okay give me just a minute to find them you looking for the rest of your board yep i know where they are where standing at the bottom of the stairs well i'm calling him maybe i should do a group text jamie lynn was walking down uh
cuz mike may not answer and d was there have you seen marie yep she was standing right next to mike they may not understand here we all get a little discombobulated yep there's marie
we need you for fantastic 49 asap there's dad well if we have to start without some of them we will you're at 60% ah yep we're getting here oh yeah i was listening to him earlier there's another
one four out of five okay so all we're missing is mike the the wayward lamb but this is his own just ask him orchestra sound good
yeah mike's in the restroom fell on my face oh did you yeah i tripped on the cord back please don't bathroom you go out the exit just hello can you guys hear me bathroom in case you need am i good back there okay i know especially
with the cords and everything else yeah hi oh says i am made for gymnastics all right um good evening everyone welcome to the march fantastic 49 presentation my name is kayla maldonado
i am the internal communications manager for school district 49 as well as san creek high school alumni um tonight we have some great nominees we will recognize students and staff who are exceptional examples of how district 49 is the best place to learn work and lead
um for our honores and who nominated them when your names are called please come up to the podium for remarks and then you'll head um to the back to take a photo with your plaque um we ask you to stay for the full presentation so our board members um have a chance to offer you congratulations after before i
introduce our honores i'd like to give a shout out to our sponsors we are always grateful for dion's air academy credit union and texas roadhouse for donating gift cards to our honores our first nominee of the evening is melissa soliss um she is a vista ridge high school student and sky view
middle school cllde intern she was nominated by toby jefferson um toby could not be here tonight so i'm going to read a letter on his behalf but can we get a big round of applause for melissa so um again i'm reading on behalf of toby he said "melissa's contribution to our eighth grade science classroom as an
ambassador of the sky view cllde internship program was invaluable to the success of our multilingual students her ability to build relationships with younger students paired with her personal drive to see them succeed had significant impact on classroom culture
and academic outcomes melissa demonstrated exceptional initiative and dedication to helping mll students in my classroom by seeking clarification on of her own knowledge she constantly assessed her own understanding of the material to eliminate misconceptions or misunderstandings for my students she
took every opportunity to invite spanish arabic and vietnamese speaking students into small groupoup discussions on material instead of one-on-one translation services she translated her role into one that resembled a counselor or a support group no other sky view clld intern has showed
the care that melissa has her ability to build meaningful relationships is outstanding her ability to leverage her personal experience with language barriers gives her a capacity for communication that i can't match and he also included um quotes from some of the students um in the sky view cld class so
i'll read a couple of those um anderson ortiz said "melissa really helped me to understand everything that was happening in science class she helped do the homework and missing assignments she helped on tests to understand what questions were asking so that i had clarification and could get the right answers she is
amazing um maximo martinez said "thank you to melissa for being the way she is with me thank you for helping all of us with everything we need thank you for helping me increase my bad grades you are the best helper." thank you for everything i hope you continue helping me and others do
well in school and lastly isaac himenez said "melissa's helped me a lot to focus on my homework she helped me learn how to solve problems she helped me raise my grades she encouraged me to try everything i could to get them up i am grateful for all the help she gave me." so if we can give a big round of
applause for melissa and if you want to go ahead and read well good evening everybody um i'm melissa i'm i'm very grateful for the opportunity that i was given to be a cd intern at sky view middle school helping
support the multilingual learners in their classes has been an inspir inspiring experience i have learned so much from the teachers and even more from the students before i started started i was very nervous because i didn't know what to expect what to do and how how i would get along with the
kids but all of it turned out better than i could ever imagine it's been perfect and i enjoy the stu um helping the students oneonone and building relationships with them i love that they have learned to trust me and
to share with me about their grades and their personal achievements um being bilingual in spanish has been beneficial because i i understand what students um have been through when learning a new
language and i'm able to connect with them in a deeper way i'm thankful for mr jefferson for recommending me for this award i work with him in science class and we learn from each other we we were both new at all of this and i think we did
great and i'm also very thankful for miss hol she was my cl teacher and now she's my supervisor as an intern and i appreciate i appreciate her for all of her support and everything and i'm thankful for sky view and vista
bridge for giving me the opportunity to do this internship and i would definitely recommend this to any high schooler who wants to help out in our community because um sky has made it more than enjoyable and i really enjoy
uh the time that i did did it well thank you yeah okay thank you melissa our next honore of the evening is claire phillips senior staffing specialist um claire let me grab a piece of paper was nominated by brandy larson and rebecca whitaker
claire went above and beyond to create new staff calendars that are now ada compliant she excels and pushes herself to take on different challenges so if claire and your nominators would like to come up big round of applause for claire all
right hello my name is rebecca whitaker i work with claire in the human resources department and i nominated claire for a fantastic 49 award because she truly is an outstanding colleague and an invaluable asset to the human resources department and to the district
as a whole while she is being recognized specifically for her work in developing the ada friendly calendars for the district she has accomplished many other achievements and projects without receiving formal recognition i have had the privilege of working with claire for
about four years and i'm thrilled to see her finally given the opportunity to stand before the d49 community and receive recognition as the hardworking compassionate problem solver that i have come to know and rely on congratulations claire on your muchdeserved fantastic
49 um i'm britney larson i too work with claire in human resources and again um first of all i just think she did amazing with the calendar this was something that wasn't even in our department and she took it upon herself to come up and create this calendar to
make it ada um compliant so that both or staff students and parents can all have a full school year calendar and like becca said she has gone above and beyond in the last three years that i've worked with her she has significantly
um changed our onboarding sessions for the better and she's always willing to help out and cover all the other staff members um whenever they need help um she's just a fantastic employee and it's about time that she got nominated in
front of the whole community so great job claire thank you you guys make me feel like i just won an oscar award um i'll keep it brief but i do want to say a huge thank you to both brandy and rebecca for nominating me also a thank you to anyone that is a
part of the fantastic 49 committee who decided that it was my time to shine um it's nice to see that individual efforts are being acknowledged and appreciated so this is definitely a gratifying moment for me um so i just want to say
thank you again and i feel that i if i see an opportunity where something needs to be helped and there needs to be a solution i'm going to take that step to make that happen because i'm very driven on that kind of thing so i really appreciated doing the work i did not
expect an award out of it however i am very appreciative to receive the award so thank you thank you claire our next honore for the evening is jay shy horizon middle school par professional he was nominated by st
creek's zone superintendent dustin horus jay is always available for students and staff he stays late arrives early and can often be found spending extra time with students to ensure they are taken care of at all times so jay if you want to come and dustin all right thanks this is really a a zone
nomination i was fortunate enough to be able to work with jay for for several years and and see the impact he makes on students and the time and dedication he has with students but not only that um as it says jay stays late arrives early he also bakes cookies for staff and
leaves those in the lounge and and um he at one time was a crossing guard the other thing is that jay uh five or six years ago uh jay did not want me to mention this he probably doesn't want me to now but since he's retiring i'm going to um five or six years ago he wanted to
donate to our performing arts program at at horizon to orchestra and band and gave me a check for $10,000 that went right to those programs so uh it's time that people know that so anyway thank you jake i thank you for the honor and every
day i go to school i'm honored to work with the staff that you've hired uh from the principal on down it goes they're wonderful people and i enjoy it uh it's reason why i show up early and stay late is so i can spend more time
with them and with the students uh i thank you for this honor and any one of them would be worthy of being honored as well in my mind and so thank you very much right thank you jay and last but
certainly not least um lance carol assistant principal at san creek high school big round of applause for lance he was also nominated by justin horus lance is an involved leader and community member serving san creek students and families he has a heart for
his community and his dedication is beyond reproach lance if you want to come up uh again this is his own nomination so uh lance lance is the the perfect example of of what dedication looks like to a school and and a zone frankly and
and really a district um always here um always willing to do whatever is needed uh lance started uh student climate and culture board at san creek they meet monthly and it's a cross-section of students um to get voices from the entire student body uh to to ensure the
climate culture here is going in the right direction he also leads the swat team um which is a student group and he and he works within to provide opportunities for those students to present to uh to provide sorry professional development at other
schools the wellness summit um principal meetings and different things like that in addition lance um really this could be a lance and his family award because they're so dedicated to this community but um recently lance created a scholarship um in partnership with the
falcon education foundation um show your stripes and the scholarship is going to be awarded to um a senior each year who demonstrates except exceptional character during a time of adversity so lance certainly deserves that for all of his work um lance has had some some
health issues over the past year that he's working through and and admirable how he does that um his dedication shines during that time as well um when when lance didn't know how to take a sick day um and and had to be shown how to do
that so that tells you about lance um he's here every day even days when he shouldn't be i tell him not to be amy tells him not to be um but that's his dedication i think amy wants to say a couple things too so if you want to talk about a a person
and a family who lives and breathes excellence and kindness and generosity and integrity these people are it they are it so all i have to say is you are incredibly important to me i love you you're my brother and i'm proud to work
alongside you i want to be a person who's more like you one day wow um i'm really incredibly grateful for this award um i want to thank the board um peter hilt mr horus and miss sanchez martinez um i can't
imagine a life in which i'm not serving in district 49 um and especially uh this hank creek zone um this year has brought um some pretty significant health challenges um and especially the last six weeks and the source of strength are the students
um and the teachers i get to serve with every single day um i'm just so incredibly grateful um to receive this and yeah i just i can't imagine a day um in which i'm not serving with students and teachers so so thank you for this
i'm truly grateful thank you congratulations to all of our honores before we wrap up i would like to turn it over to miss lorie thompson president of the board of education for final remarks hello there um once again it's always so encouraging to start off with fantastic
49 it's my favorite part it's wonderful and so what i look at the the nominees by the way that's some great hair melissa um i also thought when they were talking about you is that kids don't care how much you know until they know how much you care and you didn't feel
like you were up to the position and you rocked it um when it comes to uh claire she wasn't in charge of ada compliance on the calendars she took it over and then it mentioned you helping others and so you know people are used to saying
"that's not my job that's not my wheelhouse." and it sounds like you're more the one who embraces it and says "can i help you?" um when it when jay i wanted to say something to jay um pair of professionals we had a pair of professional at horizon middle school 20
years ago that actually changed our lives and did some amazing stuff and that donation you made was absolutely incredible but it's clear the commitment that you have to kids and lance you know it speaks for yourself what people
wanted to say tonight and i think you were also involved at engage 49 with the student group that encourages other students to quit vaping and health and wellness and uh i know you're quite the athlete and so i just couldn't think of a greater group of people to be honored
