presented I'll make a motion I'll second all right so we have a motion from director spear with a second from director Breen to approve the agenda is presented any discussion hearing none those in favor signify by saying I please I I oppose same sign motion carries okay we'll move on to
recognitions um see I'll plow through them I was G to say I think you could take turns Rota we do it I'll I'll take the first one congratulations to the 522 d202 the 522 2024 graduates from the Brainard High School Brainard Learning Center Lincoln education center and
graduation equivalency diploma programs uh was a little chilly down on the football field but we we had a good old time graduating those kids a couple weeks ago that was great uh congratulations to the warrior boys golf team for their Section 8 AAA team runner-up finish and to Marty Timmons and Brady osland for qualifying for the
2024 M mshsl state tournament congratulations to the warrior girls golf team for their section 84 team runnerup finish and to Sophia carer for qualifying for the 2024 Minnesota Minnesota State High School league state tournament and
congratulations to the 2024 State Track and Field state qualifiers Ty Nelson triple jump and long jump cor CLA high jump Joe Smith po Vault Dylan gross shot put in discus Kyle Peterson in the 110 meter hurdles Natalie Smith in the 300
hurdles Brandon Stark in the 800 meter and Brook WS Maddie Miller Analise be Sophia blank by in the 4x800 relay Carter milky Leif Hoffman Lance Hastings and Brandon Stark in the 4X 800 meter
relay thank you and um I think we'll defer the last four to uh Dr Han since this is her last chance to read some recognitions okay well I get to read the exciting ones yes so we have uh four state champions three state three state champions four state titles so
congratulations to cor CLA uh for being the class AAA high jump state champion uh we had Ty Nelson he is the class 3A triple jump champion and two-time state champion Dylan gross in both shotput and
discus um and I believe Dylan had some record-breaking uh throw I was looking at uh Jack Jack he's tucked behind the thing um and I don't know that I should read number four but I sure I'll read number number four okay um more to come on this later in the meeting but for now
we will say congratulations to superintendent do Dr Heidi Han on her retirement this is her official last school board meeting thank you for all of your years of service to bring in public schools thank you all right next up is public input this time a member of the public can
address the board comments will be limited to three minutes complaints or allegations against students or employees may not be discussed due to data privacy complaints or allegations must be submitted in writing to Super intendent Han the Board of Education and superintendent will not converse with guests to address the topics discussed
at this time which is one sole topic the Soulful stylings of Mr Wade HOA jokei come on up Soulful stylings I like it I almost didn't make it the train almost had me um my name is Wade HOA jokei I just completed my 24th year um
at the Lincoln education center as the lead special ed teacher and first of all Heidi LEC will miss you and the staff really enjoyed you so I wanted to start that um Lincoln just finished up our
school year uh we had an end of a year celebration Carnival um we had a dunk tank popcorn um snow cones 90 plus students participated in that 18 to 22 year olds
on the transition side and then second through 12th grade on the behavioral academic need side and our care and treatment program helped run the entire Carnival and a big shout out my principal Amy Amy Jordan for
supporting our crazy ideas and Endeavors and she does a great job also we had graduation we had two separate graduations our Atlas program we had 10 graduates and director Ward was there I didn't see anybody else so there is some
consequences for next year DJ you were voted on because of your name DJ you're going to to be in our dunk tank for next year so you can't respond to that there's no communication here and RJ so there you go what the date I can't
respond to you remember public forum all right anyways so I just wanted to say um those are celebrations for Lincoln education center reminder we are a separate site school um we meet kids on their Journey we transition them into
the community and help them be successful adults and again back to director or not director Dr Han thank you for your support for our program and hopefully moving forward the new soup will support our uh crazy Endeavors
over there so thank you thank you wa all right we will move on Roll On Through To approval of minutes from the uh regular school board meeting on May 13th motion second okay we have a motion from director Donald with a second from director spear to approve any discussion
hearing none those in favor say I please I I post same sign motion carries and then we have special school board meeting from June 4th the meeting's for that a motion minutes okay second all right motion from director Breen with a
second from director spear any discussion hearing none those in favor say I please I I I oppose same sign motion carries all right next up is the consent C calendar make a motion to
approve second it the motion loads are pretty heavy tonight with three three motioning board members director should be abstaining from the PSO contract okay is that we don't have a COR then
right correct um you're abstaining because waade you can't talk anymore [Laughter] the I think you're okay okay I think she's okay I'm all right think no conflict of interest he's retired right
no he's he's still oh okay so given that we don't have to pull that out then we're okay we think yes yeah okay so we have the motion um on the table from director spear second from director donlinger uh those in favor signify by saying I please I I post same sign motion carries all right next we have
approval of unrequested leave of absence information uh Angie Bennett is it good we don't need to present it was just um I mean I looked at it did everybody
else look at it sorry we had you listed down there start it's it's kind of a full agenda so we're a little I know and you're whipping through which I love so uh we had an unrequested leave of absence basically the reason this happened is there was a position that
had an extended 19 days added to the assignment that position was eliminated due to the lure there wasn't another 19-day extended day assignment so in kind of discussions with the Union it fit under the unrequested leave of absence so she's received a preliminary
notice being brought to you for approval and then we will continue to as assignments change or increase look at her lure information and see if we can give those additional days back to her based on senority thanks for the additional color any other questions for
director Bennett we have a motion I make a motion that we approve the unrequested leave of absence second it okay so we have a motion from director uh Breen with a second from director Don linger any further discussion hearing none those in favor
say I please think it's a roll call oh it's a roll call yep I already missed the first one yay look at me m Shel Breet yes EJ d yes Sarah spear yes Kevin Bo yes all right next up we have the approval of the administration
recommendation to issue a 24 25 contract of the following certified staff members resulting in the granting of tenure Dr H you will see a lengthy list of students or students we've been I'm so focused on students on our staff that have met the requirements and have been in good
standing uh through the evaluation process and are being recommended for tenure I'll make a motion to approve I'll second okay so we have a motion from director Spear and a second from director Breen any further discussion hearing none those in favor
signify by saying I please I I oppose same sign I will add one more thing when we're working through teacher shortages in a time in education where um fewer and fewer people seem to be entering the profession uh the list before you is
really an exciting and wonderful high quality list of Educators in our system so I'm very excited that they have chosen Brainard public schools and continue to to work with us so cool and then teacher role being tenur is a really big honor
so okay so the motion carried uh here now the fun ones begin so we start with the annual AC comp report okay the AC comp program for district 181 uh what is AC comp this was a law that was passed by Minnesota in 2005 called qm in Brainard we just call it AC
comp for alternative compensation professional learning structure for our teachers and staff I should say not just teachers um the purpose of AC comp is to improve student learning and that's done through retaining highly qualified teachers
utilizing those highly qualified teachers to support other teachers in their classrooms um and then to encourage all of our teachers to improve their knowledge and instructional skills to assist our student learning the agreement for AC comp is
between three governing boards the school board the um Education Minnesota brainer the union and then mde also the AC comp leadership team also known a as aclt um is a governing board of six
members three teachers and three administrators one from each level and then there are also um ex official members the teaching and learning director AC comp coordinator and the union president they do meet once a month to manage um the program the AC
comp program and facilitate those things there are four state requirements to the um component one of them is peer coaching and mentoring um professional development which is done through plc's um career ladder positions for our
teachers and then um performance pay and salaries which are paid out through those stiens for those positions the participation and then the site calls so what does this look like in Brainard um in our peer coaching and mentoring all teachers are assigned
either a peer coach or a mentor and they meet one to three times a year through conferences or observation cycles and all of our teachers next year will also be doing one reverse observation so they'll go in and observe another teacher in their classroom um this
compensation is 66% of the program which is $1,200 and then um the second part is plc's which our teachers meet every week for 45 minutes or they we meet bi-weekly for 90 minutes I'm looking at student
data and that data will drive their curriculum and their instructional practices um that makes up 33% of their augmentation which is $600 and the third part of things is the site level goal they set a um site level
goal at the CIP retreat in August and that um represents less than 1% % of their augmentation so total participation is 1801 um for each participant um the fourth requirement is career ladder positions uh we have two
trainers um for peer coaching and mentors so we pay two people for that training um and then we have a number of leadership positions um there's a chart on the left there for the peer coaches how many peer coaches and mentors we have curriculum leaders and then the plc leaders
also all of these people are trained through our peer coach trainers the financial part of the Acom program this is an approved program that receives $260 per student of that $169 is state aid and then $91 per student is
abroad is board approved Levy that money supports um teacher stiens for the leadership position um our training that we do part of the salary for the AC comp coordinator part of the salary for our secretary and then the Elementary staff development
curriculum uh specialist this is the aclt approv proposed budget um the preliminary carryover from this year right now is looking at about $100,000 um so the estimated at 1.59 for next year and then you can see
in the chart the category and the allocation that's being proposed for next year recommendations for 2425 um to continue have professional learning uh for leaders and staff following the mtss and then having um developing
instructional practices and giving the tools um and structures for our teachers to be able to um meet those instructional practices any questions what percent of teachers are in the
Cent almost every teacher almost every teacher I think I don't know I mean it's very few I think there's one or two teachers that choose to opt out however the requirements of plc's in the mentoring is statutory so they're still going through that they just have opted out of
the compensation and they're not participating in the leadership positions but it's very rare if you're a peer leader how many um staff do you support um it varies some people only
have one um some people will take five depending on I think okay we try to match them up with their craft okay um so that they're supporting people within their area um and so there might be people that they take on and some people don't want to do any so then they take
on a few more people but it does vary any other questions the last step is the request for the Schoolboard to approve continuation of the AC comp program good any other questions for them thank you for working through this
I know it's been a labor of love maybe absolutely than it's easy to do because it's a program I really believe in so thank you I'll make a motion to approve and I'll second it okay we have a motion from director skier with a second from director Breen to approve the resolution
for the AC comp annual report as presented any further discussion hearing none roll call DJ yes yes Kevin Bo yes
yes thank you why do we have to roll call everything are there resolutions so specific resolutions specifically have to be and it's fun yeah that too all right next up is the uh uh annual comprehensive literally literacy Plan
update I guess it doesn't include speaking say that three times fast um Mr chair members of the board Dr hun it's my pleasure to uh share with you the highlights of our literacy plan for this year um and to tell you um some
upcoming um events for next year and ask for your uh approval for what our plans are for next year uh we've had a bit very busy year this year um we've started implementing Fass Bridge reading Assessments in grades 2 through 12 next
year we will add kindergarten and first grade um a companion to that is some work that will be happening in prek with TS gold and um connecting the work that we're doing in Pre to kindergarten our
word study group concluded their work and presented their recommendations to Dak their work will be implemented next year uh our literacy Humanities coordinator started today she promised to come back to work tomorrow she's going to be amazing and um is super
excited about the work that we have planned for her uh We've created a training plan for phase one and Phase 2 teachers which means uh the phase one teachers will be doing structured literacy training next year uh for
brainer that's about 390 teachers all of our elementary teachers uh fifth and sixth grade teachers and K12 special education teachers um in addition to our early childhood teachers um will be
participating in phase one we have about 15 cohorts of teachers that will be doing that training in groups of about 25ish depending on their group um and in vertical uh teams so prek folks will be training with kindergarten teachers
first grade teachers will be training with second grade teachers third grade teachers will be training with fourth grade teachers um and on and on um the phase two teachers will be starting um literacy training the following year um
for next year they will be doing some pre-learning around mtss um learning about data literacy and some of those prerequisite skills that will be of particular help for our secondary colleagues who might not have as a
robust um background in literacy as some of our elementary colleagues do our leadership cohort started the structured literacy training in May um they've done the first of nine modules they'll do the second module next week
and the third module in August so that they will be well prepared to support teachers who start the training modules uh back to school week um we've provided training for our K1 elementary teachers and our elementary special ed teachers
