here it is January 22nd at 6:30 in the Rockford area School Board office room whatever I would like to call the uh board meeting to order and we will start with the pledge of alleg I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one
nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for thank you madam clerk would you please call the rooll Kevin here Beth here here Johnson here CHR here Jamie H you're all here we have four excellent thank you so much item number two is the approval of the agenda Dr rle Hoover the agenda is in good shape with no needs for additions or changes it sure is thank you so much so that agenda is available for you on
board book I would appreciate a motion I'll make a motion to approve the thank you m Johnson there's a first can I have a second I'll second thank you Mr shadine there is a first and a second any further discussion see no discussion all those in favor to approve tonight's agenda signify by I I oppos tonight's agenda does carry unanimously item number three are public comments seeing if there are any public comments there are no public comments this evening item number four is the consent agenda consent agenda
has been provided provided for your review any questions or changes Dr rle Hoover no very good thank you so the consent agenda is there for us I would appreciate a motion I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda thank you Miss hilstrom there is a first can I have a second second thank you Chris yeah thank you Mr Morgan uh there is first and a second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor of tonight's consent agenda signify
I by I I post consent agenda does carry unanimously moving on to number five superintendent report January 25 superintendence report Dr rle Hoover thank you Sher Gordon uh with a blink of an eye we've made it to the halfway point of the school year and without question um anticipation and excitement are high for a wonderful second semester uh students and staff enjoyed their much needed winter break and have since returned to school with Renewed Energy and enthusiasm kicking off uh
the new year we are fortunate to have Ream's principal uh Miss Brandon nus here tonight um to share some information related to the goals as well as a celebration of student leaders before we get to Brenda I'm happy to share some news from both Rockford Middle and Rockford high school at the middle school Jamie Matson is finishing up a round of one-on-one meetings with all teachers uh to review their self assessment on a newly created environmental Ed rubric they are discussing specific areas the teacher would like to grow as we
focus on embodying our stem environmental Focus this year we um will give us Benchmark data that will help determine themes among staff so they can best plan as they head into year three of their RNR evaluation with Northwest Suburban um our fifth grade trout in the classroom project has gone incredibly well um most recently some volunteers helped come to the classroom and teach students how to tie flies as they learn about various trout related Concepts uh the program makes standards come to life um
and will result in our students releasing the trout as that theyve raised into a Minnesota Waterway later this spring given the increased popularity they're in discussions about adding a second trout tank that will likely be funded through the generosity of the Rockford Ed foundation and will hopefully be operational during the 25 26 school year uh the middle school teams continue to work diligently on their mapping of Standards their learning targets and their focus on assessments with each group in a different place based on
their priority work and curriculum resources there's a continued focus on connection with the vast majority of students um having already received a postcard acknowledging some something positive um they've been doing their classroom their goal is to reach 100% of their students by Friday February 14th additionally they've started the opportunity uh for staff to recognize students by filling out the form in the office and Mr wara then makes a point to connect with those students uh during that week staff can also acknowledge one
another uh using that same form and staff shoutouts that are shared weekly with Mr or's updates Miss Aon celier is about three weeks into her new role as student support specialist and she's really hit the ground running uh to triage a variety of student needs and create and uh communicate academic behavior and attendance intervention for a variety of uh roles um Aaron and the team has also started weekly with student uh PLC supports um student
support plc's uh all those involved um they do this to strategically discuss at risk students and the systems that will support those students at the high school um the high school staff were briefed on the leadership team and the leaders team um developed a comprehensive launch for a say for our says something campaign if you recall uh from the San dieo promise uh the anonymous reporting tool uh we're encouraged by the platform and they look forward to supporting student staff and families with that um the students have
worked hard in our 90-day focus on academic interventions counseling staff has put together personalized lists for each teacher and then Drew up individual plans for students to improve their grades let's hope this intentional focus on relearning help students advance in their coursework and start second semester off very strong uh the 90day plan we focus on advocating for and supporting those students uh they're going to discuss trauma enforced learning and rekindle connections with students after the break uh how to set solid foundations for success ESS based
on uh work they learned from first semester uh the incoming class um of 9th grade has started registering um that's all completed currently analyzing student choices particularly the electives determine Staffing priorities for next year yes we're already starting to plan for next school year uh new improvements have been made in the food science labs including new ovens and stainless steel tables and they look forward to continued upgrades to this space and other spaces dedicated to Career preparation and finally this is a
big deal um we've had yet another successful Court of CNA students um rhs nurse Becca Morgan some of you may have heard of her she put that all 10 of our students passed their knowledge and and skills exam um two of those students are already employed in nursing H so um that has been an incredibly successful program for our school district uh for our families and our kids they're really taking advantage of that uh from a district level way back in December with the opportunity to welcome our new board
board members uh Chris Morgan and Kevin shadine as we hosted them for our new board board member orientation uh both Chris and Kevin were gracious enough to carve out an entire day to tour our school sit down with leaders on various sites and learn more about the internal workings of our of our schools wonderful day and has proven beneficial as both uh Chris and Kevin have hit the ground running thank you guys for making time that day thank you for having us um other news includes a couple of significant meetings earlier this month we had
as you all know our school board organization meeting on January 6th that very same evening we had a full house of dignitaries as the mayor City administrators of cork Greenfield and Rockford along with all six of our state legislators two from the Senate four from the house uh joined us here at the board uh for what will be our first of an annual mayor City administrators and legislators Round Table event was a big success as all in attendant were able to share important information related to their work
as well as ways in which they could partner best with Rockford area schools on behalf of the board I'd like to publicly acknowledge and thank all those who attended at the round table and look forward to many years of collaboration on the operations front we recently launched the new Advantage Rockford branding campaign if you're scrolling social media you're probably seeing it quite regularly uh includes a video um that briefly yet powerfully um highlights the advantages we offer
our students and families attending Rockford area schools the video is also live on our web page and has been disseminated via our social media platforms as well as through digital marketing in our area uh purpose of that campaign as you know is to share um both with current and perspective families all the amazing things that are occurring in our schools uh so that each and every student can benefit from the large yet personalized opportunities that exist in what I call our rightsize school district uh at
our board work session early this evening we discussed ideas parameters and potentially a small modification in next year's calendar and gathered some thoughts related to the school year 2627 calendar as well uh we're going to be making plans for the calendar committee to convene soon uh with recommendations coming to the board shortly thereafter instructionally we're Gathering data and preparing for the MD adsis application submission which we plan to submit during 's first deadline which is February
7th uh tangental to this work a subcommittee of teacher leaders along with learning Innovation specialist Kathy Matson and myself have started to coordinate discussions about our overall plan for work in the area of multi-tiered systems and supports otherwise known as mtss and our goal is to have a robust and comprehensive plan in place uh for the 25 26 school year I was also able to attend excuse me our quarterly safe School meeting as well as meetings
with her educational Partners at maso Northwest suburban and the annual amsd legislative kickoff meeting of which Cher Gordy was there as well on the nutrition services front Chef Harlin has asked that I share um that rock fa schools welcome a guest Chef on January 29th and 30th Chef Tony will be serving Moroccan chicken wings of the high school on the 29th and peach crisp at the elementary school on the 30th uh tahar will also be sponsoring doing
some giveaways and fun culinary events on those days and Chef Harland is inviting the board to join the festivities I did share that our Board of retreat will be on the 30th so um if anyone is able to attend on the 29th at the high school you are more than welcome I will be get some of that peach cou over here on the 30th we will see what we can do you know I bet you I I bet he will bring some over um because that sounded really good right it's also worth noting that this week January 20th through the 26th is min annota PA of professionals
recognition week and in Rockford we're blessed to work alongside so many dedicated hardworking pair of professionals and while we do our best to share uh and thank them every day it's important to recognize them publicly and on behalf of the board um as well as our students families and staff um I'd like to share a big thanks for the Paris for all that they do and finally and in closing out this report I'm excited to share that we are in track we are on track to achieve our goals as stated in our first District
operation plan or our doop and I'll providing an update with the board with respect to the progress a little bit later on in the evening and that concludes the January superintendent report thank you thank you very much uh very busy good information any questions for Dr rle Hoover Excellency none then we'll move on to number six student achievement and growth uh with 6A we will invite forward uh
n house to present her re celebration we celebrate was big and small at the elementary school and um as most of you know I call all my students down for their birthday and we had one birthday in the building today and I said what are you going do special for your birthday and Harrison might have said to me well I'm not really sure I said well you going to have like a special meal with your family or anything yeah and he said then I'm going to go to
a school board meeting and do presenting so Harrison if you will stand I'd love us to sing to himy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear Haron happy birthday to you he happy birthday I thought that was pretty cool his birthday with you um we're going
to celebrate tonight our letter leaders and Math Master students these are students um that are our oldest grade level so they're our fourth graders and their the program's purpose is to Pro provide leadership opportunities for our oldest students in the building and for our youngest Learners to gain Mastery in foundational literacy and math concepts um a huge credit to Rachel yakish who has put this together and has worked with these students um I walk through almost daily and see them um down there working with our kindergart and just
really starting to um pair with those kids and and give them some foundational skills and that little extra practice so um I'm going to turn it over to them they're going to share with you what they do and um give you some updates on on how this program works so this is thank you um I can I not sit okay I prefer not to um so I have to give credit where credit is due before I even start is this idea did not come from me this idea came came from a former high
school friend of mine uh who I spoke to at my reunion this summer and she was telling me about all these things that she's doing and she was talking about this program and then I couldn't stop thinking about it and I reached out to her I said okay we have to connect because this is too awesome and the great thing about teachers is that they share share share everything um we don't hold anything to ourselves if you can't have this um and so I really appreciate that with her uh so thus letter leaders math Masters was born and um brought it
