I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Next item on the agenda is public
comment. School patrons are given the opportunity to address the school board regarding items that are not on the agenda. All patrons will be asked to state their name for the record. While the board appreciates feedback from the public in this forum, board members will not comment on or discuss topics brought
up by speakers at this time. Is there anyone here for public comment? Anyone here for public comment? Anyone here for public comment? There being none, we will move on to our program review tonight, which is the
activities director, Megan Chadton. Rachel, did the remote work? >> It started to and then it stopped. So, it could have been operator error. >> I'm here for your backup. >> Okay, I'll just give you a signal. All right. Well, good evening board members
and Superintendent Shane. I'm very excited to have the opportunity tonight to just kind of give you a brief update on activities um and a snapshot of where our year is currently and kind of where we are going. So just um a few a few kind of updates
here. In August we hosted PCA. They came in and did a workshop for our district coaches. PCA stands for positive coaching alliance. And this was a workshop just for our coaches to kind of network together, but also talk about some of the um main elements of the PCA
workshops. And so things like um positive interactions. So I'm just going to give a very specific example that is kind of actionable for our coaches to be able to use is that once you give kind of a like a feedback or a criticism or a critique, it really should be matched
with five positive um interactions. And so helping the coaches just to understand how you can build that into your practice, how that can be something that is um whole team, not just the coach interactions. And so I think that was a really great experience for our coaches. We got a a lot of really great
feedback for that. Uh and so we're looking forward to being able to kind of implement that across the board. Just last week I was able to take 10 10th graders to the Wright County Conference Leadership Summit. Um this is something that is in conjunction with the other um Wright County Conference schools and so
they got to kind of intermingle with some different peers uh from different sports, different schools across conference. This year they had Greg Bergie come in who is the principal at Lake City and he's also uh is the head boys basketball coach there, but he does a ton with his leadership kind of
consultation business and uh the kids really enjoyed their time. They got a lot of really great feedback from that and so that was fun to listen to them kind of on the on the bus ride back to see what they can bring back to Delano and help implement with our team. Um in September we hosted Hans Skullstead a
sports psychologist to work with our athletes kind of on mental fitness. Um he came in and presented to any of our athletes um in all three of our seasons were welcome to join that. And then the last one is just a little bit more logistical. This is the first year of
our section realignment with the state high school league. So you might notice that our teams while most of them stayed in the same section. There are some different competition or some different teams that moved in or out. The biggest difference in that section realignment is girls tennis moved through to a
threeclass system. So instead of being with the Prior Lakes and the Eden Prairies and the Wisettas of the world, um we are with schools that are a little bit more matched to us in class two. So that's just something to uh look forward to there. Our
participation numbers this fall have remained fairly steady from previous years. We're at 320 and that does not include participants in the fall play just because we are just getting rolling with auditions and getting the the um crew and the cast of that decided. Um
while the numbers remained steady, we did have a few programs that were impacted a little bit with the dynamics of 9th grade governance. So, we did drop the JV girls soccer team for this year due to registration numbers. Um, this new ninth grade governance requires that
um what used to be kind of the makeup of the C teams um could no longer participate non-MSHSL teams and MSHsl teams. So, we had some of those younger kids elect to continue to play club um and then will join us as they get a little bit older. So, um, while numbers
remained the same, it just was a a little bit interesting, um, switch to previous years. So, new for this year, um, something that we were pretty excited about during the 24-2 school year, I kind of took the year to, um, work through all the bits
and pieces. I tried to look at it from a lens of a new student coming in or from a seventh grader. what is the information that they need to know about activities and combining that into one handbook. And so our hope with this was to really enhance our communication but also to get some alignment across our program. And while a lot of the
information we compiled was things that were, you know, here or established previous to me, there were some new things and then there were some things that we were just able to clean up that maybe have changed. And so that now is um posted on the website, a version for our families and our students, which is
just kind of a short one. And then we also have a a much longer, much more detailed one that is available to our coaches. And it's anywhere from um how our programs are outlined, if it's a 712 program, if it's a 912 program, and then all the way in depth to um how many
registrations for the coaches clinic do we pay for. Again, just really hoping to kind of um have that alignment across our programs. And then taking it one step further in 2526, I've asked all of our head coaches um to come up with a handbook just for their programs. again to really enhance that communication and
I think that that was wellreceived at our fall pack meeting. So that's exciting. And then this next one um has been really kind of a fun endeavor. Last year we really tried to ramp up our presence on social media to highlight our student athletes and our programs and the incredible things that these kids are doing. And so I've teamed up
with um Jen Kasin has been a rock star and she's kind of taken the lead on starting a student sport photography group. And so then that group is called the backpack squad and they are providing me with pictures from the different events. So we've got students highlighting students that we get to show all of their work which has been um
a lot of fun. Um Miss Waramager over here sent me quite a few pictures last year as um a member of the yearbook staff and so that's been really fun to be able to kind of have those connections um there. So looking ahead, we've got two things
on the list here. As um the school board and the district continues our site improvement plan, activities department specifically is completing an action card um based on a formal evaluation for our head coaches. And so, uh, we're going to work in connection with our
activities advisory group, with our different head coaches, with our admin to put together what that process might look like, what that formal rubric looks like, so that we can start implementing that with our fall coaches and then um, go beyond that. um as a as a result of the activities advisory committee
earlier this week as well, we'd like to continue um kind of looking at what ways we can introduce or continue to develop a relationship with a sports psychologist um or just their availability to be able to work with our student athletes. We train strength, we talk about nutrition, we talk about
practicing and getting our reps in. Uh it's important that we or we uh address that mental fitness as well. And so how can we do that as a program through grants or through um we've kind of teamed up with the boosters but looked at a few different opportunities financially
>> questions for me >> as a board. Are you needing help with relationships between coaches and athletes and coaches and refs and refs and parents and parents and coaches?
