e good evening everyone try one more time like I like being at church and you get ready to do some announcements so good evening everyone thank you so much we're getting
ready to call the meeting to order this is our um I'm sorry we're in September um a regular uh board meeting and we just appreciate everyone attendance this evening and we
have a middle school presentation so we are just going to go on ahead and get started the time right now is 601 p.m as everyone had the chance to review the agenda
yes so at this time um anyone who wanted to um participate in public comment we need for you to going ahead and in the back there's a sign up sheet so um at this time we're
going to ask Mrs AR if you would go ahead please and call the order um Fraser Dr Robinson she's not here alar here Mr Williams
here here Rings hereos here have AUM Madam thank you we are moving on to item
2.3 have some very important who are us to do at this time if we I pledge alance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic
for which it stands one nation under God and divisible with liberty and justice for all commission statement graduate college and career ready students with the knowledge skills attitudes and behaviors
to personally succeed and contribute to the common good thank you Mr Mrs Bri Hansel and the board for inviting carel Community
School welcome you're welcome thank you so very much the reading of that statement was uh Nelle Edwards and Amanda hanning so thank you so very much you did an excellent
job all right moving on to item three 3.1 I am just going to need a motion to approve the agenda Madame President I move to approve the agenda as stated I
second okay um motion to approve the agenda by Mr Williams second by Salazar all those in favor I we now have a meeting
right moving on to item 4.1 we are showcasing our first school for this year it is the Carmel community school the principal is Kelly Moore um Miss Candace Patterson and Ryan Drake
are the assistant principls and this is going to be done by now I'm going to read your names so that everyone knows who the great individuals are going to be presenting it's Gabriel Bustamante uh jayen konga Carlos Dela
gay nisel Edwards Tanda handing Yasmin Lander Maria Martinez Alicia bovari Ashley Millum Evelyn stto Martinez Aria steinhauser Shariah Tom and Noella toar
at this time it is in your I would like to thank the Dr bansel and the B for inviting Carl Community School to show off our presentation this is all about us at
Carmel we are a 494 students um 59% are Hispanic and Latino 19% are black and africanamerican 16% is white 5% is two or more races and under 1% are American Indian
Alaska native and Pacific Islander um a little bit more about us with our 494 students here at Cara Community School 21% of our community a special needs class and
20% is in clld which is a class that helps them their English here criminal there's 9% students in N which is a non English and 8% Le in Le which is a
limited English proficient all of a good there's 80 St total here at carel 54 licens they went to college and got their degree in that specific subject and six alternative
license license which means they're still in college of our staff at carel Community School are green which they Filipino or Indian how we support our students at Carmel our administrators are a key part of supporting our students because they
provide a safe and welcoming learning environment for all students administrators also provide students with that they need administrators also engage in one-on-one personal conversations with
students second we're going to talk about how teachers support teachers teachers support students by using diverse learning methods to address different learning styles and needs they offer timely and
constructive feedback to help students improve and growth you also Foster a positive and supportive classment that encourages student participation provide additional support for students who need it like we provide
small groups for students who need it and motivate and encourage students to set and Achieve Personal and academic goals along with that another support system for our students at carel is our support
staff our support staff helps carel with things they need for example if a student needs help with something then they could go to a counselor and talk about their problems our support support staff ensures that students have access to
necessary Services accomodations also another way we support our students is through our Community Partners the example of this would be a group such as men of influence women of impacts of wisdom and Al
another example of Community Partners is our career day that we had last year and it gave kids a chance see what they wanted to do their career
Partners provide much like other support systems families is crucial for the students education attend parent teacher conferences to engage in discussions about the child child's AC academic progress currently
identifying parents Grand and our grandparents to help with classroom activities school events or extra CC participating in school and District accountability
[Music] Community assisting with reading and other educational activities in home the home they also attend school functions performances and workshops they share
relative information about their their child and collaborate on strategies to improve they support their child's educational needs and address any issues with the school as
needed like Miss Mary Miss Mary will call the parents to to say if the student is sick hurt oh godten to fight
go the so we'll hear more from them in a little bit um we're going to get into some data we are really proud of the work that's happening at Carmel we are slow and steady in our approaches we take the
