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meeting to order the first item on our agenda this evening is the call um of order for and the and the roll call for those Board of Education members who are present trusty goodr could you perform the roll call please certainly Madam
president trusty Sutton Kennedy present trust espie present trusty Fields here trusty Townsen here trusty Goodrich I am here vice president Lee here president Hawkins here we have seven Board of
Education members who are present um at this time that takes us to the Pledge of Allegiance I would like to invite members of the public the board administrator staff 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 which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all next that takes us the acceptance of the agenda is there a motion at this time to accept the agenda as presented Madame
president vice president Lee move that the Board of Education accept the agenda as presented thank you a motion has been made by vice president Lee is there support for this motion trusty Fields I support thank you supported by trusty
Fields all those in favor hi those oppos that motion carries next that takes us 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 just so good to have so
many of people in the house today because today is the points of Pride for ipanic Community Middle School and we have principal Charles Davis Jr here who will lead the way welcome want to do a little bit different
instead of showing you a lot of slides what we really want to do is show you who we are how we I think how we break those barriers and those things how we defeat the eyes and for excellent and so one of the
things that we wanted to do is we had a young man um I don't know how much you look at social media the day was um March 13 March 14 and we
have a amazing staff member m who really pushes kids to learn the numbers after 31 which where I sto and um have a young man knows 106 numbers after the 3.14 so I did do a
video we did 76 numbers we kept going um he is here right now he's like did it in the lunchroom in front of the whole sixth grade he let me videotape him but you guys have intimidated him
so I talked to D at change his mind but that's how we really want to start off but I have some young ladies one of the things that we really blessed to have I think over 40 flag in our building diversity is key what we do every day come in the number of
nationalities forever growing student great hello okay um I would have spoke louder I'm sorry um we got Amy Elie and lulia and they just had something that they wanted to say to you to start us
off [Music] before you come on tell me what you said in English I said uh thank you for the opportunity to talk in the school bar yeah so she said
it in Spanish in French be said in French and lul yeah so she so again we just wanted you to kind of get it started I mean the the richness and the culture is is
growing and we we celebrate so thank you next we next we're going to call up our 1080 we are 1080 engineering and racing team I came and asked you guys to give us the opportunity to go to
Chicago um I think I said we were gonna win I'm pretty sure I did say that um we did um come on up here a bring the back go bring the back mon go get one of those Dre go grab
one of those so um we we moved to a new building that we love and I'm gonna be real brief but it ain't gonna be that brief um and one of the things that we do is we have a
superintendent that she demands we strive for excellence everything that we do I ain't done um I'm gonna do two this time um almost here we go so
um these young people uh if you don't come on up here come on come on um take these r you can grab three give them to miss Julie she'll tell you who to give them to see the lady in the green over in the corner so we have gifts cuz we wanted to say thank you um
go see Miss Julie go go go see her one in the green go go go go and so um again so look you gotta do you know their name find the name see the name on the black part yeah let me show
you he did that's right said look I to read siid real well so baby Dr Zachary Ross black and white there you go so this is a h a small a small token of appreciation these young people had
to um design a poster that talked about the theme of the year they had to do a data design driven um paper they had to do a tech report they did a drag race with a tech report
they made a commercial they what am I missing um what else we have to do it was six seven different items that they had to do and we stayed every day since you gave us the approval after school
for three four hours a day and so for us um last year we won the racing events this year we were the grand Champions we won everything wow so they were challenged by Dr um
Banks and she really came in last minute and asked for us to to come in and and do it we they they really worked really hard they um they they exceeded all our expectations so um they represented us
so well that everybody knew who we were I think they felt the um they called our Nam so many times that the kids were like them again so it was kind of you know um in our district we get um we kind of used to people underestimating us um but it was a
beautiful thing to have people recognized them uh one of the young man was like man she's doing this so we we we just we we're not going to win and and we love that honestly I mean I'm going just tell you that that's a beautiful thing our kids believe Toyota
showed us so much support they came and watched the they watched the Races they took us in they spent a whole hour with our students and it was uh it was amazing so again for us to um have that opportunity was a great uh we will be
asking a little bit later to go to Nationals I'm just throwing that in so you can because we want to go uh win that one too so um these are 1080 racing team so thank so next what we're going to do
because we're gonna be really mindful of time and the room is I mean this standard room only which is what we love um we had a musical and before I even talk about the music I want to thank a lot of you for showing up um it means
everything and um we haven't had a musical in a while but wait till you get a look at some of you it's going to be the first time you see it but this is just a snippet of what they did um it was I want to say Flawless performances
nobody forgot their lines no stage fright no hiccups it was one of the most phenomenal things that I saw for them to remember remember every line the way that they dance the way that um Miss Chester Miss Brady Miss tyranny
