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Part 1 (Video ID: dHzujX-NYio):
- 00:03:04: Meeting Call to Order, Pledge, Roll Call, Agenda Approval
- 00:04:39: Superintendent Report: New Richland Area Grant Foundation Presentation
- 00:06:07: Angie: Interactive Display Grant for the District
- 00:09:17: Mandra: Decodable Books for Early Literacy Curriculum
- 00:11:38: Beth: Playground Surface Project Funding Update
- 00:13:54: Panther Preschool Scholarships and CKLA Curriculum Donations
- 00:16:58: Katie: Camp Panther After School Program and Supplies
- 00:17:59: Brooklyn: Cheerleading Booster Program Funding Request
- 00:19:57: Superintendent Report: Activity Fees and Election Information
- 00:22:07: Elementary Fundraiser Success and Upcoming Events
- 00:26:41: Community Education Program Updates: Preschool, Art, Sports
- 00:30:28: Local Literacy Plan Updates, Data Gathering and Goals
- 00:40:21: Board Member Comments: Appreciation, Thank You Cards
- 00:42:33: Consent Agenda Approval, Insurance, and Budget Reduction
- 00:48:03: Superintendent Evaluation Schedule and Committee Assignments
- 00:54:11: Staff Development Date Change and Graduating Class Approval
- 00:57:46: Adjournment of the Meeting


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a little better. All right, we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Miss Engle, if you would do roll call for this evening, please. >> Uh, Kelly Da Cruz here, Terry Engel here, is absent.

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>> Aaron Phillips is absent, Lauren Shane >> here, >> Pat Tire here, >> and Rick Schultz >> here. We have an agenda before us this evening. Mr. Mayhawk, are there any additions or corrections, please? >> All is good as is. >> Great. I would entertain a motion to

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approve the agenda, please. I make a mo I make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> Second motion made by Miss Tyer, seconded by Mr. Shonrock to approve the agenda as presented. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Uh wondering if

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we have any public comments this evening. Would anyone I would assume somebody would like to talk. >> So I believe everyone here is here for the foundation. Excellent. Great. Well, welcome. Uh with that we'll move into the superintendent report. Mr. May

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>> and let's start right away with the new area our new Richland area grant foundation presentation. So Judith Carla. >> Yeah. So for this portion I'm here as a member of the foundation. We are missing a few people but uh the four of us are

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here going to come up and speak a little bit. Uh it's a really fun night for us. Um, we enjoy picking up garbage out of dishes, but second to that, this is probably the most rewarding night we have together. Um, we did it a little bit different this year. Um, if you like that little program I have passed out,

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we we've been on tour. We stopped up at the library. Had to meet the new librarian in Richland, if you guys didn't know. Um, girl named Bon and starting there. Uh, so we we handed that check to her and then we went out to the sportsman's club and met up with four

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four members out there um gave them a sizable donation, $1,800 for a lot of great work that they're doing there and at Lake Park. So, that felt really good. And uh now we're going to wrap it up

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here. So, Kisha is gonna come up. Our first one is for Angie for the interactive always. Yeah, I always just kind of wing it, but hey, I actually prepared something. And so now I'll probably fumble over my words just because I haven't prepared,

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but I want to thank the our foundation first of all for this grant that will be put towards the purchase of interactive displays the district. In the past couple of years, we have been able to purchase nine boards with the help of this grant. Um, every little

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bit helps us to stay current with the technology and somewhat on top of our replacement cycle. This past summer, we have placed or pieced together four different units to keep them working throughout the this year. And so, we're kind of at that point where we're

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pulling from different displays and projectors and everything to try and try and keep everything working that's um in our classrooms right now. Um so the replacement of these uh interactive displays are very much needed at this point. Um in

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determining that I look at the age of the display which is 16 years old for some of them. Um that's that's our oldest ones in the building. Um the use that they're getting in the classrooms and of course the staff and students need. Conversations with the teachers to understand how they are using them in

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the classroom is very helpful. Um, some are using it very heavily and they rely on them very heavily. Um, in part due to their teaching style, but also due to the curriculum that they're using in their classrooms um in and in different subject areas. It can be very difficult

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to teach without this technology. If you ask our especially our um lower elementary curriculum that they're using, they really rely heavily on this. And then you look at our high schools and some of the curricular areas in their um math

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and sciences. They um also rely on the interactivity piece of these devices. Um this summer I'm hoping to replace up to 12 boards between the two schools. I think we can make this happen.

