to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> So 3.0 approval of the agenda, additions of deletions. I need a motion. >> I'll second
discussion, questions there. Now those in favor of approving the agenda say I. >> I. Those opposed n. >> 4.0 public comment is none. I should have done that before.
Here we are in front of parliamentarians and I already made my first mistake. All right. Um, so let's go down to communication report 6.0 and we'll start with >> giving us five. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I did. I did.
>> I was was I was on the right track. Okay. Consent agenda. I will need a motion for that. >> Madam chair, I need to >> Okay, I'll make the motion to approve the
consent agenda. Anybody else have >> second? There we go. John, any questions or concerns there? Looks like we got coaches. >> That's the appreciation of the folks
that are leaving the district. Looks like Jim's retiring. >> I was hoping he's here. >> He wasn't. >> But yeah, thanks to the service. >> Okay.
Those in favor of approving the consent agenda say I. >> I. Those oppos. All right. Now we're down to 6.0 communication report. So we've got with us the FFA parliamentary procedure team.
Welcome. So go ahead. >> All right. So I think I'll just have them each introduce themselves first. >> So Izzy will start. >> I'm Izzy Bor. I'm the Sentinel. Elizabeth Johnson, treasurer. I'm Hayy Janice, reporter. Lillian Polling, the president. Ellie Bosch, the secretary.
Sham, vice president, course Johnson, the advisor. So, um, so they actually aren't these positions in FFA. They're just for the competition. That's they've each been assigned a role. Um, so I'm going to let them go ahead and flip their cards over in front of you. Uh, you should have what they are actually
going to be uh discussing. So, I'm going to give them just like a minute to write as I quick overview it. Uh, so a competition, they'll get a motion uh, which you can see on there. And then uh they don't know ahead of time, but I highlighted one of the other motions that they have to do. So one person will have to amend uh one will have to do
parliamentary inquiry and so forth, right? And so they have to know all the different rules of Robert's rules uh and just be prepared at a competition. Um they wanted to do uh opening ceremonies. So we'll start with opening ceremonies. It won't take very long. Uh and then we're going to shorten it up. So each of
them are going to do one motion, one debate. uh when they're debating uh how they are scored. They have to have an opening statement uh they need to have then three solid points uh and then a closing statement is how you can get maximum points for a debate. Um and of
course they are trying to persuade each other uh to go different ways. So like regular meeting would uh if you have any questions at the end uh we can do that. Otherwise, once Lan is
ready, I guess we can start. >> Well, while they're still ready, can you share how successful this was? >> Um, so, uh, this was, I think, for Parley, our most successful year so far. Um, we finished third in the state this
year. Um, which I I think is pretty impressive. It's very, uh, tough competition. Uh ours used to be the most difficult region to compete in because we have two powerhouses in Dasso and Lichfield. Um but we were first in our region. So we beat both of them uh to
advance to the state. Um and then I don't even remember who beat us there. But um someone was asking too earlier. I think Julie it was you that was asking about is there classes and stuff? No. In FFA uh we go up against all sizes of schools, right? It doesn't matter. Um so
we go up against the largest schools in the state and there's no like sports. So, and CCM also the young the young one 7 through 9th also were third in the same this year. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you.
>> Everybody ready? >> Yep. >> The meeting room will come to order. We are now holding a meeting of the McCrae FFA chapter. Madame Vice President, are all officers at their stations? >> I shall call the role of officers, determine if they're at their stations, and report back to you. Madam President,
the Sentinel stationed by the door. Your duties, sir. Through this door pass many friends of the FFA. It is my duty to see that the door is open to our friends at all times and they are welcome. I care for meeting room and paraphernalia. I strive to keep the room comfortable and assist the president in maintaining order. The reporter. >> The reporter is stationed by the flag.
Why the flag? >> As the flag covers, United States of America for the people and motivate man, woman, and child. The fate is a national organization that reaches the state of Alaska through the Virgin Islands and from the state of Maine to Hawaii. The treasury stationed at the emblem of
Washington. Your duties there. I keep a record of receipts and dispersements just as Washington kept his farm account carefully and accurately. I encourage thrift among the members and strive to build up our financial standings through savings and investments. George Washington was better able to serve his country because he is financially
independent. The secretary stationed by the ear of corn. >> Your duties there. I keep an accurate record of all meetings and correspond with other secretaries wherever corn is grown and FFA members meet. The adviser >> hereby the owl. >> Why by the owl? >> The owl is a timehonored emblem of knowledge and wisdom. Being older than
the rest of them, I ask to advise you from time to time as a need arises. I hope that my advice will always be based on true knowledge and ripen with wisdom. Madam vice president, why do you keep a plow at your station? >> The plow is a symbol of labor and sold of the sword. Without labor, neither knowledge nor wisdom can accomplish much. My duties require me to assist at
all times in directing the work of our organization under absence of our president whose place is beneath the rising sun. Why is the president so stationed? >> The rising sun is the token of a new era in agriculture. >> Oh jeez.
>> It's been a while. >> It's usually. Madam President, all officers are at their stations. >> Thank you, Madam Vice President. FFA members, why are we here? >> To practice brotherhood, honor agricultural opportunities and responsibilities, and develop those
qualities of leadership which an FFA member should possess. May we accomplish our purposes. I now declare this meeting of the McCrae FFA chapter duly open for the transaction of business or attention to any matters which may properly be presented. Madam Secretary, what is our first order of business?
