e e e e good evening okay so this is going to roll I like for people you know holler back at me speak
when I say good even I'm G to try and I just need just a little enthusiasm have a lot to celebrate okay good evening good evening oh thank you we want to welcome you to our combined
um work session and board meeting on this evening November the 21st 2024 and so um the time now is 6:01 p.m. and first off on just wanted to do our
um view of the agenda and wanted to make sure everyone has had a chance to review the agenda for this evening yes okay okay the board is going to get it together too it's all right so right now we're going to item
2.0 um to 2.1 and so I'm calling this meeting together um before we get started if there's any members who desire to address the board on any topic related to board work there is a signup sheet in the back we would need for you
to have that completed by 6:30 p.m. so with that being said we are going to turn it over to Mrs aramid would you please call the RO madam president Miss Frasier Frasier is absent this evening Dr Robinson here
Mrs Salazar here Mr Williams here Mrs Wills Hill here Mr gagos here Mr Rawlings Madam President we have a quorum thank you so very much so at this time we're going to item 2.3 it is the
Pledge of Allegiance and the reading of the mission statement so leading that on this evening is our student board rep from Harrison High School Mr Aiden gagos the stand i al to the flag of the United
States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible andice for now I will be reading the mission 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 so much Mr gyos um we are proceeding on with um item three 3.1 I
will just need a motion to um adopt the agenda Madam president I'm move to approve the agenda as presented second motion to approve the agenda stated by Mr Williams second by Mrs Salazar all those in favor I we now
have a board meeting right moving on to I I hit that with authority do I hit it like I'm the president so item four showcasing schools on this evening we're so pleased to have
Harrison High School and so we have Representatives who will be coming up and representing that is with Vargas the principal um Miss Mindy Simons Mr Tyler Lawrence Mr Phil hendall Molly mccan all
assistant principles the FL is now yours so before you go further push the green button there you go oh nobody heard me that's good oh I'm confident I'm ready to go this is year six and here we
go um Bard Dr bur hanel uh we are so excited uh to be here tonight especially with our soccer team here with us um look at that picture look at that right there yeah uh our goal in the next 15 minutes is to pain a picture for you paain a
picture of what's happening at Harrison High School we did do this presentation uh six years ago and we had a lot of dreams and what you're going to hear is those dreams turning into reality you're can to hear some good things you're gonna hear some bad but
one thing our superintendent our leader leads us and tells us we got to own our ugly so that's how we're going to start off with today we we all came together as an administrative team and we have a lot of great things but we decided that we needed to own our ugly and that's
what we needed to start off with um we didn't land where we thought we were going to at our school performance framework and um took us by surprise um I felt as our building leader that we did everything we were supposed to do um but when you see that
report it was a it was a sock in the belly if you watched the Tyson fight on Friday wasn't a sock like that but um it it really it really really got us and one of the things that
it did and I'm most proud of is our entire Community has taken ownership to this you're going to hear from students you're GNA hear from from Molly our assistant principal how we all came together and
we've taken ownership to what what we need to do our district has came behind us and said okay Pete what is it that we need to do we had Dr bansel we had we had Rachel we had Dr claudo in our building two weeks ago doing walkthroughs giving us feedback and from that feedback I don't want to get too
deep into it because we have that in our presentation but I've been around the block a lot and I have not seen anything like this where you know what we're going to help you get better we're going to stop what we're doing and we're going to get in your building and we're going to have
eyes it's not a gotcha I'm proud of that and there is no doubt in my mind 1968 Joe neth guaranteed that Super Bowl win well tonight I am going to guarantee that we're going to get out of this and there is no doubt in my mind that we're going
to be playing with performance soon because of the work that's happening right now and this isn't a Harrison thing this is a Harrison School District 2 thing and thank you board and with that before I get way too more emotional
I'm gonna have Molly jump in because she's going to get us started okay I have no Sports references and honestly I'm just going to talk about numbers so um we know where we know where we are um we are super close to Improvement so we are 1.3 points away
from that Improvement um taking a look at some of the test data that we had last year there's a lot of areas where we can gain some points um we had our staff look at this as well um connecting to the academic achievement um performance goal for the board um but in
terms of some of like the really attainable goals for our PSAT n and 10 Ela we are within 10 points of gaining two additional points overall that would get us out um for Cass it's the same thing we're only
eight points away so all Juniors on science we're super close and we have a really committed team um and then for sat Ela we're only four points away um and then for math PSAT 910 within certain uh student subpopulations we're
within three four points so there's a lot of areas where going into next year we can move the needle and then ultimately we'd like to get another the green we know it's possible we know that this report card doesn't tell the whole story of our school um so just kind of wanted to show where we're going to gain
um and definitely think it's going to happen going into next year so at this point I'm going to pass it over to Mindy simin um to talk about how we worked with Sierra High School after our mock PSAT sat in October um to really break
down our next areas of growth so one of the things we've done is we've sought out Partnerships so we sought out partnership with our sister School uh in a collaboration that was made possible by several efforts one of those was the college board for the
first time has broken down the SAT into not only domains but into skills and levels of difficulty that gave us for the first time time a common language that we could collaborate on we had not had that before we just had had broad domains but now we have skills and we
also have levels of difficulty which meant when we did our mock exam this was the other partnership District uh took the mock exam and broke those um uh standards down or questions down into skills and domains as well which meant when we got the feedback we were able to
talk common language down to the skill level we've never been able to do that before it was such meaningful data which means now moving forward we know exactly which two broad domains we need to focus on in math we know which two broad domains we need to focus on an Ela as well as the skills and we have testing
tools that are allowing us to test by skill and level of difficulty and we can test kids out we can go okay we've got linear equations in one variable getting up to 75% we've got it we've got the easy proms now we're moving on to medium problems now we're moving on to hard problems we've never been able to do
that kind of work the other partnership um with that sier and I both uh benefited from was from the district we had Albert IO purchased from the district they have a huge test bank for sat and they have problems disaggregated by skill and by level of difficulty as
well so we're maximizing that resource with our kids every day um trying to put problems in front that are targeted on things that we know we need based off of those results so super powerful work we've never been able to do and it was great to be able to collaborate and see
some commonalities across those um okay so um also to talk more numbers um I think going off of Mindy's point a huge thank you goes out to Scott Welden and Matt Zer for developing that mock I know both Sierra and Harrison really appreciate that so I know they're not
here but good to them um so what we did coming out of the mock is we did also have the week after it was the week with parent teacher conferences and we had a table set up where parents Guardians were able to get live score data from the mock exam which
was super aligned based on the work that Scott and Matt did about where their kid would fall based on college board and based on State uh bands um and through that Community Partnership with parents um really giving them information about
resources live data of where their kid is at what their kid could do to grow um so that was another really helpful tool coming out of that mock exam uh Brook you wantan to so I know Mindy talked a lot about the data so with that data we also got
teacher ownership so what we did with that is we did some full staff PDS the biggest one was We did an overview simplified SPF so just like what Molly was saying is we let the teachers find out where are high leverage points so then teachers took ownership to know
what can they specifically do can they impact science the most can they impact English the most so that way we got teachers see where can they have the highest leverage as well as understanding where we are in SPF and taking ownership themselves as well so we made sure that all teachers were aware of the SPF and knowing how they
can best support our growth with that after our mock sat we also had when we divided the data we could simplify into specific domains especially in the math and the English we could see specifically what skills are students lacking versus what are they doing well
in and so when we pivoted we taught them the insight toolkit where then they could see example problems and then they can give specific data points based off of where their students scored so they could see that students scored lower in different aspects of the English and then they could take the Insight tool
for the digital PSAT and sat to be able to know what can I do with my students and give very specific problems to build those skills and then after we did it with staff um students also took big ownership to this so Mr Lawrence is going to speak to how students took
ownership to our SPF I'm actually going to introduce kids who are going to speak to it but as you can tell there's been a lot of collective work already in order to move learning so that we can get out of priority Improvement and into Improvement or Beyond from the beginning transparency has been our aim as a
school knowing the importance of community in this work and so here we have two Stellar students Logan and Marcus we're going to talk about um their endeavoring in this specifically as it relates to journalism and the panther press hello my name is Marcus Hughes and I
just want to give a little background on how like journalism overcame and like how we partnered with the administrators and come up with this article basically um after we got our adviser got the information about the SPF and everything
we came up together as a class and we started interviewing certain people like Rachel laugher and our in administration teams such as Lawrence Miss Molly and Pete we just wanted to ask them about like the next steps on how it's going and
then how students can help and like how we can like unite as a family to get out of priority Improvement hi I'm Logan walthal um we really did this because as a student body we knew that it needed attention to the problem and one thing at Harrison is
we care about each other so knowing that we like Marcus said we got together we did the interviews and we got it out to our student body um because it really takes Village to get out of impri and Improvement um and we really just wanted
to draw attention to the problem best way to do that journalism so we got it out there and a lot of people took notice to that so it's working um the student body does want to get out of
