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superar your all right all right start the meeting Pledge of Allegiance Pledge Allegiance the United States of America the stands
Justice all right welcome to the March 10th regular meeting and everybody is in attendance for school board members so we'll move right into 4.0 to move the agenda and I'll move to approve any questions or discussions on the agenda the only comment I would make
is and and we'll have some more conversation as we get there there was an item added today the achievement integration and it's an eight-page document and we will discuss there's going to be some conversation about it but I just want to make sure everyone's aware it was added keep printed or look
before we'll we'll get to it all right any other questions or discussion all those in favor of approving approving the agenda say I I I any opposed motion carries go to 5.0 communication reports with enrollment
update first um looking at the change I mean we're we're down four kids from last month um so it slowed a little bit which is a good thing um it's three in grade 11 down two in grade seven down one in
grade four up one in grade two and up one in kindergarten um and so I mean there's not not much more to say than that I mean looking we're so we're at 1931 that's K12 the prek has not changed um
and to be honest it looks like it's pretty if Trend Falls it'll stay pretty steady that's going to be our number then the last couple months doesn't seem to change much um no I mean like you said the trends if you look at the previous years other
than a couple years this is what it does any questions on a moment Finance Carla hello everybody oh okay um on the first page of the not the treasures report the board report just kind of a quick note um when Kevin and I were reviewing it
was brought to my attention that my formula for my REM remaining budget did not come over from the adopted budget so it's that number is off we'll fix it for the next next report that goes in board book but um for some reason it didn't save but the percentages of the budget
received are correct so um two notes on the front page is um if you look at our supplies line we are still sitting at 72% um of what we've used um so we'll continue to watch that closely trying to
monitor our supplies expenses and then um on the other expenditures line C we've only SP 12% and that's because I don't we have some extra money sitting there for incidentals that we didn't quite have ear marked for anything specific so that's sitting in that
bucket um that is all I had on that page any questions there questions from board okay okay so going on to our other fund accounts um we are sitting pretty trendy with where we have been in the past um just to note
with the revenue for Food Service we've been collecting those a lot faster for our monthly payments so that's where the percentage change is there um and I went pretty conservative with what the state is going to be paying us this year so that may fluctuate at the end of the
year just a note for that um the big change is our community ed um numbers and that's just due to because we've moved all of our VPK dollars meaning our four-year-old teachers and a few Paras into the general fund um which I don't
have the dollar amount on top of my head but it was a significant dollar amount so and that went with the same with the expenditures so the revenue followed um and those are the two big notes on that page any questions there any
questions okay and then the treasures report um our cash position is still well way way over what we were last year which is Pleasant to see um going to continue monitoring that hopefully it stays on Trend um but the big note is
our community services fund which is our um non-public and our um Community Ed programs and you can see with by getting our VPK dollars it almost cut their fund deficit by half so that is a positive
note um we'll continue to work with Diane and we'll we'll make sure that that stays in the positive Direction um I do have projected for them to be in the black this year due to that change so um I'm hoping we can we can move on that
Trend that's all I had any questions for Carla no thank you yeah thank you thanks Carla okay 5.3 administration department head reports start with superintendent okay I will hit some things I'm sure Brian's going to hit on a few of them as
well um robotics um Brian talked about a month ago about how good they were doing and I think it's since um the last meeting a state tournament and some World invites um I believe you got an email with a an event tomorrow if anyone can make it I think it's 4:30 to 6:30 or
something where they'll do some demonstrations upstairs here so that is awesome um obviously Boys Hockey this last weekend awesome congrats uh boys basketball Wednesday at Concordia um encourage people to go um and I'll even
throw it out there Sacred Heart girls are going to State Nevin was down and watch the boys uh hockey game um it's it's a great time to be an eastsider be green green W greenwave um and support it's just good thing for kids and so um
a lot of positive I'm very happy and and I would thank our staff um the principes have done a lot to accommodate other staff um over the last several days and it just takes a lot and we would do it whether it was girls basketball soccer
whatever um but um I I thank them um and others that have helped because there's people covered classes this and that so um that's all good um as far as budget um the budget is not quite ready next year's um I'm just going to give a heads
up we're going to need a little more time next meeting so I'm just kind of forewarning it'll be ready we're going to have to do some work as we start to make some decisions so I think we'll be quicker tonight but next one might be a little longer want a working session
well it's going to have to be part of the meeting because I think some things might have and we we might not make decisions on certain things but I think there may be some things that the board wants to say yeah we're we're we're set here when you see the numbers and then there may be some so we'll figure it out
as we go closer but I think we'll need some time so um with that said um one other thing just to give a heads up um I'm taking off tonight with 13 other soups um to go to state capital for tomorrow morning we're there at 8:00 I'll be back tomorrow night um again I'm
always available by phone but it's um this region does a day all the different regions and so it's go um meet with certain people not over uh optimistic that we're going to change you know financially there's not a lot that to be
optimistic about I guess I would say but um there are still things that could change to help us um so we will do some advocating and see where it goes so that's all I have now I have a little bit on um committees when we get there
and okay principles who do we want to start with Diane you have things tonight there we go all right good evening um I just have a little quick note um we finished up early childhood screening but we don't have numbers for you yet
we're figuring out who um was referred and we'll go on further or who we're going to rescreen in the fall but we had a pretty good turnout for screening this year screened about 80 some kids or maybe a few less than that but um I'll have numbers for that um at the next school board meeting but I did want to
