But until he saw it, I was like, "Oh, yeah. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. The agenda, I do have to make a motion to move a couple things around. I'd like to put 5.1 1.121 um right after the resolution of the like to be able to get that's the one
thing we need to know with all members and uh anytime after that I know some stuff like that. So that's I'd like to make a motion to to slip that in there between 3.1 and
3.5 second. I'll second motion carries on to comination [Music] little ch little switch. Yeah, our little our little student's running late, so we're just going to go to her
when she gets here. Good evening board and community members. My name is Trent Langor. I'm very proud to be here as the high school principal this month. And to start with the students of the month for April 2025, these students are finishing strong. They are chosen by staff members
who collaborate each month around these criteria. Students that are responsible for themselves and others. They are positive role models. They help they offer help to others in need and they progress academically. One student per grade level per month is quite an honor.
Please come down uh when I call your name one at a time and stay up here for a picture. Ninth grade Bridget Carter. 10th grade. Gavin Brandt. I think I saw him sneak in. 11th grade, Daffany Gonzalez and senior, come on down and
then I'll read a little information about you. Carter Ze KM High School senior student of the month for April is Carter Zeel, son of Sally and Jason Zuel of Dodge Center. One philosophy that has helped him be successful both in and outside of school
is quote, "If you don't need to do it, don't." Outside of school, he stays busy working on cars and welding. He has a job at Discount Tire in Rochester. After graduation, Carter plans to work and start an apprenticeship or start an apprenticeship. And in 10 years, Carter
hopes to own a big house on lots of land. Senior student of the month and all the KMHs April students of the month. Congratulations. All right, here we go. One, two, three. My next comment coin is for a staff member, special education teacher, Nick
Pochius, who earned his doctorate degree. If Nick could come on down while I then read a little bit about him. So this board actually knows a little bit about uh Nick's pursuit of this degree because a while back they had to give permission because this is a unique
case in which he did a a study of KM students. So he's practitioner furthering his education in service to students and studied through the lens of our own students perspective. Uh the title of his dissertation was called informing equitable classroom practice
from the lived experiences of students with emotional and behavioral disorders and their teachers. So the lived experience is the ne unique and I think uh extra powerful component of Nick's dissertation. He started this in
2021 and finished it and presented an oral defense of his 161page dissertation, his 15 evening courses and then two different week-long residencies residences during the summer months. I
asked him to reflect a little bit and talk about why why would you go to all this work to add the highest academic degree possible? And he said, I love learning and that is true. If you work with Nick, he's very curious, which is a great quality in an educator. It's the highest level of educational reflection
is to be curious about your own practices and how you can uh affect the environment around you and others practices. He said he wanted to gain additional knowledge so he could uh change or influence certain aspects of education, focusing on ensuring every
student has a fair chance to succeed in the United States. This means focusing on the whole child, including their social, emotional, physical, and academic needs. And then I said, out of that 161 pages and countless hundreds of research documents and books and letters
that you read over, what are some takeaways? And I thought I'd share those. Education is changing and the role of teachers is changing. Students are more informed than ever. And the role of the teacher need to be more of a guide role. I mean, we know that in the
in the age of information when students can look up info, teachers have a different role as a facilitator and a guide. Uh Nick said, "Students desire more flexible educational environment with more choices and more opportunities to hear, have their voice heard, and I
completely echo that and that's something I do talk to um people about. Uh we need to incorporate student feedback into decision making along with collected data. And finally, and this is this hits home
and this is embodied in the work that Nick does. That's the neat part about watching him earn a high academic degree is knowing that as a practitioner, he he walks the walk. Relationships are key. All research, including his, indicate that students and teachers acknowledge
the high importance of relationships. We need to ensure we cultivate these relationships through a variety of methods and modalities. very proud to have Nick Pochious on staff serving our students in this community in many capacities. Congratulations, Dr. Pochius.
Okay, there we go. [Music] Mayor. All right. Good evening. I'm Mr. Trinan, activities director at Cass Manville. Um, we get to honor a couple different groups this evening with comic coins. And the first one just uh returned from the state tournament. I'm
going to have our adviserss Connie Enders come down. Is it just you tonight? All right. Just you. Well, uh, Connie has done a remarkable job with our speech team. uh they've grown probably in 10 to 15 students in the
last few years along with the help of uh Heather Walsh high school assistant and then Isaac Hines volunteer assistant who's kind of brought these middle schoolers up and uh got them excited about joining the speech team as well. But uh they uh earned or several of
their individuals earned the right to participate in the state speech meet and I'm going to have her talk a little bit about their experience. So let's give it up for Connie Andrews. Yeah, I wanted to touch real quickly on that. So, this year we had 10 middle school students, which is the most we've
ever had. And to get them young like that and to build into that program is an amazing thing. And um so we went to a couple middle school meets as well as bringing them to the big dog meets and having them see what it was like um at the high school level and stuff as well.
And then I had 25 high school students that also participated um on the speech team for a total of 35. In the past 27 years that I've been doing that, that is the most we've ever had. Normally we have 14 to 20 in that kind of ballpark. And so it was really exciting to have
that many students out and working. Um we had our first ever Minnesota online speech series um put on by a school up in the cities. And so I had several students that competed in it's called MOSS and they had five different
sections of it and we competed against eight other states. So California, New Jersey, Texas, Iowa, and one in a couple other states I can't remember. But um Savannah Potter, who's not here, she was one that went and did three of them and
took fifth in two and fourth and one up against kids from other states. So, that was really incredible um experience and we're looking forward to diving into it more next year and and doing even more with it. In addition to that, um we were
really excited that our HL meet we took second, which is the highest placement we've ever had at our conference meet. So, we were very excited about that. We took 22 entries to sections, 11 of them, so half the team went on into final rounds, which again was the most we've
ever had. Um, and two of the final finalists were middle schoolers. Um, and they were both brand new to the team this year. And so that was really exciting as well. Um, from our entries, four of them had gone on to Minnesota State High School um, turn speech
tournament, the state tournament. And so I'm going to introduce them. Savannah, sophomore Savannah Potter was in creative expression. She is not here tonight. And then we have senior Hannah Herendelle Quint. Come on down. and she participated in
drama. We had freshman Cooper Warden and he participated in drama. Come on down. We have senior Nikki Collins who again is not here um but she is um competed in poetry. And then we had three
alternatives. And the cool thing about the alter, at least the one set of alternatives, um Noah had basically two weeks to learn the lines. Um he got thrown into it at the last minute and he rose to the occasion. They placed fourth after only a couple weeks of practice.
They nailed it. So Reese and Noah, please come on down. And Reese Hyatt is a junior and Noah Witty is a sophomore. So the other alternative at state was Caitlyn Baldwin and she is a freshman. She was an alternate in poetry and she
as well was not able to be here tonight. The last thing I want to mention is we also for the first time um walified two students to go to the national it is let me I want to be sure it's called night talk. It is the national individual
event of champions and both Hannah Herendale Quint um she qualified in drama, Ree qualified in original oratory and Hannah and Ree qualified in duo. And
so on May 15th through the 18th, we are heading to Lincoln, Missouri to compete against people throughout the nation. So, we are very excited about that and getting them um there and and seeing what it's all about. So, thank you for
your support this year. [Music] All right, here we go. One, two, three. All right, next up we had our FCCLA group uh go to the state convention uh a couple of weeks ago and we have several national advancers that go to a national
conference in the summer as well as some newly elected officers. So, um, we have some great leadership with this group and I'm going to have them come down right now. Michelle Linquist and Jenna Welch. There she is. Hi, I'm Jenna Welch. I'm the middle
school FCCLA advisor. Um, and we're really excited to be here to represent all of our sea of red over here. So, um, we had our state conference this year in Minneapolis at the Double Tree Hotel, um, March 28th through 30th, and we were able to take 66 students to state
conference this year out of our 85 students. I think we have 89 students we have. So, that was pretty amazing to take um that many students. We also were very thankful that Mr. Larson was able to come and chap with us and hang out with the kids and all of the events that happened. So, um, we had some good
moments there, too. But, uh, our members had the opportunity to compete in STAR events, attend a variety of training workshops, run for office positions, hear from keynote speaker Joe Beckman, and a KM favorite Kevin from the top 20 presented a breakout session to our members. At this year's state FCCLA
conference, we're extremely excited to have a record number of students advanced to the National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida this July. We had 30 KM FCCLA members advance and another 13 members selected as national alternates. So today I'm going to um call you up and you can get your
comic coin up your eye. Um for event management we have Brooklyn Miller. Food innovation Sophie Simons and Savannah Stannard. Hospitality and tourism Natalie Yokum Hi Ness and Deer. Interpersonal Communications, Stella
Powell and Leta Crutus. Repurpose and Redesign, Stella Gray, Payton Claos, and Hannah Men. Sports nutrition, Ruby Kellogg. And at the high school level, we had Harper Craver Crrael, Aaliyah
Level U, and Morgan Lee. They did a simulated business plan on in the entrepreneurship category and did extremely well. Sydney Swanson did fashion design. Um, also advancing to nationals
in hospitality and tourism. Brennder, Aiden Spriter, and Rhea Olsen. Interpersonal communication actually advancing twice to nationals is Morgan Lean. So, she did two star events and advanced in both of
them. Oliver Powell advanced in leadership. Cabrienne and Mariah Hansen and Mariah Kester advanced in sustainability challenge. Amberlin Boyd advanced in crew investigation. Brimley Schwanki and
Ashlin Rmmer again did entrepreneurship. And I'm not sure if these two girls are here due to the weather, but Samantha Myers and Elena of Westland both advanced in hospitality and tourism in a very, very tough competition and got a
