Good evening. Oh, I like people to talk back to me. I'm going to do it one more time and then we'll start the meeting. Good evening and welcome to our board of education meeting. It's September 25th, 2025
and we are going to go on ahead and get started. Want to welcome all of our visitors and we have special guests on this evening special uh presentation and so we are just going to maximize the use of this time. So with that being said we
are going to get started. Um, item 1.1 is the review of the agenda. So, I just want to make sure everyone has had a chance to review the agenda. >> Yes. >> Thank you so very much. So, at this point, we are now at um the call to
order. Um, I am calling the September 25th, 2025 board of education meeting to order. Um, if there's members of the public who desire to address the board on any topic related to board work, um, there is a signup sheet, a table in the
back, um, but we need to have that done by 6:30 p.m. on this evening. So, with that being said, uh, we're going to have the roll call. Mrs. Ambi, could you please? >> Ma'am, Miss Frasier
>> here. >> Dr. Robinson >> here. Mrs. Salasar, >> he is excused. >> Mr. Williams >> here. >> Mrs. Wills Hill >> here. >> Miss Don Juan >> here. >> And Mr. Gos
>> is also excused this evening. >> You uh we have a quorum. Madam President, >> thank you so very much. So we are now to item 2.3. We have the pledge of allegiance and the mission statement. So
um at this time if we have representatives to come up we are very excited. We're all going to stand. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. God bless America. Please stay standing uh for the pledge of allegiance in Spanish. Thank you.
Thank you. We will have the mission statement now. [Music] Do I start? >> Yes. >> Okay. Graduate college and career a ready students with the knowledge,
skills, attitudes, and behaviors to personally succeed and contribute to the common good. Thank you. >> Thank you to our students from Monterey. You all did an excellent, excellent job on this evening. So we are now at item
three. Um we are going to uh wait for a motion um for the agenda please. >> Madame President, I move to accept the to adopt the agenda as presented.
>> Second. >> Uh motion to uh approve the agenda as stated by Mr. Williams, second by Dr. Pam Robinson. All those in favor? I. We now have a meeting.
All right. We are going to uh item four um 4.1. We are showcasing Monterey Elementary School on this evening with principal Erica Tensson and
assistant principal Renee Dah. So at this time, it is in your hands. Thank you. Ready? [Music] Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Mustang spirit
loud and very loud must go Mustang. [Applause]
I didn't. Hello. >> The green means on. Okay. So, let's go ahead and get started. All right. We have recently changed our mission statement and we have some of our students to share that with us. We
do have a lot of second language learners and this set happens to speak French. Thank you. Sepher, we educate with purpose, inspire with passion, and empower students to make a
meaningful impact in their communities and beyond. [Applause] Okay. Our vision of course is to educate, inspire and impact.
>> Hi, I'm Christy Armstrong. I teach fifth grade math and science at Monterey. Just want to go over our Monterey students. We have 273 right now. Of those, 58% are Hispanic, 13% black or African-American, 15% white, 11 two or more races, and 2%
other races. Um 81% free and reduced lunch eligible, and of our all of our students, 24% are our ML students, and 75 of those are considered non-English proficient. We also have 20 students on
an indiv individualized education plan. We have a principal and assistant principal. We have 12 classroom teachers. Um, due to our big CLLD population, we have two of those teachers. Uh, three special teachers. We have art, we have steam, and we have PE.
We also have three special education teachers, one reading interventionist, a counselor, a social worker, a speech pathologist. We share a psychologist. We get to have four sped pair of professionals, two instructional pair of
professionals, a health tech, and then we have three kitchen staff, a building engineer, a custodial staff, and two office staff. [Applause] >> Good evening. I am Stephanie Mitchell,
office secretary registar at Monteray and some people were wondering why were you chosen to be a part of this evening? Well, I was chosen by our awesome forwardthinking principal and assistant
principal because my smiling face is the first face everyone sees when they enter Mterrey. All right. Building relationships. At Mterrey, we strive to build
relationships on a daily. If you ride by Mter Ray before or after school, you will see our devoted staff outside dressed very fashionably in their yellow neon construction vest.
