welcome on this beautiful spring day GL to see people CH to come here instead a walk we started here we do have a forum we have MERS here and stand pledge allegiance to the flag of
the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God IND ible with liberty and justice for all say Communications Lang good evening board and Community my
name is Trent langille and I'm very proud to be the high school principal at Caston vanderville and it's fun to have a full house to recognize a lot of accomplishments tonight and I get to go first the February students of the month these students are chosen by staff one
student per grade level per month uh staff collaborate to select students and you can only win this honor once in your high school career you uh in order to do this you demonstrate responsibility for yourself and others you are a positive
role model you help others in need and you progress academically ninth grade student month let them all come down uh and then we'll take a picture at the end Chase [Applause]
Fitch 10th grade I know she was absent today but maybe she was able to summon the strength to come [Applause]
Alberts 11th grade asyn Parkin [Applause] senior I haven't laid eyes on him yet but it's Holden bolster did he make it
he is here come on down Hayden hold on sorry cast High School senior student of the month is Holden bolster son of Katie and Wade bolster of cassen he shared with us a philosophy that has helped him be successful inside and outside school and
that is to quote just get the task at hand done it may be hard at the moment but it will pay off in the future that is very true outside of school Holden stays busy Hunting Fishing and hanging out with friends during the summer he works at cont Tech in Dodge Center he
helps maintain the plant by providing maintenance he hauls he packs and he grades material along with setting up new additions to the plant outdoors after graduation he hopes to go to the University of Minnesota duth and pursue a degree in business or finance and in
10 years years he would love to be around the same area of Minnesota using his skills and education to get a job and most importantly enjoying the Great Outdoors senior Holden bolster [Applause]
mon [Applause] thanks Mr L Mo all right I've got several Awards to present tonight uh starting out with a band our best insites at the solo Ensemble for this
year um I'm going to bring down Mr Tony Bolt first uh and a quick story just kind of a not Soo Ensemble related but band related um the last couple years we've been able to go to the State girls hockey tournament and up there the kind
of running joke by uh the Excel workers underneath the uh tunnel and everything is gez by the size of your band it looks like they either play hockey or there everyone else is in the band so uh it's pretty awesome that he can Corral two to three full fan buses for every game up
there to come back and forth so I'll bring up Mr Tony Bolt well yeah I should be I um and it's so much fun to be able to go up so I really want to thank the board and I want to thank admin for making that a thing that we can do each year and uh girls for getting there so that's a lot
of fun um bestest site is um our our regional Solon Ensemble 1A through Minnesota State High School league is um I'm GNA try to explain this really well uh each kid at Sol and Ensemble gets a room for the day and there's about 20 to
25 entries and best of sight is the judges um best thing that occurred in that room for the day it's a little bit of a random draw but it has a lot to do with just a ton of hard work and these kids put so much time and effort into these solos many of them been working on
them for almost a year so I'll call them up and we can recognize them Ethan Bruner on his trombone solo Nora Ness on her Alto saac solo alsan toar on her OBO solo and Janai sandstrom on her xylophone solo that's and Jazz but that would have been
like 30 coins so [Applause] all right other than the band that was at the Excel Center Roy Wilkins Auditorium this past weekend was two of our teams and individuals rep representing them so first up we're
going to talk about gymnastics uh they qualified two separate individuals in the state individual gymnastics competition uh which we were actually able to host the section meet right here in the km Elementary School which was awesome and it went super smooth and uh
was a was a really fun event so first I'm going to bring up coach Holly mshi don't give any Applause yet because she was also honored as the section one coach of the year so she can talk a little bit about her gymnast in more detail than myself so come on down coach
[Applause] omsh to come down yes um I will also Al have our assistant coaches uh Bri Kling and Lauren MCD come on down too um could not do this at all without either of them so thank you to
both of you um so our gymnast we have uh sop both sophomores Elanor Smith and Alexi a who made it to the state individual um competition so Alexi plays third on beam uh earning herself a trip
to State on balance beam and Elanor actually won our section for allaround uh which got her a trip for fault bars beam and floor um due to injuries Alexa was unable to compete but she of course still is very much um a spectacular
gymnast and we're super proud that she was able to make it um Elanor Smith uh competed and got six on beam uh with a 9225 and then was 11th all around I don't remember all around it
was a 35 something sorry um so we're both super well we are all super proud of them and just keep doing it so I don't know what else to
[Applause] say for [Applause] all right next up is our girls hockey Wildcat team um I will call up coach
Gunderson here in just a second but just a couple things that uh are unique and I guess history making for the state Minnesota um this girl's hockey team was the first team under or South I should say not under but south of the metro to
win a state championship and the first of either boys and girls since Redwing in what 1997 yeah 1997 which ironically the Hill Murray won which is their head coach played on that team Johnny Paul back in the day um so just an unbelievable
accomplishment for this group um you know starting way back in the fall just watching a lot of their games you could tell something was special and you know they got the taste of the state tournament last year being there and getting into that state championship game and I think U you know it was a
little more relaxed this year maybe not relaxed but at least they they were more comfortable um Jeremy had a year under his belt of filling out all the paperwork which he couldn't believe and we all know is is definitely worth it but it's uh it's a task at hand to get those all that stuff done a few days
before you leave in a short turnaround from the section Championship so two time defending section Champions and uh head coach I'll bring down first Jeremy [Applause]
Gunderson oh great we got all the coaches here well thanks everybody it was uh is Tony still in here that band was awesome it was the The Rush when they signal goal from the crowd of the community was Unreal I played a lot of sports myself in high school and college and that
reaction was unbelievable I thought the glass was going to break and people piling I watched a replay Paige you don't even need skates decks here you can play hockey for us you're the fastest runner on Ice you SE my life so that was awesome to see you get across the ice and get over there beat half the skater so uh it takes a lot right the
the community great support uh the administration it's a lot of work from athletic department heads from the school counsel from all you from you guys as well well it just was unbelievable to see the reaction the calls have never ended I'm kind of still half asleep it's been a long long track long week so but it's amazing one to
have this uh this team was amazing they worked super hard uh my coaching staff is topnotch they're all three former lumni players so they've gone to the ringer and now they've uh earned themelves a medal as well as state champions so appreciate everything that the committee has done and uh school
here as well and those kids have been just awesome so it's it's great to bring one home to the sou so the 507 [Applause] so yeah they're gonna announce their name as they go by the mic be
great is this like the lineup or you guys give a good face for this one too Molly got your hair ready [Music] [Applause] Peterson
cookly cook Nora Carson I'm Zoey himr rler I'm Kylie Meer I'm Humphrey Maisy fton Josie
Fon Sophia buing Kirkley Clan Dar Dixon Marin Hodgman brce [Applause] Ryder Daisy HS Gaden lockran
I'm Hollywood Hermanson I'm Molly Shelton I'm Dana rasmuson on up all right thank you guys come on up let's get a picture this is one that nobody can ever take away from you so it's pretty special everybody's [Applause]
you're good hi I'm Jake Schmidt um I just I'm here today to uh recognize four of my outstanding employees I have a great group a great team that uh Works in transportation every day makes it all work um these four had really stepped up to the plate uh the last few weeks uh we
were able to install a new camera system and we did the installation during the school day during the you know during the all the chaos and the Ruckus of you know dayto day um but the fact that they were able to fit it into their schedule to help out was beyond belief and uh
they're just great teammates and they make come to work every day very easy so I just wanted to uh bring them up all four of you uh Tina Walker Samuel Ike career Richard Martin and John
[Applause] Christenson they truly do make work in here very easy they are dedicated they are very um willing to help out whenever needed and they take care of students
first so um thank you for having guys and there has been a request that Bob Kim comes up soon [Applause] behind charge your phone put film in it all right good evening everyone my name
is Ashley Katlin I'm proud to be the director of student and staff support systems here at C manille schools um something new to my role this year is overseeing our high potential program so um we've rebranded this and expanded it a little bit this year uh built on a
very strong Foundation by an outstanding educator which I'll give a little shout out here in a second but our new program is called leap it's learning enrichment and advancement programming and we offer this in students for our students in grades k through eight this year um so as we move to our new and expanded
model of high potential programming we have some wonderful Educators that have been very flexible and Innovative and positive um and dedicated in their work with our high potential students this year I'm so grateful for their leadership and their willingness to take
on this new program and jump into this adventure with us um a special thank you goes to Jen kuat who is a high potential teacher that's been working in that program for many years a very strong foundation for our students and um I go to her all the time as my Resource as my
sounding board for bus practices she is wonderful and I'm so grateful to her I also want to give a shout out to Isaac iy um we took on a little bit more than we expected with our horel Institute young scientists program this year for our eighth grade students in Le and so I
am uh very thankful that he's been willing to jump in and we're building the plane as we fly it literally with horel and trying to figure out what we're doing and how to make it a really great program for our students and it's been so much time so thank you to Isaac for that um I'm incredibly grateful for
all of your time and your dedication so if you can come on down I have Natalie tweeton she does kindergarten for us D just first grade AA chess in second grade Alis W in third grade
in fourth grade and then we have Isaac iy in eighth grade we have a couple people that couldn't join us tonight so it's Ashley Peterson and Danica thorberg in fifth grade yes Chris Soderberg in sixth
grade Chris Morgan in seventh grade and then Dylan denter also does eighth grade so thank you to our leap teachers [Applause] don't we
[Applause] right student School represent Report with us tonight good afternoon School Board I hope you're all doing well and it's great to see you all again for those who not know me yet I'm Hannah Peterson one
of your school board Representatives I am involved in many activities such as being the Honor Society secretary student council president and the captain of our girls hockey team along with other club volunteer programs in our school as months come to a close students are excited for spring Events
sports and of course the spring weather I would like to thank you all for your time as I pr present the February board report winter sports are coming to a close as spring Sports start in the coming weeks gymnastics Alexia and elor Smith qualified for the State Gymnastics
