Test test test. The time is 6:33. 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 board of education members who are present. Trustee Sutton Kennedy, could you perform the roll call, please?
>> Yes, Madam President. Trusty Goodrich >> here. >> Trusty Fields >> here. >> Trusty Sutton Kennedy, I'm here. Trusty Townsen >> here. >> Trusty Espie >> here. >> Vice President Lee. >> President Hawkins,
>> I am here. We have all board of education members who are present. And the next item on our agenda for this evening is the pledge of allegiance. I would like to invite members of the public and everyone who is in attendance to join us in reciting of the pledge. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Next we have the acceptance of the
agenda. Is there a motion at this time? >> Madam President, Vice President Lee Board of Education the agenda as >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Vice President Lee. Is there support for this motion?
>> Support. Trusty Sutton Kennedy. >> Thank you. Supported by Trustee Sutton Kennedy. All those in favor? >> I. Those opposed. That motion carries. That takes us now to achievements, awards, and recognition. And at this time, I would like to turn it over to
Dr. Zachary Ross. Thank you, Madame President. It's great, it's with great honor that I bring up this uh building principal and her wonderful group of scholars and educators because this is their first
points of pride as a new building in the district and we're so proud of what they've done. So, I'll ask Principal Celeste Green to come and bring whomever she like for today's points of pride.
Somebody said you're supposed to turn it on. I totally forgot already. Um we are so happy and so proud to be here today this evening for our first points of pride because we are full of pride for
Puentes and as it says there on the screen we are striving driving and absolutely thriving and we are full of pride. It was hard to find just seven points of pride. So, we tried to narrow it down. And uh so we have I have some
of our scholars here with us. And um I would like to introduce some of our our scholars here. This school means future. Oh, multilingual school. Good evening. I'm
Nora, a proud student of Pentis Multilingual School. Pentis is an oh um sorry uh this school means future. This school means possibility. Right now students are learning Spanish and
English. But we are a multilingual school. So maybe in the future we will learn we will learn Arabic, French or Japanese with With new languages comes new possibilities and new futures that we
can create. This is proof of This is proof of our learning experience at Bentes. Good evening. My name is Anna Isabella. I am a a proud student from Ipsalani
Pentes Multilingual School and I'm so proud and I'm a student from fourth grade. This school hasn't been used since last year, but now it's full of life.
We have clubs. We have a big community. And we and we have an amazing amazing amazing director. And
we have a perfect school that can teach us two different languages. is language school. What she says was her name is Kenya and she is really proud of um Ipsilani
Pontis Multilingual School. What she says was in the in in this school she was like kind of scared and cuz in this school we speak two languages
and when she entered the school, she was scared cuz she didn't understand any English. Now, now she's learning two languages.
Hi, good evening. My name is Lily. I'm in fourth grade and I'm very proud to be a part of this school. Even though Pentes mostly focuses on learning Spanish, we we still have a teacher that makes sure that students
who need it will be able to learn English. When I first came into this program in second grade, I was the only English speaker that was let in that late. L I had I didn't know any Spanish, but luckily now here
I'm in fourth grade and I have amazing Spanish skills. >> Hello, my name is Teao and I'm a proud student of Buenes Multilingual School. I when I came to the school, I was I was
worried that I wouldn't make any friends, but now I made lots of friends. Hi, my name is Moana and I am proud of this school because the
kids are really happy of this school. Good evening. My name is Jelly and I'm a proud fourth grader. In 2023, there were middle schoolers here, but now we're here with multilingual students. I started in kindergarten and didn't know any
Spanish, but now since I'm in fourth grade, I know a lot of Spanish. Before this school didn't have many cultures on display, but now we have banners, pictures, posters,
clubs, signs, and teachers and students from all over the world. >> Okay, my bien. I'm really proud of our of our scholars and their bilingualism, multilingualism. So, gracias. Okay. So,
um as I said, we I'm going to go through our points of pride here. The uh items that uh we are that we picked out that we're so proud of. The first one is first of all, we have a school that was born that we we birthed this school with
the with the uh support and the guidance and and the leadership here with the board of education with the administration. Um, and we are uh we are in eternally grateful for that. And in case you didn't know, poentes means
bridges. And that's exactly how our story began. Before we even opened the community, not us, not uh some powers that be. It was the community that picked this the name. We had a voting process for the name for the logo. That
was our winning logo. We had a reveal for it after all the votes were in. And we know that the strongest schools are ones that are built with the community and with the students, not just for, of course, it's for the students and for the community, but we build it with it
so that we have a solid foundation and we have a real sense of belonging. And that's who we are. We are and always will be bridges to brilliance and bridges to community. So that's our first one and we were super super proud of that. Um, and that was back in August
2025. So we are nine months old and uh we've done a lot this year as you will see. We had our ribbon cutting ceremony that was still part of us being coming to be. We had uh all the community engagement. We had uh the family and
community engagement uh there for the opening. We have our scholars who are future ready designers because as you can see these students are completely bilingual now and they are just going to get better um as as it goes on and we
have our seal of biliteracy that they'll be able to earn and we'll be talking about that a little bit later too. We we built our school. We we created this cultural mecca really and um and so we we are super super proud of that and all that our scholars have have
accomplished. The second thing that we want to talk about is our showstopping celebrations. You give us a stage and we're going to celebrate. And so we celebrated Hispanic heritage. We
celebrated black history. We celebrated reading challenges. We celebrated winter coming and spring coming and all kinds of things. We had so many celebrations and they do it with such joy. You talk about joy. We talk about fans first and just having an an immense amount of joy.
As you can see there, we have our winter concert. We have over on the upper leftand corner. That's our teachers during our Hispanic heritage celebration. They came in did danced and and came dressed to the nines with all of uh from Colombia, from Mexico, from
Cuba, from all over. Just as Jayla said, people from all over the world. We had for um Black History, we had um the drumming uh company that came in and we you just saw if you saw it on Facebook, you saw people dancing with a lot of joy there as well. Um, and then we also have
ballet foc the the uh traditional um ballet foc uh and we'll be seeing a little bit of what we did for um some of our celebrations too. We have something we want to show you a little bit later, but we're super proud of the joy and the
enthusiasm and the energy that our scholars bring to that stage and bring to our school every day. You heard the energy here and it's it's there every day. Okay. Um our third point of pride that
we're super proud of is that our Pentes students have leadership opportunities and clubs. So they are lead learners and leadership starts right here at Puentes and we provide opportunities for these scholars to lead and serve and belong.
and they want to tell you a little bit about what clubs are there that we do that that you enjoy. We wanted to just tell you a little bit about which ones. So, what clubs um do you have do we have
that you've enjoyed? Student council, >> robotics, safety patrol, >> football, >> art club,
>> and last but not least, >> girl. Oh, you did have girl have Girl Scouts, too. And and and and U McKenzie right here. She was a member of of the Girl Scout troop. And we have some You see that's her right there in that picture in the lower right hand corner.
THAT WAS ONE OF THOSE COLD DAYS AT THE VERY BEGINNING. And they were out there anyway. You see them OUT THERE BY THE WATER. THEY'RE LIKE, "WE'RE OUT HERE. WE'RE GOING to we are doing Girl Scouts and we're going to do it right." So, we had we have very a very active um Girl Scout troop. thanks to Taran Will is
here. She helped to lead it. It was awesome. So, thank you very much for that. Um, and so that was uh we are really really proud that in such a short amount of time we have so many clubs that that students really enjoy and have really had a chance to lead. Here we
have uh there's the Girl Scouts right there on the left hand side. When it WAS THE BLACK HISTORY CELEBRATION, they came out with their vests and they were selling cookies and they had they were passing out the flyers. They were all about it. They were like, "We are here. WE'RE HERE TO SERVE. We're here to lead and serve. Be a servant leader. Right. So, that's what they were doing right
there. And um in the middle there, that is the student council. Miss Miss Miller was a head of head of the the uh student council. And when I say they voted, like they voted like for real. They had they had the boxes, the ballot boxes, and
they had little pictures on it. They so that the youngest kids didn't have to know how to read. They could just see the picture and circle who they wanted. Counted up the votes. It was a fair election. And we have and we had our president, vice president, and uh committee lead right there in the middle
there. And that's Nora and Lily are part of student council. And Mr. John Carlo was the president is the president actually. And then they talk about girls ON THE RUN. SO MUCH FUN right there. THEY MADE THEIR POSTER. THEY'RE OUT THERE LIKE so intellentes. They did our little chant out there. And we were
louder than anybody else. And everybody knew who Quentes was. Okay. It's like we, you know, we we we did well. So, we ran it. I didn't. I walked, but that's okay. That's okay. We made it to the end. Okay. Um, and also, guess what? We
have published authors. All this we've done in this first nine months, this first year of school. So, we have our two of our third graders here who are um two of the published authors. And if you see our uh third grade teacher, she had
a whole reveal like she had you see they she had the balloons and the she had a red carpet and she had it was like they were movie stars. They were celebrated for being these published authors. And so these two want to tell us just a
little bit about their their book. >> Uh How did you feel about being an author? >> Well, I couldn't be an author without my classmates and my teachers pushing me to be the best author I could be.
>> And also, it was awesome making it. We didn't have to use computers. We had to we had to write it ourselves. >> And uh well, someone put this I'm proud of being a published author. I am proud of being a published author
because we worked to together to to create this book. Even though it took work, we worked hard to create this book. And because we
worked hard, we finished it. like three or two. Uh here are two things I wrote about in my page about Argentina.
Buenos Iris is the capital of Argentina and and there are 46 millions of people there. Um,
Chile is the the largest and widest um country and their their capital is Santiago. Okay. And so this book was called um it's called Rises Latinas and it's
basically a book about all a lot of different uh Spanish speaking countries. Some students picked the country they were from and if they weren't from a Spanish speaking country then they picked one that they wanted to um write about. And so this is called Latin Roots. That's the name of the book in in
English. So we have our published authors here. So they're very proud of that. Um and huh can Oh yeah see. They have beautiful illustrations in
there too. Okay. So the other thing we did we had a Lego league. This is unheard of to me. By November we they were at a competition. Do you see that? They're like curious inquirers um going and uh you know working through their Lego uh the Lego League and then um
future ready designers. They're designing their robots and competing there. Um and then they were also of course creative innovators and this was a first a first of course for for Puentes and although they didn't win any
awards they definitely were commended by the committee by the judges saying how they had perseverance which is more important than winning really am that's just me it's more but they had perseverance and they had they they were they show a lot of excellence and
character so that was amazing it was their first year so next year we're going going to win it. And then we had a um a Lego uh festival right at Puentes. So that was and that was in May. So that was for the Explorer team. And in in um
in the fall it was the first Lego League robotics. Is that right, Miss Miller? >> Challenge. That's it. I was trying to remember that word. Challenge team. Yes. So they did amazing work there. And this is a picture of them in the middle where they were at the competition on the far right. That was
the explore team. After the festival, they all got their um certificates and on the left that's where they were all that's at point where all the teams um came together. So that was an exciting time and many of the students said that Lego that you know that um robotics is
like their favorite one of their favorite favorite things to do. So we have to do more of that for sure. Okay, we're almost there. Okay, so we have our uh our CPTO which is our community. It's called a community parent teacher organization. We never let go of
community. That's even a part of the We don't just have a PTO. It's a community parent teacher organization and it is established and thriving. We have that community and family engagement there from clearing out our courtyards there
to do planting. They're the kids are planting their gardens and they're going to be harvesting them in the fall to make salsa and other things that they've grown. and they uh parents came together to decorate our school. But most importantly, we have a resource center
where no one is in need of any basic things. Food, laundry, detergent, toothbrushes, toothp doesn't matter. Whatever you need, it's in our resource center and you don't even have to come in to get it. our our staff and our parents will pack up boxes and deliver
them to you so that you are always all we are always a bridge to that to those needs and those resources. And that is an amazing accomplishment for our first year to have that um involved a a parent organization because every family that
comes in, they're like, I never have to want for anything. And that is a powerful thing to say that I don't have to want for anything in terms of basic needs for sure. Um so we're super super proud of that.
