You might have students that face harassment or school. I did not find so I wasn't sure. A violation of this policy occurs when any students based upon protective class.
So, and you know, as I read that too, like it's very specific for I shouldn't say a specific group of a fairly broad group of people, but like what what's getting redlined is that says no state law, Minnesota statute section requires that school districts adopt the sexual, religious, and racial harassment and
violence policy that conforms with Minnesota Human Rights Act, Minnesota statutes. So, to me, this like when I was looking at it like policy pertains to this particular protected which I think
makes sense then that there's like some state rule that we have to right um so I'm guessing that's maybe where the origin was I guess I didn't think of it the other way but this might have applied only to that
specific policy of a particular class right I think we probably had to adopt it yes at some point because we had to adopt it could we just administration. Thank you. Yeah, we have a you know there's the
bully, but I'll look into it then I'll call. Okay. John, you want to reotate that? I'm okay with that. Oh, you are. Okay. Okay.
Anything else on that? Those favor. Okay. Communication reports 6 Katie has four months for sure to fill in really quickly. Um on my report you'll see the
second page I kind of broke down our summer activities um by activity. So it's nice to see what they participated in what activity which were most wanted. Um obviously summer was rough with rain but a lot of
shifted in the excitement of a new job. Next thing I just want to touch base our scholarship program. We uh spent over $1,500 on helping kids participate in summer activities. I kind of broke it
down. We're able to help 26 students different students. So that's 17 different families within 10 different programs which is kind of nice for that scholarship thing. Um, so we had our booklet come out kind of
broke it down. My report as well as how many activities per category for enrichment athletics, eight enrichment classes, six youth activities, five adult enrichment, and four adult activities kind of in our
follow. Um, new this year we started volleyball just the girls to do inum also not We're doing something for business tennis as well. They just started that up. Um and
also we created a partnership with the football program for our businessers to kind of create continuity with teaching at a young age tackling method and kind of coaching help. So we create a partnership with them to
boost yourself. All right. For uh celebrations, I think our building looks great. Specifically down in the K5 wing, so much gets done in the summer. Obviously, there's the waxing of floors and shampooing that takes place, but some things that we
don't see. Rooms get washed down, walls do, uh things get repainted. three rooms that got moved, new resource room kind of created. So, so many little things that uh that get done that create this kind of guess um not just an an
educational space, but a welcoming back space that we're really proud of. Besides that, we had some changes to our uh kitchen stitch staff, but in our cafeteria down there, some stainless steel uh tables that are in place and change some things around, make that
flow a little bit quicker. So as Julie and Mary, Kurt, Matt, Athlete, Chery, Rea all played a big role in making sure those things get done in a timely manner that we're ready kids come back. And uh we had a successful open
house. So about 95% of our families came in. So we get a chance to to greet them and welcome those kids back. So that was a lot of fun. And then a really good first week. So we had kind of two days with uh first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grade. And then we had on day
three first days of preschool and kindergarten. So we kind of had two first days. So that first week is really busy. And we're excited to have them back now for week two. We know that Tuesday will kind of be a restart, but we're starting to get into the so are
getting established, expectations have been created, and a lot of just positive relationships are being made. So, we're happy about that. Uh you guys know we're in year two of the REACT. So, our first uh letters training takes place pretty quick, September 15th. Um that year two
will transition almost 30 our staff members through that process and then in year three we'll start looking at that phase two school that takes place there. So, uh we're on track. We're checking out those boxes to make sure that we're in compliance with the read. We're also
in year two for open court. So, we're excited about that. one always leads to some some growing pains. So we're in year three of our stepping stones map and now year two open. So we're expecting to see some positive gains. Um with that we've adjusted. We talked
about this before I think in the spring we've extended our phonics and that MTSS kind of wind time is called sometimes what I need. So we have that as an hour block and that's for first second third. So open see positive gains there and then we still have MTS for kindergarten
fourth and fifth but that will be 30 minute block that goes with that and then kind of uh in line with that we're taking advantage of some services that we get through service co-op. So, uh, Eric Schwankl, I think that's how you say his name, Schwan, um, uh, does a lot
of our data assessment, especially with math. We're having Eric come out on September 18th. He's going to meet with our third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers on our MCA math schools. So, I'll just give you a real quick breakdown. On that math test, he'll have
different kinds of categories and some substrands that go with that. what we'll look at are those substrands that we're performing below average and there aren't a lot but there are so then we can dive into that to see if that's covered in our stepping stones or if we need to add some to that if we need to
change the way that we teach so he'll help give us guidance focus that start with that early and then on the 30th we'll have Trisha Christopher and she'll come out and she'll work with our our reading so she'll come out and do the same thing third fourth and fifth grade
with reading and then will also kind of phase down to first, second, and third or first and second to just kind of uh check in on our tier one instruction, give us some tips on how we can kind of tighten that up. So, we're excited to take advantage of both those services.
