I could have finished an entire lecture by this time. >> Always been working. >> Ready, Dan? >> Welcome to the November 10th, 2025 Independent School District 152 school board meeting. I am calling this meeting
to order. I'll start on my left. >> Mark present. Present. >> Present. >> Vote. Present. >> Thank you. Item B. Can we stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Preview of agenda item C. Dr. Wick. Uh, there are no additions or corrections. I recommend approval.
>> Thank you, Cassidy. >> Move to approve the meeting agenda as presented. >> Dave, >> I'll second. I have a motion by Cassidy, second by Dave. move to approve the meeting the agenda as presented. Any further discussion from the board? Seeing none, all those in favor signify
by saying I. >> I. >> Those opposed, same sign. Your motion carries. Item E, public forum. It looks like we have no requests for public forum tonight. >> Thank you, De. Item two, consent agenda. All items
under the consent agenda are considered to be to the school board at least two days prior to the meeting. The items will be enacted by one resolution. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a school board member sole request in which event that item will be
removed from this from this agenda and considered under separate resolution. To the extent possible, schoolboard member inquiries on consent agenda items are to be made directly to the district administration prior to the time of the meeting. Under item A, superintendent, we have number one, approval of the
October 27th, 2025 school board meeting minutes. Item B, business and administrative services. We have item number one, medical leave. Item number two, change of contract. Item number three, resignations. Item number four, new employees. Item number five,
Minnesota State High School League Foundation Grant. This is an action item, Dave. I'll move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Thank you, Cassidy. >> A second. >> Have a motion by Dave, seconded by Cassidy. Move to approve the consent
agenda as presented. Any further discussion from the board? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed, same sign. That motion carries. Item three, new business. Under A, we
have 2024 2025 comprehensive community education report. Linda Richmond, >> thank you. Um, we'll be uh reporting on our our uh last year, the 20242 um school year and um we've got Joel
Hoffler and Jess Row and Tammy Shots um here with us to talk about that. Um if you want to advance to the next slide, I'll just do a quick introduction here. As you guys know, Minnesota has a separate fund for community ed. And the
purpose that the state um funds community education is to maximize the use of both our buildings but also the human resources of the of the community. So I I think that's pretty cool to um some of the amazing talents that we have in the community are are um able to be
um highlighted by our our programs. Next slide, please. Um our our programs take place in Vista Center for Education and Propesfield Center for Education and and um each of the programs will talk a little bit um more about their location as they dive into their program a little
bit more. Um in addition across um our community education programs, we have uh quite a few publications um that we um produce each year. We do 11 kids source magazines and and they um go home with K
through sixth grade students as well as there's electronic um versions that go in the newsletters for each of the um schools and that is all of the opportunities in the area for for um kids. So any um event um educational um
um athletic um recreational um events for families. Our parenting press is our um ECF um program catalog and um just two years ago we revamped that and made it four color and Joelle does a really
nice um parenting article in it every year and we we have some good advertisers um in that as well. And then our community education catalog. Um this is a a heavy lift three times a year um but lists all of our classes. um 50,000
copies go out throughout the Fargo Morehead community and a lot of people look forward to getting that um every year. Um so we do sell ads um to be placed in the publications. Um so last year that brought in about $30,820.
We do a lot of other promotions as well. Um the mobile app, the website through social media and um then targeted um audiences as well. Also, there's a couple of samples of that. And before we jump into our specific programs, I also want to do a shout out.
Um, these women in front of you are amazing in their field and um, we received several of them received some pretty pretty uh, significant recognition this year. Um, Tammy Shots was um, awarded the 2024 human rights
award by the city of Morehead um, last year. So, just a really huge um shout out to the impact that she makes um in our community and um especially with our new American populations and um just a really really great um recognition of of
her gifts. And then um just a week ago um Joelle received the region 7 community educator of excellence award at our um Minnesota community educate education association meeting. Um so really really cool to um be able to
recognize her there and and for her to be recognized um amongst her peers across the state. Um and the um AB program received the seed community partner um for 2025 um at Hamlin University. We were nominated by um
Concordia for that and um Tammy will tell you a little bit more about that. some some really um excellent um recognition um you know just showing showing the uh professionalism and and the um effectiveness of the programs um
that we're doing and the people that we have in place. So so um these ladies are excellent and they'll each go through their um area and and let you know the highlights over the last year. >> Thank you for coming tonight ladies. >> All right, thank you. I'll go first. I'm
Joel Hoffer. Like she said, I'm the director of early learning. And I'll talk about our early childhood programs. We have Jumpstar Preschool, which has seven classrooms located at Probesfield along with one classroom at Mor High School Career Academy, um, which that
class collaborates a lot with the high schoolers or some with the high schoolers and doing some different things with their child development type classes. They've done stuff with their art classes, food nutrition classes. Um, and the little friends love when their big friends come. So that's been a fun
collaborative opportunity. Our big new last year that was a change in early learning was we received a voluntary prek grant from the state of Minnesota which was offered um to us to provide a full day preschool classroom and transportation which eliminated a lot of
barriers for families to 20 students serving our most at risk. So, we put our 20 most at risk students in one classroom with a two teachers and a pair professional. Um, and it was an amazing opportunity. The results we saw from
September through May were phenomenal. Um, obviously there's still growth to go, but when you look at each individual, we were able to send those 20 kids off ready to learn in kindergarten. So, that was kind of fun. We have it again this year and have
again started and I keep telling the teachers that we've seen huge growth already and I promise you they'll be ready in May because it's a it's a lot in the fall. Um but it's been a fun and successful start to the year. We at the end of last year we had 308 students
enrolled in Jumpstart and all of our classrooms um are inclusive meaning they're taught um by both a general education teacher and a special education teacher. out of the 18 students in the most of the classrooms with the exception of BPK about eight of
the students are on an IEP of of some sort. So these are demographics um of our program. It's very diverse programs. If you go into the classrooms and look that top picture is a picture of the food um
program with the career academy. They did a patterning with some different groups. We have a lot of outreach that we do in early learning because we know meeting those families and and giving a positive start to the Morehead School is important. So, we collaborate with our
district liaison. We have a district family literacy um outreach person. We have uh learning literacy coaches. Early childhood screening is required by the state of Minnesota um for all students beginning at age three and we really push that priority to the
three-year-olds to catch them if there are any concerns prior to um kindergarten. ECF is our other early learning program. They serve classes or provide classes for children birth through kindergarten entry and can go up to third grade. So
we do offer a class in the afternoon for kids for parents so they can bring their older kids to it. Also popular last year um we've offered a maps class targeting our maps employees to come to early ECF classes and that really has grown a lot.
