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e e e e e e are we all set okay the time is 6:30 I would like to call this regular Board of Education meeting to
order the first item on our agenda is the roll call for those or Board of Education members who are pres present trusty Goodridge would you perform the roll call please certainly Madame President trusty Fields here trusty gainsley here trusty Townsen here trusty
goodr I am here vice president Lee here president Hawkins I am here we have six Board of Education members present and one who is absent next that takes us to the Pledge of Allegiance if we can invite everyone who is present to join us in reciting the
pledge 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 liy and justice for all
next that takes us to the acceptance of the agenda is there a motion to accept the agenda as presented Madame President trusty Fields move at the Board of Education accept the agenda as presented thank you a motion has been made by truste Fields is there a support for
this motion support vice president Lee thank you supported by vice president Lee all those in favor I those opposed that motion carries next that takes us to an action item under student
affairs which is the acceptance of a field trip for GLC program to Toledo Ohio on July 30th 2024 is there a motion at this
time Madam president trusty Fields moved at the Board of Education approved a field trip for the grizzly learning cap EO program to the Toledo Zoo in Toledo Ohio on July 30th 2024 thank you a motion has been made by
trusty Fields is there support for this motion support vice president Lee thank you supported by vice president Lee is there any discussion on this item is this the trip that we approved before or is this
different no this is for Grizzly learning camp for our multilingual population okay any other comments or questions all those in favor those oppose that motion carries
next that takes us to our first presentation for this evening which is our reveal math presentation at this time I would like to turn it over to Dr Zachary Ross thank you U Madam president I'm shortly Dr Lopez will come and share
with you about the process that this um our wonderful group of Educators went through to um come to this conclusion of adoption we know that we adopted the English language arts curriculum a few years ago the process was very similar
um you'll have as Dr Lopez is coming up you have a lot of supporting documents he just wanted to make sure that you had them but be clear he's not going through all of the supporting doc doents today but he's going to give the purpose of why they were um presented because we
know anytime there's a significant um purchase in terms of for uh one of our core curriculums it takes the collaboration of our staff members and that feedback and we wanted you to see the rubrics and what they used um for
the evidence the other thing is to note that um this we're asking for recommendation and to look at it um and some early thinking about approvals knowing that part of this is in that plan with with treasury that we have a
meeting coming up is it this week this week with them so we've been waiting um but we didn't want to wait if there's an opportunity for the board to see the information that the teachers have been working the teachers have really put in this work and so we we understand if you
look at funding pending some of that because that's part of that requirement on student achievement and that was one of the big areas our teacher said we've dealt with English language arts what are we going to do with math so that's kind of the why behind all of it Dr Lopez well good
evening um um president Hawkins and Bo trustee um you know this was a labor Jo of of a lot of work from our staff during um the month of May we I was able to um work with the building leaders and instructional coaches to identify a pool
of teachers who were mathematically inclined who really wanted to do this work and that meant that they had to walk out of their classrooms and be here for six six almost seven days right but I would say to you I want to thank them first for their commitment because they understood from the get-go that the sacrifice they're going to make would be
to adopt a or not adopt bring to the school board a recommendation of the best program for our children okay so today I would like to discuss the the different documents that are in front of you first of all I want is a document that has names of the teachers it does not include all the names of the
instructional coaches because we had instructional coaches we had I I had invited um Janina Harris because I don't know if you knew but in the past she was she her background is mathematics and she's been very instrumental with the radio program over at the uh middle school but not I didn't bring her for
that I brought her because I needed if all these students are feeding into the middle school I want to make sure that we were looking at a Kate um K pie program to really bring materials you know kids prepare for the middle school and I invited a Heather kho from the ISD
she's the math consultant from the ISD and she was part of the process because want to be very collaboratively in that process you see the names of the teachers who really uh made this possible for us today u in front of you you also have a copy of the following documents you have a copy of the survey
which is the grade five K5 mathematic textbook adoption for many of you who who were with worked with me five years ago with the hmh um curric adoption is the same kind of a document that we used before and this document really
identified what we at at at ycs working together uh the first thing that the teachers did is made a list of all of the mathema all the things that they liked about the program Everyday Math what was really very beneficial to the students and what was not based on that
we identify went through this survey you look at that there's categories in there and so from taex selections to Etc so take a look and this document pretty much cover the work that was done by the teachers this group the first piece of work that did they did is review this create this document this is the
document we sent to all the four vendors and it and made them create a document the document over about 150 pages from these vendors but it get provided us a lot of the questions that our people our teachers had about the program and what they were looking for from culture
responsive to inquiry math to to whatever they identify formative assessment learning targets what they wanted to see in in a very effective kpi math program for our children so that this is a very amazing tool developed by the team and they spent a lot of time on
this and and and for it really resulted in great results for us the as you notice the teacher selection was very very uh rigorous because we wanted to make sure that we wanted people who are going to stay throughout the whole journey because we needed them to be in all the sessions the other thing that I
want to identify is the K5 uh group I want this said their curriculum team they came here to to identify and then finish that survey they also identified this document at the end of the work they created a document and and that was
the last day they seven was when they sit and they identify a K5 implementation how we we implement the first year so there is a pre-lunch things that we would do from June 1st through August 19th before we do a launch the launch
then would happen at 8:21 when the teachers all come in and all kpi teachers will come together and they'll be receiving the first training in professional development in in every in um ma in in the mathematical program and then what would it look like for the
whole year of implementation and the kinds of training we would be doing monthly and B monthly um throughout the year and then a a program for year two through year five of fully implementing so this you have this doc it walks you how thorough this team was in this work
again and this is teacher supporting teachers and developing this very comprehensive looking at all components the process was also very very I I want to share this out the document because within this document are all the links so every document that was designed and what we reviewed what we talked about
there were honest conversations among voice choice and agency is very important and our teachers uh voice choice and agency need to be in the decision making of any curriculum that we Implement F further in this District along with that you also receive this other document that's
called the curriculum selection process and in there it gets you not only the documents but what happened on each of the days thoroughly on each of those days so that you see what actually what the work that was done and accomplished there were signing sheets there were