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Um with the with the help of this grant, my budget um which is kind of a down year to me. I don't have any big ticket items that we're doing this summer. So, that's kind of nice. So, I'm hoping to um get a few of these boards in this summer. Um and then looking at some

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other possibility for some grant opportunities. Um I'm currently working on getting quotes and always like to ask about my buy 10 get two free, but they never fall for it. But I'm gonna keep trying. So, it's always helpful

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when they send a quote say, "How does this look to you?" I'm like got a little wiggle wiggle room there. So, um so yeah. So that's that's my um summer replacing hopefully 12 board district.

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>> Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Andy that. All right. Next up, uh we awarded $5,32 to uh the elementary here for some new reading curriculum and Mandra is going

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to come accept that and tell a little bit about that. Um, thanks to this foundation grant, I have asked for a variety of decodable books to support early literacy and to strengthen the implementation of our new

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life foundation curriculum that is currently in kindergarten through 2 grade. I carefully selected these books to provide students with engaging skills based reading opportunities that align with phonics patterns and instructional sequences directly taught through their

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curriculum. Decodable texts allow students to practice to apply their skills um and help build accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. These resources will strengthen classroom instruction. that will strengthen intervention support and small group

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reading opportunities across several grade levels. Teachers will be able to provide students with meaningful practice using texts that match their current phonics knowledge while also increasing their access to fiction and non-fiction experiences. Their

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curriculum has a published list of many many resources that they recommend that shows how these books fit right along with their scope and sequence. And based on this list, I have already purchased and put in the orders for the following materials. Um, Mrs. Urgy has a

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kindergarten set, a fullonic book, and I was able to purchase the first grade set and the second grade set. There is a a site that's called Learning Without Tears. It's got handwriting, keyboarding, reading, all sorts of things. And they have four different

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levels. That's A, B, C, and D. And I was able to purchase four of each of those. That's for classroom. And then Orton Gillingham is like the full standard for dyslexic teaching. And they have recommended um books that are called Just Right Readers. and I was able to

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get decodable sets for kindergarten, first, second, and higher readers for a total of 116 books to put in our teachers hand. >> So, thank you. >> Next, Beth is going to come up and accept on behalf of the playground

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committee, we were able to do $1,000 towards the surface project. So you could explain that a little bit. I'll do my best. I have to get through two tracks we get. Um this is the money going towards the

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final stage of our playground outside which is really exciting. Um I was just sitting here thinking and this fall will be year number four. We started three ago in four small communities with big dreams of this host playground and all

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the equipment is in the wood chips are in the the outside containers in what this will be going to is I'm not quite sure how to explain it. It's kind of like it looks like a plastic surface. So rather than taking all the wood chips

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out and doing um rubber or turf from the sidewalk, they will take little rubber patches and get to each piece of equipment so that a wheelchair or somebody with crutches or a walker can use that kind of plastic to get there to

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shift state. Um if you've ever been to Clear Lake Park in Wika, they have this material also. They have rubber, but they also have and it's just it's kind of a clear coat. It'll I think it's going to be blue, but it will not cover

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um the whole container in there. I do know that on my gym door out here, there's a picture that kind of shows, but it's just literally like looks like a little pond in places or a little walk. So, this this is awesome. Um so,

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we are I don't know. I think we are um we're under $35,000 that we need total to get that done, which tourist is like $100,000. So, this is going to go a long ways. So, been it's been a quick fast ride and I

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plan to stay with it till it's all done. So, thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. I think so. Next up, um I think he's going to come up and you're going to present some money for Panther Preschool

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$3,000. Thank you very much. And I just wanted to thank again the Emerson Area Foundation for your continued support um for the $3,000 that we asked for for our um families with our um to give scholarships out. We have currently 73

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families um that or 73 students that are currently in preschool right now. And the $3,000 goes a long way um to help these families be able to afford preschool because, you know, unfortunately preschool is not Um right now we have 17 families that

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are in need of scholarships and um through various outlets we're able to get probably about 13 to 14 of those um full tuition scholarships covered. So then um I go and seek outside sources of funding um including the original area

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foundation to help cover those three or four families that are left over um in order to try to get them um either partial or full scholarship for that. So thank you very very much. Um without your support um these families may not

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be able to um continue to adopt their children. >> Okay. Okay. So then next um is again community ed and it is for the new CKLA curriculum and it's donation is actually from up and at Curtis Leon Foundation in