So that's been a fun addition and offer and letting them collaborate with other staff members that they may not work with. Um our toddler classes are huge right now which that's that's the group we're hitting I guess. And then we have collaborated with a BIPO play group that was in the area and are now offering
that as an ECF class also. Um we have home visitors. We reach out to public health. We uh go into Churches United, the juvenile detention center. Um 137 classes were offered last year and last year we also collaborated with one of the MEL classes that had some teen
parents in it to provide some teen parenting. Hello, I am Jess Ro. I am the coordinator for youth and adult enrichment programs, Unity Ed. Um, this is just a breakdown of last year. Um, we had 627 course offerings. We had 4,841
class participants broken down by youth and adult. We've got some community partners that we work with. They offer classes for us and bring their expertise expertise to our um community members. So, um it's great to have different visions and different people on board um
with us to work with. Um these are the new programs that we offer this year for the youth enrichment side. We've got some pictures of our little kiddos working hard. Um here's our adult adult enrichment programs. Some new ones that are coming down or that came down the pike last
year. Um this year we've got quite a new um uh vast array of different things that are coming um as well that we're excited about. Um I deal a lot with the learning bank. Um this is a presentation that is offered
for first through fifth graders in the Fargo Morehead and West Fargo area. For those of you who don't know, we had 13,027 school participants um last year, 36 schools and we had hundreds of buses and a lot of fun with the kids. So um
that is another big lift with a lot of people and a lot of schedules that get jumbled around and a lot of people are affected, but it is such a great day and such a and then we have some participant participant feedback um from some of our classes that we've offered as well.
Hi, I'm Tammy Shots. I direct the adult education program. Uh, the thing that we do most within the community is we are working to um empower adults in their transition into um post-secary into training or into the workforce. Um, and
that's typically done either through um, English acquisition classes or um, the adult education HSSE or high school equivalency where my team is helping them to perhaps earn a high school diploma um, an adult diploma or a GED
diploma um, in our program. Um, next slide. As I've shown you before, um we are a team of I have 14 part-time staff that are stretching across service across five counties. Um we represent 13 school districts and we are programming
in seven sites. Um Vista being our primary one. Um very small part-time programming in Holly, Barnesville, Breenidge, um we Fergus Falls is a little bit more robust and then the Klay County Jail. um we contract with them to
offer services in the jail. And they do have one team member that does go into West Central Juvenile Detention Center. Um if individuals are um deemed academically ready, then he goes in and and works through the process of getting
them age waiverss so that they can take a GED um diploma. Um AB is is a fund for program as Brenda said. Um we are fortunate because we are 90% funded by the state of Minnesota. Um but we are 10% funded by the federal
government. So um as you may see the current administration isn't always um fully on board with AB. So there there does um exist some uncertainty in federal funding um down the road for the
26 27. So um next slide. We work to really engage our students with the greater community. Um we can see pictures here. Some of you may know Matt Naga who had been with the district previously. Um he is a workforce
workforce development specialist for Sentia. Um here there's a photo of him coming in. He and his colleague come in and help with exploring career pathways for our students um and job opportunities. So that's the students in the computer lab working with him. The
next picture down is is my teacher Lynette in Wheaten. Um and then the bottom shows last year's lovey um flyers because one of the things that we work to do is to engage our students with um the voting process. Many of them are new
voters um and it is so fun when they get to have Dr. Lunik come over um and they want to take pictures with him. They want to learn. Um so that has been very exciting and we just did something similar um just before the last
election. So um some of the data uh 333 students those are individuals who've engaged 12 hours or more. Um that's a slight uptick couple dozen students um or year over last. Uh contact hours are how we are funded. We are up about 2,000
hours year over last there. the the countries and the languages again are probably going to mirror our regular K12 buildings or pre-K12 um because our students are often the parents of those those um K12 students. Um, next thing is
the regional online career collaborative classes. And I know that I've mentioned these before. Um, but what these are, it's a partnership between AB programs across the northern twothirds of Minnesota. Um, we get federal money um, to each region. And so we have partnered
together to offer up more robust classes. Everything from English for driving that's what Kyle teaches um to paraprofessional certification to um preced Microsoft Office Specialist.
