All right, it is 1:30, so we will call the meeting. Everybody is present except for Ron. And I just want to welcome everybody and thank you everybody for coming. It's one of our favorite meetings. So, we will start with the elementary
school presentation. There she is. You want to drive this yourself or would you like to >> Good afternoon and thank you so much for having our students come and attend today. Um today I brought 10 special
guests, fifth graders, soon to be sixth graders. So they'll be coming over to the secondary in a few short months. and today they are here to talk about their participation and experience in math masters. Um I thought um it would be fun
for them to share a tradition that we have participated in uh for sure the last four years and perhaps even prior to that. Um when we look at our our mission and this is all about giving our students opportunities um to succeed in
careers in their community and the math masters opportunity is one that uh prepares them for that. On the next slide we've got what is math masters? Um it really hones in on students in grades four through six and it's a math
competition. um Payneesville Elementary, we send our fifth graders to Math Masters and this year they went to Alexandria this year and previous year. Uh so they do take a mini field trip uh to Mathmaster competition. The core
focus looks at critical thinking and problem solving and so our students will talk a little bit about that today. Uh there's different types of competition levels at MathMasters. There's the individual competition and team competition and they'll show uh some
more details related to that. There's eight rounds uh looking at fact drills, individual round and team round and they'll get into those details as well. So with that being said, I would like to invite up our 10 math master
participants. So you can stand up and kind of join me up here if you would. And on the next slide, um, we're going to take a moment. They are going to introduce themselves, uh, with their first and last name. We'll start down here.
>> Hi, I'm Amar. >> I'm Kenzie Kirsten Han. I'm Izzy Simon. I'm Kase Beckman. I'm Ethan Stur. >> I'm Carter Thompson. I'm Theo Man. I'm Kley Hime. Melanie Walker. >> I'm Bella Den. >> So, these are your math master
participants for this school year. Uh when we talk about um preparing for competition, uh these 10 students have worked hard working with Mrs. Keer um the fifth grade math teacher and preparing students what to expect when
they show up to the competition. Not just the math skill, but how does the competition itself work? And so I've got some students here that are going to share um how they prepared for competition day. Oh, okay. Um, so for individual focus,
we did some back drills and uh you have to get good night's sleep before the competition so your brain is ready and you need a healthy breakfast also so your brain is ready and brain power. Um part
you need to practice. Well, you don't need to. It helps if you practice and it helps if you're practicing independently. Um the stat the strategic practice um practicing tests from pre previous years is one of the stuff that we've been
doing. And then finding problem solvers which is basically find the ones that you that you can get and then you like evaluate like that part of it. Teamwork and positivity. Um you need to have
teamwork to work good as a team and find who you work best with and need to work in pairs like positivity to make sure that you think that you can do things. uh talking a little bit about the
participation. So when they showed up to Alexandria, what did that look like? Um so the start we had like a fact drill which is kind of like its own separate thing. So it was individual. It was on paper
pencil and you had five minutes and I think there was like around like 75 questions and it goes from like simple like two there's like three questions that are like really easy and then it
goes to like multi-step operations really hard and challenging. The individual round is where you get it's you have 10 minutes to work on word problems. There's eight questions.
There's three rounds and um that's about it. >> Um the team round, there's 15 minutes in the team round. There's three rounds and there's 10 multi-step word problems in every round.
And so getting into the competition, how did Painsville Area Elementary students do in the competition portion? >> Hey, Simon Walker, we got fifth place in back out of 132 students. Um, Ethan
Stern and Belladen, we got ninth place for back drill out of 132 students. and and Bella Den got 15th on the individual round out of 132
students. Very proud of our math masters. Um, I had asked the 10 students to think about what was something from their experience that they didn't care for, less than desirable, uh, that they maybe weren't excited about, uh, something that
brought challenge to them, the middle icon there. And then lastly, what was something that they enjoyed? And so, we're just going to open it up and they can share uh, one of those three areas. Um, for what I enjoyed is when all like
most of our 10 out of there was four. I'm pretty sure four for the for the got the fact drill and then Bella got one for the individual. Um, I didn't like not eating lunch with
my friends, but it was for practice. So, so they did have working lunches at school in preparation and so they gave up their cafeteria lunchroom to hone in on some math while they ate. So, that's what I spoke to. >> A really challenging part was like the
nerves building up towards the competition. It just got like really stressful. I'd say a challenging part was like the team round because we um we were we were working together and we didn't we didn't really have enough time to like check
over the problems that other people worked on. >> Um the challenging part was being cooperative when you're with your team because your team is kind of harder to work with sometimes.