Miss har just it was a collective group um who am I missing Miss uh Wagner um not just the people who did the performances almost our entire staff showed up and they brought their
families that on a Saturday that's the community that we're building that's the thing that when we talk about points of Pride that's what we're so proud of um now we're going to um you guys have seek we're going to bring up in character two of the most talented young people and
they're going to give you a quick snippet like um so come on up this is um okay you want it right my name is Brianna aungi I'm in sixth grade and I play Marty the zebra my name is Jordan Jerry I'm in
sixth grade and I play Alex the Lion e e e e thank you guys um so with that we're going to um come to an end but I want you to see just the love that and the
support that's in this room if you're a member of our staff or a parent or a student can you stand up really quick I just want to publicly say thank you so we in here de you're aent you're a you
so we just want to say thank you for the opportunity and and the support is is um it's unbelievable what you do is is thankless like we do every day but we want to take the day to say thank you and um like with that we just wna um if
there's any I don't think you have any questions during points of Pride right y don't do that right I'm generally up here trying to answer question so you good so in that case thank you and um have a great day thank you uh Mr Davis for your leadership thank you to the entire
ipolani Community Middle School uh team teachers custodians associate principal social workers everybody in the building I know Works in tandem with you to make all this happen and so I know that I speak
probably on behalf of the board is saying we are absolutely full thrilled proud and absolutely know that each and every one of you students no not students
scholars in this District can do absolutely anything you put your mind to parents community members everyone who represents some aspect of ipsan Community Middle School thank you for all that you are doing and
all that you will continue to do to shine let us give everyone another round of applause are there any board members who have any comments before we move to the next item on the agenda I do have one I do yes oh okay vice president Lee and
then uh trusty fields I just regret that I was sick I would have loved to see that performance they are just so marvelous oh where did they go are they gone oh
okay I just want to say they were fantastic so that's all I have to say oh that was great that little snippet yes you too thank you vice president Lee trusty Fields um yes I doo want to say thank
you but I saw it opening night so I got to see the four deal so for who for those who missed it but it was um really nice I went up to them and I could not believe how everything just ran it it just ran smooth I thought I was at a really like a real like Broadway plate I mean they really did really well all the
production everybody who was behind the scenes did excellent um I can't wait to see what else you guys got for us mam president thank you trusty Phils trusty Townson um I was able to um come
to the event on Saturday and um I cried through the whole entire play I just need y'all to keep being consistent cuz it matters it really does sitting in these seats can be very difficult and
sometimes it seems like it's just never ending the negativity but you all are a testament that hard work consistency care love it matters and to our Scholars
let me tell you something I don't care what nobody says to you about your school district trusting understand you coming from the best and your board got your back and we expect we have an
expectation for everybody in this District especially our Scholars to be excellent at everything that you do and I I need this drama program to grow because when I say it was some true
Talent down to the details of the set down to the program everything it matters it matters and I just want to say thank you to the entire team Mr Davis everybody please understand your
work matters and it is not in vain thank you thank you trusty Townson any other board comment right thank you again next we have the recognition of our Wayne State University seed
graduates um I'll turn this back over to Dr Zachary Ross thank you Madame President if we have seed graduates who are here will you please come to the podium as I share um information about these
amazing staff members because we know that our Scholars cannot be fully who they need to be without our our um amazing individuals who lead in the classroom and so on behalf of the Board of Education we congratulate these Wayne
State seed program graduates who just demonstrated exceptional de dedication and academic Excellence throughout their Journey these students and these people who represent just a portion of our wonderful wonderful staff members here
they haven't not only complet the rigor curriculum requirements um but they've also emerged as true leaders and innovators who embody the very best of what iolan Community Schools represent they are now the new es they
have a new ESL certifi uh certification and they're being able to put it right into practice and I want you to see the diversity of this group like where they teach uh what grade levels they teach the scholars that they touch um we are confident that these C
graduates will continue to make significant contributions to their communities and serve as inspiring example for future generations of our students um so we had we have some of our folks here but I want to just congratulate Rachel Anderson Renee
Brooks Kayla Dylan Rebecca Fuller Shannon happy Aon Kissel um William Mara Amy McVey tiia Patton Jennifer BR um Tyler rendo uh Katherine schaer Andrea St stanic and
Abigail Woodman for their contributions for going not only working all day but then going above and beyond and bringing when they did that program they had to bring the ESL work to their classrooms they had to do case studies and they
took the time and were committed to um to really Excel so we just thank you for that commitment thank you and congratulations again uh next that takes us to the recognition of our 1080 participants Dr Zachary Ross
thank you I know these Scholars came up before but if they just come up again while we are sharing because I know the board members spoke about the musical but we are incredibly proud and we knew they knew they were going to be recognizing you at this moment um of you