>> Um, I feel like I've read about a sportsmanship policy that is in Minnesota at other schools. Would that be of interest or is that a need in this town? um to continue to promote sportsmanship on a little bit more formal level. Is that kind of what
you're after? I >> think it really lays out punishments is what it does. >> Sure. Sure. >> Deterrence. >> So, >> in a very general question, this is what we could actually help with, right?
>> But I don't know if it's needed or you know what I mean. >> Yeah. I certainly think it's worth discussing just what are some different ways that we can maybe be a little bit more proactive. Um, and if we have to be reactive in what avenues do we have? I don't know that it's necessary now, but
like I said, it would be a really good just if nothing else brainstorming conversation to look at. Yeah, >> it tends to, you know, I really like the idea because it gives
our practitioners uh a little bit more teeth as far as expectations of behaviors, participants, parents, and everybody else. But it, you know, it every once in a while things pop up and and you get some not so happy parents or a group of
parents. But I think if you look at the entire spectrum of the number of parents that have students that are involved in activities, whether it be the arts, the e the academics, or athletics, I don't know if we're quite there yet, but it's definitely worthy of to investigate. And
uh I know the board has talked about this from time to time before. Um, we we want to make sure that this is something that we all have a privilege to enjoy and let's make sure that we act accordingly and enjoy that privilege. It
>> feels like each coach having their own handbook prior to the season is a really good idea. This is new, right? >> Yeah. That could literally here are my rules to my team, right? Yeah. There's been a few times already where they've been able to direct parents immediately
back to the handbook or to that pack meeting of, hey, this is already something that's been discussed and this is how we're going to move forward with it. Anything else? Thank you. >> Right. Next item on the agenda is the consent agenda.
This is the section of the agenda with the variety of financial reports and the minutes from um a motion to uh the consent agenda. >> Depist any discussion? All those in favor?
>> Any opposed? >> Motion carries to approve the consent agenda. Next item on the agenda is the resolution for the acceptance of gifts. Following organizations have designated
funds uh for the following purposes. Charities aid foundation $44 for the Delano Elementary School. Delano Education Foundation $2,500 for Delano Elementary for intermediate school step program. Ohio Pile Prince $75.37
for the Delano High School and the United Way $500 for the Delano ECF. All of these organizations have generously donated their funds as we put it to the district, the Delano Public School District. We appreciate their donations.
This is a Do I have a motion to approve first? Okay. Baker first. Do I have a second? >> Just first. >> Just first. I'll second. and Baker second. This is a roll call vote. >> Board member Roser. >> I.
>> Board member Deppa. >> Hi. >> Board member Baker. >> Hi. >> Board member Gerky. >> Hi. >> Board member Shouse. >> Hi. >> And board board member Moraya. >> Hi. >> Carries. Resolution of gifts. Next item on the agenda is the personnel report.
Um the report is a little um lengthier than usual. This is the time when all lane change requests are um submitted. There are three of note. Uh Nicole Gman, Megan Popc, and Rachel Matthews have all
uh achieved their master's degrees, which is exciting for them and appreciate all their extra work to get to that level. And they're another um 11 oh no wait more um up to 20 total people including those three. So 17
other individuals who have moved to different lanes all in the um supporting the education and furthering their own education. So appreciate them for all that they are doing. Do I have a motion to approve the personnel?
First motion by Ryan. We have a second >> second by Jim. Any discussion? All those in favor. >> Any opposed? Item motion carries. Personnel report. Next up is administrative reports. First up is
supervisor Shane. >> Thank you ladies and gentlemen of the board. I'll be very very brief. Uh we do have some bigger presentations from other administrators uh that will be talking about their uh improvement plans uh that they have in the buildings. We usually did all of the sites on the
month October. It became the the longest board meeting of the year. So, we've decided to uh to split that up between this month and next month. I just wanted to just a very very brief update. I will be giving more information um at the next school board meeting, but uh our
task force for the community ed building did meet uh with our the city administer Phil Kern and so we talked a little bit about just finding more information out from a perspective of the city and still very open to looking at that. Um, Phil's
going to take about the next two to four months to have more purposeful conversations with the city council. Um, he's going to potentially look at options of where are the needs of the city and the needs of the district and where could they potentially converge to
be one of our options as we look at the future of the community building. So, uh, just very preliminary, we had that meeting last week. Um, this week we, uh, this week or next week, it's one of the two. I think it's this week. uh we'll be meeting with representation from W
architects and engineers just to continue to fill that IROD document up and and add more information, add more uh possibilities. So I I should be prepared by next month to come back to the board um to just move forward with
uh some more information. Um we won't be tied down to any timeline. the board's agreed not to put any specific time frame involved, but knowing that we need to, you know, continue to move and and and start working on this project. So, that's where we're at as an update
there. Um, and the other thing is is uh Monday, a week from today, the school calendar committee will meet to talk about the 2627 school year. And Miss Dulkkey is graciously going to be taking that over and running that. And so we
should be uh starting the preliminary stages uh of the school calendar. Um noted as Jason mentioned in last month's meeting, we do have and it is reflective now in your board policy and the second read I believe is going to be either it
was last month this month is that we can start on September 1st. Now um it's interesting because September 1st is a Tuesday. the infinite wisdom of the legislature, wouldn't you allow school districts to
start on Monday the 31st? But they said no. And there's a little part of me that would like to influence the committee to say, let's start the 31st and see what they say. But anyways, that's why I'll leave that up to the calendar committee.
