tonight if we have public so right now stand I'm gonna ask u in the pl room Miss statement is to graduate college and career ready students with the knowledge skills attitudes and behaviors
to person and common good right now I just need to Madame President I move to approve the agenda as amended TOA Wills
second rer all those in favor forward item number four1 unit boarda aenos so I was asked to conduct an interview withas about how the first week of school went I could just say it
went awesome according to him in my opinion it was also pretty awesome too it's the first I have seen this before so all I can say that out of his seven years at the school out of his for his coming upcoming seven year he said
that it was an amazing year by one actually one of the best years that he has ever seen in in the beginning he said that the ninth graders and me including in the the peer mediation program actually uh formed the ninth graders to
actually get to their classes and we were on point on spot in with everything and another thing is there was nobody in the hallway get skipping or anything the hallways are completely cleared and they were actually in classes with new programs going on and those programs
might be the new hall passes that we're doing every class has three hall passes during the quarter and these hall passes will be able to tell people that they're able to actually use the bathroom and we are stopping using MinGa and instead of MinGa we're using inperson passes so
that we can show the administrators we have permission to be in the hall if not the ad will walk into your class or give you after school detention which is going to be the new tardy policy that's coming up the new tardy policy is going to to remove K those people get the
warning to stop going to the sabinaa in the hallways and when they're not in the hallways they're basically going get a warning and then the second time they're going to get after school detention that they will have to serve so Aiden how do our friends who might get these after school detentions
or might be The Wanderers in the hallway feel about this process so my a long time ago my brother has tested how in school suspension does to students and ISS has person
personally affected students to think man I don't even want to do this anymore while out of school suspension we'll just give them a break they will have a bed relax too and they will just go to bed and sleeping say oh I don't got to go to school tomorrow so I'll just sleep in but this will tell the students that
I don't want to be here I actually legitimately just want to go home with my parents so this will just tell students that I don't want to do this anymore I'll stay in class thank you so much Aiden does anyone have any additional questions
or just like to such a interview with principal and definitely um the I just ask a question for Aiden can you explain what you did to help with
the ninth graders coming because it's kind of one of we're still developing nth grade academy but you were part of that I know this year so what did that look like when our new freshman came to high school so at first the new freshman are all going to be very oh I I'm like I
don't even want who are these people who are these people from all these different middle schools our goal is to make them feel comfortable in the school system that Eric is going to be all right and we're going to make them feel special in system and then during freshman orientation we'll put send them to groups and in our groups we will do
ice breakers to help them make new friends in the groups and in the groups that we're going to be doing is like simple games for them to get to know each other their names so in the future later days they would get to know each other's names and say oh hey blah blah blah I remember you from the group how
was that and they we'll talk about their experience and then build a relationship that might last all four years in high school and another thing we do is when they actually go see which classes they're doing instead of them getting lost in track and saying uh to a teacher they come up to us and tell us can you walk us to our class and help us figure
out where to go and we help them out finding where their classes instead of just them being lost in the hallways and the Freshman hallway itself is all classes um most of the students have classes in there so it's really easy just to walk from one class to other
class it's not that long and it would also prevents a lot of tardies and a lot of late um a lot of people skipping I just want to um commend Mr gagos on the yellow shirt that he's wearing it matches my
shirt but on a serious note thank you so much for that presentation you did and meeting in an exceeding hour all right we are moving along we are now at um
item five it is the board consent agenda we have item 5.1 is the approval of minutes from the work session June 6 2024 board meeting um June 20th 2024 and special meeting
July 18th 2024 item 5.2 oe8 asset protection monitoring report by Mrs Corey arari that right
CFO um item 5.3 oe5 learning environment treatment of students indicator report Dr Mike cludo assistant superintendent of personnel support and item 5.4 five 5.4 o12
student discipline indicator report Dr Mike claudo assistant superintendent of person Personnel Support Services I will make mention of the fact that um in previous um board work sessions um we have vetted all of these um monitoring
and indicator reports and so with this being said right now I just need item 5.5 recommended motion to approve Madam president I move to approve the board consent agenda items as stated second
motion to approve consent agenda items by Mr Williams second by Dr Pamela Robinson all those in favor I so moved you're now at item
six know it's only 613 p.m. but you have a comment okay we will we come back and see if uh anyone else comes
in so we're now at 7 superintendent agenda we have 7.1 the July and August 2024 Personnel reports comparison
reports so again 7.2 I just need a recommended motion Madam president I move to approve the superintend consent agenda items as stated I second motion to approve the
superintendent consent agenda by Mr Williams second by Mrs Salazar all those in favor I so move oh to item eight monitoring the board
performance and R Corrections or additions not this timea yes I'm sorry the YMCA event is coming up and so is the um Peak
education as well my MCA is on September 26 and I'm going we have an extra ticket so who wants to go with me it's at boot and I know that a lot of you have been teachers before the teacher started