Scholars from ipsan Community Middle School you represented the district at the national 1080 stem tournament in Chicago your hard work and Innovation and teamwork LED you to an incredible Victory they thought last year this was
just a fluke I'm telling you you showed them this year that you have the talents you have the abilities and we are so proud that you brought home the grand prize and earn first place in multiple categories as we heard today you know
that this is a remarkable achievement that reflects not only your dedication but your un the unra support that you have in our principles principal Davis how many um Scholars competed again like at the
competition 128 teams so out of 128 teams because people hear us talking about our Scholars and folks they don't believe that we're talking about you but you are the Geniuses that we are talking about and so we are so thankful to you
for representing yourself your families in this District the WID team members we thank them and all of your classroom teachers and Leadership we thank you for pouring into these Scholars we truly believe this year we talked about
unleashing the Brilliance and you've shown us what this can mean so congratulations on your Victory you made us proud um congr congratulations to tah Hinton Anthony Perry Devonte Terry oh
Lov Lov masma um Delio um Carly Washington and Monae Johnson thank you again IPS salani Community Middle School we are so very proud of you can we all please stand to our feet because grand
prize is a big deal keep up the great work thank you next that takes us to our first action item which is under student Affairs and we have an acceptance of a field trip to Houston Texas is there a
motion at this time I'd to speak if possible um so I am Chef Deana I'm here from rctc culinary arts I'm the teaching assistant over there um we have a team
that has been working incredibly incredibly hard to try to put a meal on the International Space station through the NASA hunch program the hunch mission is to empower and Inspire students through Project based learning um
program where high school students learn 21st century skills and have the opportunity to launch their careers through participation in the design and Fabrication of Real World products for NASA so we have a team of four students
Brooklyn our mission Commander from LHS this is her second year in the top 10 in the world um Isis from LHS Ellie from ychs stem program and Nia from ychs stem program our team last year was able to
place fifth in the world and so now they're very determined to go for that number one spot to not only get a a meal on the International Space Station but to earn scholarships so already for getting to this point they have
collectively earned $40,000 in scholarships for the team if they are able to win not only does their meal get to be on the International Space Station but they have a chance for another $60,000 in scholarships
collectively so the NASA hunch program um culinary challenge is partnered with the American culinary Federation Sullivan University World chefs and the Johnson Space Center Food Lab through the astronaut culinary challenge
um they develop food items for astronauts aboard the ISS each year there is a new theme given to the schools to create a new dish taking into account all of the food processing required to get a meal into space as well as all of the strict dietary
restrictions that are required for astronauts to survive in space flight this year the theme is pasta and our team created a spicy Cajun fetuccini with chicken um schools in the US and abroad bring
dishes to their local NASA competitions to have tasting um competitions locally and then submit their scores we had a little local competition and they submit their scores um from all of the taster
to the NASA Spa uh Johnson Space Center Food Lab um and they narrowed down from there the competition started as about 300 teams and it is now narrowed down to 10 so it is quite an excellent honor for
them to make it this far so we have been invited to the Johnson Space Center to compete for that number one spot thank you thank you for that additional information um I'm just going to pause for a moment just so that we can follow
our process and protocol to make sure that we move properly move the motion we accept it it and then we'll open it up for discussion and if you could come back up so that we can ask you some questions about this amazing opportunity in program absolutely I'm so sorry if I
um stepped ahead too early I that's okay you were eager you were ready I know yes it's all good it's all good just give us a second okay absolutely okay um is there a motion at this time Madame President trusty espie
I move that the Board of Education approve the overnight field trip of the ipsan Community High School culinary program to Houston Texas on April 6th through 9th 2025 for the na for the NASA hunch culinary challenge World
Championship thank you a motion has been made by trusty espie is there support for this motion trusty Townson support thank you supported by trusty Townsen is there any discussion on this item sorry I was too excited it's all
right it's all good it's all good come on back up to the microphone cuz we might have some questions for you we got all the info but now we might have some questions yeah I'm happy to answer anything that you might have all right excellent board members do you have
questions that was a lot of information she gave us it was it was like a mini presentation I loved it I know I'm a I'm a little excited that they made it this far yes okay anything additional you want to add um just that our students it's a mixed
school team so they have worked super super hard on their own time to come together to collaborate which is absolutely amazing and they have strived for excellence and um yeah that's
it awesome I love your energy Your Enthusiasm this is an amazing opportunity for our Scholars at the high school so thank you so much for all that you are doing and I see your amazing principal is right there and got your back she's been supporting us yes I know
she has okay president oh go ahead vice president Lee okay you said that the students earn a $40,000 scholarship so that is collectively for the team so far there's four team members each of them has already earned $10,000 in
scholarships and then if they make first place it would be an additional 15,000 each for a total of 25,000 each and a total of $100,000 total okay perfect fingers crossed for
them all right any other questions comments all right just to recap a motion was made by trusty espie supported by trusty Townsen all those in favor I those opposed that motion carries we wish you
