minute. Good evening and welcome to the March 10th, 2026 meeting of the Mountain View School Board. And now call the meeting to order. First item on our agenda is um item 1.2, to adoption of the agenda. I would entertain a motion.
So moved. Second. The motion has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. All right, we're going to move on to 2.1, our student representative reports. We have
Carly from Mountains View and Kenna from Irondale who gave up the night to be with us. So, thanks so much you guys. We'll turn it over to both of you. All righty. Hello everybody. I'm from Mountain View High School. Um, okay. So, 37 of our students represent Mia DECA
this year um at the state competition. And this April, a lot of our students, as you can see, are going to compete with more than 25,000 top students from around the world in the International Career and Development Conference. And here's one of our top winners in the
corner. And then the boys basketball team had a win against Roseville and they move on to the section five quadruple A semiinal game on Friday. Um the viewer is going to be hosting an
art contest for photography, traditional, and digital artworks. And editors will choose the top three submissions in each category to put into the newspaper. So that's really exciting. And then um this last week we had a winter petfest and we had a spirit week
which was super fun. On Monday there was no school. On Tuesday we had grow outfit on Wednesday dress like a teacher. Thursday throwback Thursday and Friday mount spirit and everyone dressed out and it was really it was really fun. So yeah that's pretty it was a pretty slow
month but other than that it was a good month. So yeah. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Hey everyone and yeah, today I'll be presenting Irondale's February highlights. So, first kind of just a recap of what
speech has been up to. So Irondale Speech traveled to Duth and competed at the Denfeld High School where they placed fourth overall. They've also competed at Two Rivers where they placed first overall. Um at Forest Lake where they placed second overall at East View
where we had 15 students make it to varsity finals. And we also took first at St. Anthony Village this past Saturday. Next, we have a lot of um records broken by our Irondale boys swim and dive. So,
at section finals, Irondale finished third overall. And at state, they finished ninth overall. And just to highlight some students, we had Isaac But uh Button play 16th in the 500 free and 10th in the 500 free, and he set a new school record. And then we had Lucas
play second in the 200 free and fourth in the 100 fly. and he also set a new school record in each of the events that he previously held and now he's an all-American um consideration. And for relays, we had Lucas, Isaac, Sam, and
Kai break school records in the 200 free relay and 400 free relay, and they placed sixth and ninth in the state competition, and they're all all-American consideration. So, lots of excellence from our boys swim and dive.
And then we also hosted our BSU Black History Month showcase this past month. I believe I saw a few of you there. So I hope you guys enjoyed it. Um, and so we had singers, we had dancers, we had musicians, we had fashion show, and then we also had our new awards segment this
year where we honored a lot of the black excellence around our school, whether it's musical artists, visual artists, um, academic excellence, athletic excellence, and then we also awarded a staff member for being supportive for our club. And this year the winner was Miss Vang. And after that, we had the
best part, which was dinner. So yeah, we also had um some students from Irondale compete at the state EMS youth competition and um this was a yeah, it's the Spring Lake Park opportunities and
emergency healthc care program and and they attended the 40th annual youth EMS competition in Shakape and Irondale senior seniors August uh August Alexander and Bea Doo took second with their teammates Lucy from Spring Lake
Park and Jackson from Mountains View. And also kind of some updates about the night fund that we have going on at Irondale. So just a reminder for what it is, it's um it's a place where community members can contribute to uh secure