>> A parliamentary procedure invite. >> Members, you have heard the subject. What is your pleasure? >> Madam President, >> Madam Sentinel, >> I move that the McCrae FFA chapter host a parliamentary procedure invite for the state of Minnesota on Monday, November 16th. >> Second. It has been moved and seconded that our McCrae FFA chapter host a
parliamentary procedure invite for the state of Minnesota on Monday, November 16th. Is there any debate? >> Madam President, >> Madam Sentinel, >> I encourage all members vote in favor of this motion because it help us demonstrate our skills to the public. It would provide us with good feedback that we can use in competition and it would
bring us together so we can meet some of the people in our same comp and get advice from them. For these reasons, I encourage all members to vote in favor of this motion. Madame President, madam reporter, I make against this motion. People aren't bored, so they might not be able to come. Secondly, Monty already hosts one, so why would we do one when
we live right next to them in our region? And thirdly, you're getting ready for our CDEs and our students into practice so they do well on them. For these reasons, I encourage all members to vote against this motion. >> Is there any further debate on the main motion? >> Madam President, >> Madam Treasur, >> I encourage members to vote for this
motion as we have plenty of room to host this event. Secondly, we have no school today, so or that day. So, it would work really well for our school to host it. And thirdly, we can ask people like Desa, who is a state officer, to contact people who would have all the contacts of all these schools to get them here on
that day. This is why I encourage vote for this motion. Is there any further debate? >> Madam President, >> Madam Selin, >> I move to amend this motion by striking the words November 16th and adding the words June 8th. >> Second. It has been moved and seconded that we amend the motion by striking the
words November 16th and inserting the words June 8th so if password would read. I move that our McCrae FFA chapter host a parliamentary procedure invite for the state of Minnesota on Monday June 8th. Is there any debate? >> Madame President, >> Madam Sentinel, >> I members vote in favor of this
amendment because we have no school then as well as an event so it' be easier for people to get um to our event. Secondly, we have more open spots to host since there's less activities going on. And thirdly, we have more ways of transportation since again bus drivers
won't be having a lot of things to do. For these reasons, I encourage all to vote in favor of this amendment. >> Madam President, >> Madam Secretary, >> I encourage all members to vote against this amendment because it is after school is out which is going to make it so much harder for us to get this coordinated. Secondly, state is already
over with and done. So, a lot of teams are going to be looking for that break in between their competition time and also it is going to be extremely hard for us to contact more schools saying that they're out of school. For these reasons, I encourage all members to vote against this amendment. >> Madam President,
>> Madam Vice President, >> I move that we take a fiveminut recess for informal discussion. >> Second. It has been moved and sec seconded that we take a fivem minute recess for informal discussion. Are there any amendments to the length of the time? Hearing none, we will now proceed to a vote on this recess. All in favor say I. >> I. All post say no.
>> Motion favored. We will now proceed back to the amendment. Is there any debate? >> Madam President, >> Madame reporter, >> I am against this motion. People are busy on vacations in the summer at LA. Secondly, we are busy setting up for our fair which a lot of our kids are in. And thirdly, we also have our summer trip,
so we will be busy and not even be here. For these reasons, I encourage all members to vote against this motion. Is there any further debate on the amendment? >> Madam President, >> Madam Treasure, >> I raise the parliamentary inquiry. >> State your inquiry. What vote is required to pass the amendment? >> Majority. We will now proceed to a vote
on the amendment. All in favor of this amendment say I. >> I. >> All post say no. >> No. >> Motion failed. We will now proceed back to the main motion which reads, "I move that our McCrae FFA chapter host a parliamentary procedure invite for the state of Minnesota on Monday, November 16th. Is there any debate? >> Madam President,
>> Madam Secretary, >> I move to refer this motion to our planning or some activities committee. Second. It has been moved and seconded that we refer this motion to our summer activities committee. Is there any debate? >> Madam President, Madam Secretary, I encourage all members to vote for this
referral because they would better be able to contact other schools and teams to get them in here and competing. Secondly, they would also be able to contact our judges, which is going to be another hassle for all of us. And they are better to able to find out a specific date and rooms that are best
going to work for this competition. For these reasons, I encourage our members to vote for this referral. Madam President, >> Madame Vice President, >> I encourage all members to vote against this amendment because as the head of committees, I know that our committees are very overloaded right now. Secondly, we would need to see if there's even any interest in doing this. And thirdly, I
believe that our officer team could plan this the best. For these reasons, I encourage all members vote in favor against this committee. >> Madame President, Madam Reporter, >> I move previous question. >> Second. Previous question has been called. We will now proceed to a twoth3s rising vote on the previous question.
All in favor, please rise. Thank you. You may be seated. We will now proceed to a or previous question passed. We'll now proceed to a vote on the referral. All in favor, say I. >> I. >> All oppose say no. >> No. Motion failed. We will now proceed back to the main motion. Is there any debate?
Hearing none, we will now proceed to a vote on the main motion. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All post say no. >> No. >> Motion passed. Madam Secretary, do you have record of any further business which should now be transacted? >> I have none, Madam President. hearing. None. Meeting a judge.
>> So again, that's very short in version. Normally they would have to do two motions each and they would have to do four debates each and all that has to be done within 11 minutes. >> So it's >> for reference we did one motion and one debate each >> primarily. Some have to do two debates just
>> I did two. Yeah, great job. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you all for being here. Very much. >> So, how long have you all been here? >> Most of us have been doing parley since 8th grade together.
>> Yeah, like the same since 8th grade. >> Except for Elizabeth. She's the she's a senior. So, she would have been on the previous teams and then we graduated most of that. So our younger team had to move up to the parley level and so the the this group was together in that. So
>> y impressive. >> And next year we'll see we we're going to have a problem next year. We have too many. So there's actually be three or four that won't get to compete which is unfortunate but >> thank you.
>> Thank you. Yep. Thank you. All right, that was okay. Um, administrative reports. Jim's not here. We didn't have his written report there. And I guess congratulations to those
band students on that solo ensemble competition in Benson. Um, and again with BPA, we've got two students going to that. Yeah. Rachel S and Harris. Congratulations to them.
