All right, should be good. So, it's 6:30, so we're going to call the meeting to order. Please rise 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. Okay, please take note that um five of the six board members are here with Mendes um being excused and also Mr. Boche is
here as well. Um Jill, if you start us off by reminding us of part of the strategic I'll discuss the mission statement and the vision statement. Um mission statement which is our core purpose preparing self-directed learners to thrive in a changing world. Um, our
vision statement, what we intend to create, an innovative learning environment, moving our community forward. >> Thank you. Um, take a motion to approve the agenda. >> So move. >> Dakota made the motion. Is there a
second? >> Second. Jill second it. All those in favor of approving the agenda. I >> have a discussion on the agenda. Yes, we can definitely >> um with Superintendent Boce's
um approval and permission, I would like to uh table G until November. If the superintendent's okay with that, till we have a full board to vote on it G
>> G under 12 12G. If we do that though, then the contract says that we have to give him >> That's why I'm asking if Superintendent Boce would be fine with delaying that cuz November 1st is the deadline. That's why I'm asking if he would be okay if we
made the decision in November with the full board. >> I don't know. I mean, >> I would I'll voice my thing of saying with November one being the deadline. I don't know what the legal implications would be if we failed to to do that. if
it would not that you know any of us are trying to do that but of what if anything it would have as far as implications >> you know going and and this part is just saying we're going to open it up to do you know to have that discussion with
him not to approve said discussion or said you know if there's anything that comes of it that's my thought is how do we know we're going to have a full board in November >> yeah Yeah, >> I'm trying to look up the contract right
now to see what it says. Does anybody have it on them right now? >> I think you Thank you. >> I have it up right now on my own screen. So, I know I had to give the board
my intent by September, and I think the board has to do it before November. >> Yep. That's why I just brought it up to ask since we don't have a full board and Matt knowingly he he was going to be gone, which >> So, I I got Matt's input on it.
>> Okay. So >> I guess then we don't I can withdraw that request if that's the way the board feels. >> Let's see. >> Have a contract here. Now I got to find
the right. It it says in there November 1st our intent to renegotiate. >> But it says on it if we don't give it to him by November 1st, it tells us what happens. So that is the part that I was trying to find.
I don't know where I can find it right in here, but I have it. >> Thank you, Pastor. Oh, right there. It's on there. Within 10 days after receipt of an intent not to offer, what is number two say?
shall be a preliminary written notice of such intent not to offer a subsequent contract no later than November 1st immediately preceding the date of expiration of this contract. I think it's number six timeline provided here in
may be extended by written agreement between the school board chair and the superintendent. In such an event, the school board chair shall confer with and notify schoolboard members in writing of such extension. Um, can you scroll down a little bit more?
Okay. My opinion is that we still go for it with without it, but I I'm just one of us. So, like we still go for it without him. But I don't want to make that
decision on my own. I guess I am not in favor of removing it from the >> You're not in favor of removing it from the agenda. Dakota, are you in favor of removing it from the agenda? >> No. >> Ken, you're in favor of removing it from
the agenda and you're not in favor of >> No, because we still have to there's a second part like Scott was saying where we >> Yeah. And even now all it is is right >> here. Here was my statement. If Dan's not willing to give us the extension,
then we follow through. That's why I asked >> Yes. Y >> and there was no response. So I'm assuming that's a no. >> So then I'll withdraw. Okay. >> My amendment. >> All right. So then it's just >> the agenda is as presented. >> Yep. >> Yep. >> Thanks for the discussion.
>> Thank you. Um, so we have a motion to approve the agenda and we have a second. All those in favor of approving the agenda as it is say I. >> I. I. >> All those opposed say no.
>> No. >> Okay. So, it's not unanimous. It's um with Ken voting no and everybody else currently here voting yes, but it's approved. Um, so we have open forum.
Nobody does anybody bring any cards? No. >> Okay. So, for those online, if you want to ever address the board, you can fill out a card and then um address the board. There's two times that we do this during the meeting.