uh Improvement and eventually get to that green zone um yeah so I'm proud to be a Harrison Panther um especially with causes like this so so what are we doing instructionally what are are some of our leverage points
and I do have a sports reference what is in our Playbook right what can we add up the anti when we're up against the state when we're up against some of the best teams right we want to create a consistent educational experience for
all our students no matter what period of the day they walk into so rooted out of that we created a walkthrough for the first 15 minutes of class knowing those first 15 minutes are some of that prime time for our kids to get engaged right away and get them in class and we
communicated that data with departments I'm happy to say that we went up to 90% of our teachers were excelling in the first 15 minutes of class within four weeks which is amazing and I want to celebrate our teachers for getting there so quickly knowing the urgency that is
behind this work also District thank you um we had superintendent team come in October 2nd and do some walkthroughs and give us super valuable feedback to move forward with this and out of that work that you guys did we moved forward so we
created a walkthr that focuses on the four language domains which were some of our areas of feedback that we need proove on so we're like hey you told us what we need to work on we're moving forward we're doing this this is now a part of our plays so thank you for adding to our Playbook we appreciate
that and what we have done is now we've pulled in District um as well with some supports with training and also more importantly our instructional leaders and department heads in our building and each of our content areas is doing those
walkthroughs too because it's a peer-to peer feedback system that is usually sometimes even more receptive when you're hearing it from a peer and what we need to work work on to move forward so we're super proud of of how our teachers are rising to the occasion good evening we're actually G
to start with a video before we start talking about our Freshman Academy Freshman Academy is somewhat of a bridge program from middle school to high school here in District 2 we use different grading policies Credit Recovery policies um to ensure that
freshman students are on track the Freshman Academy is full of a lot of unpredictability because you're getting people who just came in from middle midd school they're trying to adjust to life in High School Freshman Academy helps me transition into sophomore by giving me
Avid which is a college right class you could take a Freshman Academy U my favorite part of the Freshman Academy was the houses I feel like I got to connect more with the teachers than I get to do now the way we are all in one Hall I could really connect with my friends from middle school and it kept
me like in those same friend groups and didn't really split us up that much as it does if we just got thrown into normal high school for those who are scared about coming into high school I feel like we should be able to put them where they're somewhere where they're going to be comfortable at with other people their age because I know a lot of people fear about meeting older people
in high school and not knowing what's going to go on with them our days are different from 10 through 12 we have uh five about 50 51 minute classes that allow us to reach all of our students every day coming from middle school who
have um shorter periods we don't want to throw them straight into an hour and a half classes doing the Freshman Academy allows us to um kind of ease them into the high school experience for Freshman Academy it is really helpful for like
letting me know if I'm like missing something or if I'm like doing something wrong there's always some room to fix they make it like a more comfortable sometimes more like relaxing they're like really relaxed with a lot of things but like they still are
helpful at the same time teachers have helped me get more familiar to Fresh academy by like setting goals for me I think so I can accomplish them and be able to do them in the future my favorite has
been the classes and the curriculum they hold it's just interesting all the information they teach I have interest in especially in math and science when I'm stuck on a problem they I I have the ability to feel comfortable to ask them for assistance or help and they were
able to help me progress through the question and make me understand it I think the Freshman Academy is beneficial a lot um for the students for even teachers it takes a select group to do this work um but you have to buy in and once you buy in the work comes easy and
I do think the Freshman Academy is very beneficial not only to Harrison but I think it'd be beneficial to other high schools that implement it good evening uh I am proud to uh be here and in front of you all and talk about a vision that Pete mentioned three years
ago uh one of the last times that we uh presented here uh we were discussing the Freshman Academy and it was just a vision and how it has taken off not just at Harrison High School but to find Partnerships throughout the entire state
has been an amazing experience on these three years uh but first I I I can't talk more about the Freshman Academy without congratulating Mike armant Trout who is our media arts teacher and our media arts class who created the video and did the filming so give them a
little love right now uh actually and on top of it you may or may not know our media arts class is going to be uh filming and uh photo uh photography for the casby conf uh accomplishment as well so um so three
years ago we uh he came with this Vision had no idea where it was going to go where it was going to take us uh and it really also started with partnership uh with a group uh NCS uh national uh college success in uh success in
University of Chicago uh we created that partnership who has done a lot of work uh around uh the United States in regards to freshman success uh with that partnership um they've helped guide us in creating our data dashboard which
allows us to really sink in and be proactive uh around our students academics and attendance and we can get ahead of everything uh so here's just some quick data to share uh since three years ago from gusa Vision to where it is now our attendance uh for our
freshman three years ago was about 80% now we're at 91 for attending are on track which a brief explanation which we uh adopted that uh terminology from uh the group in Chicago which means
students that have one or Zer FS they are considered to be on track uh we started out about 45% three years ago of student on track uh now we're at 65% and we're still climbing we still
have four more weeks in until the semester ends and really our goal for the year is to maintain at 75% but we have a big event which I'll talk about here in a second that I I strong belief that we're going to get to 85% before the
semester and interesting this was a new data point this comes from our district our first meeting to discuss early Warning Systems we were told that we had 30 students coming to Har high school that were on all three tiers of the early they reported that data to us uh
they were actually uh amazed all those 30 students zero of them were on early more uh after joining so that was an amazing data piece as well I'm going to step aside I'm going to let one of our newer me asley Jo our Administration
team to talk about our new initiatives that are going on in the fut madem you um so we are doing the we have a curriculum with uh your math which has been amazing because it vertically articulates from elementary school up
and so we're able to see how student learn transferring um from middle school um even ele and to our freshman year uh we're using our mock data um to align with our nwaa data which we are so thankful for nwaa and being able to
purchase that um testing platform it's get been huge because we were able to create intentional interventions for our students on math and reading um and then the next piece is our community involvement with our parents um it was mentioned earlier that it does take a
village um to support our students and so even before the first day of school um our Freshman Academy we called every student as parent and welcome them to uh Panther Nation let them know what to expect the first day of school um and let them know that we were here we were
here to answer questions um tell them back back to school night uh when students become off track or are not coming to school we're reaching out and calling uh to calling parents finding out what's going on uh and then with parent teacher conferences we also
reached out to parents welcomed them told them about parent teacher conferences let them know we want you here we want to have a conversation with you um we set up in the hallway uh and provided uh grade reports and missing assignments to all of our families we had over 90 families that came for
parent teacher conferences uh and we were able to introduce ourselves get to know the parents uh they had all the data in front of them and then they were able to meet with their uh group of teachers in one room to um talk about their student progress um we were able
to have translator uh translation services there as well so we were able to reach all of our families um and no family or student was left without having a good conference uh and so we know that we're creating this Village and parents are able to reach out to us
um through our teachers and through um Administration team and to close I just have to uh say it takes a special leader such as Mr Vargas to see and think outside the box and say hey we need to do something
differently uh this is my 18th year at Harrison High School and he is the first to say our freshman are not getting what they need we need to do something different so a lot of this takes uh Mr Vargas and saying whatever we need
whatever resources you guys need we're going to throw it at uh at the Freshman and it's shown with our data that with those Resources with the appropriate planning in Partnerships we can be successful in moving our students
forward uh with that we went to when we went to Chicago in October we were able to visit some schools uh alcot uh school in Chicago uh had this uh creative idea uh it's really just an assembly but they
take the assembly to the next level and we think we have the pieces in place I know we have the pieces in place to run the same sort of strategy that uh they did in Chicago so I'd like to invite everybody uh December 4th at 12:45 we
will be hosting a similar event uh that we will start off with an assembly uh recomend izing our highest achieving students but also communicating the the importance because these are the first credits that our
freshmen will earn and it's going to speak volumes on how successful they are for their future career and then after that we're going to break off into different tiers and we have different supports and I would love for you guys to see the entire thing and provide any feedback that you can uh I already have
communicated with Norman I hope it's on everyone's calendar we hope to see you there thank you [Applause] you see two themes one we seek out Partnerships and two um we like to think outside the box and take risks so
hopefully you're seeing that um this is another program that we've done this with in 2018 our referral rates were Rising we knew we needed to do something different that different thing evolved into this it came out of a partnership or multiple Partnerships W with h Valor
collegate in Tennessee uh which helped us understand circles are also for staff not just students um it also came out of a work with um the high school reform network uh through CI which connected us with pter High School uh and pter high
school helped us develop and we basically copied their peer mediation program and then uh the third Partnership of course was uh District helped us connect us with uh youth Transformations and they gave us the stru Ure for dealing with uh conflict restoratively and
preemptively um that work has evolved and now Porsche can you come so this is the most beautiful thing I was her assistant principal in 2006 and she was a part of my uh PBIS team that's what we called it in those