time to be thoughtful with the systems we put in place change doesn't occur without for the sake of change our element is you can see we moved up in our school performance one level from Priority Improvement to
Improvement um our elementary right now is really carrying Us in with their their performance overall actually so if they were a standalone school they would be at a performance level our Middle School we have some work to do but we're well on our way there um if it was
isolated it was just Middle School would be priority Improvement so you average them together and you get Improvement and I am all for that we've we've done a lot of work changing the narrative about who Carmel is in the community and what we are about and word is getting out we
are often um parents are trying to get their kids to come to Carmel um and so we're really proud of that fact and it's something that we take very seriously we hope that by next year when we come back we'll move from Improvement to Performance and there's no doubt
we'll do that so we know it takes about an average of five years to make growth to show the work that we're putting in as Miss Moore stated the elementary side of Carmel is strong um as we develop and grow our own in Carmel this is only year three that
we just started with Elementary so as we continue to progress and those Elementary School students become our middle school students we are hoping to see those middle schoolo scores also improve looking at our median growth percentile for ELA median growth we
shooting for 50 we landed at a 49 so close and then for ELA exceeded that minimum expectation of 50 MGP with a 61 so continuing I'm sorry ma math I apologize yes math um so math is
obviously a strong suit we know with the district expectations this year we are really focusing on math we won't let reading slide um given the fact that we were just one little point away from that one um but again as we know we will continue to focus on reading and math to
improve with our students got to raise that up a little bit sorry um by way of our uh Middle School median growth percentile um our two data points um are shown there for ELA we have a
39.5 um and then for math is uh 34.5 our main focus um that we're going to be pushing for this upcoming year is a focus on middle school math to try to get the that number up just a bit more so you'll see with our access
growth data we only have two years of data because that is measuring us as a K8 school so initially when the access came out I'm like I was a little disappointed in in how we were doing but then once I saw the growth it's like
okay we're closing gaps for our elll population and so moving up those couple of points and over to that 52.5 um very proud of that I'm going to turn it back to our students now School helps us with personal
development and success like an avid they help us with math and science by by um helping us with math tutoring to help us improve on what we need to and then also they um do scci they do
they let us do science um science experiments a it also helps us to be College and Career ready by by um teaching us how to take notes when we get into college and then they also help
us socialize with people that we don't necessarily like or know the school also helps us with personal development and success Us by um having pep rallies at the end of each quarter to represent that we finished
the quarter and Miss more talks about what's next and another way they help us with their personal development success is like in the career fair they have a bunch of people come in and then we get to choose where we go and to help us
choose what career we want to go to contri contributing to the common good the way we contribute to the common good is we thank our ve ve veterans every year by having a breakfast and do a performance and then we also do family
nights which um have the student families come in and have them have fun and a bunch of stuff another way we contribute to the common good is not only to just our families and Veterans but also to everybody else
in our school such as our administrators teachers and other students and an example of this is when our teacher is giving us a lesson or explaining an assignment to us we
won't interrupt her or interrupt them and we wait till they're finished talking to ask our questions another way we show respect to our teachers is when oh another way our teachers show respect to us is when is when they give
us a limited amount of time to finish a class work and if they see or if they see that we need more time then they will ask us how much time we need to get the assignment completed for our area of focus we are currently
increasing our student math proficiency and we are improving our student daily attendance because a lot of people like to skip classes and they can't really learn if they're skipping another area of focus is to
increase our fam's opportunities to participate at our school and a way they would do that is through our family nights where um as previously mentioned they get to come to school after school with us and play
games and whatnot and just have fun with the kids and another way would be through Class Dojo where teachers can communicate with parents and tell them what their student is doing in the class
or what work they're doing or if they've done something bad to end it off these are our school strengths first uh our student voice is prioritized for example a couple years ago we had a dress code where we had to wear uniforms but after a while our
student voice uh let the school to allowing like normal clothes like hoodies and short pants um student stud student relationships and restorative practices are at the
Forefront of everything that we do uh one of our other school strengths is that we have a wide range of Community Partnerships that support our staff students families thank you for letting us present today