Any questions for me? Right. Awesome. Thank you. Good evening everybody. The uh for my board today, I'm not going to talk about the something in the uh business portion of the agenda for that. Um again, I also want to echo we have a really fantastic
open it's amazing how seamless it is. I have all hands on deck in there and it truly is that the district office in particular along with the secretaries they work seamlessly. They work hand in hand. So it was awesome.
super busy. I mean, they're beyond busy when it comes to to open houses with the number of Chromebooks that are going out and making sure everybody's got documents signed and all that good stuff. So, just a big thank you to everybody who was involved within that. And then I wanted to talk a little bit about uh about the back to school
workshops. Back to school workshops are something that um as I've become more readily involved in the process of creating them, I learned a lot. Um but then also part of it is making sure that we have needs to be taken care of within
trainings that the teachers are required to have plus also give them some time to be in the classroom kids school. So I just listed off what some of the what some of those are and uh I wanted to highlight the ones that in particular you know we just have
really really strong relationships with a number of individuals provide those services to us. could be anybody from co-op at the sheriff's department um to our our right to know individual training. So um just wanted to
acknowledge that we have those good trainings that happen. So also then from there we we got in got kids in and we started doing school right away and that's that's the name of the game for all of us and so we are intentional about our our handle placing them. So we have the seniors in and then
we had six through We had six or eight in and then we had all the grades so they know what's going on. Just some gentle nudges and reminders expected of them in school. Uh and then uh we were able to have our
first two lockdown drills and an evacuation drill on this Friday. And then just today actually came early when I scheduled our first fire drill to be done this week. So good to make sure we're getting this taken care of. of the district comes to safety of kids.
And then one last thing that's not in here, I'm hoping for the October meeting, what we're doing is we're actually going to be doing benchmarking and reading for sixth through 8th grade. And so we're very excited to get that rolling.
Mr. Bertram and I kind of tag team a little bit. We have is going to be rolling up. She actually has office in middle school. She can into the building and she's really leading the show when it comes to making sure that it's taken care of. So use fast bridge and we're going to see what those results are for this year. So this
is a benchmarking area just so we can see where the kids are growing maybe so we can see what areas might be struggling and so on and so forth. So good to have that implemented ready to go again just to further strengthen the districts very other than that just some stuff coming
up. We got the workshop day on the 15th Mr. and I worked with John to set up some bus safety and then weekend a question for both you guys. Any updates on the
school dog? Granny. Granny. Yeah. How's that been going? she making any rounds or any updates on that? So, in in uh in talking to Sue, this is going to be a kind of a convoluted answer, so just bear with me. Everything's new and we're developing
the process as we go. And so, we need to be mindful of of granny's boundaries, I think, would be an appropriate way of putting it. Um it's not the dog in that but um so I met with the social workers uh at the middle and high and what they're going to be doing is they're
going to be looking incorporating Franny into some of their groups. So the the byplay is having Sue there with granny for the the liability purposes but then to have the social workers with their groups and make sure that the timing is
appropriate. I can tell you that Franny is already beloved by office staff as much as the kids. Some kids have come in and we made it very clear that Franny's not just here to you're not going to just get out of class that way
works. So we're looking at some of those kids who maybe struggle coming out of the long weekends that that maybe are disregulated coming in. And so the short answer is it's going well. That's also in the works. So, what that ends up looking like by the end of the year, I'm sure it might change probably three or
four more times. Um, but I tell you what, sometimes I'm jealous attorneys. Quick question about the lockown girls. Anything changed since the outside shooting at the annunciation church processes and procedures?