on that fast Bridge early reading assessments just last week um we had a great time with teachers um and as we've talked about with um those of you that are on uh our Dak committee we've selected new English language arts
curriculum for our forest view special education programs uh that aligns with the structur lit structured literacy approach um so it's been a very busy year even hard to spit it
out um a few data points for you Ryan am I doing this or are you doing this I'm doing this okay all right a few data points for you to um just highlight some of uh what our students have accomplished this year um in
kindergarten looking at where students left us at the end of the year uh we had 73% of our students who were at or above grade level which means they were reading at or above a Level D um which
probably doesn't mean much unless you're a kindergarten teacher so uh a Level D would be text that has a lot of simple three-letter words cat uh dog those kinds of words and some words that you
see often in print that you can recognize by site um but not as predictable as you would imagine at the beginning of the year kindergarteners are reading things like my mom said and then one word changes at the end of the sentence by the end of kindergarten
students that are in the green and the Blue Zone um Can Read less predictable text they can also retell you what happens at the beginning in the middle and the end of the story that they're reading independently those are pretty sophisticated skills for a
kindergartener um we have 16% of our kindergarteners approaching that um Benchmark which means almost 90% of our students are on track for being ready for um the
expectations for first grade um and we can um already start making making plans for the students that are not yet um at that Benchmark the end of first grade um students are expected to read at a level
J which is six more grade six more levels that they accomplished through that first grade year there's a lot of things that change in a reader in uh kindergarten or kindergarten in first grade um lots of Developmental changes
uh students who are in that green and blue Zone would be reading simple paragraphs would be reading um a combination of fiction and non-fiction texts would be able to choose books that they want to read by choice um and can
tell more detailed responses to what it is that they're reading give you some specific examples and even go back in the text and tell you exactly where they can answer a question from so those are again some pretty important skills to get ready for the next grade level
again we have a few students that are not quite yet reading at grade level but we can already start programming for those students and are are ready to make plans to do so for next year our fast bridge data uh for grades
2 through 12 um in our Universal screening data shows uh fall winter and spring snapshots and the goal is to have more students in green and blue in Spring
then in red and yellow and we've accomplished that you'll see that those green and blue um bars go up and the red and yellow bars go down that means students are moving along that
trajectory to being at or above grade level so for this slide in particular this is fast Bridge fast bridge and for the prior to slides where does that data come from that comes from our BAS testing okay I guess that's what it says at the top but can you explain that a
little bit more yeah so bis testing is an individually administered assessment where students are reading uh orally one-on-one with their teacher um and they're reading a variety of passages to see what is their what is their capacity
for understanding text at bearing degrees of difficulty um they read to until they are using and confusing text so to speak where they're no longer able to make progress in um in a level um and those
are what we use right now currently in kindergarten and first grade in second grade uh through 12th grade the a reading assessment is a computer adaptive test so students are taking those individually on a computer um and the the test will be um adaptive so if
student answers a question correctly they get a more difficult question if the students um answer a question incorrectly they'll either get a question at the same level to like try it again or they'll get an easier question so we have about 8 million
students a year that take fast frge assessment so the ins sizee for fast bridge is pretty reliable this is the same slide you saw last year um for MCAS we don't have our MCA data to share yet this year um we're
excited to see what our Trend will be going forward knowing all of the work that we've been doing in literacy this year and all that we're planning to do next year uh with our uh phase one training uh it's really exciting to think about the possibility of having
all of our teachers doing all of the same training and developing some common language uh around literacy instruction um we really think that's going to be a positive benefit to our staff and also to our
students uh so just to recap uh we've done some initial training for early reading we'll be administering those fastbridge early reading assessments to kindergarten and first grade starting this fall um we'll continue to provide guidance of support and support for
school and District leaders about structured literacy which is the language in the read act um we used to talk a lot more about the science of reading we've now um moved on to talking about structured literacy just to be
consistent with what it says in the legislative language and evidence-based practices so that we're using those highly reliable teaching strategies to make sure that um all of the hard work that our teachers are doing benefits students the
most our mtss plan um has us prioritizing tier one instruction which is that classroom instruction or are sometimes referred to as the first best instruction for every student every day and then we will um champion and
support that phase one Ola training for our certified staff who will be participating um in Phase One not all of this is new information for you you have seen parts and pieces of of this um but I happy to uh stand for questions and
then ask you for your approval uh refresher updated MCAS those scores you you'll get those in August but they're embargoed until right before the school year starts do I have that right that is usually the timeline correct okay so we'll know what those
reading scores look like late this summer other questions for Dr Russ you talked about those the training core Court that are meeting together what does that training look like is it virtual is there someone on site is it a
combination of self-instruction all of the above so um there are nine modules so um each of the inservice days that have been a um are part of our calendar teachers will work through a
module and some of that are some of them are self-directed there are components that teachers need to do um individually most of it is done as a group within their cohort and there are also times where there would be a uh facilitator
from Ola attending virtually or in person um we will have CCC leaders um teaching and learning staff who will also be available in person to provide guidance and support if cohorts are um
asking for that um our leadership team who has done the advanced trading will also be facilitating some of that learning as well um it looks a lot like a graduate level um online course if you look at the
interface that that we work through um some of us Heidi can probably speak to that more than I can because I've seen it a few times now it was probably um new to some of our people uh to what they were expecting it to look
like it's not like a regular PD session um it looks much more um comprehensive and so um they work through each of the modules each of the components and then um at the end of the cumulative learning they'll have the
body of work that they've completed to use as a resource thank you I just want to make a comment you know we all know the importance of early Learners um making progress and I'm so impressed with the
kindergarten scores to have 50% exceeding I know really really something so good work yeah kindergarten teachers work really hard to make that happen and our kindergarteners do too we know we've worked uh we've done a
good day's work when our kids go home as tired and sweaty as we do what does exceeding mean means that they're reading above that grade level expectation so that's just up to if I'm the teacher and I'm having them read to me I just kind of slot well we have we
have standardized assessments that we use so like when I was talking about D is the expectation at the end of kindergarten if they're reading at an e or an F or a g that's that blue area and we have assessments to determine which level they're
at is this the redc training that we're doing is that it is yes so did we get the grant for that we did not get the grant but we do have some money available from MD to help offset some of the cost there was some change in leg
legislative language this year so we're not exactly sure what the total compensation available from MD is going to be they don't know either don't don't feel bad they don't know either okay sure um but we do know that there will be um some monies
available um and we are uh we were directed in the read act about which teachers needed to be included in phase one so that's why we have such a large number in got phase one so this is a really broad question so answer it as
best you can but how much of this work that's been done recently on this as we as you've been implementing all this has been you know would you categorize as like a 180 from what we used to do pre-read ACT versus additive to what we were already doing like if you can characterize it I would say very little
of it is a 180 if I had to put um a rough estimate on it I would say 80% of of it is additive the foundation was already there already great things in place um
but I it is unprecedent across the state for people to have come and learning across the district for literacy training so that would be something that was new not necessarily a 180 but I don't know of any District that I've worked with that has built their whole
school calendar their inservice days around literacy training prior to the read act any other questions for director Ross no I'll make a motion I'll second so we have a motion from director
doninger with a second from director Breen to approve the comprehensive literary literacy plan again I did that as presented any further discussion hearing none those in favor signify by saying I please I I oppose same sign
motion carries thank you okay next up is Arc for uh media technology curriculum Robin and Christina hello uh Christina lren and uh thank you for the opportunity to share about the K4 media technology curriculum
revisions um our k for media teachers uh worked over the course of the year uh with some support from sourcewell uh to do some revisions to their curiculum map um so that is what we are going to take a look at this evening um so just a little grounding uh for the group around
the rational around uh the stem computer science technology uh standards uh currently the state of Minnesota does not have Standalone computer science standards um but they are beginning to embed um or
integrate computer science skills um as they develop new content area standards so for example uh science is implementing new standards this fall there are some computer science components integrated into those standards um longterm um there is a
computer science working group uh through the state of Minnesota that is looking at um what this might look like long term in terms of how to support teachers around professional learning around computer science uh skills and and teaching and then whether or not we
want to move forward with any computer science standards for the state of Minnesota uh locally uh we did have a a curriculum map started uh for this for this group of students um but there was some inconsistencies across uh the
different elementary schools um so we really wanted to work on providing a consistent learning experience for all students regardless of what elementary school they attended and then just really refined the curriculum map so it wasn't just only productivity skills but
uh looking more at some of the skills around digital citizenship computational thinking and then some of the the problem solving skills around uh technology learning longterm uh we are hoping to expand um into the fifth and sixth grade so that we'd have some
vertical alignment k6 in in the skill building so the process that the team uh used uh last school year um they did a a crosswalk between isty standards so IST stands for the international standards
for technology education and that was the broad framework that we uh used as a foundation for our curriculum map and then we layered underneath that the foundational technology skills which were already present in their uh current
curriculum map uh from there they looked at some learning progressions of how this learning would develop across a k for sequence for students uh we developed a scope and sequence and then we looked at uh kind of along the same lines as the portrait of a graduate
developing a portrait of an elementary technology graduate so what were those key skills that all of those elementary students would have moving into their uh Forest few years and then moving forward into next year uh the plan is to
implement our technology units and uh do some evaluation revisions over the course of the year and then develop what the report card assessments would be for the the following school year so this is just a a look at the IST
standards so these again are the kind of the basis the framework that we built our curriculum map on um all of the grade levels touch on each of these standards except for 1.7 which is global communicators or collaborator we did not add any of those skills at that
Elementary level uh the team thought that those skills would be something that would be embedded as students moved into uh Forest View for middle school and then into the the high school uh so again we uh we looked at that that crossw uh crosswalk between
the isty standards and then the supporting technology skills so our uh curriculum map this is just a a snapshot of what that looks like so at the top is the IST standard component and then underneath that there's a subset of skills that build
what that so for example what a digital citizen would look like and then underneath that we layered what those supporting uh technology skills or technology productivity skills would be and then uh from there they did those learning progressions so when would a
student be uh beginning uh some exposure around that skill when would they be developing that skill so there would be some uh Ed instruction and practice opportunities and then would when would the student be expected to be solid in their learning around that
skill so then from there uh the team worked on developing the the pacing guide or the scope and sequence and so uh just some planning considerations that the team had to work around um is that on average this learning occurs 25
minutes per week um uh at each grade level so it is a a small portion of a students learning during the week um they did want to try to connect to the classroom learning so those integrated computer science skills that might be
occurring in a in in reading or in science or in social studies or in math they wanted to connect their learning to that so they could support what was happening with classroom learning and then they developed um for their scope and sequence across the year um they
looked at a standard focus and then they identified a topic or theme and they wanted to be consist consistent with that across the grade levels so for example in October and November at all grade levels the focus would be on digital citizenship would be the focus
and then that's really the topic and theme that they would do and then lastly there are some things uh for those technology skills that are really going to be infused across the entire year so coming back to that digital C citizenship piece there is a a primary
