come to the point in the agenda that is the open forum and we do have someone here to speak at the open Forum Samantha pie can I pass absolutely yep and we'll just remind you we have two minutes we've allowed for you
to thanks superintendent Wagner and Schoolboard members of District number 241 my name is Samantha pie and I am currently filling the role as Si's dean of students I am incredibly disappointed with the lack of communication regarding my end of employment since being
notified on April 29th my family and I moved here to Albert Lee exactly one year ago because we wanted to live in an area where family community and education were prioritized the ongoing communication issues I have faced I believe should
have never happened if the district had effective policies and procedures in place I have even offered to assist in ensuring there are solutions for issues like this that be the undercurrent in the district I believe it should have been explained from the beginning what the intentions were fulfilling the dean
of students role I understand that sometimes things are business and as superintendent Wagner said plb's restrictions have dictated your ability to make adjustments however since January I have been operating under the GU as dean of students and will be part of Summer Dean
work in preparation for next school year my family and I have also made plans for the summer under the assumption that I would still be in this role which I was told also included being paid through the summer I have spent the last 21 days
trying to get an answer about my financial hardship in a meeting with executive director Matson on April on May 9th she apologized for the misinformation and lack of communication she ensured that this was your guys' top priority and that they would work on on
it not only has there been a severe lack of communication but time is of the essence since there's only 3 days left of the school year to remedy this financial hardship I am requesting to be paid through the summer as dean of students since I will be filling this role until August 13th according to
today's board minutes as an item that you will be passing tonight thank you for your time and I look forward to a response from this board thank you we'll move to item number four approval of today's agenda this is an action
item I'll make a motion to approve is there a second second he motioned and second all in favor of approving today's agenda signify by saying I I I motion carries 60 our next item is consent item this is a
action item as well to approve sir second second is moved and seconded to approve the consent items all in favor signif by by saying I I I motion carries
60 thank you everyone all right we will move on to reports our first report is superintendent Wagner good evening thank you Madame chair directors uh teacher representative we're missing our students we wish them well uh staff and
Community uh tonight I'll be brief I just want to begin with our mission to ensure individual academic social emotional growth that leads to engag Citizens and lifelong Learners and with that we really uh were able to witness our mission becoming uh become uh the
fruition last week and that was during graduation and it was uh quite an honor to watch our seniors graduate from our area Learning Center as well as our high school both events were very beautiful our our students are brilliant and and
amazing and it was just a a great night so we wish them on the very best and Jay Le and Ashlin as well our former um student Representatives this is uh we enter into our last week of um opportunity for
learning for our students and staff so I just want to say thank you for all of our staff for all the hard work and dedication this school year a specific shout out um to our custodians who continue to make um our buildings look not just pristine and then the countless
hours they put in to make the graduations H happen so again just just amazing staff here in Albert Le and I know it's a well-deserved break coming up find a couple other points uh summer opportunities you'll be hearing more about SU of the summer opport
opportunity in the community as well as our tiger Tales you'll hear a presentation about that tonight but one thing I want to highlight you'll see on our social media as well as on our on our web page which is our new website so just so you know we're um poize in Vin we're transitioning in that but it looks
amazing so get a chance to check that out and that is our summer meals program so there'll be more information but ultimately uh summer food program with no charge to Children 18 and under at the locations of Halverson Lake View albertly High School and Brookside so
please look for more information about that it'll be breakfast and lunch served at no cost thank you all right board members Bruce do you want to start yeah it's been a busy month uh kind of a fun month though this time of
year I attend the Freeborn County collaborative meeting reviewed funding requests from a couple different agencies and updated on the we up we were updated on the coordinator position uh right now it's being abandoned and graded I attended the high
school play uh which was very interesting uh went to fourth and fifth grade recital I seen uh Andre there that was kind of a fun night watching her fourth and fifth graders from all the schools do that and then Senior WS night was really a positive thing for uh all
of our seniors attending that event so and I heard the after grad party was a big success they had a good good time so thank you to the parents for that that's