to Brenda and shared it with Dr Ryle Hoover and just said I think that this is an amazing opportunity to grow leadership to grow connectivity between all the students in our building Unfortunately today we don't have our high school that leaders or math Masters here um but know that we do have some high school students that come over and we actually have more I got another email today so I think we have six this semester which is fantastic I think we are too close in proximity not to have that connection between our oldest learners and our youngest Learners they just
think these kids are the be knes so letter leaders and math Masters like uh Mrs NE who said is really to maximize that every minute of learning time um we don't waste learning time but there are times throughout our day where it's not happening because we have a transition or whatever it may be and so we're maximizing the learning time at the beginning of our day with our kindergarteners and our first graders and we have uh letter leaders on Monday and Wednesday and math Masters on Tuesday Thursday and the students had to
fill out an application they had to learn how to write their first name and last name on the application State reasons why they were interested in the program uh parents had to sign it so that they knew that this time was coming out of their win time um and understand that this is a scheduling things are going to come up and we have to decide okay do I do drumming do I do math Masters or letter leaders do I do X Y or Z with the most important thing being that academics comes first and know that you are in good standing with your
teacher and behaviorally too uh so we did talk a lot about the responsibility that comes along with that and so these kids took it head on and to see them working with these younger students in the hallway is just amazing so I just brought real quick to show you what our um folder looks like went on scavenger hunt this summer found all the things um it's a very simple binder when they open their binder they just have some tools side they have you
know erasers and dice it's supposed to be very quick very targeted and fun and so this is a letter leader so they're working on letter sound fluency proven research says we need fluency and letter sound and letter name production so we work on fluency we work on fluency with writing letters um proper handwriting and then this is uh open and close syllables just a really super fun game that they play with reading words and we it's not we don't switch it up a lot we do it very consistently so they exactly how to play
um that 5 to seven minutes per rotation one person has the timer and the timer goes off and they switch kids and I've heard great reports from the first grade and uh kindergarten teachers saying that they the kids were just doing amazing and they're very respectful in the space that they hold and um just how they're so great working with these students so it's pretty awesome so what I'd like to do is recognize them and have them come up and definitely give them a round of applause um so I'm going to call them by
name and have them come up and get their certificate and I did ask previously if they would be comfortable sharing with you what they do and I said it would never force them to some decided yes I'd like to and then they have U changed their mind and that's okay um but if you feel comfortable ladies and gentlemen to share how if you like the program how you like the program what it means to you you absolutely may do that so syvia Shan come on up where would you like them to stand
anywhere whever you're good JN tomers uh Reed Seer Harrison fesser Violet cor andorfer Conley freed AA
Decker Brook tell me how to say your last thank you there's some morphology phology with the CK spelling uh Z
all right so who would like to share remember you don't have to if you'd like to share just a few things I'm going to get out of today a few things about what you've got go ahead
you want to go ahead go ahead anybody else thank you so
much for your time and your effort and building relationships with our kindergarten first graders I don't have a question but I just want to first of all thank you Miss yakish for for putting this together and all of you young people wow um I don't think I could love this anymore the the leadership that you're showing um is
incredible um and I want to thank you for what you're doing and being those leaders in your school I also want to thank your parents and Guardians for um for raising such great kids and for having them here tonight at the at the meeting so thank you very much thanks Miss that
is cool birthday yeah you could have done like Tak a picture we're not singing again though sing again I thought I was the only one going to a school meeting see look at even even a fourth grader comes to a Schoolboard meeting on his birthday all right Miss na we will
keep rolling sounds good um you know what's interesting when when people come for tours the thing I talk a lot about is leadership and we start leadership from early on you know whether it's kindness Council or the smile Squad when they're little NS you know and we just talk about all the opportunities for leadership this is a huge deal for our our kids for leadership and you know really focusing on the academics and focusing on helping kids and as you'll see in some of our goals you know building those connections and it's just it's
such a win-win um I see those high school kids come over you know who used to be mine and it's just been really good so I'm I'm super proud of that and super proud that Rachel you know just took it upon herself to come to us and say can we do this um so like I said that's great tonight I'm going to go through um just some updates General updates of of what's going on in our building and then um we're going to go through our sip goals we'll talk a little bit about um my professional goals and how those those blend into
those sip goals and then we're going to talk a little bit about Arts mag and what we're doing um generally uh with that as well so that'll be my recort tonight um so here are our general updates we have a third grade concert tomorrow night um so we come back and literally after four days off um Dive Right In and have a concert and I talked to Mr Elias this morning he go ah we're ready it's going to be totally fine of course you are so um they excited about about their concert tomorrow night we
have the great kindness challenge coming up January 27th through the 31st that's something we celebrate every year and um our counselors take that on and we really promote kindness we do a lot of kindness activities throughout the year but this is a week long that we focus on kindness and do a lot of really cool things around kindness um we have I love shared month is coming up in February um just some of the highlights we do lots and lots of things some the highlights are we'll do battle of the books we'll have our all day where everybody dresses in
jammies and you know we read all day long otherwise um they do math and reading class they go to their specials otherwise we're reading all day long um wear readable shirt dress up days um just a lot of things all around reading and to promote reading um so that'll be really fun coming up in February and then we have the heart challenge week February 10th through the 14th um many of us know that as as the old jump book for heart and our school has been one of the top fundraising schools over the years and it is so funny because it is
not promoted it is not pushed it is not and kids Just Do It um and every year I mean even through the excuse me through the pandemic we were the top one of the top I think second top school or third top school and it's just it's just something they do um we'll see what they do to me this year last year they DED me in in um slime because they made their Challen met their Challenge and hey I'm all in I'll do it again um so those are our general updates we're going to go through
the school Improvement goals these are goals that we've written um there are some goals but our our built team worked really hard on these so this has been in conjunction with our our team of of teachers that are our instructional team um you heard um Dr R Hoover talk about U Middle School and High School already talking about their standards and learning targets and assessments um that's no different than in our building so we are doing that K12 um and so all of the
Departments are completing a universal structure that includes standards learning targets and assessments so everybody has that it's updated it's aligned um we are up for a review and reflection this year through Northwest Suburban um in our magnet school and that is something that they talked to us about last time our Curriculum maps were not up toate um we knew that we knew that that was something we had to add then we take that and we take it to the next level and we also add arts lessons to that and so we do put some Arts um pieces
in there as well so we know where those come I think the the um bonus about that is if a new teacher walks in it's here's our curriculum M and this is what we do and everybody just knows that and can follow that and they're used it's not hey we're going to write this and put it on the Shelf they really are used um so the universal template um has been made available for for uh the teachers or instructors to unpack the standards learning targets and assessments um every time we have time we give
them time so whether that's staff development days whether that's um their plc's in the morning we're trying to find those times where where we could give them time to work on those um they have the option in their team to divide up the work however they want to some people might half the team might work on the ELA standards half the team might work on math um you might have specific you you can slice that so many different ways you know and and it's really up to them how they want to do it um as we look to a new um language arts curriculum we are really focusing heavily
on math first because as that new curriculum comes in um we are going to make sure that we are aligning that as well and we don't want to do the work and then do it again so um just so you're you're aware that that's that's coming um secondly I guess is the the language ofs because of the new curriculum so um that is the um standards portion of it can I ask one question yes sure can two questions actually if you can share Dr R would you mind bring BR an example of what the curriculum map looks like that the template
just so we know what it might be I think Kathy will have one at the next evening thank you so an example of what's going and do you feel like you're in good shape I mean we're halfway through the year we're getting there we're getting there yeah they're working hard hopefully they're not scrambling in June no oh no and we've started very beginning of the year they working really hard on them so that's that's really awesome it's a big lift so that's why I was asking if you felt that it's a big lift okay so that's the sandard piece U moving on to the next one which is learning targets it's still the goal one again that Universal template contains the learning targets that
connect to each standard so they're writing uh kid-friendly super friendly learning targets um that is something we did years ago some PE some teachers still hung on to that some teachers came in new and it's like okay we do what here you know and so it's nice to just lay all that out again um I'm really looking for those as I go in and observe teachers um and so all my non- 10year teachers and I think I have 16 10 year te this year to observe so and
just as you're popping in you're hearing those and seeing those so they're they're they're using them and that's and that's fun to see also so um that's being being addressed as well just a question just that comment you made made me think of something so do we have something in place for when those new teachers come in that it's like here you go rather than just depending on well someone in the grade level will pass that along are we are we are we working on doing that so that they do walk through through the door kind of I just I'm thinking about
as a board we worked really hard on our board handbook you know yeah like so that when you're coming in as a new first grade teacher it isn't well so and so told me this and so and so told me that so that it's like here you go that's what they're building yeah and one of the things that's what I was hoping that that I do personally Jessica is I'll sit down with teachers I give them a little minute to get their feet on the ground obviously but I'll sit down with them you know early
on and say you know I I meet with all my new teachers and I meet with them several times throughout the year and one of the first things I do is say okay you know we're going to start talking about an observation what does that look like not yet but here are the things I'm going to look for and it's not a secret I always say you know I know exactly when I sit down with with Dr Ral Boer I know exactly what I'm being evaluated on this should not be a secret so here's what you're being evaluated on and we go through the Charlotte Daniels C and we talk about learning we talk about here's
what we do here questions about that do you need what do you and so we talk through all of that this is this document is only to help that because not happens too so yeah have great question no it's a great question and and that's the thing we want to set people up for Success so they feel like they have the tools they need when they walk into the district um so then staying on with Goal one we'll go to the assessments piece and again the ccul map will contain the assessments information that connects to each of the standards and so um each portion of that is being worked on this year and like I said