tonight in the san creek zone so i just wanted to say personally and on behalf of the board thank you yep that concludes fantastic 49 um the board meeting should start promptly at 6:30 thank you you didn't want to lie on your
belly i love you ladies and gentlemen welcome to the march 13 2025 board of education regular meeting the time is 6:31 p.m and i am calling this meeting to order can i get a roll call
dvala here hyle here olivia wright here schmidt here thompson here and next up we have the presentation of the colors of the national anthem jotc kylie baker for the national anthem
oh say can you see by the dawn early light what so proudly we
hel at the twilight last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the
perilous fight or the ramparts we watched so gallently streaming and the
rockets red the bombs bursting in gave proof through the night that our flag was still there
oh say does that star spangle b or the land of the free and the home of
the brave my feet don't touch the can i get a motion to approve the agenda i move to approve the agenda second any discussion okay can i get a vote
dala i hy i lev wright i schmidt i thompson i alian and we're going to do the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it
stands one nation under god indivisible liberty and justice for all we welcome comments from stakeholders during district 49's open forum please stay seated until your name
is called by the board of education chair then approach the podium to introduce yourself speak clearly into the microphone and keep your remarks respectful and orderly personal complaints against individuals connected with the district except for board
members or the superintendent are prohibited each speaker is limited to two minutes the board will not respond during the forum but may assign follow-up action to the superintendent we also encourage you to use the stakeholders grievance process for
resolving concerns which may culminate in a formal appeal to the board thank you for participating the views expressed in the forum are those of the commentators and do not represent official pol policy of district 49 or the board of
education so our first speaker this evening is lindsay lee sorry i'm dr lindseay lee i am a d49 parent i'm a member of the horizon and springs or i'm sorry used to be springs ranch now san creek sack um and member
of the deck and i'm also vice president of neighbors for education um y'all heard from me earlier this week by email about this but having had a little bit more time to spend with policy a uh and the proposed revisions i have more to say about that so here we go um i'm an
organizational psychologist by profession and in that capacity i often work with my clients to to strategically plan their vision mission and values this process takes months to gather feedback from relevant stakeholders develop buyin analyze the data
articulate and wordsmith the outcomes and communicate and implement it effectively i understand that years ago the district undertook such a thoughtful and comprehensive process incorporating the feedback of stakeholders from all corners of the district to develop our
cultural compass it might seem like a small thing to revise a document but i hope that y'all understand that what you're really doing with the revisions to policy aed is realigning the culture of this district and you seem to be trying to do that without gathering the
perspectives of those it will impact the most that is not a small thing the unilateral redlinining of the work done to build our cultural compass as i see in the proposed changes is disrespectful to the d49 community i'd like to better understand the impetus behind the
changes when our cultural compass has and continues to serve us well i hope that will be part of the discussion that you'll have tonight i'd ask you all to keep in mind that when we are nowhere near the highest paying in the region our culture is one of the primary tools we have for
luring talent to d49 and one of the features that keeps staff and educators in the district please don't be careless with it the state of public education in this moment is precarious fragile and uncertain now is not the time for a massive cultural realignment i urge the
board to take a step back and determine if there's truly a need to realign our vision and values and if so please take those steps thoughtfully giving students staff parents community members and taxpayers a fair chance to express their perspectives on what it means to be a
member of the d49 community next we have john graham behind john graham will be jeff hall good evening everyone board superintendent staff teachers my name is john graham i'm a parent a business owner a taxpayer all the above i wanted
to talk about uh mission view academy so i want the board and the staff to recognize that district 49 for decades has been a proponent of parent and student choice we are it's one of our community
values it's one of the things that we do in this district to respect our parents our students and our staff so what i ask is i know there's a vote going on today and a positive vote is a vote for those
community values parents and student choice it's also a vote for student outcomes and student achievement do the right thing and when you can't do the right thing do the next right thing i ask that you revoke the report that initiated all of this
correct the report and then be transparent and file that report again for the public to see we need to respect our public education in our charter schools who we are teamed with for very very good reasons over the last couple
of decades also came to my attention that uh there's a big rock that some people have a problem with it's the value all people and i want you to know that i'm probably the only one here other than staff that was here during that time that debated this and
discussed it and voted on it this is a constitutional and conservative value it is a christian value to value all people it is recognizing the god-given value every one of us is born with and maintains as a human being and it also
respects each of our uniqueness it is not a dei value it's not something to be hijacked by anybody it is a value that our community has pressed upon the board time and time again and the staff time and time again to value all people
regardless of color race creed any of that other stuff so i hope that that big rock does not disappear and that we maintain those values thank you and while jeff hall is coming up next will be sabrina ballister
hi deb schmidt hello board mr hills good evening jeff hall stakeholder each d49 board member knows that hr24-1039 is compelled speech we request
that you cancel the existing aca policy and rewrite it as follows instead of requiring district staff employees and contractors to apply for the right to exercise their first amendment rights of compelled speech of the compelled speech
doctrine in a 14th amendment amendment simply inform the state that the district will not follow that portion of the law that mandates compelled speech and that the district will wait for the results of the pending litigation in brighton colorado
the current aca policy mandates that d49 and the remaining 178 school districts simply allow the democrats in denver to bully you into submission absolutely positively unacceptable instead of modeling to
students that you should just allow bullies to roll over you demonstrate to them and the district that standing up for what you know is right is always the courageous thing to do finally president trump is our common
sense ally as is his cabinet use those assets to fight fight thank you sabrina ballister and behind sabrina will be annette yeba good evening my name is sabrina
ballister i'm a former stakeholder of d49 um i am here tonight to inquire when dei will be permanently ended in this district as many americans knew something was very wrong and anti-american about this ideology that deeply infiltrated public public schools
across america under the radar and basically unchallenged little did many americans realize that dei is actually a violation of federal laws protecting our civil liberties however when president when the presidential administration
that came along that came along prior aggressively pushed marxist woke ideology not just into our schools but every facet of american society americans presumed dei was okay to have even though it was yielding many bad outcomes for our children and our nation
i was an early fighter to this insidious toxic ideology i quickly recognized it uh for what it was i don't know if the mic went bad and um that and that that it was marxism marxism is an absolute enemy to our
nation's founding principles in our constitution the american people spoke loud and clear in our last last election this past november and voted into office a president and leader that opposed this toxic ideology and is helping to turn our nation to into to a right direction
so i just hope that uh dei will end if it have if you're not working in that direction because it is actually a violation of federal law thank you annette yeba and behind annette we will have ann eastston uh hello my name is annette
yeba um live in district 49 taxpayer i just wanted to go ahead and let you know of some of the people that are living here in colorado that abuse our children we have a youth pastor that was just recently
arrested for uh assaulting a 15year-old we have a therapist that was finally caught after 20 years because the victims finally came forward uh we have a seven-year-old or excuse me we have a man that was caught after being seven
years on the run caught in morocco uh we have assaults of children 8 seven and seven uh boys and girls uh that were um assaulted starting at the age of 2 years old and were being threatened to uh to be killed if they said anything about
their um attacks we even have clergy back in uh 2019 166 abuses but only one priest ever went to prison uh we just had a bill that was read in the state house uh unfortunately i couldn't stay
up until the wee hours of the night while they deliberated but i do want to thank representative uh bradley english for bringing hb251073 to the forefront probation is not enough for a lot of
these uh mostly men that are violating the children this law was going to put stiffer penalties on these uh child rapists and that's what they are um molesting kids
and that's all we wanted and yet again our democrats in the house voted this down six to five we need to do something about these sex offenders and stop protecting these people so um i just want you people to
realize what the democrats are doing they're not looking out for our children no matter what they say because this was a good bill again hb251073 thank you thank you and eastston thank you for letting me speak my name is anne eastston and i'm a
former special education teacher in d49 and i'm glad i left when i did i recently was directed to a website which is called enddei.ed.gov gov where you can report school districts that aren't complying with president trump's new executive orders
to eliminate dei in the schools this is what i submitted earlier today in d49 there are 19 different social emotional learning curriculums used within the schools those curriculums permeate throughout all of the schools children aren't learning are not learning effectively as the curriculum is
designed around teaching children about being oppressed by the oppressors and victims versus the victimizer after several years of these curriculums the district is experiencing many behavioral problems which i believe is due to the curriculum based programs being taught
one of the pre one of the previous school board members and the current superintendent are the catalysts for this situation the former board member even went so far as to say that these curriculums with dei and crt principles included are trusted materials for the teachers to use and he stated that
trusted that he trusted the teachers not to use the portions of the curriculum that might be inappropriate the current board has three liberals and two conservatives so nothing will change until uh action is taken the next election is of no november of this year in d49 the
children's scores for reading showing 55% of the kids are not at reading level and 70% of the kids at math are not at grade level and this has been going on for some time like last year the reading was at 52% not being met and the math
was at 72 but hey we're doing great d49 has always tried to be invisible but you aren't invisible any longer you're being watched thank you does anyone have an item to be pulled
from the consent agenda can i get a motion to approve the consent agenda items i move to approve the consent agenda as presented second can i get a vote
davala i hyle i levia wright i schmidt i thompson i can i get well i think we're going to have a speaker first on month of the military child or can can we get a
motion for action item 7.1 oh i'm sorry i did i overshot the updates okay we're going to start with the superintendent update yeah cuz there's some really good stuff going on so i appreciate the opportunity is anyone
here ready for spring break so uh i've been looking at a i've been looking at a chart the last month or so of the snowiest winters in colorado springs in the last 100 years we're at number 23 uh and let's stop climbing
let's just be done with snow for the year um i think spring break comes at a good time i'm glad it's two weeks long in case any storms come through we won't have to adapt to them but if we did i have some fresh data from miss brooke lombardo's second grade class at woodman
hills elementary school as part of their ckla unit they wrote persuasive letters and she said "well let's send these to somebody who has some input into this decision." so i got a classroom set of persuasive letters about whether we
should have traditional snow days or whether we should have e days so before i share the results what do you think second grade students said snow days the majority of students wanted to have e days and they said it was
because they had brainstormed together and they said it's because it kept their brain sharp and because it gave them something to do and because they love school so congratulations to miss lombardo and woodman hills
but my heart was warmed by the other arguments too because there were students that that i'm just telling you i felt so seen i get to sleep in i get to play in the snow and this really touched my heart i get to spend time with my little brother and so there were
good reasons on either side and i thought that was a great example of of practical learning for our students um another example outside the school district but very very connected is i was really really proud to go to the first ever cause i love you so colorado