There's a whole um plethora of classes that people can take for free and it takes a little bit of weight off my students not having to instruct that within the classroom. Um and then just this this past summer, Casey Hatlav, one of my um HSSE instructors, became the
coordinator of this position. So, she is um helping to to get this um keep this rolling. And last year, um we had four of the MAPS um Perez were certified in our program last fall. Um here's again a few more pictures of connecting with the
community. the top picture with what looks like a school picture. That is my team with the career force um teams from both Morehead and Fergus Falls. Um we have an all staff each year where we come together and talk about how to best
serve our shared clients. Um so those are my students. I said it really does look like we're only in fourth grade, but that's that's the picture. And so we just troubleshoot client um case management, things like that and share out information. On the bottom picture is a picture of the MAT bus. All of my
staff are um travel trainer certified through Matt Bus. So they work to make sure that our students know how to get to and from school and can contact Matt Bus and get free 10 ride passes when doing so. The bottom center picture um
was a we had a health care or health careers and wellness fair this winter. Um and that's an MSTate MSTate booth that they are practicing like blood draws and phbotomy. So I kind of stayed away from that one but the students really enjoy that kind of stuff because
not all of them are set up to go into like a 4-year university. Sometimes they need like a little shorter programs. Top is Dr. Lisa Tumi. She's a community engagement person at Concordia College. Um she embeds service learning into her
program and it is wildly successful. The students do not want to come in the beginning. They are afraid, they are nervous. Um but by the end they just have the best time. So, um, she has been a a a true blessing to our program in
her dedication to immerse the Concordia students with our AB students over storytelling and kind of a narrative for type situation. And in the bottom corner, uh, Lori Natson works with the TRIO program. She's employed by UND but offices at Penn State and she comes over
and works with my high school equivalency teachers um to help students navigate that transition into college filling out FAFSA, that kind of thing. And as Bren mentioned um we did have some awards. I'm not someone who likes to to talk about this kind of a thing,
but um I was nominated um and received the award for the human rights um for the city of Morehead last year in education. Um, and this is a picture of my team with Dr. TUI. Um, and she was the one behind it was a college nominated president's award. Um, and she
was the one that nominated us for that. So, we went down to Hamlin and I went down to Hamlin and received the award and Brenda joined me. So, that's it. >> Thank you and congratulations on your award. Any questions from the board?
Okay. >> Um what is the budget for adult basic ed? >> About a half a million. >> Okay. And then uh for Brenda um you it said on their publications had a revenue
of $30,820 in ad revenue. Is that profit? Is that straight profit or is that what do we spend? Yeah. So, so what that does is is offsets the cost of printing and I I would say that that's
probably about 60% of what we spend on printing. >> So we spend about 20 or >> so no more. >> So we probably said spend about 70 or $75,000 a year in in printing of those all of those publications together.
>> Thank you. >> Go ahead. >> We had some friends and associates from the Minneapolis St. Paul area and interested in education and and all the things that all of you do and uh we have a table where we have a lot of uh a lot of your materials and a lot of the
school materials there and they were just simply wowed. It was great. It was just I was really proud of who we were and proud of all of you. So you impressed those uh Minneapolis folks. Way to go. >> Yes. >> Anything else from the board?
Thank you so much for coming. It was a very interesting presentation and thank you for all the work you do. >> Item B, resolution canvasing returns of votes of the school district special election. Dr. >> Yes. Thank you. So last uh Tuesday
evening we had a vote and uh tonight as a result of that vote uh one of the roles you have as a school board was to uh certify these results. And uh just to give you a little summary, uh question one had 7,5
voters with 4206 voting in favor and 2799 voting uh against. And question two had 6997
total voters with 3,986 voting in favor and 3,11 voting against. And uh that's the summary that you'll see on the following pages uh throughout your resolution
here. first broken down on page 48 by the total vote uh for question one and two and then on page 49 and page 50 breaking it down by uh ward uh in terms
of uh how we uh set up uh voting or polling places. So tonight, as part of uh your role, we would appreciate that uh you approve the resolution uh for the results of uh Tuesday's
election. >> Keith, make a motion. I move to approve the resolution canvasing returns of votes of the Independent School District 152 special election abstract and return of votes cast the clerk certificate. as to
the abstract and return of votes cast for the school district special election held on November 4th, 2025 and directing the school district clerk to perform other election related duties for the school district number 152 special education as presented. Special election.
>> Special election. >> Special. What did I say? Education. >> Education. >> Election. >> Thank you, >> Cassidy. >> I'll second. >> Have a motion by Q, second by Cassidy. Move to approve the resolution canvasing return of independent school district number
152, special election, abstract and return of votes cast. the clerk's certifi certificate as to the abstract and return of votes cast for the school district special election held on November 4th, 2025 and directing the
school district clerk to perform other election related duties for the school district number 152 special election as presented. Any discussion on this? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I.