perfect score. So that was amazing. Um, and advancing in nutrition and wellness and finishing out her state officer career is Kaen Patchky. We're very grateful for all of Kaen's hard work the last couple of years. She
has served on the state exact council and advancing in sustainability challenge in Lana Burr. And we are also extremely honored to be well represented again at an area level with our area officer team. Emma
Mastic is the new Southeast area president. Tan Hansen is our vice president and Stella Powell is the secretary. And we have a number of Minnesota State peer educators. Everyone
wonders how we have all these kids that want to run, but we're just very fortunate to have such awesome kids. Ruby Kellogg, Morgan Lean, Brena Welper, and they're most are up here, I believe, Harper Craver,
Mariah Kester, Sophie Simons, Rya, and then Rehea and Oliver. Rehea, well, they're both up here, too. Rehea Olsen and Oliver Powell both ran for state office, which is a pretty intense
process. Not an easy task to take on. Um, super excited for Rehea. She was elected as the Minnesota State Representative to the board of directors, so she needs to leave here quickly to get to her first official board meeting. And Oliver Pal was
elected as the vice president of resource and development. So, that was exciting. One more person, Die, you want to come down? Um, we kind of a trend got started here a couple of years ago with Katie Harfman. Um, Dia Alberts has
decided to take on the challenge of running for national office and will be representing Minnesota as our national officer candidate in Orlando this summer. So that is not an easy task. You get a lot of critical feedback improvement of
a lot of people will start nitpicking everything Dia does apart to make her the best she possibly can. But we're very proud of Dia for taking that on and wish her best of luck in Orlando. Um and now
Dia, do you want to come forward really? Oh, you want to do this? We also have a couple of other individuals we would like to recognize with comic coins. First, we would like to recognize Mrs. Welch for receiving the new on the horizon advisor award. We
are so grateful. We are so grateful to have Mrs. Welch as our middle school adviser and family and consumer science teacher. She has brought so much energy to both the classroom and FCCLA events on a daily basis. Under Mrs. Welch's leadership, the middle school chapter has grown to over 40 members in just
under four years. Thank you, Mrs. Welch, for all the all your great ideas and the extra time you invest in our members. This year, we nominated Mr. Josh Larson for the Minnesota SECLA Administrative Award. As a chapter, we felt that Mr. Larson was a deserving
administrator for this award. Without Mr. Lson's support, the idea of starting school chapter here at Castle Memorial School would not have been possible. Mr. Larson is always willing to listen to our ideas, provide us with suggestions, is easily approachable, and supports us in all the service work we do. Thank
you, Mr. Larson, for your continuous support of our KMS chapter. And the students had a great time with Mr. Larson Shapron. I think they want him back every year. He knows that. [Music]
[Music] Not really. Okay, back to behind you. Front row, you're going to have want to go like this so you can see your back. [Music]
Oh my god. Here we go. One, two, three, and hold it. Okay. I'm Jenny Carrier. I'm the community education director at Cass Manville Schools. And we have one more comment coin tonight. We're excited to celebrate one of our littlest students
who has completed the incredible journey of reading a thousand books before kindergarten. This achievement reflects not only the hard work and curiosity and the love for books and stories, but also the strong support and dedication of their families. Reading a thousand books
requires a significant time commitment. By reaching this milestone, this student has taken a major step in building early literacy skills, growing their imagination, and preparing for future school success. Since the program began in 2014 through our partnership with Cass
Public Library, 185 students have enrolled in the program and only 54 have actually completed the challenge so far. This shows just how big of an accomplishment it is. So, congratulations to Jordan Johnson. Come on down,
[Laughter] Jordan. I have some goodies for you. Here's your comic coin. And then you have a certificate and a book. Are you ready to talk? Yeah. You want to try it? How old
are you? Four. And what is your favorite book? Can't remember. Who is your um who do you like to read with at home? Mama. Yeah, that's pretty great, huh? Are you ready for a picture? Okay. Are you ready? Smile. And we're all
done. [Laughter] It's always nice to fellow students that excel in different things just gives me uh it reminds myself why I'm here since we have so many great students
on the student board please. All right, good evening school board and thank you for your time as we present you the April schoolboard report. It's been a busy month with sports activities and classwork as we approach the final month of our school year. With almost a month left in the year, all of our
activities are in full swing. We will begin tonight's report with an update on the current status over three schools. The boys baseball team is currently sitting at a record of three and five. Their most recent game was on April 25th against North Northfield and
ended in a 32 win for the comments. Their next game will be played at home on April 30th against Good Huegh at 400 p.m. The girls softball team currently has a record of 5 and 5. Their most recent game was played on April 25th
against Austin and ended in a 9 to10 loss for the commons. Their next game will be on April 29th in Lake City at 5:00 p.m. The track team had a meet earlier this week on Wednesday, April 23rd at Fire. Hope the girls and boys team performed
very well. Some of the highlights from the meet with the girls placing second and the boys placing third in the 4x2 relay. Both the girls and boys golf team have participated in several meet so far this season. The next meet is scheduled for April 29th at 2 p.m. at the Lake
State Golf Course. Spring sports activities are about halfway through the season and with playoffs approaching soon, there's a lot to look forward to in the coming weeks. In addition to spring sports, we have several upcoming activities and updates from our clubs to share. Prom is quickly
approaching and will be held this Saturday, May 3rd. This year's theme, A Night under the Lance, was inspired by the movie Tangle. The day will begin with the Grand March here at the high school and will be followed by dinner in the dance at Summerbe Golf Course
Environment. After the dance, there will be an 80s themed post held at chip shops for students to attend. There will be games, food, and prizes for those who attend. Our student council chapter Easter members of our student council
gathered at Mr. Arson's house for families in the community. These warm meals will be delivered to families in need. testing. On April 8th, the school held a testing day. On this day, the juniors took the ACT freshman took the preac and sophomores took their science MCAs.
Additionally, on April 24th, the juniors also took the round MCAs. With the school year coming close to an end, it's been a very busy month for the seniors. This is our second year holding Senior Splash, a game where players are
assigned a random target each week and have to get their target out by spraying them with a water gun. All seniors were given the option to sign up and players who are wearing goggles when they are splashed are safe. So, if you see any of my
goggles, the game will end when there is only one player remaining. Senior decision day is coming up. It will be held on May 9th starting at 7:30 in the morning. Our MHS has organized and prepare breakfast for all our seniors. Additionally, seniors will
be wearing clothes or bringing items to share their future plans. In conclusion, thank you again for your time and attention. This will conclude our April reports. Do your nails already match your dresses for this weekend? Yeah.
It's on Thursday. Okay. All right. Just a quick question. What was the most interesting or unique I'm not sure [Music] Jeez, Mark, get with it.
Yeah. Oh, yes. Oh, no. [Music] Pretty impressive, guys. There were there were trumpets and there was a a scroll.
Yeah, it was really good. Are you going to pull it out? Yes. So fun. And do you have her 80s themed entire picked out yet? Maybe some board members who can help.
Still working on it. Still planning. Did you guys recently go to Roswell? Wasn't that the high school? So, how many? I got out right away. 25ish people. So, did they just
walk around with goggles? I wore my goggles. It was a Monday that everyone was on. I figured, oh, like everybody at school, I don't need my goggles. I got to get my passport.
[Laughter] Oh my goodness. Was it before the picture or after? After. Thank goodness. Thank you. Do you want me to Do you want me to project it right away?
It's just the two of us. Just the two of us. This is a one pager. the company is kind of in place of having all those PC leaders here. We kind of follow the
middle school model this uh April. So Eric and I will talk a little bit and that's for your reference for more from the PLC leaders and I would like to start by um thanking the board for their continued support in in those days in
that time. Um, it is not taken for granted by by any of the staff at the but the board carves that time out, honors it, and I know it probably presents some scheduling issues for families, and so we are grateful that you value that time and and we maximize
it, and I think that we do good work during that time. Our our PLC leaders uh have just done tremendous work. It's not an easy role to fill. I'm supposed to be It's not an easy role to fill when you lead colleagues, but it's a vital role.
And I remind the PLC leaders all the time a couple things. One is that uh the importance of being an instructional leader yourself that anytime we get in a meeting and we ask teachers to stretch their capacity and demonstrate um high level teaching, we need to make sure
we're doing the same thing. We're modeling that in our own practices. And so that's kind of a high calling being a staff leader is to always embody those traits that we're asking people to embody. Our English PLC leader is Connie Anders. Math is Eric Aubberbeck. Social
studies is Elizabeth Aubberg. Science is Melinda Ogle. We have a career and tech ed PLC and that's led by John Jones. And then our special education is led by Nosious. And then we have it's scene but
I wanted to honor each of those conglomerate uh disciplines in there and that is art, Spanish, music, fiad and health all in one PLC and that's led by Brooks Aner. Okay, let's walk through a couple things on this first one and
that's something I'm sure I've told this story before but this came about in the beginning of last school year and that was an activity we were being led through in which each of our high school PLC leaders, Mr. Scoffield, myself had to do this kind of activity where we talked about what's important to us,
what's our core values. And when we each then shared them into the middle, we were we were just so aligned and we just had to capture that moment and said unprompted, this is what we believe, positive relationships. There's no learning without significant relationship. We we know we say that all
the time, but that is that's because the research and the practice shows that we believe in a well-rounded education that prepares students for life, college, and career. That comprehensive piece is a word I say all the time because it's it's what I value in our in our building and in our offerings. And that is
something that this board continues to support, which I appreciate, which is there is all sorts of different types of students that have different paths that they're on. And our job as a school is to engage, find somebody who eng uh alter their trajectory through
our hallways. And so that comprehensive piece is something that I will always um advocate for and lead in the direction of and that is the uh you saw it tonight. The value add of extracurricular activities is immeasurable. Um call it fifth block.