springs i love you is a convening nonprofit i have the honor of sitting on that board and they held an event called the city summit uh last week and we had a presentation there about the relationship between the community and the school our own is lauren stewart was there representing not just district 49
but schools across this community who are looking for partnerships who are looking for ways to amplify and multiply our impact whether through food shelves or clothing drives or all of the things that we do to make sure we're taking care of everyone in our community so i
was really proud to be at city summit and uh to speak on a panel with with the superintendents from districts 2011 and uh and two as well in front of 250 community leaders nonprofit leaders people that are looking to partner with and bring out the best in our schools so
i i am really hopeful that next year we will be showing up there with some of our student board of representative students because the city summit is about leadership and our student board leaders need to be there and have a voice so that'll be coming next year now there's some good stuff going
on in the sand creek zone we got to hear it out there and i know mr horus is going to speak more in just a minute but i i pre-flighted this to make sure i wasn't stealing his thunder we got to hear from the instrumental musicians and i am i'm the son of a music teacher so i know what middle school and
sometimes high school musical groups can sound like and they don't usually sound that amazing and and so i just wanted you to to know board and community at uh horizon middle school the uh orchestral program is one of the very best
performing arts programs in our city miss karen leinhart took those students both the seventh and eighth grade uh orchestras took them up to a state competition and for the first time in horizon's history both of those ensembles earned a top rating of
superior so congratulations to horizon and what's going on there and over here in fact literally across the hall mr daniel evans and the wind ensemble went to the colorado band masters where they're they they earned three scores they earned an excellent an excellent and a superior which gave them
a score of excellent which is the top rating you can get so san creek zone is sounding great under this leadership thank you all for what you're doing there we also had so i i've spoken a little bit about elementary academics and the san creek zone musical arts we
also had some pretty amazing athletic performances uh recently including uh one of our own at visidge high school hayden newberg winning as a back-to-back state champion um and she won the outstanding wrestler award in the girls wrestling
tournament so congratulations to hayden and her coach who is her dad and the team and program at vista and meanwhile uh this very high school in which we are sitting sent two wrestlers who came home they sent four wrestlers that went to finals and two
who came home as state champions including one freshman who was down 14-1 don't you give up don't ever give up i was a wrestler in high school if i was down 14 to1 i'd just start crying um tristan got off the mat and pinned a guy
won the state championship as a freshman and so his teammate uh brandon dean and and tristan together really represented san creek high school and the wrestling tradition and program so congratulations to those two and all of our wrestlers we had we had great performances across the
district we also had uh just a tantalizingly close near miss in basketball our sand creek high school scorpions went down to cheyenne mountain and they came from behind they hit their shots in the fourth quarter they beat cheyenne mountain to uh make the great
eight and then they they spent all of their great shooting in that game came up just a little short in the next game but their friends from up the road in falcon also got into the great eight won their game and they will be competing tomorrow at 5:45 up at the denver coliseum against green mountain green
mountain we're a 21 seed there green mountain's a 16 seed so we're going to have a very competitive game and the falcon falcons from falcon are going to go into the finals tomorrow so great things going on in arts academics and athletics and great things going on on
the calendar as our spring break is approaching thank you now we are on to our student board updates and i think we have kiara did i see you come you want to start off kira with your update yeah sorry for my tardiness i may or may not have
forgotten to change the clock in my car for daylight savings time so uh that's definitely my fault my apologies to everyone um well i guess overall we've done a lot with student board and it's been really neat to go to talk to um the younger students in the
elementary and middle schools we've had the opportunity to meet with horizon remington springs ranch and evans any others i think that's all of them but they have some great students there and i've really enjoyed talking to them we have a meeting soon to discuss what
we've learned from their students so overall excellent students do you guys have anything to add it's been really cool though so thanks guys jacen do you have an update for us uh hold on is it on okay yeah uh yeah i
would say that the meetings that we had with all the elementary and middle schools with horizon and uh springs ranch evans uh remington they were really great we got a lot of great feedback really great students that we met with and it was just such a pleasure
to be there honestly and really smart kids actually especially at remington shout out to remington yeah and um shout out to uh miss casease at evans elementary because she brought them food so that was great
too yeah and uh springs ranch my alma mater so you know shout out to them too and uh yeah but it was it was really good and then uh recently we also went to chicago for a conference and that was really great and we were able to get
feedback from that as well bring it back to the board see what we can implement in district 49 but also in our school zones and so yeah it's just been really great to be on the board these past few months so yeah um do i see katherine down there
yep um well i don't really have much to add i do i do want to say how grateful i am for the opportunity to have been on the student board this year it's my first year doing this unfortunately my last
but um because i'm graduating but i'm so grateful for the opportunities to be able to to have been able to see improvement within um our elementary schools and district and to see the future growth that will come um within our district as well because
um well yeah we're just going to grow and that's just going to um happen um so grateful for the opportunities before we get to the board updates i think this is where dustin is going to
do the s creek showcase all right good evening board and san creek zone staff and students um thank you for the opportunity to share the exciting work that's happening within the sand creek zone this year we are fully implementing justin's renaissance in all six of our schools um which
fosters a sense of culture with recognition respect and motivation our goal is to achieve a school of distinction accreditation at all six schools and we've had collaboration and dedication i believe this isn't within reach that we'll be getting um awarded those awards this june at the johnson's
renaissance global conference to support this as a zone we started a collaboration team which has led impactful initiatives such as a zonewide community service project to foster civic responsibility spirit weeks to strengthen school pride at all the campuses and recently in february we did
weekly challenges at all six of our campuses we continue to celebrate students achievements including recognizing incoming freshmen here at san creek high school for their eighth grade efforts and this fall we will be expanding our recognition for all fifth graders coming into horizon from all
four of the feeder elementary schools rewarding them for their star 360 growth and achievement renaissance is more than rewards it's about building a positive school culture where every student feels heard seen valued and loved and inspired to succeed through our zonewide efforts
we're ensuring all students thrive academically socially and emotionally and now i walk away from the podium is this is this on all right so we are going to is this i don't think it's on is it on okay all right so we're going to kick off this with a little
renaissance rally so you guys can enjoy and the first one is requiring participation from everybody so what we are going yes give it up here we go all right so first up what we're going to do is everybody is going to stand up and you are going to hold up a
number one through six and this you're competing for prizes we have prizes all right so you're going to hold up your hands one through six i'm going to roll the dice if we roll your number you stay standing if we don't roll your number you sit down ready all right here we
go six all right who's still standing woo i got one right here couple all right um we'll do one more hold up a number one through six five is anybody still standing all right
bring up the finals whoever was finally standing stand back up you had five right there yes here we go right here we got a win come on up go see miss stewart you're going to get a prize where is he he's right there
so we would like to thank i don't know can you hear me okay great crumble cookies for sponsoring the sand creek zone if you guys didn't get one on your way in please get one on your way out um they donate hundreds of free cookie cards to all creek zone schools to
support our efforts towards rewarding and recognizing staff and students so be sure to grab a cookie tonight and that was our prize for this young man right here free crumble cookie so with justice renaissance we want to do a little bit of recognition so we want to recognize the years that you have been affiliated with district
49 so that could be you went to school here maybe you work here you've lived in the district so if you have been affiliated with district 49 from 1 to 3 years please stand to be recognized oh it's a
lot all right if you have been with district 49 from 4 to 10 years four to 10 years please stand anyone here that's been affiliated with district 49 for 11 to 20 years please
stand all right anyone been with district 49 for 20 plus years please stand well thank you all for your dedication to district 49 at this time i would like to welcome up some very special speakers
from our elementary school so can i have all of my elementary principles and my elementary speakers to the podium marcia you okay uh representing evans elementary
school tonight we have zulani may hi good evening everyone my name is alani may and i've been a student at evans elementary school from kindergarten to fifth grade and i am proud to be a wildcat i'm a fifth grade leader and i have held a blue renaissance card every quarter since
fourth grade by always scoring higher than my last test results in math and reading math is my favorite subject and my scores are above grade level a big thank you to my amazing teachers for that my fifth grade teacher miss boomman is so caring and is walking us through lots
of school experiments some of my favorite things at evans are making sculptures in art class learning sports skills at mpe super super nachos and fresh fruit at lunch doing walkovers in the grass at recess with my best friends theater class to build our confidence
field trips and field days with family med and media class to learn coding and typing skills at evans we can earn wildcat cash by persevering adapting wondering and serving i spend my cash in the wildcat cave and on ice cream lunches with one of my favorite teachers
i love our assemblies and movie nights at school because i get to set up decorate and help all and help all the other students because i'm a fifth grade leader and the leaders also help with recycling for our school one day i got the chance to be principal for 3 hours
which was super exciting but our incredible principal mrs case does a way better job at keeping evans safe enjoyable and having all the right teachers there to help us grow at evans as we say at evans it's a
great day to be a wildat hi guys i'm principal cassie macarthur from remington representing remington is ezra gonzalez from our fourth grade class and anchored for life my name is ezra gonzalez and i'm a
fourth grader at remington elementary i would like to introduce my principal cassie macarthur i'm proud to be a mustang because my school is always recognizing students for their hard work pushing and
pushing us to be our best and making school fun remington elementary earned the esa distinguished schools award and is only one of two schools in the state with this honor annually remington hosts
anchor for life a studentled club that helps that helps students develop life skills build confidence and connect with their community this year we held a blanket drive for the ronald mcdonald house and a cereal
drive for the community resource center remington mustangs versus hi all mo winston principal at springs ranch elementary very honored to introduce one of our fifth graders gigi garcia good evening board members my name is
gigi garcia and i'm a fifth grader in mr moles's class i serve as a library ambassador in the morning before school during this time i organize and shelf books and assist our librarian i am also a diamond master reader which is the highest level in our reading program and
i'm on the battle of the books team i have had a very positive experience at springs ranch elementary some of the things i like at the school are the teachers math recess and lunch the teachers are generally caring and make sure the students are safe and are always learning i love how they take us
on field trips to cool places each year my favorite was skate city when learning about motion another great field trip was the mining museum learning about the gold rush i also enjoy math because the teachers give us challenging topics and lessons that make us think outside the box all our specials are fun and teach
us life skills like working together in stream we work on science-based projects like making a clay model of the earth's atmosphere we also learned about gravity force friction and built a bottle rocket car to test acceleration springs ranch also has
awesome events throughout the year for students and families my favorite is stream night because there are different fun activities and this year we even had a planetarium there's also the gifted fair the fall festival and the veterans day performance my favorite part of the