focus of intentional learning in October and November but those skills are also layered in over the course of the year so as students um maybe do some research or they're designing a project um what are those uh citizenship considerations
that that we need to uh bring to the Forefront also and I think that's actually it sorry that was very any any questions at this point before we move on to the approval request so um who all work on the development of this and it's all using isty materials and standards and
resources mostly corre yep so this was the K4 media uh technology teachers um so from each of the elementary schools worked on it and then we had a a team from sourcewell from their Tech Mobile technology team that that came and
supported uh the team with their work periodically over the course of the Year also this is really out standing stuff I mean especially against the context I'm sure you know this number Christina but you know where Minnesota as a state ranks in terms of computer science in our schools well we were 50th I think we
moved up to 49 maybe but yes we were 50th yeah so the the computer science they they have that 10year plan so maybe at some point we'll they've got 10 year plans for lots of things something more less but yes now this is great questions
for Christina the thing that I loved about this and I think it was mentioned at deck is you know all of these elementary kids kind of converge onto the middle school and they come you know with lots
of tools um and you get assigned a paper and have to do some research and it depends on where you were on whether or not that was something that landed on your desk and got in front of you so I love the consistency this brings especially for the Middle School folks
as they see all of those kids come together but for all the kids just to have something that's um charted out like this I think is great feel like we should have digital citizenship as a graduation requirement
yeah yeah this is great it's important it is I'll make a motion to approve I'll second okay so we have a a motion from director spear with a second from director Breen to approve the K4 media technology curriculum has presented any
further discussion hearing none those in favor say I please I I post same sign motion passes thank you thank you oh well you get to stay there because 5 math curriculum I'm sorry actually you don't get to leave for
quite a while yet just switched here a busy year feel like you should have like you know like a hat or something you put so my name is Robin in uh 31 years in brainer Public Schools so I have been here a long time currently my role is
the district Media Center coordinator but I also support both Math and Science teachers 58 uh 512 in um science and uh math implementation and curriculum and instruction so that's what I'm doing here right now is to just kind of talk a
little bit about um uh math curriculum at the middle school and then we'll move on to science at the high school so um right now Minnesota is still working on our 2007 standards in in math um the
new standards are waiting for approval and so it was kind of a strange time to be looking at curriculum but our curriculum at the middle school which is digits is nearing its end of lifespan and so we needed to provide our teachers
and our students with something uh to bridge the gap over the next few years so we um over the last year and a half actually I've been working with the Math teachers at Forest View to kind of outline what are the goals needed for
this curriculum and um what are the things that they're looking for uh for for the um students in math so uh these were the program goals outlined to build capacity to deliver Minnesota math standards to all students by utilizing a
common instructional model that Fosters a progressive of skills just to note right now we have fifth grade using a curriculum sixth and seventh grade using a different curriculum and eighth grade using something else so that was really our focus is to really start a
vertically aligning our system 58 with uh the Middle School um deliver a vertically aligned math curriculum in the middle school that meets the needs of our students utilize a high high rated foundational math curriculum that embeds opportunities for differentiation
and mtss support and provides a a cohesive professional development to all five eight Math teachers that align with the standards and curriculum goals and it connects students to real world application which was really
important so um we actually piloted two um curriculums this year I worked with um illustrative math um and then we did Rie real math and we we really spent a lot of time digging deep into both
curriculums um I really insisted that teachers spend more than six weeks which is a typical um pilot in any District um some districts aren't even spending time doing that at all um St Paul just adopted something and they didn't even
pilot anything to see um what their teachers thought of that so um we really spent a lot of time looking into all of the components to see how this um met the needs of our students um one of the things that we also look at is Ed reports and how does it score and it
meets all of the uh alignments and scored um for focus and coherence and rigor and balance and practice content connection and instructional supports and usable indicators for our students um one of the things that uh I
created was a rubric and so when we when I met with the um Math teachers we kind of outlined the rubric we wanted to make sure it was aligned to the standards that it was coherent it was relevant to
our students here provided some differentiation assessment and Technology integration so in this rubric um this was sent out at the end of each pilot and it was sent to the pilot teachers
and by the way we had eight out of the 15 teachers in our building pilot that is a really good number because it's a it's a lot to take on a pilot so we got a really good success rate with our teachers 58 we had somebody in each
grade level if not one or two really digging deep and collectively working together they were phenomenal I'm just so proud of the work that they did um but anyway uh theyed the the rubric at the end of the first p
and they scored that rubric independently they didn't collectively come together I wanted them to write down and capture their own thoughts and feelings about the pilot itself and then um after the second pilot they filled out that same rubric and the score from
that pilot is what determined the um that they wanted reveal so that was what they picked according to the rubric so the instructional model uh for reveal um has two Pathways and I just want to
point this out um because the first pathway is activity based and the second pathway is a guided exploration and in our strategic plan um
our our warer way it talks about kids having opportunities grit and accountability and in the activity-based exploration it pro provides opportunity for our students problem-based activities that
promotes productive struggle students explore Concepts students decide on what strategies to use to build student agency the grit students who believe that mistakes can help them become better in math are willing to take risks
and try different problem solving strategies strong identity and agency as a doer of math leads to growth mindset perseverance and never give up and then accountability reflection on learning that helps Drive accountability and the
opportunity to think about their thinking students reflect on both understanding of the math lesson and mathematical thinking I went to school a long time ago I did math in the classroom where I was doing the
algorithm of what the teacher was telling me to do this Fosters communication and has kids talking about their thinking and math it also provides uh differentiation targeted interventions
and mcra Hill um plus which provides some opportunities for intervention um for our students now I'm going to show you here's a here's how uh lesson might go
uh seven people go out for dinner in a restaurant they need to split the tab evenly between them the total bill was $119 how much did each person pay so this is a real standard Benchmark right from our Minnesota state standards and
you can see that through the activity base or the guided exploration or practice and reflection uh students can navigate this the activity base allows students to explore Concepts using models or manipulatives to explain their thinking around eal groups guided
exploration teachers discuss with the students the meaning of equal groups and then students now have the opportunity for practice and reflection that provides students with practice and self-reflection of their learning now when we talk about that
practice and reflection we come to that word accountability that teaches students students to uh that mistakes are opportunities for growth and it kind of helps them navigate uh their learning so before I ask for your
approval I would like to share a couple of quotes from some sixth graders what they thought about this curriculum I enjoyed the math Labs that we did and when we did notice and wonders about different questions each lesson starts off with kids having to
ask what do you notice and what do you wonder about a scenario I enjoyed being able to use the whiteboards I really enjoyed having the privilege instead of just paper and pencil I enjoyed working in groups the most I enjoyed it because I liked
hearing other people's inputs or problems so we can put our ideas together and figure it out my favorite thing about math this year was like all those little questions like notice and wonder so I am asking for the Ral of uh
reveal math for uh students in Middle School 5'8 so I have a question Robin um and this might be a really dumb question but what does it mean when a curriculum is nearing the end of its usable lifespan so the
company's done it's no longer okay it's it's just no longer in service okay yeah so you need to move on and like we will not have access to anything anymore got it okay digital curriculum y okay and
it's a digital platform so do we pay monthly yearly annually to these companies or do you make a deal with them for 10 years how's it work so the structure is um we can ask for quotes for a year three years and five years
and that's currently what we're looking for right now it's five years one year three years and five years and the reason why um we don't want to commit to Something in the long range when we haven't really taken time to dig into the new math
standards that that's our work over the next few years to implement new math standards and so we really want to make sure that this also aligns to the new uh math standards now this is a 2025
copyright so I'm fairly confident that it it will but we just don't want to commit to something long range and so and we also want to provide learning for all of our teachers in our building and kind of navigate through it
together so they passed the M enters in ' 07 it's been a long time it's been a really long years so what I mean how does that work we don't even know and what what I just want I'm just hoping that
we're not just picking this off it's going to meet the state's standards that may not be out for another 10 years like I want to make sure that you guys have what you think you need to get these kids smart so when they were looking at um this curriculum currently they really
took they know their standards and they felt that it aligned um the thing with all curriculum is their National curriculum and Minnesota has the as you know that Minnesota has um um standards
that are special to Minnesota and not all curriculum National curriculum meets Minnesota so there are some things um I was working with a sixth grade math teacher uh last Friday and there are
lessons in um the sixth grade curriculum that she doesn't she won't be doing she has to use fifth grade and some seventh grade so there's just some restructuring of that just because of how it's set up so we're working through that and this doesn't remind me this
doesn't include the accelerated math that's being aligned with so the framework will still stay the same with acceleration okay I'll make a motion to approve and I'll second we have a motion from director spear with a second from director berin
to approve the 53 math curriculum has presented any further discussion or questions so what were you just talking about the the advanced or the what kind of math was it accelerated accelerated so is that on the same process same
company you're going to switch that too or same company because they will follow the same format as what what they are doing now so acceleration is a grade above so they'll just use the courses from the next grade gotcha that's how it's structured at the Middle
School how many classroom how many accelerated classrooms are there one per grade level varies every year it really does vary every year yep one to two maybe okay I can answer that I think we have
two to three accelerated Mass SE we um we have uh next year's eth grade will have two next year seventh grade will have three uh next year sixth grade we'll have two you don't know yet for fifth grade
because we're waiting on looking all the data Doug any other questions hearing none all in favor signify by saying I please I I post same sign motion carries now switch again no we're not switching science you're
saying yeah I'm goingon to say okay so um this presentation is to the approval of um curriculum for science in 912 this has been three years in the making I've been working with uh the high school science department um over the last
three years and so this is really exciting to bring this to you tonight so we're asking for the approval of open SED as the adopted curriculum for biology chemistry and physics at the high school for GR 9 through 12 approval
for BHS to satisfy Minnesota graduate requirements by completing a combination of opsed courses in Earth and space courses through one of these three options one year of opsed biology chemistry and physics one year of open
side Biology one year of chemistry or physics one year of Earth and space courses or one year of open sad biology and one year of chemistry or physics one semester of an earth science course and or One Semester of an elective course
open S Edge is an integrated curriculum so the science program goals to build capacity to to deliver all Minnesota standards um by utilizing a common instructional model that Fosters a progression of skills deliver a
tightly aligned three-dimensional curriculum based on instructional experiences the real world multi-level assessment at all grade levels our new science standards which need to be implemented uh next fall um are
three-dimensional so they have our disciplinary core idea which is that's all the sciency stuff you know like what is the water cycle um and then we have the cross cutting concepts by identifying patterns and
um uh energy and flow and matter and all of that and then we have the practices and that's the instructional piece um what what questions do kids need to be able to um ask what are can they design and
develop a model so it's kind of threedimensional and so and the benchmarks in our new Minnesota standards are all three-dimensional so utilize a highly rated foundational curriculum that embeds opportunities for differentiation
and mtss support as well as opportunities to develop Minnesota specific standards and benchmarks provide a professional uh a cohesive professional development to BHS student or teachers so they Advance
instruction in all grade levels to align the standards and curriculum goals the high school teachers have actually been uh working on some professional learning over the last week it's been phenomenal so one of the things that um we did was
we um last year here uh one of the um High School science teachers wrote a grant and they got the professional learning so we have now our own in-house training so they can provide training to uh new teachers coming in and so it's
consistent and it's it's just really amazing so um and then maintain the flexibility to deliver and require standards to all students while allowing students in multiple Pathways which is what we talked about in that first slide curricular
