at 700 p.m we will open of allegiance everyone who is able please stand we'll now have our land acknowledgement read by Director Nolles i'm sorry by Director Allen on behalf of this board and the
Cherry Creek School District I would like to acknowledge that this meeting is being held on the ancestral and unseated lands of the Cheyenne Arapjo Ute and Oetti Shakawi people who stewarded it for generations the Oshetti Shakawi
includes seven bands so I would also like to recognize that over 40 additional tribal nations likely use this area for trade ceremonies and social gatherings thank you before we approve our agenda I would like to note that um
we have multiple absences due to illness or um family emergencies so remember to take care of yourself and take care of one another so um directors Bates and Director Nolles are excused for this evening i'd like to call for a motion to approve
April 14th meeting agenda for the call to point of order didn't you want to amend the agenda yes is that what Are you going to read that okay okay
sorry i move that we amend the agenda to remove resolution 25.4.11 approval of lease agreement between Metropoint Venture LLC and Cherry Creek School District number five and resolution 25.4.18
4.18 approval of purchase learning by design consulting LLC from the consent agenda second roll call please discussion i think Miss Egan might want some time for discussion if we can
entertain that okay i'd like to request these two items be removed from the consent agenda resolutions 25.4.11 and 25.4.18 for the following reasons to remove resolution
25.4.11 titled approval of lease agreement between Metropoint Venture and Cherry Creek School District the board and superintendent have not had an opportunity to discuss this as a group and want to be sure all options have been
considered and also move to remove resolution 25.4.18 titled approval of purchase learning by design consulting LLC from the consent agenda and postpone to a future meeting as the contract referenced in the resolution was not
attached and the board needs to review before taking action thank you is there any more discussion roll call please
director Allen I egan I garland I motion carries i'd like to call for a motion to approve the minutes as listed on the April 14th point of order can you um call for a motion to approve the agenda as amended
oh to I'm sorry thank you sure i'd like to I'd like to call for a motion to approve the agenda to approve the amended agenda as read so moved is there a second second
roll call please directors Allan I egan garland i motion carries point of order so approval of minutes okay yes thank you that's okay
we don't do this very often so we all need practice i'd like to call for a motion to approve the minutes as listed on the April 14th 2025 agenda so moved is there a second second roll call please
director Allen i egan i garland i motion carries at this time we will have comments from our board of directors starting with director Allen good evening and thank you for uh joining us tonight uh thank you to
Principal Garcia and the West community for hosting this event and as always my thanks to our security and setup teams um I use my time this evening to talk about something new and exciting the school finance act joke
house Bill 1320 passed its first hurdle at the capital it's not a perfect solution but it does help prevent deeper cuts and provides much needed stability in what continues to be a very difficult budget year that outcome was only
possible because of the strong advocacy from across our district and our state to the teachers who rallied at the capitol over spring break and who continue to speak with legislators your advocacy is powerful and your voice matters lawmakers heard you and we did
also thank you to our school leaders and administrators for helping educate our community about the realities of school finance and budget cuts and for asking for their support in standing up for our students teachers and schools you helped share a clear unified message from the
superintendent and this board and that made a significant difference and thank you to our families educators and community members your thousands of emails and calls showed what it means to stand up for public education despite these challenges our
focus remains steady every child is welcome in our schools our commitment to grade level literacy for every student by 2030 reflects our belief that all children regardless of ability race ethnicity sex gender or background
deserves equal access to a strong public education as a district dedicated to excellence we know literacy is not a privilege or a luxury it's a necessity it gives every child the opportunity to discover their pathway of purpose and it
is essential to the strength and future of our democracy thank you for continuing to support our students our schools and our shared mission thank you Director Allen director Egan you good evening it's great to be
here at West Middle School we appreciate Principal Garcia and our technology setup and safety and security teams for everything they do in these meetings it was an honor to celebrate our district staff who make a difference in the lives of students with special needs at the
2025 Golden Heart Awards dinner on with my colleagues it was also very inspirational serving as Colorado's delegate at the 2025 National School Board Association conference there were many words of wisdom but especially the
emphasis on collective leadership with the sentiment "Now more than ever we must stand together to protect and fulfill the promise of public education." One of the primary reasons I ran for the seat in 2019 and again in
2023 is the mental health and physical safety of our students staff and community health is one of the three pillars of the district strategic plan and tonight you'll hear a presentation from the district's student health team about the ways they are supporting these