days as a student representative and now she's dean of restorative practices at Arizona high school I just think that's so cool full circle baby so I'll let her take it thank you Mindy uh thank you guys so
much for having us tonight um I want to start by thinking and talking about our strategic plan right for the next couple of years we're focused on our classroom our community and our culture and I think that the program that we're building and the action steps that we have in place right now hit all three of
those things which I think is really amazing um for us to be able to Showcase to you guys um so for our P media mediation program um I want to take us back to 2019 at that time we had about 30 students that had participated in a restorative justice conference within
one given semester um in 2022 2023 um we had about 49 students participating in restorative justice conferences in one semester this year so far not including the last two weeks we've had 77 students that have participated in a restorative justice conference so far right so
students are learning conflict resolution um and we're also allowing our P mediators to lead connection circles with staff as well they've been able to lead four different circles across the district um with different staff um so it's been pretty incredible
to see this program grow and transform and all I can do is talk about how amazing our students are um while I'm there to coach them and to and to facilitate they're doing the work as you guys can see in these pictures um if you look at the bottom right corner that's
just a snap like a snap shot of some of the things we've been working on if you'll notice some of our conferences are staff requests and some of them are students coming to us saying hey we need a space to be able to to talk about our issues to with each other and something that's fascinating that's shifted over
the past few years is beforehand it was always postc conflict right so we were all of our conferences were after something had happened and now we're getting a lot of preemptive of like hey I feel like this situation might get worse can you step in and help us out so the the green are the ones that we've
had students be able to talk with each other the yellow um is coded for students that are like we want to we want you to have one-on ones with us and check in with us to make sure that we're still doing okay right so we've got a lot of those things going on throughout the entire School building um and the
program has just transformed to be something that's super incredible we have our students that are leading a lot of the work that we're doing um they're mentoring students they're they're in classrooms with our freshmen um and they're just incredible which is why we have two students I don't want to talk
anymore um but we have two students who are going to share their experience with the pure mediation program um and yeah so that way you can see what I get to see every day with them um so we have Marcus Hughes who you've already um heard from today so he gets to come back up and then we've got Aaliyah Martinez
as well who's going to speak about um her experience um I'm Aaliyah Martinez and some people might ask why pyramid's a big impact in my life well a few years ago when I was a freshman my cousin um
joined param she was in paration he was a senior and um my brother was in a very bad car accident and the original teacher Miss D was there when I needed to talk to her about my brother being in a car
[Music] accident um I've learned that pyramed is more than just us it's more where we build relationships with freshmen we have to build trust and um pyram mediation is so
important to me because when I was a freshman um I really didn't like talking to other people and then I realized that there's a lot more in life than not talking to people pation helped me grow out of my
SH now that I'm a senior it's like my third year in Med and I love [Applause] it hello um for me P mediation kind of helped me in my high school career as
some staff at Harrison can tell you especially missg over there as a freshman I was going down the wrong path I was failing a lot of classes and I was like getting in with the wrong crowd of people and then once P mediation started like getting involved and getting more interactive with me
it like kind of changed my perspective of high school and like how big the impact of it with the students and like other staff members and how impactful it could be for somebody's life especially when they're going through things so I decided to join because my life like ever since like that part of me is like
gone my goal in life has been to like make an impact on people and like help others get out of sticky situations that they don't feel like they can because they're hanging with the wrong crowd and whatnot and I just feel like it's p iation and as they said that more students are coming to us and stuff I
feel like it's more impactful that not only that they have staff to come for because like a lot of students from like my perspective students don't like to talk to adults older than them a lot so with more student impacts they're more likely to open up and then come talk to
students and like help resolve more conflicts before they arise to something different thank you [Applause] aren't they amazing um so as they mentioned right P being in pure mediation isn't just about conflict
resolution it's also about building a community within Harrison and it's about creating a culture where students feel comfortable resolving their conflicts without without fighting about it right and where they can come back together and say hey we can talk about this and we can figure this out um and we're
continuing to grow the program we're continuing to allow our Pure mediators to go out into the community to show them what we're working on um and and I think that within the next five years we're going to start to see them leading a lot more not just connection circles
but they're going to be the ones that are taking my job right um because that's what we want we want our students to be in these types of roles so thank you guys so much appreciate we hope that we painted the picture of The Good the Bad and the Ugly and and um I'm just going to end it with
I am honored and blessed to serve as our principal and there's no other place I'd rather be than Harrison High School hsd to if you have any questions for us these guys can answer um but thank you for thank you for the time before you you all ask your
questions I think it's imperative to understand that's why our accountability system has to change there's no test that will measure the ability of our kids especially in a diverse population it is set up for white middle class
America and that is not our community nor do we want it to be we love our kids and our kids deserve every recognition they should have and we need to fight against what pushes our kids down because you just heard amazing things from our kids who are doing amazing work
and outperforming their peers in spite of the resources they don't always have and so that's why there's a fight against the accountability system because our kids deserve better and we'll continue to fight until it's [Music] [Applause]
there just like to commend the journalism um class the journalism class on embracing the voice of the students and um I want to commend the leadership and the teachers for also understanding how
strong student voice is because there there are why that that's what we do and so when we can get them hooked and they understand this is our problem and so um just very proud of all of you and what a
wonderful [Applause] presentation I I agree Dr Robinson with comment I I'm really not surprised because you are very
competitive but I think utilizing that Spirit of competitiveness to tackle an issue that faces the whole school and I think students I think you guys are so amazing um and am hopeful
for our future in D you and in this part of our city um please don't ever quit please so many people are [Applause]
depending right then I follow not today though um Mr Vargas you and I have had a great relationship since I've been on the board and I have no doubt in my mind uh you are best fit
job um I remember sitting with you year one establishing that foundation for the The Freshman Academy to see what it is now that's going to take care of the inflow now we can take care of the meat and potatoes in the middle I have no
doubt in my mind you're the guy know so you already know you you have my love I love the Panthers you have my support [Applause] sir well one thing I want to say is thank you coach mccan for putting that
really nice picture of me up there I like that a [Laughter] lot but I do want to talk about a few things is that definitely all the admins here that are present right now have definitely build a relationship with me whether is U me getting in trouble
office a couple times Mr herend doll and then that's learning from mistakes and that was when I was back in freshman and in freshman like how Marcus says it was like being tough and I was like going on a bad route but pure mediation on the other hand was actually that it was that
Gap it was that one Gap that actually brought me from feeling that I was lost to like oh I'm getting a break from my class and I'm having a bunch of upper classmen actually wanting to participate with me as a freshman that's why I love pure mediation and being an ambassador I can actually
connect with these freshman because if you think back to your freshman your time to some of these adults in your room how did you feel seeing a little bit of mixed emotions I exactly know how that felt during my freshman year and I believe that if P mediation was back ago you
would definitely have a change in thought how you felt as a freshman [Applause] so um once a panther well that was really
weak Panthers really so um Mr Vargas um I cannot um articulate how proud I am to see the progress that has been made and even taking
seriously the the fact that owning your ugly means there's work to do but you're not just talking about it but you're actually doing the work um my daughter is um class of 2020
and there are people in this room that impacted my daughter and she is um now in her uh third year at CU Denver and the things that she learned including Cornell notes she still is
using that in college so um I just wanted to um say how proud We Are of Harrison we're proud of all our schools but tonight we're recognizing and celebrating Harrison and the accompl
Ms so I've been told to cut it short um so that I could be appreciated so anyway thank you thank you keep up the good work every child is worth the effort um our families are worth the
effort and just congratulations and there The Best Is Yet To Come and by the way I will be there on December 5th okay thank you Vargas can we get your presenters to have a picture with the board quick
all of them e [Applause] now we are going to do some special honors every month it seems to get longer and longer which is great thing to happen um we're going to start with recognizing some middle school wrestlers
and their league championship placements as a mom of a wrestler I can tell you I know what you go through I had to do the cutting weight with my son and I hated it so I know as a middle school wrestler it is hard so congratulations you guys represented us so well and we're so
proud of you when I call your name if you can come join the board and we have a special prize for you and then we'll take a picture when you're all up here so um one of our eighth graders from soran Eagles got second place Richard [Applause]
Reed another eighth grader from Mountain Vista Maddie Finley was fourth [Applause] place and another eighth grader so high school you better start recruiting um
eighth grader from Carmel second place Nicholas [Applause] Feist and eighth grader from Carmel Champion first place Tory means [Applause]
and then we have two seventh graders seventh grader from Carmel play second Joseph [Applause] Padia and another League champion seventh grader from Carmel javaria Scott
[Applause] to and one thing that we like to do is we like to recognize all of our students that participate in the Showcase so if all of the students from Harrison that just participated in the presentation if y'all would come up we have something
for you as well [Applause] what now we want to recognize Harrison boy soccer they finished the season 102 and