[Applause] that was a really nice presentation um now don't you all leave because we have something for you is that all
right if you all Bor you want to join me and passing these out and it's a school picture I mean it's a picture Time picture for than you so pi you
[Applause] I know that you asked for noag this year there are some things that madein the building and so part of our and
so was testing it all for and then we have a already so thank you so very much to um all of our students from Carmel can we give them another round of applause it takes a lot of courage to
come up here and present and so we are just really very pleased so I'm going to open it up if uh any board members have any questions or any comments regarding performance or their um initiatives or anything you'd like to
ask I want to thank you guys guys for coming out tonight you all did an amazing job all well uh very well spoken don't be nervous we're all family we work for you but we're glad to see that you enjoy your school we're glad to see
that the pride that you have in yourselves as Falcons at Carmel and I can't wait to see what you all do in the future so I'd like to add uh Carmel has become a staple for community Community
Partnerships for Community meetings people from outside of the district are coming to Carmel and I am just so glad that you're my assigned School this year and uh I look forward to coming back um
but our kids are wonderful I would like to see when we have our community events like that I'd like to see more of a student presence uh during those events because they've got so much to offer
thank you so much I just wanted to say really quick you all are amazing you made that look so easy but I know the practice and hard work and the focus and time and dedication that it takes to be able to
present confidently in front of your peers in front of the school Bo so thank you for taking time to practice and represent our district well thank you so much once again thank you I know that
this is a school night and so if you are so inclined to stay we'd love to but if you're so inclined to go and probably do your homework that part you didn't get a free passed cuz you came to the board
meeting so you can be dismissed if you need to but thank you again wonderful presentation go ahead one last thing one quick last thing is I just want to quickly say we
need more student voice I know out of all the people giving out the slideshow I know it wasy pretty stressful but it wasn't that bad after all I mean it just takes some getting used to a narrative but just thank you honestly for giving a great slideshow
and a great speech about how Carmel has been developing over the years and I hope to see you in one of these positions in the future need more D2 [Applause] voice thank you so much we are now uh
moving ahead to item 4.2 and it is the student board representative report by Misha Rollins and Aiden gagos so whoever would like to go first I know we have a really important piece of conversation that's happening tomorrow
night and um I don't want to pick any sides this is not my time to speak so go ahead well just a quick checkup on me um I'm doing pretty pretty good I love this position and upcoming I'm missing out on the panther games currently right now at
Harrison High School just to attend this meeting but that's quite all right with me because tomorrow I'm going to be attending the Sierra versus Harrison game and let's just say Harris is goingon to blow out [Laughter]
Sierra okay I was able to attend softball tonight they won against San Creek with the score 4 to3 then tomorrow afternoon they head head up to gunis for a double header on Saturday at 11: And1 so I won't be able
to attend the game tomorrow night as much as I would love to the next week is our homecoming week uh packed week for Sports volleyball plays at Mitchell away on the 26th boy soccer plays both PUO East on the 21st and then Falcon on the 26th away softball plays Falcon at home
on the 24th and then TCA on the 20 6th away and then Woodland Park at home on Saturday the 28th then our homecoming football game against Air Academy is next Friday at six and I just like to add tomorrow is the superintendent's cup between
Harrison and Sierra if you weren't aware um and we have some special captains that will be doing the coin toss so we have two Associated UFC fighters um if you watch the fight this week Elijah Smith gained his UFC contract he's a Sierra grad
so he'll be at the 50 yard line as a honorary Captain for Sierra and then we have the reigning bantamweight UFC Women's UFC fighter rockel Pennington who is a Harrison grad who will be on the Harrison side there will not be UFC fighting happen on the 50 yard line but they will
be there thank you so much for your ume presentations and we're just so excited about tomorrow night um I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Patrick Nelson for the video presentation that he put
together regarding this um rivalry if you haven't had a chance to go and view that on Vimeo and I think it's there's a link on the um on Facebook so um I'd encourage you to check it out he is the best
storytelling I've ever seen so we're moving on to item 5.1 um I don't know if we have anyone who is available to do public comment not this evening Madame President that is great going to keep it moving not
it's great that they didn't come I'm just saying to item number six and today we are going to recognize that this month is Hispanic Heritage Month and we do have two resolutions actually a resolution
that is going to be read both in English and in Spanish so at this time we're going to ask Miss aramid if she would please read the uh resolution in Spanish and it'll be followed by Mr Williams reading the English version
