##VIDEO ID:EYLjj2FyX5g## e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e good evening tonight is Monday February 3rd and we do have a quorum so I will call this meeting to order the first order of a business is agenda approval do I have a motion to approve the agenda for tonight's board meeting so moved is there a second second we will vote to approve our agenda all those in favor say I I any opposed tonight's agenda is approved Dr Stanley will you please review tonight's agenda for us and the community absolutely ight tonight we're going to have excellence in action and we're very excited about that um could have hearing um from members of the public and then uh you have a consent agenda we have a few discussion items um including looking at some budgets uh curriculum our school calendars um for Action we're going to oh and there are some policies that um will be discussed and then for Action uh we're looking at some bargaining um agreements policy review and um Mutual termination of employment agreement and then there will be leadership and committee updates and superintendent updates and we'll be done great thank you uh before we move into excellence in action I would like to take a moment to make some some remarks about one of our board members uh this was supposed to happen last month but this particular board member was ill and was not at our meeting uh so Erica on behalf of the Edina school board and Edina Public Schools I want to take a moment to recognize and thank our outgoing board chair Erica allenberg for her remarkable Service as Idina School Board chair over the past 5 years Erica your tenure as chair has been nothing short of extraordinary your leadership has guided us through some pivotal moments in our district hiring welcoming and onboarding the new superintendent navigating the unprecedented chall challenges of public education during a global pandemic and spearheading the creation and implementation of our District's ambitious strategic plan under your Steady Hand we've witness tremendous growth across the district and your commitment to our students staff and Community has been evident every step of the way you have served as a pragmatic strategic and thoughtful leader always balancing the needs of our stakeholders while keeping the best interests of our students at the Forefront your work has been instrumental in shaping the success of our district and your dedication has left a lasting impact while you are stepping back from the role of chair and have left some very big shoes to fill we are grateful that your expertise and voice voice will continue to serve our board and our district on behalf of everyone here tonight including your husband and the mayor thank you for your tireless service your wisdom and your unwavering passion for our schools [Applause] all right moving on to Excellence in action uh tonight's excellence in action will feature like you can come on up will feature Edina High School's sheltered creative writing class which brought its self-authored books to Countryside to share with young readers this class is the first of its kind at the high school and but and El teacher Amanda shutz this project received support from Sarah Swenson the high school Med Katie and Amanda has Vicente Zapata with them this evening um welcome nice all right thank you for having us uh we have some slides to share think how did that how does that look oh there we go great yeah so we'd like to talk a little bit tonight about yes the creative writing class that you mentioned and now we're in second semester so we're also moving into our sheltered speech class um and I'd love to should we have you introduce the the speech and or the thing and then talk why don't we first we could introduce ourselves first yeah I'm Kate bore I'm an English teacher at ad High School in addition to teaching the sheltered speech and creative writing I also teach a nth grade survey class English survey um I'm Amanda shes I am a el teacher I was previously a peer coach for the district for a while I also co- te uh survey n and physical science physical science sure my name is Vicente I from Chile I in 11 GR right uh I am this to it thank you thank you all right so the reason behind the class so public speaking and creative writing are offered to all students at Adina high school but this is the first time that it's been offered to uh students with a level one or two English uh English and this is now much more accessible to all students at the high school which has been excellent to be able to serve all the students that are interested in taking both creative writing and public speaking um one of the things we like to talk about is that what we say is far more important than how we say it meaning that we don't need to strive for Perfection the first time our first goal is just um to say what we need to say and be understood and then to grow from there um yeah so uh with that mind creative writing it was excellent to get to see from the very beginning where students were in their writing Journey uh both in English and their home language and as approved throughout the semester and then after getting those that Foundation started with writing it's was just a natural segue into public speaking as well so one of the things that we like to celebrate in our class is the idea that being multilingual is an asset that we nurture in our classroom and we celebrate all cultures in our class so the little blurb up at the top our class demographics we have over 10 different countries represented in our classroom with uh Spanish speakers Ukrainian speakers Russian speakers and Somali speaker as well um should we go through and read the quotes from kids I think this one especially this is um written today by mikita who's in the photo there um and he said our class is special because we speak multiple languages our English levels much improved thanks for this class because when you can speak English and your home language in the same class it helps to learn English much faster and I feel comfortable in this class so we wanted and I we I don't think we'll play the video for time purposes but it is available um okay here we go uh so if you look closely you'll see this is really really quick but you'll see every single person in the room except for us actually speaking and they're speaking in multiple languages so you'll hear Spanish you'll hear English you'll hear Ukrainian Russian probably won't SM and they're smiling and what this shows is that um we really we really really embrace the idea of speaking and writing first in one's home language and then moving into English because it's helps um the process of thinking and uh critical thinking in that way and so this is what trans languaging is these are um little bullet points that just so you understand what trans languaging is that Kate and I have created in this classroom um it's a research based practice that engages multiple language to process the content um we communicate using multiple languages Kate and I both speak a level of Spanish we are not uh actually Kate Sport's pretty good right yeah but but we we graas um and we support students who are bilingual we increase students comprehension Empower them and allow students to read um via home languages encourage students to collaborate using their home language display home languages um it's just a huge part of our classroom Community um these are opportunities they're strategically paired um oftentimes we'll say okay get together with someone whose home language is similar to yours and then we might say now get together with someone whose home language is not the same as yours and we can strategically use those um those strategies um one of the things want to mention about learning language is that um we need to learn language at a word level a sentence level and then the discourse level and when we move into more of the standards you'll see how that differs from the the standard or the mainstream creative writing classes versus our sheltered class and how we examine the state standards and how we meet those and with those state standards in mind uh the sheltered creative writing sheltered public speaking class I follow and meet all of the same U Minnesota standards that the um general or the you call like the general level of public speaking and creative writing so for example in standard creative writing this is under the assumption that all students already have like the writing Foundation they have all the necessary vocabulary in order to uh produce uh their written work and um so if you think of it like the bricks and mortar the vocabulary being the bricks uh however how that's a little bit different from sheltered creative writing this is something we can't assume anything so we're going to be teaching that vocabulary first in order for students to then proceed to the next part of an activity so um a learning Target students will be able to to match aspects of a plot in a children's story in multiple languages and then moving on to public speaking standards and which I'll just mention really quick so and with this standard um our students when they went to Countryside were able to present their books in English Spanish Ukrainian um Russian so it was really exciting because we partnered with our dual language emersion school there um and it was a lot of fun um for the little kids to see the big kidss kids and just being um validated in in all of the languages so yeah here speech and then with speech uh once again with a standard speech class you are going the teachers are going to