day is recess and lunch i love the playground because we have a huge space to run around and play in the two things i like about lunch is that we have great food options such as domino's pizza homemade chili a salad bar a lot of fruit options and i'm grateful that it's free thank you for your time i'm proud
to be a ranch bobcat good evening i'm lori mccoy principal from stson elementary and tonight i'm excited to have logan loftess with me from mrs vanble's fifth grade class he is also important to uh comment big brother to
allison in third grade luke in second grade and olly the cookie winner in kindergarten um i also found out that mom is class of 2009 san creek high school woo yeah so here's logan hello hello board members my name is
logan loftess and i am in the fifth grade i am in mrs van black's class at stson elementary school and my principal at stson is mrs mccoy i like to play football and go to pe my favorite colors are blue and orange my favorite books are investigators harry potter diary of
want the kid and sunny one thing i like about stson elementary is that we do pride houses the house for the houses for pride are perseverance respect integrity dependability and excellence the way pride houses work is that you get sword into into a house and then you
earn points for your house you also get to sit with your house at lunch every friday or thursday if we don't have school on friday the last thing that i really like about pride houses is that the house with the most points by the end of the year will get a big party another thing that i like about stson
elementary is that we do specials the way specials work is that at some point in the day each grade will go to music pe art or spanish i like specials because you get some time off from math or ckla to have fun like play learn paint or color another thing that i like
about stson elementary is that we get to do after school activities like track and field choir basketball and sometimes fuel up to play 60 my favorite ones are track and field and fuel up to play 60 i like track and field because you get to qualify for the team and if you make it you get to go to a track meet i like
feel up to play 60 because it is football and you don't have to qualify you just get to play after school the last thing that i like about stson elementary is that we do field day every year i like that we do field day because we get to compete in games for half the day instead of learning one of the
stations at field go at field day is kona ice and i like that station because it is refreshing and it's free so we can get as many toppings as we want thank you board members for your time listening to me talk about what i like about stson elementary school go raiders
so in the oh my gosh i'm so sorry in the san creek zone we believe in zonewide recognition as well we allow parents staff students and administrators to nominate staff to be recognized we look at nominations and choose those that truly go above and beyond um for our in
the zone award each staff member selected receives an in the zone t-shirt a certificate dinner for two at texas roadhouse and a free crumble cookie card dustin typically gives these out at staff meetings to showcase this honor in front of their entire staff but tonight we wanted to give you a glimpse of our
in the zone process by rewarding a few staff members tonight thanks all right thanks as lauren said usually we do this at a staff meeting uh but we wanted to do a couple here so in the zone awards um the first one we have
here tonight is a teacher at remington heather ebbettz come on up uh heather was nominated because in her first year heather has quickly become an invaluable member of the school community at remington actively contributing and serving on a various
committees leading staff potlucks volunteering for tutoring and coaching the fifth grade basketball team her dedication extends beyond the classroom as she consistently supports students outside of school heather embodies thoughtfulness and teamwork often surprising her colleagues with coffee
and tea she collaborates seamlessly demonstrates flexibility and embraces a a growth mindset her commitment to excellence is evident in the long hours she invests frequently arriving early to ensure she's fully prepared for the day she's passionate and dedicated educator
who prioritizes the success of every student she teaches thank you heather there you go she wants a picture thank you okay thanks all right the next one are actually three so um we have cj gillette daniel
payne and bruce brown the san creek zone administration uh brought has brought up this team repeatedly as a group that deserves recognition they are responsive supportive communicative and involved and have been a great resource to our schools they answer the phone when
called respond to emails quickly and and will often drop everything to meet the needs of the principal in the school they understand the building and school pace which is not uncom which is not common for not educators and they work hard to be a part of the school team and understand the obstacles uh schools
often face their definition of service to our schools the other thing i'll just say um they you know these guys are um we're we're all here to support kids in schools and sometimes when you get away from being in a school every day you forget sometimes you work in a school
district um these guys are these guys are perfect examples of understanding supporting schools they're always there and and step up whenever is needed which is why they got her in the zone nomination these are going in front ready
two daniel and cj are both like "can i just take this tie off now please?" i did tell them they didn't have to wear a tie but anyway uh we have one more for gary rivas assistant principal at remington
gary exemplifies the qualities of an outstanding assistant principal his unwavering patience even temperament and trustworthiness set him apart as a leader who can be relied upon in any situation his exceptional ability to deescalate conflicts build meaningful connections with students and staff and
provide thoughtful objective guidance is unparalleled despite managing an incred incredibly demanding workload gary selflessly dedicates his time and energy to support to supporting others his exemplary communication skills coupled with his role as a trusted confidant create a positive and collaborating
collaborative environment by leading through action and setting high personal expectations he inspires those around him to rise their to their potential gary is without a doubt a leader who's truly in the zone all right and and laura as lauren said
these nominations don't i mean i'm not these come from parents send them in those are my favorite ones to get honestly and and staff members or other communities and so we we try to honor them when when we get good ones so thanks all right let's hear one more time for
our zone winners all right so the next game we're going to play and you're competing for crumble cookies i need um three board of education members to volunteer so first three up i need three of our principles from the sand creek zone give it up and
i need three student volunteers from the sand creek just first three up run on up let's do it what color do you want blue okay you guys are going to be here you guys are on the same team it's a yep you're going to be a team
i got my principles do you guys want green you're a team all right and i got three students here we go okay so what you're going to do um and adults struggle with directions so you're only can use one hand and you are going to stack up all the cups and then hand them
to the next player they are going to unstack all the cups with one hand okay and then tag the next player and they will restack the cups and the first team that wins gets crumble cookies yes miss macarthur yes
down yes only one hand one hand she do she did cheater see look at that she's ready all right are you guys ready so cheer on whoever whatever team you want to compete for here we go three two
one all right are the principles winning and then students got second give it up you guys great job thank you for all of our contestants yeah you guys got all right one more we want to do a little bit more recognition because
that's what we're all about so specific to the sand creek zone please stand up if you're a student in the san creek zone uh please stand up if you are a staff member in the san creek zone yeah please stand if you're a parent in
our zone yay thank you for coming and last but not least please stand if you're a community member and you live within the san creek zone boundaries yeah all right at this time i would like to
um introduce our last two stu or i would like to bring up to the podium our last two student speakers from horizon and from san creek you can introduce him hello everybody i'm cindy bar i'm the principal at horizon middle school i
am so proud to introduce you all to the magn magnificent ian salkine hello thank you for welcoming me everyone and board members i am very happy to be here and thank you so much miss brell for letting me be here today
i wanted to share a little bit of my experience on my first day of sixth grade and why i love my school so much on the first day of sixth grade i looked up the school and saw horizon middle school i was so excited as i walked into the gym i met these new people called
web leaders eighth graders who i didn't know but they help us along they help sixth graders and they knew uh when they knew and helped do fun activities so they led us around the school and i was
so scared and then i wasn't scared anymore cuz they really made me feel like i had been there forever like i was a part of the community and we had our little groups so we can make friends right away and then we finally got into
the school part and i loved it it was so fun the teachers were amazing and they're what helped me to get strays throughout all of middle school so now i'm here in seventh grade today i have amazing classes i'm still thriving
i love it i've already put in my application to be a web leader so i can give the sixth graders the same experience i got on my first day good evening i am humbled and proud to introduce you all to the intelligent the
poised the unstoppable ninth grader jasmine simmons test okay there we go uh good evening board members my name is jasmine simmons um i am a freshman at san creek high school and i would like to introduce my already introduced miss amy sanchez
martinez um i am proud to be a scorpion because my school provides many extracurricular activities such as the programs uh i am in such as jry which is actually colonel's right over there that's my teacher um uh chamber orchestra and many
other instrumental musics uh on a simil similar note san creek high school staff is always on top of their work and are always available to talk no matter the circumstances they will always listen to you hear you out and try to best try their best to help you in any way shape or form if they need to investigate
anything or have any issues or conflicts they will always make you feel like their top priority not only making school a better place but making it so much more successful than it already is go creek all right thank you all the students who spoke tonight you did a great job good
job also a quick thanks and just shout out to to karen leenhart the orchestra and her students again uh they're great um i hired her so i'll take credit for that um the uh also kylie baker i mean i
i'm i mean i'm biased but i i don't hear many better national anthems than she does uh so that was great too and then all of our uh and then liz and lauren who uh liz doesn't need a microphone she was worried about it working but obviously she doesn't need one um and then lauren who organized everything so
we just wanted to give you um a little taste of kind of what run that was a very very tame version of what a renaissance rally is um usually it is a lot louder um next year if we do this again then you guys the board should be prep prepared to pro to participate in a
skit um so we'll have that ready next year um but anyway we just wanted to give you a little taste lynette i'm sorry we went over time um we're gonna queue up our 40minute video now um no no video um the goal of tonight was to hear
from me minimally um and see kind of what our schools are about um we've got great schools um i would when you go into our schools it feels good and and that's that you can tell a lot just walking in um to buildings so i would encourage you if you haven't at any time
this year next year go visit any of our schools the principles will all welcome you walk you around and you'll feel that so anyway thanks glad to glad our schools could represent here okay we are on to board updates and
we will start with director schmidt okay first of all dustin and amy thanks for hosting us this is a beautiful auditorium um the middle school orchestra obviously was great everybody loved them and our fantastic 49 folks
are greatly appreciated i have a really small update this month i had the cred and was down for almost a full week um because of that i missed the falcon zone math curriculum review discussion which was very disappointing because watching
that whole process is very interesting to me um i was also unable to attend the safety and security community event and i really wanted to see that too um but i didn't want to make anybody else sick so i was however able to join a large panel
of district leaders as part of the interview process for a new cfo other than that i've been working on policy review while recuperating from the crud and that's it okay thank you director
hy so this is the fourth night in a row in which i have been engaged in district uh business so i have way more stuff to talk about than i have uh time to and i have to give up some of that time to give a shout out to kylie baker and that
rendition of the star spangled banner that that is an incredibly difficult song that has laid many a singer low it has an whole octave and a half range and she gave it a whole new octave extremely
well done um so one thing i wanted to talk about was um i uh attended the uh seak meeting in lorist uh this uh past month um they had a presentation from ucccs on the uh from the office of
inclusive services and i wanted to make sure that this got out into the community because it's a really fantastic program so for students who have a diagnosed intellectual disability and a desire to go to school and learn
more this program is offered in two of our area schools so we're really lucky because the it very few um uh institutions are offering it but we have it at ucccs and we have it at pikes peak state and essentially what it looks like
to me is um is a transitions to independent living kind of program so it's taking students with disabilities and it's you know they have to have a job and keep it they um have to go to um social events and they're taking classes