harrisan Mexico Central America America Co Guatemala Honduras in nicara am C har Harrison gracias [Applause]
Harrison School District 2 Hispanic Heritage Month resolution whereas the Harrison School District number two Board of Education takes pride in recognizing and celebrating September 15th to October 15th 2024 as a national Hispanic Heritage Month which highlights
the historical and present contributions of Hispanic Americans to American society and culture and whereas Hispanic Americans Trace their roots to Spain Mexico Central America South America and the Spanish-speaking nations of the Caribbean and whereas the observance was
born in 1968 when Congress authorized the US president to issue an annual Proclamation designating National Hispanic heritage week two decades later lawmakers expanded the observance to a month-long celebration stretching from
September 15th to October 15th and whereas the observance coincides with national Independence days in several Latin American countries Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras and Nicaragua celebrate theirs on September
15th followed by Mexico on September 16th Chile on September 18th and biz on September 21st and whereas we celebrate the vibrant Hispanic American Spirit that influences our nation's art and culture
as well as the significant contributions and advances that Hispanic Americans have made and continue to make in our community State nation and the world and we see the greatness of America in those who have risen above Injustice and enriched our society including civil
rights icons Caesar Chavez and Dolores HTA and whereas Hispanic latinx students represent the largest racial ethnic group in Harrison School District 2 and whereas in continued efforts to honor National Hispanic Heritage Month and to
promote equity and diversity haris School District number two remains dedicated to providing resources and supports for Spanish-speaking communities and continues to support safe schools and resources for undocumented students and their families
now therefore be it resolved that Harrison School District number two Board of Education proclaims September 15th to October 15th 2024 as National Hispanic Heritage Month and encourage activities to celebrate this occasion in
our education community ities in witness whereof we have unto set our hands and cause the official seal of Harrison School District number two to be here onto affixed this day 19th day of
September [Applause] 2024 thank you for the reading of the resolution we are going to uh continue on uh with the board consent
agenda item 7.1 is approval of minutes for August 8th 2024 work session U and August 2022 2024 board meeting item 7.2 o E6 financial planning
monitoring report Mrs Corey araras afo item 7.3 uh oe8 asset protection indicator report Mrs Corey arar CFO and item 7.4 I just need a
recommended motion Madame President I move to accept the board consent agenda items as presented second motion to approve by Mr Williams second by Miss Frasier all those in
favor favor I I this so moved we're going on to item number eight the superintendent consent agenda item 8.1 is the September personnel and comparison report I just need a
recommended motion step over a second m Madam president I move to approve the superintendent consent agenda items as stated second motion to approve by Mr Williams
second by Mr Salazar all those in favor I so moved moving on to item nine it is monitoring board performance and we have the annual work
plan do we have anything else to add uh we will be changing the uh November meetings from a work session on a board meeting to a combined uh work session board meeting on November
21st we will be joining the mayor's young leader award celebration on the 7th because because because because uh we have two of our Harrison
staff that have are finalists one of them Mr Patrick Nelson is here with us tonight and our assistant principal from Sierra High School Keith Basin is another [Applause]
finalist wonderful so we are on to item 9 point two and it is a space allowed for board comments so if anyone on the board has anything that they would like to um bring forward um at this time you
have the floor well it's been an eventful month for me I got to visit uh one of our Middle School's volleyball games and those girls are intense uh some of them uh I believe will make a huge impact
when they get to the high school level um uh very coordinated talking to each other it is you don't know Sports is my thing and I also uh got to see our our stallions play in a soccer game last week uh up at Dakota Ridge we weren't
too happy about the outcome but um I I I there's room for improvement we'll get better we'll get there and of course you all will see me tomorrow at the superintendent Cup game uh I will be wearing green I will be neutral on the
field tomorrow so uh we're just looking to have a good time and and and uh celebrate with our D2 alumni so um so I attended um I think it was last week the carnival at Centennial and
oh my goodness the F there was no parking in the parking lots I thought I was going to have to park on the street um but it was exciting to see families and students come out and um I was actually doing double duty that day um
as a board member and as um The Rise executive director so I was surveying kiddos on things that they wanted to see in a schoolyard and I'm not I'm not kidding those little first graders they
were probably the most responsive and that was exciting I was excited to see that um so thank you for the green the note on the green because I was wondering what to wear tomorrow and I'm like okay I don't even know so
thank you for that I also will be wearing green thank you um I also had a great week visiting over at Centennial my second home even though it's not my school I mean but still just a wonderful time seeing f