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conjunction um for $3,142. All right. Thank you. And again, thank you so much. We are really excited to have kind of more of a set preschool curriculum that we're going to be able to use with our kiddos. Right now we kind of pull from various courses. um

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for our curriculum and it will be very nice to have something that will help our students make um more seamless transition um from preschool into Bridges or kindergarten. We decided to purchase the CKLA curriculum which is

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the core knowledge language arts piece. Um and right now the lower levels of the elementary school um currently use that. So, with Amanda's help, she has been phenomenal in helping kind of talk me through it. It is new for us to use, but

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um we've been able to take a look at it. We are super excited and um we really think, like I said, it'll help with that transition for our kids in preschool um to go to the next level to make that transition. This will definitely cover the cost of

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that curriculum. So, thank you very much. This grant is for Camp Panther and I don't know who it is that's going to receive. >> This is for $2,000. >> Well, I'm Katie. Um, and I run the camp

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program. It's an after school program on Wednesdays and then also summer school um all together. So um yeah we this is our third year of the program and um we started out with about 50 kids and this

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year this current school year we had around 40 kids attending. Of course that always fluctuates but 40 kids enrolled. Um so for the for the upcoming summer school um we have about 35 kids that are coming and this money will help buy

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supplies for activities. Um and yeah make it a little less like school and a little learning a little different style of learning with like activities and things like that. So So thank you.

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>> Okay. And then lastly, before we step out and take a picture, uh we have a new booster program in town, um the cheerleading boosters and Brooklyn's going to come off and speak for just a few seconds. Don't have to speak for a minute. Like I

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talk, but here we've got $1,000 to help give their booster program. >> So, my name is Brooklyn. I'm a new cheer coach for the competitive cheerleading program. Um we the booster program because a lot of our students and athletes in our program aren't able to

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afford um if you just typically a season can run anywhere from $1,000 $200 to like 2,000 depending on if you go to national or not. So we plan to conver Very good. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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very appreciate it. Off off the record, Leon, are you appreciating the wife without the voice or is that >> why? >> I can't imagine this was recorded. >> Who's got the tape?

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>> Great answer. I think you're in less trouble than I am. >> All right, I'll change the subject. >> And now we turn to our superintendent, Mr. May. >> Uh, two different two other things before I get to the admin report here. Um, the activities committee. I'd like

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to get them together real quickly after just to find the date. Um, I think I shared some information with you in my newsletter at one point about Mr. store catcher some information with you about the activity fees and looking at a plan

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kind of a five-year plan for uh raising those and I think that would be a good topic to bring our activities committee together and hopefully Sarah knows because I didn't look at it before that or maybe the board members know if you're on the

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committee or not. >> Amy's on it. I got it right here. >> Kelly and >> Amy >> is on it. >> Amy, >> and Kelly, >> just let me know.

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>> Yeah, you got some power here today. >> Yeah, work around that. All right, >> perfect. >> And we'll just meet for a second afterwards. And then uh you have a a link there for some general election information here. as you know that we're

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in the election year for some board seats amongst other things obviously. Um and so if you want to bring that up real quick Sarah just some of the timelines that we have to follow and uh that the candidates follow as well. So thought

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that was important to get that information. that it actually starts here real soon that probably at our June meeting we'll be looking at uh or after the June meeting be looking at doing some things and obviously uh going

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through this and and hitting all the checkpoints and dotting the eyes and crossing the tees. So, just wanted this information in your hands as well and knowing that uh even if it's a November election that the the process behind the

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scenes starts fairly soon here. >> All right, with that we'll bring up we have Dr. Meyer with us to give the elementary first if it's elementary. Yeah, >> I was trying to quick find some videos

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from our books fundraiser. Um, but we made $22,000. Amazing. And it really was a lot for students or they were sent out. Um, they sent 10 links and people had an option to donate. So each of our student

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there's enough for each of our students to get two free books for their home and their hardback really nice grade level appropriate um for them. So each of them have something to take home to the library. Um and then um there's a lot of prizes and things too for those. And

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then we have one huge treasure chest winner. I'm going to put more on my newslet to a lot of pictures and I was hoping to share with you. It was pretty cool to see it was like Christmas for a lot of these kids opening presents and opening each of package. Some got up to 10 books. Um,