And we also have the the University of Michigan has partnered with us at pointes for their English language development development masters program. We have a partnership with them where their interns, if you see there in the
middle, there 28 interns that come in and learn from our program, our students. They come in, there's like three to four interns in each classroom. and they have had nothing but glowing things to say about our because they
don't get a chance to have this kind of opportunity to be with such a unique program where people are intentionally teach you know teaching through another language that we're not I always say our first goal is always academic excellence Spanish is just a bonus so you know it's
not like oh you can speak Spanish yes they can speak Spanish but they can read they can do they can read really well they can write they can write books and So they they are learning how we are going about this unique and powerful impactful program to have students come
out bilingual biliterate and have that academic rigor and excellence because that's the goal always and all the other stuff is just kind of extra and so they have been with us for uh since for the month of May and uh they are like I said intricral part of the class and that's
in the morning in the morning they are with our students in the afternoon, the classes for U of M are held at our school. So, they I love it because they come in and they're part of the day and they're do they're helping to do lessons and they're they're just talking about,
"Oh my gosh, I'm learning so much." Then they get to take that hands-on experience and go into their classroom, their classes and talk about it and process it. So, not only are we, you know, adaptive collaborators, but we're having an impact on the next educators
coming down the pipeline. and we have something to do with that. So, we're really proud of that. Okay. And then just one more bonus. The bonus is we have I know Miss uh our instructional coach, Maryanne Joerger, wants to talk about our data data divas. I know you
>> did. Did you see those awards? They say data divas. We are the data divas until next year. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm just used to I don't know. Anyhow, it was a very cool moment when we uh we awarded our teachers the data diva awards and this
is because they met in PLC's. Um that second semester was powerful. Um never use an acronym. Every day is a language lesson at pointes. I said we're going to do PLC's. And then they came to the first meeting and they said you know we've been googling this. We think it's
a PC like a plumbing part. Maryanne what are we doing here? And it was just another moment where we said okay we got this. They raised I mean together working together uh with that synergy and that excitement taking ideas from
each other blending the ideas tweaking modifying every week we would meet. They raised the scores over 30% for our Spanish literacy. I mean it was powerful powerful stuff. So probably one of the pinnacles of my long career was this
experience and you know supported by our director Toro. So very cool. >> Okay. And now we are at the end of our points of pride but I did want to um some of our people want to come up and just show you just a little bit of of
what we I talked about. So hold on. >> Okay. Okay. So, what we're going to do, you can stand right up here. Um, we're going to We talked about celebrations. We celebrated today, too, because it's the fir the last assembly. We do our assembly every Monday morning. Are we
facing that way, guys? We're facing that way. Yes. All right. Perfect. Um, and so we celebrated the last week of school, uh, and our last assembly. Our teachers were up THERE PERFORMING FOR OUR STUDENTS. It was a switch. I wish I had a video from
it. It was amazing. Um, and they came out into the crowd and all that, but when we did our celebration for um, Black History, we uh, did a little song and so you guys can uh, get into position there. Oh, Mr. Harlem, can you
come here please and introduce yourself? got winner just a second. Make sure one second. >> Louder. I'm asking HIM TO CHANGE HIS WAY.
No message, you close your mind. Yeah. If you want to make the world better. B. >> Oh, that is too cute. That is too cute. >> Um, >> that is too cute. That was too cute.
That was too cute. >> Uh, excuse me. Um, another thing that I just realized this year one here at Pentthus, we have the YCS teacher of the year, Miss Miller.
>> Well, thank you so much. I hope you enjoyed that. But we are super super proud of everything that's happened at Pentes this year. and thank you so much for your support. >> Thank you, Miss Green, uh, for this outstanding presentation. What a way to
close out our year this week. This was just like I'm sitting here dancing and singing and like this is a community a whole celebration and I can feel the energy in the room and it's a glimpse of what happens in the actual building. So
thank you to you your leadership Maryanne Joerger thank you. uh this was and I say you too because I know that this was like a little seed right and this seed was planted and it was cultivated and it is grown into what we
have now which is Pentez. So I am just we are proud as a board um and I want to just first acknowledge every single person who is part of the Quintest community to stand up and to be
recognized. We are incredibly grateful and thankful for our parents, our caregivers, our educators, our leadership, uh our community supporters. Uh this does not happen without everyone coming together to make sure Quentez is what it is. Um,
I want our scholars to stand up and be recognized because they brought it. Thank you scholars for this outstanding presentation and performance. Um, and I think that we want to stand and give you
an ovation, standing ovation, because this presentation and the Michael Jackson song >> at the end was like the icing on the cake. So, if we could just all stand and
just recognize our scholars. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um I would like to invite if there are any board members who have comments or questions um at this time. Um and I don't know how you all got this in here, but it is absolutely
>> Oh, okay. this ju every I just feel like this is a great way to like close out our year. Board members, the floor is open. >> Um I just want to first say Trusty Fields um thank you for the performance for um I just think it's an honor for
the kids once they finish with this to go on because like you said it's not just the language but being able to combine the academics with this that's going to take them places. I mean you know what I mean and you're starting that so young. I love it. I love the fact that they're so
>> what do I want to say? Articulate with it. You know what I mean? It's not like they got to stumble on anything. You know, how trying to figure it out. They just came up. So, we know they're retaining that. And it was beautiful to watch. And um thank you um for what you're doing over at the school. And I I love the performance at the end. Um I
see future Michael Jackson here performing with the moves. I saw the moves coming and I was so impressed. I'm like that was like the kicker to it. So, I'm just saying. So, but so thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And job well done. >> Thank you.
>> Thank you, Trusty Peeles. >> Trusty Townsen. I would just like to really say kudos to all of the students. You all do a fabulous job and I love the fact that you are not shy. Um so that means that we are going to have some
great advocates for the the district, future advocates. And I would like to do a special thank you to all of the team and the parents. And this is this is what success looks like. When you when you work together as a team to support
students, they will strive and do great things. And this is just awesome. Um I know a couple of these babies before they were even here >> and um it's just amazing to see what little leaders they have turned into and
it's just a great thing. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Talson. >> Trusty Sutton Kennedy, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing all of the impressive things that Points has done and accomplished over this school year. We know that this is just a sample of
all of the things that you all are proud of. Um, and I specifically wanted to ask our educators that are here, um, our staff, um, and teachers to please stand so that we can recognize you specifically for being here after school
hours to support the support. >> We do have an amazing team. They're amazing. Thank you, Trusty Sutton Kennedy. Any other board comments? Seeing none, I just want to say thank you again. Um, amazing that, you know,
this time last year we were talking about opening the school and we are at the end of a successful, very successful school year. Um, so to everyone who just plays a part in this, our educators, Miss Miller, our teacher of the year,
um, this it does not happen without it being a collaborative community effort. And I was just like naming just different things. I really appreciated that the students also knew the history of the school, what it was before it became Pointez, because I heard that
being named um, as they were coming up to speak. um from your cultural celebrations becoming authors clubs, the Lego leagues and a community parent teacher organization and a resource center um and you all deliver boxes to families um and bringing that bridge to
needs and resources. Just absolutely exceptional. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Let us give them all another round of applause. Oh, >> thank you. >> Our friend here had just one question. >> Yes.
How do you like her book? >> Immediate feedback. It's excellent. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. We really appreciate the support and just the what we've been able to cultivate here. So, thank you so much. >> Um I think I have two board members who have questions. Vice President Lee and
Trusty Esby. >> Did they do the illustration? >> Did they draw the illustrations on your book? Yes, we wrote and drawled everything inside of it
>> because the drawings are magnificent. >> They are so nice. I like them >> and vibrant. Yeah. >> Yes. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Thank you, Vice President Lee. Trusty Espie. Uh uh I just wanted to also say
that the art and what you all wrote was incredible. Uh and uh I'm so impressed with what you all are doing there. And I love the community that your students have and
that your educators have and that the families have there. And I know that it really shows what it looks like when parents and families and students and educators can all come together. Um, and
it's a it's a wonderful demonstration of what that community can look like and how folks can thrive when you have that engagement and involvement and care um coming from every direction. >> So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Esby. And thank you
again, Fentes, Miss Green, educators, families, caregivers, and our scholars. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks to you too. >> A thank you. Uh next I will uh we have our
recognition of our 2025 2026 seal of biiteracy recipients Dr. Zachary Ross. >> Thank you Madame President. I think it's so timely that we start we talk about where it starts at the beginning and where it ends. And so again our
wonderful dynamic duo will please come up um who have just been championing this work for now years. And so the evidence of it when our scholars walk across the stage with the only seal that the state of Michigan gives the seal of
biiteracy and so thank you Miss Jagger thank you Miss Green for being able to continue this work. >> Yes and um we did talk about this it's been five six years 2020 because we were going to have a big celebration for the very first seals and then the world shut
down. So, and then but we just we kept at it and every time I go to the um Michigan Department of Education, the the council for the syllabi literacy, they are amazed at how many how many uh syllabi literacy recipients we have and how many pathways. So, you could say,
okay, we get the syllabi literacy, but you have to have solid pathways to get there. These kids right here, if they can get it today, they get it today, but they have to wait until they're seniors. And so we have the pathways of them having Spanish throughout their years. We have the pathway of IB in the schools. We have the pathways of
immersion. So we are very proud to have our um syllabi literacy recipients here. And um Maryanne is going to read the first portion then I'm going to read the other. So we're very proud of that. >> And we know this works because one of our past graduates came in the office
one day and said, "You know, I graduated from here. I would like to work in Puentes. My sibling goes here and by the way I have the seal of bi literacy. Okay. So people are using it which is pretty powerful. So we have a list that keeps growing and increasing numbers
every single year. And so I'll read the first uh names on here. Mabune Albu Basar and Raja Ali Lube. And um Mubame speaks Turkish and the second child Raja speaks Arabic. We have
Wilson Alcatara Aia speaks Arabic and you know we have some triilingual kids at at Pointees too who speak Spanish and English and Arabic which is cool. Um Abdullah Algahin who speaks Arabic, Leila Agahim Arabic. And then we have
Brian Melos Alvarado Spanish and Bakari Kamara French. And do you want to take over this the rest of the seats >> up there? And then we have um uh Davidid Cardona,
Spanish. We have Javier Domingo, Spanish. We have Naali Dominguez, Spanish. We have Kayla Elv Cruz, Spanish. We have uh Daniel Gomez,
Spanish. Rosemary Gonzalez, Spanish. We have Fernando Guerrero, Spanish. We have Fernando Ernnandez, Spanish. And so, of course, these are people who are have proven to be bilingual in both intermediate high at least in each. Um,
Ansum Kita, French. Um, Danetta Mazama, French. Then we have Muhammad Mohamdi and that that person speaks Dari. Then we have Dorsa Moradian Farsy. We have
Javier Morales, Spanish. Rosa Murio, Spanish. Rachel Oliv Olivarees, Spanish. Adam Omar, Arabic. Um, we have Yellis Perez, Spanish.
Karolina Ramos, Spanish. Daniela Reyes, Spanish. Alice Ruiz, Spanish. Dodu Sambe French. An Anela Sanchez Spanish.