amilies um and staff engaging and then it was really great um I was able to slide in um Mr Anthony Williams being a finalist for um teacher of the year in the state so over at Wildflower that was
wonderful and so and also um just attending the possible of the this boundaries is that what they're calling it and I just Patrick want to say he shares the most
memorable and realistic captions of every I feel like I'm at everything whenever I open his you know so you are so so deserving and um excuse my tardiness and I definitely want to say hi to my soen Eagles folk
over there it has been a very very busy um to say the least as the casby um Delegate for region six I did participate in the
casby legislative resolutions uh committee meeting we have six resolutions coming for consideration by all schools in the state to push forward to
the legislature and um I'll report back on that later also um president Wills Hill and I had the opportunity to participate in the casby boardmemo
um theara High School also had a community Cafe which was very well attended I appreciate us having the opportunity to share um our school had breakout sessions with our school school
I was able to sit in on centennials even though it's not my school and uh Carmel which is my assigned school so it's wonderful to know how we're moving forward um with our kids at Carmel also
we also participated with the commissioner of Education uh in honoring our very own Anthony as app PL list we teach of the years so we need a lot of prayer we we know he deserves it please we've got to
push him over and um also this past weekend we have fiesta Patriot and we had a booth and it gave us all an opportunity to uh Market our upcoming meal Levy override on the ballot and
what is 4 a all I can say in this forums meet me out on the park in the park line um and also I don't know if everyone knew that our city council boundaries
are going to be um changed um so um director um Salazar um president Hill myself and director uh Robinson we all were there it's
important to know how those the redistricting of the city council boundaries will affect us as a school district and our so it's been busy and it's going to get busier so thank
you and just for the record Centennial Elementary school is school that I'm assigned to this year I know that that was a great turnout um I just want to say really quick um so
I am a proud social worker graduated with my MSW um a few years back but I just want to say for record I interned at sent and Centennial is a great school um
just pushing the boundaries on community right how to engage with community so I just I love that and I'm glad to be back they just took all of my thunder but listen Cory
arare I want to give a big shout out to you tonight for the organization of the fiestas patrias 2024 if you did not get a chance to go down there in the 10 you missed a great
event and I know that that is a labor of love this was your third year and I don't know how you do that and work a full-time job and do all the things that you do you're a phenomenal woman but getting back to fiest as petrius it was
an opportunity um for us to visit with people who came to the booth and I think I knew someone who came all the way down from Creed to visit and far away as Mar Colorado they came down from all over I
think even up from New Mexico um to visit and just everything was so nice and pleasant and this is my first time having an elote it was so good it was so good I
was like what my life has been missing all this time and I shared with my niece from Mexico and she's like TT you are lying to me you cannot tell me that you've never had elote but I did that day it was fantastic so anyway
congratulations on that um the only place that wasn't mentioned tonight is I went to the uh open house from Monteray um and you know Miss tonson is just doing a phenomenal job um and everyone who is here I just wanted to
give a shout out to all the principles who are in the room um you know excellence in every endeavor right I see you back there okay I didn't say that you know I was propping up for tomorrow night I just said excellence in
every Endeavor okay so that lets you know where I my heart is and I'm going to wear green because last year I didn't wear green and I I got in trouble with the superintendent so I'm about to straighten up this year so anyway thank
you all for um your P participation and everyone is doing a phenomenal job so um at this time we're going to item 9.3 have one more uhuh though we don't like to toot our own horn one of our very own
received the McGuffy award Miss Madam vice president JJ frasure and so couldn't let her go without getting that one um it is award it is an award that is internal to Boards of Education
and it is given to a member who we feel uh exudes uh leadership and Care in taking care of our kids which is exactly what she does and so uh she was very deserving of that award this year so yes right so we're going on to item 9.3
and if there's any legislative updates um there are already a lot of legislative bills bills being drafted around education um that is not great all the time because they don't come with funding um so being ahead of those
as much as we can and then just a reminder factual information we do have an mlo on the ballot for a it is asking for help to help make sure that our teachers have great salaries we retain great teachers for our students and that we continue to Prov provide two free
years of college for all graduates out of D2 thank you Dr bansel so there's nothing else we are going on to item number 10
on the agenda which is to adjourn Madame President with no further business I move to adjourn the Board of Education board meeting second motion to adjourn the meeting this evening
by Mr Williams second by Mrs Salazar all those in favor I are dismiss meeting a journ e e