this year and Elanor placed six in state on the beams and 11 all around Alexia was unable to compete due to a leg injury she face at the section boys basketball the boys team 17 and0 with just two two games left of the regular season the girls team currently
has a record of 161 and0 heading into the section playoffs your senior night last week ended an overwhelming Victory taking down the sley Spartans 6520 our boys hockey season just ended on the road with a playoff loss against albertly last Thursday they ended with a
record of 916 and0 our girls hockey the Wildcat girls just won their first ever State title in badge County in history ending the season with the four3 over win against the three-time defending Champions War they end with a record of 243 and two the wrestling team made it back to
State this year this week is the singles tournament and next week is the team tournament our single qualifiers include Eden and ow Frederick Kimani Ben and Jo Coleman our powerlifting team we have two state champions on our powerlifting team Kell boyam who is named the best
overall male lifter Anda Galloway who hold records in both Squat and deadlift the student coun is working on planning the snow Week events coming up the first week of March dress of Days petfest Bridge activities and the dance have yet to be announced fcla held its
commment versus cancer fundraisers with an auction table at basketball games and boys hockey games they also held a 3v3 basketball tournament during bridge to raise money for their cause the championship game of this tournament has yet to take place and they're playing against snow we during snow week and I
believe there's a game against the teachers as well and in concl as the new semester begins our school is closing off the last half of the 2025 school year I thank you for your time and look forward to seeing you all again next F month with that being said go Thomas and of
course go wild cats thank you any questions from the board sorry did you not go to Disneyland to celebrate the big win we did not how to get back class oh come on just talk to your principal sorry AP Bio
calls I just wanted to comment on that as well the game was so much fun to watch and um everybody was so proud of you guys and congratulations thank you now the important question is are you ready for prom oh I'm more than ready I feel like
it'll just HP off my senior year close it out and then freze through the rest of it and be done week early than you [Applause] yes it's just but the
bottom it's a stinker you got to hold it till it turns green we got it all right I'm Jenny carrier I'm the Community Education director and tonight we're going to present on our prek and Elementary um PLC and talk a little bit about the work that we've been doing this year I'll let
the others introduce themselves I'm Jess merer I'm the Early Learning coordinator for Community n and Courtney free I am the elementary princial and Jessica markart teaching and learning coordinator at the elementary building thanks Carlin um the Community
Education building um had a unique setup this year with the redak requirements so we were required to do early childhood letters training and so most of our PLC all of our PLC was really focused around this training the training was 22 hours of coursework that our teachers had to
do and another 12 hours of live sessions so we've spent a lot of time working on that and we're really happy that we've been able to use our PLC time to do that because we can do it together and um we created an implementation plan which I'll let Jess talk about in just a
second here that has helped us really bring a lot of the strategies into play already this year so each week we meet as a team and and we have so during our team meetings we can talk about some of the things that we've learned throughout the PLC and the month and then we also
do a lot of modeling and co-teaching and thanks to the new Early Learning coordinator position justice has been able to actually put this in action this year so she had the training the full administrative training last year so she's been able to go in and actually co-teacher model with teachers
throughout throughout her time um with each of them and she also helps with our PGA which is our Prof professional growth Academy just for our team so Ashley does um bu monthly I guess we call it um for the whole district and then we have PGA just for Early
Childhood teachers as well so no matter what stage they're at they're always getting extra just at our level and then with this process we use um called seeds is seeds of early learning and um big day for prek those are our two main
curriculums although we have a handful of curriculums that we like um but those are two big ones and it letters aligns really well with those and so that's also why we created the pacing guide and justess has been able to go in and model those strategies so if you do want to click on that pacing guide kin Jess can
talk a little bit about that okay so this is our PLC plan for the year the teachers have been able to follow that and work together very closely um and then where you see the bolded areas for the virtual trainings that's actual certified letters trainers
that they um learn with via Zoom um for about 3 hours per session so there's four set four sessions so about 12 hours of live learning with a trained letters professional and then for the rest of
the year um we have implementation so if you want to roll down there Carin we have yep you can keep going um right there implementation ideas so what we did was we broke down each unit into little bite-sized chunks that the
teachers can focus their learning on um so they pick during their weekly meetings something to work through that um aligns with early letters seeds and big day for prek and then they work on it for the week and then the the week
they come back with their team they talk about this worked this didn't work how did you get this VOC vocabulary in there um and the nice thing is we're really excited about after getting all of our letters training our teachers are really
excited to use their PLC time next year to implement specific lesson plans and create materials that align with all of the early letters work that they've been doing yes so Ashley we already have PLC
planned for next year they are actually really excited about them lot of them are interactive reel outs specifically around our um lesson plans and our curriculum and then sound play and phonological awareness activities those are like the
main next slide so just to talk a little bit about um Early Childhood regarding our core data standards so our core Advantage is um our assessment tool which is approved by the state and this is just a little chart of how the tool works so this is
how we assess our students in our preschool program the goal for us is always to get them at a four hire before they go to kindergarten and that's across all of our um domains and we have 34 domains so it's a consistency across a four higher in those domains before they go to kindergarten the reason you
see those higher levels is because this assessment tool can be used through kindergarten we don't do that here but it can be and that's why it looks kind of like that um anything else you want to add just all right right this um is the
graph that is currently um available for period one so we have two periods that we assess for um like Jenny said there are 34 domains with an average of two to three observations so teachers are doing thousands of observations for each
period that's why we have two periods um otherwise it would be something like I don't know 10,000 observations per period so it it would just be too overwhelming for especially um our one teacher has like 50 students so it it
would just be too much um for them and it wouldn't just if we wouldn't get accurate data because then we'd have a lower um rate of observation so right here you can see the below meeting and above um indicators there approaches to learning
social emotional development um and physical development and health there are indicators there may be lower due to maybe some developmental delays for that student maybe they have limited exposure into school um social emotional
struggles maybe they're having some mental health needs or their families are having mental health needs um and then also unfamiliar environment so that's why those have a couple more below um scores but all of the other ones are are actually really on track
for um our incoming kindergarteners and then um down there on the bottom Carline if you just want to click on that kindergarten Readiness indicators resources website so this is advertise for all of our families that are coming into kindergarten it gives the Readiness
um tips and tricks and things that kids should be able to do when they go to kindergarten we worked closely with um Elementary staff the last couple of years to really hone in on what do kindergarteners actually need to be able to do in order to feel successful so
that's right there and then those black buttons on the side there you can you don't have to do this Carlin but you can click there for resources those are all for families their tips and tricks that they can practice um to get them ready for kindergarten at home it can be during the school year or over the
summer and then if you roll down a little bit more yep there's a kog graphic we hand out at kindergarten information night with Courtney and Jessica and then if you continue to roll down there are some um other buttons like registration information got to get
the new poster up there but um it's coming up April 9th I believe and um we are trying to work really closely and team really well with the kindergarten team to to help families feel supported and kids to feel successful in
kindergarten oh and tons of other resources for families okay um it's a little bit confusing in early childhood we have some complex standards sometimes um this is called TS gold and this is the assessment tool we use for our early childhood special
education students so this tool um we basically have two sections um with Mrs Baker We also do an inclusion model that our team has has been to two summers ago and we've we've had this model since I started here but we've just been able to expand it after we went to the inclusion
training so Mrs maduri does all push in into our regular classrooms and then all students working towards their IEP goals with um TS gold it's it's a very complex assessment tool so there's like I think there's 74 different strands but they
can really customize it to the IEP goals so it actually does work really well for those students and if they're in both programs if they're in a regular classroom and they're being pushed in they will get an assessment on both so it's extra information for parents but it's really individualized so you can
see um some of the students might not necessarily be exceeding or meeting but that's just where they're at so we're not necessarily comparing them to their their peers we're just meeting their IEP goals through the curriculum yeah TS gold is really good
at measuring the development of skill not necessarily age and so it's the skill that they're working on specific to their IEP goals so this is really nice for Jenny Baker and Amanda maderi to be able to use at conferences IP meetings if we need to modify anything
these are are really great tools for them to use um this is uh another fancy graph from another app that we use it's called PBIS apps uh it's early childhood Swiss so this tracks all of our Behavior data
um we pulled for the beginning of school till February 13th um we have always had physical aggression being the the top offender there um but that also includes
uh biting for toddlers and infants um also like pushing or wrestling or tackling which are all developmentally appropriate um so it it is high on there but the kids are working on boundaries
how to use our words to solve problems rather than physical which again is appropriate um and then the next to there are non-compliance and disruption and so the nice thing about being the Early Learning coordinator is that I
have been able to push into not only our preschool rooms but our project kids rooms and do some social skill groups along with whole group lessons to make sure that all of our teachers are on the same page in regards to um common
language vocabulary how we address certain situations getting down to the child's level what kinds of behaviors are developmentally appropriate and how to retach or re-engage them into a different activity so that has been really nice to be able to do with