They brave the rain, the sunshine, the sle, even the snow to greet our students, answer parent questions, making sure students are entering and exiting our building safely.
At recess, we have established play area sex sections that are created and monitored by staff on the daily because, as we all know, misbehaving
does happen at lunch and recess. Positive behavior intervention system. Rocking it out is the positive way we start every day at Mterrey.
As students recite the rocks chant in the morning, they begin to understand what behaviors are expected of them. They get excited about the rocks chant. We have an incentive program which is our rockar treasure box. Once a student
acu accumulates, excuse me, accumulates 20 rocks punches, they are able to get a prize out of a rockar box. Emotional social emotional learning
daily emotional temperatures are checked and the tone for success is set during morning meetings in the classroom throughout the year. At Mterrey, we take great pride in establishing healthy
relationships not only with our students, but we include the entire family unit counselor once a week. It is a fact that we all struggle with feelings from time
to time and elementary students are no exception. At Mter Ray, we are so very very lucky to have a counselor that is interested in the well-being of our very diverse population.
In our kindergarten through 2 grade classrooms, she introduces basic feeling identification core skills such as respect, kindness, and gratitude.
third through fifth grade students who may have already developed a few unhealthy habits. She teaches mean versus rude, rude versus bullying, problem solving, and much
needed coping skills. At Mter Ray, we will continue to rock it out for the good of our students. [Applause] Hi, I'm Tammy Salis. I teach
kindergarten and I'm not going to attempt to follow that. Um, we are very supportive of our students. Some of the things included in that are afterchool clubs. You've seen the cheerleading club demonstration. We have sports club. We have homework club.
We have things like nature club. So, um, just encompassing a variety of interests and offering lots of opportunities for our boys and girls. We also have something very exciting that we're doing in kindergarten that's near and dear to my heart. I've been teaching a little while and I've seen the pendulum swing.
We are introducing play back into kindergarten along with our curriculum and our academics. So, we have what's called an explore more time, and we have a beautiful room set up with great kindergarten furniture and activities just for them that they can go in and
explore more. And we've tied that with our um math standards and our reading standards. So, whatever we're learning in knowledge, there's a lot for them to explore on that, too, and it's so exciting, and they love that time of the day. Uh we also have extra support
during the school day. We have instructional paras that go to the classes that need the highest support and the most help and that changes as our students grow and learn. We also have inschool tutoring where students are met one-on-one or maybe one to two with an adult. So trying to meet those
needs and help them succeed and achieve. And then we also support our staff. I've been at Monteray for 13 years and I love it there. And part of the reason is because we've built a culture and a climate that supports our staff, our students, and our families. So, we have Monterey agreements. Um, we also have an
instructional framework and those include things like choice, agency, language that we're incorporating, um, interest, reinforcement of social emotional skills, reading and writing and math skills as well. And then for the staff, positive culture, we're being
prepared. We're supporting students. We're communicating. So, we're growing ourselves as much as we're growing our students. Um staff is also a part of distributive leadership which just means we have a voice in what happens at Monterey and we appreciate that very much. Um we're part we have action teams
and everyone is encouraged to join an action team. We focus on math and literacy and also building family engagement. We've have some really cool things that we do with our families and parents throughout the year. And then we meet we we that didn't come out right. It's been a long day. We meet weekly as
academic teams during our professional learning time. Um so on Mondays we get together and we focus on a specific subject like writing and how our students are growing. We um have a protocol that we fill out so that we can discuss and teammates are talking
beforehand and then we get together, brainstorm ideas, celebrate successes and what can we do to improve and and go even higher. And then empowering staff. We do have instructional leaders. We are leaders in our classrooms. We have that opportunity from our admin to make decisions that impact the instruction of
our students. And then there's lots of opportunities for us to have a voice in decision-m in our school. >> Hello, I'm uh Shelley Lugau and I work with CLLDE at Monterey Elementary and this is my third year. So, uh, I I'm
really I really like it there. Um, we work on supporting families. So, we try to do a lot of family engagement such as bring your parent to school day, which we started last year and was very popular. The parents came to the
classroom and sat during lessons and and saw how lessons were administered and and how the students interact with each other during the lessons. So, it was great. Pancakes in the park that was started on Memorial Day by our principal
and assistant principal is also really great way to just get to know everyone. Cookies and conversations with it which they have periodically is also a great way to get to know your admin uh the parents to get to know the admin and and uh talk to them. Our communication
involves peak of the week from all of the classroom teachers. Uh the administrators make video messages of the week and we also have monthly newsletters contributed to by all of the staff. Uh our administration is available at drop off and pickup to
communicate with parents. They're out there all the time. So that's great. Uh other ways that we support the family, staff are visible and available. Staff are at every door in the morning. Teachers walk the students out every
day. Uh the NAMI partnership I have to admit I don't know much. Um that is it's new. Okay. So yeah it's going to be a counseling grant that we are going to take part in. Um our intendance incentives prizes for families with good
attendance and improved attendance. Uh the family resource room is available in our school and it's right off of our lobby where there are community resources, books, uniform closet for the students who don't have enough uniforms.