And then we've got the coaches listed there to go through here. So, okay. Any other comments on Jim has a note on here to confirm we're able to move forward with cashless entry. I was not at last month's meeting, but it was something we
approved. He just wants to make sure it's okay. We don't want anybody to ever be surprised. >> That's a new >> Yes. Okay. We talk about but we also talked to somebody came with cash. We have something like a granite falls or
card. >> Yeah. >> If not some cash and tell people get used to it. >> He reiterated that nobody would ever be turned away. figure out how to get me >> as a conference as a whole, it sounds like
>> most people are switching over to the same um >> company >> company as well. So then from a consistency standpoint for folks that travel, >> it's not different every single school. >> Well, if everyone's doing it at the same time, too.
>> Is that okay? any concerns as long as everybody gets in. Is that >> right? Yeah, I think good with that. Right. And I think it's just good to have that communicated so people do come and they're like, "Oh my gosh, all I have is cash." But they don't have a
>> nice little sign to let those people that are working know people getting into a gym and then not having Wi-Fi or, you know, not having signal and then, you know, fumbling trying to get >> their tickets.
And just so you guys know, Jim's position has been posted. It'll be posted again all this week. So, it was all last week, all this week. And on Monday is the first time we'll start looking at applicants. But there is six uh people already have applied.
Um so, decent turnout. Hopefully this week we'll continue to get some more. We got one. >> Okay. um talk next. >> All right. Well, good evening everyone. We'll see if we can get the clicker to work. So, I'll just kind of run through
some of the the highlights from the uh past month and a half and then we'll kind of focus on our third grade class. So, um about a month ago, we did our kindergarten registration and our preschool registration. So, a great chance to get families in our building uh meet the staff, look at the
classrooms, and we took advantage of the new background banner and the table covering and set up a signing day. So, we had uh kind of uh I guess kind of a certificate for the kids to sign. We had a big crayon form and let them know that
it locks them into the next 13 years here at the It's definitely binding and we uh we're excited to have about 80% of our kids signed up. so far and we'll start to reach out to the rest of the families in the next few weeks here and try to get the rest of them signed up as well. So excited about that. Uh we had
our day graduation on the first. Uh Deputy Sean Joyce does a great job. He comes out uh to our classrooms, works with each class separate. Uh they do some lessons, but also a lot of kind of uh interaction um roleplay. So, they get a chance to to
kind of talk their way through peer pressure and how they're going to make those good uh choices and then they write a essay and it's always fun to hear those kids share those. I think some were in the newspaper as well. So, just a really fun um event for us there. We finished up the MCA Academy as well.
Last year we had 27. This year we had 26. So, that's always fun. That's not what you're seeing there. That's not the MCA Academy, but we're going to get to that in just a second. So, we're excited that those kids put in those 14 extra sessions, ended with a a fun pizza party and kind of getting them ready uh for
the MCA test, which start uh this week, Wednesday, Thursday, and then uh uh some wrap up on Friday uh for reading. And then next week, it'll be math, the same kind of format. So, um for March, one of the the big events that takes place is the read across McCrae. You can see in
that top left, and you'll see this in in the video towards the end as well, under 92,000 minutes. The kids just do a great job. Uh Rene Westrock does a great job of uh putting up big um oh kind of charts that show where each class is at. So they're always excited when they come
back each day to kind of see the gains that that they've made. Um and then the the teacher that uh you can see silly spray the student that has read the most in each class and gets to silly spray
their teacher. And then the top readers in each grade uh get to in this case make a Sunday on Janitor Rat's head. He did shave and both his beard and his head to make it a little bit easier for him, but it still was awful messy. And
then um the McCrae Parents Club brought in a guest author which was just a blast for for the kids. Um and that is Kevin Love Green who came in did a presentation for um two different groups. So he did kind of
a two and then a three four five and then he also went into classrooms and we'll see some of that as well. So a real fun um chance for the kids to hear his story. Now he started to to write. He I don't know if you any of your kids read it but he does a lot of kind of outdoor stuff. So his own peasant trips
or salmon fishing in Alaska or ocean fishing in Florida. So a variety of things. And then he talked about kind of creative writing that goes along with it. So a lot of fun for the kids to see that. And then there he is in the classrooms. He stopped in the classrooms could sign up and he would come in and
kind of do a mini lesson for them and they write their own stories. So this is the second time that we've had an honor. Kevin is the first one that we had in in person. We had one this fall where they did it kind of virtually. So, and then he was more an illustrator. So, then he helped the kids kind of illustrate their
own stories. So, uh kind of a real fun chance for the kids to get that exposure to writing and then illustrating. We did our second round up for the Wolverine way. So, those are the students that were selected. Uh this time they were selected by uh either the steam teacher,
music teacher or fet. So, the first time was a classroom teacher. We'll do another classroom teacher and then we'll do some some wildcard ones as well. So if there's someone that that a staff member uh just really feels strongly about, we'll add them in as well for the third time of the way just to kind of
highlight that. Uh we've had up to that point 2,157 pride tickets. So that's a lot and less than a 100red behavior referrals. So um you know that's kind of PBIS at its finest. So, we're really making an
effort to recognize that good behavior and reinforcing those skills and traits. So, still working on kind of those pride categories that go along with it. Uh, first grade did a kind of a dress up day. Their theme was what do you want to be when you grow up? So, at the end of that study, then they came dressed to
school uh as kind of the their future profession. It just happened that it was a day. So, deputy Joyce was in. So, we wanted to get a picture with those guys because a couple of them were in police officer uniforms. So, and that gets us to our class of 2035.