Uh a challenging part was during the individual round you were stressed a lot having to do the questions by yourself. I really like the team rounds. I could work with other people and it was much
easier. I didn't like how at the start we had back thrill so all your nerves were like built up and so then you didn't really have time to like warm up or anything. >> Um I also liked working with my team. It
was fun to work together more which made it easier and fun to be able to be around your friends and stuff. Now, when we went over this the first time, their favorite was what?
>> Food. Uh they talked about pizza ranch. So, after they compete, uh they are treated to Pizza Ranch and they wanted to share that and I said, "Well, let's talk maybe I'll competition first. Uh another highlight was taking the bus and going on a field trip um on the way to
Alexandria and they got to be together." So I don't want to leave that out but I wanted to encourage them to talk more about the competition in in this reflection. Um so last slide um you can just see the smiles on their faces. Um and again we are super proud of our
mathematicians as they competed and participated in math masters in Alexandria. >> Nice work. Very cool. All right, we will now move on to the secondary school presentation.
>> Hey, so um one of the programs that we have at the secondary that I I don't think gets enough credit. We all see the outcome of it, but we don't get to hear much about the process is our branding and marketing class. And I so I invited some students to come in and talk about it. Unfortunately, most of our students
had things going on today. They were gone at events. Um so I do have Elise and Sarah here to talk a little bit about uh the branding and marketing class and just kind of the whole picture of of what all that class entails. So >> yeah, I have like 90% of my class gone
today. It's softball track or field day. So here you Yeah. So, I'm Elise and I am the teacher of branding marketing class and we started that class in 2019.
Um, and is it has evolved so much since then. Um, I am a special ed teacher actually. Um, or that's what my full-time job was before and I also do like work experience, school to work. And so, we were trying to find a class
that could combine real real world life skills and to teach kids more so they can have a dabble in maybe marketing or branding stuff to see if they want to go to college for that. That's how it kind of all got started.
>> So the class gives us real world like world experience. We get to like talk to customers. I specifically do invoices after we do that. >> Yes, that actually is what has evolved. It it has become so big that I couldn't handle it all on my own. wants to know. I have the branding marketing class and
then I also now have a internship where Sarah helps do all the invoices, job of profit loss statements and trying to keep track of all that. Otherwise, that was another full-time job for me. >> Sorry.
>> It's really cool just to see like how to make everything and like even just going to the store and then you see like, oh, I can make that in here. Like, oh, that's screen printed. That's just a sticker. Mhm. >> It's cool to realize that and like so a lot of times customers
like email us and then we like can say okay we have these options we can embroider it. We can do this kind of sticker and then we just give them all the options. They can choose from there and those are all the clients we have.
Not all that was like from this year. >> We have a lot of clients, but it what is so crazy is that we don't advertise this, but word of mouth is so amazing. And so like Cington County is actually in South Dakota. Um,
yeah. I mean, a lot of these definitely are painill community, but Alexandria, Alexandria. So, it's a lot of our students that maybe they might have family that works at these places. And that's kind of how it all kind of spreads and
gotten so big. And we create the logos for them and we can like send it to the customers. A lot of the time they're like, "Oh, can you add this or can you change this?" And then we change it for them, get it to how they want it. >> Yeah. Yeah. So they first reach out to
us and then we kind of just the students I'll assign like two three students to like um work with the customer client you call them and then um and just yeah so they'll just get a clue of what their brand might be like so they know what
kind of logo to make. Um, so that's a lot of back and forth email or even calls sometimes and then they go into the design process and and we really try to sometimes clients are like, "Oh, you know, they're students. We want to be
like, oh, it looks good." I'm like, "No, you have to give them constructive feedback." And so it's your brand. We want to make sure that you we have your logo that you want. And so so so they do get a lot of constructive feedback, which is good. and and they learn how to
take that and then become and create something even better. >> And so we have like two websites we go off of that's like wholesale. So then we can go through that and like for the trap theme they wanted gray camel. So we had to search through the sites to try