Mustang spirit recognition. >> Yes, I have one. >> Paula Jam, could you come up? Paula was one of the first hires that we had that I had was able to make uh for payroll. And Paul is uh more a graduate
uh graduate Mustang True and Blue. Right. >> That's right. >> So, um Paula has done a great job um not just with payroll, she does a lot of work with our benefits, our health insurance. Um she's helped with the Minnesota paid
leave now um ESST before, so she's been implementing a lot of new programs. Um what I appreciate appreciate about Paula is she's really self-directed. Um she's always willing to help the team. So I
think Paula is just a a superstar in our district and we're fortunate to have her. So thank you. >> Thank you very much, Paula. >> Thank you. Anybody else have any um Mustang spirit recognition? >> I've got one. Um so this one is for the
elementary department as a whole. Um, I had a parent approach me yesterday, um, morning and she had her kids at a neighboring school district and she transferred them from there to MOA
started this year. Um, and she said that she has noticed a huge difference in her kids. She's got two that are in the sped program and she had nothing but good good things to say about the sped teachers in the sped paras noticing that
her grades have starkly improved. Um and just really she said that she has had several meetings with the the sped staff and they've all been very positive and it's yielding wonderful results. So, um, it
was nice to hear cuz usually we, you know, as board members, we only hear the bad things. Um, so when a parent says that we're doing something really well, you know, we should we should know that. So, definitely kudos to our elementary spend uh team and actually all of our
staff, but especially to them for wonderful job that they're doing. >> Thank you very much for sharing that. That's awesome. Anybody else have any Mustang spirit recognitions? Great. Um, annual staff development
report um by the staff development coordinator student. Hi. Um, so every year we just provide an update on our staff development plan, um, and what that looks like for more
schools. So, just a few details about this year's plan. Um, first of all, a reminder for most of you, but I don't know if Jill was here last year to see it. Um staff development statute from the state says that the majority of
district and sitewide committees must be made up of teachers which we have. The district must reserve at least 2% of basic revenue for staff development. However, a majority vote of licensed teachers and the school board may wave
the requirement to reserve a portion of that revenue um which we do. We wave uh our union membership votes to wave back 1% to the district. So the pot of money that we have to work from for staff
development activities each year ends up being 1% of the basic revenue. And the staff development statute also states that all of our activities that we do must align with our QC comp plan if you're a UC comp district, which we are.
Um this year we have several different dates of staff development activities. Obviously there are ongoing things but here's some of the main dates. Um we had a full day of staff development on Thursday, August 28th. We have two hours
on our end of quarter workday. Um two hours of professional development that day on November 10th. A full day on January 19th which is epic. Um and I'll talk about that in just a moment. Um Monday, March 9th is a full day. We are
having Larry Thompson um uh responsibility center discipline which is a um an initiative from administration. He's coming to speak to all of our staff um all certified staff and paired professionals. That day we
have two hours at our end of third quarter workday. We meet weekly for 45 minutes in PLC's which includes a lot of professional development pieces as well. And then through our QP plan, we offer what we call pocket PDS because they're
just halfhour little staff development sessions. Um and those are offered roughly five to six times a month probably. Um the instructional coaches or other staff put those on. So, we provide a lot of different professional
development throughout the year. Um, some are more um just like a two-hour chunk here. Sometimes it's a full day that looks more like a conference might. Um, Epic PD, you can see the logo right there is a collaborative professional
development day with Hinckley, Finlesen, Pine City, and East Central Schools. Um, and we have been the host. We were the host last year and we'll be the host against this year and then we'll move on to one of those other districts. But that's been um a big undertaking for our
staff development committee to actually host it here. Fun but extra work. Um some of our staff development priorities that our committees come up with are first of all making sure that we're offering all of those license renewal categories. teachers need 125 hours of
rellicensure um just professional development in their five-year relicure cycle. But among those 125 hours, we have to get several categories. Um positive behavior interventions, curriculum accommodations, modifications and
adaptations, children's mental health, suicide prevention, reading preparation, English learners, cultural competency, and contributions of Minnesota tribal nations. So yes, you need 125 hours, but you also need at least one hour in all of those different areas. And so we work
the staff development committee works very closely with our relicure committee to say, hey, we've got a big cohort that's going to be rellicensing this next year and a bunch of them are missing their English learner hour. That's this year. Um so we made sure
that we provided an English learner hour at back to school workshop and then we'll also provide other English learner hours throughout the year. That's actually something that not a lot of districts do. They don't all make sure that they're providing those categories and um a lot of teachers from other
districts will have to go seek out professional development opportunities for those categories from other places. Um but we have always worked pretty closely with our relicure committee that the vast majority of people can get all of their categories in house.