So, uh that's kind of a look at that. At the time that we collected this data, we had 62. Right now, that class is down to 60. We had uh students move and one that decided to to homeschool for the last part of the school year. You can kind of see a breakdown of where we're at. Um the bottom right, just want to point out
our attendance overall is still really good. You know, at 94.4%. That's extremely high. And uh that's despite of 10 kids that have missed a lot. So it kind of points out that 50 kids are really really really consistent about being here. And it's those you
know those 10 kids that were constantly working with um to try to en encourage attendance because that's a direct link to kind of their outcomes at school. So at three parents get called and again it's based on un unexcused but these are
going to be total. So at at three a parent would get a call to kind of notify them they're at three. At seven a meeting is set up and also the county gets notified. So you can see we've got some kids that we've met with parents. We've talked about uh the need to be in
school. We've got the county involved with that process as as well. If you miss 10% of the school year then you are considered habitually truent and we report that to state. So that would be uh students that are at 15 and we have two in that class that are already
there. So, uh, so those are kind of the struggles that that we have. Overall, really good, but still there's, you know, some some challenges that come along with that. So, all right. And I'm going to go through this a little bit more before you hit play there with it. Um,
and then in in your packets, you have uh the FastBridge score. So, as third graders, they haven't taken the MCAs yet. So, we'll be taking that this week. So, the data that we have would be from last year's fast bridge and then this year's fast bridge. And we're seeing a lot of the same things that we talked
about last time with our fourth graders. Um, and that's that kind of kind of stagnant in that uh that second part. So, you can see fall, winter, spring with a little dip and then high in fall. Um, now we mentioned um last time that uh the expectations are a little bit
lower in fall and then it gets higher and higher. So the rigor goes up for winter and spring. If we want to look for we're going to mine for gold here. If you want to find the positive, I think it's it shows that um that we are doing a good job of enforcing those
basic skills because they're holding over that long break. So when we're coming back in fall, we still have those skills that that we need. So some really good carryover. What we need to focus on is just trying to get that rigor from fall to winter to be consistent. And part of that comes with it's year two of
open court. So every year that we use it, we're going to get better at it. And then just understanding the new standards that go along with that as well. You'll notice our math scores are a little bit higher. So you can see the fall we came back at 72%. So that's really good. And then a little dip in
winter, but still at 64. So, um, and then the last part kind of focused on how they feel feel about coming to school at McCrae. 93% of them feel safe. 95% have that connection with their
teachers. Super proud, 100% try their best to follow the Wolverine way. 93 proud to be a student at McCrae. 98 that have a strong friend group. And then the same one that I think Deb had asked about last time. Uh we're still a little
bit low on that kind of community connection. You know, do I feel like I belong at school? And those are things that we started to talk about with our staff. We're going to look at maybe how we do our morning check. Are there ways you can build that sense of community? Maybe reaching out and doing kind of a buddy system with some of the middle
school and high school kids from time to time just to expand that group to get out of just your grade level. But definitely an area we'd like to see go up and uh we are looking at ways that we can help those kids feel more connected not just to their their class but to
their grade level as well. So we are aware that we can do better there. So >> do you know what it is they think of about being I mean how they ask that question you know what they're thinking about. >> No and those are things that we can address through character each week but
we don't know which kids check it either. So, it's tough to kind of get a grasp on that, but those are lessons that we can talk about. There's social stories that we can do to try and dig a little bit deeper and find that out. But, you know, it's it's good data to have is that kind of what guides our social emotional learning. So,
>> it just seems unusual when they rank so highly with having friends and their teachers and everything and all of a sudden they don't feel like they belong. What >> So, yeah. And you also have 10 kids that have missed over 15 days of school. Maybe that makes me feel like I don't belong, you know, and who knows what's going on with that. A lot of factors
that are hard to say would be consistent with this >> percentage. >> Yeah. >> How many sections do we have of this class >> right right now? Three. So that that's a a pretty big big class. That's kind of uh
that and fourth grade are kind of our our last big ones that are coming through when we get close to that 60 and then we start to see that drop >> that happens afterwards. I notice they also have almost a quarter of their kids have special ed needs also. So that >> there's a high high percentage. Yeah.
>> Is that pretty predominant with most graer? >> Um to look to see exactly what the percent is and let you know how >> that that one is honestly that's about where where we're
at across the the board. There are some grades that are going to be lower. >> Good luck with your testing. Um especially like um often kind of first second sometimes those grades are a little bit lower. We get you start to
identify them later. I think that's just something as we move forward and thinking about how many sections if we've got that many of our kiddos that are in special ed, how do we um ensure that those class sections are small enough to meet those needs?
>> Meet those needs as well. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. And one other thing is I talk we're adding special ed teachers. So um hopefully if we get if the applicants do a nice job instead of having a tester we're putting another
person into the classroom and hiring another specialist to try to get those numbers down prek 12 as well because we're seeing there's more of a need. Are we doing that in combination? Then we're also looking at at least 20 maybe or 21
class size. >> Yeah. You want to do that now? >> Sure. Go ahead. >> Yep. So, um here's our current So, on the left you're going to see our current class sizes and then next year's projection. Now, this what this doesn't show is that
people move in after we start school. So, you'll see that in the fifth grade they started with 49 and now they have 53. So next year you can see there was an adjustment made to add, you know, make
fifth grade stay at three. Um, but third grade only has 46. So they're at 23 and 23 now as of Friday, right? You know, last time we counted. So as kids come and go, it changes a little bit. But you can see our K1 and two, the average
class size is 15 and 16. And then between third and fifth grade, well, fourth and fifth are under, you know, 20 or under, but third grade's currently at 23, but if we get, you know, some more students, we could add,
but that way we we didn't let any teachers go. We kept the same sections, but Todd's been really good about analyzing where we'll be. >> So, hindsight's always 2020. >> Yes. >> Uh, fifth grade, 26 and 27. Did we
address that and why? >> Yeah. So, it started at 49 and it was once the school year started, which means displacing students once they've already met their teacher in their school, >> but that's 25.