private fund for uh community members who are kind of struggling during this time. And so all families need to do submit a confidential request through the school counselor and funds are paid directly to utility company companies or landlords to maintain the housing
stability of our city members. And so um Rosalyn which is pictured on the far right, she began this for students in need during kind of the unprecedented last few months in our state. And it's a coalition of all the cultural clubs that come together and help fund raise. and
students this past Saturday, as pictured, have been helping fund raise and running the school pantry to make it easier for families to kind of access food. And I believe this is last, but um so instead of having our annual um snowball
this year due to like kind of low turnout these past few years, I guess dance culture is kind of dying, but we instead hosted an evening of competitive games. Um and it was Squid Games. And if you guys aren't familiar, it's a show where um people have to compete kind of
to the death, but obviously we're not competing to the death. Um and it's a competitive tournament that was inspired by Squid Game. So we had red light, green light, where you couldn't move when we said red light and you can move when we said green light, tugof-war, three-legged dodgeball, and then the
tiebreaker for the two teams that were tied was kind carving out the cookies. And instead of killing students, we had um guards just yank them out of the game. So yeah, and the turnout was great. It cultivated a lot of bonding between students and it was just high
spirit overall. We had over a 100 students register for teams and we've had a lot of requests to make this annual. So you might be hearing about this again next year. And that's all. Thank you so much for being here
tonight. I hope you guys both enjoy your rest of your evening and have a great spring break next week. Thank you. Thanks, guys. Thanks. All right, moving on our agenda. Item 2.2 is announcements. Jim, would you read the gifts for us tonight? Yes, I will. Um, there were 12 gifts for
schools and programs received this period for a total of $10,598.18. There are 30 gifts received for the Ralph Reader food shelf for this period for a total of $42,91741. It rep it is recommended the board accept the gifts and extend thanks to
the donors. Great. Thanks, Jim. Um, our next upcoming meetings uh here at the district work uh district office at 5:00 pm on Thursday, April 2nd, we have our next work session. And at 7 PM on Tuesday, April 7th, we have our next
regular meeting of the board. All right. Agenda item 2.3, superintendent report. Yeah. Thank you. Um, you know, I have the opportunity uh to visit schools often and see some of the incredible things that are happening and we've heard some updates from from our
students. Uh, but tonight I wanted to highlight uh a couple of those things that I got a chance to work with students and participate in. Um, first, both Mounds View and Irondale recently hosted their annual physics fairs.
Um, these are incredible events and for those that might not be f familiar, students from our physics classes work in groups of kind of three to four uh to construct a Rub Goldberg like machine.
So it ends up being um a chain reaction that uses components like a mouse trap car, a catapult, hovercraft, tracked robot. Um and all of these components along with others end up connecting from one group's unit to the next to the next
and they start this long chain reaction. Um uh and the kids just have amazing time putting all these things together. probably a little more stressful than I it is for me because I get to go enjoy and and watch all the things happening, but it's so exciting when you get a
chance to go talk with them about their projects because one of the expectations of the project is they pick a theme. So, you go through and you see all these very creative themes. So, not only the design and the decorations, but some students even do costumes like they put
a whole production together to uh to do this. Um, and it's just great watching how excited they get. Now, it doesn't always work. The chain reaction sometimes breaks down, but all the work they go to and putting it in is just absolutely uh amazing and a lot of fun.