But we do have that option because Labor Day next year is so late. But it it it's it's amazing to me um that don't we don't have the opportunity to start on Monday of the week
the week before Labor Day. So >> they put it as September 1st in >> September 1st is in statute. >> Is that correct, Jason? >> I think so. >> Yes, it is. >> It is for this year. >> We didn't want to have a full week. >> Two years. >> Two years. >> Two years. >> And you don't have to start before Labor
Day. And some districts probably will choose uh not to because that's just the way they've always done it. But I think that >> exactly depending on when your breaks are, you can still get out in June, but you're like there will be no winter
break, there will be no spring break, there will be no Thanksgiving break. But um basically it's it's good opportunity to be able to at least start before late break because it's so late over the next two school years. Um, and maybe the the committee will entertain looking at two
school years. Um, maybe >> maybe planning that out, but that will be up to the committee to to discuss that. The other thing is too, I did u meet with Logan and and Brady last week and um the possibility of potentially
surveying students about the school year and when they want things to happen and just kind of do some things. So they might be taking a look at that in the near future and they might even be talking about it later on their reports. But um we just wanted to make sure that when you do put a school year together
we've done enough got we got enough feedback data from our parent constituents just on when we did that all if you remember about a year ago we facilitated that process. But I wanted us to make sure we started sooner rather than later. Districts seem to be moving
this up further and further. It wasn't uncommon when I first started as superintendent that we possibly the board wouldn't even approve a school calendar until March, which nowadays just seems like painfully too late. So, uh, you who knows depending on how the
work goes, might be bringing this to you, you know, maybe in a couple of months work session it quickly and board act on it, whichever it may be. But just to let you know, we're going to be looking at already next year. It seems like we just got started. Now we're going to look at
the next school year regarding a calendar. >> Why is it that Wonia started August 25th? >> Got probably a major building project in statute. If you if you have a building project that's $400,000 or more, you
automatically can start before. So back in our construction days, we started before Labor Day and and ended very quickly in May to have the the biggest window to do construction work. >> That concludes my report for this
evening. >> Next up, uh principles, Miss Thompson. Evening ladies and gentlemen of the board. Thank you for having me this evening to present to you for the intermediate school about what's been happening with us in the month of September. Um obviously the most
exciting thing is that we have kids back in the building. Um so our first couple weeks at the intermediate school, our focus is on just teaching those schoolwide expectations um and learning routines. But something new that we did this year was our fourth graders started um with meet the teacher days. similar
to the elementary school. Um we haven't done that in the past. So we did that this year for the first time. Um we got some really positive feedback um from teachers just in feeling like that was a better way for them to get to know their kids and their families. Um and then we'll be sending some survey um a survey out to parents to see kind of their
thoughts on how that went. But overall it felt like a nice way just to welcome families to the building. Um it's an interesting setup for us because we do also have students in session. So it's not really the same as the elementary school. there's not the freedom to move around the building. So, there's some logistics there to work with. Um, but it
was in general just a nice way to start the year, I thought. So, we'll get some feedback from parents on that as well. Um, for our sitebased team this month, um, we just met to kind of debrief thoughts on workshop week, thoughts on the first week of school. Um, we talked a little bit about workshop week and
just, um, appreciating the amount of time in classrooms. We always try to prioritize giving staff time to work in their classrooms as much as possible to get ready for the upcoming school year. We added um a district-wide deescalation training for our staff this year that Emily Hilling presented. So um staff
really appreciated that. She had some great information to share. Um we also added some parah training time this year. We had gotten some feedback that um paras are always in need of additional training time also. Um there's a lot of just online trainings and things they need to um do in addition to preparing to work with their
kids and look at schedules. So um just a few things that we added district-wide workshop week to meet some of the needs of our staff. Um for professional development this month we've had our first early release. Used to be late starts and so I'm going to call it that over and over until I get used to it but it wasn't early release. Um our main
focus for that time we have staff still doing the letters training. Um, and then we have a lot of staff working on the new math curriculum. ELA standards are um going to be tested for the first time this year with a new MCA test. So, we just have a lot of curriculum work to do during that time. So, that'll be our
focus this year for our early release work. Um, Monica Kung led a session for our staff on bundling standards and looking at some of those things. Uh, for our MTSS work, uh, we finish our fast testing. Obviously, we do that every September. It's our universal screener that we use to identify where kids need
to fall for interventions. Um, so after they take their test, our MTSS team looks at that data and works to place kids in appropriate interventions. I'm excited to share that as of today, we have a math core tutor. We've been looking for one of those all summer long. So, um, just excited to have some additional resources for our kids, so
that'll be great. She'll be starting later in October. Um, and then finally, I'll just share some upcoming events. We have an exciting week this week with homecoming. Our student council organizes some dress up days for kids. And then on Friday, the high schoolers come on over and we do a fun pepfest.