three and became backto back csml south League champions the team earned their third trip to the state tournament in his many years and had both the player of the year and coach of the year for the league their season was buil built on discipline commitment and
Trust which extended well beyond the field and into the classroom over 15 nationalities are represented I'm sorry represented on the Harrison boy soccer team but you would never know because of the culture and connections the boys have made with each other highlights
included giving back to the southeast uh Colorado Springs Community through their first youth soccer camp the second annual white versus black inner Squad game the returned to JCC Ranch camp for an overnight of team building and
camping and winning the league uh title and automatic State qualifier our head coach was uh coach brid Bridger Stapleton if you can all can come on it assistant coach Jeff Mankey assistant coach John
Mayweather the three captains Freddy Flores Isidro toote Manuel quer and Manuel is also the csml player of the year and our parent organizer for the year was Emma frosto if you would join
as [Applause] well and our players aruro Rivera H come on up Jesus aalos Freddy Flores Andrew Sanchez shereif Manuel quer Daniel
Garcia Juan palas Carlos meia frosa hold on I'm there's more Isidro toot Carlos ornelas and Richard
[Applause] yamil and Edwin Montara dispense he's done a great job entertaining that the entertaining his baby sister she's so cute okay we want
pictures with all of you and we have gifts for all of you oh they already got them whatever you want while we're getting the picture I also want to share that our JV made goals at the beginning of the season to
to grow as a family 10 wins and show up every day all three of these goals were accomplished with 1212 record taking care of business in the classroom showing up every day willing to work hard and creating a
family atmosphere they truly understood what being a team is all about and head coach uh with the JV was Jeff Mankey and this shows that we're going to be around for a while aren't we [Applause] Panthers for
next we would like to honor Miss Patty Vil Patty can you come [Applause] up when Patty took over our gifted and talented program we were on Improvement plan from the state and in one year's time we are now a program of Distinction
that they look at as a model throughout the state Patty was selected as the administrator of the year for the Colorado Association of gifted and talented for this work and she tried to leave D2 but she came back where it's really home and we applaud her and her
work she works part-time but you wouldn't know it because she's everywhere all the time and um we do only pay her parttime though um but Patty has done amazing things with this work and put d2's gifted and talented
program on the map thank you [Applause] Patty e [Applause] now we would like to recognize uh I the two of our staff members let me give you
a little bit of History um at the heart of our City's progress are individuals who drive change Inspire others and exemplify leadership the mayor's young leader awards are an opportunity to celebrate exceptional young leaders from all walks of life this annual Awards
program recognizes profession professionals ages 40 and under who are stepping up to current challenges and serving as leaders in Colorado Springs through their work and volunteerism this year uh Harrison
school district is very very proud that we had two uh finalists and uh Mr Keith Basin was the award winner in the education category congrat [Applause]
and Mr Patrick Nelson was the finalist in the creative [Applause] industry Harrison is very fortunate because the young leader award started
with um back in 2015 and one of the very first uh people that was awarded for Education was our our prow our superintendent Dr Wendy bansel was the first group of young
mayor leaders and then a few years ago under education as well our board secretary Mr Corey Williams was also one of the young mayor leaders [Applause] e
no you hold it in the middle come on come on get up here e oh your all right now resume we are at item six which is Department
updates and um 6.1 it is the D2 teacher apprenticeship Dr Mike claudo um assistant superintendent of support Serv services and Miss Christina Randall educator pathway instructor and D2 teacher apprenticeship program
coordinator FL is and she forgets this title but former State teacher of the year for Colorado [Applause] woohoo Madam president members of the board Dr bur Hansel really it's gonna be the Christina Gillette Randall show I'm
just gonna step to the side um but this program is in great capable hands because of CHR the floor is yours well hello everybody um I feel a lot better now that everybody has exited the room this is going to be a fun little session I'm
Christina Gillette Randall and I know many of you already but if I have not had the honor of meeting you I have been in the district this is my 22nd year 19 years in elementary and then three years ago I made the jump to high school to begin educator pathway courses um today we are going to talk a little bit about
the D2 apprenticeship program thanks okay so I want to talk a little bit about the why of this program um the why of this program is in May of 2023 Colorado Plum legislation Senate Bill 2387 to address the teacher
shortage by creating new lure Pathways to First Generation Um for first generation college students individuals needing full-time Employments School staff and those without access to the traditional teacher programs unlike our current alternative licensure programs
which require bachelor's degree the teacher apprenticeship initiative um is open for it opens Pathways for coloradans who have yet to complete any type of degree which expands the candidate pool to meet the needs of our schools and students so a teacher degree
apprenticeship program Builds on the foundations of current alternative lure routes they still have bachelor's degree requirements approved training and structured on the job experience but this program allows teachers to start training sooner and it provides them with over 4,000 hours of practical
classroom experience before their first year of teaching ensuring Readiness without compromising quality standards in January of 24 Dr claudo and I attended a launch event in celebration hosted by careerwise Colorado and Colorado Mountain College for the new
teacher apprenticeship program and since then we have continued to work with careerwise and Colorado Mountain College as well as nine other partnering school districts that are part of the Grant and we have received 11,000 in seed funds to get the program going we've developed the second largest
apprenticeship program in Colorado and it is the only apprenticeship program in Colorado Springs or the Pikes Peak region yes claps salute there's the crowd okay so I want to talk a little bit about our program Vision um and then
some of our goals okay the program vision is up there it's the teacher apprenticeship program empowers par professionals to become certified teachers through a seamless blend of Education mentorship and hands-on experience by fostering their growth and career advancement we strive to enhance
educational quality meet the growing need of qualified teachers and ensure that every student in our district receives exceptional instruction the many goals we set after we came off of our um launch event in January were by Spring of 24 to identify
who were our qualified mentors who would be able to support our um teacher apprentices we had an amazing opportunity through the grant to put these teachers through um a mentor teacher endorsement which is a endorsement recognized by the Colorado Department of Education um and Colorado
Mountain College is one of the organizations that's certified to provide that endorsement so um we were able to have we had 21 teachers apply for this um and then 11 of them were selected to complete the summer cohort as part of the grant it was paid for um
their coursework was paid for and they received a $750 stien for completing that cour work is as well those mentors Spann seven schools two community and then five elementary schools so that was Step One is who do we have in place already once we did that then we um
reached out to administrators to achieve goal number two which was identify pair of professionals with exceptional talent and dedication interested in earning their teaching certification um we hosted a informational meeting in Spring
of 24 so if you are following the timeline here everything had to happen really quickly to take advant advantage of these Grant funds um we had 27 par professionals attend the initial meeting um 13 ended up applying 11 went through or 10 went through the interview process
and were selected um and then ultimately six did follow through commit and they actually just completed their first eight weeks of courses and have earned their first six credits um edu credits through Colorado Mountain College yes celebrate that um moving on we still have a couple
of goals we're working towards so we wanted to increase um the number of schools with qualified Mentor teachers and I want to make it known that there are teachers across the district who are more than qualified to be mentors but we're really looking for the ones that have the endorsement because Colorado Mountain College has worked to help
build their understanding of how working with a teacher Apprentice is different than working with a traditional student okay so we wanted to increase the number of schools um we were able to go back to our weight list and invite eight additional mentors they're doing a fall spring cohort so it spans through the
school year um where they're doing coursework and their mentoring hours again this is at no cost to them because of the Grant and they are receiving like a $1,200 Grant or $1,200 stien for completing this so basically we're paying them to complete this endorsement um with the addition of these six
mentors we've also been able to add two more schools um so we can expand the opportunity to our PA professionals um I want to talk a little bit more oh wait I want to added this sorry um I want to also note that for our apprentices they
have all six of them basically have school paid for right now with grants and fasta funds so they are able to keep their job which was important for them because they're supporting families and now they're going back to school to achieve a dream at zero cost to them and one of them shared with me yesterday
that she's actually getting excess funds and it's a blessing for her because she's a single parent and so she's getting excess F excess FASA funds um to help support her family and she said it's like a Christmas miracle for her so also we're celebrating um I want to look at our other next steps because there's
step four you see to expand the opportunity to Harrison and Sierra seniors and let's talk a little bit about that as well as other next steps so um I'll start with the first Next Step extend the opportunity to pair professionals we now as again you probably have followed we have nine
schools that have qualified Mentor teachers who are seeking their Mentor teacher endorsement um I want to talk about the compensation plan for our apprentices because this is a big one for our PA profession profal is a big reason um or a perk for them along the way we've come up with a Compensation
Plan where if you're unfamiliar with apprenticeship which I am I'm learning a lot about this um but I'm more avse now so to go be an apprentice there are five levels of Competency and within each level you have to show proficiency okay and the proficiencies are based on how
well you're demonstrating teacher quality standards so there's another bonus of the program our apprentices are already becoming familiar with teacher quality quity standards which they understand they will be evaluated on as classroom teachers um as they reach so pre apprenticeship is really for our
high schoolers all of our apprentices the six of them are on level two right now beginner apprentices as they show proficiency um through those competencies they will get a $5,000 increase to their base pay the reason we went with the solid increase of 5,000