it uh no meetings uh in the last month or so um I did I also attended the alc commencement and the high school graduation which although it was windy and warm was actually a nice difference from last year um um I attended a
3K it was awareness for mental health um mental health awareness yeah it was here at the high schools hosted by Miss Roberts um that was fun there's a lot it's actually a lot bigger turnout than we thought it was going to be this nice Glow Run so it was messy and uh we had the music going and every a lot of people there so um and I've got a couple
of picnics and stuff coming up in elementary schools that I'm going to help out with too so that's it yeah it I would agree it's been a busy May um recollection of a curriculum committee between the three of us we recall that uh graduations and again
I've heard positive reports about graduation itself but also the after graduation I lived down there and I didn't hear any excessive noise so it was seemed to go fine um oh it went to a seventh grade softball game I was impressed with just the attendance there
was over 80 people there watching our seventh grade girls play softball Ed in a tie in casee anybody cares um I participated in msba training on budget and the re act um some volunteer
activities that got me connected with our students U we touring the elementaries at the Museum and was able to work with the third graders from Halverson um in the archaeology section was mine um our alliance Club was very active with the school district um a
partnership between the school district and Alliance Club Freeborn County grant money and the City Arborist we gave all the third graders in the district trees to plant and that was a very positive event and I'm assuming some uh some
learning involved there as far as nature and trees and and sustainability of uh our forests and trees here in the city our alliance Club donated to the backpack program last week and then we as a speaker at liance club we had Pam
anenson speak that was very informative um at our Lions Club Neil and Kim and I have been working on distinguished alumni and faculty the last uh week Foundation okay sorry um that's
it and all right is this s all right so I also attended a number of things um first off the curriculum committee that Gary an Neil and I were comparing notes on um covered quite a bit at that meeting the one point that stood out the most to me was um talking about the
importance of building general knowledge when it comes to reading comprehension um in addition to you know reading skills um I attended the prominade which reminded me how fast time flies because some of the kids I knew before they were born and um I toured or attended the
elementary choir tour at Halverson that Bruce was at um I went to a retirement luncheon I think I saw Neil and Bruce at that also and of course the graduations for ALC and the high school and uh just a a great time of year um and then just
a quick comment on Samantha's request just speaking for myself I would be interested in exploring if we can fulfill what she's asking so speaking for myself that's it aha okay I uh as all of you attended the
graduation ceremonies and obviously that's a fun thing to do I'm always impressed with the with the ceremony and with the event in general and but it's every year it seems like the students were really really Pleasant to be around
and uh this was no exception I I was really impressed with the student body and with the with the demeanor of the whole event and I also attended the ALC graduation the evening before and um
I as I think I mentioned to them last year I have a special place in my heart for those students that uh attend the alc and and they're an amazing bunch of people and they they have some pretty good accomplishments and I was really
really proud of uh impressed with their demeanor as well um the the awards ceremony Bruce mentioned that and I was there as a representative of the Education Foundation which is a custodian for lots
of scholarships um that money is is not our money obviously it it's uh this is channeled through us most of the time invested in Minnesota Foundation St Paul
Foundation um and so it's my happiness to to present a lot of scholarships and was there as well and uh uh handed out some scholarships um and that's always fun um as you can see I I was involved in the
29th annual wrestling golf tourn uh event which U is one of two occasions every year where I actually gol it's painful to watch uh but it's a we have a good time and and U to to the uh other
three and my group or number one son Alex and Mike papis who graduated in 1971 and I was was fortunate to be his coach and we had a great time and the fourth was Al rut who was a longtime
principal at the high school and I always considered Al and I to be sort of of the same generation uh but he I find is nothing more than a kid because he's the same age as Mike papis and you know so that
that makes that if he were a student he would have been one of mine probably so that was fun um attended the curriculum committee and reading is a big item these days uh and should be and uh our
our staff is uh very much involved and and immersed in that in that in that subject uh currently and in the in the in the foreseeable future uh but one thing that really impressed me with the curriculum committee meeting was the
presentation by uh an egg teacher young lady in the in the vocational department at the high school and uh she has engineered a course a new course that's going to be a sort of prev
