was easy to read and like I said, I like that we own the Met and we didn't met and move on. So thank you. All right, now we can clap for all the results. Yeah. All right, Mr. Belcher, how many people do we have signed up to speak k during public comment section #1 we have one community member signed up. The Board welcomes the comments of our community members we greatly
y appreciate that and we greatly value all comments from the public but in n order to adhere to Board policy and accomplish the work already on the agenda the Board and Superintendent will not be responding this evening. Speakers may offer appreciation for criticism of school operations and programs as concerns 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 of defamation. Please keep in mind that the students often attend board meetings, speakers that includes online where we have 12 people. Speakers remarks, therefore, should be suitable for an audience
that includes kindergarten through 12th grade students, including new use of profanities or obscenities. Comments concerning personnel matters should be directed to the Superintendent or board president in writing with your signature Supplemental written materials can be given to the security guards and they will be delivered to the Board Secretary. The Board President will recognize each speaker and consistent with GP 4.4, comments will be curtailed if remarks or behavior becomes s inappropriate, the Board President may interrupt, warn, or terminate a speaker statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district. Inappropriate for K12 students or disruptive to an orderly, civil and d productive meeting. Thank you for your cooperation.
Let me do the one last one because this is still relatively new, but we redesigned the boardroom so this change allows us to fit more folks here. Please sit at the table with the chair and the microphone. We only have one for the first section, so not applicable but in the second section, when your name's called up, if you can take the other seat and that way we can have both folks up there one time. We'll try to move through things quickly. Mr. Belcher. Excellent. Leah McFann is up first and only. Hi, my name is Leah McFann. I'm an employee in the district in 2016, the former D20 Superintendent stated that
it was not financially responsible to invest anymore district funds into Douglas Valley Elementary School due to declining enrollment on the West side. So I asked what has changed since 2016. There's no data that would support any expansion of this facility building this PK8 school l would pull from Eagle View which is shown in decline in enrollment year over year since 2016. During that same time period, Westside Elementary enrollment has dropped by double digits, and there are more than 5 0 open seats. The data is clear. There is no growth in
enrollment to justify this expansion continuing to o build schools when there's not a demonstrated need is fiscally irresponsible in an unjustified use of taxpayer resources we need d to focus on the maintenance of current facilities, especially when we have a deferred maintenance backlog of $500 million. Miss Allen has been vocal during Bond information sessions about the possibility of laying off teachers and increasing class sizes if the bond I can't tell you what that feels like as a staff member. If those are the stakes, it's time to rethink this project
regardless of the government match. If this bond fails, how is it prudent to approve this spend knowing you will need to make tough decisions? I urge you to pause this project and reconsider. Proper due diligence must be done and we must make data driven decisions. Now is not the time for unnecessary risks with taxpayer money Thank you. Thank you. We're going to take a quick 5 minute break and then we'll come back and. Call back to order. Thank you. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we need a motion to approve resolution.