all the best and cannot wait until you come back and tell us us how you won yeah here's hoping thank you so much next that takes us to the acceptance of a field trip to Charlotte
North Carolina is there a motion at this time Madam president I move that the Board of Education approv the overnight field trip of the ipsan Community Middle School 1080 program to Charlotte North Carolina on April 24th through the 27th 2025 for the national championship
challenge for the 1080 race at the Charlotte International Speedway thank you a motion has been made by trusty towns and is there support for this motion try bills supported by trusty Fields any discussion on this
item just when comments just when okay all right a motion was made by Trust TOS supported by trusty Fields all those in favor I those opposed that motion carries wishing you all the best next that takes us to um an
acceptance of another field trip for iilani international elementary school is there a motion at this time there it looks like the wise community and Scholars are going to Somerset um is there a motion at this
time Madam president I move that the Board of Education to approve the overnight field trip of ipsan international Elementary School fifth graders to Somerset Beach Campground and Retreat Center in Somerset Michigan on May 21st through 22nd
2025 perfect a motion has been made by trusty goodr is there support for this motion support vice president Lee thank you supported by vice president Lee any questions about this field trip request I do have one please
yes vice president Lee um I think that they raising funds for a fundraiser the students are and also the PTO are giving funds
to am I correct about that is anyone here to discuss that yep I see someone coming up um yes we've raised we've had a dance and we've also asked our PTL we calculated that it cost about
$130 per kid and we're taking 60 kids overnight okay don't laugh at me I'm old but we G have fun to make sure we have enough money and then whatever we have left over go
towards next year so um all the kids are able to go that want to go you have enough 60 we have a total of about 60 kids in the fifth grade so yes all of them that can go are able to
go and then we make sure we if somebody needs extra support we try and make sure we can accommodate that okay so I was just wondering if they wasn't able to have the funds that the funds would
be there for yes always okay thank you any other questions comments okay a motion was made by uh trusty gutrich supported by vice president Lee all those in favor hi those oppose that motion carries have a
wonderful time uh next that takes us to the acceptance of uh a field trip to to the University Center in Michigan is there a motion at this time Madam president trusty Fields moved at the Board of Education approved the overnight field
trip ipsan Community High School for the first robotics competition state championship in University Center Michigan on May or is it April because it's two dates okay April 3rd to the 5th
2025 okay a motion was made by trusty Fields is there support for this motion before we move on I have on May April three through five which one is it I said it yeah yil
yeah she just said it was April 3rd through the 5th okay the May is a is a typo all right yeah cross that out trusty ESP support thank you supported by trusty ESP um and I believe uh there are Representatives here if you could
come at this time to say a little more oh yeah so we never know how our robotic season's gonna go because it's what we well you don't know first robotics is is amaz okay okay I'm a little too honest
sometimes but because we don't know how our robot's going to work at a competition because we're bu I mean we're building and designing a robot right anyway um but we uh this we've had two events this year and our first one we placed we were placed 10th in the
qualification matches out of 40 and we were able to be um a captain in the finals um and then but we didn't Place anything at that event um and then uh this last event we were uh we we we were
doing a little bit not as good but our robot was performing well and we got picked by the first and second ranked uh teams to join them for their Alliance I won't go into how robotics competitions work but it was awesome we got high
scores what you want to say you're so excited because some of the scholars on our team are going to present at the tri count cultural responsive math seminar in May about the math and the game in the robotics oh you have to check that
out yeah but what's really awesome is um during our playoffs we I think it was like three or four times we beat the score for the event like the highest score at the event and then we tied for the highest World score and so it was
like awesome it was so exciting I was just screaming in my tutu I had a gold tutu on it was amazing you got to know robotics events okay very nice anything I think they're good I just waiting to see if there's
any questions oh I was like waiting for the next scene I you know up so we ended up placing first first place at the event that's why we got the medals and awesome uh we're not we're really we're
really close to well this is the this is the thing thing is if we don't go to we're not we're not 100% that we're going to States because we have to wait two weeks before the state rankings come in place but we're at a really good place because we got to be one of the top 160 teams currently we're at
44 but there are lot of teams that still need to compete so yay we're really yeah there's a good chance all right better than ever also showed up at the event drove the van well I drove the van that was
very beautiful I was just get ready to ask who will be driving oh okay and during spring break I plan on get mine so I can drive one of the other totem you you all are outstanding I was I was I I was gonna say they want to keep you
on the team your biggest cheerleader yes May as um when will you know for sure if you were going to be able to go to the uh state tournament at the end of the month okay CU like on the
20 29th is when the last event ends and so then we will know for sure then we look forward to updates we do thank you for the invitation I might show up with my go
Tut some extras though few maybe some bare ears it's pretty fun so what fundraising have you done or will be doing yeah so we have um our our nonprofit ipsan first trox boosters
Incorporated and so we already have some funds in place um and that's what's uh kind of paining the initial costs in our hotel rooms which we got reserved now and stuff um but we're also doing I mean so we'll continue to do fundraising um I mean we do fundraising