instead of a percentage um was so that we can even it out since we have pair professionals entering at different hourly pays um the 5,000 was a more Fairway and plus when they see the number they like that um so after they show compet competency at level two they'll get that $5,000
increase to base pay they keep traveling their responsibilities increase um eventually they become a teacher of record as well and then there's another $5,000 increase um included to their base pay I do want to note that there's a stipulation that they have to remain in good academic standing and enrolled
at Colorado Mountain College um to continue that so um yes our Compensation Plan is pretty Innovative at least that's a feedback we're getting from others um and I would also say because of our Compensation Plan we're getting interest from um PA professionals and other school districts
so I went to an informational um meeting and um spoke with a couple and I've got names from people at District 20 and District 49 who are eager to come over because no one else is doing this kind of program so it's definitely getting some attention um going to number two build a
pre-apprentice pathway beginning in the fall so for the past three years we've offered teacher Cadet to our high school um sier and Harrison High School students which I have the honor of leading um and teacher cadet's wonderful it is a year-long program where students
complete and they get one um edu 2211 credit which is Introduction to education through Pikes Peak State College um that is wonderful I love it I'm appreciative of it we are working though with Colorado Mountain College and then there's only two other districts Summit and then Steamboat
which are both nowhere near us we're working to build a pre-apprenticeship pathway for our high school students our goal is to kick this off in Fall of 25 um the idea is for these students to be able to take edu credits still just like they're doing now but Colorado Mountain
College would be providing and they have approved up to 12 credits um that they would let our kids take so in Fall they will have the opportunity to take start those two first two courses and already start with six edu credits um and then we will roll that out or roll it back for juniors to be able to participate so
that if they start a junior year they could earn up to 12 credits um again this is a work in progress and we are receiving some more Grant funds to get this going and build advertising um and just build our program and the goal really is I've had
some wonderful students come through education exploration which is an elective course to recruit them into the college level course um and that they are first gen student so they cannot see themselves in college and they say I really want to teach but but right it's but I have to help my parents or but I
need to get a job and so this pathway would allow those students to still achieve their dream while also contributing um because they would be hired as per of professionals so building the pre-apprenticeship pathway and then finally um the next step is to work with the CDE apprenticeship
steering committee so I am on the um apprenticeship steering committee for the Colorado Department of Education where we're creating A playbook and they're really looking to our district to kind of say how did you guys do it like why why is there so much interest what what are you doing and so the um
steering committee is allowing us to work together um with career-wise the PBC and other um organizations to create a Playbook um and they're largely looking to Harrison to figure out how are we going to do that which is in
honor so why does this work matter um supporting our three contributing to the common good and I want to read this because I think this is important hiring PA professionals as certified teachers streng strengthens our schools by creating a stable supportive environment
with Educators who already know and care about our students these trusted figures in our community bring valuable experience and continuity to the classroom which helps students feel more connected and engaged that it's also a step towards making sure our teachers better reflect our students as our PA
professionals are the most diverse Workforce in D2 investing in our PA of professionals ensures that our most precious resource our kids have reliable role models and a cons consistent learning experience so finally what we need you
to know is we don't do a lot of talking in Harrison we do a lot of doing we're going to jump in and make it work we had a very short window to get this going and we are rolling um as I said it's one of the largest teacher apprenticeship programs in the state um which is setting the new standard for Colorado
and growing your own teachers and pair professionals um as I told you already 10 PA professionals um signed up to do the program six have followed through and they're on their second set of eight-week courses um and again no other
person in Colorado Springs is doing this work um we've also received positive feedback from both mentors and apprentices so I get to work closely with both career-wise who are the experts in apprenticeships and with Colorado Mountain College um to ensure consistent communication and strong
support for our for apprentices and the mentors alike and in the first quarter one-on ones that I held with each Apprentice um the similar theme that emerged was that they felt well supported and equipped with the information and they were taking what they were learning and applying it into
the classroom um and so it's received very positive for support from our apprentices um and then finally we are removing barriers by creating opportunities for our pair of professionals um the current lure Pathways definitely limit the divers
iversity and accessibility of candidates entering the teaching profession because it does require a degree already and so this Pathway to licensure will open doors for groups currently underserved in these programs um and again our pair professionals are District's most
diverse group and they're already deeply invested in our communities so they are going to stay with us after they graduate that will be hired into the classroom as teachers um and then I do also want to know why Colorado Mountain College they were of the first Institutes of higher education to jump
on the opportunity they've reworked their curriculum to accommodate apprentices who are still caring full-time jobs um they've made their courses eight weeks they support our um candidates they go online once a week where they have classes and they work with um other apprentices and
traditional students as well in other districts and so they're able to collaborate and get to know their instructors as well and they're um a Hispanic um serving institution which is always a bonus because they truly understand where we're at and they have the same vision and supports as um
Harrison does so with that are there any questions I'll just add that um so when we took on this new Venture um which a lot of districts are scared to jump into because it's different um but we do that in2 um what better person could teach
teachers to teach than the one that you just heard from right [Applause] um so Christina knows we have very high expectations for her um but she's meeting them and like I always say like if I could have a teacher I would want
her to be my teacher like she her Joy of teaching her strategies her ability to relate to people will help both our students who want to be teachers as well as our parents who want to be teachers be successful and have that resource and so it's just I'm just like a proud mom because we talked about this years ago
while she was still teaching for greatest ore Eagles and just to see it come to fruition it's just so exciting and it continues to grow well thanks I do want to add to that um a story that just came today of a student he didn't show up at all first quarter um second quarter first half he
missed and then he started coming and he came right at the time we're working on instruction and this is for the elective so he was just thrown into this um but he came for the piece where we were designing lessons to go teach at the elementary school and I didn't know if he was going to show up but he came that day
um and he has a probation officer so we had to go through some extra Hoops to make sure he could be off campus um but he went and once the first group went through the next rotations he was all in um working with the kids he was down at their level and they have to write a reflection after about the experience
and this student at the end said I think I might want to be a teacher I actually really enjoyed working with little kids um and all it took was a little nudge of like you were doing incredible can you imagine did you ever have a black male teacher in elementary and he's like no and I said can you imagine the impact
that you could have and just planting a seed and so that's what I think this work is I think it's planting a seed in high school it's planting a seed um with our pair professionals to encourage we have incredibly talented pair professionals so let's get them in front of
students I do thank you for your um work on and Aubrey thinks the world of Miss jillette but I I actually was able during my transition year to see um
you at you know your best with the kids and um some days I was able to fill in and just to see even when she wasn't present she would I you know I was filling in but they were so independent the kids were but what I like about it
though so it it either hooks the students and we really get those kids who want to be the teacher or they know now you know I don't think this is for me I like it but I just don't think it's for me so it's a win-win either way I
think um and the apprenticeship is just oh my gosh what um a Cutting Edge program so thank you for spearheading that and thank you Dr claudo because I know there's all those Logistics that go
with that but very appreciative um growing our own hearing all those titles I'm think woman of many hats I I call Dr claudo the man of many hats because we we just task him with things and he gets them done but you're the exact same way
except now you're training our next teachers to to come in for the Next Generation and and that's amazing and and I I hope it that work is is so fulfilling that you don't feel overwhelmed when it does get bog down because there are a lot of moving pieces and
and I'm sure you have to motivate some of those who are in the program sometimes they feel like may maybe this might not be for me but you already started so you're in there so you got to finish it and and and I I hope uh you get joy out of those who you know you
have to get p that that moment of of uh uh self- disapproval I I I appreciate that's off to you this last one um removing barriers creating
opportunities that's a big the big ask and you've done it in such a impressively short timeline you have a lot to be proud of we are proud of you and thank you for putting yourself out there and
availing I think Miss Porsha Brown said something that stuck with me that she was trying to work herself out of a job I don't foresee you'll be working yourself out of the job I hope you're going to be here for a very long time I hope so
too I will say with that I am D2 I'm deeply rooted and I don't see myself anywhere else but I also want to say thank you for the compliments but it's really not me it's really a team like when we've met with other districts um a team from Hawaii came out so they could
learn about it about our program and how we've set it up um we've set up panels but really the feedback is how are you getting H to buy in or um how is a high school doing like what is a high school saying and so really it's about connecting the dots and I don't believe this work is done in a silos so without
my partner in crime here who's like guiding me on like yes or no we can't do that her HR and then Pam um has been also incredible and then Dr ble and We're looping in Williams to get the high school but really it's about taking all the pieces and all the experts in the room so I am just the speaking front
of the program but there are a lot of people who deserve the credit they're just not standing here right now but thank you guys I appreciate it thank you so [Applause] much right we are moving on to item