work that we set to debrief so we reflected people took work home to review materials that just so that very clearly so you can see in depth it went beyond that very quickly um a copy of the
K5 materials that that we the the the textbooks that we Rie the companies that we riew review imagine elusa math um from imagin learning we review hmh into math um and I can see it right here I let's go back there well we wanted very
clearly was that we wanted a program that really looked at math practices the math essential and the ma mathematical academic standards this was a non-negotiable for every educator that was here and they really wanted this into every any decision making we wanted
along with that they wanted a a a math program that really supported our tier systems of support and to make sure that it was aign to support our students initiatives a little bit further they wanted to a program that really provided voice choice and agency for students as
well as for teachers uh the pro these were other comp importance that you saw that in the materials you received about what they were looking for uh it was nonnegotiable they want High rigorous engaging they wanted a mathematical uh account they wanted to make sure that
it's preparing teachers for success in this program this is the process that I just went through and I'm going to go quickly and then this is the survey and these are the top some of the top that was on there a lot of the stuff also came a lot of the choices also came from
what the board had identified previously when we were doing everyday math or uh hmh to identify some things that culture like acable practices make sure that those were embedded in the math program uh formative assessments align you know these things that are non-negotiable to
any curriculum when you click on the blue and your document you could see that that the tool and everything that's there that is that tool that you have here's what we found so when we were're looking at imagine um illustrative math you see all the things on the on the
side these were the strength but then we identify the areas of weakness one of the problem that happened with um this particular program is that it's still in development so when we were reviewing materials we were reviewing material old materials that they inherited and now
that we're talking about implementing the challenge is that we would not have these materials ready for the fall and we were concerned because we are not only just buying online product we want our students need consumables and so the the shortage of not having those materials even though we love the do3 level you
know that knowledge of and the the materials itself what we were able to evaluate and look was not sufficient for us to make a good decision and based on the recommendation from the ISD as well was be careful to adapt the program that's not fully implementation because
you're not going to get all the pieces and so that was what so this is not a program that the group felt very comfortable uh bringing forward to you the second program is hmh into math we currently have this program in our online school but the challenges that
the group this group felt when they were reviewing they they identify that they they really do always like the color coding and the and the that the hmh has and how to break down their their Etc their materials they like the exit
tickets the anchor charts because they're familiarized with the into into literature Etc but the one thing that was really disappointing is that it was overwhelming with a lot of stuff and very difficult to navigate so they took it home and play with it it was just
overwhelming their concern for them is that a brand new teacher will find it very difficult to navigate this curriculum and become overwhelming really fast uh and there were some materials that that were just peace meal but not very connected so the recommendation with them was this is not
going to work for us especially we start a teacher midy year and so that was the concern we wanted to make sure if a teacher comes mid year and the teach teacher left here can a teacher pick up one with that you not start again do you feel mean that's very crucial for our kids um then we went and we had exper we
we had experienced math from saas and they came and they presented we love their materials we love what we saw online but they don't have those materials printed or developed yet and their perspective was we'll have it for you but in
2025 uh I'm sitting back uh what do we do from here to December do do you follow me online totally that would be overwhelming for our teachers and staff and we went back and forth we we liked the components of the program but but it was just not I mean really physically I
don't know how we deal it okay so teacher said no and we got to listen okay and so the next one we had the fortune to uh uh review uh mcro Hill reveal mathematic which was published in
2022 and th this program really kind of resonated right away with the teach because when you open the lesson plan structures and whatever everything that that we value as a as a district here it's in there and it's so easy for teachers to navigate and it's very
flexible because it does um when you're looking at K5 um inquiry mathematics it allows you that you even if you went to a traditional approach you're still teaching those practices and if you are very completely off handson project base you could do that as well so the
flexibility is there for both ends so teachers like that a lot the the data there was a lot of data from other districts this is the only program that really showed us that how they have really changed systems in other District this District similar to ours and how
they change better and so uh economically uh and so these were the the limitation was that at certain times with the with this type of Inc math is very wordy but you follow me but it was not too wordy as that crazy but it was
just enough that the students could handle it the the the the parents the teachers had concerns because the student the family connections were all built within the students you got to go into the students account to get access to the parent and normally they like the parents to have their own but I kind of
like that because it allows parents to see what the kids are doing you understand so that was kind of to me why they did it is to protect students you know Etc and the only people who could get there would be the parents of those children so I thought that that was a good uh safety meas but uh the other
thing that our team concerned was that there were these videos but there were so many videos that we couldn't take a look if all the videos were all just um uh not culturally appropriate you thought me representing our children that kind of thing so but on the other hand you'll see later on that the
inquiries there so so you can see there were a lot of strength a lot of strength a lot of and then um with the with the with Alec there was one component of this program that has Alec if we were down go down this route we would not need to purchase Imagine
Learning because Alec is like uh Imagine Learning on steroid it is actually showing a lot of results so when we got to the space then I asked Nina to share information about the reveal program because we piloted in the middle school
this last year and I didn't want it to skew anybody so we never talked about that until after everybody kind of narrowed down to this then we presented because I think it's very uh we got to be very transparent with people and not
persuade people into one way or the other so then I wanted to show you what happened with our data this year with the middle school so Nina presented this document as you can see is cohort so our sixth graders that were here with us
last year in mathematics had a 33% but with one year reveal in seventh grade they were at 54% you and then the seventh graders the cohort that was uh 2023 spring had 48%
and by the using reveal math was the 63% when they were in eth grade when you look at across from year to year 33% in sixth grade last year compared to 70 that was 37% grow you follow me so you
see that there's big significant gains that we were able to see and this is a pilot year this is not even teachers fully going full fors so I just wanted to share this because I think it's important to see um that we already know
this information that our demographic is growing I think each of all of us know that our bilingual Stu e student population is growing in the district you follow me and so uh so why uh reveal math and I'm gonna go really quickly this is why number one is built on the