to find options for gray camel and that took a long time actually. >> Yeah. So, so we don't, if you want to back up one, we don't just, we're not just like a clothing store. A lot of people just think we make a lot of clothing. Um, which like we do for the
community like for the Bulldog store and stuff like that. We'll do that. But there's also like um we just did this huge event for Wild Hayden. It's a sportsman's club coming. And um so we made tokens um for their event that they have for an
auction, for a live auction. um we made stickers, banners, um hats with leather patches. So, it's just so much more their signage and that was really fun event. I got to go to that and there was 1,800 people there and so it was fun to see all the
kids work and we even got a shout out from them during the event that said good job branding marking class. >> That was fun. Yeah. Um it's like we calculate it's like with the invoices we take the product cost of
what it was plus like the cost of materials that we used and then we sell it to them and so we do um charge 60%. Most businesses charge like 200%. But we do make mistakes like we are learning um and so we want to make sure
that if uh if we mess up on a shirt we have enough money to pay for that shirt back. the rest of the cost go for like um the inks or like up updating all the machines. We have an embroidery machine. It'd be awesome if we had two someday, but never hats. You can always have the
hats for embroidery. Thank you. >> We did not master those at all. And so that's kind of where that's how we um like justify like up upping the price
60%. Which is really not that much. Like if it's a $3 shirt and it ends up being five or you know so we just try to make sure that we cover all of our costs. And so we have our website Champ Sten. And so we have to make each like folder
and we have to upload the picture of the shirt we're using with the design on it and all the different sizes they can have the colors and all that and product description. We have to do each one individually. >> Yes. That takes some time. >> Like I did the pirates order that probably took me almost a week to do
just one folder. >> Yes. And those are some real world skills that we gained just from being in the class. We learned communication, leadership, teamwork, graphic design, marketing, and time management.
>> Time management is a big one. >> Our impact on the school is we're able to promote school spirit and we're supporting teams and organizations around here and we get to provide bulldog gear. Okay. Do you guys have questions? I know that
it's a newer class and >> so is it like um a semester or >> to the kids? Yeah, a lot of kids do take it more than once though, which I appreciate as well cuz then like Sarah
for example has been in it three times. So now she's kind of like helps me teach the new ones. So we're not so I'm not teaching new each time that I still have some kids that have been in it to help because the process is is it is a
lot and we always have we always have projects beginning of the year and end of the year are busiest times especially with homecoming in the beginning of the year. So we try to make sure that quarter we have most these students have taken it before just so we have enough time to get all the bulldog gear done
and designed and made before homecoming. >> It seems like every quarter that you take it >> Yeah. I mean um so Sarah now is actually like an advanced class because she's taken so many times. Yes. >> Okay.
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, you pretty much do anything that is available in the innovation center. >> Kind of run through what what is available. So, our community knows many of them don't even know what's in our innovation center. >> Yeah. >> And it keeps expanding every year. I
feel like we just got a new laser engraver where we can engrave like travel mugs. >> We have a few glow forges for like we did leather patches on glow forges. We can do like acrylic signs on Glow Forges, wood signs, pretty much the
tokens we did on the Glow Forge. >> And then we have the screen printers, embroidery machine, >> and we have a whole bunch of different like kinds of vinyl. We have like brick vinyl, puff vinyl, regular vinyl, and then new this year too, it's DTF. It's
um direct fabric it's called, which is kind of like a sublimation print. So we have that new this year, too. which just goes a little bit faster, especially when we're really busy. >> Yeah. >> So, when you're thinking about your
future, do you think of the fun you had in this class and wonder where that goes forward? >> Oh, actually with made me realize that I wanted to do accounting. >> Internship. Yeah, this is a great class. I started
my own homebased business with no background at all and I know what goes into that and I did well but it was a lot of checking things out and you know how do I do this? How do I do that? And talking to people and you're getting it all here. I mean you got the first 10
steps figured out, right? This is wonderful for anybody who wants to go into any part of that. It's been fun. >> But looking at accounting, you can probably see from what you're learning, it applies to every business everywhere. >> Yes.
