all right it's great to have everyone back after a short summer break so we'll get started kick off the school year um okay can I get are there any changes to the agenda as
presented we do have a closed session um and then we'll come back and take action so there will be uh something for us to do after the close session so any changes can I get a motion to approve the agenda as presented so moved so moov
by Mullen second by hennon to approve the agenda as presented all in favor please say I I I those opposed motion passes please check the Cal please check the district calendar and resource guide for the district website for a complete
list of monthly events Monday August 26 2024 welcome back staff breakfast and all staff meeting Tuesday August 27th school board work session at 6 p.m. Monday September 2nd Labor Day all buildings closed Tuesday September 10th
Schoolboard regular meeting at 7 p.m. with communication to the board and administration at 6:45 moving on to consent agenda can I get a motion so moved by Schmidt second by Scully or was it for for
Warburg to approve the following items of the consent agenda minutes of the June 11th 2024 regular school board meeting June 25 2024 uh Schoolboard work session bills paid for May 2024 and June
2024 in the amount of 11,492 n6 and Personnel items all in favor please say I I motion passes moving on to presentation guests
and recognition Pathways highlight Health and Human Services opportunities and Emergency Care oec highlights Bill nice and oec students [Applause]
welcome how you guys like to introduce yourselves real quick name and then School of gradu hi my name is Matthew Higley and I graduated from M high school but I was a part of the sping Lake Park program this year hello I'm Simon I'll be a senior at
Spring Lake Park High School hi my name is Emily Marcus and I graduated from springle Park High School hi my name is javani PR laara and I graduated from SP Lake Park High School hello my name is is Maria MAA and I graduated from Springland Park High
School hi my name is Greta Herzog and I also graduated from Springland Park hi my name is aora Ros Miller and I'm going to be a sophomore at Spring Lake Park hello I'm Jason Katrine I graduated from msv high school this
year I'm Bill nice I will be starting my 37th year teaching with oec in at the high school in well in a couple weeks ah so um I'm assuming you can see what I'm seeing on the screen in front so um any
if you have any questions please ask I'd much rather answer questions and talk about what's coming out of my mouth so um with uh we're in the obviously in the college and the career Pathways and by the way that's my wife Jenny we to introduce yourself so so she she
abandoned ship back in January she went to the Death Star at the department of Ed so but so you know she's been she's a huge help she's really advocating for what we're already doing in our classroom in
schools all over the state so um so yeah the courses we offer we start with first aid and CPR and then um Jason and Jason's the only one in this group um oh wait Maria so that took the second year classes with John Lindstrom so with
the enhanced EMT we bring in paramedics we bring in chiropractors we bring in uh all sorts of people that teach them some advanced stuff and then um and then they go on to Tech rescue and then uh firefighter one so and then elenne runs
the nursing assistant program now uh when she took over for Jenny back in January so uh and then everything in between uh we always feel that the core of of oec is is the EMR and the EMT those are the students that you'll see out at events all the time uh everything
will be starting at the first varsity football game in a couple of weeks to youth basketball to hockey to Tower days to the USA Cup this year we uh actually had 884 calls this year it's the most we've ever had at the tournament it was a record number of teams and a record we
were busy so um lots of fractures some kids saw some really um some big time injuries this year so um so yeah so our school year just ended last week when we got back from the Dominican Republic with our medical mission trip so um
we're really here is to celebrate uh these guys here so we brought nine this is the largest group we've taken International and out of four teams uh we had three that uh placed in the top 10 including two that placed uh first in
so Maria and Emily placs first in first aid in CPR they competed against 97 other teams and then Greta and Lauren who's unable to be here tonight um plays first in EMT against 97 other teams 96 other teams and then Matthew and Simon
placed ninth in EMT as well so um like I told uh Erica and when put the story together if I taught another 36 years I don't think we could we could match this there's 12,600 competitors um and for us to to come out
on top out of almost a 100 teams in two separate categories is I I I feel i' come up short trying to explain what an accomplishment that is so um as you'll see in the the pictures here so these are the finalists all right so they all
had to pass a written test so about it wipes out about two-thirds of the competitors started with 97 teams in in EMT and I think it was 37 that made it to the the second round there is really no room for error they
have to Ace the written test and I have secret information that Emily and Maria only missed two points on this the skills section out of over 150 points and so there's really literally no room for error and
so um Retta I actually want to change this script you're gonna this will be time you can come up and talk about your experience okay hi I'm Greta um I was partners with Lauren she couldn't be here because she wanted me to tell you that she got her wisdom teeth out today
so um but through oec I got my CNA BLS and EMT certifications um this is really important because me and my peers with these we can already get jobs before even graduating high school that'll immerse Us in the healthc care field and
just enrich our experiences but this is really helpful to me as I'm going into nursing school this fall um it's just oec provides so many experiences for us as students like this summer I got to go with Bill Jenny um Jason was there too to the Dominican
Republic where we got to learn from doctors um we had exposure to their culture and we got to treat a lot of people who really needed our help who don't always have access to healthare like we do in the states so that was really important to us and really
important to those people that we helped and it's just one of the hundreds of things oec provides to us students that just I don't know it's just incredible all the stuff that we get to do um as for Houston it was such a great
experience I'm so grateful I got to go it was so much fun and it really taught us a lot about discipline um me and Lauren we worked really really hard for months um just in the class in general and that helped in our com our