No. It's interesting you asked that because I was I was talking to somebody about it just in my in my teaching career. So, I talked Before I became an administrator, we had at least four changes come from the county right county at the time through our processes. Everything from having our
colored papers and you can put them on your window on the on your door so that people can't see in. But okay, well then it comes out, hey, that means that there's somebody in there and then it's like, well, shove them under the door so at least there's a little bit showing again somebody can see. Well, then throw it on your window. Well, if there's a third party that's walking around the
building, that show. So the short answer to that is no. We've gotten some more guidance. I have had a couple folks ask me about it and I say, you know, I'm very comfortable a with the construction that we had. I think there was there was plenty of foresight in the thinking of our secure entrances. The the our ace in the hole is our
relationship with the county and I can I cannot over sell that. I talk about with families when they come in know that we have one sometimes two individuals within 30 seconds that can be in the
building at time short of being out on the call. there's a piece of mind in that that I I don't I can't quantify it or qualify it even at what that feel like for the piece of and and even when you think
back to the gentleman by a video last year when we had the situation to know that we had a deputy sitt not only a is a quality individual working for the county but has that connection
building as a former graduate there. there is a a sense of ownership and a sense of I say camaraderie with the district that that the county has with us and that's something that's been in the works for years and they even had when they came in and they they were
more than willing to do a one hour retrain for everybody just to provide that peace of mind was the one who actually did a presentation for the staff. So again that connectionbody dip my toes into that that water just to
let them know. So, no changes, but I I feel like what we have going on. Well, good evening. Um, start off by saying happy school board appreciation month. You have a cookie and a letter
there. So, as I talk, there'll also be pictures coming up. But um the big packets um when I went to see Todd and visited a lot of schools that went home to every family. That was their introduction to their teacher. So you
can really see that they connect. Each one's different. Um the pictures are all fabulous. So I thought you'd like to see some of the outstanding things our staff is doing and how we're welcoming families into our school. So that was uh
unique and awesome. Um we want to acknowledge Chipoa County Sheriff Derek Olsen. Uh he donated him and the they donated $2,000 to our school. Normally goes as a scholarship for people going into that profession, but there wasn't
one, which means the school can benefit. So we have that money to do things for safety or recognition that we norally. So that was very generous of them. Um, some fun things for Kim. The auditors are here starting tomorrow. So,
I thought you guys like to know that if she doesn't get back here, it's going to be a busy week for them. Um, but our first week of school, and mine was fantastic. We had a lot of stuff going on, as you can see from the the slideshow. Here was
a first day photo with the family out by our sign. As you can see, the flowers are up. The the students are happy. The are happy. But it's just nice when you drive up to our beautiful school and the grounds are outstanding. And then we can just keep going through
them. Here's some other first day photos as kids are getting ready to come to school. Just keep pushing through so you can see them. Just wonderful great things happening. People are excited to be here. And these are families from all
three of our cities. We make sure that everybody's represented. You talked about These two was their first day. The young girl in the bottom in the right, very nervous, very shy. Uh Franny came out to welcome and she melted and opened right
up. So just the impact she had for that family. Um these students were having a wonderful lunch and getting ready to go back to class. But as you can see, all smiles. Here's the seniors and Jud's first day of school photo at their lys
for the handbook meeting. Very good. Um, this group of students got a pass from their teacher. Um, and specifically needed some Franny hugs. Student to the right, uh, she needed some time. She um, so that they
met in the hallway. Sue was with them. Um, but Franny is is making a big difference in little ways currently. Then Judge said, you know, the big plan is she'll spend two hours a week in groups, but one-on-one time is is going
to be Sue's keeping track, but immeasurable. I I've been trying to get Franny to just to check. I'm really nervous. She won't leave soon. I mean, I try every treat. Unless it's one of her
her family members, Franny's not budging. She won't go if she's up. I try to get her for she won't go for a walk with me. I mean, I'm doing everything but which is good. Um here's our end of the day. You can They're they're orderly. The staff's with them. They're
excited going out to their bus, but they're not going alone. There's adults with them. Um just awesome. You can see some more smiles, hands up, waving on their way out to the bus. So, just fabulous things going on. Activities
wise, you know, our our volleyball team is is on a roll. But, um Emma Ty had a special night the other night. She had her 1,00 kill. I apologize that we had another student. We got one approaching 2,000, but I wasn't here for her 10,000.