279-24 Appropriation from the General Fund Public schools on military installations program assigned fund balance to contract award for design services for new PK8 school at Doug Valley Moved Second discussion please. Superintendent Haber. Yep Deputy Superintendent Pecky Allen. Is it on? You don't have to hit the button on this one right? OK. Good evening, This is an important milestone here for the Douglas Valley Elementary School project. This all has to do with the public schools on military
Installations program and we have gone through the process at this point. Again, we submitted the design proposal back in November, almost a a year ago, we had the federal evaluation team visit in March. And then we have been working with the federal government on continuing to just fine tune and meet all of the requirements. There are different paperwork items There's an online portal that you have to put all of the information in. We received a formal
invitation for this particular opportunity and I attached that to the item if you wanted to see that. So as an overview, even though this is a public schools on military Installations program and as you looked at the information in your packet. That for the design there is a total amount awarded of about 3.8 89 million, well 20% of that t is the match from District 20 and the other 80% would come from the federal government. So why
am I here tonight? As you know the e board needs to approve any contracts that exceed 1 $1 million or $1 million or more. Even though our outlay at the end of the day would be the $778,000 and that's below 1,000,000. We are still entering into a $1 million plus contract and so we think it's absolutely appropriate to ensure that the Board gives its approval for this particular
r expenditure. It is the design services, the contracted design services with RTA that was the e evaluation committee's selected firm and so it's in an amount not to exceed 2 2.475 million. For the design services itself now you might be thinking then why is the whole award 30 million? Because there are other aspects to the work during the design phase, things like soil reports, environmental documentation
topographic surveys, property surveys, construction n management, estimating services, all of those pieces. So tonight you are essentially approving the 2.475 for that design contract? But I just wanted to include that background. There are other expenses in the design phase So again to approve tonight you would appropriate and I've asked you to appropriate the full amount again even though we would expect reimbursement on the monthly basis
of the 2.475 again at the e end of the day for design services the total expense will be last 770 plus that you see. In this particular resolution. Do you have any questions for me the only other piece of information I would remind you of as you consider this is that unlike AIR Academy High School with Douglas Valley, the price point is lower. We estimated at about 62 million with price escalation and remember this
is not to build AK-5 school which is what is in n existence at Douglas Valley as we know there is no preschool for District 20 they have. The CDC and there's a waiting list there, so this would have a preschool and then of course we have students who are leaving Eagle, leaving the Academy to go to Eagleview Middle School, which is a comprehensive middle school Please keep in mind that grades 6, 7, and 8 at Eagleview would most likely
be what we call, you know, a half a m, 60 students at middle school at each level we el. We certainly would have the capability to do more. But we know that the comprehensive Ness for all the full gamut of athletics for all the full l gamut of clubs and activities, et cetera, would be eagle View and students, families would have the choice as to what location they would want to go to, but in partnership with Colonel Stallworth and other leadership at you Safa we know that continuity of educational opportunities for military
families who so choose it. Would have that opportunity. And again, because of that lower price point of the 6.2 million, we made a commitment that District 20 0 would fund the matching. So it's estimated at about 12.3 million and in our adopted budget for 2425, it reiterates there that the he beginning fund balance, the fund balance in our PSMI reserve in the general fund is currently approximately 9 point million. We will continue to fund that until the 12
212 point 3 is reached. But that's where these dollars would be coming from to pay these obligations. Any questions for me? So if we're paying 20% of this if f something goes awry for some reason with the architect, do we own the plans for this at this point? Or since we're only paying part of it, is that owned by the beauty the way it works s is we pay all of it so o it's just that the portion of the funds comes from us and portion from the federal government. So our understanding
for this is basically when we make a payment. We the bill that we get from the architect let's say it in a certain, let's just say June, we get a bill for $500,000. We pay $500,000 because that's what RTA billed that month or the 2 million and that same month to preserve e cash flow, we will submit something to the federal government asking for an 80% reimbursement on n the amount we paid so the actual vendor gets
paid the full amount, but then on a monthly basis when we pay something to that vendor, we then immediately that same month we ask the federal. For an 80% reimbursement of what we paid out and so it will be important and when we get our feet t wet with this that we are responding quickly because we want to again preserve that cash flow health ideally when we pay the vendor we'd love to have the 80% reimbursement that month, but initially because we have a $9.3 million if we're still trying