Um, we also have ongoing priorities in assessment and grading. Um, redact training, which you've heard a lot about over the past few years. Um, ADSIS, since that program is still relatively new, we want to make sure we're providing professional development for
those teachers to make that program successful. Responsibility center discipline, um, which I mentioned Larry Thompson is coming in person. We're all all reading his book Road Map to Responsibility in our PLC's right now.
Guaranteed and viable curriculum. Um Darcy organizes a a lot of uh making sure that we're up to date on our curriculum and the new standards. And then staff development leave requests, which would simply be um somebody finds a conference that is relevant to their
um specific job and asks for staff development to pay their registration and their sub fee so that they can go attend that. Um, our music teachers often go to the Minnesota Music Educator Association conference and things like that are really nice that we're able to
provide because I don't know a lot about teaching music and so if they can go to a conference where they can learn a lot about that, that's really nice that we have those funds to be be able to provide that. Um, here's an example of what our schedule looked like on August
28th. You can see we had five different time slots of hour-long sessions and lots of different options for people to attend. Some of them were required because we actually had people come in
from resource training to work on um different uh unpacking standards and different things specific to those content areas. But um our goal is to provide a lot of variety while still getting in a lot of
the things that we have to get done. So it it's a it's a big puzzle to kind of put that together to make sure that the ones that are required for people don't require to be be at the same session at the same time and shuffling it around and making sure that there's enough
options for everybody um and that everybody can get something that they need and something that they want. Um, read training. I mentioned this year we actually have two different kinds of training going on. Um, we still have a
group of 22 elementary teachers in Paris finishing up year two of their letters training. They're going to have eight three-hour trainings provided by Sarah Barry and Beth Ericson. Um, also this year pairs will receive an abbreviated
letters training um because our pairs all need something any not all pairs but any pairs that support reading instruction need um some readact training. We also had a group this year start um at the high school for the
first time. So far all of the redact training has been focused at the elementary. Now this year we have started at the high school with our special ed and ADSIS teachers are receiving a different read training called OLA. Um and that is of 50 plus
hours that they are completing online independently. There's not the in-person trainings like there is for letters. Um just uh to give an idea of what kinds of things teachers take away from professional development. Here are some
of the comments that they left at at the end of the day on our August 28th day. um you can just kind of I won't read them all, but um they take away a lot of different ways that they'll be able to help um their students this year that so
we asked these questions on the end of day survey because we want to see that they're thinking about how the professional development that we offered that day is going to result in a benefit to their students. so they can start thinking right away at at back to school
workshop about how um that new learning is going to benefit their students. Um so just to give you an idea like who provides our district-wide staff development, this is just from um that
back to school workshop day. We have a lot of other people that um provide professional development throughout the year, but this kind of just gives a snapshot of like on that one day we had 12 different certified staff present um
at least one session if not more. We had somebody come in from Canvas Health to talk about student mental health. We had um Darcy arranged for uh several folks, content experts to come in from resource training and solutions and they got
amazing feedback um from the teachers that worked with those groups. Jeremy Mikla from ECME were a part of ECME. I text Jeremy sometime in the summer and I tell him, "Hey, will you please leave this date open?" And he comes and presents all five sessions for us. Um,
and uh, and people love hearing from him. Somebody actually put on their end of day survey that they think they have a digital crush on Jeremy Mikla, which I thought was hilarious. Um, and our administrators, Mr. Voce, presented one of our breakout sessions this year. And,
um, also our union members are able to take some courses through MEA online. So that um we schedule in one of the options is usually that they can take one of those online MEA courses if they are um a member. One nice thing about
that MEA online is all of those relicure categories are offered on there. So if somebody missed the staff development day where we offered one of those categories, they can always get it on a staff development day by doing one of
those MEA online trainings. Um we do have by statute uh three different staff development committees. Um there's representation on each one from both teachers, pair professionals, and administrators. At the elementary,
Sarah Barry and Jamie Wright are the co-chairs. At the high school, Marcia Moliner is the chair, and I chair our district committee. I'm also on our high school committee. And so, um, the chairs do a good job putting together the
agendas, focusing on any leave requests that have come in that month, etc. They all meet monthly. Um, and just on our radar, we did also host I didn't put in here, um, but we did also host on August 5th of this past year, we hosted Lake
ECMECH, which is a conference, um, organized by ECME that includes um, any certified staff from any of the ECME districts are invited to come and have a full day of training and sessions. Um, and so we hosted that on August 5th.