now some of them are targeted towards them specifically but they're also taking a few actual college classes and um so they uh they get mentorship along the way um they stay in apartments um
and they have um mentors helping them through you know daily living um you know working out uh issues with uh roommates uh it's it's just a very comprehensive program it's expensive but uh financial aid is available so don't
let that um be a barrier to you if this is something that could benefit you and your student the one thing that they really insist on is that your child has to be motivated to do this but at the end of a 4-year program they get a certificate and they even get to walk um
graduation so just a fantastic program um wanted to make sure that as many people as could um get the word on that other than that i uh had a quick visit over at uh pepsil pikespeaks school of expeditionary learning so one of our uh
charters here uh located up in the falcon zone um what a great institution got to learn uh more about what expeditionary learning model really is all about um it's a it's a really interesting model um honestly i think if id have known about it i might have
tried to choice my child into it when uh when she was in the district and you want to talk about a model of consistency and stability principal non-nap has been there for over 20 years i got to meet a number of staff members who you know everybody had been there 15
years plus um including one who you know her children went through there um through all of their grade levels um so it's just a really loved school bringing an amazing um choice to our our our school district um and i also attended
the uh the cfo interviews so we got to speak with four very strong candidates um that's you know just that shows that we have enough interest in coming to d49 that um that that's a good thing and
we're going to be able to hire somebody um who's really great so i'm looking forward to that director livia wright uh just two quick things a reminder the falcon ed foundation fundraiser is coming up april 11th um i believe there are still some
tables available for those who didn't get in on the early bird pricing we are also accepting donations for the auction items um make sure you can contact me as the board liazison if there's something you want to give or i can get you in contact with people who are on the board
for the falcon ed foundation and then i'm also just going to do a quick plug for the first annual falconfest which will be the day after so those of us who will be up late the night before raising funds for all those student scholarships will also then hopefully show up to the
falcon fest um the following day also parents building leaders remember the falcon ed foundation scholarship application um just came due so we will be reviewing those as well um make sure we keep that in our students um minds as we have lots of organizations starting
to offer seniors scholarships um and some we get lots of applications for some we do not i know falcon high school pta is offering too and we're still waiting for applications so help our seniors remember to check all of those resources um all those small scholarships can add up to something
significant that freshman year thank you director dvola so there was a day last month where um my school had cancelled for snow and district 49 had a 2-hour delay so i very quickly sent uh
messages to our super our zone superintendent to see if there was any chance that i could slip into some elementary schools since i uh rarely get that opportunity and um i just want to give a shout out to dustin horus and terresa ritz for very quickly reaching
out to your principles and um uh seeing and organizing my ability to visit five elementary schools which was super super awesome so marcia casease from evans pam hollowman uh from inspiration view chris levi from odyssey lorie mccoy from stson
hills and mo winston from springs ranch thank you thank you thank you so much for welcoming me with open arms to come vi arms to come visit your school what i saw was absolutely amazing kids were learning and excited to be in the classroom students loved telling me what
they were learning about and could explain it to me um i even got two hugs i love those uh one one classroom that i really wanted to highlight that impressed me was a fourth grade math class at evansville elementary school uh this teacher was teaching a small group
of students and marcia and i were able to walk around the room and visit the groups of students who were working uh all of them were 100% engaged in their tasks whether that was independent work with their computers or working with a partner on a math game or a specific
task and i know from experience since i am a teacher it is no easy task to motivate fourth graders to stay focused when the teacher is working um one-on-one with individual students um that is a an act of of awesomeness um
the students we talked to were using academic language um especially with math um and were able to explain what they were doing so i was very highly impressed uh with that particular teacher um please make sure she knows that i recognized her um and all of you
did a fantastic job today with um the the um orchestra and our students and the student speeches that was uh heartwarming to hear from our leaders uh in them get up here and be nervous in order to give a speech in front of a
group of people that just shows the caliber of teachers that we have in our district i want to make it clear i did not volunteer for the cubs game mostly because i'm going to have hand surgery in two weeks and i would have blown it completely and i also want to give vice
president dvola kudos for jumping off the stage to get the cup and jumping back on going above and beyond um i attended the engage 49 safety and security event and i have to tell you if you are a resident of this community
watch out for those events i have been to two so far and they have been absolutely excellent the first one talked about addiction and health and wellness issues um this one was safety and security put on by our security team and it included school resource officers
it included included representatives from cspd and the sheriff's department and they they had so much good information that i hope that they will share throughout the community especially like what to do and not to do in the event there is a problem talking
about how we did evacuations during a fire event which reminds me i want to talk about um right now some of our families in district 49 and in the elcott district have been evacuated from their homes to include former vice president of the board of education judy
vasquez um people are moving their animals so if you could please pray for their safety for the people for their homes for the animals and hopefully this will be gotten under control soon um there
are the we went to the student board meeting and kier i see you're wearing your sweater i have my sweater with me as well and uh really cool vintage sweaters that we got and i am so impressed usually by this time of the year the student board attendance has
dropped off i think we're growing and they talked about participating in that leadership course and i wanted to read some of the comments i wish i could cover all of them that the student board came up with with lessons in leadership so what they talked about for the
importance of leadership they talked about servant leadership they talked about uh different opinions openness and honesty delegation how to fix your mistakes um i like this one it's not about
you maintain maintaining civility and respect handling conflict in difficult situations how to have authority with humility how to learn not to be liked and don't confuse popularity with leadership never tell anyone to do
something that you are not willing to do yourself how to disagree with respect and so i'm going to compile and hopefully i got it all and i'm going to share these lessons and leadership with my fellow board members because our student board has been outstanding and
they have been terrific participants and i have been proud to be the liaison to this incredible group of students and that's all i have next we are on to 7.1 month of the military child we moved it up a bit next
month will be the month of the military child need the motion but you have to do the motion then the speaker do the motion then the speaker you have to do the motion because that's what allows them to speak okay can i get
a motion for action item 7.1 i move to approve the proclamation for month of the military child second now they do the presentation okay do we have the presentation now hello everyone my name is kelly chappelle and i have the privilege of
serving as the d49 military student family liaison um i am also a proud military spouse to an active duty airman and mother of three incredible children who are building resilience as they navigate the unique challenges of military family
life our military connected students make up about 20% of our district's student population these children are brave intelligent kind and constantly adapting to new environments schools and
friendships sorry i can't see i got to make this a little bigger okay their ability to thrive despite frequent moves and parental deployments is a testament to their strength the military community here in colorado springs appreciates district 49's
continued support and dedication to ensuring highquality ed education for our children and their families april is nationally recognized as month of the military child a time to honor and uplift these students who serve in their own way as a representative of of our
military families i respectfully ask the board to uphold the tradition of declaring april as month of the military child in district 49 this declaration would reaffirm our commitment in recognizing and supporting the unique experiences of our military connected
students um and now you want me to read the whole proclamation or yes okay i will read the entire proclamation uh district 49 recognizes the sacrifices and applauds the courage displayed by military children by celebrating all children of military connected families during the month of
april our district staff staff members understand each military each day military children undergo unique challenges to include long separations from parents or guardians who deploy near and far our district staff members who support the positive growth and development of the
children of the military members with the knowledge that the success of children directly impacts resilience and readiness of the entire military family our support of military children families helps the men and women in uniform successfully fulfill their
mission of serving our state and nation our work as members of our district and community aids in improving the lives of military connected children and their families therefore we the board of education for the district 49 proudly proclaim our recognition of the month of
april as the month of the military child we invite and strongly encourage all members of our school schools and community to take time to recognize the children of military family military families and their families thank you so much does anyone else down
there want to add anything in before we get these are the uh base liaison that i regularly work with um and that all have children and families that attend uh district 49 any discussion from our student board as a military kid um myself i
greatly appreciate this um it's hard being a military child my dad he's permanently stationed in washington dc so it's it's hard because i don't get to see him all the time but um the service and the dedication that comes from it is
amazing thank you um i might oh sorry that's actually louder than i thought um i might not be a military kid myself but i've had many friends and family members who have parents in the military and i applaud
them for their courage so thank you so much for sharing this um i know that the work that you guys are doing with this is important and that um everyone who serves in our military is doing a lot of important things including all of their family members so i love that we get to recognize
that um similar to catherine i'm also in a military family and my dad he just retired last year but um he's been in for 24 years and it's definitely a challenge and my brother he's in the military too and so i understand the
deployments and moving and all of that and it's it's definitely hard so i definitely appreciate everything that you're doing and it it means a lot to the milit the military families and everything so thank you director schmidt
yeah i was raised on military bases um i had the fortunate uh the for i was fortunate enough to have a mom that was amazing she was like every new base was a new adventure so i didn't really have a hard time with adapting and fitting in but i know a lot
of kids did so i do appreciate what you do for them thank you director ohio so i am a military veteran but i did not raise a mil a uh a military brat because um because i saw
firsthand the struggles that um my fellow service members were having who um had families and um i saw it from the parent perspective and i could see how really difficult that was and i could you know fairly easily understand how that must affect the the students as
well but even from a from an education perspective hopping from schools all over the place with different standards maybe even different language um is really a massive challenge and we have to u make sure that we are honoring those students um and understanding
their challenges so that we can help them through it and i really appreciate the work that the four of you are doing to to make that happen director olivia wright i'm just wrong way in the button sorry i'm going to say thank you to all of you
as well um my husband's now retired but i was a military spouse who raised children in this district while my husband was deploying and can say both from before i had kids when i was an employee and was a military spouse this district was amazing at providing
support to those of us who had family members serving and deploying into war zones i experienced that during the three years when i taught at falcon high before i had children and then um when our children came into the picture the level of support they received through their dad's multiple deployments prior to retirement was pretty incredible um
stson staff i think have left but some of them who were sitting there were some of the people who actually um miss janola i think has gone but she was one of the folks who supported my kids at the time um so i'm glad to see that our district is continuing um in that path