competitive event was EMT so working hard in class class and then working hard outside of class through June um we moved on to round two after the first Knowledge Test and then passed our scenario as well and it was just surreal
getting to hear our names called as the winners of the EM event so I'm really thankful for everything oec has given me and I'm also thankful for everyone like you guys who continue to support us and the students who want to make a difference in the world thank you
and then I'm going to have Maria speak here as you can tell uh the picture a little emotional we all sobbed um uh We've we've won before um but never twice in the same year and I just I don't know I can't say enough about this
group of kids I always tell them if I'm taking you anywhere you got to be fun uh and these guys all qualified but they're just exceptional kids uh and so Maria hello thank you so much for having us this means so much um so my name is
Maria I took this program two years ago I got my EMT last year in June um it was amazing that experience to have that certificate and be like I actually did something important in high school that big um after that I rejoined the oec
program with the internship so I was helping bail out I got the blessing to be theost was a president so that was really good U Learning Experience um then we went to for state and I just saw how much like all the students wanted to
fight for the first place and how much um time and dedication we put into going into Houston uh my partner Emily and I we worked really hard we had the mentality of like we're going to win this we're going to do this and I think our motivation and our hard work um
helped us to get there here um o has been an amazing experience and recently I've seen how o really impacted my life in a very like personal way my grandma is uh wasn't feeling really good today actually I called Bill even we were
suspecting a hard attack she has history of it and if it wasn't for this experience and my knowledge in the medical field I don't think I would be able to help my grandma um thankfully it was hypertension so we have medications to control her level so she's doing good
she's she's at home but just the fact that bill and Jenny and Ellen and John get to do this to train the Next Generation to become leaders to help out in events that maybe we would have like frozen or wouldn't know how what to do so I just want to thank you so much for
all the support you've given us and to keep believing in this amazing program thank you all right anything that I missing yeah right we have uh the two first place plaques we'd like to just present to the board and so if you want to hang them in
the bathroom in the district office or something but we'd like to present him the board and so you guys can hang on until he need to bring them back to the high school so I know we'll just not disappear this time
thank you any questions for us I know you got a meeting ahead of you so congratulations on gold at the Olympics yeah thank you thank you um Bill I know you and I both don't want to admit this but one as one of your first
students way back when um it is really special to see how far you've taken this program and the instructors and the passion that you have to keep producing year-over-year such great um outcomes and students with wonderful experiences so thank you a couple years ago my colleagues he's a former student too
he's over at aioi as me after this is in 2019 when we last won he said do you ever get tired of this and I said look at those faces are you kidding me um the Anderson Twins were jumping up and down and normally they were pretty stoic but
um I had one of my best years ever with these guys great group so than unlike Kelly I was not in OAC when I was in high school when you were there I had a lot of friends that were and they loved it so I was kind of jealous of them but now watching from then until now and
when I walked in I knew it was going to be a presentation that was going to blow us away but I have Goosebumps and tears in my eyes and I'm so proud to be part of this so thank you all thank you hope the rest of your meeting is as fun no wait I I have more practical I'm
really curious because we've been hearing about your success for so many years and I love hearing about it but this is the first time I've I've heard any details about it and these guys will tell you I'm the annoying detail girl so um I love that finding out that first you pass a written exam I I didn't know that was true could um you or or one of
your students talk just a little bit about what comes after that what the competition looks like after the written part just a few minutes of it because we've never really gotten a lot of detail on that I'd love to hear okay yeah um yeah so it's the written which is 50 questions
and then it's a scenario and so the naal registry of em provides skill sheets and so there's seven skills we have to have as EMTs to get our certification and so they can take two of those skills and throw them into any scenario that they want oh and so this year um it was a
medical assessment um for two patients so they can also pick one or two patients so this year um the first patient was just having an anxiety attack um and the second patient was having allergic reaction so you had to do a medical assessment determine she
was having that reaction and then give her an EpiPen um and then the second patient you just had to calm her down so um then they try to make them um with the world as it is today like realistic right um poll from the news or anything that they can so just kind of like I
think that's why they got the idea for just someone that had anxiety just kind of as like a that's pretty now isn't it yeah I don't know like um just you don't know if they really need help or if they're just there so so I assume when you you like walk in and it's a surprise
yeah yeah you don't know anything we just have to react yeah yeah so it was really weird because we were only used to one patient and so me and Sim were like oh shoot there's two so it really surprise that thank you I really appreciate that thank you so much made a li
never great job you guys [Music] we we heard one of your students say she was going into nursing what are some of these other young folks going to be doing milwauke see where it goes from there
I'm going to the U ofm for nursing going for neur science I'm going to centry college for nursing to for nursing uh I'll be a senior and come back to help uh I'm gonna be a freshman St Thomas major in biology on a
premat awesome AES thank you yeah other comments other comments go for so I just want to read something quick it's right off of our strategic plan it's our vision say Spring Lake Park schools will be a