let you know I renewed our so we get two pots of money we have VPK funding um but we also have what's called pathway 2 funding um and so both require uh submitt every year if you want the funding and I just finished our uh
Pathway to funding for next year and it has gone up we used to get uh $7,500 per student and we're allotted five students um we're still allotted only five students but the funding went up to 8,00 ,500 so we'll be see an increase of $5,000 in that funding
stream so um and that has different markers in it too we usually use it with our three-year-old program um but we can use it in either program should the need be there so it's nice to see an increase in that funding for next year so um that's all I
have did you have anything on community SE on here for Community Ed director too so I'm just curious if you had anything for Community uh we offered a class um um been looking for people to teach classes um we did some classes with
Ellen from Thrivent and we had three people turnout one of which was me because I was kind of interested in what she had to say four people one night three people the rest um I'm working right now with the gentleman who wants to do a wood carving session in April so we're putting together a flyer um and
it's going to be hosted at CMS and then really working towards getting summer programming good to go with um summer wave up in for the summer and um activities we can do with kids in the summer and volleyball we always do a
good volleyball clinic in July and then um Kelly zabki always offers preschool playground so working with those folks that are standard and trying I've done some work with um the fiad teacher from New Heights we're looking at doing some kind of a ninja summer course so she's
going to put together some what materials we would need and how we could offer that she was very excited about the prospect so I'm working with her to get something going for that okay thank you right thank you all right Melissa Chad
Zone just so your work Chad sent this um and i' mentioned earlier that um one of the asks was to kind of report in on testing and how things are going and the elementary had conferences last time we had reports so he's out but he sent this so that's where this came
from all right good evening I just want to start off by giving a big thank you um to Jace rosendal and his family from Grand Forks um their family supplied numerous items to students at South Point over the winter this year um
including boots snow pants clothing and so it was just greatly appreciated and so I just want to recognize that family the name rosendall Jace rosendall and his family his parents his brothers and sisters they um that's how they
contributed um throughout the holiday season this year to each other and so they decided to adopt our school and it was just really cool and very much appreciated for our students um something I just wanted to bring up we've talked about it before just the
continued safety concerns that we have out in our area um with the biglands and Hawk signal um we've been working with Safe Kids and with um our local law enforcement of just trying to get that safety of everyone understanding how to
use the hawk signal having kids use it appropriately um it's just continues to be a concern with that and I also wanted to bring up um we have we had our winter walk to school day back in February first part of February and so we did
work jointly with safe kids with that and then also with our local um Police Department and it was noticed there that a lot of um kids were riding up front in the front seat and so we've done a big movement with Safe Kids to help families
be aware of that because it's a Minnesota state law that went into effect August 1st this past past year and so we have a big sandwich board that's been out for the last few weeks from Safe Kids just going over the the law and um what's required where kids
should be seated they've been a presence out at South Point and they have issued some warnings to quite a few um of our families that have been dropped off so I just wanted people to know that that's not a self Point rule that that's a state law and that that you have to be
um so yep under you have to be under the age of 13 to ride in the back seat um this went into effect August 1st yeah yep and so you have to meet those height requirements and weight requirements and so they been out there as a presence and
so so along with age there's also height and weight required yes and it's yep it's both not either or I believe so okay yes yes and so I just wanted everyone to be aware because we have had that presence out in our front for the last couple weeks of why they've been
there um I wanted to share our reading goal and math goal so um they're very similar goals um but our our um South Point will use the data on each individual student who has a 90% School attendance or hire to measure their growth over the school year so we use
fastbridge for that testing using the fastbridge a reading assessment 65% of those South Point students will meet or exceed their projected end of thee goal by Spring 25 using that fast Bridge assessment so right now we're currently sitting at
56% our math goal is the same um with that 90% of School attendance higher um but using that fastbridge a math assessment um 55% of those South Point students will meet or exceed their projected goal and we are currently
sitting at 59% so we've met that um hopefully we can maintain that as we go into the spring we are also gearing up for our MCA so a lot of preparation and gearing up for that another big thing that's happening at South Point right
now is I love to read month we have a superheroes theme so I'm told I look very similar to Rosie our superhero and Mr adolfson looks very familiar very like striking resemblance to Rusty
another superhero so the book Bandits have gotten our books out at South Point and so we're asking our self Point students to read as much as they can throughout the month of March so we can get our superpowers back um so we've got
some fun events throughout the month to celebrate that and then we also have our big book bingo event which is a free event for our families on we have that on Thursday March 27th from 5:30 to 6:30 so lots of fun things happening
fun any questions questions for Melissa thank you thank you thank you were you did you just want us to read this or were you going to go over it all for us okay all right hi everyone um I just have to
go back to um the activities that were being shared in the celebrations and and add some more to the list CU why not when you have things to celebrate let's just keep the list nice and long um so we have orts students um just a couple that are participating at CMS but they
are rock stars um we had two a couple that went to State and they came back with three Silvers that's awesome I know I know and it was in St Cloud this year that is different in the past we've um had the opportunity to just be local here at UND um but this year it's Minnesota and so they had to go to St