And our sixth graders won't be there. Our sixth graders will be at Eagle Bluff this week. They leave on Wednesday for that trip, which is exciting for them. So, that's always a fun trip. And it makes our gym less crowded when we have the pepfest. So, I feel like it all works out really well. So, we've got a
big week. It's going to be fun. Um, and just to note on the district calendar, our sixth graders do not have school on Monday to kind of accommodate for that time teachers spent. Um, so that's on the district calendar. Just even if kids don't go to Eagle Bluff, no school for sixth graders on that Monday. Um, and
then we're moving into October already. We've got um conferences coming up. Our theme for the month of October is kindness. So we do things like our kindness and chalk day. We do unity day. Um, and it's hard to believe that's next week already. It's flying by. comments or questions for the intermediate
school. >> Great. Thank you. >> Thanks, Mr. Boy. >> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen of the board. It's a pleasure to present to you the high school continuous improvement plan. Um, obviously we have worked diligently as a sitebased
leadership team to match our continuous improvement plan with the new uh newly adopted strategic plan. So, uh, this first slide here shows you, um, obviously something you're very familiar with. This is the strategic road map that was adopted by the school board
over the summer. Um, and I'm happy to report as you see in upcoming slides, you'll see a lot of alignment between what we're doing at the high school and what has been adopted by the board. So, I certainly won't read through that with you. Uh, you're all familiar with that. Um, this doesn't work, right? Next
slide. Um, the purpose of our plan is continuous improvement. Of course, that's been a motto of ours, uh, ever since I've been in the district. Uh, we certainly want to align our work with the strategic plan. And the the nice thing about the strategic plan is that
it fits nicely with the three goals that have been at place at the high school at least since my arrival um over five years ago. And we have three big goals. Um first and foremost is providing a safe and welcoming school environment. Second is to rigorously challenge our students. And third is to support
individual students needs. These are the goals that I share with our staff uh during August workshops and I've also pres presented these to all of our students and asked them to partner with us in pursuit of these three goals. So safe and welcoming environment rigorously challenged student thinking
and then supporting individual ste student needs which I think if you were to go back in the slides which I don't think we need to do but if you were you would see a lot of alignment between the strategic directions and our high school goals. So that brings us to our action cards and here is just an overview of
the five that we have um at the high school level. Um you can see the fifth one there, activities. Uh Miss Chatterton during her activities presentation already spoke about coaching development and evaluation. So I'll focus on the first four and just talk about where we're at in terms of
our stage of implementation, but then also what some of the major action strategies are. Feel free at any time to ask questions or interject uh if you have thoughts or comments. First one is seventh and eighth grade class meetings. So this is kind of in
that um realm of safe and welcoming environment. Uh we've noticed over the past couple of years that um a lot of discipline incidents have occurred kind of in that seventh, eighth grade, and even nth grade band. Um, so we wanted to
really focus on instilling the Tiger Way with our students, particularly in seventh and eighth grade. And the reason we're focused on seventh and eighth grade, obviously those are very important formative years, but it's also um years in which they have their classes all year long. So we can steal,
if you will, some of their wind time to um to facilitate some of these class meetings. This is in change management. Um, which means that we're we're in the business of doing this right now. Coincidentally, I had our first class meeting this morning. That was with
seventh graders um after lunch. And so, um, each of the months that we host the f uh class meeting, we're going to be talking about a new element of the Tiger Way. So, today was teamwork coincided very well with homecoming week, of course. Um, so we talked a lot about teamwork and in each of our meetings we
talk about or we will be talking about how teamwork, inclusion, grit, excellence and respect are all interrelated themes. Um, the soft skills that are really going to in many ways um, you know, make that student successful in the future. U in addition
to of course the content knowledge and all of those things. You can see on the right hand side there is sort of a vision of completion and then some important action steps. I have coordinated uh very in intentionally with our school counselors um with our
tiger tracks advisors um coincidentally that's another one of our action cards but just making sure that we're coordinating our messages um and in the coming uh days some of our parents specifically our seventh and eighth grade parents are going to receive some
information about what the theme of that presentation was and what some of the talking points were that they can also be reinforced with our students at home. We want to be very intentional about sharing our story and and helping parents to then also make connections with their students at home. So, um
again, I won't read through each one of those action steps for you, but there's been a lot of coordination. Um this is just another important piece that we added in. Jordi Frederickson, our counselor, goes into uh classes monthly or at least almost monthly to reinforce
ideas similar to the Tiger uh way. We have advisory program as well which is our social emotional learning sort of curriculum. Um tiger tracks is going to be another layer but we wanted this seventh and eighth grade class meeting so that all students were getting the same message and getting a cohesive
message about the importance of the tiger way. One of the fun things that we did during our class meeting this morning uh was is I asked um teachers to essentially nominate students or share examples of things that they saw over the course of these uh previous three
weeks uh relative to the Tiger Way. And we actually got to call those kids out and kind of applaud for them and and uh encourage and congratulate them for demonstrating the Tiger Way. So that is action card number one, seven eighth grade class meetings. Closely related to that is the Tiger Tracks induction
program. And I won't maybe go into too much depth with that because I know Mr. Shawberger during the workshop uh or the the work session today talked about that as part of uh the wellness goals that we have as a district. And you'll see I
think as we digest a lot of our action cards, you'll see a lot of kind of uh synergy between them. They're they're all very closely aligned and related. I've noted that this action card is really in the change readiness slashchange management phase of implementation because there's pieces of
it that we are really trying to decipher and figure out uh and plan for but then there's also pieces that we're going to be in the midst of doing uh over the course of the school year. Uh in short, we want a very comprehensive and cohesive induction program to welcome
our seventh graders into the high school. transitioning between school buildings is a um potentially anxiety uh provoking endeavor, right? Um coming into the seventh grade being a 712 high school, there might be a lot of nerves,
right? There's some uneasiness. We want to make that transition as smooth as possible. So, there are uh essentially one half of Tiger Tracks that is geared toward all students. What can we do for maybe a summer play day? um hosting tours, registration information
sessions, all of those things that can be done for the whole group. And then the other piece which is really kind of that readiness piece is how can we identify our atrisisk students that really need some additional support. Um we have aspirations of employing sort of
a big brother big sister type pro program. Um, and so our first step, um, and it might not be listed in this part of the action card because I can only take a a relatively small snippet, but we are trying to identify some sophomores, juniors, and seniors who would be a good role model, good big
brother, big sister, and then provide some training to them so that we're ready to go for next year and we can kind of layer that part of the Tiger Tracks induction program in. I do want to uh shout out to the education foundation because they are sponsoring this program and so our adviserss for
this program are paid for by the Delano Education Foundation. So thanks to those folks for generously supporting this program. Our next uh action card is relative to data-driven decision-making and that's kind of a a broad maybe