worldclass learning community aligned around fostering personalized experiences so that each student feels valued inspired and has a sense of belonging resulting in college readiness and the development of academic life and career skills so that each student has aspirations for
Success you guys are are Vision that's big part of you okay it's all you and your team Jenny so thank you very much thank yes thank you thank you everyone and uh Bill what
what uh superintendent ronnenberg shared you've been doing you've been living out our vision for 37 years before before the board even thought of this as a vision so yep you were the original pathway
so you're an OG I I think yeah students you can leave if you want again thank you very much for coming tonight I I mean we could probably spend the whole evening just basking in accolades and and just so
excited about what you're doing and the career path you have and and just how through uh Bill and Jenny how you are representing Spring Lake Park and what we're striving to be and what we're trying to create uh for future students
so thank you very much and and we wish you all the best thank you yeah I was going to make sure they kick St for my [Music] presentation they don't want to hear
about the dop they live the dop thank you thank you okay moving on to discussion reports and information items um 2024 2025 District operational plan overview Dr ronnenberg and Dr Ron
and Erica T will be Jo us so while we just had the opportunity to um hear about our vision come to life with that program and there's been a lot of work in recent years within our district operational plan to um help an amazing program just continue to grow and get
more kids involved so and all of that comes from the Spring Lake Park School strategic plan for the future drives our conversation each and every day I know in the last few weeks we've had like I think every day has been meetings where this is what we're talking about and how do we advance that work and as we do this as you know this isn't new to you
this District operational plan is something that we talk about throughout the year and as we come together in August and we uh kind of kick off the 24 25 school year um we just want to take a few minutes to take a look at this and the planning for this really started um
last January December January something like that and while our district operational plan as you know I always share it's an annual plan but it's with a long-term view so as we put this plan together we always look look at our vision and say okay where do we want to be in three to five years and so what's our Focus really need to be this year so
um within back to that uh strategic plan we have the three strategic anchors that are all aligned around how do we move towards our vision and how do we improve the learning for each of our our students so we have projects within um engaged enthusiastic Learners within that um strategic anchor within
effective operations and with communication within Communications and connections so each of these project projects is directly or indirectly um connected to that vision and raising our highest levels of learning so um I'm going to hit first I'm just provide a brief overview of the projects in the um
underneath effective operations as I as I shared earlier and for anybody who may be watching us on uh YouTube or online this is something our board me members have had a chance to to talk about last spring but we're just going to um provide this over brief overview so the
first one is enhancing School structure supp support learning 2.0 so this is really um we had teams of teachers K12 come in throughout the summer looking at furniture and other space and how what what um updates we need to make the refreshes we need to make to uh be able
to use um that space flexibly to best meet needs of kids so that's something that we're going to be um based on those plans that the teachers put the designs that the teachers put together those will be um kind of throughout the school year into the spring and next summer um be uh hitting our school so we're
excited about that this next uh project position in District for long-term fysical Health um that's really looking at how do we strategically um look at our fisal plan so that we're setting up the district for that long-term fysical health I think one of
the things that's um this is something that we do each year with the board we look at a we do a long-term forecast with you looking out five years what are the um assumptions that we're using with revenue from the state Etc and while we did get um what many people are aware of a
significant increase from the state in Revenue a couple of years ago that there were also many mandates that came with that so what we're going to be doing this year is taking that opportunity to look forward look out into the future again and make sure that we're um set up to be able to advance our work and support our teachers and staff
throughout the system doing what they do so um oops and I actually when I said that the upgraded learning Space Furniture is what I just hit about the school structure support learning 2.0 that's actually looking at so systemic supports our schedules how we're
grouping adults um things like that a little brain laps there with those two so but that's what that one like we're looking at what we're doing with our counseling program this year and some other things within that program so um that's just another Pro uh project that we have to advance that work and then
finally our 12- month staff on boarding process so this was one we worked on last year and we'll continue this year um to really exper improve the experience of new staff as they enter our system not just now in August as we'll have many new teacher new staff start but we have teachers um custodians
be professionals and so on Who start throughout the year and how do we make sure that that's what overseen lless and valued experience for them to to help them transition into their new roles so um I'll hand this over now our next two anchors um Erica and will get each of
the projects in those um I'm just going to give you a brief overview of three of the projects on here and then I'll have you um the first project under Communications and connections is called enhance communication of individual student learning progress success and
support because we were trying to have the longest project name ever um but if you recall we had um a project last year around deepen family Communications and connections and we made a lot of really great progress um one of the things we did was really
create um really a year-long view of our Communications and continuous Communications we made a lot of great um inroads with that and I think we're looking now we want to focus on that again and try how do we create that as part of just how we do business like