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our one big treasure chest winner, Wyatt Olman, fifth grade treasure chest was just big, full of all kinds of goodies. So, it was a great great thing that um I think we'll do this again next year. It went really well. Pretty pretty slick and easy and a great person to work with

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for the rep. I just want to again just a shout out to all of our teachers who do amazing jobs every day just coming out every day and just amazing things happen with our students and supporting our students. Also with nurses week so thank you to all the nurses here in the district too. We've got lots of field

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trip things going on. Um we do have our fourth quarter celebration that's um for PBIS that'll be next Tuesday already and and then we have our 250th American celebration picnic which will be invited to parents to come. Um so we'll have that hopefully we'll have good weather

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on Thursday the 28th and that'll be running anywhere between 10:40 and um 1:00ish um kind of regular lunch schedule. It will be extended a little bit so parents can join us during that lunch time if they want to. So, um, we're looking forward to that and again

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in the fourth quarter just wrapping things up and it's a busy time of year, but it's exciting. So, do you guys have any questions for me? >> Would you guys? >> I have a question. >> Sure. >> On your books are funded. Is that a

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percentage of the books that are sold? How do you raise 23,000 on the books? >> Um, so that's a great question. So, what happens is this is our first year doing it. Um, and mine as well. But the email there's a link that sent out and to each

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of the families and the families just need to send so if I'm a mom and I send out 10 emails to whoever I know they have the option of donating so much money for this >> and so depending on how many people and how much donated and those students can

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get up to 10 free books um for their libraries but um enough was raised schoolwide we have we had some families that raised over $1,000 And so the more they did and that that basically went to a generalized pot um and that afforded all the students to

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get to book. Um three teachers got 50% um or higher of student participation. So they get $100 shopping free. They've already they've already bought books for their classroom. And then um because we did such a great job, we had a goal of 40% or more for school and we did almost

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60%. And so Great thing. >> Great. Thank you. >> I just have a minute. And there's some um you can find the website, but this is

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just a little glare chest winners at the beginning. They each got like a dollar or so just all kinds of goodies in there. Um but just a really fun fun way to celebrate books and reading too. >> Did you say that the the books are hard

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covered? >> They are hard cover. >> Oh, that's nice. >> Very nice. They're very quality. >> All right, Mandra or Macy next. Great. Well, hello again everybody. Um, it's been been a little while since I've been here. Just kind of giving you an update on all of our community program

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that we have going on. Um, as of right now, I think this is the first time we've ever had more three-year-olds registered than four year olds. Um, so it'll be interesting to see if I can rec recruit a few more kids who um haven't registered for Panther preschool yet,

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but um it's the amount of three-year-olds we have is absolutely fantastic. Uh we have graduation coming up on Thursday at 6 o'clock in New Richland in the high school gym. We've done that for I think maybe the last four four years

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now. It's quite the ceremony. So if you guys are looking for something to do, stop on by. We have the uh ceremony which takes probably about a half hour, 35 minutes or so, and then we have a reception for juice and cookies afterwards for all of our families.

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And then we are going to be making that transition to the CKLA curriculum for this upcoming school year. Otherwise, um we have a lot of art clubs coming on. Um I'm doing a home loan safety class tomorrow. We have um babysitters training. Usually I do that in May. we

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decided to push it back to June to see if we get a few more kids to register for that. Otherwise, we're trying a blue a beauty glam session in June, which will be super cute. And then um our water balloon battle next Friday. We

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started that last year and um it was absolutely fantastic. Incredible amount of kids that showed up for that. Um we are organizing it a little bit differently this year. We're going to have our little come first. Um, and so they can play for about a half hour

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before the older kids get there. Otherwise, school age care, our registrations are coming in. We've gotten a few more registered uh for this summer so far. I'm thinking we'll probably beat last summer's registration by a few. Uh, otherwise, we are planning

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on having wraparound care here in Ellenale again next year. We have had um wonderful support from our families for wanting to do that and we have enough that have um committed I guess to having

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their kids um utilize our daycare uh next school year and even have some of the families who are trying to recruit more kids so we can be open here over the summer next summer. Um they wanted to try to get it to happen this summer but it was just it's

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too late in the process. So, um I have a couple Champion families that are um trying to make that happen. So, otherwise, adult enrichment, I have a couple um bus trips coming up, an acrylic painting class with Judy Tweeten, youth wreck. Um the only thing