and continuing to build those relationships personally i think d49 does a better job of it um than anyone else in the region and i think you see it from our students too our students are aware of it i've seen in assemblies at schools at um the schools my kids
attended at falcon middle and falcon high students supporting one another during assemblies when they were dealing with a difficult moment um as as a district we keep our students in school to recognize veterans day and sometimes when kids parents are far away and in
unsafe places during that time um those students stepped up and supported one another during those presentations and you could see it um military kid to military kid because they're um readily identifiable to one another and supported in that way in our district through a variety of programs but also
um students who didn't have that connection who because our district is making that effort um also understood and were willing to step up and so i'm proud of our district for that and i'm really grateful for the partnerships that all of your bases provide with our district as well so thank you and thank
you for our the work you're doing and welcome as our um second person in the position as for the military transition consultant that's still a fairly new position in our district um but one that we really need and i'm glad to see we're continuing
director dala yes thank thank you guys very much for uh all the support that you give to our military connected families it's very needed and your support is extremely valuable so thank you very much and i want to give you a big thank you
and a shout out my dad served in the air force and i'm so grateful because he met my mother at a uso uh dance my uncle served in the marine corps and he did three tours of duty in vietnam and later died of non-hodkkins
lymphoma service related and my brother served in the navy and so um i know some of the sacrifices that military families make and uh i just always love this just remind everyone to purple up for april
um for those who gave so much for the freedoms that we have and now director levier wright and i will be signing the oversized proclamation over here so give us just a huh vote first oh that's right
we need to vote for the proclamation for the month of the military child can i get a vote please dvala i ha i livia wright schmidt i thompson you bet
and that passes sorry sorry can i get a motion for action item 7.2 i move to approve a 5-year charter renewal of mountain view academy and d to direct legal counsel to negotiate and finalize a contract to include the conditions identified by board consensus
at the february 26th work session second any discussion can i get a vote hy i wright i schmidt i thompson i and that passes
all right now we are on to item 9.1 title programs annual update good evening i'm gonna bring this down just a little good evening school board uh student board and mr hilts thank you for having me this evening u my name is
karen bixler and i'm the coordinator of title programs in district 49 and tonight will be the annual update regarding our title programs um so we receive funding through uh they're federal funds and we receive
them for title one two three and four they are authorized by the elementary and secondary education act they are considered supplemental funds um that are used to enhance and increase as well as extend programs and services
is i like to think of this as they are um in addition to and not in place of our state and local funds or our general funds the first fund i'll cover is title
one part a um our 2425 final allocation um with our remaining funds those are some carryover funds that the state um has supplemented our um final allocation uh with just over $4.5 million for this
school year the intent and purpose of title one is to support elementary and secondary education initiatives and provide resources that are allocated based on poverty rates of um students enrolled in our schools it is based on
free and reduced lunch data is the indicator we use um to determine the school's eligibility for those funds and it is also uh they are also designed to help ensure all children meet those challenging state academic
standards uh our title one schools are listed here on this slide um within all of these title one schools we serve over 3,900 students with these title one dollars um for the eight schools that are being served with those
funds uh some title budget priorities the next two slides i'll uh review some title one budget priorities they're really uh the title one dollars are divided into two buckets if you will the first i'll cover is the district managed funds so a small portion is retained for
district managed activities such as the items that are listed here i won't read through all of them i did want to highlight title one supports um students experiencing homelessness there's some funding that goes to mckenna vento initiatives that um comes
out of our title one um funded priorities there for the district managed side the majority of our title one funds go to um school managed activities and i've just highlighted a few here that our title one schools are implementing within their schools i want
to highlight um some uh title one initiatives that are funded are some salaries such as interventionists paraprofessionals instructional coaches social workers and community and family liaison as well as another um big item
that is um often selected um and shows up on a needs assessment is that before and after school tutoring that we provide our students that are showing those achievement gaps so title one funds go to support that um and um it also supports some supplemental technology so additional chromebooks and
ipads electronic media and subscriptions that we might use and then a portion of our funds are um reserved for family engagement initiatives and some of that could be such as title one family engagement events so those funds can support all of these things but um these
are some of the top items that our title one schools use their funding for uh i wanted to add on this slide for planning is well underway it has been underway for a few months now um looking at our free and reduced lunch data uh we
will be serving our eight existing schools um next year and we will be adding two new eligible schools to our plethora of our title one schools uh the schools that will be added would be will be sky view middle school and power technical middle school so we would like
to welcome those two schools um to title one and i'm doing some planning with their um school administration and we'll be doing some stakeholder groups too with their their community members here pretty soon uh the next title i'll cover is title two our final allocation with
remaining funds here is just over $640,000 for this school year the intent and purpose of title two is um to improve the quality of um our educators and leaders in our district um it also
ensures that uh we provide our lowincome and minor minority students a greater access to effective educators some budget priorities we uh use those funds at the district level providing a lot of professional development different professional developments that
are offered to our um teachers and pair professionals and leaders amongst uh uh within our district um some things to highlight here is title 2 funds provides the salary for our district level literacy coach as well as uh one of our
math coaches as well as the salary for our data and assessment tosa so i we're very thankful for title 2 um it has provided many literacy and math trainings as well as data literacy trainings and um it also has provided and i believe the training was just
today u some uh training for our newly hired substitutes um so we're title two were was able to provide the salaries for those substitutes to attend the training so that's really a great thing as well as it um supports educator
recruitment fairs and um uh let's see um it has provided um data literacy trainings as well uh the next title is title three and title three immigrant set aside i'll go ahead and talk about that in just a
moment uh the allocation we received for this school year was just over $130,000 the intent and purpose of title three and title three immigrant set aside is to enhance the education of our
english learners in becoming proficient in english as well as um helping them to meet the colorado academic standards and uh as far as the title three immigrant set aside it lives under title three it is a set aside our school district doesn't always get we haven't
had it for many many years we did get a small amount this year because of our population um and uh it provides opportunities for the district to enhance instructional opportunities for our immigrant students and their
families some title three budget priorities here uh you can see they're listed here uh a couple i would like to highlight is we have two cllde family community leaison a portion of their salary is provided by title 3 uh they
support some parent family uh parent academy classes adult esl classes for parent education and child care we also provide newcomer pd and substitute coverage for our clld staff as well as and i didn't put this on the slide but it's also provided to our general
education um teachers as well title four is the final uh title that i'll review tonight uh we received just over $280,000 for this particular title the intent and purpose this one's divided into three categories and it h we have
to allocate a certain amount of that funding to each of these categories um and it provides students better access to well-rounded educational opportunities improving school conditions for student learning uh such as safety and healthy initiatives and
improves the use of technology overall so that we can address those academic achievement and digital literacy um components for all students um here i've divided them out and i put some of the activities that we have funded uh with
title 4 dollars uh under so i would like to highlight a few under safe and healthy schools um title 4 dollars provided implementation pd for our supplemental crisis management system working closely with dave watson for
this particular um initiative to be in title 4 uh also some professional development opportunities throughout uh it also provided the youth science and edure ready platforms uh youth science uh is a platform that gauges interest
and aptitude for college and career planning and it works closely with the iap initiative and then the uh edure ready platform tracks the placement and participation with um things like job shadows internships site visits etc um
supporting work-based learning opportunities for our high school and middle school students um it also uh under well-rounded education we provide this a portion a small portion of the salary for our family school and
community engagement tosa um in which she supports the engage 49 initiatives that our district is um currently working and doing um actively doing um as well as the salary for our dual language immersion specialist a portion
of that comes out of title 4 and educational technology we do um provide professional development as well as some stipens for our building level technology leaders uh i wanted to just briefly cover with title funding we do an annual
review process this is required by federal statutes so of course we are going to follow that um we do conduct a comprehensive needs assessment um that is aligns with the uips that are written on both the district side and the um uh
school side the uips are the unified improvement plans that each school writes um sets we set goals and identify strategies creates a comprehensive title plan implements the plan we monitor the progress and then we conduct annual
reviews a couple of reviews i know it says annual but we're constantly reviewing to see if there's any revisions or pivoting that we need to do with those funds if there are we would submit those revisions to uh colorado department of education um and get their approval for any revisions that we do uh
within our title um within all of the titles or any of the titles um that annual review and planning process of course it's ongoing monitoring and data collection throughout the year uh we you uh use evaluation and we also hold
spring uh stakeholder input sessions to gain insight into what are our needs of our community members our staff members our school leaders and district leaders um we um plan um and budgets uh plans
and budgets are generated for the following school year and uh we align those with the district's strategic priorities and school goals um and then a new consolidated application the consolidated application is the title application and that application is what
we apply to the colorado department of education uh for our funding for all four of those titles um and then it's submitted submitted to uh the colorado department of ed uh by june 30th of each
year and that is the finale so i'm open for questions i can't see student board do you have any questions about any of this board
members director hy hi thank you for that karen i have a couple of questions but i'm gonna go ahead and use this as an opportunity to climb on my soap box for just a minute here real quick so this is all federal funding and i'm sure most of us are
aware of what's going on at the federal level with regards to the department of education and so i want everybody to hear all of this and to remember that we recently had a statewide um uh two of them actually adequacy studies to
identify what it would take to adequately fund our schools and deliver the results that we expect them to deliver and those two studies came back uh indicating that we are 35 to 42% roughly uh underfunded uh statewide and
so i want us to think about these supplemental funds and how we are using them to um to uh benefit our students and how important they are so if you hear something here that is important to you please reach out to your legislators
and let them know that we need to protect these programs so we heard um about title one point of order did you have a question i do have a couple questions but i just wanted to speak to the general topic first so um we have um
uh title one funds it's appropriate that we're doing this in the san creek zone because all of the schools in the san creek zone except for this one uh qualify for title one funds and it's interesting that most of our use of title one funds don't are not targeted
uses they benefit every student regardless of their uh their uh social um standing um the title two funding a lot of our people in the community are very concerned with um our scores
rightly so uh language arts and uh math our our cmass and uh many of the positions that our title 2 funds are going directly towards that is their primary use there are math coaches there are literacy coaches there are data