So it's it's a great thing. Thank you. Okay. So supporting academic performance. Here's our school performance uh framework for this year. Um, we are performance. We have 72 points out of that 100 points and we're
really excited about what we've done and what's gotten us there. When I first started at Monterey, we were a turnaround school. Um, we went into turnaround while I was there and then COVID happened and we have been making the journey ever since. So, we are proud that for the last three years we've had
a very high performance rating. Miss Tungsten, yes. Can you just tell the truth? The highest in the district. >> We do have the highest SPF in the district. >> We do. I didn't want to brag, but we do have the highest SPF in the district.
Um, this is basically our academic achievement. We do have areas that we are working to grow on. We grow kids well. We're still trying to meet those achievement goals. Um if you see where it says does not meet, we do have many students that will all fall into free
and reduced lunch. So when we have our multilingual learners and our students with disabilities, they are getting counted twice for us, sometimes three times. But these are areas that um we are targeting this year so that we can work on these two specific groups and
increasing their achievement and mean scale score. In math, in academic growth, in math and in English, we meet and exceed in all categories for growing students at least a year or more every year.
So, we just wanted to share um really this is our CMAS um this captures from the last um five years and you can see this is what we consider the achievement. So, in some grade levels, um, if you look at ELA and third and
fourth, um, this past year, they're low, but we did meet G growth as you saw in our framework. Um, and fifth grade ELA, just a shout out, because there was a huge improvement this year. So, we're really excited about that. And then we
look into math and we see the same thing. So we have 22% um fourth grade 15%. So the achievement is low um but we count the growth comes from how kids grow from third grade um
third to fourth and then fourth to fifth. And then in fifth grade again we have really high growth. Um, I think this year we beat the we were number one in the district for our fifth grade math score and we beat the district the
district and the state. Um, yes. So because we're going to talk about where we're going and how we decided this is also I ready reading data from last year and you can see we have
achievement and growth um there but once we get to second grade that change happens where the achievement and the growth isn't matching. Um so we know that that is an issue and we can see it in other data not just third fourth and fifth.