and we're doing a um bowling fundraiser um which we're hoping to also include all the elementary and middle school teams to come um so expect to see some stuff about that so if you know anyone at a elementary school or one of the coaches there like we're going to pack out Lodge lanes and um raise some money for our
teams I might join that's May 3rd save the date if you want to do that may 3D Lodge Lanes 1230 to three okay I might come you know I'm a bowler so I think I might hang out y we do sell tickets at the door awesome any other for comments or
questions while we have this amazing team up here it's all good you are giving us lots of Joy none all right let me recap a motion
was made by trusty Fields supported by trusty espie all those in favor I those opposed that motion series have a wonderful time thank you next that takes us to thank you
Miss next that takes us to our presentations and it looks like we have three back to back so at this time I'm going to turn it over to Dr Zachary Ross thank you madam president um we
know this time of year the curriculum instruction and assessment office is quite busy preparing for next year so the first presentation um Dr Lopez will do all three presentations he'll do the first on the 2025 26 catalog the second
is the required section 98b presentation that the board um has in your bill book as well as the state required and then finally many of you had asked about the mde partnership District Benchmark uh
meeting that we had and we appreciate our trustee Madam Secretary for coming to be a part of that Dr Lopez will be sharing the results that we received from the state you as um as Julie Hayne shared she didn't
print out many of them are like 99 pages long 128 Pages they are on board thank you Dr Lopez good evening president Hawkins Bo board trustees superintendent uh saary Ross and guests
um today I have the pleasure of presenting three presentations the first one having to be the course catalog so what I each of you as board members received a large 125 page document you know so what I end up doing is I always
put a PowerPoint to highlight the new programs that we have in here and I could answer questions um that you may have but the first class the um the first program that you see up here is drone Aviation Science and Technology
that's one of our new programs that you're going we're going to see in the fall so we're excited about this it's taking a a little bit to get to this program that you just don't know um I know that um so this is one of those wonderful programs that we have coming
uh and that you could find on page 93 of the document so I put I'm putting the page number so it helps you to find it and locate it then we have IB uh diploma program and these are the classes so we have the the language and literature uh
which is in page 57 and 58 and the mathematic approaches and interpretation uh as well it's in page 64 followed by then we have the IB P PP which is the primary years prog program um classes
with uh with the IBS and so as you see here for K5 these are the ones that we offer we have the the reading the writing the mathematics the science social studies music art education physical education and Spanish prior to this we were not we had not identified
it and so since we are now a K12 program we wanted to highlight that and so we uh modified the K5 to have the the real classification and their own design of courses thanks to um turquoise Neo
who worked very hard to get this these pieces together um following the in the middle school is the ibmm YP and that is the middle school program and it's in page 35 to 54 and again when you look at it you see for grade six to8 you have
the language literature mathematics science individual and Society physical education music art and Spanish as you know we teach Spanish k uh and 68 occurs in the middle school so and IB as you know has the Spanish
component that our language component is required so on the next page we we have gotten to that point we have so many native speakers that we're offer we we're now in a great space we are now offering Spanish for Spanish speakers so because remember we have the Seal of
literacy so this will help uh those student more students be able to take that class and complete with uh the only seal that the state of Michigan puts in the diploma which is a seal by literacy so this is a great thing uh that we got into this space and so the ab means
first semester and second semester okay so and the next one is the ibcp career related program classes you'll find those in page 94 to 95 and in that retrospect we're talking about reflective project service learning language development personal and
professional skills and then as we go to to the next former classes in page 70 to 75 is the sheltered biology sheltered chemistry shelter US history and geography shelter world history and
geography shelter math skills shelter algebra and shelter geometry um well these are shelter English um courses for the number of students that we have and so these classes means that that we accelerate the ESL the English component but it's really sheltered to really help
the students be able to uh get the the the not only the language but the comprehension that goes along with the comprehensible input okay um and the next after this is what questions might you have because this these other courses that we're
offering I'm sorry go ahead trusty Townson uh just for clarifications these are for all all of the schools or just the magnet school so these are new like the shelter English is for the high school okay and then the uh Spanish for
kids at the high school okay but the IB classes are all for the IB uh program and the Drone Aviation is at the high school as well okay most of it and IB is at the magnet school correct yes okay just so with the exception of um the
elementary the elementary is wise just okay any other board questions thank you Dr Lopez no problem so now I would like to transision um we I'm going to transition to 98b uh
progress report as you know 98b is not required anymore by the state of Michigan but what is required now in order to get the dollars for The Benchmark assessment is one 4B which actually means that we have to um share with the school board um three times a
year um two times a year in in the winter and also in the in the spring the assessments results and so I at this point in time what this was the law before and so now the law what what we