they're working hard on so and then we will add that Arts piece as well um just because that is something that helps us um like I like I always tell people um we don't have an Arts lesson for every single lesson that we do in our school my goodness though you know I I always tell parents we're not whirling and twirling all day long but they're we're doing enough of a difference that that it is become a magnet school and so where are those big units where are those specific lessons that we add an Arts piece to it and then Northwest of
B really looks for that when we do a review and reflection and gives us feedback on that part of it as well so that's our first goal um second goal is the student connectedness goal again um you heard a little bit about that from from Dr Ral Hoover we're doing that in in all of our buildings as well um in grades three and four the the students are given the my sa Sabers survey it really just asks questions about do they feel connected in their school do they feel as though they have a trusted adult um
and and um if we look down to the bottom letters are sent home to parents prior to the survey as an opt out option some parents don't want their kiddos to take a survey that's totally fine they can opt out if they want to um and then in addition students in grades K through 4 receive a weekly guidance lessons with the counselors um and everything has to do with topics of connectedness um you how to be a good friend how to show kindness it's it's it's really basic information and
things of you know just how do you how do you um work together in as as a child you know with other kids and so they're really great lessons they're 20 minutes but they see every single class every week and with two counselors we're able to do that and um it's been wonderful so yeah another question what are we finding I mean you did the survey in the fall so what are we finding from our third and fourth graders how are they feeling what what are we finding what
are we finding that we need to do is there more that needs to be provided you know as a board is there more support that we need to be giving you know so what is it that we're finding and I think the nice thing is kids are feeling pretty connected in their in their school and and if they're they're not or if they're we're seeing something that they're not then we we really sit down with you know whether it's teacher counselor or whatever parent whoever and say okay what's going on what is it that this child is not feeling but for the most part we have pretty high high
scores of kids feel connected which is awesome I think we work pretty hard at that at rings and and like I said whether it's through kindness whether it's through you know just all the leadership opportunities we try and have kids be feel connected at their in building level and then we'll be able to compare the two the fall and the spring and see if there's any change so that'll be nice yeah do you triangulate the data that you're getting for the first goal with like learning and assessments to that um saers to look for
the correlation if they're performing low academically are they also so do you try we have not done that yet but we will yes because there's there's always that connection I I don't have a relationship with anybody so am I going to be a high flyer at school probably not probably not yeah and the data will show that so yeah all right going into goal number three this is um those individual Q comp goals that the the teachers are are and this is based off of our our um fast scores so 101 students are going to
show growth by decreasing their risk level or showing significant growth within the high risk categor so we have students that are in the high-risk area from Fall to Spring and the a reading test and 110 students um in in the math area and again our teachers have all written individual cucs around this and so everybody's working together on this to say where where do we need to look at this um again I'm going to credit Rachel and Kathy who have are sitting down starting this week
um and they're doing uh mini data Retreats and so the theyve pulled the data from um the testing and they're looking at this with teams so they're sitting down with teams and saying okay so where are we still struggling what is this look like the intervention team is pulling together and covering their classes and they're doing this during wi time and so um that is something that that we talk about all the time yeah we have the data when do we have time to sit down and really look at it and so we're trying to make make that happen within the school day in
just those mini manyi um sessions and so um like I said at Rachel Academy have sat down the teams this week and they're starting to do that this week so already digging through the data how um are do you think you're on track for I I don't know how this compares to normal it seems like a lot of students to rise up the whole risk level and so much of that too is already looking at okay as we look at the science of reading and we look at our change in Reading is that going to change this we hope so yes um all
the things that we're doing even right down to the the um the kids you just saw all those things so yeah that's the data we're digging through so have a question M Presa go ahead thank you so the this is the schoolwide goal are the teacher goals a little bit more granular so they can specifically drill down to what aspect within like a reading is quite encompassing yes so then they're more drilled down yes okay and then
um no that's good thank you okay yes good yes okay um so we'll go in these fall more into my principal goals um so my my first goal is to collaborate with the re teachers to continue to implement a structured literacy approach in each classroom in the building um when I met with Kevin and Chris you know um I told them I said you're going to hear a lot about reading you're going to hear a lot about reading from from me um
and um that is that's been a huge focus in our building obviously um collaborating with the literacy lead which is Rachel um regarding monthly literacy staff meetings so we still pull together and have monthly literacy staff meetings um and then we ensure that um the the teachers all have the opportunity to um we have a a Google doc that all kinds of resources are put together um I I won't show you tonight but I'd love to share with you a little
bit I did share this with with Jeff last year it's by grade level it's by you know all all the activities and again all credit Rachel and that she puts a lot of time into that um but lots and lots of resources for our teachers to use as well um and then our EXL um we just looked at that data the other day of usage and um to ensure 100% Fidelity and we've got high high usage at the elementary got a couple little pockets of of f that we need to just Shore
up a little bit but um hoping that that'll help raise some scores as well so again our progresses we've uh I I personally completed core reading training um this past summer and um so that is something I feel like I can at least you know help a little bit and having that I have not done the Orton Gillingham but core was um I Jeff and I both did that it's a lot but I I you know it was a lot but at the same time I loved it because it was really fun to just learn everything and
and you know inhale all of that um progress is happening in collaborating with the literacy lead to help facilitate the monthly literacy meetings those are happening with Fidelity and ensure that all staff have access to the literacy googal classrooms um collaborating with resource training and solution to assist in the implementation of the literacy coach um we are part of um a group with a resarch training solution and and I meet with these folks mon um and that that came years ago because
of our um low scores of um our special needs kids in reading and um um our e students and so that's something that we continue to do and they reach out um we've got a team right now I think our people have changed every single year because I just want you know I'm leaving my job and so there's new people coming in the team this year has been fabulous and um so I met with them actually today and um they come in and just really want to and help and say what else can
we do to support and we talked through all these things of what we're doing and they're like you're doing so much it's so impressive it's really awesome so having just that extra layer of support is really neat um I I haven't even shared this with you Jeff that but that they gave me um some some things as we go through and adopt a new curriculum just some templates of things that so you don't miss anything that they wanted to just share with us because we talked about the adoption of the new curriculum so they've been just kind of Ni support for us as well yes some people
will know most will not can you just explain what EXL is for those that may not understand and and so what it is and how it's utilized within your building y thank you so ilel is basically a program online that a teacher's going to do math and reading U support for so they go on and do additional support for math and reading can be some of those very basic
skills but you know um and and I'm going to go back Jeff to what you said too you know you did this in your previous District you know he said my kids are High Flyers but it still helped everybody and so everybody does this and they do they they they carve out about you know 30 to 45 minutes a week and just say here's where I'm going to plunk it in you know and just it's that little shot in the the arm to just do a little bit more so um yeah all those things that are coming at them as teach is to say here's what we're going to do to try and get those scores up here's what we're going to try and do to get
those scores up so and it's presented to the children how how is it given to the CH child say more about that technology it's through well they do it on their their um their from book they're one to one device yeah they're one to one device just just want to make sure that that it's used through the one to one oh yeah it is it is it's not teacher Le it's not a worksheet it's not no so the teacher helps walk them through it and then they are a able to do that on their own device yes so
the one to ones are super important cool and are you finding it difficult for the teachers to implement the EXL strategies with their classrooms with carts or technology that's there are we still in good shape I would say that the machines are getting older um the one thing that you really see that's difficult as you walk into every classroom is we are on the what was it 19 20y old active boards um a lot of
them I can't even see I sit in the back and I think I know I'm not young but I can't see the projectors are dull it's it's hard um so a teacher will go back to something different um I'm waiting for the overhead projectors to come back up because they can see them so yeah it's tough it's tough um and as those machines start to die or you know the high school needs them then they'll be Tak from us and then we'll be on cards that'll be shared and then that's going to
affect this as well so yeah it's It's Tricky It's Tricky um but we're we're doing our best um let's see the up next is um again we're doing Fidelity checks in sure all teachers are using I EXL at Rings again we got to look at that data just this week um and so I'll be following up with some teachers along with Kathy and then um Rachel and I have talked I just again I always try and give people chance to get get their feet on the ground and
kind of get a their feel she she could leave this building I could walk up up the door for six weeks and she could leave that building literacy wide but um she and I will do some more connecting and and uh meetings to share and just make sure we're on the same page and and plan and strategize and see what else we can do for kids so um so that's that goal the healthy and supportive environments um this is you know my collaboration with a newly formed wit and bolt teams to ensure that staff members have a voice and an outlet
to share ideas and concerns I can't say enough about these two teams and what a difference they've made in our buildings um it was interesting as I met with the folks from um resource training and solutions today we were talking about goals and built and how built has has decided this and how bu fit in and they're like wait tell me what this means again tell us what this is and they're like that is sool school and and I said it it's happening at
every building um it's really giving teachers that voice to write the goals to come together to say this is this is all of us and give them that leadership when there are concerns it doesn't fall to a one teacher or a one situation hey this is a bolt issue let's take it to bolt and bolt discusses it and then we bring it back to the staff and say this is what this team decided they interviewed for it they decided they wanted to be it this has been phenomenal so I'm super
super excited about my teams um we have made this a year zero so built and bolt will be the same next year except that you'll have one retirement um other than that um yeah I'm so proud of their work and it's not easy work um so I'm super proud of them again our progress is the schedule um and we' we meet with built and bolts monthly to ensure that there are notes and follow-through actions when necessary our biggest uh up next as we've done a little reflection on that is
the staff said how could we share out agendas and just have a little more communication yep we sure can do that so that that is kind of our our next task about that um I oftentimes will share things out at a staff meeting but just that consistency so people know oh that was talked about oh this is happening um so we'll be increasing the communication on that so yeah love those two teams love it love it love it can can I he you do you ever have some of those that I've asked that question invited just to be