this past year. We are hosting it again on August 4th next year. That's also a two-year rotation. It just so happened that our rotation for both ECME or Lake ECME and Epic ended on the same two years, which is working out really
nicely because we're getting very efficient at getting these things done. It's like, oh, we need room signs. I have the ones made already from Epic. I'll just change the logo to Lake Emeck and we have all the room signs to post. So, um it's actually been working out
really well to have um those events here all in the same two years, even if it's a little bit of extra work. But, um it's nice to be able to host those other districts. Um teachers from several different like ECMC districts and then those three other school districts that
come for Epic. It's fun to be able to show off our space. Um we get lots of comments and lots of questions just about the building and our rooms themselves. I think um I had a little bit of time before my first session started that I presented at Lake Ecmeck
and it was filled with people were coming into the session and I just kept asking questions about well there's a lot of windows how does that work and and all sorts of things and I said well we can just talk about the building for the first couple of minutes if you want and they had so many questions so it's
really fun to be able to host here and show off what we have and also answer a lot of those questions that folks have. Um, so any questions about staff development and more. Okay,
>> thank you. Thanks. Thanks. >> All right. Now we have um 2425 comprehensive achievement and civic readiness um Darcy K director of teaching and learning is going to come up and share that and then afterwards I
think she's going to go straight into the MCA more profession data program here. >> All right. Um the comprehensive achievement and civics readiness plan does not really roll off the tip of your tongue. It was the previously referred
to as world's best workforce. Um, and somehow that sounds better, but they have renamed it. So, uh, last year when I had presented on it, we were kind of in transition between the two names and now they've completely gone to this name. So, a lot of the same things are
involved that were previously in the world's best workforce. Um they I think they took out one of the old goals and moved it into the read act legislation under our local literacy plan. Um and in place moved in a new goal. So they have
a lot of the same categories. So we they should look familiar to us. Um the first one is all students ready for kindergarten. Um that's the the same category for every school district and then we decide what our goals are. Um we've always reached out to Carrie Cell
in preschool and so her goal last year was 70% of the students in more public schools um will score in the lowrisk category or higher on the fast letter identification per minute assessment that we give fall, winter, and spring.
Um and so that goal was achieved in spring of last year. Um and the goal was met by 87%. And when I spoke with Krie about it, um she had nothing but praise for her staff. She was so thrilled at all the letters, training, professional
development that they've been through. Um the cohort of those ladies down there are consistent. Um and she just sings so much praise at how well they map out the sequence of skills um from no matter what room the kids are in. They just
they have a great staff down there and she can't sing enough praise. And actually, they were down in the lunchroom right now with an event with everyone coming in with with Halloween costumes till 7:30ish. So, she does a great job. Um, moving forward next year,
she would like to have the same goal, but she is planning on um increasing it to 75% next year. The next two, it's not a typo that I have two and two. Um, we just happen to
have two achievement gap goals from last year. I was thinking that was moving from you. I was like, how did that happen? Huh? Um, so it says two there.
Um, last year we had two goals. Uh, the first one was reducing the gap um from our free and reduced compared to our non-free and reduced lunch students at more public schools. This one for was for grades three through eight and 11 um
because this was a math assessment one. We did have a gap with our our reading. However, that was smaller. So, we decided to address the math and it was our goal was trying to decrease uh 21.1% down to 18% and that goal was met at
17.7. Since we still have that 17.7, um, I'm going to roll it forward and say use the same verbiage and use that goal for next year with math because the results still showed that we had a reading gap, but it
still wasn't as high as 17.7. Um, so we are going to roll that forward down to hopefully um 13.85 for next year. Um, at the board advisory, I had to explain to them that we don't randomly just pick numbers
either. Um, for this one, I I am trying to get that 17.7 down to 10% or less. Um, I know that we have two years before the math assessment changes. So, I took 17.7 minus 10, divided that by two,
subtracted that out over the last over the next two years. I'm hoping to close that gap. So that's how I there's actually some method to the madness every once in a while. Um the second one was um we were trying to decrease the proficiency gap in our
American Indian using the state definition American Indian students at more public schools. Again same grades and a math goal because uh the reading gap was much smaller. So we decided to address that. We were going to try to
decrease our 21.4 four down to 18. Um, and the goals were very similar. I did have to double check numbers. Like really? Like I did that so many times. Like that can't be right. Um, but we did decrease that down to 17.86. Moving forward. Since there's still a
gap, I want to address that. However, um I'm not recommending having it in this plan, but rather taking it out because the subgroup of students is getting so small that it might be the count is too
small to report eventually. And so I would like to address that within our American Indian education funding um and put the goal there. And then I have some tutoring as my action steps to address it there. So, I didn't roll it forward in the the next year's goals.