>> Yeah. So, 25 and 24. So when Todd you said third, fourth, and fifth kind of the averages he's been going by, and it's real consistent if we went back, but this is, you know, since Todd's been here >> is um third, fourth, and fifth. 51 is
kind of the key for three sections and they were right there at 49. Um, and now next year we're at 46. A week a week and a half ago was 48. So like we said, it's going to be We know students come and go. Um but it's
something we're monitoring. But when we started this process that the key was to make sure our students with special needs, those case loads um get down as well. We have some people that were high. Um so that's why we put the extra
resources in for those students to help. >> So when what when does it cut off? Like when will we make a decision about the third grade then? So those are currently those have been made for this year but we can hire >> for next year. >> Y >> I'm looking at the
>> So everybody's been notified currently and we've already hired two teachers but if it grows then we can add up until the first day of school. I mean, we could add after, but ideally, you want to add before the first day of school,
>> but as of now, we won't decrease unless something drastic happened. These teachers have all been notified and we've hired and these are our projected class sizes of now, but Todd is and is actively watching the third grade.
>> How do how do our numbers compare to area districts like districts? um the same or or lower lower on many cases. Um you know as as you look through it our K12 are small but the the read act the goal is to read well by
third grade. So we're trying to keep those classes as small as possible and have as much help there as well. So last we did make that the reduction of one staff. We looked at where to do it and even though those classes were smaller I didn't want to make that cut. So we looked at our smallest class of 345 and
that was five at at 49. Um, I I know we take a lot of pride in having really small class sizes. Um, even at 53 or four, that's really small for fifth grade. It wouldn't be a problem to see some of our our schools that are close to us that are going to be high 20s,
even 30s in fifth grade and then in middle school, fifth and sixth grade. So, um, so we're sitting pretty well and I I can put together data if you want to look at I talked to Mr. Holmes about this. Who are we trying to draw kids from? When we look at Wilmer, Granite, Monov video, KMS, we want to be
comparable or less than those schools and we are. So that's kind of what drives the decisions that I'm making is where do we want to track kids from? And then how do we compete with those schools? So I appreciate hearing that.
Um, also it it this is time frames that precedes both of you, but during our referendum that we have, we were very clear with our community that we would have small class sizes and I've been called quite a bit about the fifth grade class this year that there were 27 in there and people are like, we were told
these small class sizes and that's not small. So, I think you really need to be true to our board also. >> Well, and I I agree and the the tough part when they started like they said was 49. We just need to reiterate to we want to focus on small class sizes, but
once school starts to disrupt a a group and then why did I why was I the one getting moved? It's it's really the family thinks it's personal even though it's not. I mean, we use a program that analyzes he we can do that another meeting, but it analyzes everything we
can about a learning community and does it the most impartial way. And even that gets criticized because, you know, my my daughter had Adam, my son had Adam, my aunt's kids had Adam,
this child better get Adam, and the dad is saying, "No, you don't get Adam." That's But Todd works with all those families and was impressive this fall to hear the stories and how he negotiated it. So, that's kind of that we take the human
element currently out of it, but it's still part of It is nice to see that we can balance them out >> easier than we could when we were used. >> But we are watching. >> Yes.
>> And please call though with any questions about it because I like to talk because I don't know I know nine months of history. Todd knows a year and nine months of history. Um so we appreciate you can always just call Todd and he'll tell me what um I appreciate
hearing that because that's a new perspective. >> Now, let's put a plug in for our our support staff as as well. So, um our our special ed staff does a great job, but we also have special ed pairs that we push in for tier one instruction. So, they're in there for reading and math.
We have title that takes in uh in win time, so they're with our bottom groups. So, very seldom is there one teacher in the classroom with those kids. It wouldn't be uncommon to walk in and see three adults with those kids. So, a special ed PAR, a title PAR, and the classroom teacher. So, we're working
really hard to make sure that we can get those kids into smaller groups and work on those specific skills. So, and they do a really good job. So, >> and with that, tots taking over partnering with the teachers, but more or less taking over um where the pairs
will be when. So, it's more spread out, more, you know, people actually in the classrooms where they need to be. You have noticed on that >> scheduled it? No. >> No. >> Got a renewal coming
>> in partnership. >> Uh special ed staff is kind of rotated them through. But it creates when when each teacher has a set group, it kind of you get times when there's not enough and times when you have too many because you're not looking at all of them. So we're trying to take a look at um where
their skills are at. So, example, a parent that you'll be gifted in fifth grade math, you want that person all three in all the fifth grade math sections and someone that's good at reading and all the the reading sections so they can develop those skills and that rapport with the teacher. Right now, it's more it's likely that someone
different for all of those. So, and it's a struggle because we still need help when we do pull outs. So, there's going to be a lot of uh a lot of work to get that schedule in place. But, I think it's going to be a real benefit for both our kids and for our staffing. I would think that both parents would
like that being >> three times rather than something new every hour, >> especially if you're doing a small pull out with three kids, you can be doing that same lesson three times. Yeah. >> And then it's run, run, run. Right. This last month and a half, we have field
trips. We've already started some. We have MCA test, spring concert book fairs coming up. Uh A Day is coming up. We have a fifth grade formal lunch which is just a blast as kids dress up. Uh they get waited on. They get a chance to act like they're going out to a restaurant.