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that's really new right now is girls play football. You guys know about that. Uh T-ball coach pitch tons of kids. Um this is the most we've ever had. I think there's 147 or 148 total right now that we have. uh 10 C ball teams, four coach

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pitch teams. I could have five coach pitch teams, but then somebody had a by week, so we decided to um kind of lower it to four. Otherwise, uh volleyball camps, softball, basketball camps again. Um varsity competitions here. Uh you listen to Brooklyn talk a little bit

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about that program. We have 12 registered athletes right now. And even though um it's summer, their season does begin that second week of June just with practicing in order to get ready for the live at the camp that they go to at Wisconsin Dells in July and that is um

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more of a stunt stunt alliance camp that they focus on for that. Otherwise, uh we have our Memorial Day ceremony coming up and then a couple youth resident clinics this summer. >> Any questions about anything? >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you. Amandra. >> Hello. Now that MCA testing is done, now I'm in the data gathering process part of my job here. So, right now, I'm working on a local literacy plan, which is a plan that needs to be adopted by

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the school board, but Minnesota gives the template to fill out anyway. So, here is the 16 areas of reporting and I just quickly threw one on each slide so you knew that the template is getting filled out. Um, I've gathered data as we

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speak and it has to be submitted by June 15th which is right before the school board meeting. So, I will have a finalized version of it when I see you next time. So, I'll quickly go through each of these. So the react goals um

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the current react goals are implementing this daily getting our teachers trained and there is a piece of data in there saying that the kids who are either low or exceeding their grade level bench benchmarks will go from 52% to 62 65%.

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I have the goals there but I don't have the reporting numbers because they're not done with the assessments until the end of the week. So that part should slowly trigger and I have a workshop on Thursday that will help me build um um a new set of goals for our school district

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that will be similar to the ones on top. We'll get our second our secondary teachers into that literacy training and then based on whatever our current um scores are, it will help me build a smart goal for next year. Number two are

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the screening tools. We will continue to use for the little and then the secondary and 4 through 12 will be cap basic. Nothing new there. Student screening data submission. So this section is just me verifying that I

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have the right information in the computer for each of the students and for the school district. Section five is the screening summary count. So it's asking me how many kids were screened in the fall, how many

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above at or above their grade level benchmark. Here's the winter. Here's their benchmark. Here's the spring. It is empty. It is not currently there, but it's getting worked on. Section six is dyslexic screening count.

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So, as I gather data, it's asking me um what their current score is and their accuracy. And based on that, Minnesota says here is you know, here's their risk level for being dyslexic and that needs

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to get reported and it's it's completely based on their spring. So, we look at it in the fall, we look at it and do something about it in both of the benchmarks, but in spring it's the one that's referred to. So, this is currently being called right now

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and then it's the counts for fourth through 12th grade. So, fourth grade right now, um this is the data and we only screen them once. It was only required once just to see what the test ran like to

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see what the data brought. So these numbers are already in. You can see fourth grade here is the total number in the grade level. Based on preliminary data we said you know what only 19 of these kids need to get screened based on

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their data. Out of those 19 19 of them are showing the characteristics of this. So, how we assess our kids is very aligned and right on track with what MDE is asking us to do. And it just keeps going. Here's seven,

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here's 12. Here's how many kids we trained based on previous data. And here's how many are showing characteristics that could be helpful. Section eight is database decision making for action. So now that you have

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the data, what are you doing with the data? How do you check that the teachers are teaching what they're supposed to do? So this is all reporting on what our current practices are in our classroom. There's a lot I'm just going to keep going. Parent

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notification. Currently we let all of our elementary kiddos be notified parents three times a year. At the beginning of the year, middle of the year, end of the year. 6 through 12 with just that captive screening. Um I notified them that they're getting

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screened and I gave the screening data just that one time and then I did put on our template that there will be changes. We will do capy three times at the high school level. So they will also get reports out parents who is the curricular resources. There are

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no changes to this. So kindergarten first and second they've got two pieces. They've got the knowledge which is for CTA which is what we're bringing preschool and they have which is the foundational skills that's your your letters your sounds your breaking apart

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words and then 345 use ka for both the knowledge and their skills as a combined curriculum 11 are the intervention resources our main or our main intervention source

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is you so the get it in class, just need a little extra time, maybe um just needs to go through it a little slower, a little more intense, and that's all they need to catch up to what they need. If you need something a little more intense, we do Barton, which is either

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one-on-one with an interventionist or two students to one. Um and then as they get older, we do advanced word study where they break apart multi. 12 is the fund. There was a little piece of funding that was left over and that

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funding went to um literacy leaves. That's part of my salary stipens for the literacy training for anyone who is doing that this year and a piece of the reading intervention at the high school. 13 is the professional development plan.