to get our feet under us with the process as we go through. We would have the ability to pay. And if we had to wait until the next month for the reimbursement or something, we would be OK and by the time we get into higher dollar amounts that will be moving quicker with h construction and other things, we'll have a good sense of the process. Thank you. So let me ask a different question that I'm assuming there's certain expenses that are kind of pre approved for this, so we can't
Swimming pool or something and be like that wasn't in the plan so with h that being said, if this is a reimbursement, do we know what expenses are like we already agreed with them on what's s gonna be covered as far as this 80% or is that still something that's in flux that's part of the budget. So when we do do the proposal, there's a budget in there. But then when we complete this portal, that is where you lay out a budget by they call them tasks. And so things like like contracted design services would be a task. A sub task might be estimation
services, et cetera. Then we might have another line that has construction management where we are hiring a contractor to help manage the project. So it's outlined in there and you know you're expected to bring your best to the table in terms of what the estimates are because the reimbursement is based really the award is based on estimates. So a big part of this design process. In fact, we've just been talking about this a lot this week and last week, including with the folks
s from PSMI, is when we get to the stage Can you still hear me OK when we get to the stage that we e start to develop the estimates for next year in terms of what construction might look like we need to put resources into that. That's all budgeted for in this. To make sure that those estimates are as accurate as we can get. That is one of the reasons that even though we anticipate to spend a year doing what we call DAG work, which is a design advisory Group A
A collaborative process led by the architect and in this case RTA, to collaboratively develop plans, we have community members parents, staff members from Doug Valley, from other schools, from high school, middle school, elementary school to design. Case we will start to put an RFP out earlier in the process than you might expect. We don't wait until the very end It's better to bring in the construction side earlier because they become then a partner in
monitoring costs and what they call value engineering and looking at times whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa you're you're way out in terms of and then we can put the brakes on and start to decide how we need to make some adjustments in that design. So that's another strategy to. Manage the estimates and it will be very important that we invest in that part so that when we put in a construction proposal and finalize the dollar amounts for the construction phase that there is accurate as we can get them. All right. Thank you. Sounds like a great opportunity that
we're moving forward and starting to get some traction with it Any other questions or comments board? OK, Roll call please. Mrs. Konz, aye. Mrs. Shandy, aye. Mr. Wilburn, aye, Mrs. Yanez, aye. Mr. Salt, aye. Thank you, Mr. Belcher How many people have signed up to speak during public comment section #2 Board President will recognize each speaker and consistent with GP 4.4, comments will be curtailed if remarks or behavior becomes inappropriate, the Board President may interrupt, warn, or terminate
a speaker statement that is unrelated to the business of the school district inappropriate for K12 students are disruptive to an orderly, similar productive meeting. Thank you for your cooperation. All right, up first Laurie Ristig, then Kelly Hudnall and then Lara Matisek, so Laurie and Kelly, please come up. You're good to start. Hi, my name is Laurie Ristig and I'm the librarian at Eagleview Middle School. I'd like to begin by saying that I support parent choice in middle school libraries, and I appreciate that there's an option available that allows parents and guardians to choose when they
believe their child is emotionally ready to access YA materials that That said, the new middle school YA policy as it's currently written has caused a few hiccups for us with boots on the ground in the library. Namely, that students whose parents have not opted their students in or out of YA checkouts those students still can't check out any books at all. My understanding as that is that the reasoning for this was to ensure that all parents know that the YA block is available for their students. But the problem is, some parents they just they
won't respond. We middle school librarians have been making herculean efforts and after weeks of numerous emails, newsletters, QR coded bookmarks passed out. And letters sent homes with students. Eagle view still sits at about 8% of students, the equivalent of 3 classrooms full of kids. Not able to check out any library materials due to parental non response. I personally have a cart full of books I'm holding for my don't know check out allowed students I have
e teachers with kids who can't complete required assignments due to inaccess to the library and I've been told that this policy isn't slated to be revisited until after semester 1. That's half a year with students not able to check out any books. So I ask, how can we be expected to build a positive reading culture and tell kids that readings really, really important and then not let them check out any books? So I'm here to ask that this policy, which I know was written with good intentions, be revisited as soon as possible and recommend that the