veterinarian exploratory course which is offered in connection with rivlin college it's a college in schools course and I'm always excited about our students who get college credit in a vocational area now in addition to the
uh in addition to the uh so liberal arts areas that's it thank you thanks Neil um I have Dave's proxy tonight he is helping us out coaching baseball and they have a game tonight and his one of his pitchers is pitching
for the first time so so he is there but he send sent a report um he did attend an msba meeting as a board member last week no nothing real um significant to report he did say that they will be having a summer session like they had in
January for board members so he'll let us know about that um so for if anybody's interested he'll uh make sure to remind us so for me I had the opportunity to attend the big nine Music Festival um and the concert at the end of the day
and um uh dinner with other board members and it was a great event and just highlights and showcased our wonderful talented musicians um and artists in the albertly school district so it's a fun day to be at um very well
attended um I uh also presented at scholarship night attended the the two High School um the alc and the high school graduation uh really meant it in my speech when I said that's one of the funnest nights for us and so it was a
great night um and then I'm in the quis club and we do a bug program and so we're finishing up those we're we're changing the name though because we went away from grades so it used to be bringing up grades and now it's really just taking each student um and where
they're at at the beginning of the year and help them with their progression and celebrate that with them and our club helps support that and then we also um contribute to the backpack program so I think that's it for my report Ambert do you want to give a
report from the teachers yes um end of the school year which means all kinds of fun stuff happening at the elementary level we've had Field Days fifth grade graduations and end of the school year um field trips at the um at
Southwest they sent two teams of students to the first social studies spectacular and it's offered by the South Central Services Cooperative um in the event they have participated in a written test stations of collaborative activities Jeopardy style head-to-head
round working with questions in history geography civics and economics and the students were able to provide feedback and advice um to SC as they seek to develop a competition similar to math Masters and um they're hope hopeful that
it'll become state and Southwest would like to participate again in the future if it is available um at the alc we had students that were participating in the Stars leadership class um they went to the
Statewide Stars conference in Mano at the end of April and the students were um alternative schools from across the state and they competed in events with um parenting decision making mock
interviews art speech and the stars from albertly earned a variety of gold and silver Awards along with first place in programs of activities and second place in community service projects they represented uberly well and they're hoping to continue to build their
students confidence and skills by attending these conferences for many years to come and then the high school they've been doing their AP exams graduation went well and ala had a um future teacher signing where we had
students that are heading into the future of teaching I forgot something in my report sorry um I wanted to draw the board's attention to the last journal um magazine we just got there's a great article on policym is a vital responsibility for school boards it's a
it's part of um um Kirk's Straight Talk article and it's really good but it's really fun to look at through the what's right with public education there's great articles in there um this time and I'd highly recommend it Kim yeah as
as you bet great thanks everybody for your reports um our next report is curriculum and instruction uh uh 8.1 credit recovery and summer programming options I believe Johanna and John are
presenting it's on okay Nelson board director superintendent Wagner staff members as well as community members um it's our privilege to uh present present to you some of the summer opportunities coming up in 2024 um so starting with our early
learning um are you able to hear me that's better okay starting with our early learning uh we have a number of different opportunities that are going on as we go up uh starting with our youngest Learners um Early Learning family Ed is going to
have a number of different classes as they go through uh the summer everything from uh U safety series which is finishing up all the way as you can see on the list of the individual connections uh for families that are just looking for those extra advice pieces we're also taking a look at changing some of the ways we've done
things in the past we learned through Esser that not all of our students have transportation to get to things nor do our families so we're actually working or been working through taking things to where the families are so just like we were able last year to take the terrific traveling trailers around to the
different Parks we're doing the park parenting and that we're taking those out to the parks around the community uh to try and see if that increases some of our uh connections with the families uh we do over the summer have our early childhood screening we do a couple of more opportunities on those things uh we have one here at the start of June and