on the first day of school out to school so um our work plan doesn't reflect all that but I want to thank you from the staff it's noticed when you're at the schools um they appreciate you being there to support them they appreciate seeing your face um at their carnivals
at all of the events so please I know that takes a lot of time out of your day but it's it matters for them as well as the thank you on behalf of Mer thank you so very much and and I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that she's sitting right here had their open house
today and move back into Panorama [Music] [Applause] and been 18 months 18 months um and we are so excited to see sixth graders there tomorrow and everyone there on
Monday I might have some per attitude like and tell us about the new thank you uh Bard I am so excited and pleased to be in amazing building I
might get a little emotional um as you may already know that um we were displaced rather quickly what was to be a 3 month mon renovation ended up being and uh throughout that time uh we
had to do a lot of compromising with space and to walk back in and over the last three days my staff has unpacked and created a space that we can
truly lead in and learn in and it was a beautiful sight today to see so many of our families who have been in the district for years whose families have come through that school and it's never
looked like that they I had so many people uh coming back we had Jean shumar who was a 25y year um Library Tech came in and saw the New Media space and I thought we were going to have to wheel
her out because she about passed out out it um our media center is top of the line our learning spaces truly feel um like places where our kids can have a
fresh opportunity the color schemes are beautiful um we ended up um putting up all of our student artwork from last year's art show and so walking in there is already student work on the walls and
we haven't even had a kid in our building yet and um it's just been a beautiful opportunity I am very honored to be leading that building um and I
promise you and Miss Corey that I won't break anything or spend any more money because I I was told we we bonded out the bond but um I just want to say thank you to everybody um the leaders here who
have helped us um when we were over at um what is now known as the Pam Robinson Educational Center when it was just the hills um everybody this was this is a collective win for the entire District
this has been um I think Panorama wed itself into like hey we were just going to have a little bit of a facelift and Panorama said no we're going to we're going to do the whole thing so sorry about that everybody but um uh and I and
I'm going to say that um our academics are also showing up to be shiny and new just like our building and so I am extremely proud of it I want to invite you we are having our clap in tomorrow
at um I believe we're going to start clapping students in at around 7:30 and if you can't make that I would love to have you at our first family night on August 29th from 5 to 7 it's going to be a community resource night um we'll have
pizza we're going to have Barbers there we're going to have um Deerfield Community Center we're going to have health care providers there um mobile mobile dentist um I iare we're just really trying to show the community now
that we're back we're really going to be back so um thank you um for this opportunity to speak about my school um and any questions comments or valid concerns thank you very much and uh go
D2 thank [Applause] you I just have something to Dr bramel I want to say how much I appreciate the additional investment in pen middle
school because yes in the beginning it was just going to be a facelift but our students are so important um that I think somebody was looking for money where find it and so thank you
very we're going ahead to item 8.2 legislative updates by Dr um you are all aware but just a reminder special session up next week this next week um to look at property tax that will affect
um school funding so we are watching that closely um but we know that it's going to decrease school funding but it will take some measures off the ballot that would have decreased it by 5 billion
so um we're going to take a hit we know we'll take a hit but it will be a less hit than five billion but we will have to be very aware of what's happening and um advocate for that the other thing is we are currently a few of us are working on a project of an equity study for
school Finance so they are working with districts and schools and leaders to build what should a school look like if money were not a factor what really would it take to educate kids not surprising in our district has been tapped into for multiple people to help because they're looking at what if we're
serving students who don't speak English what if we have special education what if we have students poverty which all our district provides all of those amazing services so they really are kind of asking what would it ideally look like for you to have a school if you had if funding was not a barrier um and
that's just been an exciting thing because in education I've never been told just imagine what you want just build it um now not that that's going to be funded like that but it's help it's going to help tell the story of how underfunded we truly are particularly in schools that have high poverty rates
High sped rates and high CDE rates um I think you heard this before but our CDE students typically outperform their peers our NEP students meaning no English when they come to us and that could be kindergarten through 12th grade coming with no English that used to be about 20% of our C students that's now
half so that impact is being felt throughout the districts and administrators are probably nodding because they have these friends in their class but this their first time in an English environment and kindergarten as you can imagine much easier to be a NEP or a non-english student in kindergarten
because everyone's kind of learning English in kindergarten but by the time you get to middle or high school and you don't know English there's a lot of the cultural the social all those barriers and so we're really working to support those students and they're not just Spanish so if they were just Spanish we
know we could do a much better job but we have a lot of different language coming so we have to support those how many languages again changes but we're around 50 and I like to say 1550 18 square miles because that's a lot of languages