Jenny's team yes as Jess said we really like apps in community ad we have one for about everything so um but it is exciting we can get a lot of data from those apps that's just one little snapshot and so when we have our PBIS and behavior team meetings we can break
everything down and find out even when when things are happening in certain rooms and certain times of the day or different Transitions and this is our final slide before we hand it over to Elementary um our goal for the year our PLC goal is 78% of preschool students will be ready for kindergarten as measured by our core assessment tool
which I was talking about earlier and um we went up from 75 last year we made our goal a little bit higher this year hoping we're well on track to meet that goal so we're hoping that we will I think last year it was 80.6 we're ready for kindergarten but um we do have really good data around our School
Readiness programming and how children do when they come into kindergarten they they seem to do quite well when they come in and their fast test so is there any questions for commity I just wanted to comment on how well organized those resources were for
parents and that whole web page I thought that was very impressive um I do have a question off something you just said 78% is the goal even the last year 80% We Ready is that based you know incoming data looks a specific way so you base the goal off of what you know you're working with good
question yes we do base our goal off that and I would say we we maybe tried to push our teachers to 80 and they were very nervous about that because it's a tough goal because not all kids go to kindergarten so like it's it just makes them nervous when they look at their data so we were like okay we'll try 78
maybe next year we'll go for 80 sure how parents react they invol parents yeah so two times a year they come in for conferences um parents can come in with their teacher and we use the core data I forget the name of the report it's it's
like a family report and so it's a special report that really shows their growth over period one and then period two is a really good one and it shows their and they give like strengths and then areas of things to work on so that they can go home with some tools and then we can share a lot of those kindergarten Readiness tools that we
already have a lot of the elementary collaboration that we're doing with the kindergarten team about what they need to to work on and ultimately it becomes the parents decision um the state says they just have to be five by September 1 so it really is it's a partnership you know our teachers never tell them what
to do but they do make a recommendation just sorry one quick question out of curiosity all the apps and all this data you guys collect is it all just are chores have wanting to choose those or are some of them mandated by like the state we have to use these app to collect these data sure good question um part of it is Community
Education has a lot of programs under their umbrella so we have an app for child care we have an app for Behavior data which is which is something um they they pushed in a couple conferences I went to to Really collect good data specifically for Early Childhood um
because there was no resources behind that because we don't use infinite campus or some of the other tools K12 uses it's just a different type of some of our students aren't enrolled in the district yet and then we also have for core that's our assessment tool so um
pieces that Elementary would use instead would be like your fast data like um they would have their NWA right like stuff like that so they would use different platforms this is just a platform for Early Childhood if that makes sense and Cory is one of the
programs that the state Early Childhood specifically School Readiness has to have there's four choices yeah and we that's the one we went with I have one more question um what does it look like like it sounds overwhelming to hear that a teacher has to do thousands
of observations so what does that look like is it something in real time Mar down quick or is there extra support is it a planned thing is it Jess would love to talk about the first year of core implementation she was actually one of our teachers um I would say that as an
evolved practice so they've gotten much better at it but I can tell you in Period one this year they had over 8,000 observ ation as a team so that I mean it it is a lot and it's just a little bit different shift the assessment tool we used to use before that became a
requirement um was basically a pullout method so we would pull them out and actually test the child but they didn't think um the stage doesn't think that's a very good accurate representation of what a child knows because it could just be the day that the child didn't do very well or they did exceptional on that day
but this gives kind of an overview um of real time and you can observe a child actually mastering a skill and Jess will talk about the observations okay so um with those 8,000 observations our um all of our teaching team has an iPad that they can take
pictures or videos or document the the learning that's taking place and so they generally what happens is they're just snapping pictures all period and then um either between their their lunch and their next class or before school or after school they're doing all of their
documentation um the first year I did not do that and I said Jenny this takes 72 hours to complete I calculated it all um and so what we did is we made sure that we were giving specific time for staff to be able to enter that data
because expecting a teacher to do 70 hours of data analysis is not appropriate above and beyond their their contract time so um we have been um teaching them how to do an observation of one area but um coaching them into
saying this picture actually represents eight pieces of data in eight different categories so we're we're training in that we're doing some Fidelity checks we're doing some um interrelated reliability training so it it's a process but they are on board and
they're very good at it and if they have questions they're so good about asking and they say look at this picture what is this is this a four or a five I don't know and so then we talk about it so they they're very open and and they just team so well together so it is a lot
absolutely but observational data in early child is is so much better than a one-time test thank you thank you and just a plug for the School Readiness program we can tell in kindergarten who came from our program
um we really collaborate really well last last year um Jenny's team came and built kindergarten class lists off their data and it very for the first time the kindergarten classes very much reflect the same kind of makeup that we look for in our first through fourth grade so we
have some balance of academics and behavior um but we can very strongly tell when they come um it's also a great connection some of ours that struggle that have been in the program we turn and we go Jess and then she looks up their data and can walk us through it so um our partnership has gotten really
strong over the last couple years because their data is so useful to our kindergarten teachers that it really does feel like it's just just a continuation on so all right you can switch to ours Carn um so Jessica and I talked about
having our plc's come in the traditional model that we have done but all of our teams are doing the same thing so um you keep hearing about react but we really wanted to take a chance to tell you what that actually means for our staff um we are doing old law um which is all of our
classroom teachers special ed and interventionists are Specialists um actually anybody with an elementary license has to do it so Sarah darvo although she's our media specialist is doing Ola Lan McMahon is our pltw she is also doing Ola because of right of
assignment we could have assigned them anywhere so the only ones that we really don't have um Bailey Kennedy Abby Budin and Chris Wishy and Jake Salo um from fad are about our only our only ones so they have been doing with art standards and things like that and Ashley's done a
great job of helping plan for that um but it is 40 hours it is basically a college level reading course actually it is a college level reading course my daughter is getting her uh special ed like she's going to school to be a special ed teacher and she saw the book on my Desh she goes oh I just took that
class awesome um so we it's 40 hours um and we just really are working through each time has something else and some of our teachers did letters a few years ago which is a really big undertaking the state gave it to free so everyone jumped on board and did it but we had to come
back and all get on the same book um page so I'll let Jessica kind of talk about what the implementation plan has looked like this year yeah so Ola is nine modules of instruction and there's an online component and then that includes readings from this teaching
reading source book as they go through and then every three modules we do a live session and we have four four trainers within our district that went through the Train the trainer model last spring and so we're able to do our training on those PLC and work the
professional development days um because we have our people in a house ready to do that um which has been super helpful because we're able to do more quick check-ins with our teachers on that are going through the program we're also able to help with implementation with some modeling or helping give examples
of what we already have and and resources that match up with what they're learning in those modules as we go through um so that has been really powerful a lot of our staff teams have worked through it together so they each are logged in on their own but are sitting in the same room and able to
have some really powerful conversations about um a lot of the questions within that they have to answer about how do you how does this show up in your current curriculum or write a lesson plan that uses this strategy and so to have those professional conversations is
really great yeah you can click on everything to C similar to what Early Childhood letters has been doing um we had mapped out our training and pacing guide um at the beginning of the year um really
giving a little bit of some flexibility there too we have it planned out of specific times of when to do each training but also if people are working faster or taking more time with it it is um on their own on their devices a lot of that time so um kind of just those
deadlines of when to complete the course work as well um and so we have teams that only are expected to be done with module 7 and into module 8 and we have a number of people that are already complete they are done and ready to submit their portfolio for grading to
Jess and Ashley and Katie and I to check it out so that's cool yeah so as um because a lot of our PLC work is really on that Collaborative Learning for our Professionals in our building this year we really have did delve into that as a whole so we our PLC
teams have been sharing at our staff meetings what they're learning in Ola and um like our kindergarten team took the first couple modules because it was all those foundational skills and shared how does that actually show up in our classrooms and how are we using it with students and so that's part of that
implementation piece as giving our teams a chance to share that out and share their experiences we have third fourth grade math coming up and they are a little bit nervous about how they're using their reading training in their math classes but we let them wait till after the vocabulary module so they feel
ready now um but we've also had just a lot of other Collaborative Learning for the grown-ups which we know benefits our kids so much in their classroom so um we've been doing some work with building thinking classrooms I have a book study going on that and a lot of trial things that are supporting our math thinking in
really rich ways as well um we also are doing our new staff support reports with um the INB building PGA on the opposite months of our district PGA opportunities um we also offer a quarterly check-in with um Karen Bes our counselor on PBIS
and behavioral supports for anyone in the building but specifically our newer to The District staff um have been doing some creative team times because we don't have that PLC time for that team collaboration as much as here it's so
much training um trying to offer we all go in and cover like the start of the day for 15 minutes so staff can have that 7:30 to 8:25 and get a little bit longer of a time together to try and squeeze in some extra team time work
time um and then those Power hours are something we started last year where we um kind of tag team between whoever's available to cover a classroom and give a teacher time with me or Michael or