science of learning and the and hits all see all the things on the side you have heard me talk about rigor learning Target formative these things are basically so aligned with us that it felt like for the teachers felt like right this makes sense because it's what we live in hmh and Science and whatever
it is we're doing it is each unit is aligned in this format it's laid out with a lunch and explore and develop a practice and reflect assess and differentiation it's very easy to navigate and and has all the pieces that we say tier one ambitious teaching
performative assessment with tier two three year supports right the equity work showed up in this way so we found that a lot of it pro promotes that productive struggle the social emotional learning the Met recognition student
agency and voice discourse so really the cultural piece that I like is the rigor to make sure that students are being exposed to Great mathematical practices at all point in time you understand and supporting our children that to me was the strength of this equity in our
Equity program because most math don't have a lot of pictures of kids you follow me just mathematical things so um and then student agency you know how we always talk about student agency voice and a uh student voice choice and agency this is heavy with that with student
discourse and classroom language discourse and language and a lot of student discourse so that means students spend a lot of time doing a lot of talking having you know heavy um navigating the dialogue making sense sense making so in since the students
are really doing that mathematical fluency so the kids are developing through Alec through the tools Etc um great fluency in mathematics Etc but it's also very mindon and very increas so the students are really thinking and
navigating much more than traditional mathematics so in essence they're enhancing their skills the instructional routine you know how we Havey with blueprint with instructional routine it is so totally aligned to our routines that we have that is just uh frightening but nonetheless student routines are
there making sense of routines and these pieces are there as well it's adapted the alect math for example is very adaptive with uh AI tools and in essence is it it really aligned to the NWA because they are aligned there Alec is
totally aligned with the NWA so it's it's all like a marriage in heaven kind of a perspective that's why we were able to see gains in the middle school because it's so totally align with everything we're doing and and so I we're um and I want to say at this
moment in time then that's when I asked uh the NW uh the Heather kho who is responsible for mathematics throughout the entire wasal County and all the districts and then she um Shar with everybody that in almost every school
that's using reveal math scores that up in in a county and so the people who have been embedding to that is really showing great progress in kp5 68 Etc so it's I think a lot of it is duee to this that inperson training online training anytime training they're willing to
support teachers at every level come in and so there's Partnerships that the ISD will support us with uh including uh the hiring of a k five coach that's will be working with us as well okay the plan is there as you can see and then uh why Ral
math that these are I think the last thing for me is high quality instruction with high professional development and Powerful Insight creates our vision for growth for every K five students in mathematic that here at ycs so I think
what questions might you ask yes um thank you Dr Lopez as always you know really appreciate that presentation and I think the the first thing that I always you know when it comes to adopting new curriculum the the question that always Rises to the top is how have our staff been involved in
selecting this and so I really appreciated getting the information and knowing that we had you know so much work go into the selection um I uh and I also really appreciate what the outcome was um I had had some some biases I was pretty excited about illustrative math but I know that they're pretty far
behind and so I think that it was just so important for our Educators to have that input in terms of what it really looks like to implement in the district um and I appreciate you sharing the data um from the Middle School um I guess my uh my only question I I I appreciated
what you kind of shared at the end uh about the um how other districts and have adopted this across the county and and have had success with it um I'm curious um both if that is you know if you have any a
little bit more detail on what kinds of results they've been seeing um and then also I'm curious whether um there's an opportunity to build like a community of practice with some of those other districts thank you for saying that gu that's exactly why we engage Heather kho
because she's she is right now there's a consultant that lives in um in the Plymouth camp area who actually is working with all the districts and and so we're going to partner with that individual we wrote it into one of the grants that we're waiting for for supporting um but the
perspective is working with her um the kinds of result we've been seeing 30 points higher than the year before in any almost every District yeah in other District uh in the 30 30 points High whatever no different than what we saw in the middle school and so her whole
perspective is that that is very rare first year of implementation so can you mention the following year when you when you do it so in essence but she see seen that in the county and so and so we are she already established a network between districts and our teachers will
be able to particip B that Network because really what we're trying to develop is that community of growth for teachers and supporting our teachers too um so we're using the same Consultants that will support the teacher by going into the classroom and supporting teachers in real person time are you able to share what company that
consultant is it's called sis I have a I have a no I know her that's who I thought you were talking about that's great yeah she's very highly recommended by every every place I have not met her yet but I've just it's we'll talk after okay cool she's great okay cool and and she did mention that she helped
participate the materials also all the Michigan Learning Channel content is was made by her so okay yeah so that that that and then those supports they were also incorporating that as we work with her that we will be a that she would be able to help our teachers to be utilizing these supports in the classroom and that
was inscied thank you for bringing it up yeah because I forgot yes trust um also EA thanks for all of the the data that you shared um I I'm really excited I I'd love to see I want to see these sorts of numerosity
skills in the students coming into my college classroom I'm really excited to see us approaching mathematical instruction this way and uh having this level of focus on um appropriate differentiation and productive struggle is is really exciting um
I am thrilled to see the kinds of professional development support that are available um I don't know if you have any feedback from other districts that have adopted this but I know how critical it is that we have ongoing support available when we often have teachers joining us mid year and we want
this to be accessible and successful for them um if you I guess how much have you had a chance to see what that that sort of uh UND demand professional development support looks like and how has that worked in other places yeah so right now
what what what has f is that they are willing to come in and like they've done with every other school district and work on with the staff provid US ongoing professional development but then if we could get the consultant that I'm thinking about that was highly recommended then that person's closer
you follow me she could come in and really work with our teachers and support them in real time in front of them because I rather have somebody that we could call you follow me and can build that relationship Lincoln has been doing that now with her for about a year
and they the teachers uh in K five have really emed embed the mathematical most most teachers in K5 are literacy oriented they do try away from math so to build that teacher capacity they contracted with her and his Lincoln has
had great results do you follow me as well so I know that once she gets in here she'll love our teachers are I mean our teachers are just CHP um thank you for that so much uh I also noticed you you mentioned one of the strengths of this curriculum was the um the the