somewhat vague term but as you know of course we have adopted uh educrimer as a data warehouse system across the district and we are in the process of change management very closely in coordination with the edge climber action card that our district MTSS team
is managing. So, we have uh mapped out over the course of our monthly early releases to really provide some training to our staff to utilize uh the edge of climber system to make actionable decisions based on the data that we're
seeing. And I know that you have um heard from Katie and Rachel at the elementary and the intermediate school uh before about analysis to action um templates and forms that they fill out when their students have completed their fast testing. We have a very specific
process where we take a look at the data and then make informed decisions about where to go to next. Um we are a little bit delayed in terms of that piece of the data driven decision-m. So, that's where we're going to be putting our efforts this year during our early releases is really kind of taking a look
at the data and what is the data telling us. Um, we kind of covered three action cards real quick. I'll just pause there for a for a moment for questions if anybody has any. All right. Our next action card is rel
uh related to AI policy and strategies. Uh so last year we were fortunate to partner with Groovy Education um during a couple of our uh late starts and we um we engaged in some very powerful professional development related to
artificial intelligence and it's really kind of on two fronts. Number one, what it can do for us as educators and how we can get better and more efficient in our work but then also how can we leverage that with students. Um, as of now, we really don't have district policy
related to artificial intelligence, and we also haven't devoted the time and energy to integrate the application of artificial intelligence into our students experience. Um, we believe across the board at the high school that
our educational program should be relevant for students and Logan and Brady for the rest of their lives are going to be interacting with artificial intelligence. they'll probably be um tapping its power in whatever future professions they choose. So, we need to get better both at understanding it and
applying it ourselves, but then also how can we nurture students appropriate use of artificial intelligence. And so uh Jason actually Jason Monkey is going to uh facilitate our ad hoc committee that's going to be doing a lot of research into um what is out there in
terms of artificial intelligence policy um what's sort of on the cutting edge of strategies and uh in addition to that we are still connected with Groovy Education and they are partnering with us over the course of this school year for sure at least through December and then for interested stakeholders through
the rest of the year in some monthly access to tips and tricks, but also a training portal. Next, and again, um, activities. This is, uh, the action card that Megan spoke about, and this was really about just providing a more cohesive environment to
develop and evaluate our coaches, uh, which as of yet has not really been cohesive. It's not been consistent. So now we're just trying to kind of ground our work with our coaches in the same way that we do our teachers, right? Our teacher development and evaluation program is not it's not just about
evaluation, it's about coaching and support. And so we're basically trying to replicate that in an appropriate way with our coaches. So that is the uh sum of our action cards with our new strategic planning process. So that describes our
continuous improvement plan at Delmo High School. I would be more than happy to answer any questions that anyone has about that or anything else related to the high school for that matter. >> One of my questions around the high school pertains to
last year school year you're working on and it also aligns with your strategic plan but um bringing in college level classes. How is that going? Have you had a bunch of um students interested or is there any? >> Yeah, so we have all of the same college
level courses that we offered previously. We are still offering. We actually this year um this is dating back to when I was starting to talk and present this to you um back in February and March. Um so we are offering sections of college in the schools
algebra. We have increased our college in the schools Spanish to three trimesters this year. Um and this might be year two of college in the school of sociology. Year one. This is year one of college in the school of sociology.
So we have uh offered three additional courses uh with our concurrent enrollment program. >> Great. And have they had a great turnout? >> Yeah. So I think we're offering like two sections of college algebra. Um there's one section that's trime trimeasters one
and two and then we'll have another one start trimester two and three. Um I think we maybe have three or four sociology courses. We have one college in the school Spanish course which has been consistent. So uh we've historically only had well it's kind of
fluctuated between one and two CIS Spanish classes. Uh I think for the last two years we've had one. So we have one again this year. The difference is for Spanish at least is uh before this year it was only one uh two trimesters, sorry. So it was like one college class
that was worth five credits. This year it's three trimesters, but you get two college classes for a total of 10 credits through the U of M for that course. So yeah, >> thank you. Schultz again. >> Oh,
good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board. I'm here to present our continuous improvement plan on more of an overview level for for you all this evening. Um, just to note though uh that every student matters, every moment counts. That's really what grounds us at the elementary school and we want to
make sure whatever it is that we're implementing is touching every student and that it's meaningful and impactful. So that really kind of supports um our work ahead. like Mr. Voit had um shared as well, the strategic roadmap, which you all are
familiar with, aligns directly with the goals that we set forth for our schools. So, you're familiar with this. Um the piece that I think is a driving force for us, you can go to the next slide, Mr. Shane, is um aligning with the district district strategic plan, excuse
me. Um but it's driven by the core values of uh Tiger at Delano Public Schools. So, we want to make sure that we are always striving for excellence, building that teamwork, um the belonging and the grit. And that is for students, but it is also for staff and a lot of
the collaborative groups that we have to meet our goals. All of those things come through when we're working. So, I did just kind of put that key up there as far as um when we're referring to change readiness, change management. It's just nice. It's new terms for us as
well. So sometimes it's like is this readiness or is this management? So it's nice to just kind of have that as the reminder of where are we exactly? Um and sometimes it does seem to fall in maybe one or two categories and the learning work is clearer in that it's that
exploration piece. So we have the aligned data driven instructional practices the structured special ed settings processes and responses and then the curriculum support and implementation for our big action cards. And then oh the learning work initiatives I just think are important
to maintain also we don't have as much of a status bar check for those but that's sort of like what else is out there that we can focus on because those are the two um transitional kindergarten and looking at our master schedule to review that um as I had mentioned in the
work session are would impact some of the action cards. So the align data driven instruction is just really ensuring that we're making decisions based on what we know about the students. How are they performing in reading and math with our screeners and
what supports do we have in place based on what we're seeing the needs are. So obviously we have our goals of what we want and then there's some of the um barriers or maybe roadblocks or things that we have to work around but that's what the staff and the teams that are in
charge of these cards um to get to their fruition are kind of gauging and working on. Uh the instructional practices are a direct relation to how kids are showing up at school, how they, you know, face adversity when things don't go their
way. They want to keep playing, but it's actually time to do some work. How are we going to navigate that? Some of these kids have not been in a school setting until they step foot in and start kindergarten. So, that's a learning curve and that takes patience and it takes some skills and our teachers are
charged with that task as well and they do a marvelous job of that. So, there's lots of different resources out there to support kids. So, we needed to narrow kind of what are we focusing and let's get really good at that and let's find out how we can respond efficiently to those SEAL needs.