Cloud and it was at the same time that our robotics things were kind of going on so lots of things in the spring lots of things in March um so Esports obviously our Robotics and we have CMS teams that were a part of that competition as well um did well at State and have the opportunity um for our high
school students to go to Worlds which is awesome and at CMS we are um with the trophy that they earned this year the teams were setting up a a display right outside of our office because it's a pretty big deal what they've had going on our CMS musical just wrapped up they
had five performances three were during the school day each grade level had a chance to see their peers perform um and then we had the evening performances and we had an incredible amount of people that came um our our we had to bring out more chairs on Thursday night and then I
had thought that there might be less on Friday just because of some of the other things that were going on um and we were just a little bit shy of of that number so really um impressive so 280 is what we we didn't print enough tickets for people so it was just okay we'll take
your cash and go find a spot which is a good problem to have um and then certainly on Friday was a very big deal with our um students having the first opportunity to go on a fan bus and so um very cool to get to State no matter what to be able to send students on a fan bus
and to have a middle school fan us is pretty incredible and so I have to say a special thanks to Mr enri who was our driver to Mrs veter and then also Mrs Beck who are amazingly willing to hang out with 45 middle school students and
get them where they need to go safely and so that is incredible and then I'm going to say a um little message to the Excel Energy Center they need to find a better plan for bus parking because Mr enrite had to park I think across the river and then it was a 15 20 minute
walk for him to get over there so that's a little bit frustrating um but he managed of course because it's Mr en right um so definitely a special thanks to those individuals obviously a good luck to our basketball team as they're going to Concordia on Wednesday and then to our youth basketball teams who are
playing this weekend too with our home booster tournament that is a very big deal and then also a bigger thanks too to all of the teams that coordinate and help and and donate and bake and do all of the things because um when they do that than their reward is during their
season because the Sports boosters does a lot for the programs that we have um we at CMS have conferences this Wednesday and the following Wednesday they're from 3:30 to 6:30 they are open house style which means that you can find um almost all of our teachers in
their classrooms ready to visit and fill in and explain um kind of progress and where things are going and goals to wrap of the school year our sixth grade teachers are going to be in the cafeteria so that um it's maybe easier to locate and navigate um they did that
in the fall and they liked that that seemed to work well um it is the end of our third quarter on March 21st and so we are just reminding and kind of pushing students forward and telling them that everything they do between now and then just counts in the positive and points points points equals better
percentage and let's do this let's go um and then because it's the time of year we're looking at our staffing we're looking at our scheduling we're looking at the opportunities that we're offering to our middle middle schoolers because we know that opportunities equals motivation and we want kids that are motivated um and then we have our
Eastside enrichment um day that is coming it's March 24th that's our staff development day it's the second time that we have um had this event going on it's um in the morning here at the senior high and we have a website that shares all the details with our staff um
we have all staff that are invited um teachers par professionals our office staff and and those even in our kitchen bus if they are wanting or see things that are um important or that would help them to do their work even better um they're invited as well um but some
really good opportunities lots of teacher relicensure um options um some fun options um and then um lots of good information to share uh whether it is
um um Let me give some examples uh uh some trainings on ADHD some trainings on um IEPs some trainings on CPR um there's some occupational therapy resources there's sessions on vaping their sessions on um magic school which is a a
tool that is accessible to our teachers and can help them to build lesson plans um withl another program that we use so the idea is that teachers have lots of choice and staff have lots of choice when it comes to their learning so matching what it is that they need or they want so that it benefits students
which is all good um we're looking forward to Spring really feeling like the weather earlier today was nicer than when we all walked in um but looking forward to having the spring activities and all the things that our middle schoolers can be a part of to mention too our CMS musical we had 56 students
that participated that is incredible yeah so certainly lots of things to celebrate and uh let's keep it going it's going to be a good spring thank you any questions all right thank you thank
you first of all I'd like to request to go first next time because everything I wrot wrote down has been already said so I'm good to go I'm leaving so um no um I I'll be a little repetitive but I have a couple other things to say um again with
regard to robotics um our high school team that is going to Worlds um was the robot skills challenge Champion for the state of Minnesota so they were number one in that they're going to Worlds that's Nolan Blair and Luke Mossman and
Sebastian Olsen who have been kicking butt the entire robotic season so they continue to do that um we did have a Pepperell for them on the 27th of February before they went off um and had all of them down the gym plus our student body so that was kind of cool uh
Mr Grover is correct there is an open house upstairs tomorrow it is uh from 4:30 to 6:30 so who's right spot on um we had a pep rally for our state hockey team um prior to them leaving on the 3rd of March um they obviously performed
very well um our cheerleaders were were awesome the band went down on Wednesday and came back on Wednesday they didn't get back until 4:30 in the morning on Thursday um thank goodness my sister-in-law is the director so she didn't hate me too bad but they got to go again on Friday and stay overnight
and come back Saturday so good for them um boys basketball like Mr Grover mentioned is playing Wednesday uh at Concordia um hopefully we can go down to Concordia and be happy out leaving the facility twice Wednesday and Friday it
doesn't happen a lot but I think it's going to happen this year I got a good feeling so that's good excuse me um we did have our first set of conferences on the 26th of February uh had a really good turnout I think for high school and which is isn't great we can't even come
close to matching the elementaries but um in the in the world of high school where parents have access daily to uh their their records and their their schooling they they sometimes let me know when an assignment's missing before the teacher even puts it in their grade