And in addition to the physics fairs, uh we also hold the steam career fair during that same time uh during the events. So uh at that time students can actually go and visit with uh people uh representatives from the companies and
organizations that are focused on steam careers. Uh this year we were had representatives from Cumins Boker's international paper unicus the department of bioroducts and biosystems engineering at the U of M design ready
controls medtronic and Krauss Anderson. Uh, I just want to thank all of them for taking the time away from their day jobs to come and spend time with our kids, support them in their interests around steam careers. It's just fantastic. Uh, I know Mindy Hamburg does a lot trying
to recruit those companies and make connections, all of our science teachers, the administration at both high schools. Just want to thank everybody because that is just such a a wonderful time uh in our schools to see to see that. And if anybody ever gets a
chance, I would encourage you to go see that because it's just fantastic. Every year we do it. It's wonderful event. And then I also had the opportunity to go visit with students over at Chipua Middle School. So annually our students in government class have a project
that's write a letter to a legislator. And while that's the title, the concept is to write somebody in uh in a position of influence. So you guys know as board members, you often get letters from our students. I'll get letters. Um, obviously mayors, city council members,
legislators, all get get letters when they do this project. But, um, I like going over there. It's just so fun to go talk to them. U, some of them just want, you know, no homework or more recess or whatever their thing is, but but to talk to them and actually get them, okay, have you thought this through and talk
about this. But the one I wanted to bring up tonight was so fun. So, we had a young lady over at Chipoa who uh this year her advocation, her passion project was asking the district to replace all of our fluorescent lights with non
fluorescent fixtures. What perfect timing. So, I got to go over and talk with her and the class in her class and just share uh the progress we've already made entering a gu guaranteed energy savings contract that's ultimately going
to end up with new LED lighting uh cost savings and a better environment for kids and staff across the district. So, just always fun to to take time and go over and and engage with the kids. So, look for those letters as we go through. Uh many of you as board members will get
those as well. And then finally, I just wanted to mention the uh latest edition of School Talk is going to be hitting mailboxes soon. Uh the theme for the magazine this month again is energy efficiency featuring the work that our district has already done and we'll be
able to share with the community the efforts uh that have been made both using less energy as well as the cost savings that are being realized. So watch for that in your mailboxes soon. And that's my report tonight. Great. Thanks, Superintendent Alex. All right,
we'll move on to item 4.1 and hear report on summer operations projects from Darren Johnson, the executive director of school management. You got agenda. Oh yeah, and I didn't get my report about about about Yeah, I'm just skipping ahead. You're just skipping ahead here. Okay, so let's
one second. You can sit, Darren. We'll get to you in a second because I called you too early. Okay, so next item is 3.0. We're going to approve the consent agenda. I would entertain a motion. So moved. Second. It has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor?
I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. And Shauna was going to share about our uh comments to the board at 6:30 tonight. Yeah. So, the board was available this evening starting at 6:30 to hear comments from citizens. And this evening
we heard from um one person, a former teacher at High View and Bell Air came to address the board uh regarding concerns about music programming at High View Middle School for next year. Great. Thanks for being patient, Darren. Now, we're going to move on to agenda
item 4.1. Thanks. All right. Good evening, Chair Dannon, members of the school board. I'm pleased to be with you this evening to provide a pre a preview of the work that is scheduled to be completed during the summer of 2026 in our district. Throughout the district, smaller
projects will include painting and flooring repair as needed throughout the buildings. Small concrete projects including curb and sidewalk repairs on school grounds and parking lots. Seal coating and restriping of parking lots. And this is work that is done annually
on a rotating b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b bas. casework and cabinetry replacement and repairs throughout the district. And finally, replacement of exterior doors and fob reading devices as needed. Bigger projects at Pinewood Elementary School
the spring of 2026 will begin the geothermal project that when finished will be the system used for the heating and cooling of Pinewood Elementary School. In this phase, there will be the replacement of domestic water distribution lines, drilling for two wells, and the boilers will be converted
from steam to hot water. There will also be a remodel of the school's library and adjacent classrooms and bathrooms. The Pinewood community is going to love this upgrade. Due to these summer construction projects, there will be no summer programming at Pinewood this
year. Summer programming for Pinewood students has been moved to other district schools. At Mountains View High School, there will be a few projects that will be taking place this summer. First, there will be a reconstruction of spaces in the science wing, turning two original classrooms into a modernized
learning environment for Mountains View High School scientists. This project will begin after the school year has ended and is scheduled to be completed before students and staff return in the fall. Additionally, turf will be added to the infield and surrounding spaces of
the Mountains View High School baseball field. This installation will provide the ability for this field to drain in a more timely manner. Over the next few years, both Mounds View High School and Irondale High School will see the installation of auxiliary turfed
athletic fields on their grounds. These turf spaces will provide additional practice and game locations for our high school and community teams and groups. In other news, as Superintendent Lennox had mentioned, our LED lighting project is already underway. This project, which
provides guaranteed energy savings to our district, will turn our lighting system into 100% LED by retrofitting our bulbs and fixtures, both interior and exterior, throughout the district. Currently, the Snail Lake Education
Center and Belair Elementary, have already completed this project. Mountain View High School is approximately 50% complete at this point with our remaining schools and buildings scheduled to be completed by the end of July. These new fixtures and bulbs will
be both brighter and more costefficient. Additionally, I would like to acknowledge Chris Pquette who is our district's director of operations and his entire team for the coordination and completion of these upcoming summer projects. I would also like to thank our
custodian teams at each school and district buildings as well as our grounds crew for their dedication to the Moundsby Public School District. This completes my report for this evening. Do you have any questions? No questions, but it's just great to hear about all the work that's going on.