structal our literacy coach to work on whatever they need to work on digging into Data a little deeper with a deeper conversation or many of them come up in right after we do our goal meetings and look at their data and then we take some extra time to like plan for how are we
moving forward with it and peer observations similar specifically for our new staff but for anyone um we're calling it our tagout tour so same with Michael and I teaming up to one of us cover a class class room for a little bit and the other one support the
teacher in going and touring some other classrooms and seeing some things in action because we know we learn so much from one another and we've got such experts in our classroom that giving them chances to learn from each other is where beautiful things happen in our building so we when Jess left us and
went back to community ed um it left us an opportunity to try um something we had really dreamed of having which would be a literacy coach more of an instructional coach which would be a tosa teacher on special assignment Michael is not cons evaluative of any
sort like um TLC's and principles are but um Michael merer is our instructional coach and he is getting in you know doing a lot more in the weeds with the teachers and we are finding that the teachers given there is no valuation tied to it he's not there's
nothing coming from that it's just feedback and helping they are really open opening their doors and allowing Michael to come in and work with them and he is not afraid to be like o let me just come in and help because they will come to him um especially our new
teachers really see the value in that and yes he's literacy is what we've tagged him under because that was the position but he will do math he's done behavioral support with some of our newer staff but he started this week or a couple weeks ago Meer Meer memos on
Wednesday where he just gives him a little snippet of something for coaching and I think it's just the teachers feel really good about it um you know constructive feedback he's doing a lot of modeling especially with our newest teachers to the district especially we have two firsttime teachers in our
building and they are really leaning into having him come in and teach for them with their kids and try some things and then he steps back um and lets them kind of Take the Lead or some team teaching it's very similar to what we ask our kids to do which is I do we do
you do he's using that um that's great he's all over the building um observing constantly uh we've got some high behaviors he'll just step in and kind of watch and be like oh here's what I see is going on um just listening uh learning and then he is leading some
groups um building thinking classrooms is a book study something he's very power very passionate about with um math really getting kids thinking about math just not here's how you do it um so he's done he does it and we've actually brought it into literacy as well and
then grade grade level instruction he's doing a lot of that so um it's only been a month but it feels like he's been doing this forever he's just a natural at it so we've been really blessed for that and then kind of what our our our Flex Plan um and kind of this year is
kind of how are we making sure we have all of the areas of our kids met um social emotional learning we did four weeks of social emotional learn what would be Flex time um when the students would be getting that extra dose of reading and math as we were assessing in the fall and back in January we did
social emotional lessons Karen bash does a fantastic job of giving a framework for our teachers to follow doing that so that's going on and then when she started her behavior adsis groups we can say our tier one was strong um leap days
you heard about those um those are still continuing on and our leap teachers have done a great job we're seeing our High kids continue to pushed all the time um PTA is our incredible partner um field trips and normally we had done two um
but our fundraiser went so well they gifted everybody a third field trip and so it's been really fun to have that conversation with them because they do want it to tie to something curricular and so we've got c groups looking at going to the ca to caves we've got
groups that have gone to the Science Museum uh we for the first time sent some kids to the zoo in in December which who would have thought but they said it was the best ever big snowflakes fell it was just awesome um and then redact is constantly happening I think
the biggest thing now like Jessica said um they're done a lot of them have finished unit 9 because they just wanted to be done but now the implementation with Michael and the implementation with us is I have all this knowledge I have all these tools how do I take what I've
always used and my new knowledge and combine those if it's proving to be tricky so that's kind of where we are yeah the only other piece there we added just kind of a snippet um with the react one of their requirements was some additional literacy screening um there
are specific subtests we've we've been using fastb and early reading at K1 for a long time but there were some some specific subtests that the state is requiring that weren't part of the four that we usually do to get our composite so we've had to make some adjustments um
and do some additional screen assessments there they also are requiring that we do um a nonsense word fluency screening through third grade to check for um Tendencies of Dyslexia so there are some extra screenings and some extra checks that we're kind of doing to
make sure that we're getting um catching kiddos that might have needs that aren't showing up yet until they're getting a little bit later into their career at our building so um watching very closely for those and then the other requirement is that we um communicate those pieces
very clearly um with some ideas of ways to support kiddos at home uh with parents three times a year so Lindsay was incredible at setting up in our Edge climber system our data system these forms that pull in all their data for our teachers um and then we'll stay the
forms stay in our system so next year their teacher will be able to see those forms as well and know what had been communicated previously um so those have been a great communication tool for we've been able to use them at conferences these first two and the last one will have to be a send home um but
that's been a great tool and it's been nice to have that Technology support on the back end to update them automatically for our teachers with the new data as it comes in and this this year with the additional screeners and all of that we did something we'd never done before we brought in two college
students that helped with assessments um and we got done three weeks ahead of time because we had Amelia peek and my daughter Abby um who both are in college both work in kind of an maybe an educational or communication field so we
trained them and they flew and it allowed us to get back and get back to instructing a lot faster we were shocked we were like it was like the end of week two and Jessica's like we're done I was like done and we called Ashley and she's like you're done we're like we're done
so those are just some fun things or different things we've done any questions for us I just have two comments um it's from both programs I hear a lot of forward claiming so it sounds like a lot of the things that you're doing right now the assessments that you're completing um
will be really helpful for the students and the teachers in the future um which I think it's like it's probably a lot of work right now but I feel like it's going to pay off over time um so I think that's wonderful um the other thing I was just going to comment on is just um I think that it's awesome that the
teachers are getting the support um by having um Jesse we mentioning that you come into the classroom and either give them time in the morning or just relieve them so that they can work on it um or go into other classrooms and observe um and I think that that is awesome for the
teachers and helps them implement it better it sounds like um I just wanted to comment on how wonderfully you guys are using your resources from the college students helping out and then also Ling M's other strengths in his role I mean it really sounds like he said the ground running
which I expected nothing less but that's really incredible um will you explain a little bit so you had mentioned just that um Ola different from the letters will you kind of explain what why we chose at the elementary to do that first
letters yeah so letters is about three times more hours yeah it's 144 144 the full program the early letters is a little bit it's like the first half of the full letters that our teachers would have been going through and so it would
been a 144 hours versus the like 36 or something that Ola ends up being on average for teachers letters also requires the three-hour live session per module and so that would have been a lot more of live face to face time for our
teachers and likely would have taken us a full two years of training which which just extends that process a long ways for us um the Ola time frame was able to fit within our days and what our time that we already had scheduled for teachers for plc's and professional
development without a lot of extra um which was really important to us that we were able to fit that time in during our day for our teachers and not be asking them to do a lot of Beyond those hours um and we're excited to be like done with the training part all at once and ready to go into implementation which
will be nice and going through both letters and Ola as Jessica did as well um it gives you the same information all of it is science research all of that it's the same information letters is very um
doctoral in the reading and so it does take a little bit longer in in understanding and and the right to learn in the application in practice Ola is much more applicable right away so it we felt that Ola would be the best option
for all of our teachers because we are training also K12 special education at the same time so it was applicable for all Educators rather than like early letters is just for preschool we all have something to
say Ola is not available for Early Childhood that's why we are different so we weren't trying to necessarily go different directions this St didn't have all that those pieces worked out um but but I think the way it worked out was actually really good and the way we're partnering and with Jess and Jess and
Michael and we are also very passionate about having our own trainers on site because we know this is a long-term process this is going to be every um I believe we'll be able to eventually say kids coming out of college um we can sign off on their reading courses if
they have a science of reading course that will meet it um but our ones that aren't it'll be really nice if we only have three we don't have to do the big online component our train the trainers can do all of our training in house um as we added um Miss reyya to third grade this year we decided to hold off on
training her because to ask her to cram in a Year's worth of learning in a few months knowing that our trainers were here to keep her moving um that way so that was super important to us is that our trainers would be on site and um Ashley Katie wol file Jessica and Jess
are all trainers so we have a large group um and then if the letters is all online it's super expensive to get a trainer it's a lot of extensive training beyond the hundred and some hours so this just fit what we needed and I had
done letters as well and so when we looked at the two and compared the programs we're like we're getting all the information in a more usable format that was really important thank you um so when we get new Educators like in the next year will they follow that
same kind of plan that you have use our internal trainers yeah we'll have to work out what that timeline will look like for them knowing that we'll be moving forward with other professional development for the bulk of our teachers so how do we fit that piece in yet will be a work in progress as we hire anyone
new um but the live sessions we will have our people on staff ready to support so that'll be really nice awesome thank you yeah just a real quick question make sure understand so part of the react was you have these different programs can
choose to implement it so Ola is this one the program we chose in the elementary school atast right correct they had letters Ola and car all um and we felt that letters was super doctoral and intense car all did not feel like it got the depth in the science as well um