book so um that there's that we have our second set of conferences on the 27th of March um same thing same for that we have open house uh all the parents can go into the cafeteria and meet with whoever they want to meet with um and then um March 21st coming up is the
end of quarter like Joe mentioned but we do have a poo a schoolwide poo that day um our session will be with new heights and I believe that's in the afternoon sometime and the middle school at South points in the morning so more information on that as far as high school registration is concerned um we
pretty much have everybody registered for their classes they get to pick um now I got have to go and figure out if there's 275 kids that are wanting to take a fax class I got toig figure out how that looks well how many sections I got to have and fill all those things so that's my next move with that um
upcoming a little ways down the road but thinking about for you guys because it does involve you guys we do have graduation uh May 23rd uh 7:00 at the civic center right um I'll promise it'll be done in three and a half hours or
less no just kidding um easily an hour or so um but I will say even farther down the road next year's graduation 2026 cannot be held in the Civic Center because they are doing the remodel and doing some
other stuff with it so we have I have been in touch with um Pat Hill who's kind of one of the big wheels in uh at the um Chester Fritz so he's getting me a quote to just have everything there um
and it's a nice facility it's an awesome facility I'd love to still try to keep it in East grandforks but that's virtually impossible to try and put 2,000 people or 2 200 people into the into a building and each Grand Fork doesn't work so um in reality it would
be a better facility but because it's air conditioned it's clim you know everything's climate controlled everything's ready to go everything is all over there um we spend a lot of time on maintenance getting stuff over to the pack setting it all up said doing the things all that would be done for us the only thing we have to do is bring some
band instruments a little bit so but it's going to probably be a couple Grand or more to do it but just something to think about down the road so unless you can find me a big old barn or something that has seating for 2500 you I mean knew I shouldn't have said it
because knew L um but so yeah lots of things lots lots of things going on so and there there you go what else any questions for me questions for Brian okay all right
thanks everybody thank you right Seria e e I will say in my world I mean I I appreciate the athleticism of the hockey players but as a high school principal I
appreciate much more that every single one of those kids is a good person yeah right they are and not that the other teams aren't and don't take that the wrong way but H the hockey players are are good people they are never disciplined problems they are in the
hallway awesome to talk to and that's that's what I worry more about I mean yep if you're a great hockey player great if you're a great basketball player great but are you a good person that's what I worry about the most so and they they definitely are all my athletes are I don't have any issues with any of my athletes that's a good thing so just wanted to just wanted to
share that because like I said in my world that's way more important so agreed I'll say it's probably a pretty big shout out to all those coaches that are out there with those athletes fair enough so yeah swimmers are nothing but trouble good qualities to make them
successful no matter what they're doing yeah you could see it in the interviews right yeah yeah why don't I fill just a little bit of time I'm jump to the no no no that's fine just as far as I'm going to jump to the Committees just because I have a few things to update the health and safety
committee um did meet it was a smaller group because we pushed it back a week and no one said anything but I know six six seven Amanda I didn't count it wasn't a huge but I'm just going to say no major issues there there's some you know few temp issues in buildings some
celess some bleachers stuff some things we're working on um but um it's where it's where we're at um I sent the the policy committee I sent um there's a few updates to look at um let know if you want to come back together
um there's nothing emergency that has to be passed um but it's a latest version to come we're going to I'm sure get more here as the legislative session rolls on and so anyway look them over let me know if we want to come together we can should have them ready for next meeting
um just uh looking forward there's a facility meeting which we do quarterly and I believe that's Matt Lindsay and Josh will meet with Ron and look at kind of what's coming up um for the summer um he asked if we could push it back to the it's scheduled for next monay the 17th
which we don't have a meeting but he was wondering could we meet before our meeting on the 24th and I'm just asking I don't you know I don't know what your schedules are like probably I mean half hour would be plenty so if we went 5 we could be ready to go up 5:30 would that
work or not work or I will look okay A lot of times I yeah let me let me know and like say if not we can I mean there's nothing you know that we have to meet or whatever but we we had scheduled them for quarterly and it just happened to hit the 17th and that that was a thought I
mean it's not going to be I can do that if I block in right now I'll send I'll send a reminder email does that work work okay and then I'll know I'll know on Saturday you're
right okay or possibly no possibly no tomorrow you know Wednesday hopefully not but we right to 2bd for me there okay I'll send I'll send a tenative thr out so and that's all I had
as far as committees right now so just fill some time okay thank you thank you good evening everybody so tonight we're going to talk about achievement integration and our plan for the next three years um just to give a little background on what achievement integration is this this Money's been
around for a long time um it came to be when integration um became um approved by the Supreme Court um that there could no more be segregated schools so it's
it's um been around for quite a while and it is to reduce academic disparities to create integration uh both racial ethnic and um from economic backgrounds of for Minnesota schools and how are we eligible to
participate so there's four different ways you can be eligible as a school district to participate one is to um be um a join to a school district that is racially isolated and we are connected to cookon which is which means they have
a population of 20% of a protected class that is higher than any of the schools around them and that's how we qualify for these dollars um so again adjoining that racially isolated District uh the
second way is if you have a school within your school district that is racially um um from a pro uh from a ed class excuse me is more than 20% um and I believe within KRON Public
Schools I think they do have a school that is identified uh and then the other way that districts can participate is just voluntarily they can geographically depending on where they're located they also can um make an application to the Department of Ed to be able to participate as