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We've got five secondary teachers doing the structured literacy training and then one new teacher coming in will have to do um the elementary version of it. Um that's all 13 and 14. 14 is just a count

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saying hey there's 14 teachers and no one needs more training. There's seven special education teachers and they've all got the training. So I just need to do a head count for the 15 is multi-tiered system of support this MTSS.

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Yes, we follow it. Um yes, we implement it. Have we taken like specific compass training that is no? Will we make any changes? Yes, me and Peterson are doing that instructional

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coaching training over the summer. So hopefully that will be a part of getting more supports in our classroom for those um intervention pieces. 16 last section dual language immersion

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program we do not have in our school and that's the last portion that needs to be reported in our literacy plan. So as soon as I get those chunks of data in and I get submit it makes this nice report that goes in the title one report. it gets posted to NDE and then

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we um put it on our school website. So that's what I've been working on. So next steps I have a workshop on Thursday to help me build goals. That plan is due by June 15th. And um one of the suggestions is connecting the literacy

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goals to the CACR goals. The CACR goals are MCA and you can think of the literacy goals as like the building blocks. so that they can do that MCA. Well, so if we can support a literacy

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plan, it feeds into the CAPR goal later on. So >> CR is world's best workforce used to be the world comprehensive assessment and career readiness. Yeah, world's best workforce, >> but those do one doesn't replace the

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other. You don't use the same goal. The literacy plan are the more the foundational skills. so that they can be successful on their end. Do you have any questions for me? >> Thank you.

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>> You're welcome. to communicate this with the board and whatnot and um there was a little bit of scrambling and whatnot. It was our understanding the presentation and board approval but it was clarified that

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uh the submission has to be by June 15th and just to keep you in the loop obviously to get you that information. So that is why Mandra presented that and we'll come back and kind of give you the final presentation

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in June. >> That's it with the superintendence report. Great. Great. Thank you all for your information and quality reporting there. So thank you again. Moving on to board member comments. Are there any board member comments this evening?

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I would like to first off thank the Richland Area Foundation. Carla, I miss some of the rest of your crew, but please pass that along. How grateful we are as a district. Our financial situation is uh challenging to say the least at these times. And uh to have

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this type of a donation come forward into such worthy causes is uh just excellent work. So, we appreciate that and thank them uh greatly for for considering and and following through with those donations. I would ask the people that received these, I think this

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is all customary, but please uh fill out your thank you cards and make sure that this is acknowledged to the fullest extent to uh u show our appreciation because it truly is an

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a great gift. The other thing I'd like to mention just this evening briefly and we have them every every month it seems that we have people uh changing um careers perhaps or retiring or or for different reasons leaving the district.

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I always think it's uh probably the wrong approach to thank them as they're leaving. we should thank them as they're coming and and the work they do while they're here. But I think it's uh a time to acknowledge people that have perhaps

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given most of their career to the district and and worked for us and made us the great district that that we are. So, thank you to those people that have done that. You know who you are. And uh as always, I think uh recognizing our

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employees and the work that they do each and every day to educate the children is is something to be very proud of as an individual and we are proud of you as a district. So with that, we will move on to information and communications. Um,

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Monday, June 15th is the next regularly scheduled board meeting and that will be in the secondary school media center in Richland at 6:30 p.m. With that, Mr. May, please introduce the consent agenda items. Our consent agenda with all

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school board members have received background information on the items included in tonight's consent agenda. These items are considered routine in nature and will be acted upon with a single vote and without discussion. If any board member would like to discuss a specific item, it may be removed from

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the consent agenda and considered separately. Besides the new Richland Area Foundation donations, there are no donations to report on this month. We did however include a list of all the uh contributing sponsors for our clay

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target program. We appreciate their involvement in that program and that list is very lengthy and and uh appreciated. So with that, I ask for the board's approval on the consent agenda as presented. >> I move to accept the consent agenda as

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presented. >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. Shrock, seconded by Miss Da Cruz to approve the consent agenda as presented. All in favor say I. opposed. Motion carries.