and then our special education setting and responses and how we go through systematically shifting kids needs, making changes, if there's adjustments to any IEPs or their setting changes. We need to make sure while providing that data privacy, that everybody that's
working with those kids understand what that means, including the parents, and why we're making these decisions so we can effectively meet the complex needs that they are coming with. And then the curriculum support and implementation we are working with um
Monica Kungal on and just recently at a cabinet meeting we had an opportunity not cabinet alt meeting to um set some quarterly meetings with um Monica Kungl our curriculum coordinator which I think is a really good natural first step in
um meeting this action card goal to have some more open communication of the roles and responsibilities of we have a big curriculum implementation coming. How are we navigating that? What does that look like? Do we have the time, the place, the plan so that teachers feel
ready? Because we've had everyday math for 30 years and now we're getting a new curriculum. So that is going to be great, but it is also going to be new. So teachers have become very familiar with one curriculum and changing to
something new is going to you know just it's a learning curve and so we want them to feel prepared and ready but they are excited about it. Questions? >> I know there's a bit of redundancy here. We talked about this when we were
planning and moving schedules around. Obviously this is a little bit more of a higher level view. you guys had an opportunity as a board to dive deep into it during the work session and take some good time and ask some good questions on how we're doing in each of these action cards. Uh, but this was obviously meant
to just let our public know that you can tell that from each site in each building, you're going to see that alignment. And you're going to see the alignment not only with your governance plan in the four quadrants, alignment of their action cards, the alignment of
whether it's change readiness, change management, or they're still in that learning process or whatever the case may be to move things through the system. And that's been um in my view as as the superintendent is we work together and coordinate all of these to
keep this language seamless is going to be good. And so my hope is when you have this information presented to you, you're going to see similarities. But I know that during the work session you saw a deeper dive, so this was a little bit redundant, but that's for our public out there. Massive
amounts of people that are watching our streaming. >> Thank you. Anything else? Good. All right. >> Sorry, I don't have my report linked. Had it done this morning, but we lost the internet. But just an update. Not
much changed. Um, salaries and benefits for certified staff for the July and August. We're still booked back into last year, but we have our audit coming up on October 6th. So, at your next board meeting, I will have the budget report that you see should have updated
um fund balances for FY25 and then um we won't have a major budget revision done yet for FY26, but that will probably happen in November. But in November during the work session, we'll go through a little deeper dive into 2425,
where we were budgeted, how we ended up, and the differences as to why we were for the discrepancies there. So, any questions? I'll also give an updated enrollment projection at that time or next month as well.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for having me. Um, tonight I'm going to talk a little bit about community education and what the month of September has looked like for us. Um, with having no internet today, we took a little bit of an opportunity to do some cleaning. And I
found these old um, time cards from Heleno. So, they are now our notepads because I think they're super cool. Um, so here's here's my notes. Um, in the last month, it's it's hard to believe that we're already starting our fourth week of preschool and our fourth week of
of before and after school TKC and our second week of early childhood family ed. Um, for the first month for us, we really focus on R&R and it's not rest and relaxation, it's relationships and routines. Uh we have a lot of new kids,
a lot of very young kids, and you can tell they're young kids when the backpacks are as big as they are. Um but they're so proud to carry them in. And so really what we want to do is build the relationship with the kids, get to know them, but more importantly, have them get to know us, get down on their level so that they are comfortable
saying, "Hi, Miss Abby." in the hallway. And so that they're um feeling like they can they can trust and and you know, be excited about coming to preschool every day. Um, you know, I always stand in the hallways those first couple of days and see how many do we
criers do we have? How is it going? And I only saw one mom needing to be carried out. Um, and she's like, "It'll be just fine." And husband was helping her out. But, um, besides that, we had right away after school started, we had a very successful middle school play production
for Annie. Um, if you had a chance to go to it, we are still gathering the numbers, but I went Friday night and there was hardly a seat um, available. It was a it was true testament of the talent that we have in in our school district. So, it was fun to it was very
fun to see. Um, coming up, looking ahead for early childhood family education on October 11th, we have a free fall family fun day from 10:00 to 11:00 at the community ed building. Um, it's for all families with kids ages birth through
five. Familyfriendly costumes, nothing scary, but an opportunity to come and take pictures and do a scavenger hunt and do some crafts and um it really is an awesome event for kids to kind of get into that fall spirit. Even though we're in the mid70s, we know it'll turn colder. So, we enjoy what we can while
we can. Um, also in September, we had our first advisory council meeting, our community ed advisory council meeting, which was fabulous. We had a full attendance. Um, and some of the things we focus on are, you know, for the size of the school district, I really think we can handle a larger community at
advisory council. So, we talked about how how could we make sure that we're meeting our community and we are mirroring our community and bringing in new members. Uh, we talked about some future meetings and really um some ways that the advisory council can be interactive and collaborative, not just
sit and get. So, uh, we have another meeting coming up here in a couple weeks. I'm excited to see where it goes. Um really for me, the last month and the next several months is really kind of about that settling in um and getting to know my staff and doing staff
connections. So every other week I meet with our coordinators one- on-one for an hour each. And it just gives us a time to um talk about goals, talk about struggles, talk about aspirations, um talk about ways that we can um look
backwards and plan forwards. And I think it's extremely important because when I came in, I said my my dedication this first year is to really listen and learn. And this is that opportunity to do that. We have times as groups, but I think it's very important to have times