also then at the end of July uh to make sure that we can get all of our students in and screened uh as they're getting ready uh in their educational careers our school writing is preschool uh we have a sign up for that it's 5 days a week as we go through June except
for June 19th um uh need opportunity comes with a couple of field trips they're going to have their meals as well as snacks uh really fun opportunity to do some summer learning through the month of June um we still have opportunities or still have space in that class so if there's
any interest uh please feel free to pass that one along another opportunity we have ECFE is running an exploration stem Factory uh we've got a June session as well as a July session session you do not need to sign up for both you could sign up for
one or the other um depending on how things go this one is only Monday through Thursdays from 8:30 to 11:30 um in July there is not food service uh so we won't have a lunch uh opportunity there but we may try to figure out something for a snack on
things uh this particular uh uh stem Factory those typically are done in theme or themed weeks uh for instance I can remember one of them from last year was Shark Week to go along with the Shark Week that we hear so much about also in the summer we get a lot of
our drivers around so we've got driver education classes this summer we actually have four classroom sessions so we've had or seen an influx of folks looking to take that driver's head um so we've got two of them in June we're doing it a morning session and an afternoon session to help get them ready for their behind the wheel behind the
wheel lessons are scheduled with the the instructors so that they deem their schedule and uh as appropriate and then uh work through with the cars that we have we are working on a couple of new cars for the program this year as well project exploration um again we
have the terrific traveling trailers going around the boat house opens up on June 3D uh so it' be great to see those canoes and kayaks getting out on the water as well as the P the paddle boards uh The Rock Gym maintains being open Tuesdays Fridays and Saturdays uh we also have a Fridays on the River canoe
trip uh so that's a terrific opportunity to get our students somewhere other than the lake uh with the water that we've had we should be able to actually canoe down them instead of carrying the canoes down them uh so that'll be a good Improvement this year um but we also have multiple other classes that are being offered through these project
exploration funds it is our last uh summer with those funds as they expire at the end of August uh so we encourage folks to take an opportunity uh with our our programs through that project exploration for our adults we have daytime Adventures we have both a
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum trip on June 12th and then Minnesota State Fair uh the nice thing about some of these trips they pick you up here in town they drop you at the door so you don't have to worry about traffic or parking and we bring you right back to your vehicle when it's done so when you start
thinking about the fuel involved as well as the uh the parking and those types of pieces there is are some neat things that that trip besides the trip itself uh bring to the equation we also have enrichment classes going on both for our youth and our
adults our youth we've got camps of all variety uh Fine Arts as well as Athletics included and then some other classes such as sewing and other classes offered there our adult and richment um lots of health and wellness and fitness classes you can see a picture there on the uh um
right side of your screen of one of the groups um that were all together for one of their Fitness classes we also offer the defensive driver course uh for those that are 55 and older uh looking to get that insurance discount all right um so some of the alc
programming will uh consist of credit recovery and the tiger Tales targeted Services um programs so to start with credit recovery this is for students in n9th grade through 12th grade who need to
recover a credit that is required for graduation uh it would be one of the core classes that that they might need that they didn't pass during the school year and if will be held at the high school June 3rd through the 27th except for June
19th and it runs from 8:45 to 12:45 there's breakfast and lunch there's Transportation if you're in the bus Zone and the one thing that um all alternative uh programming has to H include is a continual learning plan uh
for for any student involved in that you'll hear me you'll see that again in the tiger Tales program as well um so there is no limit of the number of courses that a student can catch up on or take during during Credit Recovery um
and one of the things that we do with uh the curriculum tool that we have is is we allow students to take a preest on a unit if they pass it then they may go on to the next unit and so we want to see what students know rather than have them
start at the beginning of a course and and do everything involved in that course so if they don't pass the the quiz then the program the curriculum tool assigns them um assignments and projects based on the assessment so they
may not have to do the whole unit they may have to do parts of the unit based on that assessment uh we will have an English math social studies science and special education teacher um myself and my Administrative Assistant are involved in credit recovery