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Um, looking at our district property liability auto workers compensation insurance proposal, please. Mr. Mayock, >> I'll give a brief uh description here. If Carl, if you wanted to add anything, you could. Um, this is our fourth year with Tyler Firm from the Hines Agency.

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Tyler was able to provide the same carrier that we've used in the past. There's a 6.9% increase in our rate compared to last year and I think we were pretty happy with the 6.9% increase with the insurance. So Carla, if there's anything else in addition to that, but

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>> yeah, you all can bring up that that quote. Uh the work comp is included in there. Um across the bottom you see something called a mod factor. Um, anytime we swing over one, we're not really in a position to go out and seek

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hope for close and get anything better. So, we are staying with the same hoping for a safe, easy, successful year. And >> that was a rating of one. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, you see the fiveyear

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history I think you listed on there. um like Mike said under 7% but we we actually had pencled in something higher in the budget so that's manageable and um and he did some negotiating again I don't know how it

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works in the insurance world but you can see the figure they first quoted and he got him down some um he shows that we're not part of that process but um anyway we've been really really happy with them they respond very quickly when we have

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questions and concerns. So, I'm excited to be able to stay right with those guys if you guys approve that. >> Great. >> Yeah. Thank you for the work on that and it's good to hear that they are competitively seeking doing that work

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for us on on making sure that we are not only covered but affordable. You know, researching that we're not overpaying. bring them to. Thank you for that work. Any other questions on that? Or I would

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entertain a motion to approve the white. >> Make a motion to approve the district property liability auto workers compensation proposal as presented. >> Okay. Motion made by Miss Tyer, seconded by Miss Engle to approve the district

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property liability auto workers compensation insurance proposal as presented. Is there any further discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carried. Earlier I had mentioned the budget and

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the concerns that we have with that. Uh we have a reduction in front of us this evening. Mr. May would you present that please? >> Yeah, as part of our financial plan moving forward, we are recommending the reduction of one pair professional position following a recent retirement

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rather than filling the position. This gives us an opportunity to make a planned adjustments through attrition while continuing to be mindful of the students needs and overall staffing. I ask for your approval for the budgetary reduction of one pair professional

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position. Make a motion to approve the reduction of one pair professional FTE as presented. >> Second. >> Motion made by Miss Engle, seconded by Mire to approve the reduction of one paraprofessional FTE.

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Is there any further discussion? I might have missed it, but do you know which facility that will be at, Mr. my act >> that will be at the elementary. >> Okay. You might have mentioned that I may thank you. Any other discussion?

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All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. It is the time of the year that we start talking about our annual superintendent evaluation. Mr. Mak and I briefly discussed this at our agenda planning

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meeting. Um we have try to do that somewhat consistently in the July August time frame. Hopefully prior to um students coming back and and the busyiness of what that brings, but

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um we can work toward that. Miss Engle, you've always been a great asset in that that part. And I think we're all all familiar with uh Mike keeping us up to date on some of his goals through his newsletter and some of his

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accomplishments. But it is an important part of our duty as a board and uh uh a great opportunity as we're all aware of to have a a detailed conversation with the superintendent and establish and and

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uh have the conversation. So keep that in mind. Mr. Mayak, did you have some things to add to that as far as when your calendar would >> No. >> prefer or? >> No. July, August, they do work well and it's really up to you. And

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>> August, are you saying already? Yes, that's perfectly fine. Should we >> do we want to accomplish it and get it on the calendar? Is that how we move forward with it? And should we go with something I think we've either done

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before or after >> a regular board meeting? So would after >> the August board meeting be a tentative >> Yeah. >> approach and then we all have it on our calendar and work toward that and that'll get the ball rolling. If we

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don't establish that night we'll >> keep keep Yes. >> August 17th. That would be okay. >> All right. Okay, that was easy. Along with another easy item is the

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assignment of principal in the negotiation committee is my favorite time. >> So we don't have to make a motion or anything >> for that evaluation. I don't think I think we're just the date. >> We put it on there. We could have put a motion to set the date, but it's just

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more of a discussion. So I think we've all been aware again back to Mr. Mayak's newsletter um that true discussion there's been a uh what we feel is the need to establish a princ

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principal negotiation committee. Uh a lot of our other uh groups have that option and have board representation in their negotiating and uh we felt it was time to establish a few more of these. Mr. Would you like to add anything to that

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or >> No, you nailed it. Yeah, back to the directors as well that uh and the directors which is the next item is probably a yearly the principal's negotiation is a two-year contract. But