Same with our K2 math. So this was last year. We can we see some achievement then it levels out and then there's some discrepancies between our achievement and our growth. So that is really our story behind how we got to our overall
framework and where we're going. Okay, I'm back again. So, after those amazing scores that you saw, that amazing data, we have three areas of focus. Our first one is we're shifting from teachers talking all the time to letting students lead those conversations. And they can talk about
it. They're going to understand whatever it is that we are teaching. We're also going to increase the use of languagerich strategies like teaching kids what to say when they don't know what to say or speaking in complete sentences. um using that content vocabulary um using visuals all around
the room to really get them to understand those standards. And just like the district, we are also focusing on increasing that attendance. >> Hello. Um I'm Stephanie Mayorgga. I am a third grade teacher at Monterey and I am going to talk about our school
strengths. Um first off we are a community centered schools uh school. So we do retain a lot of our students and a lot of our staff. Um our stu a lot of our students are there with us from kindergarten all the way through fifth
grade. Our teachers stay um and we love it there. Um, we also have generations attending our school. So, we do have parents who went to Monterey or just somewhere in
the district. Um, we get to know our families and our neighbors and our neighborhood does embrace our school. We all know each other. We all communicate with each other. Um, so yeah, that's one of our strengths. Another one of our strengths is that our staff reflects our
community. We have a lot of alumni at our school, including myself. Go Panthers. Um um Miss Tonsen was actually my second grade teacher and then Dr. Robinson was
my fifth grade teacher. Um so Miss Oh yeah, Miss Stephanie was my cheerleading coach in high school. Um, so we do have, and it's not just me, we have a bunch of alumni that work at
our school. Um, a lot of us do live um in the community as well um or like within the district. Um and then we do have staff members whose students went to Monterey or are
going to Mterrey. Um so that's just a reflection of how great we are. Um another um another school strength is our academic and school life. So we are very collaborative at our school. We like to work with each other and um make
sure that everyone is getting what they need. Our core schedule reflects that. Every our core schedule is built so that everyone gets support throughout the day. Um, and with that, we are always
saying that we own all of our students. It doesn't matter who we're seeing or what grade we teach. Everyone pitches in and we all work together to make sure that everyone is successful at our school. Um, and like we've already said, our students grow at least one year's
worth in uh in all areas. Um, and then every teacher does a club throughout the year. At least for one quarter each one quarter each uh each year uh a a teacher uh does a club and so that everybody has
a variety of options. Um and then our PBIS system works. Everyone knows our rocks. um what rocks means, what um that we all uh know we're all on the same page as far as like knowing the
expectations and knowing what we do um in our school. And then we do use restorative practices. And then lastly, we have the best administrators in the district. You always see them.
you always see them outside. Um they're always visible in our school. They're always there to support their staff and their students. So yeah, that's Monteray. All right. Well, that completes our presentation. So,
yes. Oh, I need all the kids to just kind of stay around. We're gonna take a quick picture. Okay, let's get our P. Let's go ahead and have those that did the pledge,
all of those who had a speaking part come on up. I I was not gonna leave. Forgot. Yes, >> Miss Tons. >> Yes. >> Hello. Thank you for this wonderful turnout. >> Thank you >> for our board meeting.
>> Monteray has such wonderful. >> It has such a community feel to it. You go by that school and it's just out there. Your herb appeal is excellent. >> Yes. Thank you. >> And it is for that. It demonstrates
what's going on behind those doors. My question to you, yes, is what is the full capacity of your school for how many students can you? >> Well, when I first came to Monterey as
an assistant principal, we had about 420 kids because we were the center base for the whole district. So, we could hold at that time 420 kids. Um, right now we have, it said 273. That was done two weeks ago. We're probably at about 280. We've had some new ones come in this
week. Oh, it's good. Thank you very much. You're welcome. >> I just want to comment on the welcoming atmosphere of Mterrey when I come. And my daughter hasn't stopped talking about
her new friend Luna that she met at Pancakes in the Park Day. And so we've been meeting a lot of new friends because she's in prek now. So, we're we're starting to learn names, but she is always uh uh excited to meet new friends. So, we definitely feel welcome
when we come to Monterey. And >> thank you. >> I almost feel like your mom has got to be on staff because every time I come to Monterey, she is helping and and and putting in the community work. So, yes. Yes. She is very person. Love to visit
Monteray. >> Thank you. I just want to start with the emotional temperatures that are checked every day because that's where it starts. And when we can take those, we know where those
we used to tease, my counselor called it the barometer. She said, Pam, it's either a full moon or a major weather shift. But when we can check those temps, those emotional temperatures and get those checked, everything else will
will flow. And so I think that is so vital. I just love all the um clubs that you guys have. And it's just so wonderful having student teachers and you guys, you know, having UCCCs mentor
teachers and you even hired one who she is fantastic. She is. And I just thank you for your your cander and and the feedback and just working because it's not always easy working that first quarter and second quarter with student
teachers >> and you your data and your community. It takes a village and boy do you have what a wonderful village. It's always nice to go in your building and >> well thank you. you and Renee are always
out and about and so and that's what this that's the result, >> you know, so great job. >> Thank you. >> I think both of you are very modest and I appreciate you honoring your staff, but that doesn't happen without two great leaders. You even dress alike.