last year we had 188 students enrolled and they recovered 23.5 credits and uh tiger Tales targeted services that will run the same dates um and you can read the little um blurp up
there this is the biggest program in the summer that um that student state approved alternative programs provide is the targeted Services Program it will be it's for 1 through 8th graders and this year it'll be at
Lake View um there is a class at the high school the seventh and eighth grade group will be located at the high school and again all of those students have a CLP and that addresses the goals in which they're working on why they are um attending the program and then also has
parent involvement and signature in that plan so that is our staff this year um currently we have 320 so actually it's about 3:30 now because we added 10 more students this morning so um and that is
about where we'll end up is about 330 to 350 students that will be enrolled in the program we have uh several success coaches working with us and helping to communicate with families going on um the field trips with the students and
working in the classroom with academics as well so this is a sample day for second grade that is going to the boat house um so we've Incorporated quite a bit with experiential education for that so um
they would arrive to school um have breakfast if they choose not to have breakfast they're in the past um our specialist teacher have done some creative things they'll do yoga in the yard meditation in the gym uh musical morning in the field for students that
are waiting to go to class um we have Specialists uh fied music and art so uh students will attend one of those each day they'll have English language arts Reading Writing time math and then the younger students uh split their time at
the boat house so in this example um the second grade aters are getting picked up at 10:50 they take their sack lunches they've got the food service has uh coolers ready for us to take uh their sack lunches to the boat house and they'll go to the boat house basically
for the rest of the day they'll come back at 12:30 and get ready to go home or maybe have a few minutes for another another academic component so they'll do that once a week and then the older students uh
fifth grade and up will spend the whole time they're not splitting their time like the younger students are they'll spend the whole time at the boat house once a week so you can see what their sample Boat House day would look like they're there the whole time on the days
that they're not at the boat house then they're um in the classroom and attending Specialists and doing those academic pieces uh in 2019 is when we started to partnership with experiential education and start to expand our summer
programming um so um some of the what a couple I just met with Scott Hannah today and we were confirming some of our uh field trips we like the fifth through eth graders to do an ex sort of an extended field trip or
a extra um experience that is outside of uh the rock wall and the boat house and and the other rotations that they would be doing at the boat house um what we've decided is those students will go to uh Lime Creek down by Mason City this year
and um explore fossil hunting and and some different things like that but these were some of the things that we were looking at in the past they have gone to Quarry Hills Nature Center over by Rochester um last year they canoed Down The Root River um and it was a little
bit low so it took them a little bit longer and they had dep Portage a couple more times it was good problem solving for them that was that was good experience but the fifth through e8th grade will go on um sort of a an extended um extra field trip with the experiential staff um one of the goals
that they have is they're striving for a 1 to four staff to student ratio and that includes our teachers that are involved in working with the students during that time as well and any other support success Co Coes that are going
they really try to make it um you know an an ex an opportunity for students that are um not feeling confident in doing the activities and giving them those opportunities to to do that and they're really an amazing staff
to work with it's fun to watch them and it's fun to watch the students grow and become confident um also the last couple years we have of um K fiscus has provided rocketry instruction for the third graders so the third graders will work
each day with Mr fiscus um for about 45 to 60 Minutes building their rockets and then they will have a launch day at Southwest on June 25th um on June 10th uh the zoom man will present to all the students
throughout the morning um he's extremely popular the picture at the very beginning with the great big yellow B constrictor snake is is the zoom man he does a really nice job talking about the environment um animals that um some
of the science behind and care of animals he he does a really great job the students love him he's we've had him a few years now and teachers keep asking me to continue to have him back because he is very popular and now we have a time for
questions for either John or I the last couple slides are just for your information um I wanted to provide some background information on targeted services and the history of Alternative Learning programs and so you can view that on your own if you're interested in
looking at some of that but open it up for questions how has it been finding staff for the summer um so our our seven classroom teachers um was not difficult to find I would take one or two