initiatives in our buildings we know a student's physical emotional and social needs are at the foundation of how well they are able to learn and engage i am proud to have served on this board in 2020 and I thank you our voters for
having passed the bond measure which led to the first of its kind mental health facility Traverse Academy we are also operating free teleaalth mental health for all students as well as very high levels of mental health staffing in our schools under the direction of
Superintendent Smith on tonight's consent agenda you'll see the approval of proclamation 25.4 school Library Month April 2025 literacy is another of our district's three pillars and it's always
important to remember our school librarians and libraries and the work they do to make sure students have a love of reading with literacy at its very core the March Voices of Color meeting at Cherry Creek High School was also a wonderful celebration of literacy
with a report from the district's literacy team and student discussions and congratulations to the Cherry Creek High School Library for achieving one of CDE's highly effective schools through libraries credentials for creating a living breathing space at the heart of
the school the Cherry Creek Schools Foundation held its annual Elevate Gala on March 27th raising more than $555,000 to invest in the students and staff of Cherry Creek Schools thanks to
the support of our community and community champions the foundation can continue supporting our schools with educator initiative grants as well as support for mental health programs mobile markets and more the foundation is currently interviewing candidates for
the executive director position through virt inperson meetings the final round of interviews will be held at the end of April and we look forward to sharing the new leader of the foundation in early May don't forget to save the date for
the 2025 golf tournament on Monday June 2nd it's an honor to welcome the National Women's Soccer League practice facility and fields to the Cherry Creek School District with my colleagues soccer has been a big part of my family's life my
children all played with Colorado Storm throughout their K12 Cherry Creek educations and my two oldests now play recreational soccer for me soccer came to Boseman public schools and the larger community in the late 1970s my dad was
my first coach and we were the cosmos taking inspiration from the New York Cosmos and soccer great i'd also like to mention we're nearing the end of the 2025 legislative session as director Allen had mentioned and as such I wanted to provide a few
comments about K12 education funding funding remains largely the same as was proposed in HB1 1448 last year with the biggest change around a seven-year phase in not six cherry Creek had a very visible presence at the capital on
behalf of our district and others and I am grateful for staff and students for their advocacy after next year there is a plan to rest of the formula but unfortunately also acknowledgement that Colorado does not have this necessary money this combined with a possible
recession and/or federal funding cuts means we should be prepared for difficult years ahead and to advocate for all students and funding i hope you have a wonderful spring this concludes my comments thank you Director Egan as mentioned earlier my colleagues
and I have the opportunity to for to for with the National Women's Soccer League this new venture for girls and in and sports both on and off the field are crucial for promoting equity confidence leadership and lifelong wellness over the years parody in sports has made
significant strides thank to thanks to title nine and tireless efforts of advocates for pushing equal access and recognition this weekend's last weekend's final four had record eyeballs watching young women
from across the country play basketball today's girls not only compete at the highest levels but they're also stepping into roles as coaches officials administrators and sports media professionals these opportunities help break down stereotypes build resilience and prepare young women for success in
all areas of life while there's still work to be done the progress made reflects the growing recognition that sports are for everyone and that inclusion benefits individuals and communities alike i recently had the pleasure of arranging a tour of the Cherry Creek Innovation
Campus for a group of engaged voters from Heather Gardens who also hosted information sessions for our Milan bond initiative the innovation campus is a state-of-the-art facility where students gain hands-on experiences and trades and indust and earned industry certific certifications the voters provide the
the campus provided an inspiring glimpse into the future of education and workforce readiness our Heather Gardens constituents were able to see firsthand how they support directly how their support directly impacts the opportunities available to students from advanced manufacturing labs to culinary
arts and health science classrooms it was a meaningful opportunity to showcase the return of their investment and the tangible benefits our students receive thanks to their commitment to education senior citizen voters are an essential group for school districts to engage with because they typically have high
voter voter turnout rates and often play a key role in the outcome of local elections including those involving school funding measures and elected officials and mil and and initiatives like meal levies meal levies and bond initiatives even if they no longer have
children in the school system many seniors about the quality of school education the strength of their community and the value of their property which is closely tied to the reputation and success of neighborhood schools building strong relationships with senior voters helps school districts foster trust demonstrate