>> It's not just particularly what you're selling here. >> Right. Right. >> Yeah. And she does a good job in keeping track of, you know, like what's going in and what's going out. And I I don't know. You're gonna have big
shoes to fill next year. Well, somebody know where I'm coming from. There's a whole rout sizes of orders. I mean, >> yeah. >> To large or small? >> Nope. Yeah, we we have infant stuff. We've done all the way up to 6XL. So,
>> quantities and >> Yeah. So, so since we have these wholesale accounts because we are considered like a nonprofit business and we can get it at wholesale costs, we don't have to order like a box of 24 at a time. You can order one shirt
along with our order, but I don't need a big quantity. No. >> Can we ask one more question? How about numbers in the class? Numbers of students. I limit it actually at 15. Otherwise, it's too much in there. And >> we only have so many machines.
>> Yes. And it's nice for like three kids at a time, you know, to work on a project and then that makes it manageable for me to make it around to each group to make sure that they're getting their questions answered. Yeah. So, we limit it. >> Yeah. >> That's a good size.
>> I don't imagine it's empty very often. No. Yeah. >> No, it's definitely a favorite spot in the school. >> Very good. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And you guys get to see it next year. >> All right. Thank you very much.
>> We will now move on to communication items. There you are. Just wanted to highlight um a few things that we recognized. Um different groups of people in April and Hay. We had teacher appreciation week last week. Uh
school nurse appreciation, lunch hero day. Um were kind of three different groups that we recognized and celebrated. Um and then we also had our third grade wax museum. And last year, I think we had some of our museum guests um visit uh here at the board meeting.
So, that was a great turnout. Um so many families and community members come in for that and I just want to say thank you for supporting our students in that special day because they put a lot of time and and effort in preparing for that. Um also at the elementary, we are wrapping up spring benchmarking with
BassBridge and again that looks at uh reading, math and some social emotional learning. um giving us an understanding of where were students in the fall, winter, and now to the spring. Um so we're excited to see uh the growth and progress um using Fastbridge.
Uh we are busy over at the elementary with field day, field trips, and more. I just want to personally thank Mr. Keeler and Mr. Borgarding uh for their preparation in field day uh that is happening today for K12. uh very windy
but uh many people are out and enjoying that. Um and then tomorrow grades three, four, five will participate. A lot of preparation goes in um to make that successful for our students. Uh field trips and fun and different um
opportunities outside of the classroom uh take place and you can see uh some neat opportunities that our students participate in um during the month of May. And all of these are made possible by our fall fundraising uh that helps
offset costs for families and offsets uh transportation. And so um just want to say thank you to our families because these are the opportunities that we get to provide our students because of their efforts. Um also want to say thank you to Paysville Motor and Transfer and our
food service staff. They prepare bagged lunches for students and certainly providing our transportation and making sure that we get routes in and back in time before regular dismissal. So, a lot goes into planning and preparation. Just want to remind um and invite again uh
the public and community to come to our retirement open house which is next Monday the 18th at the pack. Hopefully, you can come and and show your appreciation for our retirees. Um, and then some upcoming dates. On Tuesday the 19th, we have our fifth grade music
program and graduation at 1:30. And that is here at the secondary um where we'll honor and celebrate our fifth graders before we send them off to sixth grade. And then just a reminder, our last day of school is Wednesday, May 27th, and we do have an early dismissal that day, uh,
which is different for our families. So, I just want to make sure to communicate that so families can plan accordingly. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And we will dismiss ourselves as Yep. Thank you. >> Thank you very much.