You know that this board supports that continually and that is because the learning that happens beyond the school walls and through our extracurricular activities, club, sports, music, drama, everything is lifeenriching. And we do that all because uh our future
communities depend on it. These are the students that will impact their communities whether it's Cassen and Vanderville or or beyond. And so that is something that I just feel it's important for us as high school leaders to share with the board. our beliefs and
our values. Click. We'll let Mr. Scoffield talk a little bit about this new elementary principle. We're going to hang on to him for another month and a half or so because he's done a tremendous job. Thank you. So, on the last slide and what we focused on, what our core values were,
we developed three building goals for our PLC's um that kind of encompass what we want to do as a staff. So our number one goal was our learning goal and that was to increase MCA scores by 8% from the last time students scores. So it's
hard to compare scores when you're looking from year to year because it's a whole different set of kids. It's a different test maybe so on and so forth. So our measurement was from the time that they took them in eighth grade to now, how much have they grown? Have we developed students enough to get them to more students to reach proficiency
versus the last time they took? Um MCA scores are starting to roll in as we um are finishing up and uh things are looking well. Careful. Well, he has a job here, but we have to carefully temper our excitement over the
embargo results. Nothing's official yet. Yes. Um empowerment. uh we want to make our students feel empowered and so we want 100 or sorry we want 100% of our PLC's to research explicit instruction um when we go through some more slides
here we'll talk about teacher clarity um some research by John Hattie and the effect size of teacher clarity on student learning and engagement um and so that was one of the things that we focused strongly on this year was explicit instruction strategies that would reinforce things that we're doing in our classrooms and then connection um
like we talked about positive relationships have a profound impact on student development learning. So we are surveying students twice a year. We did it once in the fall once again here before the school year ends. But we want to make sure that every student in our building has at least one positive
relationship with an adult um in our way. It was our fall data. Our initial benchmark was in 92% above. So um very high, but we want to get to 100. We want to make sure every kid has somebody that they can go to.
Uh so we started the year talking about relationships with Brad Mendler. Uh he was our keynote speaker at the beginning of the year and let led us into our discussions about eth efficacy. Um and John Hattie and how we as educators and change makers in our classrooms. Um
Patty talks about the biggest thing or the biggest impact on students is having a highly effective teacher in the classroom. So that was our focus this year was teachers being the change maker. whether it's student learning, student behavior, whatever it is, things that happen in their classrooms for 83 minutes every single block, that's the
difference maker. Um, so we talked about that and their personal beliefs, um, self-efficacy and collective efficacy. And then what do we do as teachers that makes the biggest impact? What things is talked about that's going to have the largest impact versus um,
the smaller effect size? Basically, everything you do in the classroom is going to have a positive effect, but what are the things that really make students move the needle? Um October, we talked about barriers to learning as a staff. Uh what things are preventing students from making their highest achievement goals. Um and what can we do
as a staff to navigate around those and have a high impact? Oh, still your slide. So on the left side is some of the things we talked about as staff that are barriers to learning and then on the right side is Addie's research. So we
looked at the things that we talk about or we see in classrooms that have negative impacts and then the effect size that Patty talks about. Some of the things that prior gap or knowledge gaps those have a huge impact on student learning. So it's amplified when it's a deficit as well. Same thing with apathy,
language, so on and so forth. Um so we really need to narrow in on those things and focus on what can we do to navigate these barriers and have a large effect size on our student learning. So we broke this down even further. Uh we looked at explicit instruction,
teacher clarity. Um it's one of the things that students talked about in their daily desired experience when we're going through strategic planning this year. Um teachers being clear in things and it also has a great effect size of 68. Um a year's growth is point4. So when teachers are very clear
in their instruction and their goals and what students need to know, it really impacts their learning. So, we went through and broke down the principles of explicit instruction and looked at our strategies that we talked about, we use all the time in our classrooms, what how that aligns with, and how does that
align with what our students want and try to pair all those things up so that we're really getting students to engage and move the needle in their learning. So, the neat part about this is it's on the right side there is what the students reported. I don't know if you got that. When we ask them, what is it
that they desire? It's teacher clarity. what are we working on in our PLC's throughout the year? It's explicit instruction which is teacher clarity. I know what's expected. I the teacher boils things down for me and makes the learning clear. Um and then coupled with
that the discussion around what are the barriers to that in the classroom environment. So I feel that things came together for us very well this year and that was around two weeks ago. Mr. sending leadership through the PLC's law. The rest is this kind of you look
through it's a little that's kind of what you have on on sheets. It's expanded upon and that we wanted to just give you a chance to see what each of the uh groups are working on in addition. So that that teacher clarity explicit instruction was embedded
component of every PLC. And then in each PLC 2-hour session, they have a chance to work on subject specific goals and areas. And that's a little bit about what the teachers talked about in the one page. So again, very proud of of the work that we have going on here at the
high school um and things. It's been a good year. What questions do the board members have that we could answer about high school for culture? These the PLC's are those just designed during the late starts and early outs or are they during
other professional development days as well? Yes, both. So on those full days, there's always a component 2 hour, three-hour component of those that are PLC's and then there will be other speakers and choice sessions and so forth on the early eleate starts just
PLC's. You notice I don't want to leave uh special education out. They their time this year for our five special education teachers is to retire and that's something that obviously the other buildings have been more widely impacted by as as the training requirements by
the state um hit the the lower grades first. But our special education teachers and um Sher throwing academic skills was all the max module training this year. So we would have our PLC leader planning sessions and we'd say
when you got going next month Mr. It was how many hours of training is that for staff? It's a lot. It's a lot per person. Just just out of curiosity, the barriers to learning. You guys have certain ones
highlighted of those ones that you've pulled out that are really I think it's on slide five. So those were the ones that really lined up with what Hattie was talking about. So like apathy, effort, most skill sets, interventions, like we're trying to gauge how we were doing or
what we were seeing was lining up with what Patty suggested for effect size. So that's why those things are highlighted and pinpointed the way that they are to highlight those things. And you notice probably the reason why the Hattie study aligns to those is there's a control
factor a little bit on the teacher ability to control and and manage change in social conflict, mental health, um time constraints, basic needs. That that's tough for classroom teacher to impact. So we tried to steer more towards other areas. The phones, yeah,
that that's manageable. It's a battle, but it's must be managed. Can I say one more thing to answer the questions? I do I want to as as the students mentioned our assessment days, I know we modify the school day for those. We do it twice and we ask you to
support that. Um, one, the April 8th one is is a much greater impact on the student day. We have them come in and we let them go early. And I I appreciate that that optimal environment, it does impact when you're dealing with high school kids, it does impact results. The
second day, uh, which we deliver MCA math 11 and science 10, we get creative with that and we did have all students in for the whole day for the most part on those days. And we had ninth graders going to a kind of a choice activity day as well. So I I continue to appreciate
your support of us modifying the days so that we get a great environment. Mainly a big a negative impactor on previous test score results was kids were missing class to take the test. Okay? It's a fine line with
getting kids to care about those tests to be honest with you. and when they have grades being impacted because they're missing chemistry and math and and whatnot, they want to get back to the class where the grades count and and the effort lagged a little bit in the test session. So, we needed to really
separate and say this is all going today and then the effort the effort follows with the expectations. So, thank you for that continued to support and I'll probably uh be asking again next March for next April. Have any of the grades um redeemed or
are going to redeem their special or their special perks that they keep? Yeah, I just started writing a parent letter today to talk about a few uh two different grade levels that met some
some of their um incentives for effort. I just wanted to comment on how um not to use your word, but what a wonderful job you guys did at really like encompassing like the comprehension or the comprehensive education and how much
goes into it outside of just the scores. Um even down to basic needs being met. I think like Dr. pushes that said too. It's so important to for educators moving forward to evolve and take that in consideration and you guys have done
a really nice job even explaining it in this. So, thank you. Thank you. Um I wanted to comment also I think that it's wonderful how much similar to what Kate said at the beginning um how you are focusing on um one strong
relationship at least for every child. Um, and I know you mentioned 92% which is amazing, but do you have any um plans or goals of how to get that number up higher because I'm sure it's tough. Just curious how you would do that. Yeah, that's that's a good question. That's kind of been the work of the year, you
know. Well, so we'll do another test or not test, a survey here at the end of the year to to and I I'm suspecting that number goes higher. Um, we did some of these meetings are who kind of who's got eyes on which kid, who's having trouble um What month was it where we did the
break out by grade level? Talk about what are you seeing? What's happening? Which kids are struggling the most? Who's got a relationship with that kid? Is that March? So, spent some intentional efforts around that. And that's always the goal. Who's, you know,
never want any kid to go through high school feeling not connected to at least one. And and many kids are connected to many adults. Um, but sometimes it's the one that can make a difference. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. [Music]
Yes. I, Kate Ryan, introduce the following resolution to accept and move for it adoption. Whereas Amethna has generously offered to donate the following. $2,400 towards field trips, $1,000 towards a third grade experience, $1,000
towards teacher grants, $175 towards the fourth grade field trip, $851 towards fourth grade experience, $785 towards a kindergarten field trip, $385 towards a kindergarten experience.