criteria aligned to ngss and Minnesota standards full scope and sequence of the three dimensions coherence in the unit to lesson or module to module coherence phenomena based storyline instruction uh
centered on answering questions about observable phenomenon so for example I taught science for a long time and uh I used to teach the water cycle and and they would draw a picture and identify
precipitation and condensation now we want kids to think about I wonder if uh we drink the same water as the dinosaurs like what kid isn't going to want to know about that right and they will start exploring that sequence learning
as defined as developed concept conceptual understanding and skills uh scientifically accurate three 3D assessments both formative and summative and teacher usability and offers uh diverse entry
points experiences and supports for all Learners and populations as well as mtss Support opsed also uh is high rigor and meets all of the qualifications on actually open side was one of the only
curriculums that met all of the requirements of ngss in the design badge so that's pretty exciting their instructional model starts with that anchoring phenomenon like I talked about kids start asking
questions and then they navigate through those questions and putting together the pieces with the with the teacher and then at the end they look at all of their questions and did they get their questions answered or not and then if
not they need to go back to the drawing board to see what they need to do to get their answer their questions answered so um open Sayed provides um a framework for
Minnesota so it's it's um a friend of mine his name is Dan and he works for open Sayad he has built um Minnesota alignment and so we've been using his his model to help make sure that our the
standards align within in each of our um classes and so that is what's been um helping us with our work so based on that framework of K12 Science Education um and ngsss emphasis on the three dimensions
the scientific and Engineering practices cross cutting Concepts and disciplinary core ideas we would like to start full implementation in the 2024 202 school year and our MCAS now change to phenomenon based uh MCAS uh starting
next year as well so we are asking for the proposal of open Sayad to be adopted for um biology chemistry and physics at the high school questions for Robin on the item number two those bullets is this in some way different
than we approved last year or is this what we approved last year where we folded the earth science into it correct as to satisfy that third credit requirement is that how that that works yep so last year you approved number two and now we're approving the curriculum
now we're saying we just this is the curriculum vendor and the methodology for delivering the curriculum to align with the standard that we approved last year correct okay I sit here and I listen to these presentations and I'm just reminding Ed
how highly trained and highly skilled these teachers are to to provide their curriculum to their students and their subject area yeah it's it's very
impressive it's smart work and just the the research to align the courses the way that they did to provide the opportunities for students I'm having having a kid that's going into 10th grade next year I'm super excited about
this and it was so fun to see all those kids registering and and having new opportunities that they didn't have before because of how this is organized it's excellent and open S side Ed I I've never maybe I I live under a rock but I've never heard of something
like this before and it's just phenomenal that it's aligned with the ngss I'm just thrilled about that and when they showed it to us at DC and kind of walked through some of what it looked like I'm I think the the students are
going to love it pretty exciting it the science has been working for three years so I'm just so proud of the work that they have accomplished over those last three years I make a motion to approve oh
second motion from director spear with a second from director Breen to approve the uh brard High School 9 through 12 science curriculum as just presented any further discussion or questions hearing none those in favor say I please I oppose same sign motion
carries and by my count you get to leave now I do all right we will move on to the approval of the resolution for the American Indian parent advisory committee or APAC vote of non-c concurrence response by the district as presented and I understand the two of you figured
out who's talking about what yes so I'll provide a little bit of context and I think Michelle's going to kind of go over the four areas um for recommendation and so you might remember the um American Indian parent advisory committee every year goes through a
metric and or a rubric and kind of rates us on different items that we're doing in partnership with that group and makes recommendations on where we where we can go what direction we can take to improve how things are are coming along and so
this year uh we we did that rubric alongside them and handed it off and they did that rubric as well came together and made a recommendation and we get to respond to that now to their recommendations that they made and we have 60 days to do that so we're still
within that time frame and then this goes back to mde and um the things that they've recommended to us are also things that we would like to work on and continue to work on and things that have been in progress any questions on the
context of that before I hand it off to Michelle to talk about the actual recommendations next except to say it was what two meetings ago or three meetings regular Schoolboard meetings ago that they presented I think one of the takeaways I took away wasn't it sounds about right one of my takeaways
was that certainly there's progress been made it's not like we're they keep coming forward with the same requests and we keep not achieving those right that this is additional items that are further down the the pathway that you know if you think of it as alphabetical we kind of Knocked Out items a through K and now we got to work on the rest of
the alphabet right right yeah okay I I I think that it'd be awfully nice if maybe we got a little credit for what you guys have been doing I don't know why I had to give us F every time we got one to four why couldn't we be a three and a half you know I think it's ridiculous
it's been going on for how many years Heidi how many years have we had this I can only speak to the past six okay so for six years at the same score every time why try and the interesting thing is when you think about continuous
Improvement um I don't know that we're ever going to get a concurrent vote right and we always strive to that but I think as we make progress in that rubric you know the goal of our advisory committee to also then is to challenge the District of how we can continue to improve um and we have a very active
APAC committee um um we have a very active um indigenous student population that's highly engaged and continues to grow so you know the one thing I have appreciated over the last couple years is I feel like when they've come to present to you as the board they've really tried to focus on starting each
presentation with um the areas of celebrations and and so I think they're trying to honor that growth but it is also their role to then come back and push against us to say here's here's more than you can do it's been frustrating I would say in the initial part two we always felt it was negative
I'm the same way why do I just have to get a d when I'm working my tail off to get an A um and I think that's where with this rub we're seeing like okay well you get an A in this section but now this section hasn't been paid attention to so I think we need to
prepare ourselves as a board and as leadership team that we're always going to be um non-concurrent I think there's areas that we were're concurrent but it is meant to be for us to continue to grow um and and it's a highly engaged
group um it is and the collaboration as such you know they've asked of us um in in the past when they've brought us recommendations they've said we would love if you would come with recommendations as well and so we've tried to be proactive in doing that and
some of those have been you know we've started down this road we'd love to continue down this road and that's been a good collaboration I think on some of those um recommendations that we have here that we've been working on together for a
while and I think participating in the APAC committee meetings um the sense is that there there they are that group is very appreciative of the work that we're
doing but they are very um loyal to their um culture and traditions and want to continue to educate our community to honor the American Indian
population so um I'll just go through really briefly the recommendations that they um presented to us and then uh synopsis of our response so the first recommendation was uh we need to continue to work on creating uh a
welcoming environment um we have been um working on a more inclusive Recruitment and Retention plan um and we look forward to continuing to collaborate with Apac on
this work in the 23 24 school year for staff um were a part of our our staff that identify as Native American oh four staff were hired yeah um on our staff um
an invitations will be extended to the native veterans one of the um concerns is that we weren't really focusing on having native veterans participate in our Veterans Day Celebrations so um wanting to make sure that we
extend um invitations to those folks to be a part of our um veterans programs um the second recommendation is supporting indigenous education um I think this is pretty
exciting um are we talking in this about um okay so indigenous program staff are encouraged to participate in the district in surfice days plann for the 2425 school year um the director of
student Support Services will work with the indigenous program staff to align inservice events with program goals um we want to continue to network with regional colleagues and um and collaborate with
Department colleagues in the Endeavor to provide cohesive support for staff and students um number three supporting indigenous students the director of student Support Services will work with the indigenous
program coordinator which we now have one um on staff we had one early in the fall and then there was a little bit of a break so that kind of interfered with maybe our momentum but we're I feel like we're back on on top of that um so work
with the program coordinator to identify priorities for supporting indigenous students um whenever possible native staff and staff with knowledge of cultur culturally culturally specific practices that could impact a native students's
academic or social emotional growth and development by the transition will be invited to participate in collegial discussions and planning and I guess this is the one I was thinking with the other one further curriculum development so brainer Public Schools is committed to continual
development and refinement of cultural culturally responsive curriculum and instruction um there is a new there for the new introduction to indigenous language and culture course and development the
indigenous program coordinator will be asked to collaborate with staff developing this course and we'll continue to do so as the course is further find and expanded to include additional sections and content beyond the 2425 school year um so we are
offering an um let's see curriculum consultation has been solicited from nde Regional partners and representatives from the malax band of a jibway additionally we have made arrangements for a language proficiency assessment to Via be
available to any native educator in isd181 interested in speaking OJ students in our district so we're currently Contracting with the University of Minnesota aible language program for administration and scoring of the language Prof proficient
proficiency assessment and curriculum review um so we are offering uh a language course this fall and it's just one so far right correct yeah um so a staff has been hired and or current
staff is going to be leading that course so um the school board of isd1 adopts as its response to the American Indian parent advisory committee's vote of non-c concurrence with the aforementioned recommendation so we're
asking that we um approve our response to the four recommendations any questions about that and just you know in your response we will have all all six board members if approved all six board members will sign the response as well so this will
be reviewed by the directors who are absent they will also need to review and sign if approved I would make a motion to approve the resolution i' second it okay we have a motion from director spear with a second
from director Breen any any further discussion hearing none those in favor signifi saying I please resolution call again yep thank you [Music] yes yes Jo Breen yesj down
yes thank you I'm G to lump the next three together if you're sounds good to me director Bo um so the next three and I know Direct Dr Freeman I think is he still tuck behind the back okay so I'll have him start moving up in case there's
any questions but uh items 9 10 11 are all about our uh annual renew of memberships the first one is to the Minnesota School Board Association as you know we work closely with them regarding all policies a lot of you as board members are participating in some of their uh weekly professional
development so that's all encompassed in our membership with the Minnesota school boards Association we also then are requesting um to renew our membership with the Minnesota rural Education Association as we know on our region um that's a lot of the uh information
control votes are happening more in that centrom metric area so Minnesota rural Education Association does a wonderful job of advocating for districts that are in Greater Minnesota and then third is the approval and renewal of our 24 resolution for membership in the Minnesota State High School
league I'm gonna have Jack kind of give a little bit more detail to that and then we'll go back and yep yeah we bring this uh annual resolution for membership of the Minnesota State High School league uh before the board each June um nothing
has changed in terms of the formula it's the exact same as last year uh so our annual membership fee will be a total of $9,995 um and that represents the true cost of what it costs to operate each sport uh per school by the State High
School league uh based on the financial situation of The League at the end of the year they get then give us a credit back so essentially if the league has a good year and revenues up we get a larger credit back uh league did really well financially this past year uh best that's done in a long long time uh they
credit that to new sponsorships that they've uh uh worked out and attendance was up at all the state tournaments so that was exciting to see last year we received a credit back on our bill uh for $6,499 50 so right around $3,000 was our fee
after the credit the league anticipates that that'll be even higher this year in talking with one of their directors and they have advertised that this will be probably the the the cheapest bill that we'll see uh in the past 30 years for
our mshsl membership fee so it's good to see that they're financially stable and doing really well and they changed this formula after Co so again it kind of plans for the worst case scenario and then we're credited back based on the revenue of the league we're in 34 activities with the
league that includes our 31 Varsity Sports Plus our music programs uh Speech would be included in that and one act play would be included in that so those are 34 um part of our fee is it's $160 per activity so that's a fixed fee that we see each year and the other portion is
based on our mshsl enrollment any questions I'm good sounds good Jack thank you thanks Jack all right so we'll go back I'll make a motion to renew the msba yep sounds good I'll second all right so we