assume that all of the language is there for then to then move on to Polished speech and we're not focusing so much on the vocabulary whereas in the sheltered class we need to teach the language first so for example one of our learning targets would be to to uh first learn imperative uh verbs and then the sequence so if you're let me back up if you're giving like an instructional or a how-to speech learning those imperative verbs and then moving on to the sequencing words to be able to put those imperative verbs in place whereas in a standard speech class that would already be understood we're going to just go right into the speech and then we're going to talk about who our students are our amazing students viente is in this um photo up there do you want to share a little bit about why um what you like about our class and why it's important to you yeah okay this class for me is important because you can speak your native language and practice your English also I like this class because it has a lot of cultural diversity thank you uh the both teacher are really good we didn't P him um do you do you want to say anything in Spanish okay thank you thank you and we included additional um student quotes um that they shared today um some of our um kids said again writing in their home language first then moving into English I feel safe in this class because I learn more English and I can say my ideas and thoughts um this class is special for me because always we do different activities and we learn of different forms I think in this class also practice our home language and English both languages have equal importance and then I like this class because I can practice my English with confidence and oh one more one yeah and then Juan I said today this class is important for me because learn more English is special for the activities we do because is different to all because the teacher teach all people I feeling good in this class with all people and these were some pictures from our our day at Countryside um maros we just we just felt um we've this is one of our favorite things that's happened this year this class so anyway thank you for inviting us to be a part of your meeting I think that's the end yeah yeah thanks all right thank [Applause] you thank you Miss bour thank you Miss shutz and thank you vente all right uh this evening we have no members of the public uh here to address us so we will continue on with our consent agenda um is there anything anyone would like to remove from the consent agenda okay we will now vote to approve the consent agenda do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so move do I have a second second all those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I I anyone opposed the consent agenda has been approved uh we are now moving on to our discussion items our first item is our achievement and integration should we move okay I will talk slow the next our first item for discussion is our achievement and integration fiscal year 20 that's okay 2026 budget we had you booked back to back there thank you for facilitating bringing them here uh and our uh our speaker tonight to talk to us about their our achievement and integration budget is Dr Franny beair ourr there we go all right so good evening board director gaer Dr sanley and presenting the achievement in integration budget so with the achievement and integration budget we have threeyear achievement and integration goals so and we are on year two of our achievement and integration goals with the achievement integration goals you have a budget that needs to be updated yearly uh and so we are presenting the yearly updated budget the budget needs to match your achievement and integration goals so when you look at the budget each line item needs to be directly related back to a goal and strategy that support the achievement in integration plan and within the achievement and integration plan you have parameters that mde sets for you on how much must be spent on direct student contact how much can be spent on Prof professional development and how much can be spent on admin so um 80% must be spent on Direct uh student contact time uh and then the rest can be divided between um admin and professional development uh with that there are no sign significant changes to the achievement in integration budget uh the updates that were made with M wooder Director of Finance were with the new contracts uh for teachers we updated salaries for teachers from last year's plan and then there was an adjustment of FTE for cultural Liaisons but that that amount of money stayed within that goal area so it didn't change to another to support another goal area any questions board members any questions director I don't have a question but I just wanted to um I just want to say I appreciate the intentional alignment of this um plan to our strategic plan and our goals for all students and aligning it to where students might need support from an intervention perspective and and I just appreciate the intentionality of the work that you're doing um that's all thank you I I and I uh thank the board because it is having the data metrics plan which came from uh a vision from the board helped to really align the achievement and integration plan with the Strategic plan because we can lean right into uh those metrics points that we are monitoring as a district all right thank you Dr picare thank you uh next up on our agenda is our elementary literacy curriculum adoption recommendations and we have assistant director of teaching and learning Bethany van AEL and uh jod D St Hubert a director of teaching and learning here welcome hi good evening uh director Gable Dr Stanley and board members good evening it's nice to see you thanks for giving me the opportunity to come before you and share about this exciting next step in our literacy Journey as you well know we've been working diligently on the comprehensive literacy plan since I came on board four years ago and this is just an exciting next evolution of where we are in this journey back in 2016 I believe was when we last adopted um materials or a curriculum for reading and writing instruction and so we A lot's happened since 2016 as we well know we've endured a global pandemic distance learning the um new science of reading research that has come out all of our letters learning and so what's really exciting about this is not only is it time because we have new standards coming out but we are more than ready to get new materials in the hands of our teachers um we've been working so hard on the science of reading learning through letters through aspire we have over 300 teachers that have been engaged in this now for 3 years many are ready to complete their learning this summer and you know I think I'm I'm hoping I'm quoting it's my Angela I believe who says when you know better you do better and our teachers know better now not to say anything was wrong with our old program but it was copyrighted back in 2016 and now we are ready to advance um they have all this knowledge and they are ready to have tools that support them as the vehicle to get that instruction more fluid so that they have that at their fingertips so all of that said um our team has been working for the past four years um they began an exploration and they looked at our current materials and they were they were you know beginning their letters journey and they were starting to see what gaps existed and What needs we had and they were comparing that and laying that side by side with our student data and looking at our fastbridge data and seeing the needs that we had and you know phic awareness and phonics and fluency and they've been doing an amazing job and our data shows that with what they have so I'm so excited to see what they can do with updated materials um Benchmark advance and Benchmark adalante are the the programs that they landed on after um probably a solid year they started looking at six programs they weed it down to three programs there was a lengthy process where the materials went out to all staff in every building for a viewing period and they were provided feedback um so it's been a really um solid process with some dedicated um tenacious and really really committed teachers it's so fun to work with them I just can't say enough so Benchmark you know I I don't want to go too long here but I just want to highlight some of the really key things that are so exciting about this program there are um scaffolds in every single lesson and so that supports the teachers real time when they might need to um support students to and and they have levels of scaffolds um and so that's exciting it's something that supports them right on the fly when they need to adjust or differentiate like I said real time um the systematic and explicit phonics the foundational skill lessons we currently have a program that um addresses that for K2 we now will have that K5 and that is one of the biggest things that our teachers especially in grades three four five are appreciating about this program they knew that they know that they've needed it and they haven't had it imagine how frustrating that is right and so now they are seeing this and getting very excited we have some early implementers um that are just loving it some feedback from fifth grade is is amazing from teachers and kids um the rigorous writing right now our teachers are wrestling with that a little bit the writing is hard and they are loving it but it's hard and that's great so they're seeing the opportunities to really um push our students in writing which