number seven there is no public comment that allows us to go to um item eight communicating with the board it is the Dak update have Mrs Rachel laugher assistant superintendent of teaching and
learning and Mrs Heather maval well Rachel is all we need actually Heather was gonna be here but she sits on some Community partner boards and so she's at a different board meeting tonight but one day she will come and present with
me so um I'm going to skip through some of this but I really um just wanted to highlight a reminder of the DAC Focus this year the Dak got to choose areas from our strategic plan on classroom
culture and Community to focus on this year and at the last meeting our Focus was embedding restorative practices in all school so it's perfect that Harrison shared earlier about pure mediation we really took this meeting opportunity to
ensure that all members of the Dak really understand restorative practices because as I've mentioned before we have a lot of parents on Dak this year more than ever added a new one yesterday so it just keeps growing and we have some community members who we've created new
roles on deak since we haven't had community members in the past wanting to be part of deak so we did a mini training on what our restorative practices why are we implementing them in D2 and then they got to do some group work in their Four
Corners so Heather LED all of this she's one of our experts on restorative practices but really connected it to the bigger um why for the deak in terms of um the surgeon general's report that came out last year that some of you may have read that really talks about the
loneliness EP epidemic in our country and I think um what's powerful about this quote is I think a lot of us um connect restorative practices and increased mental health needs with covid
and that's really not the case so from this report it really talks about the rate of loneliness in our society has increased every year from 1976 to 2018 so this is before covid I think Co just kind of surfaced it for us and made us
realize we have to do something about it so there's six pillars within this report and our work with rora of practices as a district connects to pillar six which is about cultivating a culture of connection and it really
talks about how do we need need to do this as a nation and so we thought this was a nice connection for people who don't live and breathe public education for our parents and communities to realize we are doing part of of the national work but really just bringing
it to life in D2 so we really helped them understand around the fact that yes a lot of people think we are here to teach academic skills but we can't do that unless our students feel safe in their in our
schools but also um a sense of belonging so when we've done some training with our administrators Dr claudo found some videos around what does that sense of belonging look like in a classroom and how do you build that but it goes even
further than that in terms of also helping our students really kind of see their future and be able to picture what it looks like post High School all of these pieces have to be in place first and that's where restorative practices
come in once we build those relationships every student has a trusted adult at school all of those pieces that you see from our survey results which we'll bring to you you next month that's when we can actually start teaching the
academics this visual visual I also wanted to show you because we do talk a lot about whether we're doing things to people for people or with people and that's really the foundation within a restorative organization is that we come along and do the work with you not to or
for you but how this translates to the classroom is this balance between you need a really really high support but also really high control and a lot of new teachers really struggle with that balance they want to build relationships
with students they really want to support and they kind of lose the fact that you also have to have high control and help um people learn how to be accountable for their actions or we have individuals that are really about a controlled classroom and they um don't
want to kind of let go of that control but realizing you need to do that in order to build relationships with all of your students so this is a nice simple way to capture that but you can also turn it into some verbs and so really
with restorative practices what we're doing is trying to help teachers realize you are not your students's BFF you're also not the enforcer but we also don't want you to just avoid holding students accountable you have to hold students accountable for their actions but you
need a relationship ship with them so they they respond positively when you do so so really that top right corner is what we're aiming for is that as Educators we are the teammate that we are solving problems with students with
our class and really coming along with them to grow over the course of a semester or year we broke down the five RS of restorative practices I know we talk about restorative practices with you a lot but thought this would be nice so
that you realize this is really what we're working on we're building relationships mutual respect how um to help students build that responsibility within themselves and when you have done harm to your school Community to appear
to a teacher that you restore that harm and then we reintegrate you back into that environment so those are really the pieces that we are implementing in all of our schools and I loved um Harrison's presentation because I knew I could
piggy back on this very nicely within restorative practices the goal is that 80% of it is very proactive so we are building relationships we are in intervening before there is a problem only 20% should be responding to when
there's been harm and we're coming in to help in that conflict resolution so I think a lot of people see it as that just that Resort of Justice piece in terms of when something has gone ay then we come in and support but it's
really all on that proactive side so there's a whole Continuum of practices within this framework that just goes a little bit in depth and we spend a lot more time with that with everyone in deck and then we walk to them through
all of the training that we're doing um the exciting thing about this is that all the parents and community members were asking well when are you trading us and that is a goal that we're getting to this year we're focusing on 90% of our staff um and obviously students are
involved in that work next year the focus will broaden to being able to really inform parents and Community about what restorative practices is all about and then they spend some time in their Four Corners group sharing ideas
they always ask that I type them all up and send them out um which is a good sign that they want to learn from everyone and walk away with new ideas to take back to their own schools so that is an update on the work of Our Deck this year I think it's
important to know that this isn't just for schools either um District departments are doing this we are doing connection circles in executive team um if I'm in a school and they're doing a circle I'll jump in the circle I did a restorative conversation with a eth
grader a couple coule months ago who um had some Choice words to say to me and then we talked about it um but I think we have to model that it's not just for certain kids or certain places it is what we do in D2 and so we have to be
comfortable jumping in that space and helping people um model that and just go through it and it really is it makes the work we do so much more fun and enjoyable and we all come out stronger and better there it goes sorry I thought
I I didn't break it I'm good so anyway I can just switch so um thank so very much for the presentation I am a firm believer of [Music] restorative I don't know but anyway so
I'm a big fan of it um I have been since um my daughter was in high school I think when they implemented the program initially at Harrison with Janette her yes um I was one of the um
parents um or community members um and I just it's been so cool to watch how this program has gone from infancy in a school to now it's become a districtwide practice and so um I just want to um
recognize the uniqueness of bringing it to the district accountability committee um that's really just being Innovative and actually maximizing in on the potential for where this could really go so thank you so much for your
efforts so we are going to continue on um we are going to um item 8.2 it is the September financial report and up next we have Mrs Corey arari
CFO and president members of the board and Dr pel thank you so very thank you I'm sorry um so just in case this long meeting doesn't have you asleep yet I'm going to bring up some numbers
so here this I will be presenting quarterly um so the the really the only numbers that I am going to be you are our general fund uh you should already have a copy of this presentation thank
you very first one there you go go to the next okay so there you go so these are the revenues for the first quarter of this fiscal year year so it was for the
period ending September 30th um 2024 this is before the mlo had passed so when I present again it will include um estimates and projections um for uh the mlo the what I want to point out to you is the columns to focus on are the ones
on the right for fiscal year 20242 mainly because there is a column that said says estimated year end and that's where we estimate um these revenues to come in for this year there's not a whole lot of movement here
because our revenues are what they are we know how much the state's going to send us we know how much we're going to get in property taxes all of those things the only thing that's different is uh where it says total revenues you'll see that our budget was budgeted
at 172,500 um we are estimating that we are going to end the year at 175 23522 the reason for that increase is because we are reporting our Medicaid dollars differently they didn't used to
be uh reported in the general fund in fact they weren't reported anywhere um so in this report you when you go to the subsequent slides you'll see that there's the Insurance Fund the insurance Reserve fund all of those things but all
of these numbers were void of the Medicaid dollars that are brought in so that is being moved from its own kind of category that was not reported before into this Revenue category um it's equal to the amount of expenses in Medicaid so
it doesn't bring up our expenses it Nets to zero but that's the only reason that the revenue is up over the budgeted the estimated revenue for year end is up over the budgeted Revenue
yes okay and that's really what you want to focus on as a board is uh what What's happening to the revenues because as we get further into the year um the budget is estimated obviously by the amount of Grants we're going to uh that's going to
come in after the pupil count numbers um well actually are validated in December but I'll walk of that at the next meeting when we start talking about mlo um here um if you could scroll down just that the bottom shows as well this is
the expend es uh for the general fund now here uh under the budget column again far right um the columns on the left uh on on the left graph are the what happened last year this year are the columns on the right hand side I'm
going to get a a laser pointer um so you'll see that the total expenditures were budgeted 13, 61344 and you can then see that we had a deficit of 10,661 684 that was budgeted for for
this year um having seen that uh quickly we put uh cost control measures into place um one of the things that we are really aiming to do this year with our budgeting is get more finite and granular with our budgeting um because
most of those dollars come from salaries from positions that are not filled so when you take a look over um where it says year end if you could go a little bit so we can see the title The Columns um where it says year
end before budget you'll see under salaries salaries are estimated to come in at 76 million 477-481 and they're budgeting budgeted at 79 million so you can see that there's a huge gap because we're
budgeting for positions that most likely will not get filled throughout the year and so we'll get more granular in our budgeting uh this year into NE for next year's budget so hopefully it'll be much much closer to what what we actually