e remaining students be allowed access to the library regardless s of whether their parents have responded or not they've already missed a month. Please don't make them. Wait till January Thanks. Next up is Lara Matisek, followed by Tymm Hoffman. Lara, please come up or sorry. Next up is Kelly Hudnall followed by Lara Matisek. Lara, please come up. I'm speaking directly for Unity in our community tonight, and the best way I know to do that is to pray, so I invite you to join with me, loving and gracious God, you
are the giver of all good gifts, and we thank you today for all of your blessings. We thank you specifically for our children, youth, and families in D20 Heavenly Father, we ask for your hand of divine protection guidance, and blessing over our schools, students, boards faculty members. And we pray for your peace and your truth in our education system statewide. We thank you for the teachers, staff, administrators, board members and faculty that have e answered the call to protect, care for, and
minister to the D20 students, we turn to you now in humility and dependence for wisdom, guidance, and direction in this meeting tonight for our kids. You formed in shape, each shaped, each and every one of them for a divine purpose and destiny. And we are here to partner with you in protecting them serving them, caring for them and leading them well, according to your good purpose. We ask that you would bless them abundantly. We ask for wisdom, guidance, courage, and strength in all of our deliberations. Help us to be
wise in the decisions we make for the good of all of those who place their trust and confidence in the leadership of the e school board, Give each of them insight to lead with integrity that their decisions may reflect what is right and good. And Lord, grant each of us the humility and courage to always seek you and all that we do and say and we decree e your heart over our children, teens, and young adults that confusion, depression, hopelessness, self harm, suicide substance abuse and violence would now end in Colorado
and that your love and joy would reign in our state in Jesus name Amen. Thank you. Next up is Lara Matisek, followed by Tymm Hoffman. You're both welcome to come up at this time. Hold on. We ask that there's no applause during the public comment session and so if that happens again, this is your one warning we're gonna clear the room, so please keep it down. Thank you. It's important to remind you as elected is this on OK? It is important to remind you that as elected officials you are not supposed to preach your religious beliefs to us here. The
separation of church and state is sacred to our secular and diverse nation. As elected officials, you are held to a different standard than that of a private citizen. The only reference to religion by this entire administration has been the Christian Bible That is blatant discrimination and a huge disregard for the families like mine that have stood here countless times asking you to stop preaching your religious views and quotes you are choosing to purposefully exclude families that do not believe in your Bible or your God. I am here to have this on record and bring some much needed diversity. The board quote you chose tonight. Love your neighbor as yourself there
e is no commitment greater than these. Mark 1231. It's interesting when some of you have told lies about me, have discriminated against my family and I, and incited threats of violence against me and d other parents in this district in the spirit of being inclusive e and because I am not a bigot, I am not a coward, and I am not a Christian nationalist. I have some proverbs and greetings from other faiths that rather represent ASC 20 families. The 1st is the Muslim proverb and greeting Assalam Alaikum, which means in Arabic peace be upon you.
Akbar, which God is great, The Jewish proverb do not be wise in words, be wise indeed the he Buddhist proverb 3 Things cannot be long hidden. The sun he moon, and the. The truth and finally probably 1 of of my favorites, the Satanic proverbs. An adversary you u make me adversary I will be. And then also the atheist proverb to explain the unknown by known as a logical person explain the known by the unknown is a form of. Ideally, I would rather have no religion be part of our school business
but opening it up. One means all have to open it up to to all. I look forward to that at the next. Thank you. Next up is Tymm Hoffman, followed by Beth Hodgson. You're welcome to come up Beth. Talk about my son's experience as a new 7th grader at Mountain Ridge Middle School. Zechariah has some unique struggles in the way of dyslexia dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD and executive function challenges last few years s he's been at schools fully dedicated to teaching to those challenges but this year he choiced in the day 20 and that came with some fear, worry and anxiety I can't say enough good about the staff and teachers at that school. We've been warmly
welcomed in. Everyone we've come in contact with has been determined to make sure Ezekiel succeeds. A month in, he hasn't missed football due to grades a single time. Shocker, some of this is due to Z dog really taking ownership of his education, but a large part of it's due to the positive, encouraging environment being created for him by these teachers. Kudos to his mountain rich teachers on n another note, Director Wilburn's reprehensible behavior on August 13th at a city Council meeting was inappropriate and I'm becoming an elected school board official. Rather than partake in the first day of school in his own district, Mr. Wilburn chose to travel across town to a City Council meeting where he joined up with A
concerted effort to disparage the character of a district parent. He partnered up with those and proceeded to the famed Denigrate and falsely label l Me A. His actions had consequences that he was very much aware of because in 2018 Mr. Wilburn was sued for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress for falsely labeling an individual al and encouraging others to harass and threaten them. In 2021, Mr. Wilburn settled this lawsuit and admitted that he was liable for the claims and assertions against him. His actions have directly contributed to harming my family. We've already been the target of police intimidation at our