>> I. Those opposed, same sign. That motion carries. Item C, enrollment of projections. Dr. Baylor, >> thank you. I'll just wait for the presentation to come up. Um, so tonight we present uh our November 1st our
November 1st enrollment numbers and then what that looks like um for projections. Um I'll also note that the business office uses um as we look at these projections we present to you today how many students were enrolled as of November 1st. Um and the business office
average daily membership. So those numbers can vary um but we use these numbers um in planning as well. So you you use both of them um kind of together to make some of those some of those decisions. So when we look at our enrollment projections uh we look at
what are our fiveyear what are what's our fivey year history and what are trends. So um in looking at the next 5 years, we look at the previous 5 years. Like I said, we use it for budget development. Um but again, today is showing how many kids we had on November 1st, how many we had enrolled. We'll also look at our average daily
membership when we were looking at budget. And that's how Cam um and his team would look at um planning for the budget is the average daily membership. Um we may look at it for planning uh facility needs. And we also look at um in these decisions like or in this
presentation what is what does our community look like? What are the economic conditions? Um what's the strength of our local community? Um what are our h what is what does our housing look like? Do we have any new industries? Um so when we look at enrollment or consider those in budget that's we look at all of those pieces.
Um so as of um November 1st uh we had 73 um60 students. Um if you note we started at 7378. We had a drop in October and then we came back up again. And if we look at last year um we had a slight
increase into October and then we started uh dropping. So um it is a little abnormal to come up in students um but not a not a bad thing. Um, and there's a couple interesting pieces as we go through um, our enrollment that I'll point out.
Um, grades K through 4, we started at 2761 for students. Um, and as you see, there is an increase to 2769. We have seen that um, as we I know we talked um, I believe it was last board meeting about adding some support at
kindergarten at one of the buildings. Um, and so we do see a little bit of an increase, but we do see a trend. K4 um in some uptick in the last few years um is where we're seeing some growth. But it's also worth noting that if we look at last year, we have fewer kids this
year than we had last year. Um grades 58. Um again, slight uptick here, but we've got some larger, you know, some of those larger mobile classes as well. Um so starting at 2267 and remaining relatively stable at 2262. And remember when we talk about
enrollment um we might we talk about this at the beginning um when we talk about opening enrollment but it's important to note that although our numbers may stay the same or they may eb and flow that we have a lot of in and out during the school year. So even though you may say um you could see an increase or you can see a reduction
throughout the year that doesn't mean that we've reduced only by 200 students. We may have reduced by far more. We may have added more far and more but it really is um a fluctuating number. And then grade 912 um so starting the year at 2350 and currently sitting at
2329. Um it's important too as we look at these numbers um especially the elementary numbers but our elementary principles and their administrative assistants along with the enrollment have worked really hard to make sure that we know who's coming back. And I think that's reflected in the last uh five years as we see what our opening is
and we we haven't seen such a significant drop in the last two years because we have a better idea who's of who's coming back. Um and communicating with those families to make sure that um that we're not dropping so many within the first 15 days because we just simply didn't know they weren't coming. So that
has uh been a coordinated effort. And then of course this year we had the online academy. So we're showing two years of data for that. um just in its current um as it looks a little different than when we ran it um in 2020 2021. Um last year of course was
supported by another organization. This year supported by us and so we have seen uh quite an uptick um in those numbers from September, October, November as we work through that new process. >> Are the are these people kids that are already in Morhead or are they
potentially kids that came from outside Morhead? >> I'm going to let Jerry speak. So for this first year, we only took more ed students. So these are all current kids that were online somewhere else or through that are now completely
with us. So we have not yet to other districts yet. Uh as we wanted to make sure we kind of were added in the right before we expanded. >> So they were in the classroom like they're 28 in September. Now they're 61. So they're in the classroom prior to
>> that growth. Yes. But 28 to 61 is all our kids and all the 28 most of them came from little town last year. >> Thank you. >> So the breakdown of students is in uh the upper right hand corner. And then if we look at enrollment by
grade um so this is kindergarten through grade 12 um but the next one shows it by enrollment highest to lowest. Um, so we did see grade three uh peak up above grade 12. If you remember when we did our opening enrollment, um, grade 12 was was high. And I want to I also want to
note again that some of our grade 12 growth also has to do with some of our all our alternative services. Um, and so we have seen a little bit of of growth there, but of course um it's it's better when your kindergarten is higher than uh
your upper level grade levels. And as we watch our enrollment over the next we will have to adjust for that. And then these are our projections. So um as of uh November 1st 2025 uh we are showing 7 7360
students. And so we look at the prior 5 years to look at the following five years um to look at what our projections will be for 26 27 27 28 uh 28 29 2930 and 3031. And so if you know last year our
projections were 7373 so we are 13 below what we projected. Um but remember we also look last year at average daily membership as we uh budget plan for example. So this is one piece of data that we look um at and I think as we looked at last year um last year we had
a uh we remain relatively steady. There was a year or two prior where um we were much lower than we planned on being and we've we've uh pushed up a little but we do continue to have some of those um bubble classes. But again, remember as we talked about opening enrollment, our
opening enrollment to today, November's enrollment has remained relatively steady um and a little better than it has uh previous years. >> Mhm. >> Besides um private schools, do we have an idea how many of our uh students who
are members of our community who are open enrolled in other districts? >> Oh yes. Um and I believe we talked about that in opening and we can uh provide that. It is we do have relatively significant outward enrollment but we do
have some inward enrollment as well and we would have to get those specific numbers. I don't show as a part of this um as a part of this presentation with the exception of um I'll jump to it. Um here's our 04 but here's our private