physical artifacts and the consumables um and I noticed one of the highlighted questions was about whether when it might be possible to actually acquire the materials um do you have a sense at this point of what the time frame might be like for actually having those
manipulatives and things so like like alen sakur said all of this is pending do follow me the funding so as soon as that funly they're ready to go I mean they're ready to get us open and everything else they they know that they're waiting for for
you know the funding so as soon as we could identify the funding then um quickly um just to be very C I want to share a little things was there was a a teacher from homes Elementary who was here who was part of the selection committee it was so amazing because they
brought so much many copies of each she took every second grade and put in her trunk and all her all the teachers are working in the summer trying to develop those you me so to me you see people that fired up you mean that started to to work collaboratively because of the
value of the work of the materials I think to me that's it's signs of going in the right direction so it sounds like we've we've got a a plan we're ready once the money is there and we and there no other bottlenecks in in getting those materials into teachers hands and you
take a look at the implementation I kind of worked on putting something together and these the teachers came in oh no we're not doing that we got to go deep and when you look at this this was developed by our teachers here they had a pre I had a lunch they had a pre-launch do you follow mean so and
they they're they are committed to helping to do the professional development in the fall awesome and I just want I thanks to those teachers I know how hard it is to step out of your classroom and put time into this and also how incredibly important it is for all of our students thank
you madam president yes vice president Lee thank you thank you Dr Lopez and thank all the teachers and everybody that committed to this project um I just want to say all right so if we
accept this curriculum and it's we're going to accept this it's like a six-year curriculum for 343,000 plus dollars
okay say like in a year or two curriculum change and we have to add something to it CU you know sometimes that
happens so what what do we do if that happens and we have to add another piece to this curriculum and how much say it cost like another
$300,000 plus then what will we do you see what I'm saying yeah and normally and I I agree with you 100% that's why it was so crucial that we not only look at the curriculum but we look at a curriculum that was reviewed by Ed
you know the Ed report which only reviews the rigor and identify here are your so we started with that work first I went into the their website and downloaded every K5 u inqu based program that they have and that's how we got the names it
wasn't like pullet from the from bucket these were the high the most highly rated five program or four programs that that did that and I understand where where where um what you're saying in detail but looking at what's happening
right now the standards are not goingon to this the Michigan academic standards are not going to change any day soon and I think the those are pretty solid this program is really aligned to those standards to the P math Ma mathematical practices and no matter if you in AI
world or whatever those mathematical you need to know those mathematical those practices are going to pretty much it's if you're doing science if you're doing soci it's still the same that they're not going to shift a lot so what these program has is all those pieces embedded
in there so I think that this program will live up well with the six not doesn't necessarily mean that we will not identify bringing some more resources like we do interventions and whatever I could see us bring interventions to really make sure that all students are and those don't cost
that much because it's not for every student it's for the students who need those intervention so I just think what I did like is that this program also allows you to modify the instruction to the student who struggles to the students who are extremely accelerate and other programs don't do that and
this one allows you that because you have total access to the entire curriculum okay okay and so I don't have a perfect answer but I would say to you I think the six-year commitment coming if this is being paid through treasury whatever is that you get all the
manipulatives the online licenses and that's a hmh cost us more than almost $600,000 when it was off a million by the time it was done I just think personally um this is very cheap compared to what and the materials come with it the other thing that I secure
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed because we applied for almost a one point something million dollar from the math this math grant that went out there if we get it we're spending $50,000 on math manipulators in every school through that Grant so there's
some components coming that I know that we're probably going to be beneficiary of some money coming up soon okay all right thank you thank you Dr Lopez this was a great presentation um I love all the elements
of it I only had one question and it might be premature but I'm going to ask it anyway how do you envision um and I guess along with the teachers how this curriculum will be um introduced to Road out to share with parents yeah and one
of the number one thing is that if we're going to be successful moving forward we need this year coming up we need to be investing a lot of time in building relationship with our families I think that we anything that we do moving forward if we really want to make a game
and attendance Behavior everything I think is building relationship with our families and making sure that they're at that table helping us to make good decisions on behalf of children our children lack access and opportunity they they're I know we hear all this
stuff kids are smarter today than my generation I don't mean to be devalue my generation they they have a lot coming at them and they're figuring it out and they kids that really smart is how do we get them to make better choices and
better decisions so I I would say to you as we move forward it's just building better relationship with our families about how they can support the students how they can actually and then what can we do as a school to provide if they need
tutoring for the tutoring do you follow me that there scants there for all of this stuff we have money for all these other stuff so how do we align those resources that best need the need and we need to listen to our parents our parents know their kids they know them well the other understand and we were
listening we could be working one one ACC Court to really provide the young people with the best education opportunity ever just the thought and just to follow up on that we will have to um because he talked about it has that login with the
students that will have to be worked out with making sure we got with our Tech T he has his head up he already knows I'm with them right away what is it that they're going to do the log in how do remind parents of the log in if it's the UIC
number and that's when if we get the implementation we can be able to share that out because then um they work behind the scenes with our tech department saying is the login going to be the UIC is the login going to be this so that we can not have to reset a whole bunch of passwords and things and so
that's that backend work that happened with with between Tech and curriculum department and then that's when we got to roll that out out to the parents um because that's going to be really significant as just like these other apps like how what which where's the log
in how do I have the UIC so making sure that the people if it's through the teachers do they have a master list so that they can get it out and if we need reminders what's the best way to do that so that'll go kind of goes with your question we've got to get that implementation part with the tech
department okay thank you Dr Lopez and Dr Zach Ross uh trusty feels yes kind of like that but my my question is more like and I know it's probably way ahead and I know that but we still have to think about it because I know we get a lot of Subs long-term Subs what I'm saying we have something in place for
them because we know it's kind of learning but if we get a long-term Ser who's taking over for a teacher who's out for a while of course they still the students still have to learn right they still have to get that what we have something in place for that yeah so that that's we have the instructional coaches that you greatly uh allow us to have and