accountability and show how educational investments benefit the entire community not just students that concludes my report thank you superintendent Smith is not here will you be doing comments on his behalf i have brief comments uh for those of you
who don't know me my name is Dr jennifer Perry i'm the deputy superintendent i will be reading a comment but I feel like I should add to your comments about uh soccer i too my dad sponsored our team we were the little bits we were not the Cosmos because my dad was part of an oil field um company and so uh I don't
know if you can explain to six-year-olds what a bit is but we were the little bits um I have a few words um from uh Superintendent Smith he would just say he wanted me to share that first we would like to thank the West team for hosting us tonight and we'd also like to congratulate hot off the presses uh
principal Monica Garcia who has been named now a new director of human resources that was sent to the community uh just this afternoon and so congratulations to Monica uh but Chris shares "I want to sincerely apologize for not being here in person tonight like many of us at my age there are
times our aging parents need us to be with them this is one of those instances i always preach family first and tonight I needed to take my own advice i appreciate everyone's understanding." So I'm sure we all um send our thoughts uh towards Superintendent Smith with that
um if we are ready for the presentation I will introduce our chief of student health Miss Michelle Winerro as she brings her team up to um share all that we are doing with her departments good evening good evening board of directors uh
minimized um thank you so much for allowing uh me and our team to to speak with you tonight about their work um you always we always hear that the students are the best part of our our time here together and today was no
different um our high school student who talked about being vulnerable and being present um really spoke to me and I think it probably spoke to this team as well because this is the work we do um is to be present for students vulnerable with them and and
with each other um so that we can really see them and hear what they need and so uh we're just grateful for our time with you today um you know and and anyone who's here who doesn't know this is obviously brand new to to our meetings
but we are rooted in these five core values and as every team does um uh I also wanted to thank uh director Egan for for talk for shouting out our work um earlier in her comments that's that was really important and and meaningful
to this group um and and to Dr perry and and others who pointed out that health and well-being is one of the three pillars of our strategic plan that is uh pretty neat for us we are we don't take that lightly and uh we have really dug into that work and I'm super proud that
our team uh is not only represented in the health and well-being work but also on the disproportionality work as well because uh we do want to make sure that all of our students are seen across the board and the through lines that we have seen from literacy to health and well-being and disproportionality are
really market and and and important to this group so before I hand it over to them to speak to you tonight I do want to um just acknowledge um who's here with me and and they're going to come up one at a time to speak about their work jennifer Ellerbrook our director of health services wave if you can behind
me guys because the chair is taller than me um Nicole Maher assistant director of health services working with our student and family um resources and engagement andrew Russell our fairly new but not so new director of mental health jay McQueen our assistant director of mental
health Linda Keley who could not be here tonight as our assistant director of Medicaid grant and Christy Jang my executive assistant and the person who holds us all together every day all day thank you for being here and thank you for what you do every day okay and with that I'm going to turn this over to my
team good evening everyone thank you for letting us be able to have the opportunity to speak to you about our work and everything we do here for students again as Michelle mentioned I'm Jen Ol the director of health services and I just want to take you through a couple very brief slides of the work
that we do and share from there so one of the biggest things with our health services department is we do support all of our health clinics with our nurses health leaison and students throughout each school community we do and I'm so proud
and always thankful to everyone in this room as well as our board that we are able to have a nurse in each of our K12 buildings to support student success when we started looking at whole well-being and the importance of that pillar one of the biggest things that came to light as we consistently see is
that it's not just about one intervention one day our students have to be able to walk through those doors every day with whatever happened before and whatever is going to happen after each school day and so wrapping around and how we envelop them to be able to have that success is really important to us when we looked at that this year we
recognized that there really are two very identifiable branches within our health services department and so we did branch in the sense that now my assistant director actually completely oversees our student family resource section and she'll talk more about that
with you uh after me so we have our clinical operations side as well as our student family resource side and I will say imagine if you will this is one big slide it makes a circle I promise so when we talk about how do we serve our student we want to always