just our standard work that we don't have to think about it too much that it's just a natural part of who we are and then how do we look at those structures tools resources to really get at hearing more about your individual student how are they doing the where are
they excelling where might they need a little more support so that those are not just a few moments in time throughout the year but um are more frequent and um Quality information and partnership with um parents and Guardians um the second project is enhance the experience of our students
and families you might think oh well we should be doing that all the time and yes we should um and last year we had a project to study um some specific areas of um our experience for our customers our students and families um and after doing some of that learning work and
looking more deeply we really thought we had some opportunities as we've defined more what we think the experience should be um how are we really clear with all of our staff and their individual roles about how they can specifically deliver that experience that we desire for
everyone so we're going to be doing some work around that and then um the last one I'm going to talk about is the last one on the dop it's upgrade SLP schools website um and while our website is still highly functional um it was built on
technology that is now six years old so we it's time for a te it's like dog years right um it's time for a technical upgrade to the site and we know that will um provide a lot of enhancements to the user experience um so we we're going to take our time with this because we
can we have the luxury of of doing that um so we're looking at right now A launch time um next spring sometime but we did start that work last May with some um user input um and we're just now looking at site Maps and things like
that all right um I will uh hop back up to that second bullet enhanced counseling and personalized planning so the good news is that as we look to other high schools we actually have some really positive things in place with our counseling and personalized planning um
some of those scheduled proactive oneto ones um the work in this project as we go into this year really deepens that strength and then specifically Focus as focuses on enhancing those onetoone experiences at the secondary level um you we say we want to know kids by name
strength interest and need we see that come to life in all sorts of ways and um we want to tailor this experience even further um so that we provide more support and um whatever scaffolding uh kids and families need as they look to take that next step um both Westwood and
the high school uh took some time this spring to just revisit what's our current reality around counseling and designed some enhancements to that so the project also this year will focus on um giving whatever supports those two schools need to implement that at a deep
level okay um support student attendance and an enriching learning environment is the next project in our Communications and connections so after the or over the last couple of years as you know we've had a a district operational plan project focused on student attendance as
we came out of the pandemic and ever since then so two years ago just a quick reminder we redesigned our approach to student absences and last year's project was around a really strong monitoring implementation of that approach this year we'll keep working making sure that
our kids are at school um those students who are absent from school and we're also um expanding it to include uh what we're calling absent at school right meaning students are here they're in the school building and are physically present um but are less engaged in that
learning community Okay so so through this work we'll also um weave in aspects of uh creating a learner centered environment which is work that we do all the time but real intentional about those connections that uh really focuses on creating that sense of belong
belonging and kids seeing me meaning and value so they're compelled to want to be here and fully engaged in that learning community okay that brings us to the Anchor of engaged enthusiastic Learners uh the
first uh two projects you see there uh under the Strategic anchor focus on uh continuing to support our teachers in the design of engaging student work and learning experiences at the elementary level that E6 just a reminder e in this
case stands for Early Childhood or Early Education okay um it's really aligned with the reading professional learning that's required through the read act what we did there is we intentionally merged the learning on the science of teaching reading which was part of that
requirement with a um and we merged that with a focus on student engagement so that we're getting to an approach that really looks at staff needs on the teaching of reading and student needs the work that we're giving them to engage them in it okay um by doing that
we really I mean we believe that we're going to see different results for kids as we give them the foundational skills they need to be successful in Reading both in early Elementary and throughout at at the secondary level regardless of subject area elementary we're focusing more on literacy but at secondary for
all subject areas we're working with teachers on the design of work that is provided to students okay so students want work that they see as meaningful that they hold value in um you know as they as they think about their time in SLP and Beyond at that secondary level
and that really helps them stick with the learning even when it gets tough when we're challenged by it okay so again as a result the goal would be that they're learning at Deep levels not just to spit information back on a test but be able to take that information and apply and transfer it to other areas of
life okay we actually spend a little bit more time even than that shortly in the presentation specific to those two projects um next you'll see study K12 social studies so the latest revision of the social studies standards was approved um this last spring and we need
to move to full implementation by the end of 2627 so we need to get a start on it because it usually takes us a couple of years to go through that cycle and speaking of that we will follow our typical continuous um Improvement curriculum continuous Improvement cycle
which I believe at this point you all could probably draw the circle that goes through all of those right um but this first year will'll just spend looking in out and around like we typically do that will result in a social studies instructional framework that will guide the teaching practices within social
studies and then the following year the potential of new core resources depending upon your that uh last on that you'll see continue study and implementation of multilingual learning opportunities this was a project this past year we engaged in learning work around best practices in