Let's be honest, we know that you're twinsies. this this time with this was >> this time was planned but the fact that we bring our teachers from the district to see you all and you are never saying no not today or no not on Monday or not on Friday afternoon you're always like yes what do you need to see we ask what
your system is you're like yes what do you want how can we help them can you go model for this principal can you go have this conversation I just appreciate both of your dedication to the district and to Monterey you've turned the school around and you're continuing to rise your school is outperforming mean
privileged schools that have no barriers to overcome and that doesn't happen without great leaders. So, thank you both for your leadership. >> Thank you question. >> I just wanted to check in. Do you still
have the cursive handwriting club? >> No, cursive write handwriting did not come out this semester. It turned into an art club or drawing club. They're drawing. The cursive club turned into drawing club. It's very popular, too. >> I always get excited when a parent, no
matter what age, a child comes, and I'm really referencing to your mom, Miss Sharon. I think that that is phenomenal that she stays engaged. Everywhere I see you, I see your mom. I mean everywhere out in
the community and I just know she is so proud of you. Um and I would share that sentiment. So you raised a very fine daughter. And to the assistant principal, thank you for how you support and encourage each other. This is just
so wonderful. I just have one more ask if um you're having trunk or treat. >> We are. >> Yeah. We're having it actually on October 24th this year. >> Hey, um I came last year. It was phenomenal and I would love to come. Any
of us would love to come again. So, thank you for this was an excellent excellent presentation. You all did a phenomenal job, your role models, and just thank you for everything that you do. >> Thank you for all of your support and
letting us be enabling us to do what we do. We appreciate that. We appreciate all the support. We appreciate everything that we get from the board and especially everything we get from our fabulous superintendent when she comes in. We have a lot of real talk,
but it works out for us and I'm just thankful that we have the support in this district because that is not the case for everybody. So, I'm very proud to work in Harrison District 2. This is my 30th year. I'm so excited um that I've grown so much and this has been the
place where I decided to begin and in the career. I'm not ending. I'm still here for a while. >> Thank you. >> All right, we are moving on to item 4.2. It is the student board representative
report. And on this evening we do have our student board rep Marissa Don Juan. So it is in your hands. >> Thank you. Okay. So first I want to talk about the academic focuses at Sierra. So the main focus this year is scaffolding
with teachers. So part of this is language supports for those students whose first language is not English because we do have a big population of that at Sierra. We are also working on chunking which is basically just intentional pacing to make sure that students are grasping the material and
then collaborative learning structure so that we're working together. And then it is also our third year of preap as a preap school. So we're just continuing to work on ensuring that all students have access to this content. And then we just kicked off our ECO or educating
children of color leadership academy. So we had our first meeting on September 23rd and then our first field trip will be um later in October and we are going to Cheyen Mountain Zoo. So that should be fun. And then there's a new focus on the Adelinte youth services. So this is
a new partnership partnership at Sierra and they are helping run our Hispanic heritage club. So that has been a very good thing. And then social emotional progress. So, we have a peer mediation class at Sierra and they are working with partnering with Panorama to work on
restorative justice practices and they should be meeting once a month to do that. And then we also have admins this year. They all have rolling desks, so they work in the hallways all day. And this is helping with our attendance because they get kids to class. It's
cutting down our tardies, our students skipping. So, that's really beneficial and they're just staying engaged and everything. Um, and then new policies. It's a district policy, the cell phone policy, but I did want to talk about the impacts that it's had at Sierra. So, every
teacher in our school has lock boxes. And as soon as a phone gets pulled out, they take the phone and they put it in the lock box. And I have noticed that there's been so much more engagement in class. There's no distractions and students are actually doing their work. They're focusing. And this policy is
actually being implemented which in the past they try to make rules and it kind of just depends on the teachers. Some aren't as you know they're not as they don't abide by it as much but the cell phone policy has been a big hit this year and they are really focusing on it.