school and our homeschool enrollment. So you can see um as we sit in 2025, we've actually our our private and homeschool enrollment has decreased slightly. Um uh and my question is really related to I I
had heard a news piece of uh districts that that where levies didn't pass. Uh one of the things on the table was uh not allowing open enrollment. Is that something a district can do? >> Yes. And um because we are an
achievement integration district, we have to remain uh we have to have open enrollment but we can do certain grade levels. >> I'm I'm glad we have open enrollment. What I'm saying is people who have left us are are there schools that can say to sorry you can't be with us. Is that is
that a possible thing to do? >> So they come back you mean? >> Yeah. So, a district if they choose to if they're a if they're an ANI district or they border an ANI district, uh it's harder to say no, but the board can close certain sections if they believe
that they are full in those sections. Um we haven't gone that route yet. Um we haven't felt we needed to. Uh, plus with us being an ANI district that, uh,
it's difficult to do that. So, um, >> I'm not sure if I'm I'm catching, but what I'm talking about is whether those students can come back to us. >> Yes. >> Yes, they can. >> They can. Yeah. >> Yep. >> I would say this slide in particular is um not that we don't have students that
move around regionally, but this is a large amount of our outward um enrollment. >> Y I would also say that our open enrollment out is I don't want to say it's artificially inflated because I want to just bring
you to the DGF situation that we're in where our boundary >> is in Dworth on the on what I would say the east side of Dworth and so you have a lot of homes over there and their
intent is to buy a home in Dworth and and attend the Dworth Glendon Feldon public schools. Um when they find that they they um they can't because that's considered a Morehead um or they can't excuse me.
>> Uh when they find that they have to open enroll when you when you look at those numbers a lot of those folks that open and roll out of our district are in that area. So um when you ask the question when you look at straight statistics on
out versus in that's a large port a part of where and a lot of what uh we see in terms of open enrollment that it is in the it is in the Dworth area the majority of them not all of them but
most of them if that makes sense. Yep. >> I'm just going through these are just the graphs of the of the smaller uh table that we looked at. And then this um in reference to watching how many kids we have um going
out versus how many kids we have coming in. And of course, we would like that green line to be above that zero line. Um K4, as we talked about with open enrollment, right? If you have a bubble class, if you have a large kindergarten class, then the next year you adjust to have a large first grade class. So that's where we see some of the
movements in the classes. Um and then how to plan for that um 58 and 912. Uh those are decisions we look at uh November enrollment and potential projections as we start making staffing plans uh for
um again K4 class size as well as you know what that looks like for program offerings 58 and 912 and then our uh total ages uh 04 to kinderg um she similar in our in our projection
She has a formula as well that she looks at projections. Um Cam um and his team in how they look at projections through average daily membership. They can all also look at average birth rate which can be interesting on a border city to try to get um accurate data across um
from across the river. Um so but that is that is part of that discussion about how is our community doing? Uh what's the health of the community? was the academic economics of the community as we look at this as well. And again, here was our our private school and our
homeschool enrolling moment. And then we would stand for additional questions. There's been some good ones tonight. Any questions? Doesn't look like there's any questions for you. Okay, thank you so much for that
presentation. I'm sure it'll continue to go up or down at times. So, LMD comprehensive achievement and civic readiness annual report. Dr. Larson. So, this is um our annual report. Um Dean is
going to pull it up. Um this also serves as our comprehensive achievement and civic readiness report for the state which was formerly known as world's best workforce. Uh they changed that name uh this past year. Uh so again you just slide the second page here. So again
here's kind of what is in this report we use every year. Uh again it is what we use for um comprehensive achievement civic readiness. Kind of shows what our district strategic priorities are. um a district profile as well as then just
kind of what each building's school goals are, any celebrations they may have tied to their school improvement plan. So, it's our annual yearly report uh based on again the 2425 school year. Uh the school profiles are kind of their goals for 2526. So, it's kind of a mix
that we'll use each school year. Um if you go to page four, so here again is the components of uh the comprehensive achievement and civic readiness that we need to report to NBE each year. Um you see there's five components uh
kindergarten readiness, the achievement gap, preparing students to be lifelong learners. um that replaced if you remember the read well by third grade uh when letters came in under the read act that kind of replaced that graduation and then college and
career readiness. Uh so kindergarten readiness is kind of our first goal. Um we work with if you want to go to the next page again we work uh with Joel that just talked about uh to work through this. This is probably the most difficult to control
for us as we really don't know what preschool programming they may do uh when they come in. And so, uh, our fall assessment as kindergarteners, uh, we can really see the importance of early childhood, uh, for students that, uh, whether they're with our program or a
different program and students that did not. Um there's there's a vast vast gap there that um we can recognize, but uh our early childhood teachers uh have been uh right in line with uh the letters training um and some of the the ch the work we're doing with the read
act in regards to Hagerty and Smwells. Uh but we use uh the PY the preschool early literacy indicators as kind of our internal data. Um, and again, our goal is always that we want at least 80% of our input students to be kindergarten
ready. Um, and last year we were but in the 60s and 70s. So again, we're we're we're right there. Uh, we're excited what we're doing, but again, we really don't have control on what preschool students have when they come. But this is still one of the data points that we have to submit to the state is
kindergarten readiness. Uh, next one, reducing reducing the achievement gap. Um and then you can just go right to the next page. So this one again is based uh on our MCA scores uh that we report. Um if you look at all
the areas uh there are 22 different subgroups. If you look at the reading and math uh we grew in 15 of the 22 subgroups. Uh and the ones that we didn't we basically uh were right where we were before. So we we kind of flatlined or we didn't go backwards. uh
but we did increase in uh 15 of the 22. So this is all based on the MCA >> is the is the percentage here the percentage that's in that >> it's the percent that meets or exceeds uh what the cut score is. So it's the proficiency rate.