I think many parents and community members kind of forget about our schools during the summer and it's great to know that um you know upkeep and uh just maintenance is being done in all of our buildings to continue to make it a great environment for our students. Thank you.
Thanks so much. Thank you. All right. Next on our agenda is item 5.1 uh district operational plan goal update student information system. And tonight we'll be hearing from Angie Pesel, executive director of curriculum
and instruction, John Perry, director of technology, and Mary Stab, director of research, assessment, and evaluation. Thanks for being here tonight. Good evening. So, we're here tonight for our final presentation on the district operating goal that focuses on the
student information system. So in spring of 2025, we learned that the data warehouse that we had been using for many years was uh being sunsetted by the vendor. It was a very short timeline as we got the information in the spring and we had a quick
turnaround to determine a new vendor. What we looked at as an opportunity for us to streamline our processes and create some efficiencies within the system. So, Synergy is our student information system and previously um the work of uh analytics uh was done by that
vendor as well as the work to create and um administer assessments was done by an outside vendor. And so with this um new system, Synergy holds the information and assessment analytics and gradebook
are products in that student information system. So now our staff, the efficiencies that that created is that now our staff do not have to go to other vendors or log into other sites to work with these two products. So this gives us a lot of efficiencies.
Um instead of having our data spread across multiple data systems, we can keep it all centralized in the student information system. uh not only can we keep it secured in one place, but we get the ability to create data reports that we can create different views for
depending on if our audience is administrators or parents or teachers or students. Um that gives us the ability to make better data driven decisions and to ensure that these different groups of people are all looking at the same data being calculated in the same way. Um we
also see uh just more opportunity in that and being able to look at some of our atrisisk populations um and the other reports that we put together. And then of course there's just some cost and savings in that system consolidation. So when we investigated these tools uh
to replace the former data the former data warehouse that we had, we wanted to make sure that the system would benefit administrators, educators, and students. John mentioned a few of those benefits and Mary I'll highlight a few more. So in regards to the assessment module um you know stu understanding where
students are in their learning what they can do and and what they know is essential across the system. This um shows a comprehensive system where you know the dark blue represents those assessments that teachers are giving within their classroom to analyze
formatively and then more securely what students know and can do. And so this assessment system will allow them to do that. But it will also allow us as a district to administer assessments that help us know that the curriculum that we're providing to students, the
alignment that we have to the the skills that skills progression as well as the instruction that um we're supporting our teachers with are making um improvements as well. So throughout the year, we've been focusing on professional development and
training. As you can imagine, uh the instructional support team here has been instrumental in becoming experts with these new tools and then they're working with to support teachers and PLC's who are some early adopters of these new tools. We're learning from the teachers and PLC's about what they need in the
system. Um we're making adjustments. We're communicating with Synergy who's been a really great partner. uh they've been able to share with us different ways of doing things and they've also made some improvements to their uh systems based on some feedback that they've um that we've provided to them based on what we're hearing from our
teachers. Anytime we're doing an implementation like this, the tech department gets involved generally in a support capacity. Um this is a pretty major lift. We got a major assessment system, major analytics system. Um, and I would
generally categorize or characterize these systems as taking years to implement to maturity. You know, you get kind of your first year to learn to crawl and then you learn to walk and then you learn to run. Um, this year in and I just want to share has has really been a surprise. Um, the the support
requirements have been almost non-existent, which I think speaks incredibly highly to the training and support the teachers have received from the curriculum and assessment teams. The systems have been working incredibly well. The feedback I've heard from teachers um is really that they understand how to use them and that the
tools are doing a good job to meet their needs in the classroom. And so just my compliments to the teams. This is this has been a good implementation. And my compliments to um Edgup Point and Synergy themselves who have um created success teams around each of these
modules and we meet on a monthly basis to kind of look over the things we're creating, learn more about each of the modules and how to support our staff with the implementation. With the time we have left with you tonight, we thought it'd be nice to show you what those tools look like in action and highlight some of the things that
are um that we're excited about and our teachers are excited about. So, we're going to talk with the uh first about assessments. Now, when you think of digital assessments, you often will think of multiple choice questions only. And what we're very excited about with this product is that there are 15 different types of questions that