Whereas Charlotte's Litter Foundation has generously offered to donate $2,200 to support the implementation of a school therapy dog program at KM. Um, Alyssa Swanson and Bo, whereas Acriman, Inc. has generously
offered to donate $1,000 for a KM robotics sponsorship. Whereas has generously offered to donate $250 for a canonic sponsorship. Whereas House of Hoops Carious has generously offered to donate $881 to KM basketball.
Whereas Michael Sman has generously offered to donate $50 to KM arts programs. Whereas the state of Minnesota has generously awarded the following great start grants to Casan Community Education. $5,932.50
50 to PK childare in February and $3,547.50 to child care February. Motion to accept. We have a second. I hear a little bit here.
approved [Music] members on the agenda earlier. I know kind of the window there to approve the second I'll second. Thank
you. Any discussion? So as there statute has a specific I I'm just trying to understand why um it's it's so um you know because we have
other board membership It's my [Music] understand but I think it's it's it's not so much a dollar. I mean there's a dollar amount but it's also if it's if it works appropriate
perhap as as an employee industry I think I know we had coaches but I don't know if they really considered an employee I don't know the coaches are covered by this but the statute is pretty specific
that it does need more approval but a majority of members to continue or [Music] employ it came up I think phase one training that we went to I think they mentioned they just mentioned that you
know if you're substitute the board has the board and I know Kate went to some training I think it specifically brought up the same thing if you substitute or employment Yeah, it was also in my training and it's specifically just for teaching positions.
Yeah, that's my understanding. I think there are some registries for individuals. I can see from a statute perspective from the state of Minnesota, there's certainly can
be a differentiation staff member who reports to a principal, reports to a superintendent who reports to a board member who may also be that staff member, right? And so there's a situation that could be difficult or could even be in conflict at times
depending on um what the situation may be. I I wrote some things out on freedom. I don't want to forget or just stumble through myself. So substituting is rewarding. I think it fills a need and is always greatly appreciated. Uh
prevents a teacher or professional from being pulled from their duties to cover a classroom. towards the classroom from having especially class canceled for the day. Uh provides incredible insight into classrooms that can be impactful and making important decisions. Provides opportunity to experience some of the challenges teachers are facing that were
not present the last time uh you were in the classroom and I had the right to speak. I mean that's why I ran for the board substituting to help out. I enjoy it. One day I'd like to get my teacher's license but I think it's eye opening to me. um always your sorry allows you to
experience firsthand the makeup of their kids who make up our district. Uh my children enjoy it and they ask me all the time if I go sub rooms for them. Uh I know so many faces and kids especially in elementary school and it's helped me build relationships and made me feel more connected to the community and it has given me insight that every
classroom is made up of a large spectrum of behavioral issues, academic abilities, emotional needs has led me to believe uh we have asked our teachers an impossible task to address and meet all these needs and I firmly believe that I would challenge all of you to get in elementary school, middle school and high school classroom just once. Uh I
believe that it would alter how you see things and would impact your decision at the board table. I believe our teachers and our members can be threshold. Uh I believe not allowing me to substitute as a solution is something that is currently not a problem. And then I tried to do some research and I did find
correct me if I could be wrong but is in 2013 there was a uh superintendent from West Central or sorry the newspaper is the West Central Tribune but it's a school superintendent uh pushed for some of his board members to uh substitute and eventually some of them did and I just three quotes from him. I learned so
much when I was substituting in a building. I did every grade all the way from kindergarten to high school. I I learned how buildings work and I gained a whole new appreciation of a lot of things. And then here's another board member. I think subs are often so busy it's hard to imagine there would be a
lot of time to focus on other things. Uh she went on to say, I think our staff and I'm in this camp too appreciate anyone and everyone who wants to help support our students by serving a substitute. And the last is going in and subbing. You learn a whole lot about the buildings and the atmosphere. uh it's
aligning and it's an opportunity to see the great stuff that's going on. I have some stuff too, thank you for that, Erin, that I wrote down just for a background. Um the sub license that Aaron holds is it the short hall sub and that was created um as a legislative
response to the growing shortage of substitute teachers. it started in 2023 and without subs that come in and um can give us their time we are forced to use intervention interventionalists
so I mean some students aren't receiving interventions during the day which can be really hard for those students and their academic growth especially when that happens days in a row. The other thing we can use is teacher prep time, which is essential for teachers to have quality lessons and not have to be
working on their personal time at home. And um I know that this probably isn't as bad this year, but in previous years in one class, they could split classes and have those students go to different classes for the day, which is very upsetting to the student to appoint
to a new class and then expect them to maintain that growth for that day. or um they have different subs throughout the day coming in and all of it is just what we have to do to ensure that there's enough um teachers for those students.
So I think it solves an amazing problem. I really appreciate it. I don't see it as any different than also being a parent and a school board member or other roles um through my other role on the PTA. in the elementary a lot and I've heard nothing but amazing things
and appreciation and then also um more interest in our board being more active within the schools. I don't think it's been a big priority for the last two and a half years other than the end of the year um school thing but there hasn't been an
opportunity to get in to the schools um as a board member and be able to establish more of an informed governance which I believe would build trust and credibility um not only with our district our employees but with the community. Um,
and then also as a parent, I have volunteered in the elementary on a day off and got to go in and do tasks that I thought would a variety of tasks actually. I got to spend some time with students and I also got to work on
things like um in the first grade pod I had to put together these books and organize them and I thought you know I'll be out of here in a half hour and after two hours I got through three4s of the book. just to really understand the amount of time our educators are putting in outside of active teaching time is
incredible and has helped informed a lot of my decision making as well. So, um I'm looking at it a different direction. I look at it as a popular um because it is in some formal
fashion and I'm just that's the one I'm showing you that if something were happen apologize Will you help me understand that scenario? There's a a situation with um being on
board and something happens to where a teacher has an issue and then that becomes more of a a liability than it is. Um, you know, I just I just see that there could be issues there. I I think there could be issues.
That's just my my opinion. No, I I'm just trying to understand maybe and so the hypothetical situation that's coming to mind is you're talking about if Mr. Shocker had a personnel issue with another staff member, right?
He would take that to a super or his principal. Principal would take it to the superintendent and then it would come back around to like the personnel committee which he may or may not be part of that personnel committee as a board member or would come back to board
which to me that's where we've got this conflict if you have an employee and I agree with everything that you're saying about opportunities substitutes and all those type of things but I also do believe statute for a reason. um because of some
of those conflicts. So that that's the situation for you, but that's where I in the classroom or school. So there's a reason there's a separation and that's what that's just but that's a
good your process puts together. Yeah, I'm I'm against this, but at all my role in person, your your your enthusiasm. People ask me how what
I think of your performance as a board member and I truly do say you're one of the most passionate board members I think we have and you add tremendous values and I think that I agree with the conflict of interest and I also agree that it be great to get a better insight
on the teachers but we do have processes for that we have administrators the teachers they do have opportunity to bring issues to the board once a year um if they don't meeting her their superiors. So that's
another reason I guess is just when you're in school unless you're in the entire district. It's my opinion that you become so focused on a certain area where you see the need that you your opinion to be swayed, you know, versus look at 50,000 feet on where do
we need where do we need to put additional funding and different programs and stuff. I think that um Mr. Stockard is getting very valuable like insight into what our teachers are really facing on a day-to-day basis. Um I appreciate that
we can get we do get that information as well from other avenues. But I think that being there and being the person responsible for that classroom and handling those kids' behaviors like there's been several times in our board meetings where he has brought up um different situations in the classrooms
like just like how it has affected him and his decision-m um in terms of how many students there are in a classroom um to teachers and paras and how valuable that is and his insight of being in that classroom has given him that really ground to stand on to say we
need to stand up for our teachers. we need to help them out with this. We can't cut this. If we don't have the experiences of being in the classroom like that, then how are we going to get that information? Um, I understand that we can get it from principles and I appreciate that, but I think that that
doesn't like we we want more than that. We want to be more involved. We want to hear from more staff members. We want them to trust us. Um it but I think that there's there's been a stance for a while of not having board members involved in the school and I I just
disagree with that to the point that we're making these decisions that are huge for the school. We should I think that we should be involved. So I would vote for him to be able to continue and I do think the statute is there but the statute allows him to teach. The
statute, if I'm understanding correctly, is not saying he can't substitute, teach, and be a board member. But the statute isn't saying like there isn't a statute that says you cannot be a board member and a school a teacher, a
substitute teacher. As far as a school guard member may be newly employed or may may continue to be employed by school district as an employee only if there is a reasonable expectation at the beginning of the school year or time contract to be
entered into extended that the amount this is the $20,000 um and that it gets down to if the officer which is a board member does not receive a majority approval to be initially a work to continue an employment at the meeting at which all
board members are present. The employment is immediately terminated and that the officer has no further rights as an employee to employment while serving as a school board member in the district. So what I I guess what I'm trying to say is before the part where
it says about if the officer does not receive majority approval, it's saying like that's like what I'm trying to say is there's not a statute that says you can't be both unless you get to fully approve or it's
the like if it was such a conflict of interest, would MSBA allow uh board members to substitute or would there be a statute saying that they can't whether or not we vote on it or I'm just looking back at the the conversation we had with Terry. This is
this is he actually brought it up to us [Music] during our offic. [Music] I understand what you're saying. Legally, it's an option and that's why
we have a vote. Um, I just want to point out too like when we make these decisions at the board table, what is best for the student? And I agree that having an extra person to fill this role when there is a shortage and we're using teacher prep time and we're using interventionalists at subs. What's best
for the student is that we have a sub available. I really appreciate all the time you've spent. Something I know it's not easy and I know you're not doing it for fun. I do think it provides insight, but what I am hearing from the board is that there's a concern that roles and responsibilities
um could be skewed and I just would challenge you to think about too we have teachers that have students going to our districts that there are other parts of life roles and responsibilities come into play and you put on different hats
and um I I think it's a common thing there's I have also talked to MSBA other schoolboard members who also serve and participate in different ways and I think that's incredible and not all of us have to agree that we would all want
to do that. It's just that we all are active board members in different ways. Um something I do have an issue with though is that because you're a board member, you don't have the same rights or you're restricted from opportunities that other community members or parents
would have to participate in the schools. And I don't believe um we should restrict schoolboard members from those opportunities. Then we also would he couldn't certain things as well. Isn't that correct? He might be able to certain things if he is
a substitute teacher and I understand that also. So does he there's certain areas that he would because he's quote unquote employed by the district. Am I correct in that? I don't think that's a legal requirement.