we've needed for a while the other neat thing and I just brought a few examples is this a knowledge building curriculum so it's really strong when you think about um these are just some some third grade units so the units are knowledge building and they have three science units three social studies units and three literary units each of them are three weeks long and they're K5 so this is an example I think this is unit five but there's a technology unit and so grades K through five obviously all at different levels are all engaging in knowledge building around um technology um this one happens to be a literary unit around characters um some life science around animal adaptation so in one way or another all of the K5 um students at the same time are building knowledge around the same topic and so I get excited and I'm I'm sending texts to our digital learning coordinator and Mark around steam of all the opportunities that we have with this now um but this is material that they get to actually hold in their hands and they get to annotate and write all over it and it's it's just really really cool to see them bring their thinking to life on this when we're in classrooms the other neat thing is the bridge to our middle school program same type of activities with the annotating in the v explicit vocab that I'm seeing some strong bridging there which will be really great for our fifth grade as they move into sixth grade I'm almost done I promise um there are inquiry projects with every single unit and so again they can continue to take that knowledge deeper um and I think at the end of the day just working with our teacher team they are just is finding that it is um it's new first of all so it's not they they say we all feel like new teachers right well that's that's something that we have to sit with and work through but they are doing such an amazing job and they're already seeing so many great things from their students their students are engaged their students are um performing better than they have been in many situations like I said with the writing they're seeing writing come to life that they didn't know that they could be pushing that level of rigor and so um I'll wrap it up here but we're just really excited about this opportunity I don't know if you wanted to add anything but um I'll stop there and open for questions board members any questions director Barry um can you talk briefly on how this program fits into our dual language and also the talent development programs in our elementary schools yes I will speak first to dual language um I'm going to speak that separately right so the Dual language Spanish Spanish dual language um there is a complimentary program that's called Benchmark adalante and that's really I'm going to say seamless it is just a complete marriage it's intended for dual language programs the PD is um has been um really intentional with helping I shouldn't say just the PD the resources intentionally bridge and are even colorcoded and this is the the content you teach in English this is the content you teach in Spanish so it's really seamless um they're of course not French emersion um programs we wrestle with that all the time and so we just had a meeting Jody um Sandy Connie and Chris and I met um we have two early implementers at Normandale it is not seamless and it's doable but we're we're working through what that looks like and so like I think I had in the report um there will there might be a longer on-ramp for that we know that they will get the materials we know that they're going to start using them next year we are trying right now to figure out how that looks so that we maintain the Integrity of the Normandale Mission and that immersion program because we know how special that is um but also implementing this program and so we we def do not have the answers yet for exactly how that's going to look but every time we meet we're getting further and further um the teachers have been super invaluable with helping us with that so I will continue to bring updates if needed around that as that work unfolds um and talent development also similarly they are working through right now we have um a couple of teachers that are uh piloting the program alongside their colleagues that are early implementers and they are working through so prior to this program we had a distinctly separate reading and writing program and so it was um it was easier for talent development to hone in and say we're just going to take and teach the reading we can no longer do that because in this program as research supports which we're really grateful for the reading and writing is intertwined and so we can't just pull students away from a portion of it so we're figuring out how to use the materials with the talent development pedagogy so that we know that they're getting the the rigor again not ironed out yet but that's this year's installation so that's what this is this year is for um and so what I'm confident in is the ideas on the table and the teachers that are trying it out we have a team meeting on February 13th where they're going to present their ideas and we're going to use the you um have that discussion with the teachers so again similar to French we're I'm super optimistic and I know we're going to get there but we're still just an installation figuring it out yep and Deb Richards has been amazing and helping with that too so I just want to give her a shout out board member oh uh director man can I just have a followup on um French immersion in in Spanish dual language so French immersion is going to have kind of a leadup um would Spanish dual language be ready for that implementation next year first day or how does that kind of what does that what does that kind of look like as far as time we have second grade implementing it right now and so they are working through that with closely with our literacy coach Sandra Harley and uh working through that so receiving along with the teachers that are early implementers um I look over to Franny I'm not sure if K1 is going to start next year exactly but obviously as we roll in the next grade level they will just roll in right up with that so yep director elenberg could you explain for more the community we've been talking about the literacy plan for so long um and the resources that we've put towards the literacy plan how this this intersects with the literacy plan we've been working on and specifically the difference between tier one instruction and how this will be utilized for tier one instruction and then where some of those other resources kick in yeah great question this is a tier one resource so back to the comprehensive literacy plan mtss is an essential component of our comprehensive literacy plan and that's our tiers of support tier one is how we would define what all students receive all students receive this is where St grade level standards are embedded into there's differentiation within tier one of course so it's not necessarily all exactly the same um but this is where students engage typically 90 minutes to 120 Minutes to Elementary is usually the literacy block not necessarily all in one cohesive you know chunk of time but that's the time dedicated to just kind of think about that students who might be showing up um on our Universal screeners needing some additional support would receive a tier 2 intervention and that's again you think about another block of time maybe an additional 30 minutes um 20 to 30 minutes and usually in elementary that's during the wind time that what I need time so that's in addition to that 120 Minutes 90 to 120 Minutes that I um just explained so this resource is specifically going to fill the instructional needs for the tier one um block of time so that um all all students receiving no pull outs during that time all students receive that grade level instruction so the comprehensive literacy plan laid out additional material snde is an example that was part of that plan we rolled that out and that is very specifically for going to be for that intervention component that could be tier two it could even be tier three tier three is just more intensified than a tier two for students that might need additional support Beyond just that tier two um and there are times when some of the materials might like within Benchmark there are intervention supports within that so it's not to say exclusively only there might be times when this resource is really beneficial for students in an intervention setting but this specifically is that whole group um and small group classroom time that all students receive did I get that okay thank you okay uh I have one question uh uh so I noticed so just for the public we had a chance to see this report in our work session and ask some questions and now we're it's here tonight for further discussion and then we will be voting on it March 3rd and I also noticed that Benchmark Advance is in the re-review cycle for curriculums um with mde and that's due around March 3rd are you getting the read from them that it sounds like our staff love it and is really having Success With It are you um hearing anything about uh what happens if or have thought about what happens if they don't approve this as one of their chosen curriculum does that mean anything to us or does that not necessarily change anything for us so I'll answer and then I'll let you add on if anything our team did an incredibly thorough review with extensive knowledge right these teachers are incred incredibly well trained and they literally turned over every stone and so the process that they went