I think chicken ke I asked for lobster and steak because I knew that we had some extra money in our lunch account, but Julie told me no, but chicken kab is going to be on the menu for that day and then dessert as well. And then we wrap it up with our track and field day. So,
a lot of fun things coming up for us. Oh, and now the big Yeah, I took too much time, did I? So, you'll see Brandon talking about who's one of our MCA Academy teachers and then Renee and Alexa are going to talk about read across and grades. >> So, MCA Academy is basically um extra
help for students preparing them to get ready for the MCAs um which is coming up here in a couple weeks. This is our first year in third grade event. these guys are going to be taking it. So, um, basically what it is is we use our
fastbridge scores from the fall and the winter and we kind of use that as a database point to see which students could benefit from the extra practice. So, um, Tuesdays and Thursdays after school
from 3:45 to 4:45, I've had about 6 to 7 students. I'll stay after. Um, and we'll split that time up and we will do reading for like the first half hour, second half hour math, and then if we
have extra time, we will play some sort of game just to make it fun. But so I use uh there's a website right on uh Minnesota uh state uh education um where
they use past passages from reading and math uh questions that we will use and we'll go over that read the passage for the reading part answer the questions and then uh same thing for the math. So break then we'll break it into specific skills too where if it's
like cause and effect for reading or math we need help with the geometry portion or maybe multiplication for our facts. So a lot of extra practice for those kids. So it's been been pretty good. I know Todd came up with this or Mr. Burch came
up with this last year. This is our second year. Um I know I believe we had a pizza party last week for kind of a celebration. And I think we had roughly 25 20 30 kids. Um, so I think the numbers are pretty good. Usually third grade probably has a
little lower turnout just because this is the first year that they're going to be doing the MCAs. Um, so hopefully we continue to do that and the numbers will grow. So >> yeah, overall pretty good. >> So is the pizza party the main motivator
for the kids or >> I would say so. Yeah, I've had a couple that'll come and be like, "Oh, we only have three more sessions until the pizza party or so." Yeah, it's But they they work hard. I know it's at the end of the day, too. It can get kind of long, but they put in really good effort and they're they're trying. So, they're
doing a nice job. Read Across America, ReadAcross McCrae, and our readathon going together. We have two weeks of of activities and things. Miss Edgar's going to talk about that here in a second. We read 192,487 minutes combined from preschool all the
way up through the fifth grade. We raised over $13,000. And that money goes to pay for lysiums, author visits, uh field trips, kindergarten new shirts, new student shirts, um create a day Friday, and tons of other various activities throughout
the year. the rate of thumb falls in the perfect part of the year where things kind of we're in the dead middle of the year and everything kind of feels stagnant. So, um I think it's a good way for both teachers and students to be a part of a competition. They love seeing
their minutes go up on when we pull it up on the screen. They love watching the minutes go up. Um this year we had the author visit which the students really did love um someone coming in and sign like from books that they read in the library. Motivation part comes from the
competition that it is. So they are reading towards either stringing their teachers or making uh this year was Matt our janitor into a ice cream sundae. And then there's other
little prizes of like their class can get um like ices or freezies um a movie or hat day. Kids really look forward to it every year. They ask when the readathon and the read across the CR going to happen because they know that in the end after a few weeks they they
get to have a little fun in an assembly that get to show all their hard work. >> She'll create a little PowerPoint slide to go over how many minutes they read, how much money was raised. Then there's the slideshow also includes um names of the top readers, the top class uh
minutes of each grade level who donated the most money and then it goes into um the winners of each grade level. So either we'll silly stream their teacher or we'll dump ice cream toppings on top
of Matt. >> You're welcome. How do we do compared to undergrad level? >> I really don't. I'd rather >> So any questions for Mr. Bertram or >> So where did the money come from? They said they raised money. What
organization is? >> Uh well, Parents Club does it. Okay. >> And they go through kind of a third party. Okay. And then um families can send in money to that and then most of that comes back to parents club and then they use that to fun a lot of the activities that they do. They mentioned
the author. Okay. >> They did planetarium this fall. Uh t-shirts for all the kindergarters. All the new kids get that. Um field trip money donations. Books. They did book bingo. They didn't mention that but that first day every kid gets a book. So
things like that come back to us. All right. Looks like we have second place here. >> So, this is part of my >> Oh, this is part of yours. Well, go ahead. >> We're going to go. We're going to start with Yeah, we went to a creative writing
group uh seminar and uh 20 plus students got to go. 10 kids signed up to uh represent McCrae. And this is um our highest place winner as in the fifth and sixth grade division. She wrote a
fictional story. Um we typically don't say the names of the kids in the picture, but if the dad wants to say um her name, but she's also was our spelling be champion. So, um, very fortunate, uh, that she chooses to do
that and puts herself out there along with our other students, but, uh, she did very well finishing in second place. So, and then, um, Katie's not here, but our community ed program is just growing. It's exciting. Um, and part of community
ed, as you heard, is one of our instructors is also a board member. This is uh the karate or taekwond do the black belt testing. So you can see some of our winners. Um his all of his family
but one is now a black belt and they all passed on that night and the other daughter is a red belt. So, um, he doesn't get to see all these fun pictures, but here's, I believe, the whole class and then the other people that help with community ed, and it's
just another opportunity for our students to get involved in lifelong activities. So, that's our community ed here. Another community ad that we do is on the community garden and I'm sure everybody knows about that but they had a big meeting and uh disseminated the
plots and you can see it's all organized but the kitchen decided that they would like a plot this year and they're going to um raise items that we can then serve to our students and faculty as a way to
promote healthy you know farm to table. instead of going to the local farmers, we'll have it right here grown on our campus. So, that's that. And then the highlight, I don't know if you guys saw the grad rates are out. You can see, you
know, last year they wanted us to go to this wonderful meeting. Um, but our our five-year average, we know we're over 90%, but this year, uh, last year's graduates was 97, uh,.9. Um but we know a fluctuation of one or
two is is big for us. Uh but last year um you can see we were off the charts. So a lot of good things are going. Our students are graduating. They're feeling you know happy about themselves and their experience. As you can see from the surveys from the different class
groups, our students are doing very well. And any questions for me? No. And then lastly is our update. Science opening. No, I was worried about science. We're early. Um, but I wanted
to be early, so we get out. Uh, we now have over three candidates apply. They should hopefully be interviewing on Friday of this week or early next week. Special ed, um, we needed three. Uh, we hired, well, I mean, we hired four, but
ECSE, remember earlier the numbers, they go up and down. We got two ECSE teachers. We only currently need one based on the numbers, but the other one is also licensed for special ed. So, they're going to do a lower level. Um, they're going to meet this week to go
over all the numbers on Wednesday. >> Um, so they're all meeting to go over numbers and then they'll put names to them. So, there'll probably be a shift because we need help at ECSE because we don't know who's coming and going and we don't want to be caught with high numbers if we can proactively do that.