in a small area not spread out like some of the bigger metros it's very populated with language so that's a lot for our school to support did not have any public comments
so I just wanted to take that for the rest so we are moving ahead and we are at the end of our meeting so I wanted to again um final
comments if anyone has but I did want to say congratulations on those of you who work so hard and so diligently on the 150th anniversary celebration I think you deserve to give
yourself a hand of Applause it was a lot of work a lot of Labor of Love wanted to give a special shout out to uh Christine and to Patrick
the way that you capture those things on media on camera um it's just such a wonderful I encourage you if you haven't already done so to go back and VI those videos they like a whole Vimeo channel
for D2 and he is really elevated um our media my mass media Communications to a level that we've never seen before so congratulations and thank you so much for what you do and thank you to all of
our teachers and our principls who even took our time to be here today and we are just so elated so I'll just make room for anyone else who has any last comments take them at this time
well no I was going to invite our principals to come and brag up on this anybody willing too early it might not be too early
micone there you I am Kim no proud principal at Centennial and Centennial is off to a rocking start this year we actually are above what we thought our projection would be we hit over 34 this week so we are so excited about
that um we're also super excited to now have three first grades we did recently convert an intervention position back to being a classroom teacher to help with class size reduction and we are just on top of the world having through
great thank you next up Miss Dunson I'm Erica tenson the principal at Monteray elementary school and I would I'm so happy because For the First time in a long time we have exceeded what we
were actually projected to be we are still small and mighty but we really have had a lot of new students come in and that's been a blessing because there's so much construction going around we were waiting for it to pay off and it's paying off people are living in
mosaica people are living around and they are coming to montere so it's been it's been great we've had a pretty smooth start so I'm really happy about that we have um three great uh student
teachers that Dr Robinson is supervising and we got to hire two of our student teachers last year it's kind of our system and they're doing a great job um so I'm just really excited we have a great staff ready to go the kids are excited every morning and the one thing
that we've heard over and over is from a lot of our new families they never have seen teachers and principls greet the kids outside and our kids come in through outside doors so we're always outside in the morning and all of our doors are manned by teachers coming in
so it's very nice because they've noticed that in other places they've been other districts they've been they have not had that had principes and teachers out there to to greet kids in the morning and so that's been nice and it kind of creates Community because we
use those outside doors right around and they get to be friends so and talk a lot in the mornings before school starts so it's been really good it's been a good start to the 242 school year as the next person comes up because some of them are out waiting each other
but I know Connor will come I know yes um I just want to share with the board you haven't seen numbers yet because we're still getting them aligned and making sure that we're counting our friends right but we are seeing kindergarten come back we had a couple years where we like are there any kindergarteners in southeast Colorado
Springs where are our people but they're starting to come back and fill up those seats so we're excited to see we had a couple years of a lull of kindergarten and little people they are coming back and they are in seats hello everyone um I am Dr Jared Stanley and I'm the in ratton Meadows
this year and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to be Leading The Meadows through what I like to think is a huge culture gift have 47% of our staff is new significant when we talk about onboarding and starting to sleep at
night again um so that's really exciting but we're also over our projected enrollment about by 20 kids so I'm really excited about that and I've been getting a lot of feedback from veteran staff and just people mouring the building and the
consensus has been that there is a different vibe at The Meadows and that is what our leadership team has been striving to do is just to change The Narrative of what it means to be a panther cuup at shaton Meadow so I'm really excited about our start and I'm really excited
[Applause] about that right there I'm done uh uh a lot of a lot of good things I think uh one of the most things that I'm most excited about is is preap year 2 um I've talked a little bit about
taking uh our educational Focus to becoming a premier preap campus where last year we did a complete overhaul of the classes that we offered the the focus that we had in those classes and uh I I don't know why I'm saying this on public comment hopefully on Monday our
SPF stays where where it is because when we were working with preap they said expect regression because even though they were doing Algebra 1 geometry Algebra 2 that's not preap Algebra 1 preap geometry preap algebra um but my admin team teachers they
stepped up they bought into the mission uh excellence in every Endeavor uh but you know this year it's focusing on stallion up um and and we want to bring back Pride uh to what it means to be a stallion to where the Cardinal and gold um and I think that's evident in the collaboration I I I'd be remiss if I
didn't shout out Miss gyos for letting us borrow Mr Dixon for the the first couple weeks here um because that is what D2 is about it's about bringing in people that look like our kids that resonate with our kids um that transition has been amazing um I I
foolishly signed up for this one as we're playing Harrison in volleyball right now Shout Out Mr Williams I saw you in the crowd um C team won for Sierra I have no idea about the other ones but you know Pete was there and you know it's all love um regardless our kids our kids are our kids and so um you
know excited to be in this District excited to collaborate with these other amazing leaders and uh stallion up friends [Applause] I will relent to my's um so uh Fox Meadows this year we