Um some upcoming events we have our mock SAT October 7th. We do this twice a year to help us prepare for the real deal in the spring. So it just helps students know what they need to work on. We have parent teacher conferences the week of October 13th through 17th. Um, for some
sports, we had the first esports games this week. Chess played on September 22nd and two out of three won. And esports also has a good amount of kids this year, which is really good. Football plays on tomorrow at Air Academy. And then we have a home game on
October 10th versus PBlo East. Feel free to come show out for them. Volleyball, we actually have a game going on tonight against Mitchell. Yeah, it's okay. It's okay. Um, we have a our next game is going to be um next Tuesday the 26th at Air Academy and then
our No, I'm so sorry. Our next game is September 30th at Elizabeth. Our next home game is October 14th for TCA. And then softball's very busy. They have two back-to-back home games next week, October 1st and 2nd against Mesa Ridge
and Elizabeth. Soccer has two games next week as well at San Creek and Palmer October 1st and 3rd. And then cross country had a meet today in Canyon City and they will have another meet on October 8th. And then October 24th we have our treat street. We've been doing
this for I believe 2 years and all community is welcome. We have so it's basically throughout the school and like each door each classroom door has like treats and stuff and like everyone can walk by and get some and that's been a big hit. So, we're excited to be hosting that again. And then we did just have
our homecoming September 13th. Despite our theme getting cancelled the morning of, our student council did very well with making it work and we had a great homecoming. So, that was exciting. And yeah, that's the updates of Sierra.
Before you move on, I have to say that is by far the best student report I have heard since sitting at this >> in six years. >> Thank you.
>> I don't know who this is sitting beside me. What? You are phenomenal young lady. When you when you stepped into your interview last semester, I had no idea that it would produce that. I am extremely proud of you. Thank you. >> Extremely proud of you. Honored to sit
by beside you as a student. Yes, ma'am. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Ditto. >> He can have my seat. >> She can she can take over from here. >> Marissa, you did wonderful. So, very thorough.
>> Um, you touched so many different points and very proud and pleased. Um, and this being your first report, you did a wonderful job and I do look forward if remember I said if you have a PowerPoint, you just let us know in time. >> Thank you.
>> And I just want the board to know that Marissa reached out to her principal and has met with him multiple times to talk about her report. You can tell she's very prepared. But I also want you to know you're not just hearing a report from Marissa. If there's something happening, she's letting me know. She's letting the principal know. Not that
she's the tattletail, but she's helping us navigate how we make things better for kids. She's a um major leader in my superintendent advisory group. Um homecoming, there were some issues with the um theme. She's on student council. She helped navigate that since make
that. She actually went to talk to an admin about how do we move through this? How do we create policies to improve this for future years? She's just a leader through and through. And I'm just so I wish you were playing Mitchell tonight, but not really because I'm glad we got to see. >> Yeah. I also sorry I want to add another
comment. Yes. So with the homecoming theme cancellation, our student council is working with the admin team to get a new um policy of how anything will be accepted like um our themes, our spirit weeks, everything. We're working on a new approval process so we can avoid
something like this happening again. >> Yes. Well, there's nothing left for me to say um other than I think you exceeded our expectation of what a report >> should be and as a cautionary note for
future um what the expectation you've raised the bar tremendously. So congratulations and we look forward to more coming soon. So thank you. Excellent job. Let's give her another We are moving on to item five, 5.1,
public comment. Uh members of the public who desire to address the board on any topic related to board work are welcome to do so at this time. Speakers must limit their remarks to not more than three minutes and appoint a spokesperson if the concern is a group concern.
Personal attacks will not be allowed. focus on an individual by name and or position with the district will end a speaker's comment time period. The board will not respond to any public comment in substance. We will review the
information presented and provide responses as needed at a later time. So at this time we do have a comment if you would like to come to the podium at this time from I think it is Autumn Real.