more but our class size is um 20 or less right now so that's pretty good I do have one um grade level that is really pushing that with with like 22 but the others are all 18 to 20 um so we're okay
we usually have uh some students that end up not coming um and so our numbers might change a little bit but you never know what class grade that's going to be so so this year you know staff like to do the summer program um I haven't had a
difficult time getting this number of Staff you referenced a CLP that's a learning plan for students that's the continual learning plan yes yes it's required of any student that's involved in any of our programs thank
you all right next presentation is um from Angie Zer Barker and Aon brackie on the nspa J JEA a national journalism convention thank you please come
forward e got it um one of the better opportunities they had is we got to participate in on-site critique so each of our publication staffs were able to sit down um with more
experienced advisers uh so we could get feedback on what's going well in our Publications and things that we can improve upon so that was really helpful for everyone um while we were at the National Convention um we actually came
home with two Awards which is like a huge deal we were not expecting that um we got first place in imeg um literary design uh the girls submitted um one of the design pages and they got first um
Nationwide we are so proud of them and the work they did that imeg this year was an independent study that they did um yeah by checking in with me as a mentor every day we'd go over the plan and then they would go execute that plan
and we'd repeat it the next day so it's pretty amazing what they were able to do um and then our next award was the editor of the alasa which is Rosa Corey greenus um she won Ninth Place for editorial leadership Nationwide and that
includes every single Publications in the United States like yearbooks newspapers lit mags broadcast journalism across the board so uh really happy to have worked with her this year and proud of the work that she accomplished
uh we wanted to provide you beyond just talking about the National Convention but a program update because uh Publications at the high school have seen a lot of changes over the last two years um so this year we worked really hard to unite the four Publications that
exist right now between um the all ahasa newspaper the tiger yearbook the imeg literary magazine and tiger Vision so Angie and I are splitting that between the two of us which has been really great to you know really do justice to the not
only the history of Publications in Albert Lee but uh to just do them well and and you can see like it's it's paying off so we have had tremendous growth um I've only been an adviser for two years and um it was quite the
learning curve but the kids have been great and uh student participation has grown immensely over those two years since I started there was maybe I think we had one kid two kids in alasa and we have a much bigger staff your book right now we have 52 kids who
registered for it next year um Publications is just doing really well yeah which brings us to our second point it has grown so much that eron and I have spent the year like really working on meeting our technology needs for our students um one of the things that
happened was we applied for the grant last year and we got the iPad which one of the hoses the one with the big tiger on the front um we have a student who does all of that digital art on those iPads for the paper does we do we
do yes um in fact Aon and I have been um going around to some service clubs over the last like week or so uh and meeting with people to um try to help us is up there it says we've been th promised um
three mini MAAC um computers to be able to run our Adobe suite because um you all got us the Adobe suite last year updated and now our computers cannot run them efficiently so we're that's the next step that's what we're working on
and we were able to purchase um 14 new cameras this year to replace a lot of the technology that was broken and and they they're pretty impressive um some of the other successes that we've had uh tiger yearbook was awarded gold status by the
national yearbook program of Excellence this year and that was that was a huge accomplishment especially for having a staff that's really growing and and me not knowing much so uh it's been it's been something
to really celebrate this year um not only did we win those awards at the National Convention that we talked about um but at the State Convention this fall um a group of students and Angie and I took them up there and then all ahasa newspaper the print version earned um
fourth place in best of show and then the online or the website for the alasa placed third and best of show and we were really proud of them yeah and I just want to take a moment and like Aon has learned so much and grown this program like Leaps and Bounds
and also that wouldn't have happened without Chris dible and Sean Gaston um I have two examples specifically um Chris is did last year and is again this year through community at hosting a visual and audio course for free to introduce
students to Publications curriculum um and get them involved those it'll be Wednesday afternoons uh for those of you who are listening and have kids who might be into the audio and visual learning um and then I went to him this year because I had a group of students who wanted to