home, and his words and actions have created a dangerous environment for us in the city. We live in. And that's exactly what he meant to do. If you was bored, can sit here and comfortably support that type of behavior and there's nothing more I can ask you but if you find this intentional deviant behavior as despicable as most t people have heard of it have, I would urge you to strongly consider censoring this member to show that you too understand what a board member's s integrity should and shouldn't look like. Thank you. That's up. Next up is Beth Hodgson, followed by Richard Brown. Richard, you're welcome to come up at this time. I'd like to address the board quote of the quote of the month if our public
c school board meetings are starting with quotes from the Bible, the same respect should be shown to all religions. The board member should also heed their own chosen verse. Tonight's verse. Love your neighbor as yourself. This verse recognizes that each human is an individual and will not look the same, will not worship he same, will not live their lives the same. It's to celebrate the e diversity in our world. It means loving your neighbor because of not in spite of their differences. This board does not practice what it t it preaches. Neither do the advocates sitting in the audience tonight. Discrediting private individuals in public forums. Pushing
Christian beliefs only, banning books, refusing to recognize pronouns and preferred names. Banning flags None of these behaviors honor nor respect those who live their own distinct lives. Since we're permitting quoting a religious scripture in public forums, I thought I would share a couple the same sentiment. In Hinduism, this is the sum of duty. Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you. And then my personal favorite, the atheist mantra at the Hodgson home be Next up is Richard Brown. Ma'am. This is the last warning if the there are any other
I'm sorry. We will clear the room if you cannot calm down thank you. So before I begin, I just want to encourage everybody my favorite Bible verse Romans 831, they said in response. If God is for us, who can be against us? So I'd like to thank you all for the opportunity to speak my My name is Richard Brown and I'm a father of two who are in district 20 at New Summit Charter Academy. I am in favor of the 2024 4 bond measure and hope to encourage others and believe in the cause to take part in this monumental possibility. It's not every day we're given this opportunity to give our kids a better chance for success and I believe the
e 2024 bond measure would do just that. So in a time where public school. This failing and we're all in search for answers. We are given a chance to rise up and show that we're ready for change. What's even better is the amount of money this bond would provide to better not just public schools but also charter schools, which have been shown have been proven to o be as efficient or even better when it comes to standardized testing as a parent who cannot afford private school and cannot take the time to homeschool l my kids, it's my duty to ensure I'm doing the best that I can to provide my children with a great education while protecting them from the rest of the world, physical, spiritual and mental.
The Department of Education control and the public education system can be unsafe to the standards of many parents, and I'm shocked at the amount of opposition towards charter schools. Charter schools are still public schools and have and have to meet state requirements and are often held at a higher standard than traditional public schools. So charter schools are hitting the mark, or even better, why so much resistance I'm aware that there's slight tax increase, but the amount of money that would be given back in return far outweighs. The negative What's wrong to say let's put a little skin in the game to show we're e on board with redirecting our future towards a better path. What good can come from to oppose this opportunity to just see
the board fail, or to be stuck in pride so firmly that you're willing to damage our children of the future? I want to say a quote from Thomas. So it is a painful irony that people who are promoting make believe equality and inclusion and diversity in schools are attacking charter schools that are producing the real equality of educational achievement. I appreciate all your guys's hard work. I know it's difficult when we come in conflict, but we're looking for ways to resolve it where our children have the best chance of success. Thank you. Next up is Rob Rogers, followed by Bernadette Guthrie. This is odd. Good evening board members. I was originally here to discuss
the 2024 board bond issue, but I can't help it notice the glaring inclusion in tonight's agenda. Love your r neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these since Mark 1231 from the Christian n Bible. So I'm here to remind you about a different commandment, one that actually governs this nation, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. That's the First Amendment in case you're not familiar. And yes, I know this board is in Congress, but I also understand the 14th Amendment and regardless, the greatest commandment in this context. Is simple. Don't violate the Constitution you