So, we're we're at Emma now, but we'll get to the other one hopefully within the next couple weeks and they go to Cambi tomorrow. So overall, it's it's just a fabulous start to the year. Hopefully um every month then we'll have pictures for you so you can actually see
what's going on and get a true context of the special things. Any questions? Enment is up. Now that one as of last whatever date I put on here and it's up even more
so it continues to grow because I shared with Ben what time is this I call us the school district of choice now so if you hear that that's what I tell people and if they want to challenge me that's fine but to me we are the school district of choice we take everybody we embrace
everybody and this is where people want to go in my mind so if you hear that I'd say that if you want me to stop I can right now until told otherwise. We're the best district around. I'm sure every suit would say that, but for me, that's
what I tell everybody. Good job. Yeah. Did you want to mention something about the donation? I did. Yep. $2,000 donation from the Chipoa County Sheriff Derek Olsson for safety or other needs. Um and the the
cookies are from our whole team. Um and they're from our our local bakery. They made those especially for you guys. So, thank you. Couple questions. Um, maintenance. The grounds look amazing. Please pass that along. They're
looking awesome. And then just a couple questions about that MBE which shows that we had a zero graduation rate like okay process. I'm all about process improvement. What was the glitch in the system and how do we make sure that that doesn't happen again? Because doesn't
this go on the websites? You look things up. It's like okay has a zero graduation percent. That was two years ago. Yeah. So it it was addressed from my understanding it was addressed right away but it was after their time frame. So they won't change it and we're we're
expected to go to training now because our our threeyear average is in the bottom 5% of the state. So I've called two different people. I've had great conversations. Jud's walked me through it. Um, but we don't want to. So for us
to go, it's not including judge salary, just teacher salary and people to go, it's $1,000 a day plus. I'd rather put that money into our core reading and math. So it's just a glitch and that's why I sent it to you guys
just for your own awareness. If people ask you, they know we don't have a zero, but they don't have a means to change it because it happened after the date. They're working on it. And so, and I apologize, but we're hopefully they'll get it changed. We know we're in the 90s
and we've been 90 plus forever as far as I can go back. You know, it's five or six years. Jud knew all the students even I think it was a year ago where the one student was. If you look at our sevenyear rate, I'm sure we're going to be in the 98 or higher percent
range. and a lot of when students leave, if they don't reenroll at another school, that counts against us. Um, so those are the things we're going to work on, but we really do not want to go to that training if possible because that money could be used for, you know, core
curriculum, especially at the elementary, bringing in people or sending our teachers to some ways to enhance learning. But we got sent that letter, so I wanted to make sure you guys What was the graduation? over
it was so I don't have a hard number for you numbers in the building we were at 100%. That year we had one individual who went to uh an 18 plus program in Wilmer the
year after that which I believe is like a 90% um we also had another individual who went to that same program and so that that individuals even um like within their booklet there was a certificate of completion not
they still walk with their classmates but they didn't graduate. Um the the 90% we also we have four individuals will be the the individual who leave us and if we get enrollment paperwork and records request from other district we take it
on good faith then that they are in that district and then they are unenrolled from our district. Whether or not they actually end up attending we don't plan that out. We have four individuals last year who so last year the 90% that counted against us because they did not
end up formally enrolling and attending the school district. So we're playing a little there's we're playing a little bit of catchup um with it to a degree. Uh there is a process in place. Um there's some coding that that happened. It was done inaccurately and it was not double checked. I'll just say that um
there's a process in place now for that to happen. The check to make sure that it's done correctly. Thank you. I wasn't sure what was on the state end. Does it sound like that is something that will get resolved as far as the numbers or you're saying that that's beyond that now?