well um so there's three goals within this plan that we need to to have one is we need to have an integration plan with the districts um that are adjoined to the racially isolated School District so
uh the the districts that participate um with cookston is East Ground Forks and Thief River Falls so the three of us that kind of took a while to get together make a plan and um I'll get on the same page there but we finally did uh the second goal is academic disparity
meaning you know looking at your um gaps of opportunity or of achievement and then a third goal around teacher equity and all three of those goals need to be included within within the plan uh so uh we were put on needs
Improvement in this plan and so looking at our data we looked at um some different things one is we looked at our reading proficiency just across the district and I know this is just one test on one day and all of that you know it's just good Trend data for us to kind
of keep track of so over time you can kind of see we've been really flat across the district with with our reading um overall um and then this is across schools what what that proficiency rate has looked like in those Trends so I'll give you a minute to look
at that and then um we have targeted these dollars because a lot of these dollars um are about career in college readiness and students being being graduating from high school so it makes sense that we
would Target these dollars towards our middle level where they're getting kids you know prepared right away for um entrance into our career and college readiness pieces here at the high school so when you break down our um demographic data it's really super
interesting to look at this data uh you can see we have had a a a big spike there with um our American Indian um students who are of American Indian Heritage um our Hispanic students you
can see where they're sitting and there was an a little upward climb there um you can also see where um our largest group which is our children who are white and you can see that our black children um have um really increased
rates um in reading in the last few years and I would call that that's the first time I've ever seen a gap closure like that ever so that's really exciting and something to really celebrate and then um also just just so you can see from at Central Middle
School as well um how our students who have some economic disparity how they are performing and where they're at so you can see reading overall we really want to get into that higher range of the 70s and the 880s
which we're working on really hard um especially down at our elementaries and they're doing a fantastic job so how many dollars do we have to work with roughly with achievement integration so we have around
$29,000 that we can work with um the incentive Revenue that 20,000 has to be used for particular things and we did find out that tutoring can fall into that uh thank you Mr Grover for for
finding that out for us so we um this is the budget we're proposing which is 80% of that budget will be directed right at students and um services for them there'll be some dollars related to uh professional development and um I'll get
into into detail here about what some of those things will look like but just so you have a picture of what we're thinking plus the $20,000 um related to the tutoring okay so we're suggesting these strategies because the middle school has been working for a couple of years
they've been studying looking at Avid overall and um making some decisions on how they would like to move forward and um one of the things they had um which I'm just so excited about it but um one of the things they um are looking at for
next year is starting with an elective in seventh grade and then throughout the three years of this plan and having that Blossom and their site team working together to decide how that's going to move forward and what other Staffing in those pieces that'll be needed so back
in that budget if you think about it we had some money for a um for a director for Avid and then we also have for some programming in there too for other programming pieces that they may need um peoplewise too so the site team will
work on that and then tutoring um through Partnerships um using um resources that are in the community folks that want to come in and um help kids um students from the University um um pieces like that uh the middle school
has um has um always been looking for kids who don't have a relationship with an adult at the school we're going to call that targeted um connections just to make sure those kids that don't have that have um have one person in the school that checks in with them
frequently and it could be anybody on staff and then of course our multi-tiered supports which we have been working on and putting in place over the last few years now and also our community cultural Navigator and some of um some of the pieces and parts that she
does um helping bring resources to families in need who may be homeless who um who just may be in a crisis at any moment if it's a mental health crisis if it's a Health crisis if it's a um but help helping navigate those systems and
and getting things in place so those are kind of what we're suggesting for um that academic disparity area and so um I brought Dr Tac because uh he has been um we were so
lucky to have him on staff and I know I know Holly you've um you're an expert in this as well in this um area of avid but um I just want to give give you guys a little background on what it is and um and how we can um get this um
exploratory year um zero year off the ground at um at Central Middle School with um some of these some of these dollars and what it does um Dave do you want to jump in at all are you are we good you jump in
anytime but okay so Abid stands for advancement via individual determination so the so what Central Middle School is looking at doing is starting with um with one elective class in the seventh grade and um through that um they'll be
working on career and college readiness um skills and um and the Wicker strategies which are writing inquiry collaboration organization and reading but we're really just going to focus on that
Reading area since that's our overall what our data is showing and then of course some field trips are involved there too and so this this one pager gives a nice explanation of what Avid is um it's really aimed at the academic middle and
um they do a selection process for students um to be in that Abid elective and some of the skills that they work on are things that they need to be career in college ready such as note taking um self- advocating for themselves doing
goal setting um team building study groups all kinds of things that um that are super engaging and um get kids active in school and to be um there has to be a a want and a desire
to want to do this and so the through the process of um selecting those kids uh for that elective there there are certain parameters around that and what that would look like so they have to
have a potential to be um you know for honors um advanced work in school but they might need support so that's that middle those middle students has a GPA um of 2. higher 2.0 or higher um is
scoring pretty well on like their star assessment has um good um appropriate classroom Behavior good attendance has the desire and DET determination to go to college um um they could be the first in