So, if you would just state your name, your address, um if you have any school in the district, which one they attend, and what your topic will be for this evening. >> Thank you. You will have three minutes
to speak. Um Mrs. Ar will set the timer and she will let you know when your time is up. >> Hold up. I'm like pulling up my speech, but I'm like, "Oh my gosh, I can't find it." Okay. >> This one you need. >> Ready? Okay. Uh, my name is Autumn
Mariel. I'm a recent graduate of Whitefield High School and I'm going across every board education district to speak about women's reproductive health. We are actively abandoning the system that grows scholars. Not off of trees, but the determination to succeed. Not
off of the soil we track dirt on, but the collective experiences from hundreds of people who yearn to seek a difference. Furthermore, our education is the foundation in which our society functions and grows. Which is why through the abandonment of teaching our youth something as crucial as their reproductive and sexual health, we
deprive them of the right resources and confidence about their bodies. According to Colorado state law, it is not required for schools to provide sex or HIV instruction. However, it is referred to as a right of youth. To strengthen that point, it is a right of youth to have access of information
about one's body. Yet the schooling system still neglects to teach it to them. This is also considering the complexities of feminine care. 74% of female students still have remaining questions about their periods. This great majority of women left wondering about their own reproductive health is
the direct is the direct cause of suffering for thousands due to the schooling systems disregard of its importance. As we continue to walk around eggshells regarding the topic of menration, nothing productive is done for the 55% of women who still feel embarrassed
about the topic to this day. This is especially considering it is a normal way of life for over half our population. It is due to the lack of requirement to include sexual health in Colorado that generation after generation becomes less and less aware of what's going on in their own bodies.
It is time that we make a change for the curriculum. As time passes on, the continuation of repeating cycles is no help to the advanced generation that is to come. We are single-handedly raising stronger doctors, service workers, and activists without giving a second thought of what they take out of their education.
First, we need to examine the significance of biology and sexed in our classrooms today. What topics are being discussed now, and how are they making an impact? Major topics such as abortion, same-sex relationships, irregular periods, and pregnancy have profoundly affected our modern society.
yet aren't discussed in the classroom today. Second, in the act to promote these teachings, we need to branch the spectrum of male and female sex as topics that are generally taught to everybody. By polarizing these topics to those who don't experience them, we can't effectively understand what one another is going through without feeling
shame or guilt. As a strong advocate for women's health and our education system, it is a need to voice these issues with you all today. We have barely scratched the surface of what health looks like for a community who isn't afraid to guide young people out of the dark. After all, it is a right of youth to learn about the complexities of health.
Thank you. Uh Miss Autumn, um come back to just so you know, um our team would love to talk more with you. Um you will be presently surprised by what we do in D2. So someone will reach back out to you
for this information. Thank you. All right, we are moving on to U board consent agenda. 6.1 Approval of minutes for August 7th, 2025 work session and August 21st, 2025
board meeting. Item 6.2, OE6, Financial Planning Monitoring Report. Item 6.3 OE7 financial administration monitoring report and item 6.40 OEE8 asset protection indicator report. At this
time I just need a recommended motion please. >> Madame President I move to accept the board consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Williams to accept the board consent agenda as presented.
Um by Mr. Williams, second by Miss Frasier. All those in favor? >> I. So passed. Item number seven is the superintendent consent agenda. 7.1 is the September personnel and comparison
report. Item 7.2. Again, I just need a recommended motion, please. >> Madame President, I move to approve the superintendent consent agenda items as stated. >> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Williams to approve the superintendent consent agenda items as
stated. Second by Dr. Pam Robinson. All those in favor? >> I is approved. We're moving on to item eight. It is monitoring board performance. We do have the annual work plan. Um I do believe that we need to
discuss a date for the superintendent's evaluation. >> Yes, ma'am. during the month of October. >> Does anyone have any dates? I think we've been doing them on a Friday. >> All Fridays are good with me except for the 24th.
So 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 31st. Well, I mean, >> so >> yeah, I'll probably be out somewhere dressed up. >> How about the 17th? >> I'm good on the 17th. >> I can do the 17th.