Is Isael Cintu Spanish. Tabinda Tariq Udu. Carlos Carvajal Spanish. Uh Jatinellis Bmures Spanish. Yam Vay Spanish. and
orismari villa placeres Spanish. So this is the longest one of the longest lists we've had. It keeps growing as she said and as um Dr. Zachary was said we see the beginnings here and here is where we end
up and this list is going to be so many pages you're not going to let me read the whole thing. So, so I am very proud about that. We are really making sure that every student who can obtain the seal of bi literacy is getting that whether it's they're going to get it in,
you know, five, six, seven, however many years down the line. And then we have all these other pathways and when YCS says they're going to do something, that's what I am so proud of. I tell people all the time, they are bold and they do it. So, thank you so much.
>> Thank you for your support. Uh, thank you again, Miss Green and Miss Jagger. And let us give this seal of biiteracy recipients another round of applause. Next, that takes us to our public comments for this evening. And I know
that we have one public comment card that has come in. Are there any others? Thank you, Miss Haynes. We have two. Uh before I invite members of the public to address the board, I would like to read the public comment protocol which reads as follows.
Pursuant to board of education policy 0167.3, the board recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express their views. Please limit statements to three minutes in duration. Participants shall direct all
comments to the board and not to staff or other participants. No person may address or question board members individually. Remarks shall be made in a respectful and professional manner. Jeremy Haley Jeremy Haley Ipsy Township. As some of
you may know, the between the Ann Arbor City Council, Mayor, and the Waw County Board of Commissioners, they approved a $300 million transformational TIFF project, which is capturing taxes that
go to the schools, WCC, and other C uh services for people and stuff for the county. And I don't know how much you know about that or not, but it's the largest within the state. And the next largest or the
the largest is going to be Water Street and Nipsy because it's bigger property. Now that the developers have seen that they're willing to do 300, guaranteed that one on Water Street's going to be 500 plus million on that one. And you y'all ain't going to see nothing on that
one either. City of CC ain't going to see nothing on it and it's all in desperation for housing. I know you all know deal with education, but housing and education kind of go together a little bit. This where you
guys need to kind of step out of your wheelhouse and talk to the people who are voting for this crap that you probably voted for. You know, if you live within the city or especially the county commissioner. I
know my commissioner Hajj voted for it and he's proud to have 200 extra homes at the cost that the kid help you know at the cost of the kids. I don't think that's a fair cost. And I don't know how how much you know
of how those work or not, but basically that property on Arbor South is going to be captured and stayed at $7 million what it's worth now for the next 30 years. Even though that value of that land will go up in the next 30 years, it will be only taxed at
7 million. And any gain in that taxes goes straight to the developer, which is he's using to leverage to get the loan, which most people don't realize. That's how he's getting the loan. And it's money given to the developer
for thousand new apartments. And I bet you 75% of those apartments are going to be for U of M students like almost every other big building and building. And they are building all these transformational brown fields all across the county. It's just not this one. You
have to address them all. Manchester's built one for 430,000 $450,000 homes. That's how much they're worth. The average median income in Manchester is 87,000. Doesn't even meet the cost to for anybody in Manchester to move into
those homes they're building under that you know yes they built Dorsy estates and there's but primarily all this brownfield transformational brown stuff is happening in the city and on arbor I think we as the board you all should take a stand and all the other boards
take a stand against this because they're going to keep doing it and it's going to cost you it keeps adding up thank Thank you, Jeremy. Thank you, Jeremy Haley. Uh, Nicazaro. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> I will not be singing. Okay. Um, that
was that was an amazing performance. I'm Nick Kazaro. I'm very happy to be here. Um, nice to see those I haven't connected with, nice to reconnect with those I have. Um, I'm here to talk about the IPS future history project, which is the art you're seeing around you. This for the last year, I've had this amazing opportunity to work with every school in
the district, every art class, well, just about every art class in some social studies, delivering uh hips hips history as prompts for students to respond to. Um, the biggest piece being the mural, which tucked away back there on the table is the actual mapping out of the mural. So you can see the faces.
There's 10 people relevant to Ipsani's past that are uh very important monumental people relevant to Ipsan's past that are featured here. I I designed this mural that's 30 uh feet long, 7 feet tall. Cut it into 210 squares. Gave 20 to 30 students at each
school with the exception of Ford and Perry. Um those are the only two that were involved u a a tile to populate. They didn't know what this overall mural would look like. I just want to put that out there. Uh it was meant to be as you see it this beautiful mosaic. Um but
behind all of that are are the faces. Uh there are several other projects present in the room. One involving the Ipsy armory which was a lot of fun to dive into there giving kids opportunity to make masks um about a kind of retrofitting a masquerade party in this building that uh touch the lives of so
many. Um there's one the telephone in between that gets overlooked has recordings of student voices. I asked a lot of students and anyone willing to respond and be recorded. Uh the question was how did IPS get its name and the answers are amazing. Uh and then and then after all the uh after questions
like that or after lessons or after excuse me before projects began we would have a brief lesson. So there was history attached. So they they would learn you know nobody's going to be proficient. It's an art class but I was trying to deliver some relevant history. Next to that is one that was only
involved at the high school. Uh that involved uh we we were talking about the urban renewal project that took place in the southside. Uh and we we chose uh FGO distribution center specifically because that was one of the buildings demolished out of the almost 130 that were demolished. Students had the chance to
decorate their own glass FGO bottles, put a lot of beautiful effort into them, and then smash them. So now the bottles become um similar to the the buildings that were lost that now only exist in photo and spoken word. So, I wanted to attach a history that's not that far off um to to this project, to the work that
they're creating and have them feel something beyond the beauty that was created um behind us. Well, there's a couple, but this one here um uh the namesake of the city, Demetrios Dipsy. I wanted students to understand where we got the name from in addition to asking them um give them some sort of
understanding that his he's a wonderful man welldeserving um but kind of an arbitrary choice just you know he's never been here so I really wanted them to define the community so they all populated silhouettes of Demetrios with whatever they wanted however they
whether it's based in reality or not uh and there there's so much more work than what's here these are just this is just a fraction of what we created over the course Everything can be seen at ipsy futurehistory.com. ips Ipsy futurehistory.com. That's where all the work lives
including recordings u more than what's here uh in other projects that aren't present in this room. Uh the one that's kind of scattered the panels they at one point were connected. So it's not meant to be three panels but I wanted to include them. So I brought them here this way. Uh those are all maps of the
city of Ipsilani. But the students didn't know that. That's the first project we started. Every school did this blank um printed eight and a half by 11s of a map of the Ipsilani West willow 94 the this outline of the city uh the dividing line between Superior
and Ipsy Township. I didn't tell them what there is just an abstract uh grouping of lines. I wanted them to populate it. I want them to define the community and they did that. There's here, even though they're overlapping, there are 577 different maps present and
they knock that one out of the park. I mean, they everything. So, this is a lot to cover because we covered a lot over the year. Um, I would love to answer questions if we're allowed to do that. If anyone has any, I would love, but I don't know if we're if I'm allowed to do that or not. But, uh, yeah. Yeah, I'll
take a breather for a second. >> It's great to have you back. >> It's good to be back. Um, this is absolutely exceptional. Thank you for sharing this beautiful artwork with all of us. This is a whole gallery walk that I hope we get a chance to participate in
after the meeting uh this evening. But I will open it up uh Mr. Rosaro for any questions board members might have or comments. >> Well, thank you. >> No pressure. >> Everything. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> but I'm sure we can pass
Yeah, I'm very reachable. So, if anything comes up, I do want to point out with this mural, I didn't want to fasten them permanently because if they end up somewhere else within the school's decision, I want to be able to adhere them permanently somewhere. So, they are loose.
Okay, >> we will not >> very easy to put back up. I didn't want to make them permanent here in case you want to move them somewhere and and or we could, you know, situate them differently. your pinpoint. I'm sorry I have this bad
habit, but it's really well done and thoughtful and I'm glad that so many it's it's a vision from different people's version of you know and once it you put those different visions together, you create a picture. That's the idea. And I just love how that came together and how it looks and hopefully
sit around and and I'm impressed with all the different names of the people that I know in there and I'm like, "Oh my god, I forgot about them. It's so nice." So, it looks like there was truly thought put into it. So, thank you >> as much. Thank you. Thank you. As much as I could. I wanted to get as much research and there's so many more people that need a mural. This is the start
hopefully. You know, we were just >> Just noticed my uncle and my pastor >> and Miss Forbes. He was a well-known educator. So yeah, I we would love to look at this afterwards. >> And again, the outline where you can see the faces more clearly is on the table
back there. And there's also there's also placards. Sorry. Sorry. Uh there's also placards on the wall near the work to give more explanation. Um more much more of the information is on the website too. >> Outstanding. Any other board questions or comments? Trusty Sudden Kennedy.
>> Thank you. This is amazing and it looks beautiful. >> Thank you. Thank you. other comments? >> Well, we know you have a heart and a love and a commitment to this community and you've been here for many years and we know you left and you came back and
we're just, you know, you're deeply invested. We know in this community and this project has really come to life. So, thank you for sharing this with us. I know that Dr. Zachary Ross has some comments that she would like to share. >> Thank you, Madam President. I just want
to first um acknowledge um Nick Aaro because we had a 99D grant that was able to pay for this to be done and he was able to hear the vision that was just written out and like really bring it to life and work collaboratively with the
teachers with the scholars with the administrators. Um, next he also had this on display at the Riverside Art Museum and a lot of our SC they just felt so proud just like today with the publishing the book they felt like they really were on display and really
appreciated that this work was there. Um, while at the art at the museum he talked about where are we going to put put this and you have the board meeting today where people can see it. There's the community meeting um later on this
week and then through that last board meeting. So there will be many opportunities for not only the board. We just felt that I felt like the work was so well done and our scholars have put in so much work. We know that not many had gone to Riverside Art Museum so
people could be able to come here if he was willing which he did. He brought it himself um to bring the projects. I thought maybe one and then I came back and it was like, "Oh, he did he did all of the things that we asked." And um just we want to make sure that the scholars work, his work is honored. So
we intentionally brought it during this time so that it could be seen multiple times by the public um because the work is really wonderful. He is looking for permanent locations and I thought well the administrators could see it, John could see it and we could then think of
those locations. it wouldn't just be he and I standing there deciding where it would go. So, um just really thanking him and the scholars and the teachers who collabored together um to be able to really um envision like what this could
could be and he he really um delivered. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity. This this was a lot of fun. >> Thank you again, Mr. Aaro. And a huge thanks to, as Dr. Zachary Ross mentioned to our uh amazing scholars um because I
know this was a collaborative project um and with our educators and everyone else who was involved. Uh so thank you for sharing this beautiful work with us. >> Thank you. >> Uh next that takes us to our presentation for this evening which is
our 104H goal setting requirements and I will turn it over to Dr. Zachary Ross to introduce um not just that presentation but the one that follows which is our 2026 2027 course catalog presentation. Dr. Zachary Ross. >> Thank you Madame President. We know that
um it is required that this um 104H goal setting presentation be done the last one of the last board meetings of the year as soon as we receive our data. So Dr. Lopez has collected the required data for this document. We know there's
other data that our our teachers collect for their evaluations. This is what is required through um Michigan Department of Education. So he will um highlight that. And then following that is also required to add any C courses that are
being added for next year be approved at this board meeting. And so Dr. Lopez has brought uh information about the courses that will be added to our course 202627 course catalog. Thank you Dr. Lopez.