remember that every number and every data point equals an intervention outcome and identifies a lip story we don't want to forget that that number does not have a face to that name so when we go all the way from whether they moved here on purpose for our schools or whether they grew up here and stayed
from arrival to welcome our growth mindset to include them equity to have them all attend and have connectivity to be able to have student centric whole well-being with finding their pathway of purpose for engagement and meaningful relationships is all at our core to be able to come full circle where they then
oftentimes choose to stay and create and have their own families to raise because our Cherry Creek School District does encourage our students to succeed however that looks like in their life for their pathway of purpose and how we connect that with every department across our entire system is what values
and matters to us to be able to make sure that from start to finish our students are set up for success and what that means for them we definitely partner across both internally and externally with resources and collaborations our community and connectedness is really important when we're talking about helping that whole
child really access from the time their little eyes wake up to the time they go to bed at night and feeling safe everywhere in between when we look at kind of a little historical viewpoint we definitely spent a lot of this year updating our protocols and processes to asssure that
it was really aligned one of the most frustrating things that we hear is that if it happens at one school but doesn't happen at another and that can really add a barrier to misunderstandings and lack of success and so really aligning how we support students what that looks like in our processes uh this was our
first year with our concussion protocol that really supported all students and not just those on athletic teams in our high schools over a third of our nurses became school nurses which is one of the largest amounts in a district in our state and we also talked about how we support not just our interventions in
the moment for crisis response when it comes to physical health and safety and uh 911 calls and interventions but also how do we make sure that those are limited interactions and um issues that occur for our students during the school day so that they have preventative and intervention care so in wrapping that
with this focus this school year we're looking forward to next school year with every student every day prek through 21 age 21 is what we educate and our partnerships with whole childhole well-being what is our why what are we solving for what are we really looking
at and it's always student centric and how do we best meet their needs within the process and protocols but also what is what is it they're solving for and are we listening to their voice and with that that's why we have our entirely extra branch now officially of student
family resource and I will give that over to our assistant director Nicole Maher hi everybody i'm Nicole thank you so much for having me i'm so excited this is my first time um so we now have the student and family resource team and thanks for Jen for being here to support
me um and so we really combine outreach wellness and location with our McKini Vento team to help serve all students and for those of you that might be a little bit hungry right now because you might have dinner um and so you're having a hard time paying attention like I imagine how a student feels coming to
school trying to access their education and we're really here I mean the students that spoke they inspired me so much tonight um just realizing how much we go through through the course of our K12 education um and so we just want to be here to make that a little bit easier
um so I wanted to give a shout out to a few of our outreach partners and kind of give you some numbers of what we've served so far so in the 2024 school year um we served 8,02 people in the Stride Clinics and so we
have three clinics and one of them is split between behavioral health and physical health um for our immunization clinics that includes Arapjo County Public Health and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment we've given over 700
vaccinations or immunizations um Chopper Toppers they help with all of our dental stuff and they've been into 10 different CCSD schools this year um another new thing that we've piloted this year is having um a company called Cervisios de
la Rasa come into our schools and they help families fill out Medicaid applications and out of all the Medicaid applications they've completed with our families we've had an 85% um success rate in getting families access to health education or um
healthcare access and then with helping to meet the literacy goal in 2030 we found another new great program called I Love Care and they actually just started up this spring and we kind of piloted them this year um but they've served over 400 students and they bring two
optometrists and three support staff into the schools and they actually give out and they have students try on glasses and it's something that if you don't have insurance um that it's completely free and the students can get up to three pairs of glasses even if
they're broken or um they get stepped on or just something like that um another cool thing that we have been offering is um this is thank you to our Cherry Creek foundation i don't know if you've seen this this is a partnership that we have through the
Secore Mobile Market and on the other side the sides come up too as well and there's refrigeration in there and families come and they kind of shop through uh the entire truck and I will tell you in about an hour that whole truck is sold out so I mean it has just
been so wonderful and we try to do that about six times a year um and then another great thing that we've kind of gotten more is about um is thank you to the board for supporting us with our donation drives um I have a few little fun