teachers can create to help measure where students are in their learning progress. Here's an example of what those look like. So, teachers log in and they uh pick a question and they've got all of these um options for how they might want to u measure what students know and can do. So, one that we're
excited about that we wanted to highlight is a constructed response with multiple inputs. So, as the teacher is creating this um this question on this assessment, he or she can determine how they want students to uh record their answers and can give students some
option. We know voice and choice is important. So, students could type their answer. Students could voice record their answer here. They could draw their answer here. Another feature that is uh important and we're excited about in all of these questions is the scoring
rubric. So you see on this sample at the bottom, the students can click on the scoring rubric which the teacher created with their PLC that lives in the assessment and know exactly what it is that the stu the teacher is looking for in order for them to demonstrate their mastery of that particular skill.
Another uh constructed response that we're excited about is the free draw. So, the question is up here around hot dogs and can they make a graph around that? Um, and students, while they can draw that out here, it's a free draw tool. They can change the pen size. They
can change the paper background. Now, we don't want them going down a rabbit hole around that because they could get really excited about all those changes. Um, they can change the color line. They have all kinds of editing options. And in addition, teachers could preload some images in here where students could drag and drop some of those images. So,
another um new tool that we're excited about that will really help us know where students are in their learning progression. This is probably my favorite. It's the multi-art uh question. Um so, what this allows you to do on the left side of the screen, the t uh the students will see a
passage and you can see there's a scroll bar in the center of the page. So, you can scroll through that entire passage and within that passage then you can have multiple questions that are tied to that. In the past that was very cumbersome for um students and teachers to have the the article that they were
reading and then being asked the questions. Oftentimes the article would have to be in a paper copy and the questions are on the screen. It was sometimes difficult to manage that. So, we're very excited about this multi-art um um availability feature that's available in this
another this is a new feature for us that we're learning about and this is a live uh a snapshot of a live picture of what teachers would see while students are taking the test. So, in this teachers can see where students are, how many questions they've a um answered so
far in the assessment. They can see how many they're getting wrong. So the green would be a correct answer. The red would be an incorrect answer. And that kind of yellow brown is partial credit. So teachers can give partial credit for questions that might have multi- um
multi-part answers to that. So uh teachers are really loving this because it's allowing them in real time to uh um respond to students. If there's a student that's stuck on question three and everybody else is on 10, they can have a conversation with the student to see what's going on and help them move along in the process. So, this is a new
feature that we weren't expecting that we're very excited about. And then finally, after the test, there's this analysis that is given. Um, it's very helpful for individual teachers as well within our PLC's. We know the equity promise asks us to make sure that we're looking for patterns um
in some of those demographic groups. And so, this gives that ethn ethnicity results right away for teachers and for PLC's so they can see that and then adjust their instruction and respond to that data accordingly. what do teachers have to say about the assessment modules? So, we reached out
to some of our early adopters to get some feedback from them and um most of them are positive um um because as John said, the the rollout has gone pretty smooth. So, some of the things to highlight here, powerful data visualization, they're valuing the summary reports and the ability to track
performance by individual standards for both single students and the entire class. There's real-time intervention, that live screen I just talked about, that allows teachers to spot errors as they happen. They can give some immediate feedback as students are working through those assessments. There's efficiencies in grading. There's
an autograde feature and the rubric based scoring are viewed as easy and fast and they're excited about the feature integration. So, right now they should uh be able to the students take the assessment and that should push into another module. We're having some um
issues with that right now, but we're working through that and teachers are giving us a lot of grace with that, but excited for that new feature. Uh the new question types allow for shorter assessments that still accurately measure students understanding. And when you can display just a few questions at a time, like I showed you, teachers are
reporting that it helps students stay focused and on track and not overwhelmed with the entire assessment. Uh there are some constraints that they highlighted as well. We are using Chromebooks for most of those assessments and in some cases the screens are small and it's hard to see some of those pieces. So, uh we're
looking at that. Um and the tool does offer a lot of opportunities as John said we are um you know in the initial stages of that. There are many many features that we haven't even scratched the surface of yet. So excited to learn more about those um with all those features that are available.