>> Absolutely. Well, good afternoon. Uh, just a few highlights from, uh, the last month since we've been together. Uh, I couldn't put everything up on there or we'd be here all day, but um, very busy time for the secondary. So, um, I just wanted to point out that, uh, we a long
time ago here, I I believe it was the custom to uh, take middle schoolers down to the capitol in the sculpture gardens, and we had a couple um, teachers that were really passionate about bringing that back. And so, um, we took on May 6th, our seventh graders got to go down and, um, got to see the state capital
and go to the sculpture gardens and just have a a really cool experience. Uh, they they shared with me some of the pictures and I was just in awe of them. There's a picture on the right there of them sitting on the on the balcony over the um the area where legislation happens and I was just kind of in awe of
being there and being part of that. So, uh, what a neat experience for our kids. So, um, they got a chance to experience that. Um we did have fifth grade orientation here on Friday. Our a group called SAD students against destructive decisions um was the one who kind of
took that on and we had awesome student leaders who planned this fifth grade or incoming sixth grade students for our fifth grade orientation. Um they had a chance to do a bunch of stuff here. They got to tour the building. They get an opportunity to try opening lockers to practice that because that tends to be a
a big fear of sixth graders coming in. They're really afraid of what do we do if we can't get the lockers open and so we give them a chance to practice. Uh they got a chance to come into the auditorium and ask questions of a wide panel of students. So uh we had students of all grades answering questions so
that uh sixth the fifth graders could ask anything they wanted to and then um they eat lunch with the sixth graders and then we send them back to the elementary for um the sad students planned games and activities. So you can kind of see uh pictures of that event. But that was our fifth grade orientation
last Friday. Uh we also had prom here not too long ago and I just wanted to say a big thank you to um Gina Pong and the rest of the team for their work in planning and supervising prom. Uh it is no small task to get that all set up and decorated and everything thought through
and planned and they did a wonderful job and uh just uh just heard great things from kids about prom and their experience this year. So big thanks to everybody who um helped put that on. So, we had um um we're starting something new uh this year and so um
Jacob at the Painesville Chamber came up to us and and talked about this idea of having a career signing ceremony. So, just like how we honor students who are signing for athletics where we do a signing event and we do some photo ops, we're going to do the same thing for
students who are um planning on committing to going to work at a Payneesville area business. So, we're going to do a signing event. Uh, that signing event is May 20th. It's going to be noon um right here in the boardroom. And I'd like to invite board members. If you want to be a part of that signing
event, that's great. Um, so students who want and and are are invited to come and um have an event with the the businesses that they're signing with here in Paysville. So, we're going to honor students who are going to do that. Um, a few end of the year dates. We have
11 days of school uh and and a ton of things happening that I just want to make you aware of and invite you uh you're welcome to come. We have our dollars for scholars breakfast. That's Friday morning um May 15th at Bugby Hive. It starts at 7:45. We have an
opport we use that um so students um apply for scholarships and then they get granted scholarships. And so at this breakfast we get to award those scholarships and then they get an opportunity to meet u with the donors who were who donated the scholarship. So it's a really cool event. Um we have fun
in the sun the same day. Uh then we have our senior honors banquet uh May 17th at Payneesville Secondary. Um then we have graduation practice and seniors last day on May 19th here. Um middle school update is May 22nd and then graduation
May 22nd at 7 o'clock p.m. in the pack. And then the last day of the 25 26 school year is uh May 27th. So lots of things happening here before the end of the year.
>> All right. Any questions for Jesse? >> Thank you. Thanks Jesse and community just uh eaten bon bon controlling your thought. There's nothing happening in community right now.
>> No. So big event tomorrow is our early childhood playground uh dedication and big truck night. We're having that at the elementary school. We have quite a few people coming. I'm anticipating co over 200 people at the event. So, um
we've had 49 families register. Um the I've invited community members and so I have 35 on my list and 15 staff. And I'm sure there'll be others that didn't quite get on the list, but um we have the uh uh Payneesville
Legion. They're going to be serving a hot dog meal. We have trucks from our uh our bus company, police fire department, a tractor from ANC Farm Service, and then Ken is bringing a big semi-truck, a trailer. Um so we have a few things
parked in that back parking lot. Um and then because it was a little bit bigger event than than I had um envisioned, we're going to have some activities in the gym. There'll be some uh act. We'll have the we have the cement part where
we'll have like sidewalk chalk and then the playground itself, the trucks to climb on and then the cere the uh ribbon cutting or the we'll have a little short ceremony and a ribbon cutting starting at 6:30. So, um so yes, tomorrow I'll be um
moving and shoving furniture and stuff around. So, that's that's what community ed does. the huge stuff, you know, junior and bulldogs preschool. We're final, we're starting to place place kids in classes. We um we have three sections of four year olds. There are 18
students per class. We have two sections of three-year-olds with 10 to 13 students in each class. There is one student on the weight list at this point. So, we'll be able should be able to accommodate and that is a three-year-old. So, we should be able to accommodate that child um as well. So,
um yeah. So, we have pretty full classes for uh for next year. Um then just we're gearing up for summer. We have 49 offerings. Um that anywhere from sport camps to wreck leagues, um enrichment opportunities. Our summer pause will
begin with some staff staff training on the 28th and 29th and then we just kick it right in on June 1st. Um we will have a theater production. There was one last summer and there is a it's a non-m musical but it's a theater production.