>> Well, good evening um board president uh Dr. Hawkins, board trustees, and superintendent Lisa Secretary Ross. Um as you know, every year around this time of the year, I'm required by by state law to make a presentation to the school board. um
based on the 104 goal progress our progress made. Um as you know we use the NWA. So one of the biggest thing for us is to make sure that we're um so I'm going to give a fivem minute presentation because I know you have a lot of questions and I can answer your questions. So in um in the speed of that
I'm going to be jumping around really quickly but right now again this is the the what's um required. Uh and so as you know we work within our goals um and as we have a middle and the end of the year and we're at the end of the year where
we have to present to the board. Um, and so our takeaway today just to be I want to make sure because we made some changes and some improvements and I want to make sure that we hit those. But when you look at this, our overall scholars proficiency growth as measured and NWA
continues to improve over time. Our overall scholars proficiency and growth as you can see is increasing as you saw if you read through the data you saw that there were significant increases in many areas or um or increases in
general. Our united effort to support scholars during their critical transition year from fifth grade to sixth grade and from 8th to 9th grade have led to remarkable improvements over time over the past two years as demonstrated with noticeable gains in reading scores. This suggests that our
title one ambitious teaching curriculum that we're using uh HMH ELA reading um when delivered with fidelity or with integrity um works for our scholars high high rigor with high support. So one of the things that I want to remember the gaps that were happening between those
transition the work that we've been doing from our teachers to the coaching to the mentoring all those supports are paying off because now we're seeing less of a big impact. It used to take that when the fifth graders went to sixth grade it would take two years and now there the transition becoming more
smooth because of the intentionality of the work that we've done. Okay. So looking at takeaway two, our overall proficiency and growth for all the following groups um as measured by the NWA continues to improve over time. We saw again an overall our scholars
proficiency and growth in our special education scholars continue to keep pace with the general education counterparts. Our overall scholars proficiency growth for our multilingual learners also continue to keep pace with their general education counterparts in reading. and
our overall um scholar proficiency for growth for our African-American scholars continues to increase in both reading and mathematic measured by NWA assessments and norms. Um the next page pretty briefly our third thing here is
our teachers continue to deliver high quality instruction with integrity and intentionality significant empowerment by being intentional in teaching our our district's tier one ambitious teaching curriculum with integrity supported by tier two tier three interventions uh
that is continues will continue to show more growth as we go uh in their learning deeper learning etc for 2627 school year one of the things that we have committed to looking at our data etc is to make sure that all our schools
are really placing stronger focus on data digs, data walls, data talks and data walks and um we saw significant gains with the reveal program in relationship to implementation this year from the commitment from the teachers.
So we committed again for the next two years and the the beauty of that is that the coaching the mentoring they're the teachers are receiving is being impactful. The what we saw that normally when you implement something for the first time there's always a little push back and in essence this year has been
really an embrace. It takes a little bit of time but on the other hand we're working with our teachers and we'll continue to move us forward. If we look at this uh when we look at this the biggest piece in here that our progression is continuous increasing in
reading achievement throughout the school year at all grade levels. And so when we look at the orange the orange bars are uh from the fall benchmarks. The blue bars are from the winter um midyear assessment and then the green
bars are from spring at the end of the year. So you could see there there's been a progression moving forward um throughout the district. So uh in reading achievement will continue to go up. Um on this next slide, this slide
has cohort. So over the past four years, there have been reading improvement at almost every grade level uh within the exception of grades one, four, and five. However, the differences in those grades were slightly and could be due to uh the factors that we contributed when we look
at the data a little bit deeper uh u challenges with chronic absentism for some of these students. Uh behavior and illness uh have been some of the things that we've looked at when we're looking deeply through some more data. As we look at this page, the spring reading
achievement assessments for um all cohorts. Um each of these sets columns represent a cohort of YCS colors with expected graduation year shown with the darkest green showing the NWA reading achievement for the current school year.
These show continuous improvement in reading over the years. U you might notice that there was a slight dip uh in reading achievement um last year for for the class of 2031. Last year they were they were the sixth graders
transitioning from elementary um school to the fifth graders transitioning to middle school which historically been difficult time but you can see that this year the reading improvement has more than recovered. uh and that's this is the big place for
celebration is the contrast from 20 uh the class of 2032 this year sixth graders did not have a dip in the reading indicating a more successful transition from elementary school to middle school this year from the intentionality of putting all the
attention that we put I I just think wherever we put attention it it shifts okay so here on this particular slide um as you know The orange bars represent reading growth from the fall to the previous school year to the fall of this
year. And the blue bar of the fall winter growth within the current school year. Fall to spring um reading growth what was average or higher for all grade levels in the district. I'm going to jump in from two slides so I could go to
the slide I need to go now because I could jump in. Uh this this slide is important because you know we've been trying to move the students from one level to the other and so there will always be some variability in both achievement and growth but the variability usually centers around some
baseline for YCS growth has recent growth has recently been around the 40th percentile overall. uh but to see uh measurable improvement in achievement at least comparatable with the national averages we need to see more growth
baseline as you as I mentioned in the 50% or higher based upon the data we made some intentional instructional moves that requires us to leverage the funding that was awarded to the district curriculum implementation in the
following ways we implemented reveal uh math Alex and the SIS as uh math for teachers intervention. We implemented the structure literacy in K2 in place of foundations and phonics first for dyslexia screener. We a full
implementation of a mira and hm reading in grades K5 and the use of viable and now coming this next year is looking at bable with a component of ELA that's going to be embedded right into HMH and the mer merger of those two things. The
reality is as we continue to move forward, we're looking at shifting. We have to constantly shift based on our students so we can move them to the next level with intentionality. The beauty of that is from a teacher perspective. Just I want to be very clear that the new curriculum platform initially takes time
um and effort to learn and implement with um integrity. uh but enthusiast by by our teachers being enthusiastic and working with instructional coaches side by side that's making a big difference because it's moving that faster. Okay. Uh the other thing from our students
perspective their curriculum with higher expectations requires more effort and attention and their whole perspective is teachers sharing the air time. So the students are actually demonstrating their learning. So in essence, in this district, it's a commitment to students driving their learning. And so we are
are very intentional with that work. We appreciate our teachers for helping to identify and select these rigorous tools and and be part of this journey with us. But as we move forward, we want to make sure we continue to adjust for improvement. But we also know we can't do that without coaching, etc. in math.
Um when you look at this math achievement increased throughout the school year for the school uh for all grade levels on this side on this slide u as reading just like reading most grades uh have shown and mathematic have shown
improvement uh as reveal math now use both elementary and middle school come to alignment we can expect more improvement in grade five six and and in the coming year as we continue to do this uh in this side. The sets of columns show spring NWA math achievement
for scholars cohorts for their expected year of graduation grouped over the past four years. Unlike reading, these were a slight dip in in math for scholars for that in that fifth and sixth grade
evidence from last year. But as we this year's students go into the high into there's going to be a better improvement uh because of the simple reason that uh our students have been exposed to SIS and those measures and one of the things
that we are rolling out in the fall is that all the middle school teachers will also be training SIS. So in essence that is going to enhance significantly. So I see a bigger opportunity for growth next year in in sixth, seventh and eighth grade because of the use of manipulatives in the classrooms and
that's going to boost those those scores and also because we're going to be contracting also with um reveal to make that happen as well. So that those are the where we've been working and of of course it's not Carlos sitting here and saying well we're going to do this is all of us collectively working they're
looking at the data from the local level etc. As we move forward here on this particular slide, uh the orange bars again, you know, that shows the math growth. Um with the exception of grade six, most of all the grade levels had
average or higher math grow growth. Um and grade four just barely missed it by just a small quantile. Um on this slide, these groups uh of columns show NWA math growth percentiles for each grade level for the past years with darker green
showing growth data from recent years. This slide which is uh the darker green columns are math growth percentile data from the most recent school year. You can see the dip from for this year's from sixth
graders class of 2032 and last year's sixth graders this year's seventh graders the class of 2031 led that led to the math achievement data that was shown previously. So it means that you can see where the cor the increases had gotten better on this particular slide
which is the last slide. So I can open it up for uh communication. Um this one is at at the high school level. The average math growth percentile by grade level ranges between 43.7 to 59. And average reading growth percentile by
grade level range from 45.6 to 60. All of these are within the average range for us. And so, um, I'm going to stop there and ask what questions might you have as I have questions here for special ed, any any population you want
to speak to. Um, but I I want to ask have you give time for you to ask questions. >> Thank you, Dr. Lopez. Uh, board members, what questions might you have? >> Uh, Trusty Esby and then Trusty uh, Gri.
>> Oh, I just actually first have a point of clarification. Are we asking questions about the data that you've already that you just shared and not about the entire packet? >> Whichever you want to talk about. I just didn't want to jump over something you already read. Uh but whichever feels
>> So we're talking about the entire packet at this point or are you going to present more on the the rest of the packet? >> Well, I no I was just going to present this. Um almost everything else is pretty much in there. >> Okay. Okay. >> Um well, I did want to look at some of
the special education um percentages. Um, I think that I was finding it I know that our middle school age group can sometimes uh look a little different, but what I'm I'm noticing is that both
in reading and in math that we're seeing actually um lower scores showing up for our seventh graders. um this at the end of this year than
they were at the beginning of this year. And so I'm just feeling I'm there's to me it look it's concerning to look at these middle schoolers, these sixth, seventh, eighth graders, especially in the special education programs um not
seeing shifts in their or having their shifts actually be decreases in scores. Um, I know they're not sign like large differences, but compared to other, you
know, grades, I'm seeing that there is a trend downwards um coming from into our spring. And I just, um, I'm curious both in reading and in math. um you know what what I guess what's going
on in our middle school special education uh spaces where those students aren't maybe getting are not improving over the school year but in fact declining. >> Yeah. So I'm glad that you mentioned that because it was the same question
because I saw a trend going down this year. And so my question is we got this data you know as soon as Clark gave us the data. Now now I got to go deeper. The question is is now is when I go a little bit deeper to really get to the bottom line of what is actually is going on and things that I will be looking for
pattern. Is it chronic absentism taking place? Is it suspensions if that's the case? Do you understand? what or is it's something that is curriculum related. I do know that we work very very hard with uh this year for K5 in relationship to
working with SIS because we implement SIS but we also provide a rigorous SIS program for students with special need and we're planning to do the same thing with sixth seventh and eighth next year as we move into SIS. So um it's just
taking a closer look not only in reading but also in um mathematic to see where what what is the the what's going on in there. So it requires us to go back. So I know that I talked to Clark hey we need to look at this because whenever I looked at dips or something like this we're going to have to have deep
conversation to find out where is our opportunity missed opportunity and what do we need to do? Is it a teacher situation that you found me we need to break it down and find out did a teacher quit? the teacher got moved, what what's going on uh in detail. And each case is
different, but it's being open to finding out and I'll get back. I you know how I am. I'm going to come back and let you know, hey, this is what we were able to do. But I think like anything any year is going back and and finding out what's going on and then bringing the team together, but it's not
doing it in isolation. >> Thank you. It sounds like uh there's what you're naming is that there's going to be a stronger focus on that middle school age. Um yeah, I'm I think just through a lot of the data there's some somewhat plateauing or um in that that
range right now um in terms of growth um at looking across various demographics um relative to that K through five where you see a steady increase and then there's somewhat of a plateau that's occurring in the middle school ages. One
thing that also might be very helpful is that in the fall, you know, we purchased, thanks for the to the school board, we purchase um Kamigo, which is your personal tutor. And what happens in the classroom is this this tool helps every student special need or not and it
doesn't give the answer. It guides the student to their learning and then it's a personal tutor that helps the student. So, I think that this will be very very helpful and understanding that we we uh we have contracted with um an AI uh engineer that's going to be working with
with making sure that this gets rolled out effectively with the scholars. I think that that's going to be very very we're going to see big significant changes with that as well. And then the other aspect I've been working with uh the special ed department in relation to looking at curriculum that because we
have the you know HMH and everything else making sure that it is all enhanced and that if there's some more interventions as needed we're going to put those in there but that conversation has been going on all year but I think moving into looking at this then I know
that they will be more than happy to be able to work along with us together. Okay. But thank you for noticing because that was the biggest thing from Clark and I was and myself going back and forth. >> Thank you for your question, Trusty SB.