programming for multilingual Learners that includes here in SLP our immersion programming Our World Language programming our courses at the secondary and our programming for all of our students identified as English Learners so this year we're taking everything we learned last year and moving it toward
implementation it includ some refinements to instructional Frameworks for those areas that already exist and ensuring that teachers are really thinking about um uh High leverage engagement strategies that explicitly focus on scaffolding language acquisition for our
kids all right so this image is familiar to all of you as we think about our core work and Innovative and personalized learning and this um obviously continues to be a focus for us and the two projects specific to deepening student engagement
rely on the foundational work that has been done within each of these core components of innovative and personalized learning so it's not anything new or different it builds on the foundation that we've sent set we've been working um again over this last number of years to have each of those
four components largely in place is implementation perfect nope not at all but we have all of those things in place and we see the building on that year over-year um this creates the condition for us to really focus on the work we're designing for our students and making sure again
it meets the needs interests and motives of them so just very briefly um I know you're familiar but anyone who might be watching or listening just going through each of those four components in a sentence or less right Competency Based learning you'll see that on the left
this approach to learning is grounded in what we expect students to know and be able to do both within academic areas as well as career and life competencies um this approach really just looks at student evidence of that learning over time of how they're applying that learning in ways that are meaningful and
relevant to them okay learner profiles really this helps us get a full picture of our Learners who they are the progress they're making in their learning the as their aspirations for the future and aspects of the learning that motivate them and help them learn at Deep levels learner Maps is next and
uh it is what you think a map provides a variety of routes to take to get from one place to another and that's what our lar m do for our students um we know there are many routes to learning and uh it might be a combination of teacher design learning student design learning or what we call that co-created
co-design between teachers and students um in addition to that we have targeted learner maps that document student progress for students who um need additional supports to make sure that they're making progress over time finally flexible learning environments it helps us think differently about how we use time uh time resources human
resources and Financial Resources All In support of student learning so we intentionally think about how we group adults Jeff mentioned this earlier how we group students how we use time um throughout the school day and Beyond and the use of space knowing that we believe
learning can happen outside two covers to a book four walls to a classroom and six periods of a day all right so seeing as though this is our big area Focus I just wanted to take a tiny bit more time to talk about those two engagement projects both of
these projects again bring together the four components of innovative and personalized learning and the work we have done and continue to do with theti center around student engagement so as you all are aware we're providing more time than we ever have during the school year um to focus on designing student
work and learning experiences and we're asking this question as we work with teachers what is the work that will result in students volunteering their time and attention persisting through challenges and demonstrating proficiency on our academic and career and life competencies as I mentioned earlier our
k6 work those first two Milestones that you see focus on the interaction of literacy learning with student engagement um we have gone through all of the science of reading in past years here so the great news is that we'll be a refresher for the vast majority of our teachers and allow them then to take
that learning and apply it immediately to so if this is the learning and this is the science behind it what's the type of work that will engage kids in their reading instruction okay additionally there's a new Universal screener for literacy that's part of the react requirements that we'll be giving at K3
so all of that learning teachers will take in apply it um in a way um that hopefully the goal would be engages students highly in their reading instruction okay if you skip to the last Milestone on the slide that's specific to grades 72 our secondary and we'll be
working with our teachers um as designers of learning and to be clear this work isn't about making individualized lesson plans for each student that's not what this work is about it does mean though that as we look at our Learners and who they are we have to customize and shape the work and
learning experiences to respond to the needs of different groups of students um for both Early Childhood through 12th grade I think it's important to note that we are going to rely on our teachers to help us design and facilitate this learning as we move throughout the year actually as we've
started in the summer we have a group of teachers at all levels early childhood k6 and 72 12 who are getting a head start on the learning and the application of that learning and they'll share their experiences with colleagues and bring them along on the learning and they'll help us design that professional
learning for their colleagues so those two Milestones kind of tucked in the middle there I want to just reference it gets a little bit into the technical work that we're doing that backend work but um I think it's important to make sure that our teachers have all the resources and aspects that they need to
be able to do this um with a good level of success so that's kind of hit some of that um more technical stuff that we do to support them so that is the dop in a nutshell I'm gonna hand it back to Jeff for any final thoughts
here do you want to go backwards no trying to go to the next one here we go went all the way there we go all right so one of the things that we do have to say you'll appreciate this is this meets the
Minnesota of education's comprehensive achievement in Civic Readiness requirement formerly called the world's best Workforce so that's the new acronym that we have CCR isn't there though um