one-on-one. And so that that takes up a large amount of time, but I think it's it's really what my job is. I'm here to support them and the time that they're here. I can do my stuff um later. So I think it's been going really well and I think it's it's leading to conversations
where we where we're staying curious. We're saying, "What if we try it like this? What if we do something um different or new or um fill in the blank?" But it's it really is for me about kind of that settling in, making sure that we're supporting staff. And we
hired a number of new staff this year. So, not only am I new, but we've got new teachers, new assistants, um, new paras. And so, it's kind of been a team building for everybody. And really what we're we're at the end of the day, we're really trying to focus on our annual
theme, and that is impact. What's your impact? and staff appreciation, student appreciation. Those are kind of at the the core of that. So, we are um going to be creating a whole wall board in one of the hallways that's all focused about our impact. And so, it's going to have
staff bios and um staff opportunities to recognize each other with a shout out. Um and it seems small, but we're going to attach some celebrations to it. But when you think about those little ripples and how they make big waves, when we start with a small number of these and we showcase what it looks like
throughout the the year, we're really hoping for some some big waves. Also, we designed postcards that we can show um students how they're having an impact on us and they're going to get their very own tiger mail um filled out by a staff or a teacher and and sent home. So, they
get to get that in their mailbox. And we're hoping we see some of those come back, too. Here again, um focusing on our impact Um, coming up we have preschool conferences. Like I had mentioned, we have the the fall family fun. We're celebrating this week with dress up
days. I wore a robe, but thought I should maybe uh not wear the robe to the schoolboard meeting. But it was fun seeing little kids come in their in their comfy flows in their pajamas at the same time. It was also preschool pictures. I've seen great pictures um this year. Um one Yeah, it's always fun.
It's always fun to to look at them and you know, oh, there's a dinosaur. At the same time, you've got pearls and headbands. And so, it just kind of it's all over and we love it because you can always tell when they're so excited. Um, as a closing, I'm I'm going to say that
as we talk about themes. Um, I'm excited to share that TKC, our school age care coordinator, Rachel Wallace, thought of an amazing idea for next summer for Tiger Kids Club. The theme is all going to be about the 150th birthday um of download. the Suskin Centennial. Um, so
she's going to focus everything on on local on on railroads, on history, on um, you know, the different aspects of Delano and really just appreciating where we are in the community that we live in. So, I'm super excited to see what that brings for the summer and and
those kids and the ways that we can collaborate with the the Suskin Centennial Committee, um, the city and I hope I'm saying that right because being recorded, it's got to be close. the 150th. Um, we're excited to see where that goes. Any questions for me tonight.
>> All right. Thank you. >> All right. Next up for the first report of the school year from Logan and welcome Brady May. >> Yeah, it seems like it's been a short three months since I saw you guys last. Um, in these first few weeks, Brady and
I have gotten the chance to collaborate for the first time. and welcomed Brady on the school board. Um, we got to meet with all three principles at the elementary. We continue to um collaborate with our NHS and our elementary students. I know last year we
had a spreadsheet that um Westfall helped us organize and although she's not in the classroom anymore, she sent me that. So, we're continuing to revamp that spreadsheet and continue to collaborate with the elementary and NHS members. We just really our goal is to
keep a really open line of communication if elementary schooler teachers need anything at any time. They can hopefully we can be the first ones that they reach out to. Um with the homecoming celebration coming up, high schoolers are really excited. It's it's fun to hear high schoolers almost fight with each other about who gets to read in
what classroom and see oh my little siblings in this one and my little cousins in this one. So that's always it's really fun time for us to be able to go back to the elementary school and you know give back in that way of just reading. Um, up at the intermediate school, we're excited to continue our collaboration with the student council.
They have a really strong and really impressive student council at the intermediate school. Um, honestly, nothing like we have at the high school. So, it's it's cool to be able to go down and just honestly interact with those future leaders of the high school. Um, continue helping them with anything they
need. I know as Miss Thompson mentioned, they have some fun homecoming festivities that they plan this week in terms of selling goodies and tiger pride and all that. Um, I've heard from a lot of seventh graders and some seventh grade parents that the transition from
sixth to 7th went pretty well. Um, I joked around Miss Thompson, there was no crying seventh graders I saw in the hallways at all. So, that's always a good sign. Um, and like Mr. I mentioned we were hoping sometime in the next few weeks to almost do a survey
slashquestnaire of the seventh graders. We're not thinking that it's going to be super like survey sent out in email, but maybe just going around lunch and kind of just asking the seventh graders, interacting with them, what went well with your transition? What did you not so much like? Were there some nerves? Were you
confused? just kind of a conversation to get that kind of plan of communication open and also just to welcome them to the building and check in and see how they're doing. Um, in terms of the high school, Brady and I got the opportunity to send out a survey to our high school students. We're still trying to collect
that data and kind of get a like spreadsheet of all of our results. So, we're hoping to present that to you guys next month at the meeting. Um some of the general things that we saw from it so far were um notes on advisory, notes on school lunch obviously. Um and then a
few comments on how they liked the early release instead of a late start. So it's good to get positive feedback on that. Um other than that, homecoming week for the high school is in full swing. You see the hallway hallways decorated. That was done by our student council at the high
school which is pretty cool. And lastly, we had a meeting with uh Mr. Shane and we went over kind of just our goals for this year. Um like he said, we are hoping to gather a group of students and get their um feedback on the calendar. Um he brought to our attention that
we've done parents and family surveys in the past, but we've never really checked in on students. And I think it is really important to get some student feedback on what they want their schedule to look like, seeing as though we're the ones in school. So, we're hoping to get that organized and um report those findings