We're hoping. Okay. But they don't it just it'll show 90 some 90 some 90 some 90. It's but at the end of the day it put us in this where we got a letter that doesn't
reflect who we are. So we want to make sure that that doesn't get And it's so peculiar because I I made a phone call immediately when I found out because I got an email from MBE and and I said, "Well, what's what's
the deal here?" No, that's not accurate. Can you change it because I can tell you what? Well, no, it's too late. So, I don't understand the proactive the lack of proactive steps on the state's part in order to say, "Hey, this district has been at this, you know, 90 I'll say 93% or higher every single
year. Something seems a little weird." Well, it's frustrating that they would be okay with inaccurate information or that they was monitoring that they didn't pick it up, right? Or that they still wouldn't want to correct and have you believe any of
their data is public knowledge like someone. So when I interview here it says so it's been there when you look under the MD report card it's there but when
you look at everything even I believe every every June I give you the graduation part of my year so it's super super frustrating and then for them to say oh hey by the way now you get to train
and it's not one day. I mean, this will be ongoing yearly. So, we're not in the bottom. Really, we're in the upper echelon. Are there any ramifications? I mean, other than if we don't attend, we just don't attend.
Well, if they tell me when we have to go, we're because that's what they say, we'll do it, but it'll just be frustrating. There's other areas we could be using our money for, but we don't want to just say we're not going to ask them for
Yeah, I'm just going to say there's got to be a way to fuse it because that's not accurate information at all. So that's what we're working on with a few conversations. They've been very nice, but I just want to make sure that
just one other comment I've heard some um every year we hear the same thing I think about the amount of school supplies that are sometimes required for different classes and some time paying for all of those. I'm wondering if perhaps if there not might
not be a way to um combine those lists internally here and then reach out to all the big communities within our three communities. I am positive that we could probably get everything on these list by saying hey we need likeund
boxes of grains we need so many boxes of what the churches could a little thermometer and I just that might be helpful to families then maybe that's something that could help support the district that
we do have packets that are set aside for each grade. So we do have a backpack and supply list and to be honest we have more than we give away. So, but it's no fun to go to school first day if you don't. We do have those resources.
So, you have extras as well. Absolutely. I like Okay. Anything else? I gonna say that to Jim isn't here in so you can see report there. And just a shout out to the boys wrestling, girls
volleyball and boys golf who got those ratings this year. Boys wrestling gold, girls volleyball silver, boys and high school this year. So that's good. All right. Um 6.2 to committee. I don't
have any board discussion. Need a motion to adopt the 2526 student handbook. discussion on that. Oh, yes. So, I also understand that when you're putting these handles together, you get
so involved in the process sometimes things aren't coordinating or aren't consistent and whatnot. Um, just a suggestion, it would be nice for the handbook to have For me, I looked at it from the lens of a parent. Have things in alphabetical
order and have things um content the same content together. Like we've got stuff about food in the classrooms and then we go to fundraising, gifts to employees, graduation, then we skip down a little bit further. Then we have about breakfast. And so if we could put like food things together so I'm not hunting
and pecking through all of it. Um on page 12, I have a question about um the parent groups. Does that include the ones that are 501c3s? They have to have approval in advance
like for I I'm not going to speak for Mr. Bum. I'm going to have to look at it a little bit. It says I I but I don't I don't have the information without without knowing it. Difficult for me to answer. What I can say is about the handbook. We buy something called the uh um model student
handbook from MSBA and for usually between 500 and 750 bucks they'll send you a CDROM or an electronic file and the 75% of the handbook is based off the recommendation from MSBA based off what they see. So, you know, of course,
there's going to be some flavoring for McCrae that's added in there as district specific, but I can we can definitely look at doing alphabetical that that's going to be a tremendous labor of something um in order to get that change. So, that was on page 12. And on page 32,
we still have Josh as our title coordinator. So, that will need to be changed. Then we have some inconsistencies. Um, so on page 38 about the cell phone policy, the cell phone policy on page 38
is the same as what's in the staff's manual. Um, where it says the kids have to keep the cell phones in their lockers. But if you go to page 28 in the student handbook, it's different. It says um all students will park their
phones in the in the provided cell phone cuddies upon each classroom. So it's it's not consistent. Thank you. And I can then we have smokefree schools. So we talk about ecigarettes. in the student
handbook, but we don't talk about the staff. So to me, the policy should be again that consistency piece and then on page 43 just clarifying our lead and water annual notification the year is 24.5. Is that should always
be the previous year? I wasn't sure about that. and Josh every year. So it'll stay that year until until some spacing things
at the very end. um all of the different appendices or whatnot and um some of them are like the larger version things that were already so we have to provide all these
appendices or attachments can it be referred to policy and then people can go to the website I just thought it would be a lot less this was very like over the top for me when I was reading it is It's so those are just some Yeah, thank you. I will be more than
happy. So, um pending approval from the board tonight um what I will do is I will put the current version that I have give it to have them upload it make the changes over the coming weeks
and then upload that. Any discussion on hand as far as handbook? It's mostly as a question they can find that this is the policy.