>> Okay. Yeah. Thank you. >> Y so again um for the majority of them 15 of the 22 uh had an increase from last year in their proficiency rates. Um, so we're excited on where we're going. Danny, if you go back a page, uh,
that's just some again the changes that we've done over the last two years with the read act um, and the trainings we are doing. Uh, we are also, uh, starting to look at math as the new math standards will be coming the 27th school
year. And so we're just starting the process of aligning uh, the current standards to the new ones. Um, and then we are almost completely trained in AVMR with all of our elementary teachers. So, we should have uh by the end of this
year all but maybe five teachers that are not trained in AVMR. So, again, it's just another tool that we're trying to get to help with the math achievement side. Uh, which is another assessment much like kind of the writer's side for the read act. So, we're we're progressing in the right direction.
again uh 15 of the 22 uh showed growth. Um and so we're continuing to work through and push that. Next one, preparing students to be lifelong learners. Uh this one is all right now literacy based. Uh this is again replaced uh the read well by third
grade. So we use all of our internal data for this uh measurement. So it's not necessarily one that uh goes to the state uh but we are measuring it uh with our lettering fluency nonsense word fluency um in the oral reading fluency
um and we have set internal scores of again 80% students uh we had 87% met in the nonsense word fluency and we were in the 60s for the other ones. So we met with the nonsense word fluency for that first grade target. um letter
naming and oral reading fluency uh we're still working on, but this is a big one with the readact. Uh we should be complete with phase one training this school year for the readact. Um and then we will begin phase two training, which is all of our ELA teachers in grades 5
through 12. So, um we're we're really excited on where we are. Uh we're in year two of our new literacy curriculum as well as at the high school is working through that. So, um, we're progressing. Uh, we're not at 80% for all three target points. Uh, but again, we did
make it in the first grade target of nonsense word fluency. Graduation rate. Um, I just my fault. I just noticed that that 83.4%. That is our fiveyear graduation rate, not four year. So, uh, last year the the
district had an 83 for the high school 83.2%. um the district had 83.4% and then the sevenyear is 90.4%. So they kind of have a multiple measurements. Um we the state is trying to use the 7-year
graduation rate uh as uh the north star reporting for ALC's. Uh currently if you are under 60% we get targeted for support. Our ALC did not make 60%. However, their seven-year rate is so we're trying to get that transition to
see if we can switch that to the seven-year. Uh but currently uh those are our graduation rates for the high school and then again the five and the seven graduation rate uh for the district >> and they start calculating the students when they go grade. Correct.
>> Yep. Once you start nth grade that's your cohort. Um, and so then, uh, the setting year would have been students for 2025 to 2018. So, freshman 2018 would make up this seven-year cohort. Yeah.
And then the five-year that would be as Christian just talked about why we have a big uptick in seniors. If they have that fifth year to graduate, they stay here, they count as a senior. So that's where your your fifth year graduation would be a little higher because they are still here as a senior but it's
their fifth year. >> Also like the kids who stay until they're 21 to be counted as seniors after that >> that being that five to seven year rate. Yep. Majority of our uh 5 to sevenyear rate students though
would transition to the ALC for the high school diploma, right? But they'd still be part of the district rate. So that's just kind of a change. Uh and then the last one, we're just working through this. Um we have to report college and career life ready. Dan, you want to pull
that up? We are transitioning working with technology um to create a new uh high school report card we're calling it. So in uh some looks with um the national um association uh there's a
group called redefining ready um and they through research have found that students that meet certain criteria uh are either college ready or career ready. And so we are this year's last year's graduating class will be our
baseline report uh to come up with what that number is and that will be what we use coming forward. So what the research shows if you are college ready um you have proficiency scores in either the ACT or the MCA scores or you see that
there's four different areas. Uh you meet two of those four. So um you may have a GPA of 2.8 create your algebra 2 as an indicator uh for college success and then AP concurrent enrollment and so we will look that we're working with
technology to see out of our 500 graduates how many have met that that would be our number that is college ready. On the flip side research shows for career readiness. Um the attendance rate your freshman year uh is a big
indicator on career success and so uh we'll use that indicator. Uh how many activities you were involved in. Uh workbased learning. Uh the completion of programs of study, we just rolled those out kind of this year. So we know that's going to be a couple years before we
have students failing to complete those. >> Wow. >> Um certification programs. Um, and then the new college completion of the campus compass program with our freshmen there. If you meet at least three of those, the research shows that you are career
ready. So then when we have that on that top part, we'll be able to have the number of how many students are both college and career, college or career. And that'll kind of be our guide uh moving forward for the states um that we need to submit for students that are
either college or career ready. So this last year's graduating class will give us our baseline data. Uh and tech is working to create a report on that so that we will have that moving forward. >> Go ahead.