have a motion from director Don linger with a second from director spear to approve uh our renewal with msba any further discussion hearing none those in favor say I I poose same sign motion carries I'll make a motion to approve
the renewal with m I'll second right so we have a motion from director spear with a second from director Breen to approve our renewal with M any further discussion hearing none those in favor say I please I
I post same sign motion carries make a motion for the State High School league okay I'll second so we have a motion from director dondlinger with the second from director spear to renew our uh membership in the Minnesota State High School league as presented any further
discussion roll call vote please yes yes yes yes very good thank you and next up we have the approval of the resolution for the identified official with
authority there's not much to present I guess well you were listed but I I Dr H can probably take it Carrie uh what we're doing is looking for the approval of the resolution uh to name Carrie Ross as our IND idual identified official
with authority so when you think about all of our systems and all the changes we have to identify that person previously it's been director Mera um as we move through transition a recommendation that it moves to director Ross make a motion to approve I'll second we have a motion from director
spear with a second from director Breen to approve uh Carrie Ross as approve as the uh identified official with authority any discussion hearing none roll call please yes down yes yes
yes all right next up is Marcy in the chair for a while yeah 4 25 preliminary budget get to warm it up all right so when we started the 2425
budget um we start with a 23 24 revised budget and we go from there based on our assumptions so this chart focuses on the general fund um that's uh it shows an excess of about 61,000 in the unassigned which is
unrestricted that's kind of why we focus on that is because it's it's unrestricted funds and then we looked at our general fund Revenue assumptions uh the big amounts were 2% on the Gen Ed formula and then decrease in enrollment of
111 so we ended up with only about 271,000 on that income increase and then compensatory and the sorry that should have been an increase in the levy uh were about 189,000 both of them each and then
special ed we saw an increase due to Adis funding of about 500,000 and there was an increase in interest as well uh now that we starting to see rates go up so those are the general fund Revenue assumptions and then we looked at our
with enrollment we're looking at that going down to 5,789 that's with 378 coming in for kindergarten that is low and it's a average birth rate for the county of the last four
years and I just want to point out in 2012 the birth rate for the county was 748 births and in 2022 was 634 so it's down 114 so they people aren't having as
many kids is what I'm trying to say um and then so with this enrollment projection model you can select which options so do we want to look at a weighted average an unweighted average two years 5 years we did select the
two-year weighted average because the last most recent two years we're seeing that decline in enrollment if we went five years out uh that would be a little bit more deceiving right because we did have higher enrollment preo so we went with the two-year weighted average we also looked at that we also had the co
bubble in there because we when you look at the with your current second graders they're in that bubble where that we had about 64 parents decide they were going to wait a year to put their child in kindergarten so we saw that kindergarten bubble come through so if we would have
put that in we would have had a a high point in that average as well so just being cognizant of that and this is um I should have said this is a very you know brief presentation the more detailed document is in your board
agenda and then the expense assumptions this is known and projected increases in salary and benefits and services and then we did have a 12.7 FTE reduction in there 8.75 of that is people who are
coded to cares as you guys know the cares funding is going away and 8.75 FTE of those positions are also going away with that funding and then there was an increase in the PSO contract you'll see we're a
little bit over budget for 2324 Plus in tonight's consent agenda there was an increase in the credit price so we had to increase that budget as well and then there's known replacement savings so to date anybody who was retiring resigning
are in there but after this week if more resignations retirements come through that would go into the budget revision again this is the general fund with uh the assumptions that I just described so now the unassigned deficit is 2.99
million yeah and I just wanted to point out the other funds are restricted and another large deficit is in ltfm and that's due to the carryover of 2324 projects that planed to be um done for 2425 and
that'll also be presented at the next long range and finance committees the the ltfm plan you guys can see more detail on those the unassigned fund balance is currently at 10% the projected with this deficit that
we just talked about is going to be at 10.4% so we'll just be barely above it if the deficit it's carried forward into 2526 the fund balance will go below policy which leads into discussions on a referendum and that's at the upcoming
board retreat you guys will get a presentation on that so things to consider as I said the cares funds expire September 30th so we're going to do what we can through through that date um any staff that are still staying on we're going to continue to code them and then that will'll make
that that flip over in October they go back they'll go to their regular code and then we'll try to run reports and make sure that we're spending as much as we can of those funds um another thing to note is the PA
bunion education Co-op we actually will receive student support Personnel Aid on their behalf and that will be added in the budget revision as well I didn't have a number for that so that was not in here and then the brainer online school the budget was carried forward
for 2324 and that will have to be reviewed when we do the revision because the stiens are based on enrollment uh in all the other funds uh all funds were adjusted for interest that was something that just went across the board fund two we carried forward uh
the revenues and expenses just because we don't know rates until July generally the I did remove the supply chain funding that's it's been the last couple years we've gotten that but with the car's funding going away I don't know if they will give that to us again so that
was removed and then the community service fund was updated based on uh information I received from the community service director and then fund six was updated with projects to use up some of the remaining funds just ones that we have identified and reviewed at
the long range uh committee meetings Debt Service is based on our Levy and debt payments and then fund 45 which is our trust fund was updated with the implicit subsidy draw like I said that was very quick
and I'd like to discuss a couple of the kind of just the overview as we've been working through this about the past six months um one thing is you saw in previously we were projecting about 2.7 is where we were figuring with the goal of hitting about 2.5 is where we felt
comfortable at knowing the car's um we've been calling it the car's cliff fall but we also were very strategic and we built up that fund balance by supplanting a lot of what we could with Caris funding so we knew this was coming um that $200,000 increase two
things one PSO went up $100,000 so that had to be added into the budget the other is we had a technology of about 80,000 so that's why you're seeing a flip from around that 2.7 to 2.9 so again when you start to process Levy if we do Capital Levy that can be transportation and
um technology Focus areas so when you start to see that increase on the technology side there are a lot of service Industries as we move into next year our surrounding districts are seeing significant expense increases in transportation and significant expense increase on the technology side when you
look at services and parts um Ryan's doing a nice job he's negotiated good contract with a lot of our um devices but it's just going to be something we need to be mindful of we know and the meetings we've had in Finance you know we're going to be
dipping into that fund balance but it was a one-time dip which is what we had prepared for um so again we budget extremely conservative uh as we go through a lot of times prior to covid we would start at about a 1.8 million deficit by the time we'd finish it up we'd see it go
back that's how conservative we go um this one's above that so it's going to be something that has to be closely watched but not necessarily this wasn't unexpected so we started at 4 um and so through reductions and
attrition of Staff we're down to that 2.9 um there's some things that can happen on the facility side with that alt facilities funding that we now qualify for so that'll be a lot of the what can we move and how can we adjust to continue to help our unassigned can you explain the PSO
increase to me like what what is that more students seeking P that's basically we it's an outlay for students that enroll in PSO and there's an increase in the per credit R so when you combine those two factors you're going to see the overall increase we have a high participation rate when and not
surprisingly when they walk down the steps and go right on campus so well at least tonight half of this board has been on the board for three years or more um so the the building of the of the existing fund reserve and balance was
deliberate specifically for now it was it was it was built up with the hope that we could hang on to some of it with the sure knowledge that we weren't going to be able to hold on to all of it because this was going to happen when the when the funding went away and that we were going to have to come back and
Claw it back so at minimum we were able to at least earn a little bit of extra interest on that money while it sat in there and um but I think more for the Public's benefit than anybody at this table and need to understand that just because we voted or we about to vote to dip into that fund balance that is something that we calculated a long time
ago that we were going to have to do and it and potentially right because so much changes so as you approach that budget revision you're going to have a more solid understanding of where that's going to be the challenge that's still with our leadership team is going to be as things have and flow if a person resigns if there's a hire you know we
are constantly looking for how do we attack that identified deficit um but again not diminishing we always want best in front of our students and so keeping that student Focus you know things to celebrate when you look at enrollment challenges you know for the
first time in a long time our high school enrollment is um stable and going up 522 graduates is one of the larger graduating classes in last few years that expansion of online learning um now you can get your high school diploma completely online they've expanded the
electives so we have actually private schools that are now looking to say hey we might want some of our students to take that online elective or that online course because we can't do it here that's never happened in the history so um and we're starting to see other students from not even within our area
seeking that we know the expansion going into 2425 is the exploration of 7th and 8th online um with the intention by 2526 you're going to have core courses online for seventh and eighth graders so how do we create that stability how do we
create that options because we all know funding is based on that ADM with the student so um all the things that consider as you approach these numbers that you gave us on ATT tenant or on enrollment those aren't adms those are actual people
right those are adms those are adms so we're paid on adms I knew that well I thought we were looking at numbers just a month ago and we were over 6,000 that's students so student count and then when it converts to adms
I thought they we were with one or 1 point2 so no we have when you get into the littles they're only3 oh the E right so you get this and if I'm a student who's been here half a year con as a05 so that's why it doesn't
yeah why was there such an increase in third grade there the that's the that's the co bubble oh so that's our second grade now moving the third grade so when you look at those parents who again in the unknown are
iners we had about 64 families decide hey I'm going to hold my child for one more year that's why we saw the bubble come back in but that was wasn't a predictable class okay so unlike Marcy reports birth rate and you also talk about who's moving here that's impacting
your early enrollment the good news is is that it shouldn't last year we were shooting for 1.8 or 1.9 and would it come down to 650 we started with 650 but in previous years it was about 1.8 and then we yeah and
Tech Technically when you're in that 1 to 2% when you're looking at a 100 plus million dollar budget we kind of figure if you're within 1 to two% that's a balanced budget if you think about our check registers again 30,000 foot view of a budget so we don't get too anxious about that Marcy I think could have calm
without hives if I we were at about 2.5 she's still even uncomfortable with that um but it's a little bit higher than anticipated so again as we navigate some of those changes we have to just be very mindful of how we're going to get there and staffer
you get $270,000 of an increase from the state and when you look at overall salary increases and benefit increases it's about 3.5 million or a people business people cost us the most they're 80 plus percent of our budget so if I win the
lottery we say that every year right we win the lottery and I and to put it in perspective and I I've shared this with all the board members we've talked a lot about it Finance but again a district R size and if you look at where a lot of districts our size are at with their
budget deficit and you've heard this because you've read it all throughout the state districts our size are facing budget deficits three four times bigger than where we're at this was a very mindful budget of supplant build the fund balance and it's also important to note that many of those school districts have
an operating Levy which we do not correct the difference of being a large District in rural Minnesota anything else out of Finance director Doner that you think is relevant oh I don't like this deal
obviously I don't think anyone does but I guess we have to approve it and get moving on and we're going to have a it's going to be a little bit of a wild year next year because we can't keep doing this you know we say that our policy is
10% of what our G what of our big fund is right well the states is 30 I don't know why they need you to have three months you know 30 30% of your budget being reserves I don't know what they're worried about what could happen
but seems like we listen to everything else the state says we're going to do the state math we're going to do the state science we're going to do the state reading I mean they're experts I guess I I don't know so pretty soon there won't be any need for school boards because we'll just do what the stat says they just be state run schools
it's going great that's what they're doing and we seem to just get in line so then I think we should get in line on having 30% in reserves so we are going to have to make some major changes it's going to be a tough deal so
but I mean there's no change in it today and I know that Heidi and Marc worked hard on this and like I said the good news is is is versan 29 I'd like to think it might come in close to a million million and a quarter kind of what happened last year and so the last