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yeah, the same premise as our or other contracts that um it's always been left up to the the superintendent to do that. I think there's some uh um there there is a need to have that input from the the board as well that we're

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looking at the and have the same type of vision and and consistency moving forward. So uh and that you know how how the logistics of the committee and meeting with the principles or meeting with the directors can look a little bit

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different than how we handle our other negotiating committees. But we can iron that out. But just establishing that committee would be the the first thing here and then moving forward probably shortly with our directors. And I guess uh how we've done committees

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normally uh not to be confused with positions within the board themselves when when we've elected positions amongst board members we've called for nominations committees just to remind everyone of the process that is actually

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I I don't like using the term appointed by the board chair but um that is the legality of it. What we've tried to develop in the past is starting with volunteers. Uh we don't pride ourselves in putting anyone on a committee that

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would be not able to uh fulfill the commitment or uncomfortable for whatever reason on those committees. So with that all in mind, I would start with asking for volunteers for the principal negotiation committee. >> I can volunteer.

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>> Great. Is that is that the one that's right away or is that one director? >> No, directors is right away. >> Okay, I I can do that. >> Do you want to do the principal? >> Yeah, >> so Kelly, Terry, and one more.

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>> I can do it. >> Great. How easy that was. That was wonderful. I like volunteers. So, our principal negotiation committee will be as follows. Kelly D. Cruz, Terry Engel, and Pat Tyer. And thank you again for being

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willing to serve on that. The director negotiation committee. Um, again, we'll ask for volunteers. >> Amy, Amy said, um, she sent a message and said that she was more than willing.

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>> I got her on that one. >> Put her on that one. Amy will serve. All right, Lauren. And who's left here tonight that hasn't come in?

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>> No, I will be happy to serve on that also. So, all right. Thank you very much. So, the the uh director negotiation committee will be Amy Warren. So, thanks again on that. Um again

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something we were informed of uh March 2027 a staff development date change request. Mr. Mayo, could you explain that to us please? >> I will. And it revolves around the ACT test and due to some uh scheduling needs

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of that test. Uh the request has been made to move the March 1st date as it's scheduled for March 1st of 2027. that staff development date, move that to March 15th. The ACT's um the window

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to take that test isn't until the 15th. Um typically that the test has been taken at local churches or facilities that can handle larger groups. The Wi-Fi hasn't always been consistent. We need subs and whatnot for teacher, proctors,

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or people to come in and and uh uh help with the ACT. I've been in charge one time of um overseeing an ACT test and it's very intimidating. You get a a large book and it says you do this and you do this and you do this and it's the

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ACT so you you do it. Um and so by having it on a staff development day that would allow us to have the test taken at the high school uh where the internet reliability is greater. Uh staff would be available space.

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Obviously, they would be available with no students in the building. Uh Mr. Berg is fine with it as a high school principal. The calendar committee. I talked with the high school rep and the elementary rep on that committee. They were both fine with it. But it still

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does take the board approval to make a change to the calendar. So, I'd ask for your approval making that change in the calendar from the 1st to the 15th of March for that staff development date. I move to approve the date change of

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March 2027 staff development day for March 1st 2027 to March 15 2027. >> Second >> motion made by Mr. Shonra, seconded by Miss D. L Cruz to approve the March 2027

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staff development date change as presented. Is there any further discussion? All in favor say I. I >> opposed. Motion carries. And to reinforce where we are in the school year, we have the

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graduating class of 2026 that needs approving this evening. Mr. May, please. >> And the list that you have is a list of uh a list of names that may include students who are still completing their requirements and hope to complete them within the next few weeks. So, I'm

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recommending the board to accept the list of students on track to graduate at our upcoming commencement ceremony. >> Make a motion to accept the list of students on track to graduate at our upcoming commencement ceremony. Second. >> Motion made by Miss Engle, seconded by

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Miss Tyer to approve the graduating class of 2026 students that are on track to graduate as presented. Is there any further discussion? All in favor say I. >> I.

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>> Opposed. Motion carries. >> Concludes the business for this evening. Last but not least is the adjournment. I would entertain a motion for that. Move to >> second. >> Motion made by Mr. Shro, second by Miss

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Tired to adjourn. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I got to screw one up here, don't I? But uh >> you're talking at him in both like my circle back in the day.

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>> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion. Thank you everyone. Thank you. I