>> The district is closed that day. >> Okay. 10th. >> What about the 16th? >> The 10th. >> 10th. If we want to do a Thursday, >> if we do the 16th, >> it's district
>> the evening of the 16th. It's a Thursday. >> Could do the 23rd or 30. >> So we can do the 10th >> board meeting on the 16th. >> Mhm. So we could do the third. Well,
it's not on there yet. Yeah. Yeah, we can do this. 10th is fine. >> How does that work for >> You want to keep the Friday? >> Yeah, it is. There is not. >> Yes, ma'am.
>> It's the following week. It's because of this week. Yeah. It's because we skipped next week, that's why. >> And also because that's because the district is closed on that. Yes, ma'am. >> Right. Mhm. And foul break.
>> All right. So, do we want to go back to 16th or >> 16th or the 10th? Either one. >> The 10th. >> 16th or what time? Three is five
would have to be four. Four. >> The 10th. >> 16th. >> What day now? >> All right. Are you were talking both the 10th and the 16th? I was just trying to get clarification on the time. >> Hey, if this is the worst that our board
does, we're doing pretty good. >> Okay. >> Keep the Friday. Okay. Friday the 10th is good. Third or four? Uh 3 p.m. or 4 p.m.? >> Yes, I can do three. >> Okay, we'll do three.
>> Three. You said 3:30. >> Three. >> Okay. So, Friday, October the 10th. Yes. >> At 3 PM. >> Yes. Yes. The members of the board of education of Harrison School District 2 will have a board retreat. >> Yes. >> There we go.
>> This is about as heated as it gets. So, we're doing really good. >> Do you have anything else, Miss Norma? >> I do not. >> Thank you so much. All right, we're on to item 8.2 and it is legislative
updates. Um, so our state is out of session right now, so there's not much to talk about there. Um, I'm going to make two things kind of fit under this category. One is, um, some of the decisions being made in Washington, although they're not legislative decisions, they are
affecting us. So, one recent decision is the H-1B visas, um, are we used to pay 8,000 per teacher. It's now going to be a 100,000 per teacher. Um, so just in case you want to know, I've talked to three or four news media including New
York Times about what that impact is. And um, the statement that if they quoted me correctly, you'll hear is that um, the people making these decisions intentionally or unintentionally are saying it's better to have a long-term sub with these kids than a teacher who
has five years experience, a master's, and a doctorate degree just because they're from another country. Um UCCCS graduated two education majors last year. Two. They used to graduate 40 to 60. There is a crisis in educators right
now. And because we've done something creative, now we're going to have to look differently. We also have our create our create our own. We don't create our own. We grow our own teachers. So our paras to teachers or students going to education and coming back. But it just seems that more and more barriers are going up to make sure
that our kids have the best teacher in front of them. Um, and so that has been happening. And then I was going to mention your cube award, but people might not believe it after seeing how hard it was to pick a date. But for the first time in Colorado history, our
school board earned the Urban Board of Education Excellence for the nation. We will be celebrating in October. But this cannot go unmentioned because in in my lifetime, the most politicized time in
education, you all continue to do the right work and keep politics out of the classroom. Not that you're not dealing with it, cuz I know you're dealing with it all the time, but you're not letting it get to our teachers, our admin, our kids. And that's why D2 continues to
thrive, continues to be a trends setter, continues to be different because you all are doing amazing work. So we will be celebrating you next month, but I don't want it to go unnoticed the amazing amazing accomplishment that you all have.
Well, you know, we have to be great all the way around. We just can't have a great superintendent and not have a great board, too. So, we're better together.
So, with that being said, um we're going to give you a whole bunch of time back this evening. Um, we are at item nine and I just need a recommended motion, please. >> Madame President, with no further business, I move to adjourn the board of education board meeting.
>> Second. >> Motion by Mr. Williams to adjourn the board of education meeting. Second by Dr. Pam Robinson. All those in favor? I. You are dismissed. >> Thank you. >> You got to go.
>> No. No, no, no.