through I am so confident that we landed on the right materials um we did spend a significant amount of time with the company and with the rep understanding you know why was Benchmark not approved the first round to sum it up um the majority of the reason was because of the way that they had described their small group texts and they came out with um gosh I want to say it was 20 Pages or so going through item by item around what the response was from mde and how they are understanding that to be aligned to the science of reading kind of I mean refuting it not to say you know I don't know if I'm saying that in the right way and so after we reviewed that I brought that to jod we kind of kept coming back and saying is this something we still want to keep on the table we felt really confident that we did want to keep it on the table now what mde decides or not I'm we're we are so um in we use the same rubric that they're using we we've really done our due diligence it is an unknown and so it's not something that I can necessarily predict but I feel really confident that it's going to get a good rating if it doesn't I don't feel like that changes any bit of my passion around the program or the team's decision so we can still move forward with it it doesn't mean it's off the table right okay that's what I wasn't clear about so just from my own understanding of how they put this list of curriculum together so and I know that was a little bit it's been kind of a moving Target for a while and and the way that they're doing it now is there's like levels of you know and I can't I can't retrieve the language right now but how they're it's either completely not aligned which I know it will not fall in that category it could be partial okay um I'm not I don't know if I'm using the right language but no that's all I needed to know I just was concerned if they come back and say it's not that that puts a halt to everything and it sounds like that's this is a great fit for us yes and regardless of what they say this is a great fit for us and it's going to be yeah when approved our next curriculum so thank you for that Clarity wholeheartedly confident in that y okay board members any other further questions all right thank you both all right thank you we'll see you in a month or so uh next up is our academic calendars 2026 27 and 2027 2028 and we have assistant superintend attendant Nate Swinson and uh Executive Director of Human Resources Sonia sailor here to talk to us about calendars welcome good evening Madam chair members of the board and Dr Stanley Sonia and I are here to present the work and recommendations of the calendar committee the committee has thoughtfully designed the academic calendar to maximize instruction while accommodating key breaks and professional development needs you'll notice the calendar prioritizes educational continuity by maintaining full weeks of instruction and aligning non-student days with cultural observances when possible student breaks are strategically distributed throughout the year including mea Thanksgiving a two-week winter break and spring break with careful attention given to balancing semester lengths and maintaining consistent weekly learning schedules this structure aims to support both student learning and staff professional development while respecting Community preferences and needs we'd like to extend our sincere gratitude to our dedicated calendar committee comprised of Staff members and parents for their thoughtful work in developing a calendar that serves our entire School community so at this time Sonia is going to review some of the highlights from the proposed calendar great thank you um chair gabler Dr Stanley members of the school board so just going to hit some of the highlights um all of that we also talked about at our work session but just to ensure that we um do cover the same highlights that we did at the work session um so we have two academic calendars the 2627 and 2728 for your um review you this evening both begin the week before Labor Day to accommodate uh the best summer construction schedule we over the course of the next years next six years we still anticipate having more than um $8 million worth of construction projects and therefore having that additional time in the summer is very helpful for um for our school district's buildings and grounds Department um both of our the academic calendars can can contain two connect and assess St for our E5 programming um before the first day was students it the the connect and assess St just like we did this year in 2425 will actually occur the Friday of Workshop week and the Monday of the following week with Tuesday available um for teachers to review the data from those two dates and then with our E5 schedu schedule starting on Wednesday of the first week of school our 612 programs will start on the Monday um both contain three teacher data days day the day after semester 1 the day after the last student day of the year and then one floater day which um occurs either in August or in June depending on the building's preference um both provide a two-day mea break a 3-day Thanksgiving break a two we winter break and a onewe spring break all that align with the traditions of AD din Public Schools um both closely balanced semesters 1 and two with the 2627 calendar um having 84 days in semester 1 and the 2728 85 days in semester 1 both contain no student days on the November general election day um and in 2728 there is a primary election day in March March 7th 20 March 7th 2028 and in the best interest of student safety um that date has been used as one of our non-student days as we have discussed in most cases non-student days are placed at the beginning or the end of a week to provide the best educational continuity for students um where we can such as on election days we place a a student uh or excuse me a non-student day on midweek days which also helps us where possible to attempt to balance our um student Support Services schedules so that they don't all fall on Mondays or Fridays uh both calendars contain um one PD day in early fall in the first year of the calendar that will be held on September 21st 20 um 2026 which also happens to be y kapor um and will assist our students of the Jewish faith in um in being able to celebrate that with their families in the second year that day will be on October 1st 2027 which is is on a Friday but it happens to be the Friday before Russia Shan um this aligns with the guiding change document from the school board where we took great care to be sensitive to the cultures within our community um and of course within our strategic plan initiative B3 to support Equity identifying and eliminating structured barriers to success uh both contain no student days on the Tuesday attached to President's Day in February which is also historic Al um a PD day in Adina public schools and both have the last student days um falling on the Friday of the week that begins with Memorial Day so those are the highlights of the two academic calendars before you this evening are there any questions I don't see any questions I do want to thank both of you this is a Hot Topic when we go out to pto's they are very interested in knowing when spring break's going to be when school's going to start so it's always really helpful to hear all the thought that goes into this and the team that works on that using that guiding and change document that really there's a Rhyme or Reason for why it ends up and it's a lot of work it to to make it um all put put it all together so I want to thank both of you and then this will come forward for in March all right thank you thank you okay next up I'm going to turn it over to Vice chair uh allenburg and she is and is going to take us through some policy review uh yes uh we have quite a few policies uh to go through this evening and before we um talk about specific policies just for the community I wanted to let everyone know for a review process all of our policies are reviewed um to make sure they're updated with Federal and state law um with Minnesota school board um association their recommended best practices um legal counsel when needed and then also feedback from appropriate stakeholders within our district um so Nate I'm not sure if I have them in the exact order that you have them to review so I don't know if you I have 524 to start with but if you have a different one you'd like to start with then that would be just fine with me okay so start with policy 524 with which is our electron electronic Technologies use policy and this was updated um with information about um current practice but I'll also turn it over to assistant superintendent um Nate Swinson to give some more context around this policy director allenburg members of the board thank you um so as we just got done talking about in Workshop um I'm bringing to you a recommendation incorporate uh cell phone language into policy 524 without opening the entire policy for review as it was recently reviewed last summer and is scheduled to review again this summer and the proposed language formalizes our current school year practices outlining separate protocols for K8 and 9912 students while maintaining flexibility for future modifications in our research most districts plan to integrate cell phone guidelines into existing policies rather than create Standalone policies um it should be noted that msba just came out with their own uh policy last week for uh cell phones um and I would recommend that the board consider um that as an option when 524 is reviewed fully again this summer um