year you know think how much money we saved on snow removal and things like that you know and I know we got a good busing deal going and so we're GNA we need to prove this and and get on down the road get creative
and historically prior to co brainer operated around an 8% which still makes Mar skin for all um so this is and through the work of this board actually where our fund balances is it's the highest it's been again that
was some of the creativity that could come with covid um so even though the recommendation is you should have three months of operating we've always I'm going to go back to 0708 when you look at Trend data far where we've operated from has been around that 8% is fund
balance so the DJ's point I mean there's no gymnastics left to do or create accounting left to do next year there is not there's no work on that starts July one right yeah good work on this Mar I know I mean you
spend a measurable portion of your life in that SCH yeah it was previously the policy 5 to 7 and to answer your question it was before my time but at one point the state was holding back payments because they were having budget crisis too right that's why they want you to have it
start because then if they stop paying us at least we have three months worth to be able to continue our operations or have a government shut down right otherwise then taking out loans and paying the interest on the loan but not that our friends in St Paul would ever
do any political Shenanigans such as that oh I'll make a motion to approve approve the budget I'll second okay we have a motion from director Dinger with a second from director spear to approve the 2425 preliminary budget as presented any
further discussion in addition to Marcy DJ um you and John um John if you're watching thanks for all the hard work you guys are doing on the finance committee it's really important it helps the rest of us really assimilate a lot of this that would be very difficult and
you too Marcy thanks for spending all that extra time with us any other comments or questions hearing none those in favor I I those oppose same sign motion carries all right we'll move on to the
fiscal year 25 liability work Compensation Insurance renewal so I'm gonna ask Jake hoer to come up I think you all have met him hi hi we're GNA take Jake we're timing this so we don't be thinking that you're going to be up here too long I can talk
faster than you if I have to I've never met anybody that got so excited about insurance in their life other than Jer um gotd be excited about something brother I know so I just want to preface this with uh I had been hearing through my Association that insurance was going
to increase 10 to 20% like not good right but Jake has done his magic work and been awesome and we actually didn't even have to increase the liability side of the insurance budget our work comp is going up you guys will see that in there
uh our mod is going from 1.51 to 1.65 so that's not unexpected to see that go up but I payrolls too are payrolls are going up too which affects that as well but I'll let you I'll let him tell you all that he did uh just real quick on
the work comp next year we'll have a different conversation because that mod will drop so we'll we'll be talking about how much it dropped I don't know how much it's going to be but it'll be it'll drop um yeah knockan would but there's a the the 2019 2021 claims years were were really really bad on the work
comp and a lot of that um you know with construction um just some fluke things that happen but a lot of that stuff will drop off which will make that mod lower um for next year so we look forward to that um on the property liability side I've been doing this for a little over
18 years I've never seen a property market like this ever so to Mary's Point uh we were expecting um maybe 10 to 15 maybe higher than 15% increase um so we got to jump on this in February was awesome on uh entertaining the various
um risk control folks from the insurance companies that we submitted this to and that paid off huge so we are going to go away from Handover on the property side and go to an insurance company called chub um they do a lot of uh large property lines and so um it's going to
hold really really consistent to what it was last year about a 2% increase um which is uh quite low compared to what the the average has been so um thankful that they participated and uh gave us something really competitive Handover
will stay on the other lines they've had a a long-term partnership with the with the district and one that they'd like to continue um just reinsurance on their property side was was making their property renewal not competitive at all so what could have been a $125,000
increase is is not anywhere near that so and just to highlight a couple of the changes the property deductible went from 25 to 100 and then the Cyber policy the actually went down in cost but we did increase it by a million dollars everything else was pretty
status cool and when he talks about Reed um these insurance companies they want to come in and do a walkth through before they just you know they want to see our buildings not all of them they see a handful of them but and there's a lot of question that goes with it and you know different fire doors and
protection and sprinkler rates and things so he was extremely helpful and I know he's got a full full plate as it is and he was able to squeeze that in so it made a big difference and Jake knows the applications are like one of my least favorite things to do we try to pre-fill as much as we
can so well I make a motion to approve it I'll second so we have a motion from director doninger with a second from director spear to approve the liability and work Compensation Insurance renewal has
presented discussion comments once again you look at what's happening outside these four walls in these spaces it's exploding my own business I can attest to what's happening to me right now so whatever you did great
work and so we'll be talking after the meeting no seriously that's that's I mean to see a 2% increase in premiums would be a normal year not a year where you know in the and c space it's incredibly crazy right now yeah there's a lot that just won't even touch new business at all and i' I've never seen
that before or they're pulling out of markets right y yep so thank you to both of you for all the hard work any other commentary or questions hearing none uh those in favor of the motion please signify by saying I please I I oppose
same sign motion carries thank Youk you Jake thanks all right Mercy still in the hot seat for the approval of the contract for the fiscal year 24 audit services with our friends at Clifton Larson Allen LLP so this is for the 23 24 audit it would be generally in the
October time frame it's about an 8% increase which is what we saw last year um and no other changes noted it's our audit plus uh single audit for $4,500 and if there's additional single audits it's an additional um 4500
however with cares going away I don't anticipate that happening so that bucket keeps getting smaller and smaller so they've been raising this 8% a year yeah so what two years in a row yes so did you do you Snoop around see
if anybody else has got qualified to do this work I believe it was three years ago I did an RFP and it's probably about due for this next I think so yeah I mean I don't know how you can dis charge 8% more of you sounds great but it's not realistic certainly isn't
realistic for us um it's it's UNS it's not sustainable so we're going to have to get after him get him sick of Mars how long we have we had um Clifton Larson Allen since I've
been here and I believe I mean prior to that I think it was it's been a long time it's a long time relationship when you did the last RFP Marcy was the competition close yes in fact we had
somebody come in lower and then a CLA matched it and we stayed with them because we were mid construction and to have new Auditors come in and learn all that it it would have been challenging it's a challenge yeah so we so they
matched it and we went with them did you say rfps are every three years it's whenever we decide oh when we decide okay so we're we're probably do yeah I would support this motion with the knowledge that you'll do in RFP before
the next time we do this yep that is doable okay yeah than that I make a motion to approve I'll second so we have a motion from director spear with a second from director Breen to approve the contract for fiscal year 24 audit services with
Clift and Larson Allen any further discussion hearing none those in favor of the motion say I please I oppose same sign motion carries all right next up we have the resolution for establishing the dates for filing affidavits of candidacy
for and I think I drew the Short Straw on this one um I'll make a motion to approve it perfect a second thank you well so we have a motion from director Don ninger with a second from director spear to approve the resolution establishing the dates
for filing Affidavit of candidacy as presented um for those watching at home those dates are July 30th through August 13th I believe did I read that correctly did for filing and you got to have your $2 in your fist when your ID
yes don't forget your ID yep so any further discussion hearing none roll call please CJ D yes Sarah spear yesin yes bre yes great thank you thanks Mars and next up we have final approval
of the portrait of a graduate it yeah so this is building off of what was presented in May um there was lots of discussion the board felt comfortable with all facets minus the definition of Dependable there was lots of discussion about uh showing up at work on time so putting back to the group um Dependable
was redefined as consistently reliable and trustworthy demonstrating Integrity honesty and respect while taking responsibility for their actions words and intentions so this was sent to you right after the feedback came back I didn't receive any um concerns or
further clarification uh requested so before you we hope is what will be the final approval of our portrait of a graduate um so it can continue to move forward in the work as we approach the 2425 school year I had brief discussions
with both missing missing directors and um as far as I know there were no concerns from either one of them on it just for the record for my part I liked it a lot before now I love it I think it is an improvement over what was there there's a more clarity definitely so I will make a motion for the final approval of the portrait of a
graduate second it so we have a motion from director Breen with a second from director Don linger to approve the portrait of a graduate as presented any further discussion hearing none those in favor of the motion say I please I I poose same sign motion
carries okay uh approval of the behavior management specialist handbook for the 24 to 26 as presented this sounds like a fun one yes we have two handbooks to bring forward to you today um what we did this year
for the handbooks as you can remember 2022 is when we really established handbooks for many of the groups and similar situated positions to make it more explanatory I guess as far as compensation benefits for the group also to allow them some more input into what
they'd like to see with the compensation increase so what we did this year we sent each of the at will groups a survey just kind of seeing what their satisfaction are with salary benefits time off few other things and then gave some open answered questions so they
could add some additional suggestions what was confusing about the handbook what they'd like to see different and then we invited them in to meet with us so we were happy to have a behavior management specialist join us last week and that is the first handbook to review so we were able to do an increase in the
salary scale we also added some longevity payments to be similar as educational assistance so as they hit the top of that salary schedule they still do have the opportunity to get increases based on number of years working with the district um match the
403b match to that of the educational assistance and just did some updates to both District contribution to Insurance language and then removed the student support specialist from the handbook because that was a car's funded position that was unfortunately eliminated moving
into this next year I'll make a motion I'll second we have a motion from director Don linger with a second from director Breen to approve the behavior management specialist handbook as presented any further discussion hearing none those in favor
signify by saying I please I post same sign motion carries next one the coordinators depart heads handbook yes so another group we met with at the same day had a good group of people join us and had good conversation again doing salary adjustments um for
both 24 25 25 26 and updated the district contribution based on the previous handbook language so just putting it for the new two-year range and then just some cleanup language and ESS addition so not a whole lot of change to that one just kind of an
update on the salary Matrix make a motion to approve I'll second so we have a motion from director spear with a second from director Breen to approve the coordinators and department heads handbook for 24 through 26 as presented any further discussion are we
all caught up on all the esst stuff or is there we we are up to date on that they all had kind of agreements because once that came enacted we had to do um our notification on that and how it was going to work we did all that right away um we do have I think three more
handbooks and three more Union Union agreements that'll be expiring June 30th so we're meeting with we met with two today and then we're meeting with one tomorrow for handbooks those should be ready for the July board meeting and then we meet with principales tomorrow
interpreters tomorrow I believe very busy busy month um and then clerical towards the end of the month so hopefully we'll get those all in um in July is the goal so if I remember it might be slightly different for school districts but I think it's
the same as private Enterprise in the sense that the handbooks I mean we're just updating them to be consistent the law was to get notices in people's hands right and we did that y y okay cool yep so now all the language is just in the handbook so they can refer to it I'm in this doing the same thing myself right
now still haven't updated the hand super duper maybe I'll do it tomorrow all right thank you thank you oh so we have the motion from director spear we have second from director Breen those in favor of the motion signify by saying I please I post same sign motion carries
just in case you have a question yep and uh the last item up for bid on the prices right tonight would be item number 20 in action items wow would be approval of the interim super uh intendent contract with the 2425 school year with Mr Peter Grant who's joined us
this evening hello again I have a great picture of him signing his contract if anybody wants that I took it the other day yes so we met with uh Peter last week and myself and Kevin are the board chair I apologize um met and kind of
talked through uh interim superintendent agreement and kind of agreed upon the terms and so we bringing that forward for you for approval I'll make a motion to approve second so we have a motion from director spear with a second from director donlinger to approve the interim superintendent contract with Mr Peter
Grant any further discussion questions those in favor of the motion signified by saying hi please hi hi post same sign motion carries you're hooked now Mr Grant thank you soon as DJ puts his ink on that it's it's irrevocable all right we'll move on to
committee meeting updates we'll start with a curriculum committee update from director spear feels like we covered a lot of that I actually I think we everything we covered was on the agenda tonight the AC comp the curriculum and the portrait of a graduate and some
conversation about training for the reduct yeah we're good sounds good how about facilities and longrange planning director Dinger um oh what the heck they did the Time Capsule we got some things going on this