liked about the report is that we wanted to keep the report because because their the data the way is GA it allows us to do that uh to together the data that we want one of the things that we were able to do this time around is create TR uh cohort Trends so we could see more of
that and so I'm excited about that work because you'll be able to see some of the work of where we have been and where we're headed so when you look at here the middle of the Year reading score goal is up here and the goal for us is that ycs students in K2 11th grade will
improve performance in reading and Ela from fall to winter as measured by NW VA and um then we have the end of the year reading goal we also have the math one that you'll see in a minute what I want to highlight here is that notice that the assessment that we give with NWA is
Grace k211 and although you're going to see 12th grade that uh number is that data is really skewed because it's a handful of children that take there like 36 kids altoe and that's not the whole cohort and so the 12th grade data that
you see is not valid for us but since teachers test students uh some students do take it then we just put it up here but on the other hand it's not the grades that we really test is all the way from kindergarten all way to grade 11 okay so
when we look at the mathematics is no different um all ycs students and Grace 11 Kate 11 will improve performance in mathematics from fall to winter as measured by NWA um and so this is part of our requirement pretty much as extended I by our myip goals that we
have in the district so and in on this page what I want to highlight here is that the impact of the sudden shifts that we see um shifts here is that to re that the impact of the sudden shifts to reveal math that and
Alex uh in Grace K5 structural literacy in K2 and Amira in K5 has has actually um kind of shifted our um learning with our students and and our teachers because we are implementing due to the
fact that we had funding um that was provided for curriculum development and curriculum implementation right now and we needed to spend it and due to the perspective that we recognize that we were
plateauing in the 40th percentile we want to move to the 50th percentile in 60 because that's what's going to impact our achievement an mstep and those uh standardized assessment we had to make some bold decision and so we brought
teachers together and and before the last of the beginning of the um the 2023 24 school year and together in this room the teachers selected the implementation of reveal mathematics for grades um K to
to fifth grade and they also selected structural literacy and they the teachers were part of the decisionmaking and all the programs Alec and and as well as Amira as well as the other implementations that we are implementing
with these bold decision that we made then there's there were some shifts that you're going to see that I'm going to highlight but I want us to be very clear that all these shifts were needed in order to move us and from where we were
that we were really stagnant to where we need to go and where we need to be and so that Journey means that we need to be very intentional and move the system so we have to stop our for example strategically abandoned like imagine
learning and imagine um math because it got so Plateau you follow me that it wasn't it was gam gamified but it was getting just to the point that it just reaches maximum for us so bringing Alex it may not is gamify and neither is a
mirror but the reality is taking kids to the next level of of the rigor that we need to expose them and that takes a little shift and that's what you're going to see in the data a shift in our K5 program but then when you see in the high the middle school and high school
then that shifts continues to move forward so that's what you're going to see in our story today okay um as you look at here our overall proficiency and growth continues to increase both in reading and Mathematics and the
NWA Norm as NWA norms for grades K through six we did not see similar Improvement because of what I'm explaining to you that are the initiatives that we this is the mechanical year for our math program right now and it's a mechanical year for a lot of the other mea as well as the
structure literacy that is that um dyslexia uh program that we are infusing here in the district to meet the state law the transition from fifth grade to sixth grade and again from 8th grade to 9th grade are particularly difficult and
continue to be to to continue to be like that for our district one of the things that we are implementing to move forward with those grade levels the student from fifth to sixth grade and sixth is to really Target summer uh professional
development but also throughout the year go back go into the into these systems to look at an initiative that really going to bring the rigor and the engagement of the students by really looking at an academy structured to be able to support our
students and so that itself we will be meeting with our leaders and our staff to make sure that we could co-design that together because people support what they help create and in that Spirit we don't want to dictate but we also know that that urgency has to be there
because we've seen patterns so today it's about for us to look at patterns over time and so you're going to see new data that you haven't seen before that gives us Trend data that will allow us to make better decision informed decisions as a school board and as a as
us as instructional leaders to make sure that are we headed the right way and I'm here to tell you we are headed the right way we have to stay the course trust the process as we move forward but if you abandon sh ship in the middle of implementing new programs it becomes
scary because then you're not we got give it some time okay and so that means that time but with intentionality looking at data triangulating that data forward Etc so just to be very clear um so as we look at this page as well I want to say for our special education
students math achievement improved from fall to winter for all grade levels from K to 11 and reading achievement improved for all fall to winter for all grade levels except for grade level three and 10 which were still very very close but
it was isn't quite there the English language Learners math achievement improved for from fall to winter for all grade levels and K1 and reading achievement improved from Fall winner for all grade levels except for grades three and nine and grade nine being very
very close Okay and then for our African-American student or black students achievement improv in both math and reading for all grade levels okay uh so I want us to to sit on that for a second because we are