Um and then the science special ed. So that special ed hires are Wednesday the interviews. And then we talked about gym. So every position and then eel we've interviewed um we only had one
applicant which is more than what we previously had fully licensed. Um now the offer and we're just waiting for the formal signature. You'll have that next month but I'm very confident that you'll have that. will have unlikely won't need
any um tier one help there. Um so so for hiring we're we're ahead of the game. We're moving and the AD just so everybody knows will be um as Kim's excited about over 10 people on that committee. Um and for the first round
and on the second round and that'll be consultative. They're just going to put their score on a computer that'll send it to a spreadsheet that Kim and I will see and then I'll bring in one or two of the finalists just to meet with Kim and I and then we'll hide it from there and
bring that to you. So, but we're going to have lots of people have input because our activities director um deals with a lot of coaches and a lot of families. So, no students will be a student
normally I would but not for that position. So, it's mostly going to be advisors, uh, directors and coaches have been invited. They still have to say yes because that'll be after school on a Monday and we're not putting um money towards that. That'll be a volunteer if
you want to be part of any questions. >> All right, no questions. Next. So, 6.2 committee reports. Oh, yeah. Judge uh >> he's got his >> that came this morning. iPod bill. Those
are going to be coming out early with the rest of the packets for now on hopefully unless there's a major emergency. So, you have time to analyze that. So, I'll talk to the team and make sure everybody knows that it's due to
Kim by noon on Tuesday and she can get everything out on Tuesday and Wednesday to you guys. And then if something pops up like a somebody signs their contract and we need to get it through, then we'll just throw that in. That's an emergency, but you shouldn't have a lot
of that stuff ahead of time. So, I apologize for that. I'll work with the team to do that. Well, Jud's basically covering of course they have graduation coming up. Looks like uh FFA week um is coming up. State
FFA is next week. Um the seniors had their class trip. Where do they go? >> Okay. Then the government class went on their field trip, I guess. Um so of course May 1st is prom. coming up right here.
May 6th, FFA hosts their annual egg day at the elementary and national BPA competition. Two entrance will be going to that sixth. >> That one I know I believe is in Nashville. >> Nashville. Okay. And then graduations on
the 29th. So, um that isn't here. I'm wonder um he may want to be part of graduation. His daughter's graduating. So, maybe not. But I think um the general looked that out with with him.
>> Yep. Does anybody else would I know I have it down in board discussion, but since we're talking, does anybody else would like to help with graduation? >> I do want to. >> Yeah. And Ben, I've already talked to Ben. Okay. >> Just to make sure because I'm new and I
just wanted to make sure if you have a a son, daughter, cousin, granddaughter, grandson that we want you up there. We welcome it. So, nieces, yeah, just >> but if you want to be up there, let me
know and we'll just arrange it because those are special times. >> Um, so we want to make sure we're accommodating. to have a nice plan. >> Sounds good.
>> Okay. Anything else you want to >> It's okay. You're right. >> Oh, whether you do it or not. >> Yeah. I mean, >> okay. Uh, let's see. No committee reports. So, we did start the discussion last time about student admission fees.
Anybody put thought into that? What do you think? I think James said that our admission fees were on the lower end compared to neighboring schools. Is that right? Did I remember that correctly? >> Yeah, he said that they're lower. I don't know. He had mentioned then with
this new payment system that they were going to go to more universal, >> right? And then he talked about having that punch card that I think is underused. >> I think we need to promote that a little bit more. Um, and I know they talk about kids losing their push card, but they
don't seem to lose their cell phones. So, hang on hang on to that punch card. But anyway, >> this is Ben and we didn't know he was. Do you guys want to take >> Well, that's Yeah, I just wanted to bring it up again, but I think we he should be here for the more discussion >> if everybody's okay.
>> Yeah, >> let's bring. >> Okay. Um when you're talking about graduation um before we go to that strategic plan process, what about the school tour dates? >> Yep. So May, Tuesday and Thursday.
Um we have now ideally it works the best for the school is May 7th doing a tour in the morning and afternoon, but May 5th in the morning also works. So I know we can have three at a time.
So, if you'd like to go, do you just want to email me? I'll make a little spreadsheet and then I can put it out not this Friday but next Friday. >> Sure. >> Of what works and if Tuesday and Thursday >> just pick more like say I'm available
Thursday afternoon. I'm available Monday or Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon. >> Well, so two Thursday both sections are open >> and but only Tuesday morning is open. morning only on Tuesday >> based on the class schedule
>> maybe that's why yeah >> 1:00 >> 1:00 >> are you thinking in the morning >> um so we start at 8:30 >> y >> so we can maybe we can go as early as 8:30
to how long does the tours and nobody's asked that one yet so >> they're done they will go after lunch. So, um we'll get those times to I apologize. Nobody asked me that one. I just was told the day, but memorials
start 8:30 and then um after lunch is done at 12:30 >> or elementary. >> Yeah. Only an hour. >> Yeah, maybe two. >> I think the last the last times you eaten lunch with kids or been they will
sit there while they somebody's gone through and have been over lunch before >> or maybe you came first and had lunch and then >> I embarrassed my kids. >> So I I'll come up with some times I'll put it in there but they'll be that way
you won't have to be here right away. >> Okay. So that's the school tour that you did graduation. So we have that um request for proposals on the strategic plan. So >> yeah. So on there you should have the
four proposals that came in and then a costing sheet of what each one costs. So but thanks to some members we noticed that uh not all the sheets were scanned.
It did some only did the odd pages and then some did them all. So, I haven't quite figured that out on our copier. Thought it'd be the same, but um you now have hard copies. Uh with the C sheets clearly articulated.