student stories that kind of have I guess because of the buzz of all of it we've had a Girl Scout troop donate over 200 boxes of cookies to our pantries um we've had a few kids in lie of birthday gifts they've given out snacks to our families um and then King Supers has re
recently partnered with us they had their little disposable bags um and every bag they sold they gave us back a dollar and we ended up earning over $3,000 that went back into our resource pantries and the cool thing that we're doing with that was we're taking the
money um from that and we gave it to the CCIC students to say "Hey help us make some weekend bags for some of our families." And so they came up with recipes and all that stuff so that way they're going to make these bags of food for us so we can give it back to our so
that's pretty fun too um so thank you so much to Secore as well and then this one I'm more on the newer side too um but I know our Mckin Vento team has grown throughout the years um so about back in 2020 we started with a
staff of one and now we're with about a staff of four plus we have two admission staff that help us out um and through that we've been able to identify a lot more students so there was 361 in 2020 and now we're up to 1205 um so I imagine
with how the economy is going and everything we would see more in the future but I really just want to be here to help support that so our resource team is here for all of that and for our future planning I just so much appreciate any support um that
you want to any ideas that you have i'm welcome if you want ever want us to come to like a PTCO meeting or if you ever want to hear a presentation from our team we're just more than happy to help so thank you so much and now I will turn it over to Andrew
good evening i am Dr andrew Russell and and I am a school psychologist by training and a licensed psychologist and uh for the past two months I'm the director of mental health services for
Cherry Creek School District and I'm incredibly proud um and humbled by this this role to um I'm I'm new to this role i'm not new to Cherry Creek i I moved out in 2010 and I apologize to I thought a brief introduction might be
appropriate um moved out in 2010 and I've worked in four different feeders um at all of the schools and most recently as the mental health coordinator for the Eagle Crest feeder area um and again very proud to be in this role it's always nice to know a little bit about
the person in front of you and I also would like to highlight there's so many reasons I'm excited for this work and motivated to to be great and to have a great team in this role but also uh my two daughters who are five and three the eldest of which is going to be uh in our in the schools uh in Cherokee schools as
well next year i want to be great for them as well so I I'm um very excited uh for a lot of different reasons i'm going to be try to try to be brief and for folks who know me that may not be my strong suit but I'm going to do it this time i've got this um there's three kind
of big buckets when we think about the mental health department that we tend to operate in and the first is really around prevention services um then we also think about really the direct mental health intervention services that we provide to students which often happens within the world of special education and IEPs and then we also do a
lot um in the realm of safety and crisis prevention work um there's a lot of a lot of different sort of hats that folks on the mental health team wear and we have about 200 different folks that participate on our mental health team providing these services if we just think about the services that are
provided to students on IEPs alone students that have mental health needs related to um education we're looking at just under 4,000 students right that mental health providers are regularly working with and that's sort of not considering the crisis work and all the prevention work that's done as well so
it's critical we're getting the right people in the right places and I just wanted to take a moment to to reinforce that the work that we do there in terms of placing folks selecting folks is not capriccious it's very intentional um and there's a pretty significant model that
involves a lot of different variables about a dozen different variables to consider when we prioritize how we place students in schools to determine needs this is in elevating and including things related to safety concerns broad student enrollment mental health minutes
uh multilingual needs uh discipline um percentages in schools many things to make sure that the right people get to the right place so we're invested in that and making sure that we hold on to the right people as well um this work doesn't happen without folks that are really strong in in their craft so
outside of the operations piece we talked a little bit about safety as well keeping kids safe is going to come first for us um one of the things that helps inform our practice is going to be data of course um we're we're excited by a new platform that's going to help us be a little bit more responsive to some of
the data some of the metrics that we make use of pretty regularly are um evaluations that we conduct in the moments with students um we call them threat assessments or tapes um and suicide risk reviews for students who might be experiencing some sort of mental health crisis so we track these numbers um o over the years and
unfortunately because the Salesforce platform is newer to us we're not looking at time series we're looking at bar graphs um but generally what we see isn't too too much outside of the window of the norm we we do see a slight increase in some risks in the middle school level um for suicide risk reviews
for the most recent um semester one other aspect to safety that was included in 2023 um inclusion of student support plans and safety plans and these are really intended to um meet the needs I think for folks to have a level of