collection team that is you know analyzing results and recommending interventions uh and finally under title 4 uh one of the items that's being funded for technology is our raptor system that is a critical safety and security piece of software that is being
used in all of our buildings to make sure that people who shouldn't be in them don't get in them so that was my soap box now for my questions i heard i think it was title one that we had um uh state supplemental funding in that well um it
so i wouldn't call it supplemental funding so what the state did so colorado department of education they implemented a new um system this year a new grants management system which allowed them to better track the funding
that were carryover funds over the last many many many many years and so basically what that did is those fundings that funding went right into our application it was about november time where it seemed like they were supplemental but they were under the
ownership of 49 they just weren't used for over those years so they indicated you have to allocate these funds and use them and their grants management system just tracks the funding a little better and to where we request funds we're ensuring that we're using all of those
funds each year so i hope that i hope that helps thank you yes i did have another question but i'll pass it on if uh we need to yes and we'll go ahead and extend the time for a few minutes just so other board members can ask questions if they have one director liv you're right
but there it goes um just quickly because i did not realize miss bixler and miss granis were also two people who were at stson but no longer are so they didn't have the blue shirts on but they both supported my kids during deployments as well also and miss bixler's retired military and military
family and totally got it and was amazing with my kiddo during that time so thank you um totally an aside however my question is all of the schools that feed into san creek high school are title one so how is san creek high
school not title one uh so um the what we the planning process so i've met with district and uh district leaders so the superintendent mr hilts and um the decision is to keep the funding at the
lower levels so the elementary and middle school and so we do not serve high school with title one funds at this time there it goes we don't get additional funding if we add additional schools based on student number we just get a block is that correct we don't so we get
one allocation from the state of colorado it's based on the census bureau data it's usually three years in a rear that they figure out the allocation so we use 22 data for the census bureau and it that was our 2425 allocation and then we can decide as a district where our
needs are um and what schools to serve so the schools we do have to serve the highest poverty to the you know going down the poverty chain basically in a in a rank order kind of manner and currently we're serving middle school grades spans and elementary school
grades spans okay thank you sure kira sorry as she was talking i had a quick question just about like how this works because i'm a little bit more unfamiliar with like the board um or more unfamiliar than maybe they are cuz
they're a little more experienced but is there like a like a cut off with like the um percentage of free and reduced lunch or um how do you guys decide or for this year we're using it's called great there's different methods of
methods for serving title and the district can decide which method to to use um currently um for for next school year we're looking at schools that um are 42.31 and above in the middle and um
elementary school school ranges so there is some criteria that we have to meet when we are talking about our planning for next school year and the method for serving our title one schools so there's equid equitable opportunity to give it to those highest needs schools if that
makes sense okay sure okay thank you so much for your patience as we ran a little bit over your time thank you um and then because we are all human beings and we get thirsty uh director
dvola was not here for the mountain view academy vote but she wanted to add her vote in okay you just want to do the i devola i you okay and now we are on to item 9.2
proposed policy revision for ad school district 49 identity vision mission and philosophy and i don't think we had anyone who was going to be presenting on this um
so i don't know director schmidt do you want to talk about this so i'm going to start by saying that i believe most if not all of us on the deas have traveled abroad and enjoyed and respected other cultures a great deal in my case i grew up a
military child traveling and adapting to different cultures was just part of my life still is one revision to policy ad that changes global society to our constitutional republic was intended to state what is
factual in our mission statement only one to 1.2% of americans who grow up in the us move out of the country as adults that means 98 to 99% of americans who grow up living in the us continue to
live in the united states when they are adults 60 to 70% of those live within 500 miles of their hometown for the clear majority of students who will live in the us when they grow up they need to know that their country is a constitutional
republic and not a global society this should be reflected in the language of our mission statement and our students should see that a constitutional republic is a specific form of democracy where individual rights are safeguarded by a
constitution not a majority rule elected representatives make laws but their power is limited by a legal framework to prevent tyranny and a defined system of checks and balances to prevent absolute rule by any group
one small example of this is that every board member sitting here was elected by constituents who exercised their individual constitutional rights by utilizing the democratic mechanisms of our constitutional republic and voted for us to represent their
perspectives it just makes sense to have the proper form of government as listed in our mission statement and our students need to see that i do have other topics to cover with this but i would like to give other members a chance to speak and maybe we
could do one more round director hy uh i just want to start out by um saying that i agree with you 100% that our students should know about our um constitutional republic um but also we did take action to ensure that at our
last meeting when we um talked about a shortfall of uh our students who are getting adequate um us centered social studies um so and i think that that's absolutely the correct place to do that um that said i don't think that where we
live necessarily influences whether we are connected as a global society uh i work in a highly demanded field that many of our students are being encouraged to pursue i work in information technology and i can tell you that it is a regular experience to
work with consultants and uh business partners in england germany brazil india and china so that's just that's my everyday experience um i circumnavigated the globe when i was in the military and
we have students who are coming to us that are military connected and they might be coming from south korea germany etc um so they are already living that reality and then even the students who who never step out of colorado springs
my own daughter she's was getting on game servers as a as a teenager and she was interacting with people all over the world she has online friends from you know london um estonia romania so this
is just a normal thing and i think that it is important that we acknowledge that our students are going to live in this world and so that we do need to make sure that they are prepared to um navigate it because otherwise i think
that like especially in my field they're going to have a hard time staying employed director dvola so i think what's really important u for us to realize is that uh we are citizens of the united states and even
though we can have connections with the world just like uh director hyel mentioned we are not citizens of a global society or a global war of the world so um i think that's an important
distinction for us to make um and uh as part of the discussion that we had last um meeting the importance of knowing the us our us history and having pride in our own country is significantly
important i mean we saw here tonight that each school that was represented had pride in their own school community and how important that was to identify themselves as citizens or uh many citizens of that school um same thing
with the united states our countries are we have countries for uh certain purposes and reasons and they have distinctions and things that are important for us to recognize and we are preparing citizens of our country uh in
order for them to uh be productive citizens in our world even if they have global connections even if they go uh overseas even if they go into missions and they live in another country um for for several years uh they're still a
part of our um of our nation because they are us citizens who are serving in other areas around the globe so i think that's an important distinction to make um first of all i want to say that i do value the input we got because um we had
a discussion before the meeting started what is a constituent and a lot of people think a constituent is people who agree with you and that's not always the case um when benjamin franklin was once asked what type of government the
constitutional convention adopted his cautionary response was "a republic if you can keep it." um you know it's interesting because i have had the privilege of traveling a lot and i don't know if if uh mr nano can pull something
up that uh lynette had uploaded let's see if we can there's two items i just need to know which one you want to see um it's the one with breakdowns oh no no no this was something under board updates but that's fine if you
want to keep looking for that we're jumping between yeah 6.4 yeah okay that right there what i'm sharing right now is these are my own ancestry results and if you look at it you'll see northwestern europe
indigenous america's mexico germanic europe spain portugal swedish bass scotland indigenous americans north the netherlands wales central west africa and sephhatic jews um by the way i want to know that i want you to know that
superintendent hilts made a comment about central west africa and pygmies and i really believe he was height shaming me and i might be the shortest member of the board of education but i am the president anyway but i'm not a
global citizen i'm an american i am a us citizen some people are here because they were born here and some people become naturalized citizens uh mexican independence day is september 16th it is not cinco de mayo cinco de mayo just
will honor a battle but it's september 16th and i had the privilege of being in mexico during their independence day and i did not require them to honor my american history because i was visiting their country i was in israel on their 60th
anniversary and that was really that was their 60th anniversary recognized by the united nation biblically and historically israel's been around a lot longer than that so we have a country that is filled with a lot of different people and i think it's very important
for people to know because i heard it i hear it said to this day they mention that we're a democracy and we are a constitutional republic um so i think it's an important update we are part of a global community but we are a separate
and distinct country and i think it's an important uh thing to mention who are we and so you can honor other people but that doesn't mean you deny who we are so i had a japanese exchange student and i
did not consider her a global citizen i considered her a citizen of japan and i was honored that she came to visit the united states of america and the reason she came here was to learn about our country and so i think it's an important distinction to make i think a lot of
this could have come about when we used to have the international bakalorate program which mandated a second language a certain grade level community involvement etc but i just want to say that i think it's a worthwhile uh change to make into this
mission and identity statement now the one thing i will say is i also see attached the regulation now typically we do policies and the administration does the regulation portion because we don't cross over into operations that's not
our job as a board and so peter's always been open to input from that but dashs are typically done by the administration based on the policies so with that once again i don't know if the student board wants to weigh in yet and then we'll
have a second round well if it makes you feel any better you're probably taller than me so no but um i agree i think we all in america we're the great american melting pot right we all come from a lot of different places but one thing we have
in common is that we live here and we live yeah we live in this beautiful country with our um rights and um the privileges that we have we really are very blessed and so i love that we um have the opportunity to consider this and that the board is considering
changing this i do think it's it's amazing that you know we also have the beautiful world too and we can also go and visit but we are americans first and that's that's my that's my belief it doesn't have to be everyone else's too
but that's what i would just like to add so i love that um i agree with kira um i have family from germany um england all all these different places uh i have a sister who has family
who's in japan who was from japan and it's just it's amazing all these different cultures and how they come together and what's important is they make us um stand out and who we make us identify who we are you know um i'm an
american citizen i'm proud to be an american citizen my um my grandpa was born in germany but he came to america and so he became an american citizen but it's um we talked a little bit about this in our student board of representatives
meeting and i thought it was just an interesting discussion to see the the different stu uh the students different opinions and different insights to um us history and our history and um we all came to an agreement that it just needs
to be balanced um which i think is important to know that um whatever we teach whatever we learn it needs to be a balanced curriculum okay director schmidt so i just wanted to let you know a few of the revisions now i did it for
ad and ad-r so i don't know if that if i should be doing all of that but i'm going to tell you the words and phrases that were changed um what they were changed to so some of the words are supportive courage to take risks