so with that um the language that is before you is what I'm recommending be adopted what questions might you have board members are there any questions and just for the community we did talk about this in the work session earlier where there um there were some comments about adding um terminology around ensuring that it's written in policy that um if there needs for students that have um learning differences or IEPs to make sure that that's stated explicitly in policy and that is going to be taken back to the policy committee to add to um this particular policy um but um are there other questions or comments for Nate or the policy committee about this policy 524 okay thank you um moving on um to policy 623 which is super super summer school instruction um and this was updated with current um vernacular that's being used in the school district right now and a couple of updated protocols oh Nate I thought I had you for all of the ones that you're working on oh sorry anarie we're gonna skip you for now I was so excited to have it in the right order and I didn't I didn't do it sorry so we'll move to 513 perfect okay perfect um student promotion acceleration and retention this was updated with current vernacular and protocols that we're using in the district right now um uh assistant superintendent spinson yeah the only thing that I would add to that is um it was reviewed by principles our talent development team teaching and learning and cabinet and the only substantive change that was made is that in the early learning or early kindergarten admission part we added the director of teaching and learning to the team that would consult around those considerations um other than that um the language is largely unchanged board members do you have questions or comments I do oh sorry director gaer yes um I just had one little thing on page six under decisionmaking team uh I noticed that we still had it listed as gifted talented coordinator but above its Talent Development so it was just a small little um so that's on page six um and then I had a question about on page seven when we talked about middle schoolers who might need to be taking classes at the high school you know sometimes we have accelerated tracks and so we have a whole class of them so they stay at the middle school and they're taught by a middle school teacher um Valley View is right I'm assuming it's just a couple students maybe every year that this is happening for and Valley View of course is right next to the high school when we do have that for like a South viw student do we provide transportation for those students and should that be mentioned at any point in there Jody D do you happen to know know that if we provide transportation from southvw to the high school I'd assume yes but maybe not we don't okay so it's really parent specific okay that's good to know because that if we're seeing that that's a barrier okay okay okay well thank you for that and maybe yeah thank you Jody so okay those were my questions thank you um moving on to um Student Assignment to teachers during um or Student Assignment to teachers which is policy 619 yes so this may be one of the shortest policies um that we have um this was reviewed by principles and the ch that was that is being recommended for this policy is regarding requests made for specific teachers um as principes reviewed this document that is um something that they felt pretty strongly about including that we would not um accommodate specific teacher requests for a a variety of reasons and so beyond that language change there are no other substan changes any questions just a clarification so in current practice given that that one sentence is not in policy today our practice has been not to accommodate that but now we're explicitly putting it in policy I just want to be clear about that okay thank you okay thank you and then um I'm going to move on to 617 which is about class size and Staffing and this I believe um is a combination of assistant superintendent uh sorry Swenson and um sorry joke yeah executive director Sonia sailor it's too many people in too many different orders so yeah um chair gabler Dr Stanley members of the school board um assistant superintendent Nate Swinson and I have reviewed policy 617 class siiz guidelines and teacher Staffing and are here tonight to um make some suggestions for some proposed modifications to this policy the um proposed modifications we're making are not very few substantive in nature um largely made to Aid the reader in align with our current practices within the school district um for example in section two general statement of policy we are suggesting that the first line be stricken which is also came as a a conversation by um director allenburg during our policy committee meeting which specifically talks about the procedures the Staffing procedures being established by the school board um the procedures are actually established by superintendent Stanley HR Finance our building leaders um but they our procedures are based on the class siiz guidelines which are of course established by the school board um so that was one uh one change to align with our current practices we're also suggesting that the non the definition section section three the non-resident upper limit that definition be removed as that is not contained that language is not contained anywhere within the policy um and then finally we are proposing that an appendix be added to this policy specifically to be Aid the reader in our community to find easily find our class siiz guidelines um as you know every fall assistant superintendent swensson brings an enrollment and class size report um to the board however if you don't hit exactly that day looking back into the archives each year it can be hard to find those class class siiz guidelines um just on a you know the other 11 months of the year and so we're proposing that we add add those guidelines as an appendix just to Aid our readers um and really just for transparency um so with that said are there any questions board members are there questions director gabler yes uh I have a curiosity question and then I wanted to really thank you and the policy committee for adding that appendix exactly how you described it that is a question we will get about class sizes and I'm always like what board meeting was that because it's not easy to find it's not on our way website and so I really appreciate the team adding that um even for our purposes too so uh thanks for that and then my question was around the I'm curious around the word teacher Staffing in the policy so that's been added because as I was reading it it fits in most places but then I was thinking well it used to say Staffing which in my mind I'm thinking okay like Paris support how do we decide when to add um Paras support in C certain situations and what trip me up is under the general statement of policy the second paragraph class size and teacher Staffing may vary depending on the subject being taught objectives to be learned okay great approach of the instruction great age or need of the students being taught so like for example in CP or in kindergarten they also have additional like a instructional assistant I think they're referred to and so I that's what tripped me up but in general is it can you talk why that word teacher was added versus just leaving it as Staffing well because um so so the recommendation to add the word teacher is because everything in this policy really surrounds teacher Staffing but you're absolutely correct chair gaer that there are we do have Paris pray professional support within our kindergarten classrooms we also have pair of professional support within our continu progress our CP classrooms specifically because um of the fact that our we have multi-age students and and higher class sizes as shown in the appendix as well that um our multi-age classrooms tend to run a little bit higher than our neighborhood classrooms as well and so when reading through the policy it just was clear that it was um really all about teacher Staffing so it seemed like it would just Aid the reader to understand that that's really what is being discussed in this particular policy okay that makes sense to me and we don't necessarily have when it comes to I'm assuming most of our Paris support is student specific the vast majority of our Paris support is student specific and and um through our special or students Support Services Program okay um yes other than kindergarten and and our CP classrooms really um there isn't added pair support in most of our classrooms okay that makes sense so thanks for for explaining that are there other questions or comments about this policy okay thank you both thank you assistant superintendent Swinson I don't have you down for any more policies to review but am I incorrect about that uh remsing and I shared policy 632 well then we're going to move okay if we do that one to that one policy 632 I don't know oh there we go um and we're going to welcome director of student support um Jody remsing to review this policy with us so policy 632 is about chemical use and abuse and just to begin it was reviewed by principles APS Health Services Emergency Management R um for the most part changes were largely around language um cleanup and more importantly making sure that the language aligned with what our current practices are so in a couple of spots you will see language that has been struck that is language that just didn't align with what our current practices were are excuse me are there questions about this policy oh I'm sorry