transparency around safety to make sure that we have consistent language and consistent planning for students no matter where they're at in our district this arose from some safety concerns um related to u shooting at East High School and increased core requests that we saw and also the need again for that transparency so um since that was
developed uh we've created over 2,000 safety plans to help keep kids safe in schools as well and one last aspect related to the practice that we have and I'm particularly proud of this um having watched the department um grow and evolve over time the last five or six
years I have really been impressed to see um the level of partnership that we have really intentional strategic partnerships um with community agencies with state agencies um with a whole variety of private practices as well to really meet the needs um that might sort
of exceed what we would do um in a school setting um there's just a few examples of these from individualized supports and group therapy supports um different um educational programming supports one that I would highlight in particular um I heard uh Nicole speak to the Cherry Creek Schools Foundation i
think we're really privileged with that partnership um and it helps us to really um connect students and reduce barriers that might prevent families and students from getting access to very particular needs that might be related to trauma needs or financial barriers
they help to overcome those cervisio Sarasa is one such group um that provides really really great art therapy in several of our middle schools and high schools so we're very privileged to have that partnership i won't take up any more time but I'm going to pass the microphone to assistant director Jame
hello everyone it's a pleasure to be with you tonight so in my role as the assistant director of mental health I focus a great deal on our preventative and universal measures as well as some of our more targeted interventions so first I'd like to talk
with you about Hazel Health we entered a partnership with Hazel Health about two and a half years ago and we've excited to say that over 741 students have engaged in services just this academic year i also think it's helpful to talk
about the reasons why students seek support from Hazel Health which is online teleaotherapy offered for all students K to 12 and available both at home and in school so our top three reasons that students have been engaging
in services this past quarter are feeling sad anxious depressed or withdrawn difficulty expo uh excuse me can't read my handwriting difficulty expressing oneself and
anxiety so I just like to stress that we see variation in this over our reporting and so it's helpful to know and have a pulse on what our kids are struggling with we also have two grants that support elementary schools and these grants have
been particularly helpful for us to think about not only how we integrate social emotional learning but also how we support traumainformed approaches with our students our first grant was provided to us through the Colorado Department of Education 19 we were part
of a number of school districts that received this grant to provide SEAL specialist or social emotional learning specialist in five elementary schools that you see listed highline Holly's Independence Pton and Village East the
grant has come to a conclusion but I'm very very proud to be a part of a district that recognizes how important this is and it will be continuing next year i'd also like to talk about the Kaiser Thriving Schools RISE grant which stands
for resilience in school environments so we partner with Resilient Futures which is a local nonprofit that works on trauma-informed care focusing a great deal on staff ability to respond to students and their
needs so we've had this grant since 2017 there have been three grant cycles and we've been selected in the last year as an influencer district so there are I think at least 10 districts involved in
the project but we are one of three influencer districts serving and coaching those schools and then finally I'd like to talk with you about one of my passions in this work um what brought me to education K through2 education was a
passion to eliminate disproportionality for students um across academics as well as in behavior and exclusion i've had the pleasure of being on the multi-tered systems of support guiding coalition i've also been a part of the expulsion
task force and I'm now working with the strategic planning team to address disproportionality thank you for your time i'm going to turn it over to Diana Raric good evening i'm Diana Eric and I am the coordinator of social emotional learning for the district had the privilege of presenting the last two years as we
piloted two years ago with eight schools expanded to half the district last year and now are districtwide um and in the fall we had 81% of our uh third through 12th graders and the spring having 78.4%
of that student population um one of the things that we're really excited about and happy to report is that the majority of our schools completed action plans indicating what they're going to be doing to respond to and improve upon areas that um would be would be focuses
for growth and to celebrate and continue to grow those areas where we're strong um one of the and in reflection on the action plans we are one of the few districts the the only one that I know of in the metro area that's doing that where every dis where every building has
to report back to the district what their action plan is from that data so other districts are collecting data but not necessarily doing that um even right here in West I'm excited to report that this school uh raised emotional regulation from the fall to the spring