Next we'll talk about the analytics component. So I'll talk about that module. Um in that module we're creating dashboards that allow our administrators at all levels to look at results for um students in the areas of attendance uh
tardies discipline enrollment grades and then um we do add test results in there so we can combine that information as well. As John said, the the data is real time. So if a change is made anywhere in the system, that becomes real data for
us on the um analytics pages. That was a feature that we did not have in our previous vendor. So we're really excited about that. Um each of the dashboards can represent um data in in multiple graphic representations. As you see in this kind of small graphic here, we have
bar charts, we have stack bar charts, we have circle graphs. Um we have uh lines and what we're really excited about is the ability to show things over multiple years. So one of those line graphs is showing um the number of boys versus
girls in a school over time. Um another one is showing enrollment at the school over time. So the ability to see those things over multiple years. you um it we also have the ability to drill down um any of the colored sections on this
page. Just um the staff can click on that and it'll actually show them the information that and where it's being generated by student that fills that um particular chart. We've gotten a lot of requests um to customize this already based on um a lot of things that the uh
staff are really entertaining and working on. Um, one particular example is a school that was really working to um, do some support of students getting to class on time. So, they reached out to us and said, "Could you make a graphic that shows us the number of
tardies in the system?" Now, remember, there's six classes a day and lots of students. So, this is the number of tardies in the system over time. So, they could get an idea of where those interventions were supporting some successes. and and of course as soon as I created it, well, we'd like to also
see it by week. And so, what's really cool is that the pivot tables that generate this, the the user can manipulate them just by pressing on on an arrow and then they see the results in um for that week as well. So, we continue to learn how to manipulate the
pivot tables to show us the graphics to answer the questions that we want to answer. In addition um as uh our previous vendor also held the support for us in in showing teachers and families the test
history for the students. And so we just want to say that we are developing and building this feature out again this year by adding um um data into the system and making it viewable to the teachers. So, here's one screenshot of how a teacher can see for the class that
they're focused on the information related to one of the tests that they um their students have taken and then be able to highlight specific information. They can look at highest scores, most recent scores and um study that data in response to students in their classroom.