Trusty Goat Rich. >> Thank you, Madam President. Um, and thank you, Dr. Lopez, for the presentation. Um, I I really I appreciate the the cohort data that you've been including. I think it's helpful to see those multi-year trends
for a given cohort. Um, I also know that a lot of how these data are presented is a little constrained by the that the format's constrained by the 104H requirements. Um, I want to make my perennial pitch that it would be nice to
be able to see some distributions because we're, you know, I know that the they're not strictly averages, but we're reducing, you know, entire grade bands um or even entire subgroups within a grade band to one point. And those that
doesn't show us like how tightly students are clustered along there or how long the tails might be. Um, which Anyway, I'm I'm going to make my pitch again that depending on how planning for the board retreat goes, maybe a a deep
dive perhaps particularly around like those fifth to sixth or 8th to 9th transitions. So, we've been able to watch the cohorts, but actually being able to see what's happening at those transitional years over a number of years. um maybe with the context of when
some of these curricular implementations happen would help us kind of see how the district's investments are playing out in our achievement and growth data. Um and also I think it would be good for us to have a space to talk about some of the limitations of these kinds of
achievement and growth data. Um, I'd also love if if there were an opportunity at some point to explore uh achievement measures uh especially with respect to student subopuls that aren't
covered captured by NWA, say for our full suite of distance learning students. Um, and yeah, just so I' I'd love to understand a little more how you're analyzing and teasing out the role of absence and illness in some of those places like where you saw the um
dips in first, fourth, and fifth grade growth. Um, I can't remember now if it's reading or math. Anyway, sorry. I don't have any questions that I really expect you to answer right now, but I have wishes for the future if if time allows depending on the will of the board and or that might also be work that the um
the my subcommittee might want to to look into and guide. And >> I think you bring up a couple of things. Number one, can I answer a couple questions? If you look at this data, you notice that um sixth, seventh, and eighth graders also at the learning
online also were and I'm pretty sure you look no different. I mean, and so my question was what's going on here, right? And then but that one was easy to figure out because when we looked at it, what's challenging is is some of the students in the middle school mid year
get transferred late in the year into that school right before the assessments. And these were students that at sometimes when we're looking then when they would transition to online disappear for a while and then pop back in. So in essence they lost some learning. So one of the things for
us to look at is what does that transition from a regular middle school to that school needs to be no different than from the high school to ace. What does that transition and what's that timeline and while the students are going there? what kind of supports are
we really providing those youngsters and you know until that transition is smooth. So that's something that we're talking about and I and that's I'm going to show you what our plan is when we go to the course catalog so you can see some of the thinking behind it from uh the the principles from some of these
locations. But the other thing that I want to mention one of the things that's very important because we have the ABA students and they they are online the these are the students 9 to 12 they're completely online. So, one of the things that you may ask me would be, hey, what kind of assessments do these students
have? Well, they have local um the local assessments that they they're required and then they're utilizing those. So, those are very teacherdriven and and also assessed through the program you you every time they finish a unit, they have to take proficiency and meet those.
So, those proficiency are measured aligned to um uh they're aligned to standards. And so in essence they can't pass those modules unless they pass those. So they're those students are taking more rigorous standards than even the rest of the
other students. Not to say that they the norm the regular kids don't but those those students in ABA are in order to move and graduate they because they got to catch up. So they got to be constantly on it. And so we're lucky that we have Pat who um Steven McGee and
she calls him and she works and then if they need some support they come and get the support. So it's like um it's it's like anything else. It's just being on top reminding the students and whatever. But as you notice, you saw the amount of students who were able to graduate. Uh but they couldn't graduate
if they didn't pass those assessment. It's not like anybody said, "Well, just because you're a senior, you're going to graduate." It doesn't happen. Okay. is the I don't know if you have any question but but you know one thing that I that you're always going to get for me is transparency and then the reality is uh the beauty though is going back and
all of us sitting there and really looking at hey how are we going to impact and change and and create these opportunities because at the end of the day is the students who are in front of us that we need to make sure that we're being impactful with uh >> Trusty Go thank you for your comments.
Um any other board questions or comments? Um, so thank you Dr. Lopez for the presentation. We know it's a lot of data to digest. Um, and the board I'm sure will have more questions. Um I did hear that um there were some um in there was
some interest in doing a deeper dive and it sounds like that's some follow-up that you're going to do and perhaps some opportunities for more in-depth discussions um at our retreat um to have those opportunities to kind of get a more of a picture of what might
be happening especially at those transition grades from 6th to 6th and from um 8 to 9. Uh so we look forward to more conversations and I know this also is some work that might come through our subcommittee as well um in terms of examining the data a little bit closer.
Um so thank you so much for this presentation this evening and I know Dr. Zachary Ross you're going to Yep. Again thank you board members and Dr. Mr. Lopez will now
transition to the 2627 course catalog as he stated. Um we are adding additional courses based off of the data and based off of some of the CTE opportunities. So these are the course catalog descriptions that must come before you
and later in the agenda it we're asking for you to adopt it. >> So I'm not going to have you go through the course catalog but if you took a look I just gonna let you know what's new. Okay. Uh, as you know, coming this fall, we have a whole AI pathway from
middle school all the way to uh, uh, um, 12th grade. And so, I'm just going to read some of the course difference descriptions that were developed, courses that were developed for middle school. Um, uh, introduction to Python programming one, uh, introduction to
Python programming two for, uh, and then AI ethics and and responsible use. Those are the three courses, one for sixth, seventh, and one for eighth grade. And those are the courses for that. And then for high school as they transition into
9, 10th, 11, um the the first course is generative AI and prompt engineering. And the second course in 10th grade will be AI foundations with Python. And then in 11th grade is AI application
development with Pi Python. And then in 12th is AI science uh and automation. Um these are some of the new courses to be to keep up with our pathway that we were able to nicely put into our courses in
the fall which I'm excited about. The other set here very briefly I would call some of these these are additional IB courses that we need to put into the program because as turquoise Neil said we are optimistic that we're going to meet all the requirements and we're
going to put those in the course and we're going to offer them. So here are the courses that we're offering and number one is um the IBDP environmental systems for society and then we're going to be I the IBDP
Spanish language um year part one part two and we also have IBDP psychology and then we got IDP or I IBDP theater theater um uh A and B. This is like a whole year kind of a
thing. And then you got the IBDP music and that is part A part B which means the whole year. And then they have IBDP global politics and these courses. So think about these courses at the high school. Uh how engaging that that will
be for a lot of our students as they um take these courses with with those additional. Then what I'm going to talk the last and not least but is the ACE course catalog was updated and these are some of the c new courses that are going to be offered. It's a little much but
I'm going to go fast. Creative writing beginning ELD one and two middle intermediate EL that's for English language development okay for for bilingual students and high ELD one and two because of the largest number of bilingual students they have they need
to be able to offer these courses. Um, then they have ELD English 12, EL reading, African-American history, AM, sports history, drawing AM, painting,
drama, personal fitness, team sports, spoken word to music appreciation, spoken word poetry, YCS at work, which is think about this is getting into entrepreneurship and business inter entrepreneurship where
students actually go off base to work and that kind of thing marketing A&B coding and animation computer applications engineering technology and society
engineering design IIA robotics exploratory literature creative writing strategic reading environmental science, earth science and um and those are the final courses for there for that for ACE. So one of
the things that you'll find when you look at the course catalog is all the options. I hope that you uh were able to see all the courses that are be going into ACE very rigorous very amazing as you noticed we had a large number of
students who have 4.0 GPS in uh in school. So, we need to make sure that we're making the curriculum as rigorous as we can. High rigor with high supports and those pieces. What questions might you have? I could talk about any of these, but I'm excited of where we're the pathway that we're going with
innovation and all the opportunities. >> Thank you, Dr. Lopez. Uh board members, what questions might you have? >> Thank you, Dr. Lopez, um for your presentation. I was just I I can't remember
this weekend, so forgive me. But with the WCC courses for ACE, you I know at the high school they have the opportunity to do both. Is that opportunity not the same at ACE
or um >> it's still the same. Uh if a student wants to because we have a lot of students who want to participate. So this year we've been talking I've been talking with Lesie uh Davis and she wants to really ensure and
um promote for students so more students are engaged in taking advantage of these experiences. So if those are offer and students are ready and want to handle this challenge why not >> the dual enrollment option there too.
>> Okay. >> Yes. I just wanted to clarify that um they have the requirements of the acupplacer so everyone can take the acupplacer. So that's what he meant if they're ready because it's WCC has specific numbers that they have to meet but they can always take the course
>> the prerequisites but no disrespect where we had so many kids with 4.0 this year any of those students could have done well. >> Thank you for your question trusty towns. Are there any other for questions or comments? Trusty Sutton Kenny Sun Kennedy.
>> Um, thank you for sharing all of this information. I just had a question about one of the courses. I just I was interested and I wanted to make sure I found that one and it was the IBDP something about environmental um Can you repeat that one? >> Oh yeah, let me give me a second.
>> It's called IBDP environmental systems and society. I'll give you this if you want to see. Okay. Um the the other thing that Oh my goodness. I was gonna say something my mind is I'm sorry it's just something
about A's you know. Oh, the the biggest thing this year there were a number of students our kids our students some of our students are completing those courses way ahead of their and so instead of graduating the students out too early the one thing
that we're going to be looking at is providing the CTE and all these other options so that that way students can participate not only is better funding for the district but an opportunity to send these young people with some you know other skill sets
in CTE. So that's where the dual enrollment may come in or even um them participating us using those Toyota buses to transfer them to uh to these locations so they can participate from all these amazing CTE opportunities that we have.