go ahead director remsing I'll see if you have any questions I okay all right I have you up for one other policy which was um policy which was the change you made basically for me um which was um 521 the student disability non-discrimination um under Section 504 and um that was added um because of the conversation that we had um making sure that parents and community members could find that there is policy that we have around 504 plans and so that was changed um nothing in the policy has changed but that title has changed director Gaper yes I had a question about that um hold on let me find my question sheet um so I was wondering because of that conversation because it now has kind of two purposes where it's student non-discrimination anybody that has an IEP or a 504 but then it ends up being I believe our District's only policy that talks about 504 right yes so it kind of serves two dual purposes right yeah it just it talks about the non-discrimination um protections that are in place under Section 504 and you're absolutely right those protections also apply to students on IEPs as well and I would was wondering um if from a user standpoint if it would be helpful for any parents because it does talk about um who is protected under the 504 if we and this would be your decision but um if we would ever want to link this policy to our 504 page um or because it talks about it's the responsibility to identify and evaluate what their rights are um and I think yeah coordinator persons who have questions you know this is who you would reach out for so that was just something as we were thinking about making it more user friendly um because it is hard to find information about 504s yeah I think that's a great idea to be able to link it to our page for additional information okay thank you yeah any other questions or comments about this one okay thank you director reming um I'm to move on to policy 604 which is grade level configuration and invite of director of teaching and learning jod D St Hubert thank you director allenburg um policy 504 with grade level configuration just has a couple of updates to it the first is in section three grade level organization and there was just a little bit added to both 1 and two um as definitions that align with msba policy and then I just wanted to note in um section three as well under D um we made the update making sure that Countryside Elementary School the Dual Spanish Immersion was reflected as a choice program and noted when the continuous progress program on Countryside would be um phasing out um otherwise just a a little bit of um editing and cross referencing things that were added are there any questions and uh director DC Hubert can you speak to why we deleted to the enrollment section yes I can thank you for pointing that out um so we also noted in the whole entire enrollment section that this policy that that really aligns more with the enrollment policy and that this Pol it did not align with this policy so all of that information is captured within enrollment information and and um we just wanted to make sure that the purpose of this policy stayed true to the information within it board members do you have questions about policy 604 okay thank you Director D St Hubert thank you and last but not least director of Community Education and strategic Partnerships um and Marie Leland I apologize for not knowing that you were doing this policy we're going to talk about policy 623 which is summer school instruction no problem thank you so much um chair gabler uh School Board directors and superintendent Stanley Dr Stanley uh this 623 is a summation of all of the various programming that we offer in the summer uh some of it is credit recovery at the high school uh some of it is also extended school year um which is our special education programming and our targeted Services programming um for our elementary students so just in overview uh uh changes were made to really just shorten and make this more concise uh put it in more practical terms of how we are working through um the programming that we offer in the summer and some of the uh instructional pieces and um program program components I should say uh school board members do you have any questions uh about this policy policy 623 okay thank you director Leland um thank you board members for reviewing all of these policies and also especially our Administration um it's quite a few policies that we went through this month so I appreciate everyone's work on those thank you yes thank you policy committee you've been busy uh all right we will now move on to our uh action part of our meeting do I have a motion to approve the proposed 2024 2026 collective bargaining agreement between Independent School District 273 and the service employees International Union Local 284 representing building grounds and maintenance employees so moved is there a second second all right we have Executive Director of Human Resources Sonia sailor and Director of Finance Ander wood with us tonight to present this contract with us to us thank you chair gayler Dr Stanley members of the school board um director Woodard and I are pleased to announce um that our service employees International Union Local 284 um buildings grounds and maintenance employees have ratified a tenative agreement that is before you this evening for a new 2-year collective bargaining agreement effec of July 1 2024 and extending through June 30th of 2026 um members of this bargaining unit include our District's custodians there our custodial Specialists our night leads our grounds Keepers and our building repair employees um our negotiation teams worked well together worked collaboratively and um uh ended with a result that both values the important work that they do in our school district perform each and every day in our school district and the school board's Financial parameters financial highlights of the proposed agreement include step advancement for elgible employees in both years of the agreement um a 7% hourly wage increase in the first year and a 2.8% increase in the second year there's an increase to the school district's monthly contribution towards health insurance beginning January 1 2025 um the increase will be $735 for single plans 2460 for single plus one plans and 2543 for family plans an increase of $17 per month to the monthly de differential for employees who hold first class boiler licenses and a $27 per month increase for holders of the chief boiler license and then there was a change to the years of service requirement for earning and vacation which will enable our cust employees to access leave earlier in their careers with our school district the two-year total package for this proposed agreement is 9,431 256 which represents an increase of $698,500 and as a result we seek your approval for the agreement board members do you have any questions about this agreement Dr Birman um I just have one um the average tenure of people in this particular Marketing Group has it been pretty stable it's not a a group that we see a lot of turnover in or is it something that we have a higher level of turnover in at this point um the since we have since we've become more competitive with our wages we've definitely um slowed down drastically in our turnover with this unit because um the custodial staff you know there's always some turnover within the custodial staff but it is not significant at this point and our building repair staff our night lead staff um uh actually we have a lot of Staff members with with an extended tenure in our school district excellent thank you all right we will now vote to approve the proposed 2024 2026 collective bargaining agreement between Independent School District 273 and the service employees International Union Local 284 representing building grounds and maintenance employees all those in favor say I I any opposed all right the proposed 2426 collective bargaining agreement uh is approved and I want to thank you both for your work on this and I also want to thank the uh buildings grounds and maintenance employees that serve our district so well um we are really fortunate to have such a top-notch crew so please pass that along to them from the the board thanks all right do I have a motion to approve policies 514 520 and 526 so moved is there a second second policy chair Ellenberg is there anything you want to mention about these policies um no these were reviewed by the board last month um as discussion items and that there have been no changes to them um they policy 514 which is bullying prohibition 520 student surveys and 526 which is student hazing prohibition um are there questions about any of the policies um or comments before they're voted on okay all those in favor of approving policies 514 520 and 52 6 say I I anyone opposed policies 514 520 and 526 are approved do I have a motion to approve the mutual termination of employment agreement between Adina public schools and Dr Stacy Stanley so moved is there a second second Vice chair elenberg Would You Walk us through this agreement and kind of the background around it sure um for the community and board members um and anyone that's watching I was just going to walk us through um how we got here and make sure there are no misconceptions about this agreement um or just clarify exactly what's going on so just as a reminder um on December 5th um St Paul Public Schools announced that Dr Stanley was going to be a finalist for the role of superintendent um I probably thought she was going to be chosen just because I know how talented she is but um on December 