by 6% with some targeted interventions so specific shout out to Mark back there because I know he leads a lot of that work here along with principal Monica Garcia um another one of our elementaryaries noticed a low sense of belonging reported as favorable um so
the the report again is um we get the reports by favorability and those students that were identified as ELLL in that school were of particular concern so the mental health provider and uh the PBIS coach collaborated collaborated on a
newcomers group and saw increases in connection positive behavior regulated a effect and engagement um so it's a huge success that we hope to expand on and um share with other people with other schools and students next year since our first year uh we have also granted that
these are different specific students because we've had different um numbers of schools participating but we've risen from 41% favorability and I always for those that haven't seen this data before um want folks to understand that there's
five responses students can give and the two higher two highest responses are most favorable are the ones that we classify as favorable so there's typically 20 to 35% that answer in that little range um so we think see that as
a strong celebration going up that much in a couple of years and um certainly an area we want to continue to grow um because we want that to be as high as possible um supportive relationships is even higher uh with our elementary students giving a 92% favorability and
85% of our secondary students giving that and that reflects parent uh peer and faculty um and staff relationships this year we engaged in conversations with um parents at the voices of color meeting as well as student meetings in
buildings and with the superintendent council um to get a more sense of the experience and not just the data um that we get from the survey but some dialogue around what we can do to that and how to be responding at a district level additionally teachers are now getting
access directly for um all of their students so they can do grade level classroom level planning and reflection and lastly when we're looking forward um really excited to continue staff training specifically more to the teachers these first couple years has been really building data literacy at
the leadership level and now we want to focus on that at the classroom and grade level um continue to have dialogue students and provide resources for them and collaboration with them as well as potentially create some kind of PSA to help them see um how that's circling
back to them um and then with collaboration between uh the strategic planning team thinking about um those those three targeted priority areas you've heard about and the MTSS framework so that when we do walkthroughs in schools these action plans are alive and they're not just a
document that leadership looks at you know right when they get the data and then one or two other times a year but it's really something they're reflecting on continuously with their executive directors so thank you so much i'll pass it back to Michelle Wro for questions it's kind of disingenuous for me to say
I'm happy to take your questions because I am but then I'm going to pass it off to them when when you need good thank you Director Allen do you have any questions um so you don't have to pass it off because I'm just going to give you
compliments to your whole team um thank you for your dedication to our all of our kids and we can't be excellent if kids don't feel well or if kids don't feel seen or heard and you address those needs every day um as always and I'll never stop saying it thank you to our
district and for you Michelle for pushing the continued importance of a school nurse in every school personal you know my mom was a school nurse and and I I saw how how important that was um so So thank you
for that um and the um I I'm also so grateful you know having this position being able to talk to lots of people that I wouldn't otherwise um and having some really important conversations about mental mental health and student health and
being able to point um really parents that don't know where to start to just check out the Cherry Creek website on on mental health have you looked into Hazel Health and just having those resources so readily available for parents that are
so overwhelmed by the process is amazing so thank you and I appreciate the time that you took to answer my questions on the study session which is when we do the deep dive and that's why um I I so appreciate coming here prepared and and um educ your ability to educate the the
public the way you've done us so thank you whole team thank you Director Egan yes thank you hi and I'm proud of you and your team for all the work that you've done and it's important it's It's very
challenging work I know and occasionally incredibly heartbreaking work so I really appreciate all of you and welcome Andrew and Nicole to your first board meeting i know it won't be your last so thank you for being to all of you i am
glad that you mentioned Michelle the MTSS and for those of you who don't know what that stands for it's called um multi-tiered systems of support so I don't know if that was I think it was in there but anyway just um clarifying that nice to see
disproportionality addressed in that so across all levels so thank you for that and then I think you know just again I've mentioned before the sense of belonging i know that we want to continue our work on that and that we those numbers are up
and that they are up also in comparison to the nationwide average but I know that we're continuing to lean into that work and um spend time on that so I just wanted to end with something that I had mentioned that I went to that conference
and it was so interesting this is a new way for me to look at this that I hadn't thought about before mental health is not the same as mental illness which was so and it's so obvious but it was that was an interesting seminar that I went to kind