have you heard about this Raptor system they got going on we got in all the buildings now and it runs a quick background check on you if you're coming in these buildings which I think is pretty good idea um so that thing's going uh there they're just about done with
the blueprint 181 it's almost complete and then uh they came in with a plan to make a bter school Forest which is pretty neat in fact they have on at Forest vield and then we have the room and they have Trails back there and I think Mike's Tree
Service maybe it's land works I don't know I shouldn't say because I'm going to get myself in trouble who land Works who land works yeah land Works uh they're like donating to go CLE off these Trails for these kids and so teachers have a place where they want the kids out in the woods let them mess
around I that was pretty neat and then we talked about the high school F yeah all with the state forry and everything I went over there in miday and walked all the trails they just cut them out they hadn't cleaned them up all the way yet yeah make it a DNR forest or something doesn't really cost us anything it's a good deal and uh it
looks like we're going to be able to buy just the 40 at the school Farm not the whole 80 which will save us half the dough which I thinks in today's world like we've been talking about all night waiting to save every dollar we can so that's basically that deal the finance thing you just you just heard it all
Jake was at our meeting um we got some stuff to figure out you know we sold our house I think we approved that at the last meeting so you guys kind of are up to date on everything that went on on finance well you effectively W knocked out two committee updates you you batted
for yourself and for director Ward all in one fell s i thinkig that's what's going to happen I think you guys were here like eight hours that day yeah we were here for six okay we here from 8 to two okay and then back again then back again own business cards be around here all the
time compare time cards back tomorrow uh next up is informational so let's start with Brer Public Schools Foundation director spear so bpsf had their annual Retreat last was it last week it's been a week already and
celebrated and kind of reviewed events and activities from this year celebrated Jessica haaji going off the board she's been on it for nine years which is pretty amazing um and also Heidi stepping off as well in the capacity
that she's in and began planning for next year and just a quick update on the scholarship recogition night we had more than 150 students receive one or more scholarships I think it was a total of more than 280,000 am I getting that right that sound the foundation was like
180 and then we approached almost a million in total schip award it was significance so lots of generosity and amazing students celebrated that night so that's it great uh next up Equity
task force director so we had our last meeting for the school year on May 14th um we've been really focusing on Community Partnerships prior to that meeting we had heard from some high school student L focus groups to see how they feel
about safety in the schools and um their sense of belonging um then in May I know I did two focus groups in the middle school and I think there was
another person from the task force who did another focused group so we'll look at that data in the fall just to see what kinds of improvements we can make or recommendations we can make to increase increase students safety and
their sense of belonging um um and then so I and then we're going to be looking at the um the uh interruptor posters that will be presented to the staff in different
learning spaces in the fall oh yeah you can share those interruptor stickers yeah interruptor stickers so there's going to be some training for staff on how to use those posters
um when so basically the the intent is if you see somebody being disrespectful unkind bullied um you're encouraged to step up and and either yeah do stop ask tell or
Echo um so ask them to stop ask them what what they're what they mean tell somebody that this is happening or um what's the echo part again echo part is if I hear like someone say hey that's not appropriate to say a way that I can interrupt or show
support of stepping in and saying hey that's I agree that's inappropriate you need to stop that so one of the biggest requests we had as staff and students asking for very specific ways to respond and that's the intent of the the interruptor training is one just to really interrupt and stop whatever is
occurring but giving safe approaches to do that so A Very concerted effort to focus on um bullying but it'll be across every building so You' heard I think at the April board meeting about the posters and MH MH so this is the same
deal where we had the posters before that Randy was upset about well they haven't been deployed yet why are we doing this is it this a task force what is this it's part of an anti-bullying campaign so when we had students we did we've done the student survey and then a lot of the work with the equity task
force one of the things we heard from both students and staff is when something's occurring people want to intervene but they didn't know how to intervene or what they should do and so we actually started two years ago with uh zema ponini was her name she came in and really talked
about school districts and and and be at a facility Community is much more successful at creating a more welcoming culture and really tampering bullying down or responding to bullying when you have a concerted consistent response to it so everybody has the same opportunity
and so it becomes part of the culture of how we're going to do so when you step into to that one of our facilities you're going to see you know how can I respond and it's it's simple things to do and it's it gets at your comfort level I the equity task force isn't a real committee right
no but a real thing I understand people actually go to meetings and work hard on this and not say that but it's not like one of our core committees so what GNA if we're going to start putting their stuff up then what's going to stop this is actually done whichever other group wants to put posters up in our schools
and I just think it's a slippery slope and this isn't coming from the equity task force they were charged they were charged with the work of really listening to students and how to respond then it came back to the district as a district to say and with our district leadership team how are we going to respond our staff are asking what's the
appropriate way or what is language that they should use as a staff member when this is happening so if I'm at Riverside I can step in the Riverside building use the same language compared to when I go to Harrison the middle school the high school and so it's very specific training you've heard over and over as a board about bullying about behavior in
building about response to the kid who's being difficult this is now the consistent response that's going to occur and so the task force work was really listening to student voices the district leadership team was how are you going to respond to that and what are you going to do to train staff and also set that
expectation for students and so the interruptor training is what we went for and it's actually a partnership that we're working with Crowing County it's been sponsored by the Child Protection Team we're really looking at right now we've really focused on K12 but some of this too how do we three four and five
year olds and it's some simple things if something's making you uncomfortable for example I'm at the grocery store and somebody's chewing the clerk out ahead of me I might feel comfortable just leaning forward and saying hey I'm not comfortable with that and so then at least I've interrupted it but we're training staff to be able to say hey you
might Echo that that's going to show support for the next person you might feel comfortable enough saying what do you mean by that I'm not saying bad stuff I just don't understand why we're putting posters no you think of it this way that well you're training the staff to do these things it's just it's wonderful right so it's it's a it's a site leader administrative decision on
how to deploy something like this and they just came to the equity task force to use them as a resource because we were doing surveys on student safety and and understanding what the real concerns were so that was useful information so then we just used it as a conduit when
there's three board members on that task force Michelle myself and John are on there and so we went to the Visual Arts students at Brainard high school and asked them to design prototypes for these posters and then we took them to the administrative staff and said do you want to use these in your buildings so
it's really an administrative decision not a task force decision the task force is just a tool and it's set visual when we're looking at to make this embedded in our culture it's the quick visual I can refer to it's the quick sticker kids love stickers staff love stickers but it is going to be some of the the
consistent work that's going to have to go moving forward right now if you say how do you respond to bullying or you're building we have a form that people can fill out principal's respond but it's kind of coming from an administrative side we want it to come from a student from anybody who walks in our building
and from our staff to create that safe place that welcoming space so we have the expectation that if you're acting disrespectfully if you're saying something disrespectful if you're targeting somebody you should be expected that somebody's going to stop you somebody
might ask a question somebody's going to report you and they're going to show support for the person that's interrupted that's what this is all about the poster is just a visual Vie of those quick four words and it was designed by students um they did a bright primary color for the elementaries and they did blue and gray
for the secondaries and the warrior colors so and actually staff was asking to if I am observing some sort of bullying in my classroom what is it that I can do or say so I mean it's helping
students um take that initiative but it's also giving the staff some tools to are we empowering the staff so they can actually step in and handle things mhm but it's interesting that the research on bullying will tell you it's more powerful when it's intervened by a peer compared to the adult and so that's
when we did the research to really look at how we responding to student Behavior so one of the Strategic plan goals number four is student and staff well-being where they can feel safe and Thrive this is a big part of you know and when the kid lips off to a staff member like our staff have said that
it's giving the tools to the staff member for the next staff to say hey that's not okay that's not okay I'm not going to can accept that you don't do that to that staff member there's going to be consistent language that's used to address so the posters are a visual um stickers are a visual but the training pieces that are going to that and it
gives staff the comfortability of being able to refer to that I mean if I'm in an elementary and I just say hey no we don't accept that you're going to stop that right now look at right here that's the intent so but the equity task force was great with really lifting up and having the group go back to student
focus groups like Michelle was part of a student focus group of really list to the student voice of how to respond time really it's spend two years in the making um kind of excited to see it come into action finally um at the
request of students and staff any anything else from Equity task force okay thanks Michelle and next up Business Services report she's back uh nothing too exciting to note
community service building construction and OPB are varying due to timing of payments so that's all I have any questions okay think so thank you super the front row I am I'm doing my
traditional give you the update plus I just have to say this is the longest agenda in my six years 10 years assistant soup and soup and this is probably the fast fastest that we have ever gotten through that many action items so um now I don't
know I I'm GNA throw a hypothesis out there um I know where you're going so anyway superintendent T super you did it so fast because you're so excited about this so again through a strategic plan uh just a reminder that
our ultimate goal in Briner Public Schools is to educate and Inspire each student by Pro by providing Innovative opportunities to create lifelong success um when we say that we we ground ourselves in realizing that we're teaching children not subjects we're
leading people not projects and we're going to work alongside those that we serve with a commitment to educate and Inspire each student by providing Innovative opportunities to create lifelong lifelong success a reminder of our goals increase academic achievement ensure safe facilities through
standardized procedures practices and Equitable resources goal three strengthen the financial position of Briner public schools and goal number four is to establish and grow a working environment where students and Staff feel supported and are encouraged to thrive just like our last conversation about bowling but progress on update
increaseed student achievement as uh director Ross explained we have a comprehensive literacy and plan with a calendar a calendar that's been approved talked about how administrators are going to stay at least three modules ahead of our staff so they're always feeling comfortable in that that work to be able to um really support the staff
as they work through this it is a graduate level course it'll be intensive they have uh tests they have to pass and and a portfolio they have to put together so there's going to be a lot of work ahead you heard about our math curriculum process and where we're heading into 25 26 and as we've gone
through one of the big areas was those career Pathways and we're so excited with the work that's happened and our portrait of graduate ties to that our career Pathways fully launch in the oh look at that 25 25 we're going to be stuck in a year it's the 25 26 uh 24 25
school year uh safe facilities director Don linger um he talked about that as we've talked the Raptor system is fully operational in each building uh we'll have the capacity to continue to build on those right now it's running a more of a a criminal check but as we have some of the custody issues and those things we can build in those systems to
grate those flags when we look for the visiting PA that's coming into our buildings um super exciting we worked with uh uh Rick from the Bloomington Public Schools and he really did an audit of our crisis response and so we have training for all of our
administrators next week on our crisis response plan we're moving away from Alice it's very difficult uh process to go through and we're going to a much more um consistent easy to approach no matter what the the response is so that training happens for administrators and
all staff in August we'll pick up on that the financial position which you've heard Lots about when we made a strategic goal about that the levy research continues uh We've qualified for that alternative facilities funding which is exciting and then director Don also noted the property sale and
acquisition resulting in cost savings um environment where students and staff Thrive we've put out our school survey we've had almost 600 responses this is what's what I think you as a school board need to note and you're going to hear more about it as the data continues to come in but in our current measure of
almost 600 families 85% of our families are agreeing that brainer Public Schools is a safe place for their children 80% 88% of the families are saying that they uh feel that um it's a welcoming place our
schools are welcoming now do I want to see those percentages higher do our leadership seems want to see those hire absolutely um we do but we're making progress and I think our data is starting to reflect that um when we talk about educate and Inspire 522