typically in the past spouses and board members they are saying but legally I don't think correctly I don't think no only if it's a conflict of interest and um you can abstain but uh the sub
rate changes not with the teacher contract so it wouldn't be included in that in fact the last sub rate that changed I think we were just told that adjusted it wasn't negotiation. I'll I'll just say I enjoy substituting besides the fact that I
don't think I'm spying or I think I'm just going helping and I think every teacher I've ever ran to has been appreciative of it. Uh when I go into a classroom, uh I don't have time to go talk to other teachers or do anything. You know, I think it's important to try to continue the day or the lessons as the teacher has left me and I try my
hardest to do that. I might have a 15 minute break and I'll spend 10 minutes of that trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do for the next lesson, trying to figure out where my papers are. Uh, you know, I'm exhausted by them. It's hard work. It's But, you know, and I think it fills the need. You know, usually by the time they've called me, they're desperate. They've pulled a
lot of people. They've done a lot of moving around and switching. Uh, and I can help out every once in a while. You know, I have the luxury of retiring and staying with my kids. My wife's a nurse. She has days off from school sometimes. I think it helps out. I enjoy helping, but I don't see how it's a much
conflict. Um, I go in, I roll. I don't really help anybody. I help kids. I enjoy seeing them. I enjoy seeing my kids. One more thing that I just wanted to bring up is that I feel like um our that
Mr. Stockard was voted on to this board as a substitute teacher and I think that a lot of people found that valuable when choosing who they voted for um because he is involved in the school and understand what's happening um in the school like right in the front line. So
I think that um a lot of people voted for him and that was a factor of it to me. I'm not at all questioning value as a substitute teacher. the engagement that we get from um your experiences in the classroom and
trying to step back and look at at a higher level to understand you know why is the statute in place what is um best for for a lot of different components here students staff community I'm wondering about what precedence this
sets if we approve the situation so currently a substitute teacher what does that mean if someone comes forward and says, you know, I'm a teacher in the district. I'd like to be on the board or would that have any in the future?
There's a 20,000 cap unless you're going to teach full-time and make less than 20,000. And I I tell you how more than $500 year. Just one of the questions that came to mind as far as like what question what
would be said if um we approved the statute tonight along those lines also is you know even gaining the classroom perspective or just I'll say teacher perspective um and what impacts that
look like I mean I would say even with this here tonight even if it does prevent you from teaching or studying at cast it doesn't eliminate it altogether, right? Like there's neighboring districts and things like that that you can stop at to gain those other insights
or maybe different perspectives of how things are going differently in other places. I would say I'm in line with it being a bit of a conflict or at least from governance role in that regard. But would still support
do something like five days a year. Honestly, uh I've got a 2-year-old at home, so depends on my wife being off or not, but this year I've subbed maybe five times. Last year, I probably subbed six times. Honestly, I don't go looking for it. Uh, you know, there's an app
that I could go on if I was a full-time sub and this is my livelihood. I could go on the app and it shows me all the sub jobs available in the district and I could I want that one. I'd select it. I'd say 99.9% of the time, uh, Jennifer Flynn calls me and goes, "Hey, I'm going to pinch. We have nobody left. Uh, you
know, I've already moved everybody around. I can. Is there any way you can come in half day, full day, I take you after lunch?" And that would make a huge impact. And if my wife's off, sure, I can go up there. It's worked out better in the past when my youngest was in preschool and so he'd be in a half day.
I could drop him off and then I could just be at school, pick up all the kids and take them all home at the end of the day. I would just email the teachers, hey, I'm in this room, send all the kids down to this room at the end of the day. So, I slept a little bit more back then. But, I mean, like I said, I think vast majority of time the elementary school
has called me and asked me, can you please come in? We need help. I think too besides hypo medical problems there's the problem it solves is huge for our students and the sub shortage is a real thing that's why there's legislation for it. So, I'd like
everyone to keep that in mind. What we're sending, what message we're sending to our schools who our teachers are stretched and burned out and using their prep time to stop in classrooms and our interventionists aren't being able to perform their duties sometimes
for days in a row. This is solving a real problem and at a minimal piece, but a huge impact. So, when you're making this decision, I would just like you all to keep that in mind. To me, this isn't really just a it's not
really a substitute question for me. I This is more about policy and statute being anything to do with whether it's Aaron or Kate or Elizabeth or me or whoever else subbing that to me doesn't
make any type of difference. just as a matter of like what is what is the best um piece for us to set as practice moving forward like this ballot Sure, that'll be fine.
You can also just do a roll and go around. We don't need to use paper at all. Everybody's comfortable with that. Okay. Yes or no? Yeah. I say yes. I will vote no.
I vote yes. I will vote no. I will vote yes. The motion does not carry. I don't think public input. So for policy, there are a number of
first reads on your um or on the board agenda for later in the evening. I haven't gotten any questions on them yet, but if you do have questions, feel free to reach out um in advance of the next board meeting. Just a couple of
notes. Um for 13, harassment and um violence, MSBA is recommending we update the definition of a disability in that policy. And so that is the reasoning behind that. 522, the title 9 MSBA is
recommending um we revise that to the 2020 um policy uh due to changes. And so um that is the policy that we're um proposing under that first read
um 512. We had lots of discussion um on this particular uh piece for the school sponsored student publications and activities. And so feel free to read through that one again if you have questions um let me know. uh 614 our school district health testing we added
FCA to that particular um policy and then uh we had discussion about the board handbook and had asked Carllin to send that out to board members in advance of the meeting um so that you saw in advance if it was coming up on the first read. So again it's lengthy I
think I read it took me an hour and a half to read it the first time and so um feel free to read it but we've really or feel free to dive deeply into it. um as you read it, it really does provide a really nice outline for the board and
for training and on boarding. And so I think it's something that could be really beneficial to the board moving forward in the future as well. Any questions for policy? If we have questions about the hand,
should we ask them now or later? I think that might be actually I would like [Music] to go [Music] down. Um, looks like student activity. We just met today.
Yes, we did. There are quite a few updates on our list today. Um, we went over uh girls wrestling and a boys volleyball update. Girls wrestling, there's three female applicants. Um,
MHSL keeps the practice and tournaments totally separate. So, females are female teams and female teams. Um they'll give her a boys volleyball coach. Um the boys and girls hockey
agreement is a huge cost savings to parents. Um we voted on that I think a few months ago um in conglomerate with other districts to cover that cost and creates more equity with activities. Um we're working on uh booster club
expectations document so there could be a concrete uh referral to some expectations and guidelines. Sorry, I had okay go off a bit.
Um I learned actually a lot. Uh KPD stands for comet pride department and there's also a link crew which actually is a really cool program um where we have older students take on um some of our freshman groups and really encourage them to get active with common pride and
go to different activities and um so there's going to be some advisor changes with that. Um but I just think it's really remarkable too how we're using older students to mentor the younger ones and and include them. Again, it goes back to that connection with
relationships. Um, and then one other thing we are looking at is switching from hometown to GoF. So usually for tickets for things we use my new car my new car sitting out there right now
but we're running our conference going to that would be min so it would be really beneficial to us as well Um that is everything. Do you have anything to add?