but so this meets that and this report but this is a report we do each year anyway so it's nice that with two vers one so we beat that report and we also update you and the public on the work that we're going to be doing so this District operational plan can be found online not just this one page the one page but then for each project the
milestones and deliverables for each one of those projects if people want to dig into any of those projects more any questions I was just gonna mention what Jeff just mentioned for anybody who happens to be watching your scen a few
headlines here tonight and it's all represents amazing work but there's so much more that goes beyond that um and so if people are interested they can definitely look online because it's truly astonishing the number of things that our staff are always working on um to make school better for our kids so I
just wanted to mention that as well because it's really impressive thank so hope how does it feel that this meets the the workforce requirements I am I am not quite fluent yet in the new title of
that but I will get there and of course as we meet next month we'll provide additional information that also helps meet that requirement it's always nice when we take the work that we do every day and show how it connects to as a as a state what they're asking us to work
on and that's a good example of this we would do it regardless of a requirement so yes awesome I did want to say one thing um the personalized learning um I just want to mention that tonight
with oec here that is a perfect example of the indivi individualized personalized learning because what a lot of people don't know and I I was going to share this tonight is that um Bill nice um was nominated for an award by one of the television
stations for the work that he did he actually helped a student with an IEP go through oecc tailored the program for that individual and the mom was so ecstatic about it that she nominated him and he won the award that is the example of
personalized learning that we're doing so I just wanted to call that out that we had a great example here tonight of how that's in practice it's also a great example of when we talk about designing engaging work right when I use that students are volunteering I mean it checks the box they're volunteering their time and attention they're
persisting through challenges you heard Maria and that like we like we worked and worked and worked on this right um and it results in meaningful learning experiences that they can transfer outside of four walls to a classroom I mean I think it's a it was it was well
right it's a really good living breathing example of what we mean around that um designing work for engagement bill could meet the requirements for EMT and EMR Etc in a much more traditional you know two books to the
cover or you know walls to the room six periods a day kind of instruction but he makes it meaningful and relevant extending the learning outside of the school but also bringing all kinds of community experts into the school so that it's it's taking that that next step it's it's a great example it
wouldn't have to be the vibrant program that it is but it's a vibrant program because it's really looking at how can we make this meaningful relevant in real world thank you um moving to overview of start to the 2024 2025 school year all right so
in a few weeks we're going to have um um 6,000 kids come running through our doors with excitement well many of them will be and you know that's one our vision is to get get them there but that doesn't happen um just by opening the doors on Labor Day right so there's a
lot of work that happens throughout the year to get to that point um so it's nice to give you we'll give you a picture kind of a staff timeline at the start of the year and then a student timeline at the start of the year so um we're not even going to go back to the work with some of that work that hope just highlighted that was taking place back in April May and June but on July
30 first we had a teacher facilitate teacher facilitator um training for Innovative and personalized learning hope reference that where we had I know know approximately 3712 teachers in that day where they were getting some initial learning around um designing engaging
work and um helping then to design the learning that will that will happen with um our secondary teachers throughout the year on August 6th and 7th we had a district leadership team and principal Retreat over those two days and on August 8th we had school leadership team Retreat so principals and their some of
their teacher leaders were in um for that day getting ready for what will take place this week later this week is our school of learning in equity team Retreat so that's about um I don't know depending on the school anywhere from six to 12 teachers we'll come in and work with the principal associate principal um our instructional coaches
at the elementary and secondary level who are in the school leadership team really getting ready for Workshop week in the start of the year um in between when all staff return for the workshop week we do have our new employee welcome and orientation next week and that's always exciting August 19th to 21st so a
lot of support for uh our new employees not just our teachers that's all of our new staff who have been hired over the summer um positions that come in for those days then all staff will return for Workshop week the 26th to the 30th um and then that staff kickoff the big kickoff where everybody comes together
um at the Fine Art Center that you're all invited to is on the 26th this year it's on a Monday instead of a Tuesday it's traditionally on a Tuesday but we do have a chance to uh the speaker that we had was available on Monday the speaker that we'll have she is a former national teacher of the year who will be speaking to our staff so we're
excited to hear from her and then kicking off school on September 3rd so that's kind of the staff timeline then the family timeline so June and July and I'll hit the numbers a little bit we had excellent participation in summer school this year happen in June and July um August 7th our districtwide school year
kickoff message launched um this week There's welcome letters being sent home from schools in the mail and email so it starts to feel real to the kids and parents yeah so it starts to feel real August 20th to the 22nd is Kinder camp we started doing that a few years ago to
uh great success really helping with the Readiness and kids launching that the start of their uh school years with us um and then Wednesday school newsletters begin on August 21st so families will begin they'll get it every Wednesday then well almost every Wednesday There's
a couple Wednesdays that we we take off um but through June almost every Wednesday they'll be getting newsletters U meet and greet events that each of our schools on the 27th and 28th then that September 3rd is the first day of school it's uh for grades K to 8 Lighthouse and all of our grade nine students so our 10