Uh, number three, all students career and college ready by graduation. Um, the high school counselors always help me tackle this one and they have a phenomenal program that they use um during their blue um every once in a while. It's not consistently every week, but they have it scheduled in. They use
Zello. Uh this is a great interest inventory for career options and and getting the kids to reflect on how they like to approach things like do you like to work outside? Do you like to work inside? Do you like to work with people? Do you like to work with animals? Do you do you like numbers? And so going
through just that thought process every once in a while for kids is a good reflection for them. Um so our goal has always been um the last few years to have 80% of our seniors have that completed. And we did achieve that goal
at an 84 point or 84%. Um, enrolling that goal forward, we want to keep the same goal. They were very interested in keeping that at 80%. I was trying to nudge them like do you want to increase it at all? Um, and they they did bring up a good point like they have some students that necessarily aren't on
site, school to work students, PSO, PSO students. They might not be in school attending the blue day. So, I I got their justification and I'm okay with with their their goal moving forward at 80%. Again, um the fourth one, all students
graduate. This one is a little tricky because they don't report this out so so late. So, this isn't regarding the kids that walked across the stage last spring yet. So if you look at this goal, um we are
hoping the percent of all students enrolled at more public schools eligible to graduate spring 2024 will increase from 85.61 to in 2023 to 90% in 2024. 90% is the
standard um recommendation we've always gotten from Department of Education. We have met that goal at a 93.55 55 sorry that's interesting and we do use the four-year rate for that. They do break
it down for us four years um five years six years sevenyear rate but we do the four-year rate for that and moving forward we will keep that goal at uh the recommended 90% or above. >> Darcy >> is that 90% is that the state average their recommendation is that state
average or is that are they different numbers? No, they just always had that as a recommendation. Do you have anything to elaborate on that? >> I think the state average this year was 84%. Mora was at 93. Um >> Oh, sure. We're well above. >> Yeah. So, we're well above it. Um
>> but they use the goal for everyone in the state would be to get that 90% graduation rate. Right. >> So, got it. >> Uh the fifth one, prepare students to be lifelong learners. This was a new goal that when they took out the read well by
third grade goal and moved that to the read act and the literacy plan. This was one that they put in last year that a lot of districts really struggled with because we really chewed on how do you um prepare lifelong learners and how do you assess that. Um so last year Mr.
Nelson had recommended the percent of students at the Moore High School receiving an average passing par grade of 3.0 or higher. PAR rates were new last year for the report cards and it stands for proactive, accountable um and respectful and then it will increase to 75% by the
spring of 2025. Um at this time I have it highlighted because I don't have that data um to present to know whether or not they've achieved that or not. moving forward. I did present this to our district board advisory committee
and and ask them a little bit about well what would you use as a lifelong learner goal and Amy you were there I think uh at the end of that meeting we were really still discussing it. Um one of the recommendations I gave Mr. Voce was is there something we could use on the strategic learning plan that we've
already done all that work. he had a great goal in mind and so we are going to move away from the PAR goal and move to connecting it to the strategic learning plan goal um of the daily ex desired daily experiences for the
students and so we have a goal written of I have options to explore and develop my interests and abilities last year the students in grades 5 through 12 were surveyed at a 95% agreement of either strongly agree or agreed for that statement ment. So, we are going to use
that statement as our goal for moving forward next year. We are hoping to survey students in the fall of this year and in the spring. So, hopefully uh that's a task for you if it's all ready to roll. >> Hint. Um so, that'll come from the district
level and we're hoping to increase that by 1% and get it up to 96%. We really um struggle on that one and a lot of districts do because it's hard to assess the lifelong learner piece to that. Um we took it like I said the
board advisory, we took it to the admin team. Um Mr. Voce and I discussed it and it's just a hard goal I think to wrap our heads around and and other districts really do um grapple with this as well over the last two years. Um, as far as
next steps, we do report this to the Department of Education. Um, we we post both documents on our website as well. >> Any questions or comments? I guess I covered both links at the same time. I didn't realize that you could see it. I
apologize. >> Just have one on on the number five on the goal. We don't have the the results from the spring of 2025. >> Not at this time. I have not gotten any data from the high school yet. >> Yeah. The reason is that um when we set
the goal, we figured it would be easy to pull all of that data, you know, like grades, like the average. Well, Synergy will not let you pull the entire uh school grades and average them out.