We are working on getting the licensing and the we're hoping to have that performance on the 14th through the 16th of August and Jasmine um Rindall will be directing that and she was hoping to hold auditions before school's out squeeze it all into everything else
that's going on. So um and then finally just pack information. We're going to we have like some pack improvements that we'd like to get done before August. Um so we have some TVs that aren't working so well and they're old and they're
heavy and so we're looking at some replacements and upgrades on our in some of our rooms and lobby area. Um we'd like to renovate or we've got a desk in the fitness center that's just horizontal storage and dusty. We'd like
to maybe get do a little renovation in there. So, I have to talk to Ken. So, surprise, Ken. And then once we take some TVs down, we're going to have to touch up some paint because we did paint the uh cardio studio 2, but not behind the TVs. So,
when we pull them down, we'll have to do a little touchup and paint. So, and then the just the what's happening, you know, you already heard a few things that are happening at the pack and these are just a couple additional. We have a desk for kicks recital on Sunday. That's Sunday. Yes. Right. Saturday or Saturday.
Saturday. >> Saturday. And then um congratulation. So, um yeah, the the place will be busy. >> All right. >> Great. Thank you. >> Flavor bun buns.
>> Yes. >> Chocolate. >> Hi, Ken. >> Hello. >> No. >> Must be fall. All that fall sports, spring sports. >> Yeah. >> End of the school year just running.
>> Busy, busy, busy. Um sporting events, getting fields ready, just everything is just crashing down. I'm hoping I'm not forgetting anything all the time. It's always just people tell you things in the hallway and you're like, "Oh yeah, I better get that written down or send myself an email right now." So, but
yeah, it's been going good. I think keeping everything on track. But the science room, just an update on that. So, actually the tables are looking really good. They're Mike's been uh getting the boys after that. They're coming right along. So, they're looking
good. Uh we made a few things for graduation in there. Um so, yeah, it's been a big help. Uh electrician after Mike's got them done, we'll get them. I'm thinking powder coated. We might paint, but if I can, I'm going to send them off powder coat,
maybe span. get a good deal on that. And the electrician told me next week he'll come in and put lights in there and do the electricity along the backsplash and stuff. So hopefully um most you guys noticed took some trees out front. Um
they're messy, dirty, icky, and uh Peepenberg really wants some sugar maples put in there for future science classes and stuff. So we're hoping to do that, too. Uh that'll be probably in the fall. We're going to have them rip
ripped stumps ripped out so we can plant trees in there and stuff. So um like I said, a lot of sporting events and then uh with the wind blowing sopets off the buildings. I'm like, "Oh my gosh, just what we needed."
Like just crazy. So that's my week. Any questions? >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to request for information on the table.
>> Uh we had the West Central Ed District uh meeting last night and uh West Central District is very very strong. So we uh started setting up things for next year. So there's contracts that needed to be u ratified uh through the member
districts uh and then also uh other organizations uh some of the private contracting that they they have with uh specific uh type of disciplines for teachers and stuff. So uh we did that
last night. Uh the numbers uh are looking good uh especially for the sale program. So there are nine uh young adults in the program this year and next year the the nine again they will all be coming back. So there will not be a sale
uh graduation this year but uh there is a u beacon is uh is graduating >> in ALC >> in ALC. Yep. So they have some and just uh there was just a wonderful story of
uh the how the folks up there and just really open up uh the students and they talked about a a young person that had come to them three years ago and didn't speak
and uh so it's been three years and uh this year this young student just really started opening up and so in the program one of them was going back to their uh their home school. Uh this the district that they come from, they come from and
this young person the mayor was saying, right? It was karaoke type thing saying to this about just how much persons could be missed and it was just so it was kind of tearjerking up there just listening to it were part of it. else. But uh then they also uh they participated uh the students up there
had uh participated in uh putting some art together uh which was showing up at the Melrose Art Festival that they had and uh so the uh the board members and uh the superintendents were able to go in and take a look at what they had and
his art is just absolutely wonderful. Uh some of them uh as far as the drawings, the paintings that they they did are just really top-notch. The ones that were really interesting uh they call it broken uh broken art. And uh the young
students that had these toys and uh that were uh in need of repair, but uh as they they broke things off, they started putting it back together. And just the designs that they came up with were just absolutely wonderful. So, it would be something that you'd see uh
uh in in say some some type of of a cartoon like Disney would put together and in some of their animation type stuff there. >> But AJ just really really great. So, West Central District is doing very well and uh just helping the the students out