12 students um will then start on the 4th and then throughout September and October that and that will be communicated through newsletters each of our schools will have some family curriculum experiences to learn about what students will engage with throughout the year so that's kind of a
family timeline from June to September October yep can you just uh how many new teachers SL employees just round ballpark um Tony do you have up
yeah is that pretty typical yeah yep it's been pretty much the same every year and that is kind of it for the start of the Year some the key events so I mean the total staff is what we
District out 800 plus yeah 840 okay 840 yeah 840 just wanted to say that to put it in perspective yeah so so it doesn't seem like we have this Mass turnover yeah no yeah yeah any questions other
questions comments All Right Moving to effective operations improve our effective management of human financial and physical resources uh Miss Amy Schultz welcome all right good evening um it was fun to listen to Bill present that today
I had a niece that actually went through the program for a couple of years and is now going into her sophomore year in college and got accepted to the nursing program so it was a great program she loved it and it taught her a lot so I got to see all the engaged enthusiastic learning whenever she'd want to like
take her blood pressure or do something like that so um now on to numbers so this is U the time of year where we will present tonight we do not come back and do a June report so this is the last one you'll see until we come back in October
um really because June is our year rent and so for the next couple of months we're really going to focus on wrapping up the school year and there's a whole lot of entries that happen that move things around between funds and so we just want to make sure we'll hold off on June and come back and start presenting again in October so with that tonight's
Treasures report uh you can see we went up about $5 million in I'm sorry in May um um with that is the dispersements were really not that different than most months however on the receipt side about $7 million in state aid which is kind of right in the middle but we also have
about $4 million in property taxes so it's one of our higher amount um months for that and then in addition to that we had several just sort of random larger dollar amounts come in so one I know we've talked about to the board about it was a $500,000 grant that we got that was
reimbursing us for technology so we paid off a lease early and then got a $500,000 Grant to offset that so that came in uh the true up which is what happens apparently about two years after a fiscal year end so for the fiscal 23e
end so expenses that have happened over like between one and two years ago they just drewed that up in May so about $300,000 came in based on tuition reimbursements that they lowered since that time um and then in addition to that we had $125,000 of solar credits that got a
check for so with the solar Gardens that we have through Excel every month they generate because it's funny they generate credits and then every so often we will just receive a check for those so we receive that in may as well so that's why the receipts look a little higher than
usual and then on the statement of expenses and revenues I am really looking forward to the time that Co drops off all of these years because it makes it really hard to track year over year month over month when receipts came in um and things like that so what we're
seeing a lot is um just differences in years a lot of that is either based on when we've approved budget adjustments or when Co receipts came in um so there's nothing that stands out on either the revenue or the expense side I mean even though the percentages May fluctuate a little bit so much of that is based on
timing so on the revenue side again it's you'll see some changes in expenses or in the percentages but overall we're kind of tracking where we thought we would be for this school year um same thing on that expense side uh you'll see some expenses are higher and lower we've been talking about this
throughout the school year really in May we're still a little bit low and with some of our projects that were more facilities based that were sort of pushing back a little bit um the Park Terrace roof um the furniture There was system security projects and led a lot
of those we'll see some expenses come in in June but a lot of those will hit harder in July and August and then through this next school year so so that is what we have for May if there are any questions any
questions all right right thanks thanks Amy thank you all right moving to superintendent report okay just a few brief things to hit on um some highlights from the summer
so there it is first off we had our 3M open pickle ball attorney so it was the uh PJ tour wives Association in first team Minnesota um we hosted their charitable pickle pickleball tournament here at Spring Lake Park High School so it's kind of fun to be able to do we
always have kind of a cool partnership various things that we'll do with the three of open the week that they're here so it's F to be able to host that uh learning continues throughout the summer so Community Education offered three-day chess lessons this summer so get kids in and learning from community members like
that yeah um another Community Education class students worked in teams to design their very own escape room using some stem strategies so it's kind of fun to see over 750 kids K12 that were um
continue their learning at summer school so 240 kids spent the summer with learning Ventures child care and Discovery days so that's nearly a thousand of our students that were um at our schools quite a bit so we had 50 different enrichment opportunities that were put together for kids 31 athletic
camps and Clinics and 26 Park camps um so a lot of things going on I know there were a few days I walked into the high school and I thought it's like yeah the school in session there's so many kids here it was uh it was fun to see so many kids around the schools so and then we
have our third I think right third start year engines event so this is always fun encourage people to get out and see if there's food trucks a whole bunch of other types of trucks from throughout the the community so it's just a lot of on is put on by our Panther Foundation along with Community Ed and uh it's a
great way it's always a lot of our uh young kiddos from across the district who are there but um it's just one of the events that the panther Foundation uh really helps make happen so it's great and I think Panther Foundation helped out with um the uh getting these