I'll just maybe add that um we talked a little bit at the beginning about girls wrestling and the growth of it and um there were uh nine girls out this year, but they're really expecting that number to grow exponentially. And so even
forward thinking as to what the right practice space um might be in the future. Uh looks like you had a meeting on the 17th. Yes. And I actually have to update you guys on two meetings. Um March 20th and then on the 17th. So I'll start with
March 20th. Um so a big thing that happened on March 20th is we had a big talk about um school districts addressing fiscal limitations. Uh it was a huge meeting many people attended um because on the agenda was discontinuence of a principal
position. Um so it says resolution to some of that fiscal limitation is reorganizing administrative staff. Many public comments expressed appreciation for the positive impact the ALC principal had. Um the structure they're
moving to is a director position with the same dean that they had um previously. Um I learned some things. Uh ALC runs at a deficit. So if they had changed nothing, they would have had a
predicted $560,000 shortfall in the next school year. Um so by making this adjustment in administration they had a 400 so this is a savings to the expected
deficit they would have seen is [Music] $425,889. Um Michael Dion was able the student straight um owner was able to speak with their students and community as well. Um, Byron hosted the Zed Academic Triathlon, which I know a few
of our students participated in. Um, something else we voted on, uh, was talked about actually at the March meeting and then voted on in the April meeting, is that since the 1990s when Zed came into existence, there hasn't been an adjustment to what's called
cooperative aid. So, currently, um, it's $6.50 for people. They are wanting to increase it to $7.50 50 cents and um there was support from our superintendent group there and as well as a unanimous vote by the board um just
because it hadn't been uh increased since the mid9s which is crazy. They want to put it on more of a structure um so that they could relook at that more frequently than every um I guess 30
years. But um it's used for all kinds of things. uh most things that don't have budget lines. So, one of the things they talked about is they do a lot of testing for parents and they don't charge our our parents we use at our schools and
any of the um the member districts to take the test and even if they don't pass the first time, they offer another opportunity. So, um that's a nice way to try to bring parents in and not have them pay I think it's $55 each time they
test. Um they are also leasing their building for extra revenue which has gone amazingly well. It's really nice for us especially having them right next door. Recently come crunch the volleyball tournament used facilities and are planning to do it again next
year. Um it's very clean, very it's just a wonderful open space. It worked out well. Um March was National School Social Worker Month. Um, another update, their health insurance, which I know all districts struggle with. They were using
Medicica. It was a 19% increase for the next year, which is huge and unfortunate. So, they used a broker to find or their broker to find a less expensive option. They'll be switching to Blue Cross Blue Shield that showed just a 5% increase. Um, and I was just going to touch on that. We've
experienced increases in the past and had to adjust insurance. And I know it's a huge problem in in education. um sucks for our educators who have to go between different companies just to try to find reasonable rates um and have affordable
benefits. Um another thing I wanted to share, I was going to go through this fast thing. I'm sorry guys. Um is English learner grant. I just think it's so important. So that's the money we can get um capture from the government. is a
grant for an interventionalist and alone no member district actually has enough English learners to qualify but because we're a part of said we're able to get that benefit so I think that's incredible. Um they already approved
their calendar for the next year which usually they're behind everyone they wait for all of the districts to approve their calendars um before they approve theirs. There's it's always very similar to ours because we do a shared lunch service which I am assuming also is a
cost benefit. I don't know but I have in them right next door. Um it's just a little tidbit I learned. Okay. So then on the 17th meeting did you want to speak to your name for it? Do you know your head? I
was just wondering which calendar they are following because I don't think they follow a calendar. Not not exactly, but they tried to line it up with breaks and such since we are sharing um with food service. Yeah. Um at the April 17th meeting, they
invited Brian Cassian, their facilities maintenance engineer. Um it was wonderful to hear from him. He was incredible work. Uh they talked a little bit about fire marshall corrections they had. Um and then they their LTFM fund and how they have started health and safety meetings. Uh they had comments
about how um and well developed the Z building was um April was occupational therapy month. So there's a big thank you to all the therapists that go out into the districts and help um all of our students. Um the Zen Science Fair was hosted by Cassie Manville Middle School
on April 3rd. Um four future students fully transitioned back to their district which is a huge accomplishment. Um that was celebrated at the board meeting. Um and then Zed Summer Academy registration closes on May 1st. Um but if there's space they will accept
registration after May 1st. It looks like a huge variety of different um classes for students. It'll be incredible. So and that is it. Sorry about the length of it but
lots of updates. Sorry if I can speak to the cooperative or I guess I didn't understand it used to be $6.50. Is that capable that we have that's 750? I guess I didn't quite follow what that was or how that impacts us.
Yes. So, currently we pay 650 a student and I'm assuming it doesn't specify. I'm assuming daily. So, what it is it hasn't been changed since 1994. That's the rate that was set in 1994. So because they are running
this deficit right now, they've asked to increase it to whatever was 750 750. So a dollar per day per student basically is what it ends up being. Yeah, that's my understanding of that. And it's not a huge increase to them, but it's
something they'd like to get on um the path to reviewing more frequently since it's been so long since that's been increased. Are there any other questions? Okay, thank you.
[Music] I'm g try to go faster than Kate so I can say I wasn't on this one. Um, all right. So, community ed last week with the advisory council. Just a few things that I thought would
be pertinent for the board or of interest. Um, we always talk about the growth of community ed and how that has changed so dramatically, especially over uh the past decade, but child care enrollment. So, we have
213 kids currently enrolled in our project kids, which is our preschool age um or PK as we uh listened to in the grants earlier today. That means zero on the summer weight list, which is amazing
by our community. How amazing. So, we do have 26 that are on the fall school year weight list. Um and so hopefully we'll be able to uh move um and help those students as as we through go through the year. The PB or
project beginnings is the infants and toddler age um that are served through um community ed. Currently we have 34 kiddos enrolled in that infant toddler age. We have 61 on the weight list. So you can still see the immense need that
our community has for infant and toddler um care even after we have um opened our own child care here through community ed. Um our toddler is actually going to be expanding and splitting. So due to the high number of toddlers that we have on their weight list um community ed is
converting a ACFD classroom back into child care space. Um and with doing that they're going to um be able to slip the rooms into more developmentally appropriate ages. So, one that's 16 to 24 months and one that's 24 to 3 months.
Um, by doing that, they'll also be able to take an additional seven toddlers off the weight list. And so, I think both amazing and being creative in those ways to utilize space. Um, because we also have lower K through four enrollment.
Um, as we move forward, um, they're going to be using some existing space in the elementary school. um and that's going to serve um more kids through our um community education programming. So last year they used seven kids for
things or seven different classrooms for things like our school readiness preschool or just EC classes or um and next year they're anticipating using eight to nine classrooms. balancing that a little bit. Um, nature-based uh, preschool. I know
that's one of the um, things that have already asked about in the past, too. So, currently um, they're going to be offering a age 3 to five kind of a mixed age um, preschool 3 days a week um, for uh, next year. So, that's nice to see that program return as well. And then
the program, the summer brochure is out. So, if you haven't seen it hit your mailbox, be prepared. It's coming soon. Um, and there's just a lot of great programming um, in that for not only young um, but all ages in our community.
I have a question. Um, that's awesome that they were able to utilize space. Did are they using a portion of the school or is it kind of spread out in the different pods like it has been? I'll let Jenny answer that one. definitely can coordinate. Um the principal and I work really closely
together in one space and um right now we are spread out so because certain sections have lowered um we have two classrooms in like the red pod, two in the blue pod, we've had one in the orange pod, you know. So yeah, we and we have um two in the yellow pod. So we have been spread out, but um we've been
able to make it work and been really creative with the space. So, we're not putting a burden on any of the elementary college or classrooms, but we're just being really strategic about it and how we're using the space over or how we're sharing space. So, yeah, it's it's been working out and it's due to
some of the lower sections, we're able to convert that other um ECF room that we've been using that used to be a childcare space back to a childare space for a little while and we'll see, you know, if the elementary use that space back. We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Um, you know, we want to
serve as many families as we can and utilize the space that we do have. So, thank you. No, I appreciate you guys doing that. It's wonderful that you can use this space. I just know it's not ideal for either party. It's just what we have to do, but it's it's nice that the space is being used for the
environment. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, there's some things we have to cross like no bathroom, you know, but we do it and I think that's it's it's actually built some cool bridges. I mean, we've even had like teachers together or do buddy partners sharing and reading, you know.