So, you have to print every student's report card and go through all the par grades. because it's a separate report. So, at the high school, they're still trying to figure out how do we how do we compute all of those things? Do we print
them all out and have the students go through them in their advisory and figure an average or do we have a staff member do that? I mean, I think Dak, actually, you were the one that um at the district advisory last year
said, "Why don't we use PAR grades?" is I I if I remember correctly >> very well it could be I don't sorry >> and I mean when we set the goal we figured we could pull that data pretty easily but it's it's not easil easily pulled so we're hoping to have that
um done fairly soon but yeah so that's the rationale behind it. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Look at that. I'm back in that. All right, I'm back. All right, moving forward to the MCA proficiency data. Um, typically we
present this in September and the reason why we haven't done it till October is because the delay from the Department of Education in our science scores this year. Um, it was a brand new test last year. the standards were implemented fully last year and so the assessment
was matching it um at the end and so though I put this together for the sta or a version of this um presentation for the staff in September and shared it out um we didn't have the science data until October 1st is when we first got the
science data. So moving forward this is the year that ELA standards are um put in place. It'll be a new test at the end of the year. we won't have ELA data now until probably October of next year. So, um, teachers usually are chomping at the
bit to try and get those scores. And so, it's a little frustrating that at the Department of Ed level, we don't have that information right away. And it kind of get gets to you at a an awkward time in the school year that what can we do to plan for this now? That school's already started and
roll with it. All right. Um, we typically start at the state level and just shake it down as much as we can all the way down to the student level. And I do appreciate that our staff do a phenomenal job of looking at data. Um, they, like I said, they're
chomping at the bit to hear it, see it. Um, we ask our students a lot, like we ask you to, hey, do your best on this test and and we asked our staff to do the same thing. Like, let's make sure we're actually giving the the results a nod and taking a look at that. So, I
appreciate how hard the staff and the students work on that. So, I will dive in. I'm told to talk fast. Here we go. What's the game kickoff looking like? >> All right. District reading. Uh, we are
above the state average 62.1 um above the state average of 50.3. Reading will look different next year as it'll be a new assessment. Historically, we are above the state average in reading. So, we have this is
showing that that trend. Math, same thing. We're above the state average 52.4 um above the state average from the 45. Almost always we were above um one little blur, but historically we're
above the state average on that. This one is our new assessment. Um, it's tough to look at, I'm not going to lie, across the whole state. The state average is 26.2. This is our brand new test matching the the brand new standards. 25.6 is how we shook out. Um,
my first I mean, if we're waiting till October to see this, my first initial reaction was like, whoa, how did everybody else around me do, right? So, I started looking at and I'll show you. we were actually above everybody around us. Um, I have a lot of questions. I'm
not passing judgment on the staff or the students. I'm looking at this as, well, if the state is pulling in a 26.2 average, there's got to be more guidance from the state on on something because it's not just us. Um, I know we have staff, we have, like Jackie was saying
before, if we want to go to conferences, we have our science team at the high school going to a conference up in November in Minneapolis for science. Um, I'm sure this will be addressed at their conference. We haven't gotten any information even from two weeks ago at
the board advisory. I still haven't gotten any rumblings from the department or any statement on a reaction to this. Um, so I'm not going to overreact. I'm not going to panic. I'm just going to try and figure out what are our next steps and what's the guidance on this.
Um, because everyone around us is sitting at the same and I'll show that later, too. All right, district level. This is maybe one of our favorites that staff request. Um, it's one of the top three. They like
to see how um how are we doing with comparison to neighbors around us. Um and MDE always cautions us don't do this and I know everyone around us does this. They like to do it and it's on the Minnesota Report is on the Department of
Education's website. It's public data so you can look up any school district that you want to. So I happen to look them up every year. I do know I'm disappointed Matt's not here because last year he had asked me well what about schools that are our size and I've I've asked Mr. Voce I kind
of tasked him with that and he reached out to some superintendents. I also reached out to resource training um and just really started to try and dig in like how many districts are our size and where do we rank at that and it shook out to be about 19 districts. Now some
of those were it was a combination of public and private charter schools as well. Um, but out of those 19 for reading, for sure we were we ranked second in that. So, it was fun to see. And it was random schools around the state, but they were our size. So, I
reached out a little bit. I'm sad that M's not here. Darn. Come back. So,