>> Um Madam President, can I ask one more question? >> Of course. So, I'm glad you mentioned that um because I I think it's, you know, with ACE, you you have the opportunity to do a lot of testing out and things like that. But one of my concerns is um having scholars leave too
early and not be mature enough or legally ready to >> to work, you know. So, that's a it could be more than a gap year to where they basically are at home and then you lose
that, you know, information. Um, so it would be good even if there were built-in internships and maybe that's what you're talking about. >> That's what we're talking about and that's why those internships that we have there. That's the what those internships going to be >> which could possibly provide them with
other opportunities for more credentials or something like that. So glad to hear that. >> I'm excited and I Thank you, Trusty Sutton Kennedy and Trusty Talzin. Any other board questions,
comments? Yes, Vice President Lee, >> will these be paid internships or >> you know, we're always looking for everything and with when you work for Alina Zachary Ross, you know that I I have to go look for those. But, you know, when we've gone to all the states
that we have been able to do, we we've seen those. So, we need to just start thinking differently in Michigan. But I think if we start I mean we're early adopters so if we could start doing this and I'm pretty sure that we could get to that space of paid internship because I
know that that happens in Southwest Detroit uh for Christo Ray Academy and they get paid in internships >> with the new CTE Millers. We're looking at other opportunities to extend. So this is like one step that you've seen
and that was part of the whole county getting around is the apprenticeships and internships. We can't pay students. So that's going however we've been trying to look at okay what are ways in which these internships and
apprenticeships but again this is we just passed the millillage but it's been a part of the conversations. >> Okay. They probably have to be a certain age before being paid. >> It's not just the age. It's like who is the fiduciary agency that can actually
pay us dollar like >> right now schools. >> Okay. So, this may be an opportunity for to have a larger conversation with um the county especially like with the OCD and their summer works program or
expanding it out even Michigan works. But I think that's a direction to go in. Thank you. >> What um how would it I mean it's the same concept but you know how we back in that day you know we had the co-op type things where that company pays them even though they're kind of there on the
co-op because they're also earning money and they also getting the grades but that was I don't know how that looks but could it fall under something like that is you know that's the conversation because that never was a problem. I don't know why it went away but you know what I mean the same concept because I did it when I was in high school we I worked and I went to school but that
company that I work for paid me it didn't come from the school you know man so is that like an thing >> part uh yeah it's been quite a few years that we have right and that's where part of you saw me write in the board update that I was testifying about being an
innovative districts in the state part of those conversations are about seat time that limits the ability to do co-op now. Um so seat time and opportunities to have these um >> coaches that are not necessarily
teachers so that they can go on site >> and look at those places and that's where like Dr. Lopez talks about in other states and other places you have to have someone go to that work site. So some all of those were kind of in that package um to think about like how a
district could present uh some opportunities like that. We do have right now the best program that just started last year. We had just one I think one student graduated in the best program and that is you get training about how those um durable skills about
how to work and then the next year is that internship is right now hasn't been paid. We do have some paid ones through Toyota with fame. Um and so there's specific niche ones but it's not like we're looking for
internships and apprentichip um in a big way. Um so that is part of what we've been talking about with the with the CTE millage of opportunities to like be clear about payments, be clear about
and it's really during a school year. We know we work with some during the summer too like that are eight but 18 years old, but we really want to come down lower to be able to um have some of our juniors and seniors um because they get their work permits but working to be
able to have real work in that's connected to the academics is the difference. >> So the word is yet yet but we'll get we'll get there but thank you Thank you, Vice President Lee and Trusty Fields for those questions and all board
members for your questions before Dr. Lopez leaves. Any other comments or questions? Thank you Dr. Lopez for the 104H goal setting requirement presentation and the updates for the 2026 2027 course
catalog. Next, that takes us to our consent agenda. We are at item number seven on our agenda for this evening. Is there a motion at this time? >> Madame President, Vice President Lee move that the board of education approve the
one May 11, 2026 regular board minutes. Two, personnel matters as per the presented list dated 52726. New hires, resignations, terminations,
and retirements. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Vice President Lee. Is there support for this motion? >> Feels I support. >> Thank you. Supported by Trustee Fields. All those in favor? >> Those opposed. That motion carries. That
takes us now to our action item under student affairs, which is the approval for our annual instructional material and contract renewals. Is there a motion at this time? Madame President, I move that the board of education approve the one imagine learning quote for the
purchase amount of 26,2250. Two, beable education quote for a purchase amount of $57,262.50. Three, beable education quote for a purchase amount of $28,215. Four, be able quote for a purchase
amount of $23,85. Five, play Lab quote for a purchase amount of $35,650. Six, pediatric Therapy Associates LLC quote for $947,33.50. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Trusty Goodrich. Is there support for
this motion? >> Support. Vice President Lee. >> Thank you. is supported by Vice President Lee. Any questions, board members? >> Um, Madam President, I have a question. >> Um, with the quote from pediatric therapy, I just want to make sure I'm
seeing this correctly. I don't see we don't offer any of these services at Esther. If it's for they it's only for this is the contracted therap so there's people it's probably YCS people doing that so
it's literally only where they're doing all the services. >> Okay. >> Um so sorry Madam President. >> Oh go ahead. uh trust. I think uh along those lines um I I I guess there is a
bit of concern raised in that um from the fact that it sounds like um from some of the conversations that I've been I've had with parents is that there is a need for more services to be at Estherbrook for the students in the
special education programs. And so I'm wondering what it looks like for us to um increase that and add that into our our contract or do add an addition or some a supplemental thing for that
because I do think that there there's been a need expressed um by parents in that super community. We'd have to talk with special services to see because this obviously based on the numbers of what the IEP states. So
this this meets the IEP. So we can follow up >> this >> and there could be an addendum if needed >> if needed because that we it's also what services they because pediac is what they actually service and then if they can give us people for that. This is
when we have gaps we do not want to have gaps anymore. So we've been utilizing the different services that have we work with the ISD to use with the contractors that are qualified. It's just it has to meet it's a specific IEP that we're
trying to spec to ensure that that service is given right >> on the individual yeah for the individual educational plans for those students. But um yeah, I think that taking a second look in that area might
be um worthwhile and I appreciate that. >> Thank you trustees Townsen and Espie for those questions and it sounds like we'll get some followup regarding the um services at Esesterbrook. Um and that question will go to student support services. Any other board questions or
comments related to this motion? Seeing none, a motion was made by Trusty Goodrich, supported by Vice President Lee. All those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed. That motion carries. That now takes us to the NWA purchase. Is
there a motion at this time? >> Madam President, Trusty Fields move that the board of education approve the NWA purchase for a pay upfront three-year contract tolling in the amount of $120,147.50.
50 cents. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Trusty Fields. Is there support for this motion? >> Support Trusty Townsen. >> Thank you. Supported by Trusty Townsen. Any questions on this item? Board members? >> Seeing none, all those in favor?
>> I. >> Those opposed? That motion carries. That now takes us to the resolution for the Michigan High School Athletic Association. Is there a motion at this time? >> Trustee Espie, I move that the board of education approve the resolution for
membership in the Michigan High School Athletic Association effective August 1st, 2026 through July 31st, 2027. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Trustee Espie. Is there support for this motion? support. Trustee Sutton Kennedy.
>> Thank you. Supported by Trustee Sutton Kennedy. Any questions or discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? That motion carries. That now takes us to the approval of the YCS
2026 2027 course catalog. Is there a motion at this time? Madame President, Trusty Fields move that the board of education adopt the YCS 2026 2027 K through 12 course catalog.
>> Thank you. A motion has been made by Trustee Fields. Is there support for this motion? >> Trustee Espie, I support. >> Thank you. Supported by Trustee Espie. All those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? That motion carries. Next, that takes us to our action item
under human resources, which is the approval of the Reed Willis company contract. Is there a motion at this time? >> Madame President, Vice President Lee move that the board of education approve the Reed Willis company contract as presented.
>> Thank you. A motion has been made by Vice President Lee. Is there support for this motion? >> Support. Trustee Sutton Kennedy. >> Thank you. Supported by Trustee Sutton Kennedy. Any questions or comments from the court? >> Madam President, I just want to make
sure that we have the correct contract amount. >> Um, what is written says 24,000. I mean, what is it says it shall not exceed 24,000, but then it's written 24,500. So, I want to make the correct amount.
It's 24,000. Okay. It's 20. It It looks like in parentheses it says 24,500. >> Mine's $50. >> Yeah. The written and the >> Right. >> But what legally would it
>> Right. You're right. based on the installment plan. Um, it appears that the the number is correct and not the written number. >> Um, however, I feel like in terms of signing this contract, we should make
sure that they are in alignment. legally is going to be the written. If you went to a bank, it's going to be written >> the wording. >> Yeah. I just want to make sure it >> align. Yeah. What I was saying is >> the int the intention appears to be the um
written number, not the >> the 24,000 does seem to match the uh 12 equally equal monthly installments of $2,000. that's paid uh on the 15th of each month. >> So you have to so you have to fix the ring. >> Make sure before it's signed that it's
>> that we make that adjustment. Absolutely. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Trusty Thompson. >> So should we table this until it's um corrected? >> Um I don't think we need to table it,
but we do need to reread the motion to amend that we approve the amended contract. But we don't Well, we don't have a copy of it, right? >> We don't. >> So, that's what she's saying. >> I mean, we talked about it, but we don't have it in front of us as amended. We just saying it, but we don't have a
written amended copy is what Vice President Lee is addressing. >> Right. I was just thinking because of the board feedback that we have two amounts. One in parenthesis is written out and one in in writing is correct. So it looks like what's in parenthesis just
needs to be updated to reflect the written out dollar amount. >> Um so am I hearing >> amend the motion? >> Yes, that's what I mean >> to change the wording. >> Make sure it Yes, there's an approval >> to amend with the with the understanding
that the language >> Absolutely. Absolutely. So I hear what she's saying, but that makes sense, but I was just want to clarify what she was asking. >> Right. We're saying we approve it um with the understanding that that will be
changed prior to signing. >> Yes. >> Who would like to make the amended motion? >> Got to say, we got to make sure we say it right. That's right. >> You can amend it. >> Okay.
So, Vice President Lee move that the board of education approve the amended re Willis company contract as presented >> to reflect >> to reflect >> 24,000
>> 24,000. >> Yep. Both in um dollars and in written form. >> And in written form. >> Yeah. Right. Thank you, Vice President Lee. Uh a motion has been made by Vice President
Lee. Amended. Uh motion has been made by Vice President Lee. Um, Trusty Sutton Kennedy, would you like to support that motion? >> Support Trusty Sutton Kennedy. >> Thank you. Supported by Trusty Sutton Kennedy. All those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? That motion carries. That
now takes us to item number 10, which is under business and finance, and that is the acceptance of the Ipsellani Community Middle School main entrance sidewalk repair bid award. Is there a motion at this time? Trustee Espie, I
move that the board of education approve the contract award to carpentry concepts for YC if community schools middle school main entrance sidewalk repair of 40,000 or 40,400
44,850. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Trusty Espie. Is there support for this motion? Trusty Fields, I support. >> Thank you. Supported by Trusty Fields. Any questions from board members on this item? >> I do have one question, please.
>> Of course, Vice President Lee, >> um, is this a total dig out or will it just be laid out? >> We'll have Mr. Burch come up and answer your question.
>> Good evening. Um they're going to pull the sidewalk completely out because as we tried to patch it in the past, um we've realized the concrete was not thick enough. It was was subpar. So they're going to dig it out, pull the dirt out of it, re um repack the what
needs to be done and then pour 4 in thick concrete slab. Right now we got about a one inch slab up there for where the sidewalk is. It was not done properly when they built the building. So now we're going through the 4 in I think with 4,000 PSI pressure. So it
will be dug out and everything on the front of the the complete slab in the front of the main entrance of the school. So that's why. >> All righty. Any other questions? >> Thank you, Mr. Burchwell. So we had a motion made by Trusty Espie,
supported by Trustee Fields. All those in favor? >> Those opposed? That motion carries. That now takes us to the acceptance of the Susan Dixs Psychological Services LLC contract. Is there a motion at this
time? >> Trusty Sutton Kennedy moved that the board of education accept the Susan Dixs Psychological Services LLC contract for $57,600. >> Thank you. A motion has been made by Trusty Sutton Kennedy. Is there support
for this motion? >> Trusty feels I support. >> Thank you. supported by Trusty Fields. Any questions? >> Yeah, I just get more clarification. >> Of course, >> because I only see and I I just want to I want to make sure I'm not missing
nothing. I only see that WISE is listed on here. Is this something similar to like the other contract? >> Absolutely. It's where there's a need that our current psychologists aren't able to fill or they're at wise. Okay.