u weren't elected to preach to me, you were elected to serve this community without violating the constitution. And if you want to preach, I am positive that Derek can arrange a pulpit for you. Now back to the bond issue. You've been pushing this proposal as a once in a generation opportunity initially leaving out some very critical details like the fact that t Department of Defense funds for rebuilding Air Academy High School are part of a no year appropriation. They don't expire. So this rushed fear mongering push for a historic opportunity is just a smokescreen. And let's not forget that $11 million is being allocated to
charter schools with no proper needs based assessment, which by the way is also required by law. And while we're talking we're e talking about funneling public funds to pet projects while 500 0 million in deferred maintenance for public schools continues to be ignored. So o you can quote the Bible all you want, but what you're really preaching is s fiscal irresponsibility and a blatant disregard for fairness and transparency. I don't need religious commandments from my elected officials I need accountability. So maybe they're real love. Neighbor moment here is showing some love to the students
and teachers stuck in crumbling buildings and leaky classrooms Or maybe, at the very least, some of you could show some love to Tim Hoffman. And maybe, just maybe, you can stick to the Constitution while you're doing it. Next up is Bernadette Guthrie. One of the competencies and portrait of a graduate is creating lifelong learners. So let me start by thanking D20 for making me exactly that and tell you a bit about the adventure that being a curiosity seeker has taken me on recently. I recently learned the difference between an MLO and a Bond, and the
legal requirements that come with each. I've learned that the district's financial situation is far worse than I originally thought with 500 0 million of deferred maintenance. Yet despite this enormous backlog, there's no comprehensive data driven plan to prioritize these projects. I've learned that I've learned all l about the 2016 bond and how thorough that process was. I've also learned that D20 has been over collecting on that bond, leading to a $44 million surplus in the bond redemption n fund. And while the district is sitting on this surplus, we're being asked to approve another bond, which will ultimately cost taxpayers over 100
3,000,000 with interest. I've learned about the Charter school capital construction program, which gives our. Schools an extra 1.56 million from Colorado marijuana taxes on top of what they already received from D20. I've learned about First Amendment rights civil rights, anti slap legislation, and even the judicial system I've studied D 20s administrative and board governance policies so o closely I could probably recite them yet over the past three e years these policies have been repeatedly violated with no accountability. I've
learned about fair campaign practices and election finance laws. I've learned that money not merit when school board seats. And as it turns out, electing officials based on propaganda, whether it's books or masks, is a terrible idea. But most importantly I've learned that those who should know the most about these issues don't It's clear that it's up to us as constituents to stay engaged, ensure our r tax dollars aren't continually wasted on financial mismanagement and lawsuits. Let's be clear, if this bond fails, it won't be because the community doesn't support AIR Academy or that anyone is politicizing. It will be because of the District's
negligence and refusal to complete the basic due diligence we cannot continue to ask taxpayers to fund. From the district is showing it cannot be trusted to handle money All right, Superintendent Haber, did you have any clarifications or next steps? No, I do not board d debrief was our business this evening focused on activities that promote and honor our mission statement, our belief statements and our global end statements that reminds us that all students will have the knowledge, skills and character necessary for successful transition to the next level and upon upon graduation, we'll be fully prepared for success. Do the board hear information tonight that would require the review
or vision of a policy director? Cons I just want to acknowledge the librarian from Eagle View for our r administration to consider. So since you asked that, I can give a clarification on that We've been n tracking that data very closely and we actually have an update that we can bring to the next board meeting October around where we're at with that we have made e phone calls. The other part of the clarification on that, it's not just the library books, it's that's that they're updating their emergency information. It's library books, it's you know, whether or not that just for middle school, whether or not they want to.
Have students access the YA books and it's also media release and some of the other things that we need to have updated every single year, so I think it's also. Showing us that we really need to continue to have different ways to reach out to parents. We have to have that emergency information updated so those same parents who haven't done that piece, it's the whole list of things that are in there, but we continue to track that and continue to reach h out. So I appreciate your asking about that. Thank you any other
r information that would require a review or revision of a policy? Did the board hear information tonight that would require a new policy? Did the board hear information tonight that the board would like to include on a future agenda? All right, with that we have Ms. Allan and Mr. Meyer, but I don't think Buck's here tonight. They have birthdays this month. So happy birthday, Ms. Allan and Buck and Mr. Salt's birthday is September 19th, so happy birthday to you. That needs to be removed from the record. All right, we were peaked at around 17 attendees. We are down to 15. There is no executive
session tonight, so this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.