graduates that's pretty exciting uh today extended school year in Credit Recovery began at BHS at the braining Learning Center at Forest Middle School at Lincoln education center at River side in this one backer we have kids coming back in learning's never stopping
super exciting when you talk about our goal of literacy and increasing literacy achievement we have over 500 students this summer participating in our Battle of the books in third to fifth grade 200 participants and you need to see a picture of this that's what I'm putting
in here this is what 2003rd through fifth graders look like when they're coming into our schools to do battle of books in the summer and if you haven't been able to be a part of that that and thanks to Laura wig and her leadership and our brainer Public Schools foundation and our friends of the
library this opportunity continues where they're getting books in hands for free they're getting to hear from the authors they're getting to talk to the authors and this program continues to grow so again talk about inspiring students and educating students what do we get excited about
I'm going to put it through pictures rather than words fourth grade graduation many of you got to attend those if you look at there's the families look at the students and I don't know anybody who gets more excited about Student Success uh principal Borg is a wonderful example of that those of
you who were in attendance um it was super wonderful to hear from uh Craig reac retiring and when you see his sign gown which is a new tradition the Brainard high school students have started but his speech about finding joy and realizing how connected we are and
then always uh say yes to Val but his message was really powerful um and inspiring to those of us got to be in there the faces of our graduates when they're receiving those diplomas and realizing the the hard work that they've they've put in place um one
of my favorite students this is Matthew uh if you ever meet Mr Matthew he's very respectful every time he greets you and saying his success I knew Matthew when he was an elementary student and then just uh you heard at the beginning our state championship success uh there's
Miss CLA standing at the top of the podium after winning her high jump State title and then you get to indulge me because I'm going to hit escape from this hopefully so I can click both pictures um Carla gave me this picture because
she hasn't been able to publish it anywhere so you're going to get to see it live here at the board meeting um I've had a lot of fun um doing this job and I think if you want to do a job well you need to have a lot of fun and so that's a good reflection of just one um opportunity of having fun
um but the other thing I think if you want to be great in your position you have to love uh the reason you do it and so the best part about this job and my job has been loving our kids and I'm not a crier so sorry about
that um I'll never forget this day this is a cute little three-year-old um at the wel and I had never met him and he just ran to give me a hug but that's the best part about this job is what happens for our kids and it's been my honor and
privilege doert you and that's it good job thanks D for [Applause] all right do our director upat start
with director I just have a note so prior to my serving on the school board I knew Heidi casually with both of us being in the education field our PA would cross occasionally and we share
many Mutual friendships I always knew Dr Han to be a person of integrity and character she is kind and generous and always willing to help her family and friends having served on the board for the past one and a half years I've been
honored to serve alongside her and to learn from her as we support brainer Public Schools she is a true champion for the district she brings compassion and an impressive ability to develop meaningful relationships with our great
staff students families and members of the community she is intelligent disciplined knowledgeable and a true Visionary thinker I have witnessed firsthand her strong leadership skill supporting equity and inclusion each and every day
she is dedicated to serving brainer Public Public Schools always prioritizing our District's mission and goals of student achievement student and staff safety fiscal stability and student and staff wellbeing Heidi
epitomizes what it means to be a warrior Heidi is as she frequently says when celebrating someone awesomeness in action we will miss her as our leader but wish her many blessings in this next
J thank you Dr D anything you um I don't really have anything to say other than thanks Heidi it's been fun getting to know you um and everybody should be thinking about director Ward because he's not in a good spot right now so hopefully he pulls through
everything great and it's back to we got a picture right before the board meeting he looks like he's returning to spunkiness as we speak is he yes not surprising yeah I don't want to put words in anybody's mouth but it looked encouraging he looked like he's probably fuming right now that he's not
able to speak I imagine yeah I'm good Dr spear I too wrote a couple things down because I'm better at writing than I am at speaking but Hy I want to honor the fact that you're not just retiring from being
our superintendent these last two years but from dedicating 28 or maybe 29 years of your life to our district our children our staff and our community you've had a profound impact if there's one word that encapsulates your towering
strength it's relationships you've always believed in the power of Connections in the magic that happens when we invest in one another and I I've heard you recount this story a few times that one of your greatest Joys is when
when a mom was anxious about welcoming her her child into the world and was going to need Services being there and then seeing that student graduate many years later and just as you witnessed the
growth and accomplishments of our students that way we've had the privilege of watching you invest in our community and our staff and our district your leadership has steered us through challenges and your leadership has
helped us celebrate our triumphs you are a mentor a friend an advocate for Quality education to that end your legacy is one of impact built on relationships which has shown us that
education goes beyond academics it is about caring for the whole person and fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and supported so much gratitude for your gift of service to this District thank
you all right so just I'm gonna actually Jump Ahead a little and then I'll come back um I'm going to go to the Future meeting dates I'm not going to read all of them but I want to um for benefit of those watching and and attending June 2st there will be a Schoolboard Retreat 11:00 a.m. I believe we secured the room at the Chamber of Commerce there's a
small conference room at the chamber building um as always the public is encouraged and welcom to attend um it's it's it's if you have never done one and and there's usually like three people that go but um it's it's a very different format where we're we have
casual conversations and really uh are able to kind of pull free from some of the structure that happens at these meetings and some of the things that we want to talk about at that Retreat are going to be cell phone policy um student representation on the school board lots of things budget and Levy related um you
know and it'll give a chance for Mr Grant to get um acquainted with some of the exec staffs that'll be there presenting on some of those topics for us but welcome you to do that uh finance committee meeting uh coming up those are also open to the public um those of you that may have questions about the budget
stuff that we talked about tonight um hopefully everybody's as concerned as we are as a board about those issues um we certainly welcome people to come in and and offer um insight and uh observe what we're doing that's the whole point in making those meetings public our next regularly scheduled Schoolboard meeting
is July 8th and then on July 17th we have a policy meeting as well that one um one of the things we'll talk about at the retreat is ramping up the frequency with which the policy and finance committees meet um perhaps given the budget challenges that we're in and some of the things we want to do from a policy management perspective and also
looking at board representation on those Bo on those committees and uh with Mr GR coming in potentially you know shuffling that around a little bit or even enhancing some of the board membership or representation on those committees so we'll talk about that on the 21st so that's all the business related
stuff um uh I'll talk for a minute or five and then um we'll let Heidi have the last word tonight before we adjourn uh I was fortunate enough a few days ago to be able to speak at her uh going away retirement party I guess you call it and gave her her fancy Warrior blanket um
and there were people waiting to speak after me so um I was kind of hurried that night um now not so much um I think Sarah probably said it the best of that I could say it in the sense that we're we're not here tonight to say goodbye and to celebrate a a two-year stint as a
superintendent of a school district although um from my own personal experience there's thousands of interactions that have occurred during these last two years that I could point to that exemplify your integrity your passion your
heart and I guess if there's a word Beyond relationships I think you don't have relationships without two other words and I think they're the two that um that I see you exhibit day in and day out and those are um trust in the sense that you build trust with the people around you I've never encountered you
saying one thing and doing another ever um but the biggest word of all is love um there's a love in everything that you do and it's funny because it seems like we've been joined at the hip for 20 years and it's been two not even to um I don't remember a time I remember coming on to the board and you were just you
and Angie were the co ladies you know you just sat there and talked about numbers and that was really all I knew and and if you were at Heidi's retirement party you'll be sick of this because I talked about it already but um as it happened we had to go to school open houses so my first really one-on-one experience was with Heidi was
at Forest View for orientation night or or open house night right before school started and it was the year that we' voted to put the mask back on the kids so we didn't know what people were what kind of moods people were going to be in coming into the building and and and that was a real learning experience for me because Heidi had I think the best
strategy I've ever seen for diffusing grumpy people um I I liken it to a tennis match where you don't wait for the ball to come over you rush the net and see she was rushing the net people couldn't even get on the sidewalk and she was running up there and you know she does that handshake that starts back here and comes all the way forward and
this big grin there's no way you can be mad at somebody like that and I was just I was just cleaning up seconds behind her I was just handing people paper as they came in and just watching her and I was watching her and I'm like you know I'm this high energy person people always talk about how hard I can be to keep up with and I was like I had to take like a nap when I got home after
being with IDI um and and so it was that moment when I got to know you a little bit as a person and then shortly there after you became our superintendent and um again just to put it on the record um as everybody knows two years ago um my vote was for a different candidate for superintendent but it was not out of any
disrespect or dislike for Heidi it was a philosophical thing um seconds after the board decided to offer you the job um I called you and I offered you my unconditional support um and this board I think by and large has had your back
in all things and you've had ours uh you and I have built a special relationship I'm going to miss that very much but I'm also looking forward to what that looks like starting July 2nd and see what that looks like but um that that three decades of service to this District
cannot be overlooked um your impact on thousands and thousands of young lives cannot be overlooked your dedication and love for this community in this District cannot be overlooked you're an amazing human being we were lucky to have you
for all this time and godp speed and go kick some butt with whatever you're doing next thank you thank you thank you so your so I'll start with the board and and people have heard me say this when I speak of our board I really feel like we have the right people at the table at
the right time um and our board is truly reflective our our community and um I just know the things that are happening and the great things that will continue to happen are going to fall in the backs of the people that sit at this table so um it's been a privilege to work with you and learn from you um I'm excited
for uh superintendent Grant as he steps into this chair and gets the opportunity to work with you because I do think where we're headed we have the right people there and ready to take us there so I'm very grateful for that um and I'm grateful for for the the time and energy
and effort this is this is not a task uh for the light-hearted um so those who think Schoolboard would be kind of fun or I should try it I think you can all go tell them it's a lot of work and it's a lot of hours and so I'm very grateful to you um I'm extremely grateful to our staff like I said one of the reasons I
do this job and love this job is our staff our staff do incredible things um I've been blessed with a wonderful leadership team when I look at our executive team and our um directors uh hundreds and hundreds of hours that just are never seen and it's never just eight
hours I would love to say that our leadership team Works eight hours a day it is well beyond an eight hour day um and so I'm very appreciative of them and their their endless support um and I'm really I'm looking at our community members and we have had a community that has leaned in and that is willing to
continue to lean in and to do the right thing for our kids and make sure we're doing the right things and hold us accountable to them um but then to to be amazing and again we're so used to being here that you we need to hang out with somebody that's new here because the people that are new to this place they
are just in awe of the phenomenal program we have and the opportunities that exist in braer Minnesota and so it's really 28 years um you know I am a believer you give what you get and I feel like I've given but I've gotten so
much more back and uh it's made my experience here incredible so I am eternally grateful and like I said I I look forward to being a community member um and supporting the district in that capacity so thank you for your faith and your support and again it's been my
honor um I'd be remissed I'm looking at Christine who made sure she s through the board meeting I'm so grateful for her um because if anybody gets to hear all the sides of uh after what the day looks like after 14 hours it's been her so I'm very grateful that um she made sure that uh she always focused me back
on all the now remember why and she did that very well so thank you to everyone for that support and keep doing great things for our [Applause] Warriors now we get cookies
right and DJ's buying beers for everybody afterwards I just got back at town at 3:00 I am that's perfect timing the car let me tell you I'm a little tired this is the longest agenda and the shortest time that it took I'm just impressed that created more time in the schedule
just for that so I would entertain a motion to agenda motion second we have a motion from director doninger with a second from director spear to adjourn uh any discussion hearing none those in favor signify by saying hi please hi
hi same sign thought Heidi might ex official to a n just so she could hang on hearing no objection