a a passive an observer during that time or is that a built and bolt yeah no okay nobody ever asked that but they are welcome to do it yeah I don't have any problem with that but nobody's ever asked that did you want to talk well I would love to yes I'm just saying for those that don't feel that the the transparency or whatever maybe and I think maybe that's us learning because this is new to us this year in our district and in our buildings is learning what else do we need to do
to share that out what else and getting that feedback is is how we get better um the thing I would say about our builds team that I'm I'm I'm really proud of and it's it's kind of worked out kind of neat is um you know we have about a half hour in the morning we we we start at 7:20 and at 10: to8 that bell rings and so we started and and we do a half hour and then we have agreed that we also meet then at the end of that day for a half hour so I bookend my day built on on a built day but then we sometimes will
say okay so we need to go chat with people about this or can we get a little Fe let's think about it before this afternoon um it's kind of worked out kind of cool so like I said we bookend our day with with our buil to meetings half hour in the morning half hour the after to your question to your question um one of the things we talked about Kathy I last week is no we don't want these to be looked at as you know these these Elite groups if you will there's no you know Secret shakes if someone wants to sit in they're more than welcome
um on any of those on any of those teams they can listen and hear if they if they so choose yeah there are no secrets it's it's it's just a team that has come together and and like I said interviewed and said I want to put the work in it's work so thank you Miss prasa yes can you just refresh especially for a couple new people what the built is and what the bolt is built is building uh building instructional leadership team so everything they talk about is instruction um um we've talked a lot about our SI goals on that
we've talked about um a lot about literacy we've talked about um curriculum and what are we going to do about a reading curriculum that's all built bolt is okay the schedule isn't really working here or when we go out to the buses and all the high schoolers are standing here and our little nugs are coming out those are operational things and so then we work those out and figure those out the little nuts and bolts stuff um as we do our schedule as we do all of those that'll be a bolt but a
built is all instructional so yes absolutely a question go ahead miss hilr the for the bolt if it's operational are there people other than teachers like the janitorial staff or anything for some of those operational things that might not be um fully like classroom management or anything like that have any we have not had anything come up that is okay really that and if we do you know as a team well I'll talk to our head custodians see if we can you know
see if that's doable and then we come back together and so we we always go out and chat with people that we need to but we have not had anybody about that those are all licensed staff um those two teams are licensed staff teams they have to interview It's a combination of what we call our coordinating counselor so it's the EMR building level principles um I've said on them as well so um they're all and there there's a small stip in for each of those positions all through the license Staffing um but
again anyone is welcome to to partake participate and I would say if we and we usually have a little heads up of you know I've got three agenda items people have asked me about this and this and this if it would involved one of our custodians pretty heavily we probably invite them to the meeting so yeah all right so um the next one is community school and family Partnerships um so my plan is to work closely with the selected individuals to train and implement the I love you
guys program um in the Rockford area schools I'll come back to what that means um parents first and most important relationship begins with staff keeping their child safe um I always tell parents my most important job is to keep your child safe I believe my second most important job is who I hire who I put in front of your kids matters um having a solid plan will build a trust with parents that their child is coming to a place that will keep them safe each day so the events fold throughout the year are successful um as you know we've
been trained in Alice training which is is you know our protocol for um whether it's an active shooter whe whether it's a a a crisis situation um I love you guys is a a broader scope and there are lots of us that went from the district to be trained that day and it was a fantastic training um but it it's a broader scope of um how do we invol just all of the entities and if there
is a specific situation of like an active shooter the Alice training can be slid into that so it's not going away completely um the I love you guys program was started um by parents who whose daughter that was her their last text to her uh to them prior to her being killed in a school shooting and um we did look at the I love you guys program because it's all available online we we started our ification process and so as we sat at
that training we're all like yep we're doing that we're already doing that we're already doing that so there's not a lot to do it's a little bit of tweaking it's a little bit yeah we we need to add this little piece but we're already doing a lot of it because we did pull that when we first started this putting the reunification process together so that's kind of cool because we're already doing a lot of it um and we said I I turned around to you know some of the principles and people behind me I said already doing this they're like I know this is great and so um that felt good that day
that we were that much farther ahead cuz some people are like we don't even know where to start um so I feel like we're in a good place but we are going to Shore that up this year and work together we already a date on the calendar where we're going to sit down together and just Shore it up and and and get this completed and ready and then we'll Ru this out to parents and staff next fall changing things up in the middle of the year to for kids is really confusing it's really confusing for staff as well so um this whole program will be ruled out Edition next fall okay um
the culture of collective purpose um I will collaborate with the staff at rings to ensure that students feel connected to their school and have a solid relationship with at least one adult this feeds right into um the sit goal that we had also um again students are going to participate in the my saver my saers um I do kindness lessons with the counselors twice a year uh we did one in the fall we just planned um on Monday our our next one that'll be coming up in
February and it's just a way for me to always get in front of kids and and work together um with them we do that during their scheduled kindness lesson so we're not pulling them out additionally um and make that work every year um third and fourth grade students are going to have an opportunity to participate on student council leadership committees um I I know we've talked about this before but this was brought to me a couple years ago um both both Allison and Katie my counselors you know said would you be
okay if we got rid of the kindness counselor and we went back to a uh student council and I said say more about that because I don't want this to be a popularity voted you know kind of thing and uh Katie Reynolds said to to me she said I did this in my previous school and it was wildly popular anybody who wants to be on student counsel in third and fourth grade can come you know you might have 200 people she goes I know they come to
an informational meeting in the fall and if they if they're interested they come to an informational meeting and they're given all the information uh the first year they did this last year I went to that first informational meeting and by about 15 minutes into the meeting I think 15 kids got up and said this isn't for me I said that's okay you came and got the information right and that's what you need to do um but they come and and they there's a lot of subcommittees so there's a green team there's
a kindness committee there's uh student helpers so they'll go down and help in in like kindergarten classrooms um there's there's like five or six subcommittees and then they have work to do before they come next month if they don't do their work they don't get to come to the meeting responsibility if they do the work and then they come and they do this next activity and then they plan for their next meeting um so it's just with leadership and anybody who wants to be part of this can be part
of this so it's not a popularity contest of you're the selected one out of the grade level who gets to be the student council member anybody can do it I love it it's been phenomenal um so that that is continuing um students need a students who need a strong connection and additional support with an adult are assigned a rocky bud so teachers um sign up and say yep I'll be happy to be a rocky buddy and if we see kiddos that are struggling or just you know maybe if they got stuff going on at home and they just need somebody
who is um needing an adult they get together with them once twice a week um it is not to do homework it is not to catch up on firework they play games they shoot buckets they just it's about being fun they have lunches together um if you can you know in your schedule have more than one Rocky buddy do that um it's it's pretty cool it's pretty cool I've had the same Rocky Budd since kindergarten and um you build a pretty strong relationship um so it's it's
again another way for kids to be connected to adults um we've been doing myy buddies for years in our building um so up next is the second mys saers survey and the second kindness lesson which is coming up in just a couple weeks and the last one is the stewardship of resources um monitoring spending Staffing allocations and budgets to remain within the total budget projection outlook for the re for Reams in uh year 25 so um the
progress is that I meet monthly with my secretary Michelle o'hern to review budget spending she and she and I keep track of that together um working with the CFO to better understand Staffing budget allocations um at Rockford area schools moving forward um obviously Bridget's pretty new to us so we're working together and and collaborating and finding out you know what what works best for her and how how she wants us to um do things together and then monitor budget transfers and orders um up next is prioritizing Staffing based on on
student enrollment uh as we watch that all year long and they're still coming in I got another one on my desk today so we do right um work with the the CFO and the superintendent to strategically staff according to the student need um working with CFO and superintendent to Monitor and adjust future building budget lines and coordinate with the district directors regarding building programs and equipment needs and support curriculum so it's it's just all overseeing all of those budget things sure we're staying within the um the guidelines and not overspending and yet
hopefully getting what we need so and we've been really I personally have been really happy with with the work that we've done with Briget she's really been awesome to work with and so um yeah this has been been a good a good connection this year um moving on just an update on the artists in Residence that our kids are working with this year um obviously we have things going on in the Arts all the time every day
we've got you know our um fabulous Fridays we've got just a lot of things but this is a big portion of what we do so I do want to just highlight this our kindergarteners um are going to be working with our Dance artist uh and educator roxan Wallace and they do the life cycle of a plant our first graders will be working with Carla waj um doing the life cycle of the Frog um a lot of these you will see around dance or movement because we have that in our building we do have theater we do have art we do have um so you do see
a lot of movement because we try and get some some uh opportunities that kids don't necessarily have on a daily basis in our building um second grade um we'll be working with Julie Vada um and she comes in and does native uh American culture literacy Visual Arts and theater including puppetry story storytelling and acting and then they always perform at Grandparents Day um grandparents love those um our third graders again we bring Carla back Carl's at the top of her game in the the Twin Cities area
and we bring her back and um she she's already been there she does a Native American culture literacy science Concepts including stars and constellations moon phases rotation of the earth so um third grade had had her here in November um fun fact she brings her mom with her every year um I asked her I said how can I ask how old you are she said I have a birthday tomorrow she's turning 84 and her mom comes and with her and the kids love her love her she brings her every every time she
comes um and then uh the fourth graders again will be working with roxand Wallace who also works with our kindergarteners um and they do 10 or more math concepts um and they so they they're doing that all the all kinds of movement Through Math um I will tell you roxan has probably been there in our building 10 years Carla I think has been there longer Julie has been are probably longer than me and this is my 19th year it it's like old home week when
those folks walk into our building and they are truly at the top of their game in the Twin Cities area when it comes to residencies um I can't say enough about them I just love them so um they do great work with our kids and our kids get so much out of that and it's connected right back to the corporate room so big deal in our buildings the Artis and residents last but not least um we will be doing our second all school song it's called we are here um the recording is going to take place on March 19th we're