19th um St Paul public schools named her as their choice for superintendent pending contract negot negotiations um at that point um the board sent a communication to the community um regarding this and then around the middle of January um um Dr Stanley had informed the governance committee um that she was working with St Paul um with her contracts and that she would be seeking an end date around the middle of April and um when we were the governance committee was given this information um we took this information to the board at the January 20th work session the board and Community um and we presented the board and Community with a plan to hire an interim superintendent um to start around the middle of April um which was um the date the around the date that Dr Stanley had mentioned I'm being interested in leaving and then would continue through the end of the 2025 2026 school year um at this January 20th work session we discussed that the governance committee would be working on a mutual termination agreement with Dr Stanley and that ideally it would be brought to this work session for the board to vote on um I'd like to address why it's a mutual termination agreement and then the timing of the mutual termination agreements um the reason the board and Dr Stanley are entering into a mutual termination agreement is because Dr Stanley is leaving her contract with the dant public school early and in her current contract it states that she can leave her contract early through a mutual termination agreement um B Bas in layman's terms legal ease for leaving a contract early so I want to make sure that people understand sometimes you hear the word termination it sounds confusing or more than what it is and it's simply an agreement that we're working together to agree on a date and that she will be leaving her contract early so I want to make sure everyone understands what we're voting on tonight um and then the date of April 18th has been mutually agreed upon by Dr Stanley and the governance committee and we're asking for approval from the full board and this um this date was um the expressed desire of Dr Stanley to leave in the middle of April and then the date of the 18th gives the board plenty of time to hire an interim superintendent and also time for there to be overlap between the interim superintendent and Dr Stanley for transitional purposes um this also gives the interim superintendent some time to get up to speed on our district before summer planning for the 2025 2026 school year um I can I empathize with our fellow board members because I know it's hard to see a contract not be involved in everything that's going on behind the scenes um so I just wanted to first of all acknowledge that um but reassure you that if there's trepid trepidation about voting on this or the date that's on there [Music] um from a hiring process perspective um without this agreement in place and without a transition date locked in place it makes it very difficult to publicize a job at a job description and attract individuals to send their resume to us without actually having a termination agreement in place and a tangible date that someone's going to start especially since we're asking people to send publicly available data um it's a challenging situation and it's a chicken and egg sort of situation where it's really hard to navigate this and so this is the be this is the best of a challenging process um that I just want to make clear for everybody um and then I also wanted to assure people that the governance team is confident based on the number of inquiries we've received from qualified end talented individuals that we will not have an issue hiring an interim and a permanent superintendent um I would like to address Dr Stanley and tell you that this MTA is a Bittersweet agenda item for me um I have much admiration and thanks to you for the work you've done for a district um and I just wanted to say that so with that long background information um the governance team wanted to make sure that we addressed questions or concerns board members had um before we vote on this board members director Birman um the one thing that I didn't see in the agreement was anything that that explicitly calls out an expectation of the transition plan um for before Dr stanle as as our current superintendent and the interim person that we would then hire that what is the process what is the timing and what is the obligation in order to be part of that release what is actually going to take place in doing that it's not that I don't doubt that that will happen it's more of I'm not thinking about Dr Stanley at this time I'm thinking about for anything we do in the future that getting out of a contract there's a certain obligation to do certain kind of things in order to make that happen so that EPS gets what it needs in order to move forward so if that's something that's already been discussed but it's not in the agreement I just need a kind of a thumbs up from the people that are participating that you've covered that part if that's not been covered then I to to assuage any concerns that I have is that I want to make sure that when we get an interim person that there's enough time between that interim person and Dr Sing saw all the institutional knowledge there's a smooth transition um from that standpoint that's not in this agreement and that bothers me um so I don't I'm not explicitly asking for something here but I just want to make sure that's a covered base so if anyone could assuage my concerns around that I would appreciate it do you want me to answer that or um that absolutely has been talked about and it was talked about with Trevor who's legal counsel that is a non-standard part of any superintendent contract and a mutual termination agreement that um he highly recommended that that is not put in there so it's absolutely been a part of discussions acknowledgement that transition planning is important the sharing of um information um but it's these Agreements are the key is the making sure that um we're that the con it's it's about the contract the date and um and as a board or Team on the back end making sure that we're holding um Dr Stanley and ourselves accountable for transition planning he's like you run a real risk of getting tied up in semantics over what does it mean to do Y and Z and things like that and he he just recommended I wouldn't even try to go there with this type of agreement or when you are actually negotiating for a superintendent contract that that's not part of that plan now in the future if we do want to have that I I think we can entertain discussions about that but that was just the advice given us to from legal council that's fine and again I'm I'm I'm not looking to have like a uh a you know a long dissertation of what those things were I think it's more of you know the protection for EPS is making sure that the talent that we have that is leaving that we're making sure that we have the ability to extract the information that's necessary in order to keep it moving forward now that we're going to have that so I just wanted to be on record to say that's a critical element and I have all the faith and trust in Dr sty that she's not going to leave us in the Lurch and so and so forth but I just want to make sure you heard from me that that's critically critical from my standpoint and if you're telling me that the governance commit because you have more information on the process than I do which is what you've acknowledged earlier that we are comfortable with that we're going to get an inim person that the that the the transition time from when we hire a new interim person before April 18th there will be sufficient amount of time and availability that will get that s of transition to be made and if both of you or all of you are saying yes we're good with that then I'm good I just wanted to make sure I I I got that base cover is there any reason that I should believe that it won't be done I would say no I would say no it's um you know under performance of Duties in the MTA um I would feel that that's part of the um under the performance of Duties clause in that provision so okay does do you see have any issues with that Dr Stanley no and we've we've been talking about Transitions and what that would look like we actually talk about that during our agenda setting time and you know what I will say I really appreciate Michael bringing that up um I love Edina and I'm going to make certain that Edina is left in the best place that it can possibly be so that the next leader interim leader and then permanent leader is in the position to just continue the great work of our strategic plan and to ascertain that um my cabinet is well positioned as well yeah I mean and again I was suggesting that that was in doubt I just want to make sure when I look at a legal contract I just hope that's what I'm used to in terms of my profession and so on so forth looking at that so I appreciate that and then I think I would just Echo what what um Erica said in terms of I know that you're leaving us is to is not meant to be hurtful to us or to whatever you want to leave your legacy here at edine which is a wonderful Legacy in the best hands possible and that you're committed to that so again anyone in the community who has questions about this and so on and so forth there's no doubt from my mind about what that's going to be um and we want to make this transition as as perfectly as smooth possible so you can start your new Endeavor in the best frame of mind uh to go from that standpoint so hopefully with the cabinet