start a podcast and within two weeks he had tiger talk going with those students and was working on it so he has really collaborated in a way that has been amazing so we just wanted to thank both of them for supporting the program and
like really helping to make it what it is and really last year after one year of trusting me to learn this whole process and take on all ahasa and yearbook I went to Chris and Sean at the end of last year and said really like I it's been a great opportunity and I love
being a part of it but it it's almost impossible in the setting that it was in which was in one hour trying to cover both of those Publications and somehow advise them and meet with you know a group of like 18 kids while also seven others need your attention and so when I
went to him and said I needed help and support they helped me and figured it out and and so a huge part of the growth and success is due to them that's all we got stud yep they get elective credit yep
former yeah thank you so at the National Convention that's the kind of things that they go in and study so they can study Photography they study layout design um as our editors they can go and sign up for classes just on how to be better leaders um there's
also opportunities for them to look into what does journalism look like in college for them and how they can take that beyond the high school and for me the National Convention and the state conventions are so great because not only can you meet with other advisers and really build a sense of community
that way um but it's training for me so some of that is with yearbook Avenue the program that that the high school pays um is in contract with uh it's awesome there's great things that you can do in it it just takes a lot of time so having
um the program split and being able to dedicate that time to not only training myself than turning around and teaching the kids to do that um and then also we have a great yearbook rep in Jeff Fallon from J's he I can't even begin to thank him enough but he's helped me a lot with
learning to do that and then train the kids ARA also spends three days every summer taking kids to your book camp at jost's where they start planning the whole book and prepping it and getting it together so we go to gustavis and spend three days there the book cost well um right now it's at its
highest price with tax it's $140 and since that price is really out of a lot of our students ability uh we are looking into ways to help accommodate that in the future um it does increase in price
throughout the year but the cheapest it really ever gets to is about $75 so has this program ever been highlighted in a tribute you should you should send information to them and have this yeah we do actually we have a really great working relationship with
Crystal Miller at the Tribune they do all of our printing for the alasa so um CH Crystal really is one of our biggest supporters and um is constantly cheerleading with us um sending people people over to help give instruction in classrooms having us come to the Tribune
they do an internship in the summer um for student journalist so the Tribune is is a is a big collaborator with us yeah well and printing really died during covid um for the alasa and so that was my one goal was to figure out how to get
the alasa printed last year because many of the students at Albert Le High School have never seen the school newspaper um because they had online opportunities but was just really difficult and so uh Crystal at the Tribune has been so great
and not only figuring out how to help me figure out how to how to print that but then also we had some printing issues and you can see how great the alasa looks this year um under Angie and so she's just been really really helpful having that
partnership what do you think the what's Your Gut tell you why you have all this excitement and students wanting to be involved over the last couple years um you you
two I think that uh I was gonna say Aon yes I think that we have a better being the two separate well also having you know this is my 13th year teaching in the district um so when I was asked to take over Publications I was very
panicked about it and um I had a pretty good relationship with my freshman students at the time time and I said hey if you really liked English this year you should take intro to journalism and um so just continually working with I teach the younger groups and I I plan to
continue to do that because really um creating that connection with our our eighth and nth grade population is what has boosted our program I think um and then also having two people do this where we can both connect with them and
um devote time to them uh is has been I think really important yeah I just want to say thank you uh for what you provide for our students and going back to uh Madam chair's question
I I hear passion I hear commitment and collaboration and that is you've set a high standard and that high standard is very evident uh director Schindler I I would agree knowing that I worked on the yearbook as a high school student I will keep Ming in a box compared to what
students are are producing now so well done and thank you for what you do for our students each and every day thank you thank you so much before we adjourn I'll just uh
share our mission to ensure individual academic social and emotional growth that leads to engaged citizens and lifelong Learners is there a motion to to adjourn so move second okay it's been moved and seconded
all in favor for adjourning I motion carries