and Ola met that so that's how we picked that and now we're just waiting because they have told us now for two years they'll tell us what curriculum we can teach and they are promising March 5th March 5th we heard that last year in January so we're not
too excited and we didn't have a choice thank you very much thank [Applause] you computer science program can the table okay that's what we were
thinking um thanks for having us Mark uh invited us to share our Stu education um presentation with you that we shared last week at the stem forward educator award dinner so we're happy to be here here and I know some of this is new to
our newer board members you maybe some of you have been here have heard a little bit about this but we'll we're happy to share this information with all of you you know who we are okay we're going to share a little bit about our journey into Computer Science Education here at C mle school
so this started back in 2022 um when we applied for a $10,000 code.org Grant not really knowing what we were going to do with it yet just knowing that Minnesota is behind a computer science education programming so this would give us a little jump
start and um we received that Grant we were one of two districts in the state of Minnesota to receive that Grant um and so when we did that I asked Lindsay what do we do with this money now and so she's been uh this is kind of where our
partnership I really think was born in figuring out our next steps for programming and what we could do um to move Minnesota up on on that list um with that we created the computer science advisory Council that spring and that is where we have industry Partners
come in and give us information about what they're looking for in their employees which then helps us to kind of backward design the curriculum and programming that we're going to offer to students so that advisory council is made up of parents it's got our um representatives
from teachers who teach um in those areas um but also leaders in the computer science area like um think there's a rep from Amazon we have may C sits on that Advisory Board um
really some leaders in in the different um groups oh um so also on that advisory council is alumni um who has annually donated $15,000 um for experiences for that go
directly towards students um to get them hands-on experience in it and computer science so the first year what we did with that was um started a middle school robotics program um and that donation has has um impacted that
programming now for three years um we um started a club um for our high school program or for our high school students and they um do lights at the dances um
they help with the they do like a s along for elementary school and they um program in on lights for that as well um and then we've done trying to think of what what other things we've done uh
this year we will part of the money will go towards Rob skin but then we'll use that for programing and Elementary as well so most recently I'm going to jump a little bit most recently this school year we are offering eth grade computer
science that's required for all of our eighth graders and they're doing computer science discoveries which is curriculum through code.org and so kind of making that students are all exposed to that and they get to choose is that a pathway they follow in high school so I like that we're starting that early they
can dig in um Al together and move forward and hopefully grow our high school programming off of that in this December we found out we reward another $15,000 from mde and we're going to use um th that funding to go back to the elementary school and we're going to be
purchasing K through two Bots for each grade level and training at least one or two grade level teachers how to integrate that coding into the the curriculum that they're already doing um we some of that was modeled for us when we went to a site visit site visit in
Iowa this spring with we had five or six classroom teachers that came with us and they were really inspired so they kind of made their wish lists of what they could use and now we're going to get to implement that with them this next school year this is just a a picture from the
the um oage some of our teachers out with some of their students and then that's our first on the left there is our first um hour of cod that we did right after we got our very first grur a few years ago we had our high school students participate in the hour of
code so some things that are currently in process we are still a code.org partner District which means we get you know extra resources invitations to training and just are a little bit more in the know helps us to kind of plan our programming we're looking at a k through
12 scope and sequence there are going to be computer science standards coming out but not for six years so right now we're just building our own programming until we get requirements from the state but we were I think we're very much ahead of the curve looking at a family coding night at the elementary school this
spring um continue to have that scope and sequence at the middle school with a required fifth grade course where they're getting into coding a little bit and some elective offra like apps creators um that's a new one at the middle school this year and then like I said our required grade course and um
using our dollars to get coding um Bots at the elementary school for every grade level high school these are some of the courses we're running this school year Lindsay in her department is doing some internship opportunities with students as well and this year is the first year
that we have an intern um so we're excited to get started and um tell you more about that when they get to their Capstone project and moving forward we are going to use that um donor dollars to fund the
grades three through four Bots K2 will be through the grants we'll keep working we're kind of stuck on what we want to do with 34 so we're digging in a little bit more of the research right now to see what's next and then part of the grant requirement is that we have a team that participates in script training and
it's really just about building that implementation plan and be really thoughtful in how we um are moving programming forward to meet kind of industry needs so we're going to be bringing a group to do that it's actually virtual so that'll be um this
spring starting in April we wanted to make sure that we recognize our outstanding teachers because we can build all these things but there're the ones that do the really hard work of implementing this with students they're very innovated and
creative and have been very responsive and are open to training and are wanting to try new things so we're just really grateful for the work that they do with our kids every day because I couldn't teach these things but they are outstanding and it's fun it's fun to try
these new things with our kids and to see what lands and where it gives us a little bit of opportunity to see where we want to go with things we have a little bit of flexibility right in this space because it's not mandated from the state right now it's been really really fun because we're kind of building what's exciting for
kids and that was the short version so if you have any questions for us I do so let's say um kind of a high in Sky what would you like to see this go in the future because um I like the idea of the mentoring that programming getting
schools involved getting corporations involved so they're a part of that um what do you see that or what would you like to see what's really tricky is that we're we're building it starting a little bit now with the elementary school but it changes so much every year
that we're going to have to keep rebuilding and I feel like every year because now our students are going to be increasing their skills at every grade level and we're going to have to keep building upward upward upward so I think our programming what we come up with at the high school is going to be really really important um moving forward but
it's so tricky right now because it's changing so quickly but I think think connecting it with our internship program in some way could be really neat um getting specific internships set up for students that kind of relate to the
coursework is something I I see in our future on the advisory Council I think you guys talked about some people but like is MC sure the name right are they like involved in it with I know like you know we have the kids willing high school or the houses and stuff you know college is not for everybody but like you know AutoCAD with like the I know
they cnc's here too do we like do AutoCAD do we offer that here like I know you make good money if you know how to yes Mr arist does those those courses he's very well connected to and he is part of our advisory Council as well
yeah I just want to say congratulations again I think it was outstanding your award and obviously well deserved with how much work you put into expanding this program and I just wanted to to restate to I Really app how far you've stretched your resources here and last
year at msba know um we got to connect Ashley a little bit about I I was blown away that Minnesota's last for computer science and especially rural schools and bigger schools have grant writers they have more access to funds for programs like these and so to have this amazing
um opportunity at Arsenal district is incredible and it really speaks to how much work you guys have put in um to Growing this um it's very impressive I really appreciate everything you've done thank you we are now 48 out 50 thank
you and I did get a chance to I actually attended the Samy educator Awards on February 12 I my wife and I went and of course the highlight of the show was these two presentation was pretty awesome but also just just across the across the state part of this
organization is just some of the awards some of the teacher just inspiring I mean it just totally inspired me like do I want to get into teaching but it it was awesome we're still proud of you guys so thank you thank you one more piece I just wanted to
share it was from the msba um it was like their initiative to really promote This and like you said it's going to be six years before their state standards that require it but to offer this for our students it's a fouryear degree that starts at figures so it's really an incredible um way to
get students ready for a huge need in our nation and in a lot of it where you can work from home it's not necessarily that you have to relocate so our students are in competition with the whole nation so to advance us forward faster is also incredible so thank
[Applause] you moving on to consideration of resolution for accept GI grants um I Kate Brian introduced the following
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$617 towards the first grade field trip whereas wol file and Charles Schwab through a donation match program have generously offered to donate $750 to kmce child care whereas Dustin B has generously offered to donate 56 to km
schools whereas William Armstrong has generously offered to donate $750 to km schools whereas Michael S has generously offered to donate 9,122 181 to C schools do we have a second to
approve I'll second Elizabeth any discussion all those in favor the agenda or the acceptance say I same sign motion
carries on to board committee reports um looks like land facilities has not met but will beeting in March here personel will meeting I believe
on to poliy as not met Finance so hey we got a win and Mr M's here and but Mr Mesa graciously offered to get the yeah um it was pretty pretty awesome um especially for me Elizabeth because we new to the
board to kind of get updated on the plan U that was the vision that was given over 10 15 20 years ago um to see that the shape that our our finances are in and it's pretty awesome um I think overall right now um what we're what
we're looking at is the two bills that are in the right now to see if they're going to pass in really may I think May or June or something of that time frame and we have more of an idea of what we're going suggestions that weing to
the board at that point in time but it was very B awesome job get a little Glimpse inside Bob's head I think than um Student Activities has not
met um z Mr yeah Zed was able to meet last Thursday um and we went over quite a few things um they did do a revised budget um just because the cost of things were
higher than they had predicted previously um they're also very concerned there might be Cuts coming depending on the legislative budget cuts um they're forecasting about $18,000 loss which is scary um the
superintendent there Patrick Bon's done a really good job being transparent with the staff and um keeping everybody well aware of the situation and um doing everything he can he's even lobbying um up at the capital so uh a couple other