trying to get it done earlier this year last year it was released on all last day of school which is kind of fun but um and then all our students will participate in that um and so um we're gearing up for that kids are already practicing I walked out into the comms the other day and I could hear you know the music floating down the hallway and I thought that's a cool song what is that so I went and stood around the corner and just l and I thought oh that's our all schools so they're already practicing but it just CAU cat caught
my my ear and I thought oh that's really pretty I that's what that is so um yeah we're in for another treat so that's what I have for you tonight perfect any questions or comments I I appreciate the change in structure yeah and the content we heard Mr rard set the bar pretty high we don't want to give credit wear credit right but no
I appreciate the content and the structure of your report it different from previous and and I I think it's beneficial for us to hear and see how you all are progressing and and all the hard work you guys are doing so thank you and I appreciate that thank you guys back there too yeah there's a lot of work going on and I I just I give my folks a lot of credit people are working so hard every day and um I I tell them all if I left tomorrow I take youall with me they're great people in my building and I'm super super proud of them so um and I will give one
more shout out to miss Rachel she's of course she's still back here um doing a lot of work around literacy and doing a lot of leadership and I'm super super proud of you Rachel thank you for all the work you're doing so yes yes thank you so much thank you appreciate thanks for your leadership absolutely I'm the next one yeah you are the number seven re Rock The Rock spotlight it's the rocket uh the Reams uh show
today which is good JY Dr R before we pass it off I just want to share that this is new to us now so this year and um we have so many amazing um employees staff members um across the board and we thought it would be wonderful for us to recognize um more people so this is our very first rocket Spotlight um and we'll do this every other month and tonight is the night for Miss naos and Reams
to share their Rockets with awesome well I will tell you um this is one of the bolt pieces that we did um anybody that anybody can nominate anybody in our building um and we had several nominations and I'm going to tell you we had a very hard time selecting because everybody was phenomenal um I'm going to read what was written about Miss Erica able who is our um our nominee and
our selection this year um because it's it's pretty incredible this is exactly what the person who nominated her wrote I did not write this um but I do want to read this to you working on a variance in special education Erica has jumped in feet first into an unknown area of Education the rigors of teaching are great especially in the world of constant change adaptation IEP 504 writing and more more within special education Erica has taken this
role headon continuously asking questions for better understanding clarification and to make sure that she's able to perform her job to the best of her ability I'm continually impressed by Erica's hard work ethic and her commitments to a position that she was not formally trained for Erica's willingness to be a team player and switch roles is admirable and she's greatly appreciated that Rings Erica was a first grade teacher um and to do special education this year she was one we were
losing in budget reductions and I presented this to her and said would you be willing to do special education I said there will be some of the hardest work you'll do and I said some and we had a conversation I'd like to go back to the classroom someday absolutely and I said and when you go back to the classroom you will be a 100% better teacher because of all you have learned um we talked even as a special ed team this morning um you don't know what you don't know and when you step
into another world um wow right and she takes it on every single day with both feet first Arms Wide Open learned that's IEP writing that's uh um all IEP meetings working with kids of special needs and I just can't say enough about her and I'm super super proud of her and she deserves every bit of this award Erica
if youd like to if not that's to shy thank you very much very nice congratul very well served so thank you very much for presenting congratulations and no words we don't yeah we don't have an orchestra to get off the stage awesome thank you
for all right we will then move on to 7B our HR report and is Mr mcnalty there he is there you go you come up and you Le okay um they gave you a brief in the package too but okay she just
um so we couple of the major things that have happened in the last uh couple months is um our open enrollment took place starting November um our committee got together a couple times with um our broker and we went up for the bids and came back and uh with four and so um we went with stayed with Meda we have a 2% reduction again for this year that we now and then it's you know if you're in education Insurance then it's going to jump
up to possibly up to like 14 15% that's a guarantee with all our bits we get so um we did the open R was a lot easier this year because we didn't switch companies um but we've gotten through most of that uh Cindy and payroll is finishing getting all the benefits uh correct in the year she was working on that with this last payroll because we need to get that in by January 31st so um and the staff that have had think show up the have contact there so that's moving a lot smoother than
it did last year where we had some major issues of people not showing up ports we got a few of those still but uh we're getting those ironed out so thanks to Cindy and the rest of the staff for cooperating on getting our open en rollment done um with that then we also Cindy and I have met several times during the year um we work with a broker we had MMA which is basically marshman plan agency um they did good work for us but we felt they were not very proactive in their approach um so reached out
to several schools asked places they had gone to who they had done and like you do in schools and i' like to do that as as an administrator too is to keep companies from being complacent of going on getting uh other quotes bids or whatever you want to do for services we felt they were pretty complacent on their work um we decided to go with USI there's not a any kind of major fiscal change they always get a certain of percentage of your basically out of your Insurance uh companies which is Medica and met life for us um that will
switch over officially on February 1st so we have a week and a half um letters have been sent out to MMA uh conversations quick what had there's not usually a lot of conversation when they call ask why um we just tell them thank you and check with us in a couple years um so we are moving that all over Sy and I working with um USI the staff really doesn't see much of that anything because it's really not in their concern so that's just pretty much in the backside just so you have
knowledge of that those are probably the two big things uh along with that then we also had our food service audit here done basically started back in the late fall October November have kind of moved it through uh through December working with Noel from um the department of Nutrition department of bed um so I wanted to make sure give a big thanks to Crystal arson who was right behind me here and uh Harland ad and his crew from T because uh um they were very happy
with us let's just put it that way um which doesn't sound like everybody has that kind of transition on your food on so U that has been complete and with that then I then have to do a food service review uh of two of the three breakfast meals being served and all three lunch is being served where I basically I Lear it from Mary from T last year um um just kind of an oversight of tracking for accounts because
to run some reports match up they're only for our own records it's just something that is required by the state um B just an overview of making sure everything's in line with what uh our people coming through what to is doing and then as we are consider considered the school Food Authority U making sure that we're kind of more of aware what's happening and it's it's a complete learning experience for me um because we have a vendor and how to do this so it's going smooth and I'm getting better at it but since it's done
once a year it's going to take a while um but thanks again to Christa she also helps because she runs the report and then I have to do all the state reporting to that so um and then just along with that uh which I didn't add there is we also are up for our school RFP for Food Service um so I am putting together having to work with the state uh MB really oversees the template and everything every step we go through RFP which basically means we have to go out every five years regardless because we
have a third party Bender running ours where we have to go out and get a request for proposals on our food service and so it's long I think it was 30 some pages of fun and Giggles for us I'm learning that one too so I'm trying to actually I contacted a couple experts in the area uh reached out see if they could help me through a few things not because I can't do it but it's just a really good understanding of when I get this done I send this out and what's expected because again it's new to me
um but it's going pretty smooth uh I will'll have that out to the MD for review here at the end of January early February they do a couple week review make sure we get all the um you know te crossed eyes dotted and then that gets advertised um which I'll be working with Courtney eventually on that that goes out I already had four food service companies contact me on this because they watch over and keep an eye on things and that'll get sent out and advertised and then in about April or
so mid April um we'll get those proposals in I have to put a committee together Krist and I are going to send on that right now and get one or two more people um most likely right now going to get one of the counselors because they work up in the cfers most of the time uh just to kind of review it there's a point system the MD gave this it's pretty laid out I mean it's they've kind of structured it on how you're going to go and then of course that recommendation it's brought to the board so look for that in May and then that would start up
on July 1st again or real reality u in September so that is coming right there um if you have any other questions you can always ask me about that again first time for me so it's uh pretty neat to kind of learn a new operational setting um but it's been good and uh I'll get back to you want to get more information on that one um seniority lists were put out you can see two them around the consent agenda got them back in time I got the third from Miss No's right
behind me so thank you to her getting that out we had a few changes to make on that but that one from the teachers one will go on the February agenda the early childhood and principal ones which are very short so it was very simple um check back on that those are on the agenda for tonight for approval um that's just to make sure everything is in line for um basically your continueed teachers and principls are under that to make sure they've got we got the license assignment the years and so forth right so if there is reduction stuff it
is basically a follow through on that for for all our our licensed staff out there um and then a few things right there on the finishing part right there um even though we just had the seniority list one of the items required Now by legislators is get that basically official list of Staff out there that has to be given to the Reps um both of them are right behind me so Scott interested unless they left um they will have uh I gave it to them last year
we gave it to I think it was late Springer the summer it's it goes out basically three times a year um I having giving them another list not that they haven't just seen it recently but has some different data on there that it's really a list of all their uh union members and some data on that that is now required by legislature it's to help them make sure that everything is correct and have everybody uh for their contact on on the UN so that'll go out here uh that's next week um and along with that then
there'll be an HR Bolton going out next week um Cindy and I put together and the big one on that is the W2s um she's already sent out an email asking for electronic say here again because our thing that we get from we should say the government is uh this also a big time of year for fraud and stealing out of mailboxes y yeah so we are going to put in our bullet and ask them to please get electronically done because you just run the risk of if he gets mailed which we have to
do for anybody that doesn't confirm electronically that somebody can steal it not that that happens or hasn't happened to people but um that is a big warning we get from the government so um they'll be putting out a bulletin here going out next week asking them please get this done um otherwise we have to mail it out uh post Market next Friday and then it it gets out it's your tax uh information so um staff hear this or at it do it electronically because you can always just print it out um that's kind
of the gist of all the stuff there's always a few other things that we do on the side but wanted to get you the major stuff and then if you have any questions please bring them my way any questions for Mr mcnalty yeah Miss Johnson I just wanted to share that as board members we can access our W2 through the smart program 20 where we can get ours so next year for you guys and