what we do from the governance committee on the interim uh Su hire will get there um it's just sort of it is a little bit Bittersweet that we know that we're going to be here we knew we were talking about this but I just want to make sure we covered that so thank you Cheryl um I just wanted to say uh director ber I appreciate you walking through the timeline because when I was looking at this item on the agenda I was a little concerned about the order of operations knowing that we're locking into the April 18th date um which I have confidence will be fine but before we have an interim person in place and not sitting on the governance committee I don't know what's happening behind the scenes um so that's a little difficult and I'm not a person who enjoys uncertainty um when it comes to you know major decisions um but I appreciate knowing that there is a strategic reason that could be advantageous to us in finding an interim superintendent voting on this in this order because it feels backwards to me but it makes sense legally apparently yeah thank you for acknowledging that director Barry and it is it is super challenging and these are one of those times where I absolutely respect open meeting law and why we have it but it makes it really really hard as a group of seven to have three people know a lot more detail and it's um especially for things contractually um that when we end up hiring an interim and a superintendent it will be a very similar uneasy feeling because there is um limited time that you have and those traditionally come as just action items and it's such a large decis decision that we're making for and pivotal decision for the district and being a board member where when you're being asked to vote on something where you don't have all the background and don't know all the steps um that's why I wanted to acknowledge the unease and walk through as many steps as possible and explain as much as possible what was in it so I appreciate that thank you and just to make a point of clarification for anyone who's paying attention that's built in for the fact that we all can't be talking about it outside of a meeting that because of open meeting law that we're not aable to have more than three people involved with those processes I think that's important even though most people have heard us say that before it's important that that's why that's happening and it is uncomfortable all right any other questions all right I want to thank you for those questions um and uh Vice chair Ellenberg thank you for walking us through that process and giving the background that was helpful all right we will now vote to approve the mutual termination of employment agreement between Edina Public Schools and Dr Stacy Stanley all those in favor say I I any opposed the mutual termination of employment agreement between Ed public schools and Dr Stacy Stanley is approved all right um do board members have any leadership or committee updates I think I would just uh tell everyone that I'm going to District 287 South Education Center in Richfield tomorrow for the get on the bus um this is something that's scheduled periodically throughout the year um I'll make sure you guys know about the other ones that are coming up as well um what's great about the south education center is that we end up having actually quite a few um Edina students that are actually going to school at the South education center um and they do a great program there and so I'm looking forward to seeing the updates tomorrow so thank you I have oh go ahead Dan um we had we had a Lac breakfast um since the last meeting that went very well um we had I think our highest attendee count um this since I've been a part of it and so um we were excited for the engagement of the community as well as the legislators our next event is going to be in March when we have our day at the capital um assuming everything falls into place by then um but so we will continue our efforts to try to advance our platform but thank you for everybody in the community that took the time to attend do we know what day day of the capital day at the capital is yes March 24th I think you're right March 24th yes March 24th Monday okay I want to thank the Lac committee it was a great breakfast well attended um engaging conversation so I had two updates uh as director allenberg spoke about just as an update on the superintendent search process from a timing standpoint uh the job posting including the leadership profile uh that the board has worked on based on the feedback that or the governance committee has worked on based on the feedback that the entire board gave us is set to be posted this Wednesday and uh it that posting will be on our District's website as well as on the Minnesota School Board Association website uh that uh application will stay open until Friday February 21st after which time the governance committee will narrow down the applicant pool to a finalist or finalists based on the feedback that was given to us at the January 21st work session and then at the last week in February is when the board can accept expect to interview the finalist or finalists um and we will have time to prepare for any interviews at our February 18th work session and then at our March 3rd board meeting we will set aside time to to discuss and decide on who the board is interested in hiring for our interim superintendent so that's a month from today uh Daphne Edwards our communication and marketing director and her small But Mighty team have been working on a page on our website and a link on our homepage that contains more information about the search if community members are interested um there will also be links to that part of the website in the buzz which is the district Communications and then um we will yeah and so please reach out board members reach out to governance committee members if you have questions and um community members please check out our superintendent search portion so just wanted to relay that and if you look at the work session document for the 21st of January you will see a timeline so we're still trucking along with the same timeline nothing has changed from that so my second comment tonight I just wanted to take a moment on behalf of the board to mention and pay respect to Willard aola the longtime Edina hockey coach who passed away on January 20th at the age of 92 um Willard was a fiad teacher at Southview Junior High which is what it was called at the time and was 's varsity hockey coach from 1958 until 1991 a whopping 33 years uh during his time as coach he made a tremendous impact on hundreds possibly thousands of young lives from what I understand he was a very modest man giving credit to the boys on the ice for the team's success uh the co-author of his biography said Ike's Humanity was what made him special he was the real deal so on behalf of Edina Public Schools I wanted to thank Ike for all that he gave to our students and our community but I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our coaches directors and advisers as well as their families because it's a lot of week nights and a lot of weekends from their family um for giving to our students in so many ways and really enriching the indicted Public Schools experience so all right uh Dr Stanley do you have any updates you'd like to share do have a couple updates um we are starting our uh enhanced Berg um Community Tas for process tomorrow evening and I just want to thank the community we had over50 um interest forms that were submitted and um we will um land with nearly 70 people that will serve on the committee and um M and I have been been planning for that and we are just really excited to start that so just thank you to the community for you know what we always see in Idina the Deep interest in supporting us and supporting the schools um also I would like to share uh the last time um that we were meeting uh merch shared that we had applied for a an additional Grant and this grant Al uh for electric busing and this grant allows us to stack funding so we got the initial Grant um for funding and this allows us to stack the funding to kind of make up the difference um that we didn't have with the other Grant and I just want to give a shout out to um Dr Amry Leland for her amazing grant writing um abilities because we were awarded that Grant so Bravo Dr Leeland um the board uh actually approved moving forward with the purchase of the buses contingent upon uh us receiving that Grant and so um excited to tell the community that and our project Earth students are so excited to know that we are moving forward so um was really glad to to share that information with them and then finally um we have new art that is displayed here in the boardroom and it's from Countryside Highlands and Creek Valley and showcases a variety of work kindergarteners through fifth graders um artists such as Roy lynchen Stein and Jen ariani and Andy Warhol were used as inspiration to explore different art techniques many of the projects also highlight students knowledge of the elements of art and how lines and shape and color are used in creative ways exploring color theory of complimentary color monsters and mixing values of blue for the winter Moon help students develop an understanding of these art Concepts uh through fun and meaningful hands-on experience so um please enjoy the art here in the boardroom thank you all right do I have a motion to adjourn our meeting so move second we will vote to adjourn the meeting all those in favor say I I any opposed the motion is passed and the meeting has adjourned