anticipate we're going to have builded um because the problem when you do it uh this way and budget for positions that aren't going to get filled is that money goes unused and where you could have used it in other areas and so it's it's not the right thing to do um from a
fiscal perspective thank you and this is the last one went through but um the benefits uh are outlined as well so you can see both the salaries and benefits are estimated to come in under what is budgeted you'll see under operating
dollars uh here is where um you'll see it go up from 25 million to 26 million um however um it's if you see the purchase services so when we don't fill a position a salary um we supplement
that with a substitute and that's a purchase service because we go through a third party company in order to bring in that substitute so that's why you see the expense under purchase Services um be over what is budgeted so 16 million
versus 14.5 million is everyone with me yeah okay J yeah okay so um so you'll see the 16 million over 14 million because that's where the um contracted substitutes are are charged too so
you'll see salaries are down but purchase services are up however um well purchase services are up by 2 million overall operating expenses are only up by one million or 1.6 million and that is because of all the cost-saving
measures that we've been putting into place since the beginning of the year um I've been very very popular um so total expenditures are anticip ipated to come in at 128 mil 5 5366
897 um versus 130 million 13.6 million um so we are making significant in inroads so overall instead of the $1.6 million deficit that we had budgeted right now we're looking about A6 million
dollar deficit which is an improvement of 4 million in only one quarter um we you know I'm just going to get out there and say that we're going to be able to overcome this by the time the year end comes well definitely because the mllo passed and we'll get those monies um in
the spring of next year so they'll go against this so next time I present um I'll be able to point those out to you but I wanted to make sure you guys knew kind of the major variances where things are moving why they're moving on the
revenue side um and then where they're um moving also on the expense side and what some of the budgeting philosophies we're already discussing are going to go into place for next year um no I don't have a question
okay so you said that we'll be able to overcome deficit by it's six million yes milon yeah it's 5.9 that's why I'm like yeah yeah so um can you share
how we think there's still room in the salary um area and we know that this is very very conservative we know that the cost cutting measures that we put into place are going to be extending through through the year so um we we know that
as we get into our budget cycle so we're right now working on our budget templates so that we can get those rolled out um working um with the rest of the admin team as we update the budget we're going to be updating our projections as well so I'm very uh you
know hopeful that we'll we'll come close to to overcoming that there isn't any one Magic Bullet that's going to do it the majority I think is going to come from um salaries so uh uh te fure it cost us more money than a substitute
does so as those positions um remain unfilled and we fill them with a substitute will continue to do that and that's mainly because um not because they're on an hourly rate but because we pay 21% in perah I will say just again to reiterate
what Corey said is in one quarter we've cut four million we have three more quarters to go so um following those procedures and Corey has helped us as executive team really outline where do we need to tighten up um what our schools needing to tighten up and
everyone even with some grumbles has been all hands on deck they know that with Esser being cut and with the state still not funding us what we need um this is what we have to do and again with mlo it was to provide salaries and
so um we have a I feel really solid about our plan and we just had a 4 and a half hour retreat with executive teams to talk about budget so we are all well versed in where we are and what we need to do moving forward and all Hands-On deck it's not every department has to
cut 5 per. it's not we're getting rid of all these positions it is very strategic where we can tighten up and then we get these results and so um the work we're doing I feel really good about with Corey leading us through those exercises and be very transparent with you all of
where we are and yeah and that's what I wanted to say thank you so much for um walking us through this and being transparent about where we were where we are and where you expect first to be and like I said I I
will continue to report on a quarterly basis uh so that you guys know exactly where where we're headed and how we're doing specifically against budget because that's the the biggest thing um we with the mllo I will say that we will have to submit a revised budget in
January I mentioned the possibility of us submitting a revised budget um and we we just didn't know if we were going to end up doing that but now that the mlo passed we definitely will because the dollars are sign a significant change to what we had submitted initially so uh we
I will be reviewing that with you as well um you'll be hearing again from me next meeting because we have to do our Mev certification as well as I have an OE to report on and and oh I forget oh my goodness and
um our Auditors will be here to report to the board um the the findings of our audit thank you okay thank you oh what I'm sorry it's okay no thank
you for giving a lot more clarity to what it is we need to pay attention to and for um explaining some things that that were just like flyovers right um because we saw a lot of pretty colors and charts I have no idea what I was
looking at to be honest with you um unless you're from the finance world this is all there's a lot of numbers and you just really have to see which ones are the ones that are moving moving the needle yeah so thank you again for all of your effes is fantastic sure and
thank you for this opportunity I was um saying how one of the adjustments to moving to education is that everybody cries like everyone cries and but I got to say after Harrison presented I was crying back there it was such a great like look at me I'm crying and now I'm
crying thank you thank you so much okay we're moving on to um let be going to the consent agenda M I am so sorry yes so um yes yes would you please move this to the
thank you so so now we are going to um [Music] OE which is instructional program indicator report no I'm sorry we're going to oe4
I'm I would never skip you so 9.1 Personnel Administration monitoring Dr Mike CL Madame President members of the board Dr bur Hansel I'm happy to report that
oe4 is 100% compliant yes first time in many yet um and so I I'll just go over some of the the highlights that we had in oe4 this year we retained 86% of effective teachers which was a 4% increase from
last year additionally D2 had an increase of 19 teachers of color who applied and were hired for the 2024 school year the district retained 93% of its effective non-school-based administrators and finally I think this is probably the biggest Kudo we have in
our district 97% of our staff believe the district culture allows them to work in an environment of support and courtesy as reported by the 2324 District survey how we got there was if you remember last year we had had some concerns about some of the
indicators that we needed to change two of those indicators were um 4.92 and 4.93 where our wording in those indicators were of that effective year and we changed the language to the upcoming year because we were making changes based on the when the ATU was
approved and so that was putting us behind schedule with the with the OE with own so we were able to change that additionally we were having minor concerns with some of the percentages that we had so if you recall we were supposed to increase the retention of
effective teachers and effective administrators by 2% so even if we were at 1.9% we fall short of that so we changed that to 80% of Administrators and teachers which is why we were able to um be fully compliant this year because those small increments if you
remember those reports they were just going up and down they look like um Pipes Peak sometimes um and some of those increases and decreases and so by changing it to percentages we were able to be in compliance with all of our
indicators any questions some data that you're not going to see in this report that I think it's interesting is um Corey when she came on board was at our new admin not new admin our admin training this summer and she made a statement that this is not what I
thought education looked like because of the diversity of the staff we have and I mean diversity not just just in race but just all kinds of diversity and who are our Educators and I think when you increase the effectiveness of retention
by 4% in education where everyone is fleeing there's something happening in a good way and our administrators typically only leave if we don't have a principal opening and they want to be a principal so our APS might leave prob be a principal because we don't have an
opening um Rachel and Mike and I can all tell you we get emails weekly from people who want to come here and we don't have jobs but they want us to have their name in case their a job magically appears um and we have people who just
want to come here to be part of D2 in the culture you couldn't have said that five years ago people were fleeing here and so to have these people come back and then come back and stay and these are high quality people that matters for our
kids on a daily basis so Mike's team and HR has done a enormous job of recruiting supporting making sure that we take care of our people to get the right people in front of there's no more comments I know the gist of the conversation so I know I stepped out for
just a moment but speaking to what Dr bansel just touched on I remember first day of school last year I was walking Stratton Meadows uh halls and I met a teacher who said I've been gone for seven years and I'm glad to be back because of the work that's being done to
attest to what she just said and so uh I remember speaking with her and we were speaking about a student who so eloquently at at the third grade level says I just hope that my teacher is able to understand me when I don't understand
something I was like what how how do you know to articulate that you're not being understood and to take time with me it was amazing so thank you for the work that you do Dr Claudia thank you and and I can again Dr bur Hansel mentioned it Rachel and I and Dr bur Hansel here all
the time we're coming back to D2 we're walking the Halls at schools and we're like hey weren't you a teacher here before yes I was now I'm back because I love the D2 atmosphere if there's no other comments um M if you would put this on the
consent agenda thank you so much much and now we're moving on to 9.2 Rachel laugher hello again yours again uh recently when we presented oe1
monitoring report we referenced that we felt like we were getting to a place um where we really wanted to keep this pretty stable because it was accurately capturing um everything that we measure within the instructional program so we
very minor changes for you in this indicator report um I'm going to skip over a couple that are just kind of minor changes um but I can go back to those if you want me to touch on them there's really just two areas you'll see in
114 on page five screen catch up perfect there's two changes here you can go down just a little bit further so you'll see where we excuse me say maintains an online and inperson mode of
instructional delivery previously it said for all grades K12 we've actually started to adjust that a little bit we did not enroll kindergarteners into Aspire this year um we are really seeing a decrease in elementary for our online
school so right now it's 1st through 12th and so so we're just removing the K12 to allow some more flexibility um in particular for the online component knowing that that is really there um to meet the needs of our families and we see that need in middle and high school