there that that really need help. So, >> I do have one suggestion. So, um, it used to be when the kids came, honestly, it's my favorite time when they show up here. We always left them a little more
open-ended to tell us what they think. We changed the food program in this school with disgusting food for the kids to eat because the kids told us about it and we got it fixed. And two years later, we went back and told them that that's what happens when you speak out
about something and what we can do if we know it exists. All those things were um they were just putting up with right here that came from the kids. That didn't that wasn't spot. Anybody else would the kids did
that and it came up at this meeting when the kids came, but it was like a little bit more of an open door at the end. I don't like to ask right straight out when they're not expecting a question. Uh because it's kind of formatted right now, but something where they can just
tell us like maybe they're fifth graders. So, what did you like about school? That's kind of how it started. We just kind of ask kids, well, so what did you like about the last year in school? And it all started to develop. We got lots of stuff done. From my
perspective as a board member, it was really a lot of fun because we are taking care of the people we're supposed to be taking care of when we were responding to what their suggestions were. And there's always suggestions that maybe there's a reason we can't or whatever. I see a bunch of kids here
that would have accepted that. We didn't respond by any means at that meeting. But as it went through, we kept reminding these kids of things that they were successful at that they brought us that we just weren't aware of. Um, life
goes on. You come to your job every day, all that. Those kids have a totally different perspective. So anyway, just a suggestion, but it's something that is on and I like to ask questions. Everybody knows that. But I don't like to put little kids on the spot, >> right?
>> Um if it can be somehow we kind of open-ended it before. We kind of started with questions coming from the board. So they were kind of told the board may have some other questions but today wasn't the day or the last few haven't been like that because they're real
they're kind of like regulated. >> Well, I think they're they're right. Their intent was to share uh >> Oh, I agree with that. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Well, we I am so curious what they think. >> Yep. >> Because they're the ones that can tell
us how to fix something, if it should be done, what we could do to make it better, things like that. And it's not coming, no offense to management, but it's coming from the people who had actually concerned. And I just loved it
when they did that. And what was most fun was to show them that they could speak out that people were listening to them and there were results. They didn't happen very fast. >> Yeah. >> But it worked. >> I don't think anyone else on the board
was on when the kids did it that way. >> Sure. >> But um yeah, they came up with some great questions and when we had to answer I don't know, we started asking questions and that's where it went. >> Sure. that's how it got changed or or we
had to come back to them and say sorry because of this we can't but how many times did we answer their questions with we're going to try >> yeah I think there's a a multitude of ways that you can look at formatting for
student feedback and and I think there's lots of ways you can >> it turned out however work when we started to ask questions because they're kind of used to it got to where they were comfortable just telling us I can remember the the apple issue. We were
serving apples for lunch that when I asked a a friend of mine in the grocery business about those apples, he said, "Oh, those are apples the grocery stores don't buy because they can be sold really cheap, right?" >> And then we wanted the kids to eat them. Well, they were ending up in the garbage
can. >> And so we had a time where we had somebody look at what was going in the garbage can, right? If >> they're going in the garbage can, then we should be serving something else. Turned out it was just a little bit more money. We bought apples that were really good for them to eat, >> right?
>> And but it we sent uh people to classes to do the stuff. I can remember the discussion. We were going to send a bunch of the cooks in to a class to learn what tastes good. And all I said to the superintendent at that time is, "Well, any kids going along? Your taste
buds are a lot different than them." So, yep, we got to meet all these rules from the government, but you better have the taste buds for those kids because the whole food program we all know is here because the kids can learn better if they're not hungry straight away. It's
written everywhere how the whole program started. Well, I just I just go back to that when you open it to the kids a little bit where they feel comfortable where they and some people won't, >> right? But it's amazing. All you have to
do is one speak out. What I heard here was a whole bunch of students I think would have told us if they thought something could be improved. And it wasn't about finding problems. It was how do we make it better. >> Sure. >> So, it was kind of fun, too, because we asked about a certain food that we had
heard the kids weren't eating a lot, but we asked about a certain food and none of them would speak up, but you could tell by looking in their faces. That one got got a no. Anything else? No. Hearing nothing, we return.