>> Um are you talking about this with the students? >> Uh we talked about with the department chairs. We haven't really rolled it out with the students yet because it's just so new. Yeah. >> Um but yeah, >> but you will be tapping into it. >> They they've got the components of it. We've talked about the programs of
study. Um, all freshmen now this year uh have to complete uh a 4-year plan with Compass. That's a new program. Um, so there's components that we've talked about. Uh, the attendance rate is a huge part of the bar process for all our nth graders. Uh, but we haven't rolled this
specific out to the students yet. No, >> I'm just saying I think that it's going to be highly motivating for kids to see that, oh, this like matters for my life, you know, like Thank you, Keith. >> The one that sticks out to me is the uh
uh attendance rate for freshman year is eight times uh more predictive than test scores um with a 90% attendance rate. So that goes back to the just get the kids to class. >> Yep. But yeah, so we are we're excited to get
this uh and then it's just um be another thing that u Mr. Hey can kind of share with the staff on where we're at uh with some of the programming decisions we'll do. But that will be another component that we submit with um MDE moving forward.
Um moving on to um again the next page just lists our strategic priorities. Uh the district profile a lot of this uh Kristen went over with her enrollment. Uh so if you like that page right here when we pulled it was actually a little different than the number sheet just
presented um as they fluctuate. Um the next go that one right there. So this kind of is a nice one just to see we currently have 63 different languages um in our district. Um one thing that we are just moving forward with we
implemented uh something called reach my teach this year. If you've ever got texts as a parent, um it's a new way where you can kind of communicate with it. We are moving forward. Dean might be able to tell you name with an interpretive interpretation
interpreters uh through that program that is actually going to expand uh what we currently have. Uh we're just kind of finalizing and purchasing that. Uh but we're excited just with how many languages we have kind of having a tool for teachers uh to be able to uh have a
discussion with all families and so uh we're working to try to get that as soon as we can uh implement it with what reach might teach but again this is just a breakdown of kind of the diversity we have in our buildings as well uh as just those 63 home languages.
uh just some staff information on the breakdown again for that and then we start getting into the last pages which again is all the schools. So these are this year's goals um and just some celebrations that each school puts down uh with the hard work and the
different things they been they've been doing. Um and we have that for every single uh one of our schools except MOSA with it being so new. We just didn't have a uh for the online academy yet. we will moving forward. Uh but this is kind of their school improvement goals and
then some celebrations that they put. Any questions? Keith um just comment on I think Dan on slide 86. Uh, I appreciate you kind of pointing out the um I know that the growth in
minority staff has been something that has been a hot topic for many many many years. Um, obviously still work to do there, but it's it's good to see that there's some progress that has happened there. So, I appreciate that. Um, and then I just wanted to say that report card thing that you presented with you
and your staff and all the folks involved with that, I think to Lor's point, that's exciting to see and I'm I can't wait to see what that develops into because it seems like that's a a really good way to record that and capture that. So, appreciate that effort.
>> Thank you. Anything else from the board? Okay, this is an action item. Do I have a motion, Keith? Move to approve the comprehensive achievement and civic readiness 202425 annual report on curriculum instruction and student achievement with the
district and school profiles as presented. >> Cassidy, >> a second a motion by Keith, second by Cassidy. Move to approve the comprehensive achievement and civic readiness 2024 2025 annual report on curriculum instruction and student achievement with the district and school
profiles as presented. There any further discussion from the board? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Those oppose, same sign. That motion carries. Item E, 2026, health insurance renewal and approval of third party
administrative. >> Um, thank you. Uh, tonight, uh, the health insurance committee has recommended 9% increase for current health insurance rates based on our historical and expected claims data, um, effective January 1st, 2026.
And uh I want to remind everyone that it isn't a straight 9% across plans. It's a 9% um aggregate increase across plans. And also note that the 3,300 plan moves up to a 3,400 plan uh when you look at indexing that plan. This year is also a
year that we have to identify a third party administrative services. Um and so as the team looked at uh the bid process, we go up for bid for those pro for those um for those services. Um, we looked at something a little different this year as we looked at at the bids.