Um some highlights is MSBD is not coming on site for their money. You can read that in their document. Um two north the mileage isn't included, but you can read at the back of their proposal. Home run leadership um as some pointed out that
talks about city council on one of their pages. >> So they also have the building frankly several times. >> They got true north >> a big river. It will be not their owner. It'll be the Owatana former
superintendent. He covers this area. He said he'll do a good job. Uh um home run, we get some added perks. They want to do six onsite ones over the course. So maybe that's why it's a
little bit more. Um he also has some online curriculum that we can have for a year. Big river group. um he talked he's going to want to talk to you guys individually or through email to make
sure that your views are expressed. Um so one, three, and four I like the most cuz they're all going to we're going to have a meeting opportunity. Now they don't the city doesn't have to accept but in each of our three cities the meetings won't be here. We're going to
go out to them and um one and four for sure. We'll have students invited if they have events or um we'll be >> I think we I think we get to generate some of those.
>> I mean when talking with like MSBA for that one it didn't look like she's they're kind of >> No, but I mean I think we get to drive some of the >> Yes. >> You know where we're going to be, how many meetings we would have those kinds of things are kind of or who's going to be a stakeholder.
>> Yes. Some of them articulated, you know, six meetings, one meeting, three meetings, >> right? >> Um, but they all have the same criteria to pin off of and we don't need to decide now, but you can if you want or
you can say we want to review this till next time. Yeah, >> I just find it interesting that nobody approved things and to me that's >> get it right in proposal for business.
>> We've talked about that with hiring. >> Exactly. >> Exactly. >> It's just Yeah. >> Yep. and very obvious, not just one. >> Yes. >> And they must bid out a lot
>> because homegrown leadership >> thought he was going to just outbid MSBA >> and it wasn't even close. Right. >> Um so um because one and four on your
sheets are very communive. was very kind, very nice, outgoing. Um, and some I was multiple calls to even get something and then one was is just was to the point they did their
stuff, email back and follow. But so so as you spend this month reviewing it, >> and is that uh MSBA is that they used to where they don't go on site or this is the only option.
>> That's what she she So I gave her the I let her craft the proposal because I'm very comfortable with MSBA. >> Um and then I took theirs and then we created our own RFP based on what she said. >> Y
>> and uh one and four were very impressed with the RFP. Like where did you get this? How did you come up with this? Um but so they were very complimentary. >> That disappoints me about MSB because I thought they really did a good job for
us the last year. >> And I I too was wondering if there's more that we can we ask them some questions about other options about if we would want to do it another way or we would want more, you know, is there is there an option to have some on-site stuff that kind of thing or is that just
not something we offer? Yeah, that's right. >> Or do we have to go with what they proposed? Because otherwise we're not apples to apples and we're looking at others. >> I don't know. >> They all bid the I could ask. >> Right. Right. >> But then I don't want to have to call >> because if they start asking about
pricing, I don't want to say, "Well, you're 12,000 more." >> Sure. Right. Right. No. No. It's just that sometimes when you get a proposal like this, you just, you know, there there could be pages and pages of details that go with this that we're not seeing or other options as
well. So, it' be nice. >> I think and this is different. MSBA Gale is different than MSBA Dorning. >> Oh, yeah. Right. What did it say in the RFP about what our expectations were? They didn't address our expectations.
>> Yeah. Um, so you've all got a cut. You all got to see the guy I had sent another one. It was >> that I wanted. >> So to me, McCrae is three communities. So when I, you know, community meeting means we're going to do one in each. >> Uh, they all knew I wanted, they know I want students and they know I want a
meeting in each of the three communities. >> They knew that piece. The rest was read the RFP. >> Um, but they knew how important student voice is and they know how important that every has an opportunity.
You'll just need to come here. We will go up to >> so they didn't follow that because they say one for internal stakeholders and one for external >> that was just online surveys. >> Which one? >> Ms. >> Yeah. So to them online so some of them
might do online surveys. It's reaching out to the community. >> Yeah. But I can reach out to to Dell and ask him. That's >> just to see how much more >> because it said there definitely
the outline services can be customized to specific needs. But I'm assuming that would happen with any of them. >> I mean they should be able to customize the service to their specific needs. So, >> and they they know I want to start in October. So, we'll get the school year started
>> and we could do it from October to January. >> So, that way people can be around, >> right? Because I said this is a broad of our strategic planning. Yeah. And I noticed some of them already give you a little sample of a meeting agenda and stuff like that. And I thought, well,
that's just all an example of what can be done, right? So, Well, I would like some more time. >> And if you have something you want me to reach out and ask, I won't do anything this week. And then if you guys have different
questions, then I can call them. They've all been good about that. Um, True North was the second person. At first it was I forgive her name but we got her name from
one of their partners reached out. Yeah, we asked them to do >> um she wasn't busy so we got somebody else. Um but they they've been very responsive but um one and four are very responsive but
just like you heard um four has called this the city council >> it's so and they're they're out of the it's expensive number one as groups they can lower their cost but I told him I wasn't going to talk about that because
then I'm not comparing every Not everybody could. >> So, we'll just bring it up. >> Yep. >> Okay. Okay. So on seven, we've got um
donations from the Dave Hook Memorial Music Department for $1,000, $10 to max and memory and the Brady High memorial benches for me sports and track. So I need a motion
to accept those donations. John second. >> Go ahead. >> Do it tomorrow. >> All right. Any discussion on that. >> Those in favor of accepting those donations say I. >> That's a resolution. Resolution. >> I missed that. I'm sorry.
>> Okay. I thought maybe it wasn't on here. >> Yep. My bad. >> Okay. So then >> yes >> John Martin I'm sorry >> yes >> John yes >> yes >> and I'm in yes as well so >> okay good all right upcoming meetings
are listed on the sheet there so I'll need a motion to adjourn carell says >> okay and John says okay those in favor to adjourn say I
name we are journ at 708 Okay.