individual individual responsibility for their own actions led by educators students take on an active role in their own learning all students can and want to learn intent to work with people
unique collaborating has the potential respecting the voice of the community maintaining enduring trust throughout our community in all of our actions and decisions delivering valued pathways pursuing performance excellence these
are positive messages our community will still gather for football roller skating and barbecues even when these revisions should they even with these revisions should they pass there's nothing in these proposed revisions that takes anything away from the big rocks or the
cultural compass nothing in the reision proposed revisions says that we do not value all people on the contrary d49 knows well that all children can learn and that all people are valued no matter what their circumstances or where they
come from trust is earned these proposed revisions do not diminish trust in any way though we still need to continue making efforts to re to earn trust from all and finally this board is not the prior board to suggest that this board
is not willing to gain perspective from others is incorrect we have all read the emails regarding these proposed revisions with open minds in the end some perspectives may have changed and some may not have changed but i believe
that all board members appreciate thoughts and comments from the community in making these decisions director hy so just really quickly i just wanted to say that we were talking a lot about being american citizens and the previous language said global
society not global citizens and i think that is a not subtle distinction i think we all understand that our responsibility first is as american citizens but we also have to be aware that we do fit into a larger world um
the other thing i wanted to bring up uh is with the um the -ash r and the big rocks um value all people is not included in that one but there are other um diff discrepancies as well because the um it says establishing enduring
trust instead of our current sustaining uh enduring trust and it says host a robust portfolio of schools instead of the improved uh offer exceptional choices so i think the i think we like the cultural compass
and i think i i understand that it got updated since this uh - r was last updated in 2018 so i would like to recommend that we bring the -ash r into currency yes happy to address that uh so
on march 12th 2020 the board adopted the sixth rock value all people and they uh modified some of the language and that's actually in a pdf that is attached under the dash r so we have the the - r kind of plain text and then we have an
attached pdf that's called waypoints and we update at that and the board sees that annually because we're required to have an updated uh code and that's where we've done that um but uh it's completely correct that the the plain text kind of wrapper around that pdf is
more outdated than that pdf that waypoints document the the waypoints document does have all six and i actually thought it was longer ago than 2020 but um it's been a kind of a blurry five years so um it was interesting to go back and look at who who was on the
board at that time and and voted for that and i think it's it's very it's one of the narrow windows where marie was already off the board and nobody else on the board had been so none of you voted for that when it came came across uh so i will say as somebody that's been really involved in this for years um i
appreciate the scrutiny and things like mission statements and especially the elaboration of the mission statement ought to reflect the elected leaders of the community and their understanding for example in the red line on the dash r you you deleted a
quote by peter sangi okay perhaps you would want to add a quote by u thomas jefferson or you might want to add a quote by some or you might not want to have a quote and that's an appropriate cultural leadership role for a board of education elected by community members
so um we welcome the the dialogue it's it really is much much better to have people engaged and disagreeing than have people apathetic and and just accepting what's already there and not even noticing if
it's changed or not so thank you for the work on this um we do believe the cultural compass and the big rocks as displayed in all of our buildings on all of our literature as we showed you uh and have for several years at the annual planning summit that is the authoritative version that that had a
board approval and so we'll make sure that the dash r when it is resi revised we'll make sure the dash r is is current with that terminology right so um there are things removed here um
that matter to me um crossed out is that we are committed to meeting students needs in all domains so we no longer say we are committed to meeting social and physical as well as academic we just made a declaration saying we supported
the social needs of military children and then we're removing it from the educational philosophy statement um my other issue is the process that developed each of these things was far more than a fivep person input and if
we're going to revise it and review it i think we should be following that same level of input each time that i was involved in this over the eight years i was on previously we received we did multiple rounds of feedback from all
levels of stakeholders um that included taxpayers who did not have students in our schools and who were um no longer parenting children in it included parents who were taxpayers it included
students it included staff members um at lots of different kinds of meetings and town halls and um so i think starting to delete things and change meaning without doing that same temperature
check at that breadth um isn't a kind of leadership that that i um that i choose as an individual individually one of the things that made this strong and made this district stronger over the longer
hall was that we took the time to do those checks and to bring in a greater part of the community rather than you know we we're hearing from two very passionate extremes on
most issues um we're not hearing from the majority on most of it and to then make a decision like this um now and to vote at the next meeting individually as one board member i disagree with
director dola so from my understanding um because lori had mentioned that dash rs are usually administrative um it seems like uh the previous board who did vote on this was involved in
that dash r is that correct peter i believe that is correct but um as marie pointed out for example the big rocks we did a we did a big public survey um and so uh mr nero led us through a process where we actually brought what we brought to the board is
not what the board eventually adopted because the board looked at the survey and i think we had promote educational choices and that's what became offer exceptional choices as just one example so there was there board was involved but the community was involved as well
um something that i wanted to point out is that the revisions i'm seeing in here actually don't change the rocks at all um like the rocks in our uh compass and so
um i think the the changes that were made are not going to be um overhauling of any of those things that the community was involved with um it's just a couple of wording pieces that we could have oversight over
um and make it better you know one thing i was going to say something similar when when it was originally developed that was the big community process and this isn't a matter of scrapping it and starting over and this has actually been revised more than once and i'm sure that the last
revisions did not involve that same process that was used when it was first developed but once again then you get into the question of a democracy versus a constitutional republic and so as far as the revisions what i'd like to
propose is i'd like to propose that we move this to our next work session for more discussion and a little bit of work but i'd also like to remove the dash r portion in that i think superintendent hilts can take some of the ideas in that
and end up developing it but the reason we don't cross over into operations there there are reasons for it so as far as the input i think it's good but i would like to propose we move this to our work session not as an action item but to give the community more time to
have their input and to hear from the individual board members on this but i don't know that we need to recreate the wheel so i just want to kind of get a temperature from the board how you feel about that idea director ly right is it um so you asked a separate question and
i had a comment prior to that so i don't have an answer for your question i was asking something else director schmidt what i think you should ask well the question and comment is that characterization's incorrect because i
participated as a parent i was no longer on the board when the value all people rock was added um and i participated as a parent in feedback on some of this that has been redlined in multiple discussions at the
building level both as a sac member and as a parent at town halls that were um related to some of these topics so at the times it was reviewed by previous boards more formal community feedback
than simply waiting for emails or for whom shows up to speak at open forum was sought um and board perspective was shifted in each of those cases both when i was on the board and when i wasn't and
participated as a community member and as a parent um and some of those things that are redlined in this first document like the thing i pointed out are kind of a big deal every single session i've sat in as a parent including fairly recent
ones at falcon high school that are more about school culture parents made it incredibly clear that academic need only was not the only thing they wanted the school to focus on so i um i object to that characterization but i'm also
asking that we consider more yes i agree this should not be moved forward as an action and needs more of a discussion but i think um to do to be respectful of the tr that continuing to when we talk about
establishing and maintaining enduring trust of our community the work of that involves seeking more formal input on changes like this that is how you continue to maintain that in my
individual personal opinion having worked really hard to do that previously and that's why i'm proposing to make it a discussion item at the work session so if there's something redline that you think should be should remain you could have that input at the time and we could
work together with it as a board in an open meeting at a work session so um director schmidt i thought i saw your hand up i had a question but i think we can wait until we have a discussion in public
director dvola um because you uh director maria levier right um did bring up some good points of we're there are things in here that need work that as a board that whether we're going to take things out uh i i
hear what you're saying about the the needs of the students and so just because one person proposed the redlinining doesn't mean that's what we're going to vote on as a board so i think that having that discussion and that dialogue can help us to take things
and either keep them in or change them so that we can come to a consensus of what this could look like um but just like mr uh as superintendent hills pointed out the board who voted on this
none of us were that board and our society is has changed and it continues to change and it will always continue to change education doesn't look the same way it looked 20 or 5 years ago 10 years
ago 50 years ago like we're continually changing and and developing and processing things and because we're a a community of continuous improvement so if we wanted to have further input or insight um i don't know if it's
necessary for us to have an entire um task force coming around this when we already have the big rocks and the main the bulk of what this stands for already there um and we are the elected board so i think it's going to be important for
us to have this as a discussion item at our next meeting um and just because of one person's proposal doesn't mean it's going to stand can i get uh to see if we can get a board consensus to move this to our next
work session for further discussion yes yes yes already said yes yes okay we have a consensus to move it to our next work session and i don't think we have any more public comment um director
dvolola you wanted to add something under miscellaneous yes i did thank you um so on tuesday night i uh attended the dac meeting and uh we had a very good discussion of what the dac could potentially look like in
the future um they discussed how um what they're doing currently may or may not actually fall under what is required by the colorado department of education for the district accountability committee um so we actually went through the district
accountability committee uh responsibilities inventory um and checked whether yes or no the dac is currently doing that and from that discussion um there was something really important that the um dac tasked me with
i got a tasking at the dack it was kind of it was quite fun of um um of what areas the board would like the dac to study and to make recommendations upon so they did ask um
if we could possibly have a discussion item maybe at our next meeting of um what are the things that we would want the dac to study and make recommendations upon that would help us in our decision making as a board um so
that would be something that i think we could move forward to a as a discussion item um and they kind of wanted it by april 8th but i told them it may or may not happen that fast any um input or discussion on that
uh just that i've spoken with the um uh budget mlo subcommittee because i meet with them each time as well and uh that's something that they have expressed uh to me and yeah i we want to make sure that our dac is a very effective um and if um anything that we
can do to improve that process is a good plan and it looks like we are going to have time to add that to our next work session so before we adjourn i want to really thank the sang creek zone uh they were right about the
orchestra for middle school and high school normally when you hear an orchestra you know there's always a little bit of screeching there was no screeching this was phenomenal it really was and i just wanted to thank everyone for their hard work this is our last showcase meeting and i want to thank the
comm's team for moving setting up and doing all the great work that they did and with that i took my glasses off but i think we are adjourned at 8:45