their family to attend college would be a good Avid um elective student um they could be from racially cultural or economic groups that is historically underserved that um getting to college uh could be um a struggle uh be from a
low-income family or have special circumstances that could be obstacles for achievement um what is not um um an avid elective uh student is students who failed to complete any of their homework or for
students who consistently receive grades lower than 70% they're not really motivated and um and they need to have that individual determination I want to do this I'm I'm vested so uh Central Middle School has
like I said started this discussion already um this is a way for the district to come from behind to support this important work that they're doing at the middle school and not replicating or creating something new and different uh year zero again it will be the
partial beginning with that elective and then getting a site team involved and that team going for some really strong professional development and then plan making a plan on how they're going to move um this forward at at the school
because there there is a schoolwide portion to this okay where everyone gets certain skills if that's the right way to say it or we improve but then there's a separate group if that's I'm help me out here you concentrate what they call
an elective course so instead of taking and I don't know Jill has some ideas of where it goes but instead of taking this that select group would be overtaking the other course okay but there is programming that as as this rolls out
all six seventh eth graders will end up getting all of this is included in that funding yeah yeah but it's going to progress at different rates you know as far as you know what we need year one is different than what you need year two
and year three um and then as you expand to other schools if it goes that way um and so so it's in the Ani plan right now is to pull there's and and I have it broken
here roughly um it's about 70,000 but again it's going to fluctuate from year one to year three what the costs are um because and again I'm just going to speak like when you talk and have a director at the start we don't need much yeah you know we need a little bit of
help but as it grows and it goes to two buildings three buildings or even two classes three classes it'll expand but it'll be less training too as we get our staff trained so even though the cost fluctuates it's still in the Ani correct correct y cutting anything out in order
to have we're really not cutting out um I would say um we're looking at that uh directorship differently in in Abid and I guess I'm going to say
retooling on things that I'm going to say truly fit in Ani um sometimes there's some gray areas on what qualifies for this or that and this definitely Falls right in and assume that the state does have to approve too you know just because we put for it if
they for some reason would no we don't see it the same way you did we would be back because we already had a plan that where the state said correct and so we had to go back right develop this and it's no different title goes through the same process there's times things with title don't get approved and you or or
we want to change and you amend things and again it has to be approved so okay so sorry I just and the thing no and the thing about Aid too once once once these once the schools get up and running and and the PD piece is in place um those
site teams really start to to own that so it becomes um not as expensive it is as it is to get it started if that makes sense but it would continue to be Ani funded thing yes yeah
Y and so the the third goal remember there was three goals that were related um the third one being teacher Equity um and uh professional development was what we brought up our American Indian education um programming we've had a
part of it come out of here as well some of that education piece and um and then uh diversity training which which is more the cultural competency training which we put in the plan which is an which is an alignment also with teacher
lure as well and then the Avid training and um pieces and parts but that sums up the plan and nutshell any questions can we get a copy of these slides
yes I have a question so I did some research on avid and there's some people that say that it when it's done in like lower grades it hinders problem solving and critical thinking because you're told how to take notes what to write down and things like that that is one
thing like where's your research from I've read as different schools that are implementing can you send that to me I I guess I would throw you you know it's like it's um it's like any teaching yeah you know some kids will pick up on
things differently than others I'm not going to say you know you can um dare program there's people that are in favor of it people that are against it I I think a Common Language and that's a piece that I guess I'm looking at with with the the Avid piece I think the goal
the goal at least mine would be to eventually get now we're starting with one group meaning Middle School um there's many different ways to implement um and hopefully work back but it's I guess from the people I've talked to that have been in it and used it I've
gotten a lot of POS POS I mean I'm not going to say there can't be some you know I get I get nervous with comments like that to be honest because you could say that about any instructional item that you're Implement no I know that's why I'm saying can I see what you're saying and where you got that
information from because I think we all deserve both sides to do yeah it's from other Schoolboard members across the state that have used it yeah and it's more of the younger kids not the older kids yeah no I just is there a way we can is there a way we can make modifications to how we implement it and roll out if we have um feedback like
that from other districts to avoid that and I don't know I've never seen Abid in use I just you know asked around and we should go to Holly school well I think there's pieces that and again I I might if Dave's willing to speak I mean I'm not saying there aren't
things and again I haven't been through the binders of material and you know again a big piece is the person presented and that's a piece of teaching you know you can give a I'm going to say an Algebra 2 curriculum and it's only as good as the person presenting it to a
certain extent so again I'm not going to say there isn't something that we could all find that maybe hey yeah you know um because don't take it use it as an example everyone does things a little differently and I think it's showing you know organization is a big ke piece that
they focus on and again there's many ways to be organized and it's finding what works and going forward I just think you're going to find a handful of people that say yeah I don't like it and you're going to find a handful of people that say yeah it's great so I think it's
up to us to be independent to do research beyond the opinions to figure that out did you want to add anything T to yeah I think it would be helpful W's coming up we've spent a lot