Um there is also a test analysis where it summarizes very quickly that information about that particular class showing them and this is MCA math showing them by each of the strands how many students are competent in that versus those that might be struggling as
well. Each of these views then drills down to the student level and they can look at student level data as well. We've also improved the look for parent view in this process. And so parents who are going into their parent view account
can see that test history tab at the bottom of their uh list of icons and click on that to see the results for their individual student. really like the feature where if a test has growth metrics over time, now we can show the
families visually what the students um growth has been in that particular assessment. We've also um started to use the documents tab in parent view to put the individual student reports for our families so they can also see the reports that are generated by the
vendor. In this case, um all families should be able to see the MCA reports for their for the students if they participated in those assessments. So, uh, moving forward, um, we've completed our our tiered rollout and training. Um, over the next few years,
we'll be continuing to develop more reports. Um, I think Mary has no shortage of requests for specific reports from people. Um, we're going to keep working on those integrations with assessments, both with reports and with things like the teacher grade book. um opening up more assessment types and
exploring those different questions, really helping the assessments to match uh the other standardized assessments our students encounter like the MCAs. Um and then we'll continue developing teachers and their mastery around these tools. So things are looking really good and uh that concludes our report for
this evening. Thank you. Thank you. That was comprehensive and I loved um seeing it in action. Um it's amazing to know that um those supports are out there for our staff and that they don't have to take a lot of time in creating assessments and can really
spend that time on instruction and and working individually with students needs. Any questions for anyone on the board? I had one question about the assessment area. Does it allow for accommodations and modifications for particular students? It does.
Very nicely. It does. So, um that was another um enhancement that we hadn't seen before. So, um and our teachers are learning how to use that and make that accessible. That's great. Thank you. Thank you so much.
Thank you. Great. Well, we will move on to item 6.1, updates. Uh Jim, could you share an AMSD and legislative update? Absolutely. The legislature is in um not much getting accomplished at the moment, but it's still early in the session. Um
AMSD, we uh uh published our uh budget survey results, how the um given the level of aids we have right now, how the school districts are going to come out. Um, I'm always happy to see Moundsu on the really good side of that uh budget survey results where we have our budget
the next two years really in line and uh um on budget. Um we got good news from the state uh recently on budget projections. Um FY27's looking a lot better than we thought it would and um as a result we're hoping that um some
projected cuts might not happen this year. Um which is good. Um MDE uh was at our last meeting and the Department of Education uh gave us a report on compensatory revenue and we went over that. Um we also um discussed with them
the budget issue with the 15-day drop law that is uh affects us minorly in our district but um largely in some other districts. We also had Pelsby which is our um the body that licensed our teachers uh presentation from uh Dr.
Lucy Lucy Payne and that uh there's minor tweaks we're doing with um through rule making to uh correct some things that we need to correct in uh teacher licensing. So that's uh what's happening at AMSD. Great. Lots of updates. Thanks, Jim. Um
Shauna, did you have a Metro 916 meeting since we last? We did. We met uh this past Wednesday. Um and so we had a couple presentations. one on uh career and technical education programs at 916. Um some highlights from
that were um they are going to try to increase industry recognized credentials for our students. So, um, training that they do at 9:16 will then directly translate to a job in that field, which is huge for a high school student to be
able to walk into a job with a industry recogni recognized certificate or credential. Um, and then we had a presentation from the family and community partnership director. Um and the big thing there was uh 916 for the
first time is establishing an um American Indian parent advisory council which is exciting. Um and then we approved calendars for next year and three policies were approved. That was it. Great. Thanks for the update.
All right. On to item 6.2, schoolboard member reports. Anyone have any updates um or activities in the district they want to share tonight? I had a wonderful time at Irondale on the 13th of February. It was the uh Black Student Union put on a celebration for Black
History Month. It was an absolutely moving experience to see the dress, the colors, the music, the talent. Um got to share an African authentic African dinner with the kids, the students. Got to meet the assistant principal who introduced me and everyone clapped. I
was a little embarrassed, but um it was an absolutely moving and beautiful experience. Feels great. Thank you. I just want to wish everyone a safe uh and fun spring break. I know we have various groups at both the high schools
traveling, I think mainly to various parts of Europe over spring break. Uh so just hope they have a great time and stay safe. I got to go over to Irondale and uh experience the winter music of the night
and that was really great. Um our band over there is really fantastic and we had an earlier presentation from our students. Um I know at Moundsu and at Irondale they've created funds to help their neighbors during this difficult time with ICE. And I just couldn't be
more proud of the kids. They're out there working it. Um and they um um like good motans take care of their neighbors. So great for them. Bravo. Absolutely. Great. Anything else to come before the board?
We are adjourned.