a whole lot more than we do elementary so just removing it to allow some flexibility for future online programming and then I referenced the next one um during the monitoring report previous to um Tammy Holland
become the director of CDE who you heard from Recently we did not have a program plan within CDE she led that department um over the last year in developing a very comprehensive program plan now that we have that and that outlines goals for
all of our multilingual Learners it made sense to align oe1 and this indicator with the goals in that program plan and so one of the goals is that all of our schools will grow by two percentile points on median growth percentile on
access which is the language um test that our students take every January and so we're looking at continued growth of two percent points every year so still measuring um English proficiency of all
of our multilingual learners but just aligning it with that particular goal and then the only other one you'll see is on page seven in
117 and this one um actually we've had um a little bit of an email conversation leading up to this it's really it's not changing the indicator it's just changing the language to be a little clearer to match this question or area
on the rubric so previously the language um was not clear that it's actually students demonstrating mutual respect and support of the teacher I've referenced this before but on the state teacher rubric um levels 1 through three
really measure the action of the teacher and Dr Robinson knows as well um levels four and five um look at the actions of the student as a reflection of the teacher and the environment that they have created so this is coming from the
teacher rubric and our evaluations of our teachers but it's really looking at the student behavior in classrooms so it's just clarifying that wording a little bit and I worked with um Miss Wills Hill to fine-tune that for
you that's really it unless you have any questions thank you gonna move that to agenda thank you and then it is you again but it's really not I am just
turning it over um and there was a lot of dedication in the team getting here one had a flat tire and yet still made it so Andy Bristol and Scott Welden are going to present um the next one for you and this is um item
9.3 R1 one and R12 indicator reports thank you so much evening board um here to present the R1 academic performance indicator um and this is a a new approach that we're
going to take with um the the policy that we've updated earlier this fall um when we are now aligning this to literacy and to math um but still focusing on having one year's growth in
one year's time um one of the other changes that we're going to have um and you'll hear Mr Scott Welden talk about how we arrived at these goals but one of the things that we we did is we aligned these indicators to our unified
Improvement plan our uip and in doing so it now creates a a mechanism for each of our schools to have that buyin to the district unified plan and so it is now um we we have a few more data sets that
we include um with you'll see Cass in here for the first time and you'll see dipples in here for the first time and I'm also happy to report that we have a way to progress monitor in our high school um we haven't previously done that before and so there's been a
few changes to this and um Mr Welden will talk you through some of those ways that we arrived at our goals good evening sorry that President um so we have a few uh
highle ways that we set our goals if we scroll down to the next page so for our I ready targets it's been mentioned at this board and throughout the district that our growth Target is always 100% of our students will make one year's growth in one
year's time so we've kept that the same on the achievement side those are set looking at historically what we have achieved and setting the bar a little higher to expect some improvement um so those are set on three
to four years of historical data just based on when we started I read go to the next page the Dibbles um the state provides a um monitoring tool and based on where our students have started these targets
are set for above average progress because that's what see our early reading ability scroll through so I ready again that's just middle school now um a new assessment we've done at ninth grade is nwaa map
growth so that has what's called a RIT score that's what those numbers you're seeing are that's looking at making sure our students are making growth CMS and PSAT sat these like Andy mentioned are tied to our
uip and the uip is totally focused on hitting State expectations so these are the targets that we need to hit to be meeting State expectations graduation that is that has been our historical Target and that's for a four-year ontime uation rate so we
have the traditional high schools and then we have the alternative school can one of you speak to why it's important to have these multiple measures of data versus what we used to use um it gives us a more comprehensive view of how the district's
performing and especially our early literacy it's important that we're monitoring those targets as well and especially for you to see how we're doing and another thing is that we do have um a lot of all the state data um is how we
get rated on our school performance and our district performance framework and previously those weren't part of our indicators and so having that aligned to our uip um puts us um with a kind of a check and balance on the school performance framework the district
performance framework but also there's a progress monitoring way that we can check throughout the year how we're doing um and so you have two sets of goals you really have a summi of goal but you also have a progress monitoring and so we can look throughout the year we know the correlation is so high
between our I ready test and our state assessment that we can stay with with fairly good confidence of how we're going to be performing with Cass because of that I do like the format of this
presentation so once we we get the numbers then this this is this is good not too many colors playing with my eyes this is this is very good what do you think um moving moving forward let me think on it for a second
as you're doing that I'll talk about why we have graduation in there um we don't have an assessment for our seniors and so one of the ways we want to make sure we have a a goal for everybody kindergarten through 12th grade is to have that graduation goal there is no Summit of assessment we don't have any
progress monitoring for them and there's no sat after 11th grade so in order to have a indicator that captures all of our students in our in our district is why we have a graduation goal I just tag on the reason it says January
202 it's always a year behind it takes so long for the state to make that information public every January you get last year's class graduation public you good okay okay let me do the
math so if we're looking at um math in the sixth grade and we're looking and we're hoping that all students grow one grade here that's the
100 that's the Gray Line what is the line above that so that's oh that's the current that that would be the percentage of
students who actually are on grade level currently uh well historically over the past few years okay and so we have two different goals we have one for growth making a Year's growth in a year's time this is the
percent of students meeting this so this this isn't an average this isn't a mean um this is we believe that 100% of our students can grow a year and a year time that's um that's on the growth side the number that you're talking about the row
above it is when it says performance that's um our achievement um and so we have we have both ways to measure our progress um how many of our students percent um grow a year in a year time and how many of our students are at
grade level um at the end of the year I like this chart by and um you all will still be reporting twice a year so you'll be reporting a check-in and then a end of the year is that the thought um the February work session um
we'll be giving you the midyear update on how we've done with our with Dibbles and with I ready and with NWA and so we'll have a report for you on kindergarten through 9th grade thank you so very much normer please move this to the
consent agenda thank you so much right now we are at item 10 which is the Bo consent agenda item 10.1 is the approval of am minutes for work session October 10th 2024 and
board meeting October 24th 2024 item 10.2 oe4 Personnel Administration monitoring Dr Mike claudo assistant superintendent of academic support item
10.3 oe1 instructional program indicator report this is Rachel laugher assistant superintendent of teaching and learning and Mr Andy Bristol director of curriculum and postsecondary item
10.4 R11 and R12 indicator report this is Rachel laugher assistant superintendent of teaching and learning Mr Andy Bristol director of curriculum at both secondary and Mr Scott welon director of data item 10.5 I just need a
recommended motion please Madame President I move to accept the board consent agenda as presented second Mr Williams did the motion to approve second by uh Dr Pam Robinson all
those in favor I I is so approved item 11 superintendent consent agenda 11.1 November 2024 personnel and comparison
report item 11.2 September financial report item 11.3 I just need a recommended motion Madame President I move to approve the superintendent consent agenda items as stated
second item 11.3 motion to approve by Mr Williams second by I Dr Pam Robinson all those in favor I I so
moved item 12 bring board performance is the annual work plan and school special events Norma do you have any corre uh the addition was the uh December 5th The Gazette best workplace
event that several things thank you so very much did you have something to add oh go ahead wanted to let you guys know about sar's Winter Fest it's going to be on
December 11th at [Music] 4M moving on to item 12.2 legislative updates Dr Wendy bansel um just a couple updates we need to be very aware of funding at both the state
and the national level um at the state level we want to ensure that we're not going back to the negative factor and depending on how the governor's budget comes through it could fairely we fall back very easily to the negative factor which will definitely affect our district at the national level um
looking at how they're funding or not funding tital and sped or Esa um there is right now a debate of taking money from tital to fully fund fed that's just moving up Domino that's not helping we
need to fully fund both programs um the other thing that is in the works is getting rid of Medicaid at some point to put vouchers in play and so as a district I will advise that we really need to be aware and follow along with what's happening there and then finally
in our legal council Katherine is looking at this closely what's going to happen with Title 9 that is going to be one area that they really go after with our new Administration and so how does that affect our policies are supporting students and so just being aware of
title n changes across the board thank you Dr question um I don't remember the healthy School meals for um I think is up for legislative
R um I was like so healthy School meals for all is the program that put in free meals for all um when school districts were asked how much it was going to cost they did
not listen to school districts and so now it's underfunded and so um now they are going to have to Rel legislate it and what they are probably going to do one of the options is to increase the income level and so less kids will qualify and it
won't be for all it will be for some um or they're going to have have to add funding fact that the state is 900 million short 900 billion short I don't know where they're going to get the funding to add money to and so um I will
say in D2 We Do a different program where we our kids eat free breakfast and lunch already and so that hasn't really affected us um but I know local districts who didn't do the free lunch and breakfast before will be affected
whether they're able to pass it or not so much all right we're going to item 13 um this is um oh I just need a recommended motion please Madame President with no further business I move to adjourn the Board of
Education combined work session and board meeting second motion to um journ by Mr Williams second by Mrs Salazar all those in favor
I we are adjourned e e