so the instructional coaches will work they will all be prepared they're going to be receiving additional training and so they could upload any teachers let's say emergency sub whatever so that EV no nothing is missed right that's why we're going through this transition we want to
make sure that we if the kid if it somebody walks on this or something happens to a person and they're out somebody could pick up day too and they'll get that training and the instructional coach could go in there get them set get them prepared get them obiously speed so that they know exactly what to and the curriculum is not that
difficult because the way outline and if we have all these other better supports that coming they do and the ISD will support us with this well thank you I just you know I just know I was a sub before and sometimes if you don't give them what they need to do what they're supposed to be doing then the kids are
lost they don't get that so thank you so much next that takes us to item number six and that is a request for a close session session is there a motion at this time Madame president vice president Lee
move that the Board of Education go into close session pursuant to section 8f of the open meeting act to review the review and consider the content of an app application for
employment thank you a motion was made by vice president Lee is there support for this motion trusty Fields I support thank you supported by trusty Fields all those in favor I those opposed that motion carries the board
will go into close session at 7:09 pm and we will return to this room after the Clos session are we going into the e e e
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e e e e e go e e the time is 7:30 the board is back in Open Session that takes us to item number
eight on our agenda which is our first public comment section for this evening are there any public comment cards that have come in thank you Miss Haynes next that takes us to our consent
agenda is there a motion at this time Madame president vice president Lee move that the Board of Education approve the 1 June 3 2024 regular board meet meeting minutes
June 3 20 24 special board meeting minutes and Personnel matters as per the presented list dated 7224 new hires resignations and
retirements thank you a motion has been made by vice president Lee is there support for this motion thank you supported by trusty Fields all those in favor I those opposed the motion carries next that takes us to
um our discussion under item 10 which is the first reading of our Neola policy updates the subcommittee Met um oh goodness it was trusty good when was that I just at my notes here okay it
says on June wow Jun 11 and then we have a second one on August 5th is here y yeah second reading yeah second reading August 5th uh so we met on uh quite some time
ago and there was there was a lot for us to to go through and to discuss um I don't have an ironclad memory on every single um recommendation or adjustment but because this is our first read this just gives a board an opportunity to
take a look at I know we've all had a chance to see this ahead of time but to ask any questions or just to engage in a discussion because this will come back before us for our second read before we adopt um consider and adopt so the floor
is open for discussion I have one go ahead trust one small thing uh Madam president uh I know we spent a lot of time with these policies and just my most recent read through I found um one thing in the the package of tobacco policy so 1615 3215
4215 5512 and 7434 I know there's a lot of parallel language in there I think in 1615 we may have missed Miss
um chosen an option there is one spot let me see which paragraph it ends up in there in uh the third paragraph at the end it appears in this draft that we accepted
the last option um about use in outdoor designated outdoor areas on Saturday Sundays and after 6 PM I don't think it was our intent to accept that option and I know that in policy 90 uh 7434
we rejected the parallel language so I think it was our intent to reject that option in 1615 as well okay so we need to go back before our second reading to make sure that is corrected before it comes back before the
board the catch thank you 16 um those policies were 1615 3215 4215 and 5512 and
7434 did I miss any trusty gr Rich that's the package and it's just 1615 which is uh a brand new policy that had one piece of language that um that didn't match with what we have for 7434 yeah the one she was discussing
1615 but the one she read off those were all the policies we reviewed that Committee in our committee say that again use ofle by administrator yeah that policy we don't have that policy did the board notice anything else or have questions about any of the
polies that are under review I'll just add that I really appreciate the policy committee's work I know this is a huge um you know and of course we're on paper today so we really get to see just how much you have poured through um so I really appreciate um everyone who was involved in that it was
a very long meeting we loved [Laughter] it trusty goodr is there anything that you would add
um no I mean it I guess what I I I have a question because we went over so much in that meeting um I know that we're doing our first first read with the board here uh there are like a few small things that we changed uh where places where it
said like the the boards where it identified things as belonging to the board rather than the district I don't think they're substantive there's a lot of places where these policies are strangely written um but I don't know that they're worth going through Point by point to change um the the other
thing I since I'm immersed in this right now I appreciate the um artificial intelligence sections that have been added to um 7540 and I just appreciate where our district is with the um proactive um ethical use of AI and
having policies that leave space for that in our classrooms agree thank you trusty goodr any other board comments or any other discussion I know this is our first read so there's an opportunity for us to um if we notice anything else when it
comes back for our second reading we still have an opportunity to to make comments or make suggestions uh trusty Townsen you had something so just for clarification and things that you all have taken out in the pink are these
recommendations based on Neola or whatever we go through they sorry okay I absolutely they they mostly reflect the Neola recommendations for the update of the policy in a few places we may have also made small adjustments to language
and I think when those edits are made in board docs they also show up I don't know exactly how those get formatted um but primarily what you see are changes that were recommended by Neola except in places where we may have rejected an
option did that answer your question Rusty thwn okay thank you trusty good Rich any other discussion okay the next time this will come back before the board is at our next meeting for our second reading um that takes us now to action item number
11 under human resources which is the approval of the Reed Willis company contract is there a motion at this time Madam president trusty Fields move that the Board of Education approve the Reed Willis company contract as
presented thank you a motion has been made by truste Fields is there support for this motion trusty goodr support thank you supported by trusty Goodrich any discussion on this item see none all those in
favor I those opposed that motion carries that takes us now to our action item under business and finance which is the acceptance of the Raptor Technologies contract is there a motion at this time
um I'm sorry Madame President do you mind if I add an if sort of a point of order under Human Resources I just realized that the um I think we have another contract approval um that we that I'm not seeing in the agenda yes I was going to wait until we got through
all of the action items and then to ask the board what what they consider in addition just noticed but thank you so much okay so where are we now uh I'm talking I can move thank you uh Madam president I mov
the Board of Education accept the Raptor Technologies contract for $ 32,2 thank you a motion has been made by trusty gainsley is there support for this motion trusty fields and support thank you supported by trusty Fields any
discussion on this item see none all those in favor I those oppose motion carries now that takes us to the acceptance of the Innovative Health Care Solutions contract is there
a motion at this time Madam president trusty fields mve that the Board of Education except the Innovative healthc Care Solutions contract for $76,500 th000 thank you a motion has been made by trusty Fields is there support for