the the right pathway forward okay uh and so this is the other takeaway that I would like us to look at is that we need to continue to teach the tier one District curriculum with Fidelity supported by tier two and tier three tier three intervention High rigor with
high those High supports and during the remainder of the 24 21st 25 school year and this 25 school year we we will intentionally Place stronger Ela Math teachers in our transitional grades and that's one of the intentionality moving
forward is that we want to make sure that we got the the teachers who really know how to move achievement in those grades and make sure that they're there throughout the whole year to be able to impact our children the last piece that is so crucial is that during the 24 25
in this 25 26 school year we will be intentional and continue to be intentional and providing our teachers with high quality job embedded professional development supported through on-site coaching so we contracted as you saw the last board
meeting sis which is um um inquiry math and there those are direct coaching that's being done with our teachers on site in their building by grade level to support our teachers in the master of how to teach uh inqury based mathematics
how to have the and it comes with the kits that have the materials the students need to learn that conceptual mathematics um Etc and we're doing the same thing with hmh with the mirror with those support structures with the literacy Etc as we move next year air um
hmh has we're accelerating to the most up to-date hmh M um update because they've done lots of ma updates to now and so we're going to be making those modification over the summer so that when our teachers Come Those are done for the the units and and it's just
tweaks here and there but tweaks that matter to teachers so that it's a smooth and nothing chaotic for the fall okay so on this page and I'm going to move fast here um I move my things really fast here on this page what you see here is
these are the fall 2024 nwaa reading benchmarks and the winter 25 reading uh midyear assessment for all students in the district the aage N read reading achievement was slower than the published 2020 National norms for NWA
reading achievement across all grade levels uh in the uh largest difference noted were in grade one and grade six is the two grade level that showed uh sign a gap that we were looking and that we but the difference between the winter
reading achievement and the national Norms seem to decrease especially when it gets to grades 10 and 11 you so our students in those grades are finishing strong you understand and we are seeing within our cohort work uh that is making
a difference so from the winter reading achievement assessment as you see here is when looking at the winter reading achievement Trends here by grade level over the past three years most grade levels bury only a little over year over
year within the variability of the measurement however the wind reading achievement for the grades 10 and 11 have seen some improvement so when you see the light blue the middle blue and
the dark blue the the this cohort is the light blue is actually 22 23 school year the middle is 23 24 and the dark is 2425 school year okay so you could see in kindergarten that it what we're talking
about is plateauing you follow me and we need to be moving in the uh uh in the right direction note also that the achievement by grade level for students transitioning from grade five to six and 8 to n are relatively flat as you can
see and so we are that's why this last year in conversation with Dr zakary Ross and the team we made a commitment that this is the year this La we're going to roll out these initiative and these programs forward so we're going to roll
reveal mathematics uh structural literacy and these are intentional program with a mirror to bring our students up to the 50th percentile which is we can no longer stay in the 40th we got to get into the 50th percentile and
these strategies that and these tools are going to get us there okay um in this page I think I gotta give me a second because my page is flipped over and I want to make sure that
I'm almost there all right so on this page what you see is if you think about the first one is kindergarten the second one in the cohort of 30 The Graduate ating class of 2036 the first one is kindergarten and the second one is first grade see what I'm talking about so
start from the back the second the 2035 will be your first grade second uh kindergarten first and second grade you proba me and then it's second third fourth and 30 20 34 so it's a three-year cohort going back and forth so what
you're seeing here um is when looking at the winter reading um achievement Trends by grade level over the past three years most grade levels vary only a little year after year within the variability of
measurement however the winter reading I'm sorry if we if we separate the winter NWA here reading achievement data from the previous slide that we I just showed you a minute ago into the student
cohorts we see we can see that the achievement throughout the grades from K through five increases each year for each cohort however we can see that the class from 2031 currently in grade six and the
class of 2028 currently in nth grade both of these transition year show either the same achievement level in grade n or even slightly lower in NWA reading achievement in grade six from the previous winter of the same cohort
the year the year-over-year NWA reading achievement seems to recover in grade seven and8 for classes of 2030 and 2029 and 101 for classes 27 and 26 following the difficult transitional years so we need
to work on having those transition much more supervised more supported putting the right right staff members there as we move forward on this this on this particular the the orange bars represent the fall toall reading growth percentile
so that that's the reading growth that occurs during the 23 24 school year and end was remained over the summer that's also why there's no orange bar uh for the kindergarten now the blue bar
represents the current school year fall the winter reading growth percentile for example if you look at grade three I want you to pay attention that the orange being large doesn't mean a big that is better than the other I just want to show you what this means so for
example you look at grade three the orange bar represents the reading growth percentile for the current third graders for when they were second grade um graders and the learning retain over the summer so that the entire school year