And so do we have psych we have psych psychologist services at the other school? >> Absolutely through the whole district. We just we needed this additional psychologist so that we don't overt tax
our current psychologist. >> So >> yes, go ahead. Vice President Lee, >> this service is just for Wise. this person to be assigned at >> Wise. Okay. >> So that they know the scholars, they all know the teachers, they have that
relationship. >> End of questions or comments. Thank you for your comments. Questions board members. Uh a motion was made by Trustee Sutton Kennedy, supported by Trustee Fields. All those in favor? >> I. Those opposed? That motion carries.
That now takes us to the millage rates, the L 4029s. And is there a motion at this time? Trusty Townsen move that the board of education approve the millage rates for the 2026
tax rate request L4029s as presented for Superior Township, Ipsellani Township, and the city of Ipsellani. >> Thank you. A motion was made by Trusty Talzin. Is there support for this motion? >> Vice President Lee
>> support. >> Thank you. That motion was supported by Vice President Lee. Any questions or comments, board members? Seeing none, all those in favor? >> I. >> Those opposed? That motion carries. That now takes us to the a donation uh from
the McGregor Fund. Is there a motion at this time? Trustee Espie, I move that the board of education accept the donation of $15,000 from the McGregor Fund to the YCS student support services. >> Thank you. A motion was made by Trustee
Espie. Is there support for this motion? >> Support Trusty Sutton Kennedy. >> Who would like that? >> A motion was made by Trustee Espie and it was supported by Trusty Townsen. All those in favor? I
>> those opposed that motion carries. Uh thank you McGregor Fund um for all you have done for our students to impact them with this donation. >> Uh next that takes us to a donation for the Ipsellani Community Schools event
series. Is there a motion at this time? >> Trusty Townsen move that the board of education accepts donation from Washington community back up. Washington Community College for $1,500. Uh Waker Chemical for $1,000 for the YCS
event series. Thank you. A motion was made by Trustee Towns. Is there a support for this motion? >> Support. >> Support. Vice President Lee. >> Uh thank you. Supported by Vice President Lee. All those in favor? >> I I. >> Those opposed? That motion carries.
Thank you. from all the students that you are impacting with this donation um for our jazz it looks like series and >> our face conference back to school bash jazz in the parking lot I already said
that uh thank you so much for this generous uh donation um that will impact our community and our students. Next, that takes us to our action item under number 11, which is the 2026 2027 renewal of the membership with the
Michigan Association of School Boards, MASB. Is there a motion at this time? Madame President, Vice President Lee move that the board of education approve the 2026 27 renewal a membership with the Michigan Association of School Boards at
a cost of $7,962.71. >> Thank you. A motion was made by Vice President Lee. Is there support for this motion? >> Support Trusty Sang Hennity. All right. Supported by Trustee Sutton Kennedy. All those in favor? I.
>> Those opposed? That motion carries. That now takes us to our second public comment section for this evening. Miss Haynes, have any public comment cards come in? >> No. >> Thank you so much. Um, that takes us now to board of education subcommittee
reports. Any subcommittee reports at this time? Uh, yes, Madame President, Vice President Lee, I do have a final report from the Head Start policy. We had one
last month. That was our last one. >> Um, for our final enrollment for 2026, U. Ford had 63 enrollment out of 75 for Head Start,
15 out of 37 for GSRP. Perry has 55 out of 56 for Head Start, 21 out of 56 for GSRP. Batty had 84 out of 90 for Head Start, 19
out of 22 for GSP. Great. Um they had started um accepting applications >> for this coming year already. >> They have a waiting list
>> already for Head Start. 17 on the waiting list, eight for GSRP on the waiting list. Um, they are having a 2026, 2027 parent
orientation. Welcome to YCS Preschool. >> The date is August 27, 2026. The location would be at B. Parents from all sites are invited.
>> The time they are having two sessions. The time is at 10 to 12 and the second session will be from 2 to 4. And let's see. And that will that's it. All right. So I
will be continue next year all parents and it was a great pleasure to be on that committee and I'm looking forward to being on it next year. >> Excellent. Thank you so much, Vice President Lee, for that update on where
things stand with Head Start. Um looking forward to another great year. Um other subcommittee reports at this time. Um, Trusty Fields, I know we don't I don't really have a report per se, but I have a question regarding my subcommittee on
I was feel like I'm loud for the um communications. So, I'm on my schedule for June 3rd for communications, but then this is on June 3rd, so I need to get some clarification. It was switched. So I maybe I haven't
gotten >> Okay, I have it on my calendar now. June 3rd. So something must have came out at some point because it says Wednesday, June 3rd community that you know what I think it says engagement. So my bad. So it's the 15th is our next. That's what I got to have. So it's cut it off. So
that's on the 15th is our community. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for clarif I'm like wait a minute. No we not >> Okay. >> That makes sense. Yes. >> Okay. Perfect. >> Yeah. >> So I don't really So I don't really have any reports right now because we haven't
met yet. >> Okay. Well, thank you Trusty Fields. Any other subcommittee reports? Uh Trusty Goodrich. >> Thank you, Madam President. Uh the policy subcommittee last met on May 12th. Uh, our next policy subcommittee
meeting is coming up um on June 18th with our review of administrative recommendations to start on June 11th so we can be ready for that June 18th meeting. Uh, that's theoretically the last one. So, we're going to get through all the 4,000s and the 5000s and the new
update package coming out on that day maybe, >> but I think we're going to need one more to come back and wrap up. So, um, okay. because we do have some outstanding things from previous series. I also just wanted to let everyone know that Trun is having a policy workshop coming up on
June 11th and 12th that covers the full policy implementation package. So, um I'm going to attend that. If anyone on the board would like to go and be totally up to speed when we bring this whole new package to you, you could be there, too. Um, but uh, thanks as always
to the subcommittee and to all of the members of the administration who have been supporting us with recommendations. I know it's a huge lift and um, hopefully before school starts we'll be there. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Goodrich. other
subcommittee reports. Um, uh, finance and operations. There was an email sent out, um, May, I think 27th, just asking if we could switch the meeting to the 15th at 6:30. So, please, um, committee
members respond to that, including myself. Um and then the next uh YCS the YCS foundation meeting will be next Wednesday and that will be on
next Wednesday is the 10th at 12 via Zoom. Uh so please make sure Okay. >> Thank you, Trusty Townsen. Um, just for clarity, the ask is the for board
members to respond. >> Yes. Uh, Julie sent out a an email and I must have overlooked it myself. So, I just when Trusty Fields had mentioned usually our meetings are on the same days for communications and finance. So, I just noticed that and so if you're on
that committee, just make sure we respond so we can confirm with Julie. >> Okay. Thank you, Trusty Townsen. Um, other subcommittee reports. Trusty Sutton Kennedy. >> Trusty Sutton Kennedy. Um, so this past Thursday, we had the
mindset meeting. Um and uh Kelly Mikkel presented um to a group of parents and a few board members here. Trustee SB and um Vice President Lee were there as well um on the Toyota partnership and what that
means and what that looks like in our schools. Um it was a really engaging meeting. We started out with having uh a ziploc bag full of Legos and we were instructed to build a car in five minutes with using as many pieces in this Lego bag. Um you know in five
minutes as as best as we could. Um that was the only instructions we were given. We all attempted to do so. Um, we quickly discovered that some of the bags had different pieces, maybe not all the pieces that we needed, and some folks were not, you know, aware of how to
build a car. So, there was a little frustration in the room, even though we were all still enjoying, you know, because we know that there's a purpose to this um to that activity. And then um after we completed that five minutes, we were then given a complete set of Legos
um with instructions and instructed to do the same thing. and the difference in >> what we did with the without the right PE without having the right pieces, without having instruction. And then most of us were able to actually
accomplish it the second time around when we had the right supports, the right instruction um and the right pieces, resources to be able to accomplish the goal. So that was a really nice way to sort of demonstrate the importance of having the right supports and resources um to accomplish
a goal. It was really engaging. Um, and so we got to um, learn a lot about what the Toyota partnership means for our district um, and for our scholars. And so that was um, it was really good to get to learn about all of those details.
And Trustee SB or Vice President Lee, is there anything else you want to add to um, about that meeting? Uh I think it was uh talking about um one component was looking at the fact
that we have moved into supporting these schools as magnet schools. Um but that our magnet program um is is non traditional as magnet programs go. Um, a lot of times when people look at think about magnet programs, it's
only covering one type of topic and you have to test into a school. Um, and that is not the way that we're doing. That's not what it means for us to be enga h having magnet schools in our district. Um, and so, uh, that's that's a unique
thing about the way that we are you utilizing those magnet funds is that we're not, uh, making these schools exclusive to one type of, uh, programming or not. And they also are not required to test in or they're, you
know, any student is able to go to those those buildings in this in the Ipsellani school district. And what you said actually just reminded me of another thing that u Miss Nichols shared in that meeting and it was that how our district is implementing all of
these things between the magnet um grant and the Toyota partnership is being very different and more intentional than other districts where it's not just like oh we want to provide our scholars with hands-on experiences and we just sprinkle those in
>> randomly like oh let's just do this. we did a hands-on activity, we accomplished it. That that's not how we're implementing it is more intentional and we want to really embed hands-on experiences and real world experiences in all as much as we can of our of our
classrooms. And so, um, that distinction was really nice to hear hear about. And I would also add on to that is that we're really trying to do this in an equitable model so that supports are going to every school building that
needs it based on their need. Um and in the sense that there are some buildings that may have PTO's or additional supports. Um the goal is to make sure that all the schools are still able to do the same type of programming and have
the same resources. And so that's part of how we're utilizing this magnet funds is making sure that it gets spread equitably across um the schools and everyone is able to participate in the same ways.
>> Thank you. Um I also need to would like to share um a report out from the legislative breakfast that happened on um 18th of May. Um that was our quarterly breakfast where um superintendents, board members uh meet
with um our local legislators, senators, and um representatives to discuss um education as it relates to our um our area. Um and we can talk about what's going on at the state level as well as
the local level. And so what happened in that meeting, as we normally do, we started out with a conversation on federal, you know, what's going on at the federal level and the state level. Um, as far as the state goes, we talked about the school aid fund being, you
know, pretty good right now. Um, but one of our um, Congress or sorry, senators reminded us about the roads bill passing um, last year and that, you know, we we don't yet know how that's going to impact that school a fund. So, so be a
little bit mindful regarding that. Um, our uh Naomi Norman from the WISD um shared some uh concerns and questions with our representatives about um different versions of 31A budget that
were out at the time. And then we went on discussing um the the experiences and considerations and thoughts that each district took around whether they would accept that um 31A I
believe it was just one AA uh funds or not. And we were able to share some thoughts um in considerations with um the representatives and senators in the room um directly so they understood what things districts, board members were thinking about when it went
into making decisions around um those funds. Um we discussed the new literacy um laws coming into um coming up here shortly for implementation. Um, one of the
requests was that um, we don't name uh, specific vendor in that legislation, which would allow districts the um, autonomy to select some a vendor that works for their district but also um, meets the goals of that law. Um, and
then reminding our legislators that if you're mandating something, please make sure you put the funding behind that um, and the resources to support those goals. Um, we talked about the talent together, grow your own efforts, um, and some challenges that are being experienced at
the WISD level with the money that was, um, that was set aside for that program actually being allocated and reaching those programs in time for them to um, start this fall. And then we closed out the meeting with
um, some generative work where we split into three groups to talk about three different topics. Um that was something new that we did this time and it was really interesting where we um split up and we talked about different things that um were important. One of the things that um the group that we were in
was related to um what Dr. Zachary Ross was just talking about with the CTE programs and how do we um work with our legislators to adjust our uh legislation so that we are able to have those students um in those uh co co-ops and
internships um and that we're still meeting um what we need to be doing legally um in and with in within the district um and as it related to seat time rules. And then there was another group that talked about um
IEPs um and school of choice and some of the challenges related to that. Um and then the last group talked about the potential um weighted formula for school funding. Um and so those were the three
topics that we discussed in there. Um and then close out with uh WISD sharing updates on um CTE funding and what that's going to look like um as we roll out everything following the approval of the CTE millage. So that was what
happened at our meeting. >> Thank you Trusty Sutton Kennedy for that update. Um are there other subcommittee reports? I think we captured everything. Um, and I just wanted to make a quick note as I was listening to um, Trustee
Sutton Kennedy and Trusty Espie and Vice President Lee. Um, the YCS priorities I feel like came out very clear in what you all are discussing which is accelerating academic excellence, advancing future ready preparedness, and allocating
resource resources equitably. like you weren't all thinking about it in that way, but I was like, those are our priorities coming through live right now in real time at the board table. So, I just wanted to make a note of that. And I just wanted to also thank all of the chairs of the subcommittees and those
who serve on the subcommittees um because this is obviously additional work that we all take on as part of this role being on the board. Um so, thank you all for your hard work and for your leadership. Um, board superintendent comments. Board,
what comments do you have? Yes, trustee. >> Thank you, Madam President. I just have a couple. Um, I'd love to wish all of our community happy Pride month. Smiled when I drove up for the meeting today. I know that
flying the flag during this month is a long-standing tradition in this district. Um, and I know that it is also reflects a commitment not just this month but every day to create a welcoming and inclusive space for all of our scholars, teachers, staff, families.