this motion support trusty Townsen thank you supported by truste Townson any discussion on this item yes can I get a little clarification on this please yes um this item is requested by
our Early Learning Centers it's one of the you can recall during Co where we were spray would spray and it would disinfect items this disinfects um the play areas that they use they can use it to disinfect their C so it's really oh I
God you here is it really is if this piece of equipment really allows for the ease and quickness um and the thoroughness of the cleaning for uh for that building but it truly is like a like a spray type
thing and it goes it disinfects up at the top and underneath those surfaces so it really um for especially our Early Learning Centers it really um is able to do even beyond what typically we can do in cleaning you want to add anything in so
they're still coming so they only doing the playground or they doing inside the school [Music] [Music] machine oh okay so this is for all the
schools like BTY for Parry yes it's for those three just those three exactly and it's paid for out of the head you're right on Target on your committee the Head Start committee so it's paid for out of that so that's why
it's for those Early Learning Centers as well okay if I don't remember this in the budget I remember this being in the budget okay I'm GNA have to look
closely and ask them about this okay all right thank you any other board questions comments a motion was made by trusty Phil supported by truste Townsen all those in favor I those
opposed that motion carries next that takes us to the acceptance of the six-year McGrath Hill inquiry math curriculum quote or reveal math for grades K through five is there a motion at this time Madam president I move that the Board of Education accept the sixe
mcra hill inquiry math curriculum quote for reveal math for grades K through 5 for $343,500 trusty Fields I support thank you supported by trusty Fields any discussion on this item I know we had a presentation but are any
questions out there before we take a vote a motion was made by trusty Goodrich supported by trusty Fields all those in favor those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to the acceptance of the year one mcra Hill empery math
professional development for revealed math for grades K through is there a motion at this time truste towns and moved at the Board of Education accept oneye mcra Hill inquiry math professional development for reveal math for grades K through five for
$22,000 thank you a motion was made by trusty Townson is there a support for this motion trusty Fields I support thank you supported by trusty Fields all those in favor um vice president do you have a
question yes please so is this a onetime professional development for a year or is this each year they get yep it so this is for year one so each year we would have to come back and as it's changed and as they
talk about okay is it that whole group is it all those three the Blended learning online we would have to come back to do the additional professional learning so just Year One in in case the program changes anyway maybe there's added maybe they've added something to their programs or something
like that that they don't have so you come back in a year that's or a new teachers and to dig deeper like we've had ongoing professional development with hmh every year because you want to continue with the implementation Mak correct okay so each year it'll be like 22 well it could be more than
22,000 is it did they give you feedback Factor year the first year is going to be the mechanical year the implementation I getting going year two on the other hand could be um more I heartart training kind of things like for example teachers may want to know
hey how do we do this the smoke group instruction a little bit more how do we do the centers those kind of things so then the teachers have that voice and Choice by saying hey we want to focus on this area in that kind of thing so really as we move forward we won't need as much because our instructional
coaches are also being trained so once they're going to be training this year they'll be able to support our teachers so then eventually we don't need them at all you follow me we will get other representation and working with the ISD we'll get that support from Heather and the ISD okay
okay thank you Dr Zachary Ross and Dr Lopez uh vice president Lee does that answer your question yes it does thank you perfect uh a motion was made by trusty towns and supported by trusty Fields all those in favor I those oppos
that motion carries excuse me bless you next that takes us to the acceptance of the Colin seals professional development contract is there a motion at this time trusty towns mooved that the Board of Education accept Colin seals professional development contract for $199,500
thank you a motion was made by trusty Townson is there support for this motion support trusty gainley thank you supported by trusty gainsley any discussion um yes please can I get a
little background on this please so this is our presenter um that we took to the US Department of Ed Under the seek Grant so the person had to be highly qualified and have their background checked in terms of their what kinds of professional development
the professional development really aligns to um the work that is doing that we are implementing that's align with our magnet grants that um can really connect the IB portions our International Balor with stem so example
his book think law it has it's about the way we think and so we're talking about Project B based learning we're talking about inquiry base and so it's helping our teachers day one um with thinking with that original keynote I know you see the the schedule with the keynote of
how are we thinking about that implementation not just okay everyone come on implement but he's bringing that in he'll will'll we'll have next if we if you approve the books they'll get um a copy of the book one of his books then
he'll work with administrators then instructional Co coaches then central office staff about how is it that this looks in terms of supporting our teachers in the classroom um about the way they think what kinds of ways when we do classroom
walkthroughs are best practices so um that's part of why they he was able to be approved by seek US Department of Ed because he can do not only a key not a keynote it's the keynote with the breakouts and the teaching about how do we look look at this implementation if
we're going to do this work and inquiry work and Project based learning we have to really think differently and that's what his work is about okay thank you thank you Dr Zachary Ross a motion was made by trusty Townsen
supported by trusty gainsley all those in favor I those oppos that motion carries next that takes us to action item number 13 uh
12 12 am I missing the page oh is that oh I see it at the bottom I apologize I missed it at the bottom thank you board members um that takes us to item 12 which is the
acceptance of the Collins book and study guide for the book is there a motion at this time Madam president I move that the Board of Education accept the purchase of Colin Seal's book and study guide for the book for $1 19,2 250 thank you a motion was made by
trusty good is there support for this motion support vice president Lee thank you supported by vice president Lee all those in favor I those oppose that motion carries yes
that's okay and that's typically what we pay opening day in the books yeah for all staff though it's very very but we we actually Julie even miss Haynes even went and priced it online and tried to get the
group rate and the shipping rate but it's about the same when you have the number of Staff we have yes I know the prices but it's just how it added up it wasn't that he just did that literally she went through and went
online and check there's a hard cover soft cover there's the study guide and got feedback and like if we're going to do it we want to implement and use it to study throughout the year and even possibly look at what we're doing in November um if they like because we didn't want to lock the the staff into
who it would be so if they like it la like for instance last year they had a person and they wanted to continue so if they want they can do them in the buildings but and we can do some group work District wide so they want to all have books that answer your question trusty
Fields okay perfect uh next that takes us to action item number 13 which is the acceptance of a resolution calling the regular election um I will go ahead and read the resolution and then we can take a