kids to the international competition too so um you know it takes the community to get that kind of experience it doesn't just happen here at school so the panther Foundation helped make that happen helping me get those kids there so so that is
it all right thanks Jee any questions or comments for Jeff all right moving on to action items adopt proposed policy modific modifications can I get a motion move by
henon second by Schmidt to approve the adoption of the following policies with proposed modifications um there's 20 policies that are listed um and just a reminder for the school board that the policies we have a we have a policy policy 208
that if a policy is modified with minor uh changes that do not affect the substance of the policy that um we can just approve it through um a motion or if it's legal change yes thank
you some are yeah they yeah they are all right um any questions or all in favor please say I I okay motion passes moving on to acknowledgement of
gifts can I get a motion so moved so moved by Scully second by Schmidt to approve the following resolution whereas Schoolboard policy 706 establishes guidelines for the acceptance of gifts to to the district and whereas Minnesota statute
4650 .03 states that a school board May accept a gift of real or personal property by the adoption of a resolution approved by two-thirds of its members therefore be it resolved that the school board of Spring Lake Park schools
accepts with appreciation the gifts as shown any discussion like to say thank you to the community there there always very gracious and in their giving to the districts and so we appreciate that I said districts but District sorry
schools district yeah schools district got her can you call R yes yes yes M SMI yes m h yes
Mr Easter yes the new resolution is adopted on a 70 vote thank you moving to board Forum anything on this side I know it's better oh we appreciate you
too how about on this side any same Mike got you covered um they did a survey through a group called kry at the
University of Minnesota and lots of things it was about uh satisfaction student and families um one of the interesting things that came out of that was uh something in work was transitioning
students from 916 back to their home districts and there aren't a lot of students who our transition but that was not real smooth so that's something that's going to be need to work be worked on then I was at summer seminar
um which was talking about boards and policy and how that influences what happens at schools and um just a few highlights of that a person named Dr Gore told um a number of stories but in
students in Texas they don't have problems with student attendance because secondary students who don't attend are put into a facility and elementary
students who don't attend their parents are put in a facility it seemed a bit harsh to me but I understand that's what goes on in Texas uh a doctor's son
Sam came with the premise that all kids are brilliant and he was an interesting speaker his parents and I I couldn't quite get the sequence of their family but his parents were one
of the last to get out of Cambodia before Paul pot and they watched one child die of starvation while they were still in that and then there appears to be two other children and he was the younger of the
two and the oldest one was really a good student in school but he was viewed as being the dumb kid and eventually he saw a movie that had a lot of break dancing in it and he and budy decided Well that that was
something they could do and joined a club and that club encouraged them academically and now of course he's a PhD but his his message was that if you
can give kids something that is of interest to them then School becomes much more meaningful and I sat there kind of proud because we've done so much work on personalized
learning and getting to know kids and all of those things and sometimes I go to these things and I would encourage other of you to go because you come back feeling really good about spring he
Park um we've had good boards boards that have been supportive of proposals and I don't think that can be diminished in any way the other two items that were
um of interest to me the mc4s are coming out and they have less rigor than the mc3rs so we'll have to see how that affects our scores and in policy statements you know
usually there's something purpose at the beginning that is not part of the legal verbiage of a policy that can changed and adapted to individual school districts I didn't know that Marilyn real quick can you can for
those maybe not familiar with what MC3 and mc4 are can you describe that real quick well I'll do the state tests that kids take in the spring and we compare but we never get results back in a timely manner so um we do other
types of testing along the way that kids know almost from week to week what their progress is so but those are the state tests to get published in the newspaper I'm listening to you tell that story about that speaker at the meeting
that you were at reminded me of when I was at the sports meeting for Addie and volleyball and Will said he had a presentation that he had the list of everything that we have to offer for extracurricular stuff for kids said if
you don't see something out here that you want let me know and we'll make it like we'll make it happen you know that goes back to what Jeff has always said since I've known him that each kid needs to have a place where they feel that they belong and we all have different
ideas you know of what that is and what that looks like so I appreciate that well I I just have to compliment all of you because this has been a very very good board which has supported a lot of the ideas that come through by way of
Staff but also we've had some very good Administration with lots of vision and so a superintendent it started with Dr helmstead and has continued through Dr rber and U so we have I think we are
just a really really good school district and and my thanks and my accolades to you and your staff oh I could not have picked a better segue M into
my into into what I want to share um I also want to thank the board for taking the time this summer to uh fill out the superintendent evaluation and return those and I'm proud to say that um uh superintendent rondberg you are highly
appreciated um the board thinks very highly of you and and the cabinet that you've created and the direction the school district is going so nothing but accolades and high praise for the work that you do and uh the board is just
very appreciative of your work so thank you very much thank you great as Marilyn said so I don't have to repeat I've got a 10-minute prepared speech about it I'm just okay all right moving on to Clos
session can I get a motion so so moveed by forsberg second second second by Vala to enter into Clos session to discuss employee negotiations all in favor please say I I motion passes
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