yeah but that's where it's located you have any question print anything for us but if you talk to so it's not changed because I've never gotten mine in the mail yeah right it hasn't changed it's there that it's it's where it's always about yeah excellent It's not uncommon for companies to not allow that to be nailed physically you have to that is one of the coming things that they're actually you hope for that they change that regulation just because of the fraud going
but um you can go through a process we have learned that allows you to have to go electronically just public sector thank you any other questions from mrti all good thank you appreciate your time uh we will move on to the next item which is a resolution to make reductions uh cover page for 202 five this is an annual item that we bring up to
the board every single year in advance of Staffing and budgeting for the 2526 school year Dr rhor yep um CH Gord is exactly right this is an annual thing and last year we did have to make some reductions um I think this year we're in a better position financially so hopefully we don't have to but this does authorize me to make those reductions if necessary um in Staffing EXC excellent this will be a resolution item and I
will make a motion to approve uh this I would appreciate a second I will second that thank you Miss Johnson there is a first and a second any other discussion be in resolution Madam clerk will you please call the role Eric Gordy hi Jessica Johnson hi Chris Morgan hi Jamie hilstrom I Kevin cordine IC hi excellent thank you so much that resolution does pass unanimously moving on to the midyear DOT number
nine Collective purpose Dr rid Hoover right I'm I'm really excited about this uh thank you J the um this is this is new for us here in Rockford and I think one of the reasons why I'm so excited about just the overall District operational plan is that we did it together um if you remember we uh we did this work last um late last spring early summer to say what goals do we want to do this year so um the the dot itself is board approved
it's on our website um and this is the accountability measures that we agreed on to set forth for our school district so um what you have in front of you is what we're Kathy and I have affectionately titled The Hub of of this it's not the actual dot itself you have access to that um online but we wanted to put these things through here and separate these goals I believe um you would have gotten the email from me uh allowing you to access any of the links some of them have data in it
that wouldn't be uh for public consumption so the this particular sheet does not have those those links live or the one in the board packet but um just for protection of of any privacy pieces but um you were able to look at those things what I like about this as well is you know we can say we have goals um and I come and tell you we met them all um well how do you know you met them and so I believe it's important to have objective measurements and exemplars and artifacts to
demonstrate that we are moving the needle and so I'm not going to go through all of these things um but you'll notice again um and this is incredibly intentionally is they're all aligned to our strategic directions as you'll see everything we do is so you saw you know principal n's report also aligned to our district strategic Direction so that work the board did I don't know about a year year and a half ago um it matters and it resonates and I'm very proud of that so I'm just
going to um kind of briefly just walk through student achievement and growth um again that that is a big reason of why we exist as a school system and you'll see that there's a lot going on with respect to the work at Reams uh newsletters to families um our local literacy plan that was submitted to mde we did um put a job coach I'm sorry A literacy coach in place and there's the job desription for that um and by the way stop me along the way if you have any questions but I'm
just going to kind of walk through them briefly here the instructural road map which you've heard a lot about um this was not a one-year you know let's do this this year there's a there's a plan to all of it and so we have the visual there and there'll be another one that comes on for the next part of the the next turn if you will on the road for next year and uh the work that's happening at those respective buildings um curricul review process we had we we now have a um a draft plan in place to how we're going to review curriculum curriculum so that it it makes
sense and then we have um a great collaboration and partnership from the users those being our teachers and so this is already in place right now as they're looking at two different vendors for our literacy curriculum um which I'll be bringing to you guys later this spring as we're hoping to adopt one of them um some of these things you've seen before as I go through these things a little bit here are um cacr our um comprehensive achievement Civic Readiness you've seen that that's also on our website uh the adsis
application you'll notice is in progress because that is um in progress as we speak uh the work that's happening in our APAC um the work in CTE which we're very proud of um and then again the the evidence with respect to our Partnerships um in our magnet program Under The Heading of uh healthy and supportive environment there's our student conect in this piece and um like the my saers we have a secondary survey that's that went out to our kids and
we're doing that um spring and uh spring and fall or fall and spring if you will um to look at that data I work around restorative practice we really did that work last year but I wanted to include that as well um and then the wellness work that's happening throughout our district and that's really led by Melissa Joseph um who we are absolutely blessed to have as our community ed director um she is the best of the best and done a lot of work around that um with that being said we're also looking
at year-to-year insurance comparables and some things of that nature with the Wellness Plan as well and there's evidence again there the Safety Committee this was a heavy lift um putting together this guy uh Courtney and Mike did a huge chunk of that for us with that safety piece there the Raptor system some some FAQ around that and the data we're seeing uh through that um I also did get the there the workers comp claims I'll just share with you we're we are slightly below last year um but I
wish they were even lower um most of those are are injuries um student to staff injuries that we see in our buildings um so I'll just share that with you there um going into the community and school Partnerships um our work around Communications um with our Communications work there um the elected officials Round Table stuff that you guys were very much a part of U we're putting a brochure together for um you early childhood and so forth and
then The Branding and social media analytics that we're doing to ensure that we're moving the needle there um you'll see the top of page four there the community survey that went out to parents Guardians in the community and you saw the Baseline data for that earlier this fall around technology um I look at this I'm like well we did a lot of stuff already this year um you know we have the the new website up and running um the new email migration for our staff with our new domain moving
into the the facilities um Community head report Melissa will have that ready for us when we do the the final part of the share out uh Partnerships with raw I'm really proud of that we we moved that um to Melissa Joseph bear liaison with raw and that could not be going any better she's the perfect person to work with them and they do have questions and she she knows the answers and um she's just a great person to work with and then we did a lot of work this last summer
with River Works thousand Hearts collaboration in the community there moving into the direction of culture of collective purpose there's the do and I going to be asking you guys what you think of this process at the end of the year make sure that it still works for all of you um roles and responsibilities that's been tweaked and we'll tweak that annually that document is on our Hub and so our staff know exactly who's responsible for what who to go to um that's really important I think you know when I arrived here I think there
had been so much turnover uh with with leadership and so forth that you know who's in charge of that who's in charge of this um people wouldn't get the same answer from the same people and now we have a go-to place on that document there uh the quarterly superintendent updates of the sites between the state of the district we did a lot of work around curricular mapping and um I'm glad you brought that up Jord because that's something that um will be shared uh by Kathy at the next meeting along with our work around data so I'm I'm excited for next meeting
because um all of the work around instruction that you're hearing about you're going to see some of it and how we're implementing it how it manifests in practice um we've done a lot of work around onboarding and offboarding um you've seen some of this already I know Mike shared the offboarding survey results um you know how staff deal them leaving um how we're welcoming them to our system that's important you people when they arrive to to know that they matter that we're we know what we're doing
um and we even made some tweaks to that here last um last week um the employee handbook again that's that was a huge undertaking we have a brand new employee handbook uh this goes out to all staff in the during Workshop week or or prior and then they have to you know sign off through the vector that they that they've read it and they understand it um that's good for a lot of reasons it's good for people to have an understanding of what's happening with in our system it also helps us from a liability standpoint that say yes you were fully aware that this was what you were
expected um um the next one there and this is one I don't think I could show you enough about this work that we've done um and this is systemwide I know I know that it was mentioned by U by Brenda that this is K12 it really truly is we're doing the same work and I say this often our ores are all going in the same direction from an entire system standpoint around the work that we're doing um PLC templates the mapping template you'll see it
there a mapping guide how to do it um you know all the self assessment of how it's going you know we tell people it's okay to be where you are we just can't stay there so how do you improve from from where you're situated currently um and then ask for help um we've asked for our members of built to evaluate what buil feels like to them how they're experiencing it how we can improve and get better and then overall program evaluation and then there's just some exemplars there around what we did in Workshop week and then those those
three days we mentioned around PD if you want to know what we did it's right there um and then how to register for Rocket Camp which just happened the bolt work again the agenda there's just an some exemplars there and then we did an evaluation of the work in Bolt um here in December and so we're tweaking some things to make it more user friendly for those members and especially the communic ation that comes out to those who are not members of B you know again people aren't you know in a back room smoking cigars having
these conversations these are things that are real in the building and they're they're the things that matter I work around coordinating Council and I I talked with both of our EMR presidents today um we did a lot of work in the spring on this primarily to get built and bolt up and running but it's another place where we can solve problems before they become problems and we still meet and we met today um prior to the meeting um but this is this is an important thing that um that our our largest employee group
um is valued and their their concerns are always taken seriously um the instructional cabinet piece that is moving along in the in the right direction and and there's an example of an agenda item there and then some more work around built and built with job descriptions um the job description for learning Innovation specialist which is Kathy um we believe in promoting um and building capacity from within so you'll see that um Mike has signed up both
hoe and D Wayne for um maso leadership training and as one of the things as they came into the system or came into their new roles they were nervous about how do how do we lead our peers and it's really challenging to lead people who have been your colleagues and peers for a long time and they've done an exceptional job of that and I give Mike a lot of credit in working with them and how to navigate those things um and what was that program called
um sorry masbo is the Minnesota Association of school business officers officers thank you and so they do training um and Mike has connected them with some training and it's an ongoing training so it's it's um they're be offside a few days working on this and um love it's a little what's that I'd love that we're offering that it's a little bit outside of their comfort zone per se but it's really good for our system and and they're they're willing to go and get trained and and um just learn a little bit more about leadership in general um
this was something that they didn't ask for they were um you know I tapped them on the shoulder when our director of buildings and grounds departed and said hey would you have an interest in um you know you know leading these two different areas buildings and grounds and custodial and it's well let's talk some more about that and um I'll share this it um you know they got a small bump in pay um it saved our district quite a bit of money but all that aside the financials aside our buildings have never looked better and the work that