So, it's just it's just fun. It's it's different ways of working together. [Music] We did meet for personnel. Oh,
on April 9th, we met Um so we met on April 9th. Um we did the first we did talk about uh Mr. Shocker's employment for um part of that. Um we reviewed the seniority list. We talked about staffing changes. Um we talked
about right staffing um depending on what the enrollment is. Um there has been one teacher at that time. So it's been a few weeks since then. At that time there had been one teacher that had opted to take that early retirement option. Um and then moving forward our
goal is to move staff around rather than to lose any staff. Um we talked about um meet and confer just kind of informing me what that is because I didn't know really before this. Um, we talked about
the end of the year basket um for the end of the year event. I'm sorry, I don't know what it's called. Um, for teacher appreciation and end of the year employee recognition. Yes. Thank you. All employees, not just
teachers. Yes. Is that the banquet? Is that the same thing? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. See, we all have different things. We're all learning. I'm learning as I go. Um, I think that that was the main things that we talked about. What did
you guys come up for with the basket? Um, we talked about just all of us putting in for that basket, all the board members, and then going to Johnson's general store um, and talking to them about um, putting baskets together. [Music]
She puts it together. There's way more than what we put in. She's pretty pretty gracious to the teachers. So to that cause one thing I did we did kind of talk about as far as the meeting and confirmed. Um typically in the way back we um
everybody met all the representatives I think pretty much any teacher was invited to come. Um, but the last time I believe it was just the personnel chair and then the the teachers designated a spokesperson and I think that went
really well. I mean, it was everything got taken care of and I think I would recommend that we do the same thing this year for me. You can do whatever they decided. Before we decide that um can we have a discussion with the with the
incoming superintendent and incorporate decision making? Absolutely. I don't think the teachers have to request it. Yeah. Yeah. They don't meet unless they request it. [Music]
[Music] Thank you. Uh last week I completed my final session of the MASA great start cohort for superintendent. One of the big takeaways from that is building strong leadership teams. Um building teams that are strong built on clear expectations, shared
vision and trust. Um one of the pieces of things probably a lot of spokes are going to have to be going through more operating lessons and um things where they're asking three to four financial support is building trust with budget communications. Uh
communicate with your community early often and in plain language. Um you can get continually understand how the budget process works. Um special education insights, what your director of special education wish you knew. Um working together in collaboration to
make sure that you're feeding fitting all the needs of your special needs students. And the last thing they talked about was supporting leaders. make sure that you teach your district leaders, checking in with them and supporting them and helping helping them retain strong leadership uh capabilities. Um
quick legislative update. This is what we know of today. It could change tomorrow. Bob say um last week the house members and Republicans agreed on the education budget plan. Um the good news keeps the basic formula in place
adjustment in place for future school spending changes. It sets a sunset date for the unemployment insurance program for hourly workers in 2028 um which is a little bit in contrast to the Senate. The Senate's version removes the inflation adjustment and uses
non-public school transportation dollars to fund unemployment insurance costs. Um highlights from the House budget plan. The LR, the local options revenue is going to be like to rename it basic supplemental revenue with an additional
$40 per pupil in state aid. 30 million one time insurance cost. Special education transportation reimbursement reduced slightly to around 95%. Flexibility for facilities projects repairs over $100,000 can now be part of
long-term facility planning or LTF. uh $40 million for the rehab. Um minor flexibility on how insurance funds can be used. Um no changes to story revenue. Um that's for students from lowincome families. Both the House and Senate have
their education policy bills continue with the um shortterm substitute program. Um the Senate passed its education bill. The key points that include algebra 2 graduation requirement repel attempt failed again but again was
in last session. Uh they're really talking about the school calendar early days for the start of the school year and failed narrowly. Um seclusion rooms can now move into IEPs with final approval and K3 suspensions proposed along party
lines. Budget targets and I know Erin was on this the other day. budget targets from the state. Um, our schools advocating for fair funding as Governor Wall's plan for the fiscal year 2627 $249 budget cut in education. Um, cuts
include eliminating public schools a lot schools charter special education and reductions to library telecom aid for fiscal year 2829 $445 million in cuts. The Senate
DFL plan was known funding flat for the 2627 school year ends the automatic inflation adjustment for school funding or the formula inflator eliminates nonpublic school aids and increases funding for E and special education cost
subsidies slightly. um their fiscal year 28-29 is a $687 million in budget cuts. The house DFL GOP joint plan provides $40 million um in the Reed Act protective inflation rate uh moving
forward and no plans cut for the 2829 school year. Things that are still being discussed in the legislation is possibility of a delay of the new family medical leave mandate, flexibility on nutrition accounts, and earlier start dates. In summary, the governor state
have very different plans for school funding. Key issues like the future of the PE per people pupil funding formula, unemployment insurance, and local flexibility are still being discussed. We'll continue to monitor these developments um as they go into education conference committees and
determine what the final outcome will be and how it will impact in the future. Um and one last thing uh as our student reps talked about it, we are entering the home stretch of the school year. Only 28 student days remain in the 2425 school year. For those of you that
are here live or watching, please take time to check out the HBL calendar for Castle Medical Schools following spring athletics, fine arts, and school activities. Our students, coaches, and directors appreciate the community support. Thank you. Bob, do you have anything you want
to add or Aaron you want to add on that? It every week I invested these webinars and it gets more confusing. I mean, I'm just going to be honest with you. where one week they're talking about one thing, then they're talking about something else. They're they're trying to add money where there's no money to
be added. So, it's going to be if if we don't go to a special session, that will be miracle. I have a question and it might be more for Bob, but based on what you've shared about the cuts and just the instability
in legislative sessions right now and then um Elizabeth, you shared one person took the early retirement. Um and then just for my knowledge on knowing the amount of cuts that are having to be made, what does it look like for us in
this next year um moving forward? Well, again, a lot of it will depend on what the legislature ends up deciding. Um, we have had made the recommendation because of smaller class size or grade
levels at the elementary to make some reductions there. Um, we have been able to make it so that nobody is actually losing a job. We've got people that have chosen to resign or take a leave of
absence. So there's nobody's going to be losing a job at this point. But we're thinking that [Music] I can jump in on that. We are very fortunate that we do have people that are looking otherwise would be looking
at a reduction of four staff members. Yeah. So those staff members just moving to another grade level or Yeah. What happened is we had some people take some leaves and do some different things. So um they might not be in the exact same elementary school,
but they will have position right now in the elementary school. Thank you. I know we've always gotten creative and with that rise and that outlook, it's very nerve-wracking in public education. So I appreciate all your work and your update.
Last time that I looked, we were at 124. Right here in the enrollment report, it says 125. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought she said I still thought she said
[Music] there I do have a request and US department to figure out if there's a way that we can break down the demographics high school district three and one year old. So
hopefully we can get some information about this week that you give us the last was 220 like [Music] 630 that was plus orus like 127.
So it was not really very accurate. questions. I just wanted to comment on this isn't from Oh, maybe the next item. Oh, that's a I just wanted to thank Tammy Richard. It looks like she's
retiring as a district nurse. I know she's been here a long time. So appreciate everything she's given to our district, 16 years. Leadership reports. We have more questions and comments. Kudos to our
team. I just wanted to comment on the new website. It looks incredible. I got to go on and play. As I was reading this, I started to play. Um, the fonts a lot bigger. It's just easier to access things. It looks really awesome. So, everyone who worked on that did an
incredible job. Would you be able to talk about the um wellness fair that happened today and just is that a a new initiative this year? I didn't put today next. Okay, sorry. Maybe the the
announcement came out today for next week. So, um, but it just sounds like a amazing opportunity for uh students and maybe staff, too. It is. It's a little different version of what we ran on a middle of May evening a couple years ago
when we hosted the my ascension program back did a mental vendor fair of sorts that evening. This is similar vendors, Mrs. Jones and the hope ambassadors partnering with the light to put it on during this event. So expand the lunch
shifts and then fourth block teachers are invited on 15 minute kind of a chance to get kids down and walk through. It's all things wellness. Um certainly a lot of mental health therapists are there as you know publicity piece and communication
education piece for them. Um, and yeah, it's an awareness during school days, the shift from a couple years ago. Is that right? I've got a question about the testing for the ASVAP testing. Do we have a lot of kids take it to get their ASVAP
score? Do you know just out of curiosity do we is there anybody comes in and talks to them besides recruiters because I know recruiters could be a little skewed but like I know the military it's very confusing of how it's made up and how you can go in there like you can list but most guys don't even know what a listing is or you can go officer and how
do you go those paths of becoming an officer and opportunity because I feel like a lot of times people take a test they have a recruiter tell them oh yeah yeah yeah you want to fly planes join the air force you can go fly planes but you know unless people don't fly planes officers fly planes you have to have a college degree and there's there's paths you know I'm listed and you know make
that but do we provide or you know are there people around that can come in and talk to those kids who are actually interested and really give them the details of you know the different paths and opportunities because it's very confusing and you know I I' I've had a couple kids come up and ask me questions and they they were very interested in
the military but they they seem just lost and confused with me telling them all the different options and abilities to go so I I can't imagine they're getting all the information I would say that certainly their recruiters are one touch point and they're pretty present here. Um but the
counselors do a followup after the aspect and parent communication piece of that place of websites and so forth. I guess are you asking are is there a military communication that's not
recruitment based kind of you know there's somebody retired in the community you come in just kind of explain because I mean it is confusing as as an officer there's three completely separate paths that look totally different becoming commission you know being an officer the jobs are so much different than being enlisted
and there's nothing wrong with either one but they're very very different it can be very confusing to somebody that goes you know I want to join whatever and fly planes Well, enlisting there's a high probability. You're never going to fly planes if you enlist. Um, and it's just confusing. Even within the listed
community, there's, you know, there's you can be promised, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Join, you know, this the the Marines and you can have this job, but not all branches necessarily have like some in the Navy, you can take it as that test and you go in and say, "This is the type of job I want to do." And you get guaranteed a contract to go to
school to learn to be an electrician on airplanes. But there's some that will convince you to go in undesated. which really in the end just means that they can put you wherever they want and you're not necessarily going to get what you were promised. And I would just like to make sure because I think the military is an awesome opportunity. It's
great to me. It's great for my family, but also it's very confusing and you know, it can be kind of nerve-wracking and uh recruiters can be a little pushy. You know, I I felt I felt when I went and took my job test that morning after I I had to join that day. Like it's you know, I was scared. I was by myself. You
know, I was 16 or 17. They took me away. my family spent the night at a hotel, took the ASVAB, and you know, they're telling me all this stuff. So, it's kind of overwhelming, but it's a great opportunity, and I just want to make sure, you know, they're getting something more than just recruiters coming and explaining it to them.