of trainings together and one of the we went I don't know if you were on this trip in bismar yeah you were yes but seen bismar um Public Schools as a middle school educator where we were doing the two column notes and the three column notes and then we toured like their
elementary schools and they use that same verbage when their kids are doing like their morning journals they say let's do a one column note for journals and it's really just kids drawing a picture of what happened or you know but they still use the same language in
kindergarten as a one column note and then when they get to middle school they're doing two column nodes or three column nodes in high school and so on so just having that consistent language and that consistent format you can kind of even brand it to your school um it just
really helps kids align their work everything she said is so true nice to be invited here and nice to speak into a microphone that I'm not announcing into to so this is very this is nice I uh I usually use my metaphors in coaching terms just because that's my background as well too and I say that
when I got my first year teaching the head basketball coach the first thing he did was he went down to the seventh grade in the upper elementary and said this is the offense we like to run this is the way in which we call our plays uh we would like you to start doing this parts of offense and defense please use
these terms as well and I was like what are you doing at sixth and seventh grade he says well as you buil with that same terminology and those same skills I don't expect them to run our offense but I do uh when they get to us using those and engaging in those processes and thinking in that fashion my life gets
exponentially easier and what Holly just mentioned is what we've seen as well too at that elementary school it truly is with the flexibility it it systematizes good teaching practices Avid is nothing new and I think that's why so many teachers and buildings and districts districts are uh very quick to adopt it
because they just see they say this is great teaching systematized and structured in a way that makes sense for us I mean we we ask that of teachers all the time where we say please take these great teaching practices and make it work but we often lack the time and the ability to work uh they work
horizontally well but vertically we don't do well avid's got that really aligned quite nicely uh in a very structured uh in in a way that you could approach it bit by bit uh and i' I've seen in the the schools that in my training uh both uh close by with bismar
uh that I know that I still keep in touch with my friends across the river we are sitting next to um uh truly a nationally recognized uh group of schools for Avid right across the river that I I can speak to that I know that but uh going around the elementary
buildings uh it's just it's amazing the kids what what you do is that you don't have to hope your kid gets that one great teacher or that one great school year or my kid goes to that one school that's really good Avid just takes great teaching and and systematizes it all the
way across it's um it it it's been shown so I I I I I think that's a great question that you asked in my training of what I've seen uh both locally regionally and nationally uh I haven't seen that it doesn't mean it's not there uh but I haven't seen that but it it it
could be definitely but um it depends on how the school with Fidelity uh how does the district director work with the buildings to ensure that there's a systemized approach and that uh there's a lot of moving pieces behind the scenes for to ensure that but well thank you
for explaining further is just sure I and it's a great question any other any other for either of them good great thank you right I think we're through our communication reports so we'll go on to
the consent hang hang on are are we doing the the we have the parent committee to and it's sorry them the under department heads they're the American Indian sorry quter department heads hi I'm Ki shag I am the President
of the American Indian parent committee hi my name is Jennifer compo I am member at large on the American Indian parent committee as well hold on so what we're doing here tonight is um they're going to explain um our plan
and talk about um if we met desired outcomes is what's going to bring on there I just lost it I feel bad I'm sorry you okay that wasn't
it you can just okay so we we um we all agreed to focus on like postsecondary work for um our students um shoot I don't remember anything else I
can't right here um we also all of us on the committee also agreed to support the academic achievement of American Indian students um make curriculum relevant to the needs interests and cultural
heritage of American Indian pupils provide positive reinforcement of the self-image of American Indian pupils develop Intercultural aware awareness among pupils parents and staff and
support supplement and not supplement state and federal education and co-curricular programs that is what we all voted on do you want me to go into depth of each of them I'm not really sure I don't
think the main thing to to take away is the committee the parent involvement Committee in favor of what the program is doing because there's a vote of concurrence or non-c concurrence and so I'm guessing it was a vote of
concurrence is that correct statement so and I think it has a lot to say about the committee it has a lot to say about the Indian Ed director and working collaboratively with the district so annually they have to come forth or at least and there's a document to sign that are they in concurrence with what's
going on or not and that's their choice and so am I correct in saying that that's you're here to report yes um Dar did not get me the sheet we have we have a sheet that has to it's in here right it's in I'm guessing but if it's not we'll get signatures when needed but um
is this Committee just for our district or is it for a large area no no it's just for our district and it's I'm just curious how many people are on the committee six okay and there are open meetings like I've attended two three four I don't know how many um yeah
anybody anybody can go anybody can go our next our next meeting is next Monday okay at the Resource Center invite anyone on the board to come and visit with us and the events like the upcoming
districtwide powwow there was a powwow yeah you know um a graduation for American Indian students too at the end of the year so yeah yeah that do you know do you happen to know the date of that so I always feel like I
find that one out last minute okay there's usually a week or two before graduation because time so they want te they have time to
do that and beat it yeah that's cool thank you right thank you all right I'm G to move on to the consent agenda and I'm going to move to approve take a second all second any questions or discussion on the consent
agenda or anything pulled the only comment I would make is on the leave that was requested there was um I'm in support obviously we um how do you want to say it you hate to lose good people um one of the stipulation was
that we could find a replacement we do have a candidate to replace that person so if you approve this it's a done deal and the person you know um I don't know if everyone's familiar it's it's a three what's called a three to five year leave in statute they technically could come