they're doing is being noticed by our staff and it's allowing our staff to do their work because they're not worried about things like cleanliness I I wanted to share something too um I'm getting a little bit off topic here but the other night when we had our our our Round Table Eric went um upstairs and I was downstairs cuz we didn't know where people were coming in the doors and I just looked around and I'm like darn this building is clean and they didn't even know we had this event that
night and it just made me feel really good and I'm going to say this you know out loud we we have the lead of the building back here Scott and um uh thank you and and what's what's happened within the the building in those areas has been has been pretty special and I'm very proud of that um we also are sending both and I think this just started um Rachel and Kathy are involved in um like you know the other two gentle I mentioned they're also uh new to Leading peers and so that's challenging um
and so they're they're enrolled in um a virtual online version of um instructional coaching through the Harvard Graduate School of Education and so we're growing and cultivating leadership in that area as well and they're doing that together um and then the rocket recognition which is now called the Rocket Spotlight and that was tonight and so that has manifested itself um here this evening moving into stewardship of resources um you have some examples there of some finance committee notes and agendas those you who've been on the finance committee are well
aware of those we have others but I just shared a few um the goal of negotiating fair and fiscally sound employee contracts um everyone's got a contract you know I know that cycle starts over again and we'll start the teachers here soon and three of us um who are involved in that the four of us I guess I will say um we'll get started on that with our our friends at the EMR and I'm hoping that will start earlier this year I shared that with them today um and then I just shared some fiscal spreadsheets Mike puts those together
and does a really good job and helps us to understand where we're Landing if for those you are new to the board I I I come to the board and we do a Clos session and I say what are the parameters for a negotiations team and you say these are our parameters what we can live with and um that leads us into our meetings and the money can be put in all different places and and we're we're okay with wherever they put it for the most part but that costing model those she help us to ensure that we stay within the the parameters that the board allows it's that last number that
matters yep that's right that's right um and then the CF one of the things that that um and I really want to compliment Mike and I know he's not here right now but he we shifted his job around quite a bit as we restructured the district office and um you know I think it's it's still it's still a work in progress but one of the things we had to decide is you know what is CFO work and what is director business you know Services work and so um Mike and Bridget and I
you know kind of put together some some real clear parameters as to what's doing what because there is some overlap Mike does a lot of day-to-day stuff still with Finance but our big picture is only handled by Bridget and so um we have those job descriptions laid out and delineated in that way and then the last piece here um and I know Eric mentioned it a little bit um earlier um the tech Levy and this is something we're going to be talking about a lot um there will
be um you know Courtney and I um made a decision today that uh February 20th is somewhere in that ballpark we'll be sending out most likely a postcard to all residents with I think a QR code with the survey on it we want to get as much feedback as possible and you've seen uh the communications team has already seen that that survey um that that um we'll be we'll be sharing out just asking um you know tax tolerance thoughts on on the levy um were you informed all of those things want to make sure that um you know that we're understanding those things I thought about
doing you know some Community you know open houses but based on the attendance we got at the last ones I thought that I would rather push some things out uh physical things to their mailboxes and I'm hoping that we get a pretty um substantial response rate on that um you'll see the vote 2024 uh website link there uh our community presentation is all there um um the Flyers to vote the technology updates um the the plan um all of
those presentations that took place there so um you'll notice that the boxes at least most of them and I think some of them still might need to be addressed but for the most part um you'll noticed if these goals have been met or are in progress those you're new to the board one of the things that that um I asked the board here last year was um we're doing this together um these are not only our goals they're my goals they're my team's goals so I evaluate my team on their work within these goals and then the ask is
that the board then evaluates me on how these goals are going as we set forth so um I just wanted to share that um again we're we're really proud of our progress we have work to do um this plan is probably bigger than what we'll see in future years because we had a lot to do um but I will also come to you um I forget which month it is I think it's either May or June June uh it might be June where I'll bring this exact same document back with hopefully all of the boxes checked that say gold back but there
may not we may not have gotten to something or maybe not finish something um we'll be asking you to um again um take a look at those things and make sure that we're on track because again they're our Collective goals and um just as I'm being evaluated um I'm accountable to all of you to make sure these things are getting done because you guys put your stamp on and so this is what we're doing this year so any questions about the the the mid year District operational plan and Report um as it's presented
any questions for Dr Ider so that you did share um a copy a Google cop the the the form document some of the objects are right protected still and we're unable to have access into those is that purposeful or is that okay I think it just must have been the way the rights were done I think if I created the dock I probably had the rights to share it with you but it could be if somebody else created it it may not be so if you just um if there's
one of those links you want to see more of request yeah just request it and I'll I'll I'll share it out okay to the board and again I I would share the entire thing publicly but there's some private information that can't go out to everybody as we continue to go on the um adess application is due in February correct for the first go there's two deadlines um we are aing aing for deadline number one which is February 7th so it's pretty aggressive the the actual application by the way came out
last week so um that's a little frustrating but we're um we had already started the work based on the application uh template from two years ago and there's not a lot of changes there but we are looking to do a few different things with adsis um which will then uh have an effect on our overall Staffing budget for next year and that's and a struct model right and then the question is previous viously we would have preview into what the application was going to be as board because there is impact is was it 60% or
66% of yeah I think it's I think it's 65 yeah or something like that two3 something like that yeah right so is there opportunity for the board to review and have sure yeah input on that as well um that's going to be a little challenging with the due date we have but I could certainly um it probably won't be done until about the 7th but I can certainly share it out with the board I can tell you just um in in practice we're looking to replicate exactly
what we have now and potentially add some math adst work at the elementary school um so in in a nutshell that's what we're asking for um the narratives might read differently but um we can't go over I think it's $1.4 million in our ask um we're probably going to ask for somewhere in that ballpark um uh we're in a pretty good spot for Staffing overall um um but I will definitely try to get that application out to you before it goes uh to mde but in a nutshell again
we're asking to um there'll be no reductions but hopefully potential additions to our adsis work um adsys has become more popular Statewide um which is not necessarily great in a year that they're struggling with a budget and so um with without question we're hoping that they will at least let us continue what we've been doing because it's really feeling like it's been effective and so um so we'll see we'll
see where that goes basically he answered my question I was going to say can you give us in a nutshell what you're going to ask for something he did no appreciate not that we don't have faith that you're looking out for the best we just want to make sure because cast we we we we have to have some good conversations yeah I'll also share with you I since you brought it up U we're doing it very differently this year than what's been done in the past so um what we did this year is we brought everybody together who's been who's
part of Adis and we said here's what the application is going to look like and we actually assigned tasks so we said everyone on the call this is your one area where we're asking you to provide input so Kevin nef had a lot of input on the data for example because we need to have data um but we also asked our counselers to say what do you think this should look like for the behavior Adis piece we asked you know the math and the reading folks do the same and so everybody's been contributing to this um I think last time there were some
surprises from what I understand I I wasn't here um and I don't want to play Monday Morning Quarterback or anything but there will be no surprises on this application for anyone um I just don't think that's the way to go when when is award provided when is uh announcement of award I think it's going to be late spring okay I'm hopeful I mean I think there's still a lot a question as to what's happening at the legislature and so um I'm hopeful we'll find out by
late spring but we're going to go ahead and staff um I feel comfortable doing that um with um the understanding that we're going to at least be status quo so with the implementation of the as right so if the ask is awarded um do you see Staffing at the level of the ask or are you going or or just not known yet it's not known yet okay but we're I I don't want people to
be in limbo so we're going to um we're going to staff as if um the status quo will exist which we're we're fortunate that we have I think Rockford um was one of the first schools to get on board with with atsis and so and they like us there um you know whenever they have you know meetings or whatnot and Jennifer sprag has done a great job she she gets on all the meetings and she puts out great notes for everybody and she's she's been our our Adis lead
um inde perfect thank you any questions all good perfect thank you for the uh report and the information uh it's all good stuff so all right moving on to 9B then policy review first read you will see that there are several policies in there for the new board members those policies that are just numbers 614 those are are worded um as msba or as um
organizations would publish and say this should be what your model policy is there are some policies that you will see like 524 R there are some amendments that would be Rockford inclusion into what language is in those policies so those are the RS mean Rockford eyes policy got it okay got so the the idea here is to provide us um a first read and the hope and intent is that you will take the
next month to read over what these policies are if you have any questions you can direct your questions to Dr rle Hoover or um a member of the policy board which is Jessica and Jamie um and Beth right um but make sure you include Dr rle Hoover in your question do not email all of them just one of them uh please because we don't want to have that problem just as a sorry please J um I would just say as a committee I would
I would just recommend direct it to Jeff and then we can go from there but that's what I would just recommend is just policy is great because I have half of you already there so talking about and then we will come back next month with a second read final read and opportunity for changes adjustments if necessary and then approve those so those policies are there for you m Johnson um just something about policies we have a policy on policies so it
tells us how to approve policies so when there isn't any like major changes like it's maybe a statute number change or something like that typically those can be done in one reading but we try to do a first read okay and a second read with all our policies because that's what our policy say to do um sometimes there's a emergency policy that has to happen and
those can happen in one meeting but that is where I we're very much notified on that and are made aware of that so and if you look at our December uh agenda you probably will see that these were listed as a first read but it was asked that they get move to this meeting as a first read for you to have opportunity not have to approve something you didn't have good you to okay and if you want to access policies on the school board uh if
you go to the school page go into District School Board and then you can go right to policies and you can see like what the 100's focus on the 200s our school board policies um and so on so you can go in there if you have any questions on anything Miss hilr um remind me between the first read and the second read if there was a small tweak does that change anything there's some verbage in one of them at the end that I is a little hard to read as as