back to Mr. Shane. Um overall, Brady and I are kind of still in the brainstorming um part of what our goals and what our focus is this year. But if any of you board members have any um feedback or input on what you want to see from us this year or any main points that you
want to want us to focus on, we'd love to hear them. Any questions? Thank you. >> Right. Next up, board reports. First, Mosiko. >> Yeah. So, we had our August Masiko
meeting and as usual, it's a low kind of uh it's not that busy of a time preparing for school. Um finalizing staffing issues, um which is which can be challenging. um
based on the numbers. Staffing has to change based on student numbers. Um so we got a report on where we sit with staffing. Um we actually have our September meeting tomorrow night. So there'll be a more I think uh finalized update on that. Then um we worked
through our executive director goals and approved uh Melissa's goals for the school year and what she'll be working on. Um probably the only um one of they had staff development at the beginning of the year had an all staff meeting um
and a speaker and that was wellreceived. Probably the biggest thing to note financially is um and maybe I've mentioned this before but uh MSCO preills to the member districts for the school year based on predicted
utilization. So that number had been 80 to 85% of the predicted utilization. That got moved up to 90% that was approved by the superintendent and the business managers. So the seven member districts have um paid their 90%
utilization pre- billing. that is in an effort to um soften the cash flow issues that Masiggo runs into as the year goes on because we know that special ed billing sort of
runs in hindsight. So, um it's important that of course it goes without saying that MSO can pay its staff and maintain its cash flow throughout the school year. So that number was like I said approved and has been um paid and is I
know appreciated by the financial staff of Maso greatly. So yeah we have our next meeting tomorrow night. Any questions? Sarah if I remember right I'm not sure if they're >> we had a first time we didn't have five
members available so we had no meeting. So we will have a double meeting on the 7th. So odd, but what are you going to do? It fell on a strange day. It was like the day after Labor Day or something and people just weren't available.
So, no big deal. We'll have it double meeting next next meeting. >> Uh, under old business, we have um four policies that per second uh review. Is there anyone here for public comment or unpaid meal charges, assessment of
student achievement, literacy and read act, or online instruction? Okay, there being none, we'll move through approving those individually. Do I have a motion to approve uh the second
read of policy 534, unpaid meal charges? Motion by Jess. We have a second. I'll second by. Sarah. Any discussion? All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries to approve
unpaid mail charges. Next policy of for the approval of the second read of policy 618, assessment of student achievement. Uh, do I have a motion to approve this policy? >> Depa made a motion. Do I have a second? SH
uh second. Any discussion? >> All those in favor? I any opposed? To approve the policy 618, assessment of student achievement. Um next policy is to approve the second read of policy
621, literacy and read act. Do I have a a motion to approve this policy? >> Depo made the motion. Second. Second by. Any discussion?
>> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries to approve policy 621. Next, uh the second read of policy 624, online instructions. Do I have a motion to approve the second read of this
policy? >> Sh made the motion. Do I have a second? >> Second. Baker. >> Second by Baker. Any discussion? All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries to approve a second read
of policy 624. On to new business. The first item of new business is the approval of the two 2025 pay 2026 property tax levy. We discussed this briefly in work session. Mary.
>> Yep. So, this is the document that will be approved and signed by the board tonight. It just lets um the county know that we're going to max the possible levy certification that would be available to us. And so they'll work on getting that all finalized before the
final date in December that we will approve at the board level on December 15th. But there's just two. This goes in as the proposed and then the final goes in in December. Do we have a motion to approve uh the
2025 K2026 property tax levy the proposed limitation and certification? >> Jim made the motion to move a second. >> Second. >> Second by Sha. Any discussion?
This is a regular vote. >> Yes. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Option carries to approve the 2025 pay 2026 proposed levy limitation. The um next item is to set the date,
time, and location of the truth and taxation meeting for Monday, December 15th at 700 p.m. here in the Delano High School Tiger Den. >> So that will that will be the program review for the December board meeting. And then later that evening, you'll be
approving the final certified levy. I have a motion to approve the uh date, time, and location of the truth and taxation meeting. >> So moved. >> So move uh for motion made by Sarah. >> Second, >> second by Sh. Lots of excitement around
this. Um any discussion? >> All those in favor? >> Any opposed? All right, motion carries. December 15th for the truth and taxation meeting. All right. The next item is to approve uh a
significant list of first and only policies. Is there anyone here for public comment um for the following policies? Number 205, open and close meetings. 404 employment background checks. 405
veterans preference. 407 employee right to know exposure to hazardous substances. 415 mandating reporting of malreatment of vulnerable adults. 420 students and employees with sexually transmitted infections and diseases and other certain other communicable
diseases and infectious conditions. 424 license status and 508 extended school year for certain students with individualized education plans due to review schedule. Is there anyone here for public comment for those? All right. If none, then we're looking
for a motion to approve the policies that I just listed. >> Yep. I made the motion. Do I have a second? >> Jim seconded. Any discussion? >> I ask you to read those. Okay.
>> Did you need clarification number? >> Um, all those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. Motion carries to approve the policies listed in section 13C. Next item is to approve the first read of policy 210, conflict of interest for
schoolboard members due to substantive changes. Um Jason Monkey presented this during our work session today. Is there anyone here for public comment for this policy? If not, anyone uh I'll entertain a
motion to approve the policy for the first read of this policy. So, uh motion made by Jess. Second. >> Ch the second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion
carries to approve the first read of the conflict of interest for school board members. Last item on the agenda is just is adjournment. Do I have a motion to uh adjurnn? Depa made the motion. Do I have a second?
Made the second. Any discussion? All those in favor? I we are ajourned. Thank you everyone.