motion whereas pursuant to the Michigan election law the district dist regular school election shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of even years and whereas the regular school election is scheduled to
be held Tuesday November 5th 2024 now therefore be it resolved that the regular school election of the school electors of the district be called and held on Tuesday November 5th 2024 at the regular school election
there shall be elected three members to the board of the district for full terms of 6 years ending in 2030 all resolutions and parts of resolutions in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this resolution are hereby
rescinded is there a motion at this time Madam president I move that the Board of Education accept the attached resolution calling the regular election thank you a motion has been made by trusty Goodrich is there support for this motion
support vice president Lee thank you supported by vice president Lee all those in favor I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to an action item um that would be
considered 14 so at this time I would like to bring to the board's attention that inadvertently the action item for us to vote on the employment contract was left off and would like to know what the pleasure of the board is at this time uh
would we like to add a motion to our agenda to accept the employment contract or do we want to bring this back to the next meeting did without any motion certainly open to adding it to this meeting okay trusty gainsley would you do I move that
okay I move that I move that we am the agenda to add an addition item from our human resources department to approve the employment contract to approve the employment contract thank you so much trusty gainley um is there support for this
motion made by trusty gainley support trusty gri thank you supported by trusty goodr all those in favor I those oppose that motion carries
congratulations uh next that takes us to I'm assuming there are no public comments but I need to ask Miss haes have any cards come in at this time yeah yeah did we I'm just confused because the movement was that we amend the agenda to add the agenda item
so yes now we need to move to approve now we have to move to actually approve the contract which maybe I could have just moved to approve the contract but I didn't we yes we could have so yeah huh yes
yeah okay so a motion was made by truste gainsley supported by trusty Goodrich to amend am the agenda and added to the agenda so all those in favor the eyes had it so now we need to receive a
motion in order to approve the appointment contract is there a motion at this time Madam president I move that we approve the appointment Employment contract presented from the human resources department today for a custodial employee thank you so much so
a motion was made by trusty gainley is there support for this motion support vice president Lee thank you supported by vice president Lee me one second I just want to make sure I document okay so a motion was made by
trusty gainley supported by vice president Lee all those in favor I those oppos that motion carries thank you for that catch for the amendment and then the approval of the contract um no public comments that
takes us to our discussion item which is Board of Education subcommittee reports are there any subcommittee reports at this time uh yes with the Head Start Start Head Start uh I missed the meeting but
they did send me notes they are looking at a meeting time that are convenient for family par participation because we're having V low participation we meet like every second
Tuesdays at 4:00 and that's apparently very hard for parents to get there okay we meet Zoom I did uh at the last meeting I did suggest that maybe we can
meet face to face and meet at a school and then like in the evening time around dinner and they can bring their kids and someone can watch maybe they can WID can pay like a teenager to do child care and they can
plap them in a room and put on a video and we can be right in another room right next door where we can hear them you know so maybe they're thinking about that okay or
um I don't know they said they they have a lot of things in mind you know so because it's very hard for people to come because they're getting their kids off the school bus at 4: and then trying to get online at 4: it's not working
okay so they're trying to get a date and um second they're trying to hire they got three vaces at batty so they're trying to fill those vacancies and then they just was saying at the end of the year you know
everything they had uhuh activities they had going on with food gatherers and it was it was um the students
from U ofm that came in and just a lot of activities they had going Ono for and a report okay yeah all right so it sounds like they're considering maybe some alternate options
to increase parent participation based on low turnout yes for the meetings okay thank you so much vice president Lee you're welcome any other subcommittee reports yes trusty gri I just have a couple of quick quick things from the legislative relations Network um I
wanted to thank WB for providing the training um on the new legal updates to the superintendent evaluation process on June 20th uh vice president Lee trusty towns and trusty fields and I had a chance to take part in that with others from W uh around washing County um
there's some a lot of things remain similar but uh definitely there are some changes to the rubric as there are for all of our Educators um removing the highly effective rating and generally making the rubric easier to apply also some changes to the timeline
recommendations um anyway that was a a I'm glad that we had the opportunity to do that training I know it's a tight timeline to get us legally qualified to do the evaluation when it comes up again um this year uh also I know this is not
news to any of us because we're getting the updates from masb and from Mesa through superintendent Zachary Ross but um I just wanted to express my disappointment at the 0% increase in Foundation allowance and a failure of the legislature to pass as the miers rate reduction bill it should have
gotten us more money to go to students and money back to teachers who deserve it the washingon delegation definitely made it clear how important these things were and I feel like our legislators were on board and I'm really curious what happened
um that's all I have thank you trusty grid um I would just add on to your comment only to say that we know that the training date did not work for all of the board members um but it worked for a
lot and it sounded like it was a really good training and we are trying to uh get um a training facilitated for those board members who weren't able for our district who weren't able to attend that training in August in early August so just wanted to note that um Madam
president do we know if there's going to be a virtual or a asynchronous version of training or is that not an option I don't know that's a really good question we can find out though curious whether masb might have something that they do um and the others
who are at the the session can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that they have some on their some virtual trainings on their calendar there was some virtual options and also in person but in other areas of course oh okay pretty sure there was a virtual option okay all right thank you any other uh
subcommittee reports Madame President um trusty Phils I know we met with this uh Communications was Lambert right on the 10th June 10th was our last meeting um and they were just giving us some followup on most recent um advertisement that they got out and
promoting and I I know I've saw a couple I think I was on Facebook I think teachers was it on Facebook it was on something I saw they interviewed some teachers and stuff so I've been kind of following them so it looks like they have the Facebook part in place now I know the last time I reported they were still working on it but it looks like they have it I think
was it right is that on Facebook the yard sign huh you have yard sign yard yeah thank youting there yes we have sign so we you know that's important we're excited about that we can get those that
information out there um so I have been looking it looks like they were doing you know some of what they say you know interview I like the opportunity to be able to interviews with the different teachers and their feedback on something I've seen that a couple times I'm like oh okay like they're making it happen so we met then um I don't know if we have upcoming one but that was our last
meeting which was on um June 10th okay thank you so much trusty Fields yes can I ask a question did anyone get a call from a person named Charlie regarding an