challenges they is um summer employment so I'm supposed to put a plugin um only for a couple weeks in the summer it's half days but uh their summer jobs start at $18 an hour so um I think you just have to be 15 to work there um it sounds
like a really amazing first job and experience um for a lot of our high schoolers seeing what they want to go into or or any uh community members um something they struggle with is Unemployment uh in our state was supposed to be covered 100% but coming
up it most likely will not be so that's been a new cost to districts um and a benefit to the employees a lot of the employees at said uh need a break after the year and don't necessarily want to work through the summer so that leaves
these openings that are sometimes hard to fill um and then they touched on a couple other things one of them was the N National resource officer Appreciation Day and so they did a shout out for Zach Casper who um also is our school
resource officer and does a really nice job that about it thanks thanks kid I know it's that's a big Community to be on there a lot going on like school thank you real quick Mark um community did meet on
February 13th okay I don't know that we had a rip there okay okay we'll that one here legisl Mr stck the big one was the I got to attend the breakfast and uh most of it's
probably kind of what you just kind of heard there a little bit a lot of the gripes from a lot of the superintendents were just the unfunded requirements that the state has passed the last few years big one is the unemployment um some of superintendent arguments or their their their
challenges with it was a lot of the some of some of the employees not all of them you know like to have the Summers off that's why they had his early jobs but then now we're required to pay them and some they were even saying some of school districts like Z and I get why you don't have time off for their paid um but some of them were saying they
struggle even they have positions open for them but they they don't want to work you know they have kids they're off Summers and so a lot of frustration with that a lot of frustration with um I think the cuts to um special ed transportation and then I can't remember you proba correct me but there's that
percentage where the state supposed to fund um uh special education but it's actually less they don't have enough money to fund at school so now it's down to 95 95% which will be a chunk you know will add up quickly and so they're pretty upset about
that those are the big highlights which is mostly all the unfunded and they weren't necessar against some of them they were just more you can't mandate this but not funded we we don't don't have the resources and funding and we can't keep going through our consents
than asking for to cover these things question along the consent do we have a motion we had a couple before that oh sorry over that sorry uh 202 or 2025 msv conference I
believe that was love to do you mind there's a video that was shared that I shared with Carin that she attached to the agenda um it's about msp's one voice initiative um and one voice is how they're trying
to unify support towards public education um I have notes public education right now I don't know where I you want play the video first or play your video yes play the video and I'll
it's time time to come together time to stand up time to speak up together we can become one voice One Voice One Voice our one voice can become the unifying voice for public education we know it could be a challenge to see the connection from The Boardroom to the
classroom please know that by being a school board member you make the world a better place thank you thank you you thank you for helping me too build for my future get ready for my career prepare to serve my country to succeed on the court in the science lab and on
the stage you are a role model for kids like me we need your voice to help strengthen our voice being a school board member can be a thankless job but I see you we see you making hard decisions on our behalf having to make tough budget decisions being questioned
by community members getting questioned on social media and defending our schools against bad information thank you for standing up for us we need your support because our state's future is at stake we need your support because people need to know that great things are taking place in public schools in
Minnesota my future is at stake we need your voice to help strengthen our voice there's more that unites us than divides us so let's come together in cities big and small rural communities and big school districts
and in small no matter where you serve across the state of Minnesota you want what's best for future Generations you want what's best for us if not you then who our one voice can become the unifying voice for public
education be one voice be one voice be one voice be one [Music] voice amen um so the whole uh thing was very powerful this one voice initiative came
out of a lot of misinformation that's shared about public schools um they they cited that less than 30% of us adults have a great deal or quite a lot of trust in public schools um so a piece of this is that uh the
link sends you to the page from msba and you can share your story or share a video of what public education means to you to try to counter all that misinformation to show support for public school um they had a keynote speaker um
that did incredible Mickey Smith Jr who Incorporated saxophone he was very talented he talked about what teaching meant for him and how he had had many opportunities outside of teaching to be more of a professional saxophone player but he felt a calling um to teaching and
he did an amazing job of um being realistic about the challenges that public schooling faces uh right now in the current current climate um he made quotes uh that were pretty funny like when he a student had said or a teacher
had said he wasn't being very positive and he said I'm I'm positive bad things are going to happen to you so um it was very realistic but it was about uh committing to the solution not the problem being a thermostat not a thermometer and then how you show uh
students love um he spoke a lot about consistency as a measure of love and Trust um and then his Ending Story was really powerful uh it was about a student who was usually quite bubbly and he saw in
class um one day looking not so well and he yelled across the room and he said I see you and she walked out and nothing ever came of that except years later when he felt overwhelmed and burnt out and he was going to change his career he got a letter in the mail and she was
graduating college and one of their tasks were to um write to an educator that had a meaningful impact for them and um his story was very meaningful because it it prevented her from um some
really negative thoughts about herself and in kind of a trajectory downward and the feeling of being seen in that day um meant a lot to her and she wrote about it years later so he knew that what he was doing had a huge impact and um just reinforced his decision to stay
uh as a very strong music educator um other things I went to at um this was strategically building trust in your school district how School how districts can support their leaders
partner with pby how alternative Pathways can help with teacher shortage and then um lessons on relational trust and building connections for Effective work and continuous Improvement all really powerful um a huge issue
right now in public education is trust um within the districts and outside um yeah it was wonderful and I know that Eric you were able to attend too so we had two um board members attend it was great networking um and last regular
meeting I passed out some kind of goodies that we had received pictures of the school and then one of the speakers that had visited prior was out stickers about I support kids which was incredible so um that is basically it if you guys have any questions can I share
absolutely please so I go fired up I'm GNA tell you what man I enjoyed it immensely I've got to go to uh there were six students that did a a board and they they Ted and I worked at rctc for many years and I worked with them and I
was in the financial aid counselor and these kids were saying their about the transition from going to school uh from from high school to college they're worried about just life in general they'd like somebody to guide them you
know and through this and I was fortunate enough I created a program with another uh with the dean of students at rctc was a mentoring program so I'm really fired up that's something that I want to do for the high school um
and something that really I felt passion that these kids uh are you know just fired up about school they enjoy everything about it but they're worried about their future and I don't know about you but I have six kids and when they go to lay their
heads down the last thing I want my kids to do is worry about the future I want them to be strong ready to go and attack the world and I think if we can take just little things like that so they're prepared for the next steps in life I think that will really help so that's something that I'm putting together and
uh Larry Frasier which which works at rctc uh we're going to be kind of combining trying to put something my initiative and U see if there's something that we can do to possibly um help students make that next step on onward because I want it to be
successful and and develop a mentorships where they can possibly go sit with an accountant or before they go and spend all those money going to college uh to see if that's actually what they want to do so it was exciting to invite said both the speakers the other guy that
that ended the show was pretty D he was uh was like at one of the worst high schools in was it South Carolina or North Carolina I can't remember it was like um but he was he was pretty powerful that he just changed is is
changing the positivity in that the school district they went from barely making Test fors passing everything so it was awesome and if there was any question that Eric wasn't fired up I got a call after that
evening he was fired up anyone else otherwise we'll move on to admin reports anybody has any questions for our admin team I have a question um wondering someone would like to speak on the February 18th professional development
day all all of the schools mentioned it um in your update we did Ola training so we've already talked about that so did Nico I guess you guys are up yeah in the morning um Sarah and I were
able to kind of work with our team U we've identified some students that just need additional supports and working around like a schoolwide intervention that um we feel is is necessary in supporting our students that that struggle academically
behaviorally and so forth um we found um we're actually reviewing the data this week and so um I'm hoping that the schoolwide intervention that we've put in place is is is working based on quarter two data it is um and it's something that we want to continue to
move forward with it was a great overall day with a lot of choice for teachers which they always appreciate uh it's a very professional thing that is put on by our department of teaching and learning which is keeping us aligned while offering choice to teachers I was
grateful for a two-hour segment that our high school only was able to do which is bring in some I'll call Old faces back to km we haden't had them in we figured it out it was fall after covid they did a couple virtual appearances but prior to that they began coming here in I
think 2017 or 18 uh a really good message about uh keeping our thinking in a positive place it's a great day what about this um importance of school culture um for our
presentation Middle School yeah yeah and the high school mentioned it as yeah I mean I firmly believe that culture drives success and the culture that the adults carry um d influence our students and so when we look at school climate you know it really starts at the
adult level um and filters down onto our students and and you know what we think positivity you know we we we can control um our students outcomes just by that positive outlook and the culture that we have within our schools is is a
necessity and the more or the better culture we can create um our students have the opportunity to read those benefits and so cultur culture import I agree I um I'm wondering if maybe at the next you guys have wonderful
presentations on this um I think even at the board table is a big piece of setting the tone and setting the culture um if we could somehow um get to see those or if they could be recorded or we could just be present um for some of those because I think they're useful