back after a year two years whatever but they have to notify the district I think it's February 1st and you can plan so um as much as we hate to lose the great person um I I do recommend that you support it just curious the person that
replaces them is their job can is it only last only as long as that person's leave it becomes a part of stranding and no different than you know based on seniority and this and that because we're going to probably have some other positions that will be hired you know that would technically be under it so
it's not like it like say this person chose to come back at two years it depends on where you know the stranding of all the people and licenses and stuff so um I mean they need to be aware just well any of the new hires you know that
until you work a few years and get up things aren't um well things are never a guarantee but sure I had a question on so we've had some I don't remember if it was a vice principal position or a teacher position or whatever we they said they were going to take the job and then they backed out right like right
before they were going to sign do we have this person ready willing to sign just in case they back out and then we say yes you can have this leave with OPP and then still have no t-shir this person can be under contract at any point um yeah
any other questions or discussion on the consent all those in favor of approving the consent say I I I any oppose consent agenda is approved all right any opportunity or any citizens that wanted
to speak good any either 8.0 District business 8.1 is to approve the 2025 2026 school calendar as presented in attached in board book I'll make a motion second any questions or discussion so
the only comments I have is it went through a process I think we've talked a little bit a couple options were thrown out this is the one that the majority of um I think it was just teachers voted on I don't remember if it was open to everyone might have been some other groups was I don't remember but anyway
come back it does have we're recommending the early outs again um going forth um again there's not a lot of room for movement based on yeah you know this year yeah yeah so Christmas F nothing
shocking or lot like this year all right I know I looked at it quick I well again I it's not the first choice I would make but that's my opinion compared to everyone else yeah you know it's where so no I support it and it's it's
it's move it forward great all those in favor of approving the 25 26 school calendar say I I any opposed motion carries 8.2 is to approve the 2025 through 2028 achievement and integration plan uh the
form that goes along with what Sera um spoke to us about and it's presented in board book and attached take a motion I'll take a motion make a motion make a motion I'll second um any questions or discussion I
just want to make a comment it would have been really nice to had this earlier to be able to really read it and review it and have the opportunity and I I apologize I mean some of the problem or struggles been we've had to coordinate with crookton and Thief River which is and again I'm not throwing any
of them under the bus everyone's busy but that was part of the problem um trying to get Avid information I'll be honest we we we talked about a little bit at last meeting has been you know um some of the delay unfortunately there's
a a March 15th approval and so it's it's where we're at I I like I say I'll take ownership I apologize it wasn't earlier um I think it's a good plan I think it meets the goals and I have no problem putting my name on it
not to say I mean there could have been other things you know it's like implementation of you know there's other things you could be focusing on maybe PBIS or it's finding something to work towards um
Improvement let's put it that way so I I hear what you say any other comments or questions all those in favor of approving the in achievement and integration plan say I I I any opposed
motion carries 9.0 payment of claims and accounts I'll make the motion to approve the K12 bills 128 958 through 12943 and and electronic fund transfers in the amount of
1,278 7297 I'll second uh any questions or discussion being in the bills all those in favor say I I I any oppos motion carries board member
comments not I'll start with you over there um I just want to say that it's great seeing all the uh the reports about the test scores going up um I think it's a direct result of our teachers the hard work they put in in the faculty so thank you for that and then uh we talked a lot about uh
exciting activities going on there's two more youth hockey teams whose seasons are still going um so good luck to them this weekend they're playing for the state tournament that's the peb1 team and the peaa team that's all I've got and everyone said a lot of things a lot of good things I I was fortunate enough to watch
to go to Moana last week at the middle school and I really enjoyed it I know a lot of kids out there did too yeah a lot of exciting things a lot of um really cool things I love seeing how involved all of our students are and how um you know just like Mr Lura said just
the quality of character that we're seeing that we're seeing students and athletes and activities just all of the different things that they're able to focus on and do very well and that's makes me really proud to be in our community yeah yeah Amanda I'm just
really happy with the test scores that we got from new high and I'm really happy for the hockey teams and all the exciting things for sports yeah yeah thanks for the data I appreciate getting that um and the activities that are going great that's
really awesome it was fun to hear the seniors on the hockey team were my last year of teaching creers so it was fun to hear their names being said again and it's good to hear they're doing well in school so that's awesome I uh take notes during the meeting so I can mention
things at the end and there's so many things um south point safety concerns people slow down that's my quii for that uh schoolwide paow on March 21st I'm assuming there'll be more information coming on that because that sounds pretty cool hockey of course first state
tournament I've been through to since I was in eth grade and that was girls basketball much different really cool robotics worlds wow Esports had no idea that's very cool the booster tournament this weekend I'm baking for it I'm sure
many are too um I think they still need help so if you can sign up and do a door that'd be um awesome thanks for the data um wow lots of cool things it is a good time to be a Green Wave and go Eagles
too because that is pretty cool that they go to Stage as well well and as far as that goes Dr brener and I go back and forth a little bit you know in in in support of each other and week ago two weeks ago both hockey teams battling you can't win can't lose on that side type deal so there's something in the water
in the valley right now all right uh next board meeting is in two weeks on March 24th 2025 at 5:30 so um I'll move to adjourn the regular meeting I'll take a second I'll second any questions or discussion on
adjourning all right all those in favor say I I I any oppose motion