are doing rebranding uh so we have been the allstars since we the building in4 uh we are now the firef foxes which is a red panda uh so we kind of we moved on so we're focusing on rebranding and you know reimagining what we can be and
what we can do uh we're focusing on be the why this year which is be the why your students come to school every day be the why your friends come to school be the why your teachers come to school uh we've had incredibly successful first week um we are a little below projected
numbers but we're looking to rebuild and Rebrand and get back to being the fox better that we know we can be thank you [Applause] guys you have saved the best for last
your favorite part I know I'm like wow um good evening I'm Dr Angela proud principal at Mountain vtic Community School um some celebrations for us um we are right around 600 students um in enrollment we've got quite a few
students um who have choiced in out of District we've got some waiting lists going um really excited about that we retained over 90% of our staff and so we have hit the ground running this year um our Elementary classrooms if you come
they are packed however we have highly effective teachers in our Elementary classrooms um so I I invite you to come and watch um I am incredibly proud of our students at Mountain Vista and it gives me so much pride to be a D2
graduate and to be able to come back and you know say to our students you guys are outperforming your peers in more affluent districts even though you know we've got high elll populations we have 20% of our students on an IEP and our
kids are they're rocking it and and I just couldn't be more proud about that um we have started a CTE pathway this year we're the first Middle School to do that we've got five High School courses happening 10 new electives um it
is oh well so the electives last year we had a superintendent advisory committee meeting and the kids had to choose like hey what's something you would improve about Mountain Vista and they were extremely transparent about like the electives are boring we're tired of
having the same electives over and over so we took that and we've there's 10 new electives um some of those being CTE focused um we're offering Spanish one as a high school course um trying to get our kids um to getting that seal of
biliteracy um and so I'm just I'm imp extremely proud of Mountain Vista um I I'm so grateful to be part of this district and thank you all for all of your [Applause] support so the principles that are here
can go back and brag about having the opportunity to speak and say great things about your school to those principles who weren't able to be here today or that the meeting is over early
but don't count on that happening all the time so does anyone else have any uh final comments or anything they want to say to I would just like to say that I've been able to be in some of your buildings but I see several of the building principles whom I'm assigned to
and I please forgive me for not visiting yet but as principal tonson said I have had the great joy of assigning students teachers who are requesting D2 so I've been running all around trying to find
places for them um and I'm very thankful for Dr claudo and his department but it is such a neat thing when they are requesting to come to D2 so I will be out in about I can't wait to visit and
the schools I have visited oh my goodness quiet Halls instruction um packed classrooms but things are just moving along so patch yourselves on the back and I'm so
glad that you're able to sleep so good job I will share from um Rachel Mike and I have been in all the not all the buildings each but between us we've covered them multiple times um and one thing that's resonating that we're seeing is it's not like we had summer
vacation it's like we had a little Thanksgiving giving week off and we're back at it we are not starting from day one anywhere it is we're jumping in we're back into instruction we spent all last week in every level focused on relationships so that this week we could hit content and we already had those
relationships but you heard from um Aiden's report Mr Vargas is having the best start to his year M Donaldson told me in 30 years of education is the best start she's ever had and so our leaders are feeling supported and successful which then tells you what's happening in
their building so super excited for what this is going to be for students long term I have um sorry I I have a comment though on all the elementaries and um I love that our district has a
Focus right so I know that um terman Elementary has a focus on dyslexia supporting students who live with dyslexia and then um just L my train but I love that that
there's a there's a specialty there's an expertise in our elementary schools that support the needs of our students um I think that is I don't know that any other district is doing that because I don't have um relationship with them but
I am super excited to know that we have expertise in our schools to support families and St thank you I think it's exactly what you said it seems like we've been just on a break and we came back swinging I visited a
few of my schools I got to make it over to see the firef foxes but uh that's that's going to be real cool y'all know Sports is my thing I like to cut up at the sporting events and so I did get to see some of our Lady stallions uh they you better be glad Misha is not here man
cuz Misha would be in your ear right now they were it it was a good it was a good game though it seemed like they had been practicing for quite some time so it's muscle memory we're getting back into it the crowd was loving it I love that energy I do want to give a kudos to uh
student support and the folks over at Mount Vista because a parent called me and had some worries about four of their young people getting into class and not even I I'd say two and a half hours max
those B were off whatever waiting list and and on the on the roster so I want to give you guys a a Kudos because uh M mama was was worried and I said you know what just give them a moment they are the pros they will take care of it and
sure enough I saw a text at the end of the day and it said thank you so much I'm like I didn't do none of that that's all d2 and that's all Mount Vista so thank you to you your staff and uh student support uh Miss sherban all right we are at the
end item 9.1 I just need a recommended motion Madame President with no further business I move to adjourn second motion to adjourn the meeting by Mr Williams second by Mrs Salazar all those in favor I I we are adjourned
thank you e