long as there is uh good um notification and that change is made before we approve at the second room and then just for your guys's information when you're reading the policy I mean you want to read the whole policy but the changes are usually highlighted in green so that you can really focus on those areas to see what the changes are okay perfect all good all we'll move on to number 10 resolution acknowledging contributions Dr Rover yeah there is a
plethora of donations and I would like to um some of them um substantial and I um but we are appreciative of any and all um those who are willing to contribute their time talents and and resources to our school district so on behalf of um District administration I'd like to um sh the board the donations for the month of January excellent thank you yep there uh a great deal of of donations to help with our baseball field
you can see that in there so outstanding uh work and thank you to the community and everyone that is donating uh for our district this is an action item I would appreciate a motion to approve tonight's contributions no motion thank you Mr Morgan there is a first can I have a second please I'll second thank you Mr shadine there is a first and a second any discussion this is a resolution Madam clerk please call the role Chris Morgan hi Kevin hi
Beth Gras hi Eric hi Jessica Johnson hi Jamie hilr I unanimous excellent so that does car unly thank you to the community for your support of our district item 10B uh Rockford are school board retreat Tuesday January 30th 9:00 a.m. in the district office conference Thursday January 30th 9:00 a.m. in the district office conference room policy committee meeting Monday February 3 at 400 p.m. in the district office conference room board
works session is going to be start over policy committee meeting Wednesday February 19th at 4:00 awesome Board of Ed work session Wednesday February 19th 5:30 in the district office um let's see continuing on facilities committee Wednesday February 19th at 7:30 a.m. uh which will be in in the district office conference room uh regular meeting in the Board of Ed Wednesday February 19th at 6:30 in the
conference room as well so a lot of meetings a lot of stuff on the 19 and with that we are going to move to 10c which is a closed session so pursuant just have to make this a little bit bigger sorry um pursu pursuant to Minnesota statute section 13d .05 we will be closing this meeting to discuss the performance and evaluation of
a our employee which is the superintendent so as people exit quickly I would appreciate a motion to move to close session appreciate a motion to move to close session a motion to move us to close session thank you Dr frasa there's first can I have a second I'll second thank you Mr shadine all those in favor signify
by I hi I post we are moved to close session at 8:17 p.m. and do board commit and we are back in open session at 8:35 now we have the opportunity for very quick board committee updates I'll go first msba meeting was awesome right learned uh appreciated the uh um opportunity to listen to um Thursday's speaker you
know just good connections right with with people and understanding that they all have gifts and moving forward um good opportunity to to have conversations with fellow board members didn't really have much time to well I didn't attend any of the breakouts because it didn't fit um into my schedule and didn't make it Friday the only other thing I had was an MS or a uh Northwest Suburban meeting they gave preliminary numbers uh for
um applied and accepted uh for Northwest Suburban I had shared Dr ID was in the meeting with me I had shared that the numbers seemed a little low um but they seem on par with where they were last year and I asked if we were making calls to make sure that all the people that could apply should apply and the answer is yes that's me and you went to amsd and I was at amsd yes was and got to listen to the uh unfunded mandate conversation and the legislators is just pushing back at a
little bit which is always a fun thing so sweet board prep oh and board prep yeah that too I can go it yes I have not done any board work in the last few years perfect uh Miss Johnson I had so in December after the last board meeting I had an early childhood committee meeting the one that's related to the Moa um that all the work that need to be completed by January 1 according to our half of the
committee we have met those requirements uh we're kind of uh in discussion right now whether the other side agrees we did or not it's another story anyway um so we're working on that um myo meeting uh that evening um uh and it looks as if uh next Tuesday I will be a as board chair for maso so new role taken on there um I'll keep
you updated on that um we had our organizational meeting board prep call msba went to that last week um was really good uh breakout sessions for some reason I'm not remembering the one I went to I have all my notes and I forgot I even had the bag with my bag and I forgot to grab it I have my notes but I forgot the one um went to a couple of different ones sorry on the spot right now I'm forgetting um I did share
I think I put in a couple of documents into board folder um one of them that I wasn't able to attend because I attended a different one was uh Watertown has a great CTE program and they shared all the information and uh through some connections I was able to get their part for presentation so that is in our folder which I'm really happy about um the speaker on Friday morning was heish Brewer uh
he he's the skateboarding tattooed principal from New Zealand who has a New Zealand East Coast accent which is was very interesting Jamie and I were actually like hm where's he from it's SS kind of Australia but there's a little bit of east coast of that and then he's like New Zealand and then he's talking about being out in Virginia we're like oh it makes sense that is a hard accent um he was great uh so much
so that while he speaking and he shows his um book that he has I went on to Audible and bought the book because I was going to be doing a 4 and a half hour drive and listened to three and a half hours of it and I've listened to another hour and a half of it so I only have a little bit left um to listen to amazing person and what he has done to um just move schools like just move the needle is absolutely astounding um
and to never say those kids that every kid doesn't matter their background where they came from every kid you can move the needle no matter what and what it takes to do that and first of all it takes that uh environment in the school with the staff everybody on board together um being a family starting there and then that filters
sound to these kids and um it's quite incredible listening to all the different things and um the people who gave testimonies in his book too about working with him or having him as a teacher having him as a principal the difference he's made and how he's done that um I would highly recommend it it's it's really a a great book and um I look forward to actually having conversations with Dr Ry Hoover about it because the things that possibly we can we
can Implement here in Rockford and just really make a difference and move the needle so it was um was pretty awesome I really enjoyed that so I can go um a couple things more parent than school board but there was a a mini concert at the elementary school that parents were invited and they could go into the classroom and see their kids doing stuff and I just thought that was really great because one of the things in the survey uh about to
the community was parental involvement at the elementary school which is kind of surprising but at the same time Elementary School parents want to be super involved so seeing some of that where you can get parents in in other creative ways was pretty cool so um and then uh organizational meeting in the round table um and then a couple of coffee and conversations um which I saw Eric on also um he didn't mention that he uh there was one
thing about um the curriculum that someone mentioned um in beiji they actually have a curriculum night for the parents where they get to kind of see the upcoming curriculum that's going to come out um and there was a lot of people going that makes me super nervous nobody came but I'm just thinking it might be a nice thing when things are going well to give parents a chance and then you know then they go they're willing to show us everything and so I thought that
was an interesting idea um and then the MSA or the msba convention um I went to a bunch of roundtables um which are just like 20 minute quick things and sometimes I get the best information out of there there was one um that was done by a company called radar that does Staffing and basically says the way schools do Staffing on the internet makes it hard for people who are just on their phones to find staffing um and it
was really cool and they gave a lot of great suggestions and then the guy who was in charge of running it actually said he is already working with Mike in our district uh for finding samping on par so it was great I was excited about it and then he said he was working with someone I was so excited um and then there was also one on board books um they gave all kinds of tips and stuff and I know that I don't utilize board books uh to the best that you can
um and there's uh a couple things follow basically the chair can run the meeting and your screen will just follow what they go on so as they go to the next one it follows it and also uh personal notes that you can write to yourself and are searchable then in the future so things that I hadn't utilized before that I found and I went well that's cool um and then break sessions one was on using um different metrics other than the MCA they said using acts other than
the MCAS but they had kind of a whole system and it's written into their policies for even Prairie things like we're going to use two out of three of these metrics like MCA acts and then another one that they do um just because of the opt opt outs happening in um the MCAS that being said they fully pay for all of their students to take acts if they want to so that's a huge consideration but there were other things in their policies that it was kind of cool how they were evaluating
that um the students are learning and growing um and then I went to another one that I found interesting was a referendum reset um which was interesting it was great it was a little frustrating because so many things that they said we did the last time so it was it was like oh yeah we did did that you did that and it's like what else can we do so um but it was it was a reminder of um some of the things that we
need to continue to work on so um and that's it Eric I have a go ahead it's not really a question it's she brought up the Paran knite for the new curriculum but it could potentially tie into the need for technology because I would as pretty much assume the new the new curriculum is heavy on technology so if we had a parent night that explained all that that would also serve as this is why we need technology they are doing
a literacy okay so but if she talked about with the new curriculum it could have that then feed into this is how we technology whenever we can mention technology as Eric so um gracefully did earlier and that's where I we could do both and not like throw it shove it down their throat so much but just say this is the part of the curriculum that is reliant on technology yeah sure it's it's nice for people to know
that people don't understand necessarily how the things are being implemented so yeah shitty uh so I went to the msba for the first time that was a lot of fun um learning experience uh I went to just one of the breakouts for the mshsl mshsl yeah um appreciate your minutes on that way yeah yep so that was really I I really enjoyed that that was uh some notable things is the nth grade thing I'm not sure if you guys knew that already but they will now be a part of
the uh league so uh we'll have to I don't know there's any funding or anything or any things we have to do we won't do anything any different it's more about eligibility we had to V Insurance eligibility all that stuff so that's kind of the main points out of that so thank you Mr Mor I have n excellent perfect short and easy um and Jessica I you're probably going to want to share more or you or I think I'm all right all right one
thing that I I shared with Kevin at the uh at msba I was on a board chat and I I almost like yelled in the meeting because one person they're talked about their new chair what's the expectation how do they communicate all this stuff and they're like oh yeah I have a one hour meeting every single week with the superintendent to talk over things that are going in the district and then once a month I have a 1our meeting with every single principal in the district and I'm like I looked at Mr and I said there
no way in anything is at any part of our duty never ever ever um anything only that's our line of communication and I almost fell over on the call when that came out and it's one of our neighbors so just saying the board chair meets with every person on the committee on the school board one hour no no no with the board with the board chair and the superintendent hour the board chair and each principal once with a superintend no
no wow yeah like that is way overstepping in in our world the answer is no so just sharing that as a thing that some places are a little different yeah and I appreciate what you guys do so thank you let's keep that going all right anything else all right last one artist want adjournment I make a motion to adjourn no I will suck at that thank you Miss Johnson any discussion all those in favor by I
oppose we are adjourned at 8:48