even at the board table to learn about how culture affects students admin the district a whole it' be incredible top 20 does a really really nice job they're a company that has also worked
with communities and so when I taught in Fairmont Minnesota Fairmont Minnesota was the first top 20 Community I linked a little something there so they had speakers come into um they worked with the chief of police they work with different Industries and so I think it's
something worth exploring I don't know look like I made a little note of it it was something that I took note of moving to that community and living there for about five years um it was a big piece of the work that we did so it can transend just outside of education but
at different levels too in the community could it would be worth exploring thank you yeah one other thing that has come up quite a bit in our like we get clippings which is News highlights and such is a
lot of um behavior issues across the state are you guys witnessing that challenge within the schools and what are we doing or how can we be supportive to to you guys as leaders in buildings um to help remedy that question I'll start they can Echo
off but in special education I would say this year has better okay than last as far as big um aggressive behaviors I'm not going to say there aren't any um but they have improved our numbers you know
we collect data very closely on restrictive procedures or those types of um things that happen through MDA and our numbers are down we had zero last year actually but this year I believe we're at
one we have we have really behaviors I mean I I know that there was a letter received um but um it's one or two kids so it's not multiple classrooms it's one or two specific children and we're working with behavior modification um
one thing we really believe is like we have to make sure mental health and things like that because mental health isn't special at Nicole and I talk a lot about that um a student struggling with special ed is not our special ed teachers are teachers they're not counselors um so we do that um Karen Bes
and Nicole France are amazing at getting behavior modification and trying to get down to the road of what's going on um yeah we have a few hot spot specific students that are in specific classrooms but I would say as a building as a whole
outside of those few we're actually doing quite a bit better um it's just the ones that are frequent fires and Big Stuff um but really I think the big thing is for elementary is the non-exclusionary um not being able to send home I mean
now they've kind of they're starting to loosen up where we can we can if the parents are willing to pick them up those kind of things we can dismiss um but we can't suspend like so the next day you know up to 24 hours well you know sometimes they're happening at 9 in
the morning they would have come coming back at 9: in the morning you know so it's just those are probably more of the thing is the mental health of the teachers when those big things happen um but I think you know just legislation you know they pass these sweeping changes and then inside our individual
buildings we lose kind of the control or parent control you know what can you do after the third time so I think that's probably it's just more legislative things that have to loosen up and you kind of revert back to letting Educators make the decisions that are best for
their buildings I I was actually follow up with that based off the email you actually brought it up so I was going to ask is because it seems like they've tied your hands you can't do certain things but it almost seems as if again this is just telling you something without funding it like they're they're tying your hands saying he has to say
there but they're not dividing the funds for the extra teacher or the mental health counselor or the real help this kid needs or person needs they're not providing the funds for this so they're essentially just punishing all the students and the teachers they're staying in the rooms and I I guess
there's a lot of there's no question I guess more there's a lot of stuff that's come out of the opposite side of non-exclusionary dis of our idea is to keep the kids in the classroom but then we empty a classroom out and allow the one to stay and then come back you know
all of those 20 some children had their school day disrupted and then we just come back you know those kids haven't had you know the other students maybe haven't had a chance to mentally work through it or we haven't had a chance to get Karen or Nicole in there to De brief with the kids about what happened because here you know we've got to get
them back so it is um it's real it's everywhere um I don't I mean I know km is not special in that but yeah you're right it's it's that flip side of like yes we want those children not to be excluded from anything but then what are we pulling away from the rest of our
students when we do that so it is scary um and like you said the cost like today my entire day was spent with about three different students for multip like hours on end that was my whole day so then who's responding to the other stuff and a lot of them if it is aav Nicole would
say we can't be in there alone you know if you've got that then you're pulling two staff members so it's just you know systems and procedures we are very fortunate I mean a lot of schools like don't have a social worker and a counselor Pro building we're super fortunate we are staffed really well
there um we are super fortunate we also have uh our mental health counselor that comes in Lucy comes in um from Rochester Family Services not everyone gets as much service with that as we do um so we have a lot of I mean we have
all the we have a lot of support it's just you know behaviors are getting bigger and you know what it is an accountability thing too with families we don't have to Pi them up they don't want to I I think too it just highlights
though how much work our Educators do outside of just curriculum and I'm going to just pull a quote off of the Middle School update that says student growth and achievement are our utmost priority and the growth is centered around the students social emotional academic behavioral and kindness are essential
components of supporting adolescents as they grow into young adults um so I do think it's important to highlight that there is a lot of significant challenges that our Educators have outside of just teaching um academic uh growth academic
curriculum um but even with the msba they highlight like legislative pieces that are trying to be changed right now at the state and then um going on throughout the state we're not unique in it but it is scary it's it's hard to be successful when you have these additional challenges that on your plate
so I appreciate learning about that and um helps inform us I think on what we can do and and the community because speaking out makes a big difference so speaking out to our Representatives about what's important to us and what we need is really important and when I do
get an email or something about that this process I am quick I have put out like a one pager about what the law is and what it means and who to contact so a lot of times I will share that with parents and like so yes you don't see that we're doing anything but here's what you know here's what our
requirements are here's what we can do and here's if you don't believe in it here's how to change it so kind of empowering our families absolutely just sorry a quick fall do every time these cases happen and like a whole room gets empty are we do we have
documentation of that that you know at some point in time in the Navy it always drove me nuts that you know somebody would be a bad person somebody say oh you shouldn't reinlist and then the time to come reinlist and the guy in charge of you know making a decision would go well where's all the paperwork and they would always say well we never
documented it right he'd go I have no choice he's going to keep moving on then we have we have a lot of behavior documentation we have started to document how many times classes are cleared as we started to see that happening we need to have some data so we are collecting that now um but you
know teachers keep phenomenal records you up their planners and calendars and you can get to where it is our buildings are keeping data just because that moves to a problem solving team and then moves to the special education department so that is one of the requirements that we
have is that data what are you doing what if we change how often is this Behavior happening so that get data that's very Collective is that something not right now eventually I can come work with you guys and collect you know obviously confidential stuff but more
just sending me communic legislators saying look this is happening all the time your classrooms are emping out all the time you have to adjust or something has to be done yeah for sure be able to get something together kind of off subject I was gon to ask this before it we just go over
the acronym of the special ed like I'm just curious um yes about the disability categories yes you better thank you I'm sorry I should have included that in there I I think I got some of them but then I can absolutely I'm just pulling it right here so I
think it started going across the top there when we're talking um DCd that's severe so that's our students with an IQ of 50 and lower um SMI is severely multiply
impaired so that is students that are maybe physically disabled cognitively disabled speech language they have multiple areas of special education that they would qualif for physically impaired hearing impaired vision
impaired a specific learning disability which um specific learning disability is typically a um average IQ but a very low math and reading or even both math and reading like a big discrepancy where something just isn't
the learning is different there EBD is our emotional behavioral disorders um deaf blind we do not have anybody that qualifies in both of those those here at C manille other health disabilities that can be um children with a heart transplant children with
big Health needs ADHD falls into that one um but there is criteria in how they qualify autism spectrum disorder is ASD traumatic brain injury um that is I believe we have one
student at a young age Hipp by car it's that type of big F that on life and then DD is our students Age 3 to S who are developmentally delayed through um Early Childhood special EDS
so it's multi three areas at least there it could be a cognitive and emotional behavioral a speech and language communication a functional but they qualify in three areas to qualify there thank you
yeah I'll include a little better graphic for you I just had a couple questions on uh for Special Ed I said over the past two weeks you've had five families with students that'll be coming to Camp um what what was some of the feedback as
far as how did they compare to their old school would um they were very professional I would been respectful just concerns about budget for closing school um and concerned about class sizes in one um the budget in um another
one was a very big deal for a child with very severe needs in special education so just concerns with the ability to continue the same programming that students are getting now thank you um I was G to ask for Community Ed
with the pathway scholarship and the parent aware um first going to say like I'm sure that's a big application Pro process but um I have worked with a lot of families that really depend on those um and they make such a difference for
families so I was just curious um if there's a like a dollar amount that we've received or if you have know how many um families are able to benefit from those yeah I can definitely get you that number um typically we get about
15,000 per year so um gosh I think we got it right it first came out and I can't tell you the year that it came out so we just keep renewing that application along with our parent aware because you have to have parent aware to get the pathway scholarship but each year I would say we probably run
anywhere from four to six students and the way you submit the applications are kind of funky so um you just have to maximize your funds so anything that we go over and above on community just kind of absorbs in the scholarship because um
we don't deny Mr Lang um I was just wondering because we heard that the elementary does Power hours in these like peer-to-peer um for some of these observations does the high school do that or is it more
formal because it's it's more like departmental or specialized when you mentioned um you're doing presence in the classroom and formal teacher observations yeah that's just Mr scoffield and I just observing um either formally or informally like a scheduled