I'd be happy to sit down with you and hear about your experience kind of what you just said in a nutshell is a piece that we could add to be a lot of value for I agree. I've noticed that a lot of my
youth group the boys especially have noticed that way more amount of ones talking about join in the next couple years and I think that reflects nationally too numbers quite a bit up but I can totally see that work be totally beneficial because Aaron I can
totally re relate to that story about taking me out of bed getting the fly Apache helicopters and then finding out all those import that [Laughter] I have a a question. It came up on everyone's um update. Well, all the uh
schools, elementary, middle school. Um could someone just explain what is included in a portfolio, a teacher portfolio? It's talks about so for when they're getting when they're getting tenure when they're
presenting for tenure their portfolio is that it says um there's a few people who presented their portfolios completed their so that is part of our professional growth academy um process that all teachers who are probationary engage in
until they are up for tenure and we build that into our professional growth academy meetings that we have monthly with our teachers and principles are there and TLC's are there and um we engage in professional development but then we also give them a little work time so whatever they learn in that
session then they have some reflection time and put it together with the work that they're doing as a practitioner in their classroom and then at the end they go to their principal and their teaching and learning coordinator and present um their learning and their experiences as professionals over the last one two or
three years here in our district and then they offer tenure so it's really this kind of celebratory process at the end, the culmination of all the work that they put in and their reflection. Um, and it's just a really nice event to wrap up their uh their
first few years here and now they'll be a tenure member of the teaching staff. Awesome. Thank you for explaining that. I seen for community that there was 99 district or next year. Wow. Like where
does that sit? I know. Um I would say in the last couple years um we've seen a little bit of a decline just like kindergarten. So it's kind of like that weird weird line like is this good or bad? And um but even since then we've had a couple register. So we're seeing this later trends of registering too. Um
last summer we had quite a few July August pickup. So that's where we got to like our 125ish um because that's where we were at this year. So um we will see. Yeah, we just kind of really watch it and um then we adjust as needed with staffing because we have parents now
we're one to 10 in preschool. So um we we talk with parents first before we make any adjustments. [Music] Also, um, just wanted to shout out at the elementary, Mrs. Lynn's third grade class raised almost $3,000 for Worlds of
Love, uh, which is really incredible for our community and was an awesome opportunity for our students to learn about responsibility and um, how to be a supportive community member and to tie our school back in with the community. It was awesome, beautiful to see all
those posts and those updates. Um, I was just gonna ask Mr. Larson to share a little bit about his experience with the FCCLA state meet in my life growing up. Honestly, it's a great opportunity for our kids to gain leadership experience
and I highly recommend middle school, high school that opportunity. My my sister just a wonderful time to watch her obviously connect with other kids. Um our students do such a a fabulous job of they say it's
shaping. I mean I'm just enjoying the time. I mean it's getting to meet with kids, seeing them outside of school. Um you know the kids are swimming at 6 a.m. and it's like that's the worst thing that happens. Great. Go for it at 6 a.m.
Do a couple cannonballs for me too. So It was a fantasy fantastic experience and I highly recommend um you know if you if you guys ever get the chance certainly go there's a wide variety of student leaders and we're very fortunate which is great to see.
Awesome. Thank you. Question for you Ashley. If um do we have an approved like does the state provide us have an approved list now with the screening tool to that to check kids out now. So they say this is what you're use for screening. Yes. So we'll be moving forward with fastbridge
assessments as our screening tool for K12 next year. It's required for all of our students in the literacy area. And then now they've provided a um dyslexia screener. So students that are not at grade level will need to be screened for dyslexia. And there's one option and we're all waiting to see how we can
purchase that with the money that has not been provided for us. But we'll make do. We'll figure it out and um we'll be giving that to students and then that'll give us some more data on how to support them with interventions. Who will do the dyslexia screen? So probably most likely students that will
qualify will already be getting tier 2 access programming or tier three special ed. So it'll be done in those classes. [Music] I'm sorry director. I not to bring this up in our
meeting, but um can you give us kind of an update on our escorts program? I think I I've seen there's some grants and stuff that we got in the past. Do you see that program continuing to grow or did I guess?
Yeah, I actually just talked with our advisor, Mr. Baker, today after school because he was meeting with a student that was possibly interested. Um, I think it'll grow. Uh, one of the things that I don't think any of us,
either him nor I were aware of was the amount of different options of games. Uh, Fortnite being one of them that you can partner. And so that I think will be an avenue for the the season for fed works which we um that's the guess
overseer of our league that we're in um is done for this year. And so we're going to look at possibly with the group that we talked about with the link group just providing advertisement for all these different opportunities of activities
and clubs to to join. So he wants to get involved in that at the beginning of the year to start just he'll have a little bit better idea now as he's just getting more familiar with it of what the opportunities are and what's available for kids. So I think it'll grow. Yeah. I mean he said it was a blast. The one
game that we're in now that's tough is is almost like you have to practice for like a basketball team because it's five players and it's almost like you need to know where everyone else is at. They said it's really hard these teams around the country. I mean, there's thousands of players that are so good and they
they just learned a lot. So, yeah, hopefully it'll take off. Thank you. I I I see the value the students that I've noticed that are in those clubs are are kind of a unique subset of of students and I think there's a huge opportunity
for us in that program to reach those students, but I don't think I don't see their option that would reach them. So I hope and pray that that program continues to flourish. So thank you. Nicole asks that her surgery.
[Music] Thank you, Administrator. [Music] question about our early grads. Um, we have 11 early grads this year. Um, how does that compare to previous years and what do you see for maybe next year's
trends in early graduation? 11 down from 38 two years ago. All right. It's going to be a function of the lock schedule, but prove there's some scheduling as we kids and families.
[Music] Thank you. Place here. Sorry. to move on to action items. Old business new business first reading for the consideration revisions to the following school board policies there on the agenda.
Are we just going to add the handbook to a session? [Music] that would be my reference. I made a note to follow up on that. I would appreciate that too. And I also just want to point out um how awesome it is that that was put together. So, thank
you. I know you did a huge part of that. But also, Mr. for bringing that forward. I um saw that at the MSB annual conference and I think it'll be so helpful as schoolboard members come in to have a tangible again reference um to look back at and see how access to who's
where and um all our information. It cites a lot of our uh policies and uh just kind of how we all business. So, thank you. [Music]
It can still be a first radio. Yeah. Motion to approve. No motion needed. First reading further [Music] discussion. Approve teacher development and improve the plans probationary and
tenure. Have a motion to approve. I have background on this. Ashley would have been the one to ask, but I can tell you since I went through the first process that um with with Mark years ago, it's very thorough. They take a lot of research from like
the Hattie that they were talking about and the um uh the processes that other districts use and the requirements from MDE and they improved it. So, I know that's pretty generic, but um I she usually
sticks to the end and she didn't. So, do you know who works on it or or what has changed in it or how often it gets updated? Um it's not a regularly updated thing. It was in need of being updated and um Ashley works with the staff development committee and the
administrators and it was a requirement. No, she took off because I had a good six questions. I read some questions action to the next special meeting.
[Music] you can work very often. It's it's a piece that the union and the and the teaching and learning department work together along with the building administrators and it goes in line with what the state is requiring the school district to have. Previously,
we really hadn't had a we had a formal evaluation process, but it really wasn't the one that the state was looking for. So, it's a Charlotte Danielson model that uh that the district is going to be moving to now for both probationary and um tenure staff members. So, I mean, if
you want to hold off and ask some more questions or certainly Yeah, maybe she can present some of it at the next meeting. Yeah. Yeah. You want to jump out? No problem. I'm sure your role par for
this one. I I know I was listening a podcast recently the soul story podcast and I feel like it's eye opening and just kind of you know the big the big thing is just you know for years and years and years school districts in the entire United States essentially purchased and bought and just followed a
couple big publishers teacher reading lots of school districts I think we included it up until two years ago and nobody really questioned them. They would just assume that because they were a big publisher that it was fine. nothing about it was based in evidence or science and you know that's why we had to read it down states went through
and banned all this stuff. So I had questions. I was reading through it and I could some framework. Why why are we using her and then um I did some research on it and I found some articles that you know wasn't the most ideal you know not a lot few articles. So I I would like to hear her info on those
things and why we're using it, you know, make sure we're doing the best thing on something. I read through it all and use all it to make sure I understood it and I just don't want to I think there's a couple of big
evaluation tools out there. One is Marzano and one is Danielson. Marzano is pretty much just a checklist and and you it's it's I've used them both and in my mind the Marzano one is very confusing because there's like 70 things that want you to check every time you do a lesson
and there's no way you can do it. And really what what it comes down to evaluation as we had meetings in regards to what evaluation looks like. Evaluation should never be a tool of a got you. It should always be what are you doing really well in the classroom? What are the things that are challenging
for you? And how do you want us to work through that evaluation process with you? So in the four areas, as Charlotte Daniel said, it's, you know, in my experience, you don't choose all four. When you evaluate something, you say, which one do you really think you do really well?
this one. Which one do you think you struggle with? This one. Okay, let's let's look at those and really focus in and hone on those things that you really want to work on. So, um, that's kind of the way I approach evaluation. I mean, with people that I evaluate because I don't I don't never want to see when I go into a classroom, I don't ever want
to see a perfect lesson because in reality, that's never ever going to happen. I'd rather see a lesson that you struggle with because if you struggle with it and you still get your point across, how can we continue to build you up on that?
So, but we can remove that and and have Ashley, we'll reach out to Ash when she wants to do it next board meeting. Well, I was going to ask before informationational items if we're keeping May five um because if we do then that would be the agenda item is
Ashley and the handbook. Yeah, it's because there's nothing on there right now. It was supposed to be strategic planning and that has been cancelled. Okay. Otherwise, I think that's a great time to go over the handbook. It'd be a
shorter meeting, but it would be nice to just have a couple items. I know Ashley's available. She marks all of the special meetings on her calendar. You could you could literally do the two things that you're moving off of this agenda next week if you want and then we
keep the meeting. Yeah. Whatever you want. Okay. Do we need to make a motion to table? No, you don't table anything that you take out of the meeting. It'll just be noted in the minutes that it was not acted on and moved to a
future agenda. [Music] items in the same room and then on May 19th one in this room. I have one more thing to add. Um I didn't know when a great time to be um would but earlier or
during the interviews I talked a little bit about um the drama banquet at the end of the year and how incredible it is. the students put it all together. Um, and they do a lot of performances throughout the year. Most recently, just this past weekend, in which I saw a few, Mr. Enzed, um, and the high schoolers
did an incredible job. But the banquet's awesome. They put in a lot and then they also announced what they're doing next year. So, it' be a cool opportunity if anyone's interested. It's on May 10th and it starts at 4:45, but the awards will start around 6. So, All those in favor of the journ say I.