interview uh regarding being a board member I did I did not no okay I got nothing it just we here oh
Charlie did not reach out to me so okay all right any other subcommittee reports board superintendent comments uh any board
comments yes try G I just wanted to to say a number of us had a chance to attend the engage at emu event for school and Library board members on June 19th um so trusty towns and trusty fields and I um to learn more about what emu can offer to our students um and
it's was great to hear from some of our valued Partners like Bright Futures Upward Bound in the semi Coalition um I'm excited about the the possibility for future events like this to help connect emu with local districts and to help us as elected officials connect around the things that that uh our local
University can offer to us right than thank you trusty goodr other board comments yes trusty gainy um I just want to shout out everybody who's involved in Grizzly Camp um it has been a great experience for I think is this the third or the fourth year year four
this is the fourth year so the fourth year in a row that I've had uh my kid at least one kid at Grizzly Camp um he absolutely loves it the the teachers are enthusiastic the way that like it's really just come together beautifully in terms of how well how it's organized the information that's getting out there um
and the field trips are just you know it's just it's running smoothly and it's such a great program and I'm really it's I I love that we're able to offer that to all of our families so thank you thank you to everyone who has been involved in that thank you so much trusty
gainsley other board comments Dr Zachary Ross thank you I just wanted to again thank all of our staff and everyone in our entire Community for allowing us to have a strong ending of the 2023 24 school year
we know that we celebrated the 10y year anniversary we celebrated the debt reduction and so we we really had the grizzly Awards and was ended off with a strong um strong close we started the New Year July 1 and so um as we were
ending the Year we're beginning the year and uh as tresley gainley was saying I was I have on here thank you to our Grizzly learning Camp staff because they not only ended the year strong they had to plan and get started um right away
with Grizzly learning Camp really making sure that there's Project based program based um and problem solving based work that's happening um so the school really looks and feels differently for our students and they've really taken on that challenge um as we have this next
group or that second set of Camp starting there's even some fun things like the DJ uh class at the high school you know just different things of ways to engaging in teaching and learning in a different way that um students are
saying they want to have that kind of Engagement unfortunately I have to say tomorrow during this meeting I have cancelled Grizzly learning camp for tomorrow um as many of you know we had no internet for most of the day and and
phones and it is not anticipated that we will have um internet phones and it's going to affect I want to impact that affects building issues because I know some people think why would you close school um for for that reason so think
about our hbac systems we're really excited about them but now that they're connected to the computers and internet the it could be with in no windows opening and closing it could be in the potential of the morning um that building we have them
ready to go out really early but then it's compounded because um the phones in most buildings were working but because again we we really moving forward a lot of them are internet impacted so they were starting to go down as we thought
we only had no internet then we didn't have phone access and if you can if you worked with anyone at the high school and tried to call them during the day and they're downstairs there is not necessarily a signal and so that again makes a safety challenge because even if
people are willing to use their cell phones um as staff members you can't always call in there so there's I can go on and on about the way technology is impacted um by Grizzly learning camp we felt like it is we're too putting
ourselves too much at risk and we just continue to just try we won't even with buses and transportation we won't be able to communicate the routes because that's our internet base so I'm just giving you a few items we were we were
faced with and so although um we we've been getting notices out while we've been in this meeting and found out we will not have phones up by tomorrow and uh necessarily internet up by tomorrow I just asked that our so we're notifying
parents right away just that means we're communicating and um we're working really hard there's a like it's not just turn it on we've been working with the vendor to try to get this block fixed it's like a broken block I guess I would
say that really connects um and it and that's how you see the impact because it's both Willer on side and Ipsy side so when you see that both impact is It's a larger problem then just let's go to this to one area and that's fix it and
so we've been in contact with the vendors and I want to thank our tech department and Solomon especially because even during this meeting he's been taking cough um yet I don't we're not going to be ready for tomorrow and we don't want to put our students or staff at
risk and on a brighter note I just want to end with something bright there's a lot of activities happening and I know um there's some things happening with Park Ridge that have been going on um our students can be involved with the CLR projects and um and our students are
doing that and there is July 20th in the parking lot from 6:00 to 9: Friday July 26 the oh I missed the one on the 12 U Family Day in the park July 12th from uh 3:00 to 6:00 p.m at West Willow Park
July 20th jazz in the parking lot from 6:00 to 9: right here at shaer Field July 26 um the ycs reading the park at and Rutherford pool party from 5: to 8 at Rutherford pool and then um um August
3rd the Ys back to school Bash from 12: to 3 at Prospect Park so just want to make sure that families are informed and invited we are sending things out just wanted to remind people who are listening to this meeting to please come
out and um participate in all these wonderful events that our uh events coordinator and team have put together for this summer thank you Dr Zachary Ross um I failed to mention um and I do apologize
I wanted to thank um uh truste Talsen for attending the first um candidate Forum that we held for potential uh members who are interested in seeking board service we had several passionate
uh and seemingly committed um individuals who asked a lot of great questions and participated in the discussion uh trusty talson and I both were there it was it was lovely we wish that we could have got the information out a little bit sooner but we were really thankful that those who were
interested and could participate and learn more about what it means to serve in this school district were able to attend um and thank you to trusty uh goodr I know she had something come up and she wasn't able to attend but she was integral and helping with the advertisement and getting that
information out and I know vice president Lee you were intending to be there and you had a family emergency so I just wanted to thank the board for their um uh support uh because we've never done anything like this before but it was good to be able to share
information with potential board members and also give them some takeaways uh we shared with them the virtual um upcoming virtual um board uh workshops that were coming up that are offered through masb so they were able to take that with them and then we shared with them that they
could reach out to any of us as board members um if they had any other questions leading up until the filing deadline of July 23rd did you want to say anything trusty goodr I I just I am so sorry I was unable to attend and I'm so excited that
um this is the thing we've done and I look forward to us doing this regularly and and building capacity so that folks who are interested in this kind of service can learn more about the work that we do here so thank you so much um to everyone who took part yes trusty town would you like to share
anything sounds good all right scene uh is there anything else before we adjourn board members all right uh Community know that there's three seats we said it in the resolution
tonight right okay y they know they should know I hope they know yep three seats yeah yeah three whole seats three whole seats three whole seats yes indeed y all right see uh no other comments
from the Board of the superintendent um my phone just start so5 the time is 8:15 we are Jed have a