teacher evaluation or dropin Walkins we just try to be as as in the classroom as we can to observe and give feedback awesome thank you for doing that I don't I don't have a question I just want to say thank you guys for all
that you do we appreciate your time and effort and your willingness to uh you know think can go well beyond the norm and that's what I'd like to say thank you second yeah unanimously I'm sure one
um asley K the anxious generation was that yesterday it was can you talk about that a littleit that effort awesome thanks thank you yes so was part three of our four part series for the community um the book is is in four parts so we're really just summarizing
it for the community we had good turnout last night we even had some folks from good and some teachers from praying coming over to check out what was happening um and so our next session will be on April 13th that's that section really talks about what parents
can do and what schools can do and again we're just sum the author is saying um My Hope Is that following these Community presentations we're able to really kind of dig in with perhaps the student wellness committee and the parents that are on that to talk about
next steps what can we do in cast manable schools based on This research based on this information um how can we collectively act to make some changes for our kids because all the research is there about uh it's really not about the
phone it's about the social media and the impa that and students mental health and it's not positive that's incredible um I appreciate your work in that and I know that um other District's parents and board members have reached out wondering
if that is they're able to attend so every anyone can attend yes and we recorded the last two sessions we didn't do the first one um but they are recorded and so we have those out somewhere I think I sent them over today so I think we have those that people can
VI now oh the links yes yes wonderful thank you all right nobody has anything else so we can go we go ahead and excuse the administrators and kind of what Eric was saying so we do appreciate especially the time that you put into these reports does keep us informed we do read them
and uh thank you very much ition to approve the consent agenda K do we have a second I'll second thank you Elizabeth any discussion if not all fav St I same sign
I I have one discussion item though um on the overload though I I think how is that going is that middle school for the individuals listed for those teachers is that going okay there
yep I ask them I mean they get extra pay I mean it's something that we present to them um obviously you know it's been a unique situation this year um it's something that that I approach say here's our opportunity I can f some things around um thankfully these three
adults were were more than happy to take on an overload um Mr Simon for a flux class that'll happen quarter three but Mrs scol Miss W file who are take an extra sections of science um you know on my end we're we're very pleased to um you know receive extra
compensation for their time and efforts yeah and it's wonderful that they are willing to do that really appreciate that and you guys being creative because it's it absolutely is tough thank you very fortunate to have that and thank you to all of them
yeah okay take the all those in favor of approving the consent all those same sign motion carries to action items old business we
had none uh new business uh we need to approve the resolution declaring a school board vac SE by resignation do I have a motion to approve thanks K have a second I'll
second thank you any discussion all in favor stay I allos same sign motion carries on to discussion items um share
School Board Point nominees so I guess at this time if there's any board members that would like to nominate a potential appointee please speak up I would like to nominate Pat Walsh um who was on the ballot this past election
and received 17.44% of Community Support um he's run a two campaigns and I feel that taking the next person on the ballot um it's just respectful of the democratic process and um the
constituents thank you anyone else yes um well I went to a little Deep dive before I do anything I like to think things out and pray on it and go over it and my the way that I thought about this is we to bring somebody in that's had
the experience um been a b in the past um we're going through some we're going to be going through a lot of things in the next six months that we've got to buckle down and make good decisions and and uh it's going to be tough ones and to have
someone that has already gone through this before was my thought process I've reached out to a couple of former board members uh that prly declined but I did uh would like to nominate Angie Richards
um she does the one one point views that it would just be for until special election and would not be interested in running after that thank you anyone else okay um I guess move on to um kind
of the process and as far as uh for the next meeting before we vote um kind of I envisioned is like we could have a chance to we' invite the potential appointees and maybe have some time to give them some questions and they can
answer those for us um I don't think it's going to be a be a super long process but I think uh I think that would be fair to the the other board members that have a different nine and also uh a chance to get some Community
input on those I guess uh I'm not sure if we need to vote on that but if we could if there's an agreement that sounds fair to everyone that would be agre um first thank you for your email delineating the process for us to I
appreciate that um how do you suggest giving Community input for the nominees just aine a time between this meend and the next for the public to or contact
us well I guess when I say community I guess if there's if any the board members have um would they want to ask Community me community members if they had any questions but um I don't know if we'd have to put put
anything out there we certainly can if we could put some social media or something but I just think that uh I think there's aample time for the board members to reach out question so just so I understand I'm sorry maybe I'm sorry
something I just want to make sure so they would reach out to us personally or reach out to Carman or to an email so that we could reply or or could we have 30 minutes before for them to come in
before our our next meeting or I'm I just want to make sure I totally understand the process I'm fairly with that well I think in in the in the uh this way the state statute is we do have some latitude on how we could conduct
that and I'm open for suggestions but I mean I was kind of just get a little bit more simple and you can re you want to reach out to individuals that you would think that would give you good advice or how they would feel for somebody been vocal to you about it um maybe go back and ask them some questions if you want
to read I think uh I think you know we can put something out I don't problem with that so like putting something out that suggest community members come to the next board meeting and they kind of give us their input at that board
meeting we could or we could just have submit questions maybe and then car those set because the problem is we're going to be running into I didn't realize that we won't have the space and also and not tring Russian thing but
we also do have um training training for the interview process and I think we have to nail down our interview questions so um I'm not sure if we if if if we could you know kind of on
our own you know talk to the community and get the questions from them I think that would be the most efficient and I kind of want to get this process going also um because I don't know if you had a chance to read the statute but there is
a 30-day um period um between the approval of the resolution to when the point can actually take position in the school board so I don't want to Dr this out too much longer there's a lot of
stuff coming that we need to inut another just for informational to Mark you your email but we would hold a special election November 11th or no later than November 11th in 2025 um and I just recently did clerk um
training and that is at the cost to the district so it can be5 to10 th000 um so I just wanted to be transparent about that that would be upcoming and that this person would just fill until that next election correct that is that required
so that we do that because if there's different if there's certain amount of time between when a board member resigns and the next election it determines on WE to have a special election and for it falls that so we have to have requireed to have a special election so what we'll
probably do is run it alongside of the election already occurring with the city and the and the county and save some costs there but i' I've got some room teaching to do I haven't done that in a while um so as far as questions we want to my
my suggestion has to each board member to certain amount of questions so um not taking too much time it's going to be it's going to be a long night so Sugg questions so just to be clear we're
bringing questions for the candidate for the nominees to answer at the next meeting correct that's what I'm envisioning we can invite the nominee or like they could just answer questions
we have any nominees are here are both people okay with that that's a big ask so I just want to make sure that you're comfortable okay okay questions I think that's
fair time reasonable time kind number I for each candidate what you think I think like say if somebody ask maybe have some queed up if somebody else the same question two questions and as far as
timing Carline do you have any suggestions on when maybe to invite them because I know we have a training first I but I really want to this done um I kind of mapped
out superintendent interview training will be at least 60 minutes she said it could go up to two hours but that is with a group that hasn't just done it a year ago even though some of you weren't here there's like a community feedback
thing that we already did and is already out there so she said well like we can Shen it up from 60 to 90 minutes um the biggest I think the longest part of that process will be deciding on the questions her her part won't be as
lengthy it'll be your discussion of how to narrow down the questions that you want so 60 to 90 minutes we start at 5:30 about 6:30 would be 6:30 guys next 6:30 okay
location be in the Learning Center um okay the X room contains us a little bit if I can get the open space in the center of the Learning Center set up similar to this there's a screen in there and stuff then we'll have more room can I also ask um the questions
that are for the superintendent is there can we ask her if we should get pre email like a list of them so that you can come in prepare with the questions we want to ask would that be okay with you guys if send
us like 20 of the top questions or whatever so that we can speed up she maybe even does do that I'm sorry I was just thinking how would you make it even as possible I'll nudge her because I feel like if she
does she would have I know op next that um I was just wondering where is the X room it's one of the spaces in the Learning Center they set the tables up
in an A and and the learning Center's right by right down the yes all right last one information a special school Bo meeting talking about 530 Monday March in Learning
Center and then reg School 5:30 Monday March 17th and back in here so I guess I'll be asking for a motion to just one second I think she brought it up and actually one over two vote on the fact that I sub
teach and we have to approve that eventually add that to agenda so on yeah mention that chance look I'm not sure dire go exactly make
sure right I just CL train just for everyone's aw I think if anything that if you were voting on like a salary for yourself dur theing went to it sound
like just regardless because I'm employee Tech employee once a year sub he won't that in teaching positions it's the only position that has to actually have a unanimous vote so he would technically have to vote as
well sure a teacher teacher I'm I don't have any kind contract doesn't affect sure contract no they are not I I don't
think we have to approve anything just saying that you're a substitute teacher but again be for I think you just need to know what you can't vote on as a substitute teacher yeah I went away I think I double checked it sound very clear I don't know why but we have to
vote even if I subtitute I don't think you do I don't think you do only it just in right I make a motion to a second than you all those in
favor same thank you everyone