Um, previously Health Partners did our third party uh for both medical and stop-loss, I should say all three, medical stop-loss and pharmacy. And this year, um, in reviewing the bids, we're looking at remaining with health partners, which is important, uh, from a
continuity standpoint for our employees, but looking at something different for stop-loss and, uh, pharmacy and moving to a company called Crumbdale, who handles that as a separate third party, um, and helps manage the risk through that third party. Um, a couple things that I want to mention. Um, 9% um, is
because we have a very well-managed plan and we have good reserves. our claims data would actually show that we potentially could um take more than 9%. But the committee takes all of that into account. Um currently if we look at stop loss and stop loss is stop-loss is kind
of the reinsurance. It's the insurance on top of this insurance for really high claimments. Um so we always ensure those high claimments so that your um so that your plan isn't significantly affected when you have those really expensive claims which happen. Um and so when you
look at that um some of those increases are 15 to 18% and some of them are as high as 30 to 50% in the market. Um so remaining under 9% in some of those plans is is really important and really good and it's a really it's a well-managed plan. Um medical trend is
also on the rise. So um that is anywhere as low as 7 to 8% upwards of 14%. Um and if you look in the state of Minnesota quite frequently you're seeing 14 15 20 upwards of 30% increases on health insurance um to organizations just like
ours and um so that that is important. The other thing that I will always mention is that health partners and national insurance services are always really impressed by our pharmacy. We have one of the highest
uh usages of generic pharmacy um across national insurance services book of business. Um so that is a really man well-managed part of our plan which is important because pharmacy can be very expensive and it can sneak up on you awfully quickly. Um and so um that is
important to note. So, um, when we look at all of that, the committee decided, um, with NIS's help, uh, that we would look at that 9%. And so, the plans, the increases from 2025 to 2026 are included for your review. Um, and we would ask,
uh, for approval so we can move forward with open enrollment. >> Dave, I'll move to approve the rate increase 9% to current health insurance premiums and health partners and Crumbdale for the third party administrative services. Thank you, Cassidy. I'll >> second a motion by Dave, second by
Cassidy, move to approve the rate increase of 9% to current health insurance premiums and health partners and Kunale for third party administrative services as presented. Any further discussion? >> Who is paying the
excuse me? >> Um, all our contracts have standard premiums in them. So, um, employees would pay the 9% increase. I I should say within the scope of the premium that's allowed or negotiated
within the contract. Um if you know we have four plans across contracts, there's at least generally one plan that is completely out of pocket with the exception of some of our support staff. Anything else?
Okay. All those in favor signify by Oh, I'm sorry. Do I say it? We got discussion. >> All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed, same sign. >> I >> That motion carries.
Item four, superintendent updates. Dr. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh just a reminder and uh I don't think Deb has heard from anybody on uh the MSBA conference. So, November 14th is the deadline. Um, so I'm going to ask that you reach out to
her either way whether you're going or not going. Uh, so I would uh if you would just let her know by that date. Uh, if she does not hear from you, we're going to assume that you're not going and we would release uh your room as of
the before the 14th so we don't get um uh charged for that. Uh the other one is I believe that um Scott asked or uh Chair Steph has asked that um uh if
anybody on this school board would be interested in serving on the delegate assembly. Uh please let Do you want them to let Scott know or John Carter let John Carter know? I believe Deb that was
in uh one of our transmitts to reach out to uh Mr. Carer specifically. >> I don't think it was I'm sorry Brandon. I don't think it was specifically for John, but he is our district 10. >> Yes. >> Um
representative. So as of right now, I don't think he will be renewing that for next time. So if you do have an interest uh please reach out to him and he can get you in touch with the right uh right folks to
uh take part in that role. So uh those are the only announcements that I have. Um I'll turn it back over to you. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Go ahead. Cassie >> what are the dates for MSBA again?
I'll let you do that one. >> I'll have to look at 16th. >> I'll let you know just >> January 15th through six and 16. >> Okay. >> And we have >> that's Thursday and Friday and Wednesday it's it is the um awards
and the social >> and Dave will be recognized at the awards. >> Yes. >> On Wednesday. >> Yes. Wednesday night. having but is >> I suppose we should make him pay for his own uh he's recognized for de had it's for
100 hours of um >> training but I don't remember what it's called the award I'm sorry director what >> director what >> thank you >> okay item five closing the Keith, >> why not? I'll try it. Move to close the
public meeting at 7:11 p.m. pursuant to Minnesota Statute Section 13D.03 for the purpose of discussing negotiations. >> Thank you. I have a second. >> Dave, I'll second that. >> I have a motion by Q, second by Dave, move to close the public meeting,
excuse me, at 7:01 p.m. pursuant to Minnesota statute section 13D.03. 03 for the purpose of discussing negotiations. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed, same
sign. The motion carries. Uh we will come back in about 3 minutes. What's on? Okay. Item six, open the public meeting. >> I move to open the public meeting at 7:38 p.m. >> Thank you, Keith. I have a second, Dave.
>> I'll second. >> Excuse me. I got a motion by Keith, second by Dave. Move to open the public meeting at 7:38 p.m. Any further discuss? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Those oppose, same sign. That motion
carries. Item seven, adjournment. Dave, I'll move to approve the adjournment of the November 10th, 2025 schoolboard meeting at 7:39 p.m. Thank you Cassidy. >> A second. >> Have a motion by Dave, seconded by Cassidy. Move to approve the adjournment
of the November 10th, 2025 schoolboard meeting at 7:39 p.m. Any further discussion? >> Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed, same sign. This meeting is adjourned.
>> Thank you everyone. You >> copy both times moving your glasses and your I thought you were going to say something for discussion. Is there any discussion? I looked over and you put you up.