Um, so yeah, happy pride. Um, I also wanted to congratulate the students and educators who presented at the semi coalition community forum uh just last week. Um, it it was awesome to see Turquoise Neil represented with one of their highest awards and that the
physical award itself was actually made by our CTE students was incredibly cool and that community forum draws from all over Southeast Michigan, but it was YCS's show. Our students did an amazing job and represented so well and I've heard amazing things from other folks in
the community about the work that our scholars are doing and and the amazing support that they're getting from our facilities and our educators. Um, so I just want to congratulate all of them. Thank you. >> Thank you, Trusty Goodrich. Other board comments. >> Um, congratulations to all of the, um,
graduates and staff. We're almost Is it Friday? >> It's Friday. >> Yeah, I don't know nothing about that song, but anyway. Um, so we had a great graduation. Nobody fell off the stage. Y'all stayed in rhythm and in sync. We appreciate that.
But it was it was a great graduation. Um, as usual, kudos to the staff and the team um for making sure um it was successful. Um I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I'm bummed because I wasn't I was ill and I couldn't go to the play
this Friday. I really wanted to go see this play. I hope somebody record it. I hope they did. >> Um but um I think this has been a another successful year. Look forward to to um the board retreat. Um I'm sure we
have a lot of conversations about what's going on and how we can strengthen um what we're doing in regards to the strategic plan. And um yes, so kudos to administration. Survived. I did it again
on onward and forward to Grizzly Camp and all other camps. Yes. Thank you, Trusty Thompson. >> I'll be next. I guess I'll be next. Um, so my sister sent me a video of us dancing on the stage. So if anybody want a copy, they can see it because it was
like too cute. So I was like, okay, we like that. And I want to say the excitement and um I had be able to give my grandson his diploma. That was just like >> historic for me and that was a great honor. And then number three, I got
married yesterday so my name will change. So I know right after that I'm like I thought that >> I think you all for we weren't expecting that in your comments. Congratulations. >> Yeah. So I will be changing my name soon
and so yeah. So that was my that was my thing for you guys. >> I'm always known for throwing that stuff in there to people, right? Yay. Because I can keep a secret but yeah so I did. So anyway. Yes. So I will it'll be when I change it'll be hall. So,
>> okay. I just want you to know >> that's outstanding. Thank you for sharing that with us. >> Other comments from the board? >> Can't can't really top that. Yeah,
that was a good surprise. >> Yes. >> Yes. I I'll dare to go after that. Um I had the pleasure of attending the ACE um showcase. Is that what it was called? Um what was that? The day before graduation
or I don't know last week at some point one of those weeks. Um it was an amazing event and I really appreciated how you know I feel like it >> introduced me to all of the scholars at that school and their achievements. So
then when I saw them at graduation I'm like oh that's the student that you know and so I really appreciated that event. um and the families enjoying it. There was so much joy and tears with um you know families just being so proud of all
the scholars that were getting ready to graduate um later that week and you know graduation was awesome. Um and congratulations to the class of 2026. Um yeah, >> thank you Trusty uh Fields and Trusty
Sutton Kennedy. Any other comments? Um I would just echo the sentiments about graduation. Um we flexed and I think that's the name of the dance that we did and we as said we we did it well. Um is that the video that you shared
with us? Okay. I know the one was sent to us but is there another one? Something was shared. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you for sharing that. Um,
congratulations to our 2026 graduates. It was an excellent uh, graduation. Uh, families were proud, our students were proud. Um, it was just a day full of joy. Um, I too had the opportunity to be at the ACE uh, showcase. Um, and I
echoed the sentiment shared by Trusty Sutton Kennedy to see the joy and the pride uh, from our scholars and then from our parents and their their caregivers. um and the teachers. Um really proud of our students for all of their accomplishments. Um I know there
was one student uh in particular who received many many many many awards. Uh so that was a joy to see. They just kept calling the students name. Um and it was also nice to attend the Ipsellandi Community School graduation um last
week. There were so many events back to back and then after on the same day um there was the sister act two. Was that the same day? I was at the middle school graduation and then then I went to the high school to go see
sister act and it was it was the same. It was like that I was like okay where I got to go next. Uh but it was outstanding. The performance from our students was so you missed it. I hope they videotape. It was fantastic. The singing, the acting, it
was just phenomenal. So, I was glad that I was able to just participate in all these district events. And our scholars are just amazing. Um, they're just amazing. Simply amazing. Um, Dr. Zachary Ross
>> to videotape it. >> Yeah, >> I know it was a person there, but I don't know if she stayed the whole She was videoing. >> Yeah, I'm not I'm not sure. Uh and then we had two seniors who were recognized because they have already graduated and they came back to be in the PL. So it
was just it was just outstanding. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, I just would like to first um just thank our amazing um staff at YCS for just having such a
successful year. We know that like all of the things we have been able to go for the celebrations happened because of some educator. If they were whatever everyone is an educator. So whatever role they play as an educator that
touches our scholars, thank you for your hard work and dedication. Um and congratulations to all of them for a successful school year. um to our families. Um thank you for ensure giving us the opportunity to educate and just
to nurture to um be a part of their scholars lives. Obviously to this board, thank you for your leadership and just the the ability to take some things that other people might doubt and want to not move forward, but the in and the
innovation >> that just continues to that you continue to allow and then we see the scholars just soar. Um, today I think is the biggest testament of seeing the se the points of pride from Quintes like who
allows us to do that in that short period of time. You trusted in a lot of folks and that now the scholars and families are benefiting. So thank you for um your leadership and fortitude and just continuing to be that word
unapologetic about the work. Um, and our scholars, you're right, they just have shown out this year and we just know that still the best is yet to come. So, I'm looking forward to Grizzly Learning Camp and all of the things, we have so
many things happening um, still at the end of the month. So although this week is uh is is is here and it's the last week, it's still all kinds of appreciation days, promotion ceremonies, se celebrations for fifth grade, first
grade, kindergarten, um and recognition. So um I know that you can't attend them all because some of them are literally the same time. Um and we just still congratulate everyone. We know we end the week with June 4th being a half day and June 5th a half day. It's the last
day of school. And so we wish our scholars a safe um break and then our educators, you deserve it. Get some rest because we know a third of our scholars are already
Grizzly Learning Camp all the elementaryaries are full already. There's a wait list. Um, and because Grizzly Learning Camp begins on June 15th, and so there's going to be there's a lot of work in between. They have the intensive uh professional development
next week and then going straight into Grizzly Learning Camp. Um, just um a reminder that the graduation ceremony for the 2026 Ipsellani High School and Ace High School graduation um is on CTN
cable channel 18. And I have some it's going to premiere tomorrow at 8 o'clock and then it's going to keep running. There's some replays like June 6. So we'll give you those date and it's also going to be on their website. So we'll make sure that you get a copy of the
website and so um so that it is there. We're excited because we want to make sure that people are able to see it and are taking there's fam like you said families who couldn't maybe make it and so we're excited to have that opportunity. We know that you guys asked
about that beforehand and so they made that ensure that it happened. There's also just a reminder to our families, look at our July and August summer events. We know we have a board me at the end of June. We just know that
families make plans early. So, as you're making plans, don't forget about staying connected to us at YCS because we have them during the summer to engage and with the community, to stay engaged um with our families. So, we'll remind
everybody again on June 29th at the board meeting. >> Yes. >> Um and just as you're making your plans, plan on being with us, too. >> Thank um Madam President, I forgot one thing. >> Oh, go ahead. Um, I wanted to um extend
a heartful thank you and gratitude for um Dr. Hawkins and Julie Haynes and the superintendent um preparing the resolution for um Jasmine Jordan. She um received her
cosmetology license and everything through the district. She was a local entrepreneur. She also was my personal hair stylist. She unexpectedly due to a food allergy. Um and um it was it was
although it was a sad occasion >> um to be able to stand in front of the community and her her funeral was packed >> um to read the resolution on behalf of district district showed to the
community that we truly care about our alumni and If you come through here through birth and through your death, we gonna support you as a district. And I made it clear, I didn't care if they was
flyers, Phoenix's, Grizzlies, Braves, everybody stood >> and it was almost the full church. Um, and it it was just a a wonderful thing to see. So, but I thank you for um preparing all of that in that short amount of time. And her her family was
very appreciative. You're welcome, Trusty Towns. And we're happy >> and I heard it was a beautiful service and I heard you did well. Someone told >> Yes. >> Oh, you always do well. But um and then yeah, just want just want to say to have you guys just pray for my family. Um I lost a brother last week. I lost a
cousin today and probably leaves another cousin in the next couple days. Well, he's on life support so they don't expect him to make it. So if you just keep my family in prayer, seriously. So I have to laugh so I going to cry. But so I've had a hard happy occasion on Sunday, but it was been a hard two
weeks. So if you guys just keep my family in prayer. Um so sorry to hear that news and I know that we are we don't know what everybody's carrying. Um, and so we just have to keep each other lifted and um,
in our thoughts because people just see us here at the table and they don't know what we walked in with. Um, so we just have to keep that at the top of our mind. Uh, so you'll stay in our thoughts and um, this is a difficult that sounds like
it's a difficult time. So um, hang in there and let us know if we can be supportive in any way. Mhm. Um there was something that I was going to say um before all of this. It was I think it was a couple of reminders. One, the community forum is
on Wednesday. Um so if you're available and you can come out um it'll be right here. Uh we have um a Q&A session. it it's really informal but similar to what we did during the last election cycle um
just to talk to potential we don't know who is going to show up but we'll be here ready to receive them um so that'll be on Wednesday and um if you have ideas about the retreat that's coming up in August don't hesitate to share those with uh Dr. Zachary Ross and I um
because plans are underway. Um and there was something else but it has left me. So thank you board for all that you do. Um thank you for representing the district so well. Trusty Townson
with that tribute. Um and we're glad we could be available to support. Um, and I hope that we all, we got to be back here on the 29th, but if I don't say it at that time, um, I hope that we all take some time to just enjoy this summer and,
um, enjoy some peace and enjoy some moments of joy uh, because we all need it with so much happening um, around us. So, all that being said, if there are no other board comments, we are adjourned at 9:07