Yes. Uh it's it's a good piece for when sometimes teachers come in and they have questions. Sometimes students have questions. Um it's a good reference tool. You know, in the end I would always refer back to policy in the end
because that's I don't want to contradict the handbook because that's something that we've all agreed to and agreed upon. However, the policy when you have a meeting with students to let you go over uh we we have PowerPoint that we
utilize. So, it's no it's it's my wide type of look. Also, to your comment, I don't think everything listed in here as a policy. So it truly is policy and procedural
policy. Any other questions on that? In favor of adopting the 256 changes, say I. Okay. 7.2. A motion to adopt the 25.6 discussion questions on that.
Um just another suggestion maybe having a table of contents in the front with the page numbers on also um just uh wondering under it would be teacher code of conduct about teachers shall not professionally
um have relationship to students. I wonder if we need to like give an example like Facebook what's the district's policy on what the request to be friends with Facebook. Just something to think about. Um I'm
not sure, but I don't believe we are in compiance if we list the family medical leave act 1993. Um the new law that is paid family medical leave. I think it's very important to have the appropriate information in there and whether or not we're going to run things with the paid
family medical leave regularly, all of that. I think that's a benefit that about and they didn't see anything about something like contract. That's a good point. Like what should be
contract? Oh, that's true. That So I just think we need to have the right policy if you want to look at it. That is not because it says unpaid
it's not just to keep us out of sorry but on the front page of paper like policy I don't know that it's kind of that need to Um then just wondering about
adding a vaping piece to the tobacco free environment. It doesn't say anything. It just talks about um yeah just says tobacco free environment. So that could mirror what's in the student handbook. Also on that same
page, it talks about the school vehicles, about staff who um transport students. Do we do more vehicle checks on do they have insurance? Do they have any driving records?
That should be that should be the expectations. And then there's page where it actually talks about what type transportation is. Just thought that section talks about the
school together. It says all requests for fundraising activities must be submitted in writing to high school principal. I wonder if we need to say district fundraising because again the parent club is a private
group. Also wondering, do we have an employment to make sure that we are not in this day and age? There's also a lot of contract. Yeah. Well, the ESST is in all the terms
and conditions for the non and we have to post that all staff rooms and everything. So, we've got that paid family medical leave. We all that they require that by December 1st. We'll be putting that out shortly.
That starts January 1st. So, and then yeah, all of that employment stuff should be in You might want to make some contract. Yeah. Yeah.
contract. So, we want to call to approve the or adopt the 256 staff handbook with corrections. Those in favor say I. 7.3 motion to certify the 25
for the maximum and the state has not I've got all the information in for our levy. Um, but I just got an email today. They don't have the certification portion of it up and going. They've been revamping things and
it's not ready but it's I mean so I don't have the form that I need you to sign to do it but you can approve it because we're just doing the maximum amount which we always do in September. So, as soon as they upload that and I
can get I'll give you a call and have you just stop in and sign it and then I'll send it to the county like I'm supposed to. Okay. So it's due on the 30th of September and then the final certific.
Okay, we got our regular meetings listed there. Okay, I need a motion to second 48.