of hear it addressed that way as well because oftenimes I do think we kind of the two that was an import to take away but thank you and thanks for being here thank you thank I do have a couple questions so
when you talked about the school that experienced a 6% um increase in self-regulation what were some of the things that the school did i regret I don't always know every intervention or um strategy that schools
are using and but I am aware that one of them was um just direct instruction around emotional regulation okay and so recognizing emotions and then how do you regulate them if you want to shut them you just kind of pointed that out to to students on how to um just techniques
they can do to to selfreulate use some of the playbooks from the panorama um playbook sure platform um I don't know if there were others oh you guys want just a couple of additions too um one of the psychologists that um had
participated in some of that is is now on our leadership team as well so we have the privilege of of getting to hear some of that firsthand um I know that mental health and counseling it's my understanding worked um with teachers to modify some of the playbook strategies as well so to customize a little bit of
some of the offerings based on what the data looked like here um and I I also understand there were a lot some listening tours a number of student focus groups so finding ways to integrate student voice to say what would that look like here that seemed to have a pretty pronounced impact um on some of that data that was my
understanding to just add thank you then um I have just kind of a a generic question asked this before about just um um I was uh two at a session this is several years back where they talked about um the issue of uh homeless youth
in our McKenna Vento uh families and they just basically talked about if you are on a sofa or in someone's basement for a long term that you are considered homeless and I know we don't always consider you know if we have a relative living with us or if there's um you know
a teen you know a friend that always is over at your home that those people can be considered homeless as well can you talk about that um that big leap that we had um in the past few years and identifying it's like almost four times
um the rate that we have normally yeah i mean the the Mckin Vento standards are a set a set federal standard and so our entire population goes through a reertification our current McKini Vento population goes through a reertification
process by our own team every year at the very end of the school year into the start of the summer so like May June is that time and so that's when we we confirm or reconfirm their living situations whether they've left i mean
we usually know when they leave our district or leave the state because of the team who's working with them to provide services but in terms of those who are have been at a status quo through the school year they have to go through a read a certification process and then along the way through
throughout the course of the year the team tends to unfortunately but fortunately identify new uh qualified students and families to to um to add to the roles and and it really is just a a
process of what has you know the world over the last four years with the pandemic and other factors the rent and and and all the factors socioeconomic that you could bring into it are the primary drivers um for that in
our community like rent or employment or is it does it vary i I think it's always multiffactored we we almost never have a family who has just one reason okay well again thank you for all you do um as a mom in the district I'm a witness for um
the need for school nurses and um have helped my family out immensely and um I also am all wherever I go I'm a proponent of mental health care um mental health care is health care and so I get annual visits everyone in my house gets annual visits and we are not
ashamed of that um because your leg is broken you'll fix that if your brain or your feelings are broken you should fix those too so um just again thank you for the work that you do and um keeping keeping all of our kiddos in our community healthy and safe we are very grateful for your ongoing support so
thank you back thank you are there any additional questions okay it is at this point in our meeting that we take time for members of the audience who have completed the online public comment form prior to 12:00 noon today to address the board of education in
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carefully on behalf of the board I want to thank you in advance for your comments and for taking time to come to tonight's meeting mr koig do we have any speakers signed up for this evening we do not president Garner thank you i'd like to call for a
motion consent agenda yes i'd like to call for a motion i'd like to call for a motion for the amended consent agenda approval for motions the motion to approve oh wait a minute let me start all over
sorry i'd like to call for a motion to approve the the consent agenda as amended and do I do I need to remove read the the removed items these are the Yes i would just identify the specific
resolutions that remain that are being approved so that the record is clear okay all right all right thank you so I'd like to call for a motion to to approve the resolutions 25.4.1-25.410 Resolutions 25.412 through
25.417 and resolution 25.419 419 so moved is there a second second roll call please directors Allen i egan i garland
i motion carries now we're just Okay thank you our next our our next business meeting is Monday May 12th 2025 at 7 PM located at Laredo Middle School 5000 South Laredo Street in Aurora
Colorado i'd like to call for a motion to adjourn the April 14th 2025 meeting move to adjourn is there a second second roll call please directors Allen I egan
I garland i motion carries our meeting is adjourned