okay so that's what that represents the um Blue Bar represents the reading growth percentile for the same third grade cohort of student except only from fall to winter in the current school year uh without understanding this
difference it could easily be uh we could easily uh to make the incorrect assumption that the meaning of the size of the bars that you know the Orange is actually out performing the Y the blue fall to winter readings growth here for
all students was above the 40th percentile the range of the MD consistent that considers effective with respect to all students percentile growth for K5 and S and through 11 it's encouraging to see grade 10 having a
fall to winter reading growth above the 50th percentile and for grades one two three and six had lower fall to win reading growth um in this next slide here similar to
what has had was shown and you notice that the First Column is 22 23 Second column is 23 24 and the third blue is 24 25 school year if you could see those by those you um starting with kindergarten first second third you similar to what
have been shown for achievement here are the fall to winter reading growth trends for students in grade level over the past three years these show a bit more variability but the general Trends are the reading growth percentile flattens
in the transitional grades six and um nine um on this slide when you're looking at this slide you notice that grades K to five U so breaking out the previous data from the cohort looking in
for instances where the darkest Bar Fall the winter and OFA reading growth for the current school year is markedly different or where the trend changes directly so when you look at this comparing reading growth within the cohorts for the fall to winter intervals
grade 8 through 11 classes for 2009 to through 26 last year's 7th and through 10th grade show improved growth While most of the other grade levels in K5 did not as You observe the K5 classes for 32
to cohort 3 from 2032 to class of 2037 the current fall to winter growth is lower than the previous school year and that is because of the initiatives that we started and all the new things that are taking place that we needed to do and that's why I want so here is where I
wanted to go this is a new piece that I want to talk so we've been at the 40 percenti with is where teacher implementing new curriculum right now and students responding to the increased rigors where we are right now okay so where we are have to be or where we're
headed and where we need to and why we're making the decision the Bold decision right now to implement reveal this is this is intentional Alec is because we need to get our students to a place where they're engaged in their own
learning okay so that not only are they learning the to the standards but they're moving to competency base where they're demonstrating the proficiency of mastering those standards so in order to make that happen that when we go through this journey of racing the bar like
we're doing with the support High rigor with high support that we're doing now teachers will start seeing the results of the students and their enthusiasm will will result into more rigor Etc um Dr Zachary Ross myself and and Miss mcari have been going through the
buildings conducting shadowing principles and we are very impressed with the rigor that we're seeing in our classroom okay and so we are seeing evident that we're moving in that direction please note that I sit with principls and have real indepth
conversation like the middle school we had in December I brought out the data I brought the each of the vendors came in show the data where we are show The Gap who was using the program who was not where the gaps were we had an honest conversation the middle school got
together rebent that program and roll out the initiatives forward so the perspective here is we don't have an opportunity here or the luxury to fall as sleep on the wheel we need to be having conversation about achievement
every single day and so we do that in this District we have courageous conversation with our administrators with our teachers with instructional coaches so this journey for us is real work but I wish children could be a sipper that you could just put the knowledge and zpp it back it doesn't
happen that way and so I just want us to know that our children are not broken systems sometimes are do you follow me our children may with the right supports and the right rigor they'll they they'll grow into that that Crown you follow me the crown we wear in the head we don't
wear on the shoulder we don't wear on the hip okay we're not our lower standards we're going to go that we want the kids with all the supports are there to go through the crown and moving forward okay so this chart there is all always um and this one's so important to
me because here's what you see there um there will always be some variability in both achievement and growth but that variability usually centers around some base uh Baseline for ycs growth has recently been around the 40th percentile
overall but that to see measurable Improvement in achievement and at least compartible with national averages we need to move our growth Baseline to something higher than the 50th percentile then we could see growth in
in the mstep and PSAT and all and other these Baseline upon our data as you see here we need some intentional instructional moves which require us to leverage the funding that was awarded by the district and this is what I've been
talking about so strategically aband abandoning every uh everyday math and imagine moving toward all these um programs that we talked about from a teacher perspective new curriculum and platform initially take extra time and efforts to learn and Implement with
Fidelity so we are at the me mechanical stage with uh some of these curriculum initiatives that we uh implemented but we're in a great space with the coaching and the supports that we're getting our teachers are and I want to say I I commend our teachers for
taking the rigor for sitting with us Co deciding hey we need a different math program in here for them to say hey we need a Lexia a dyslexia program in here to the reality is our teachers have guided this work side by side with us so
we don't do to for or not we do with people and that takes a little slower but doing two people then at the end we're going to get the result because the teachers are on board with that we need to move in this direction and we're headed in this direction okay um and I
also want to take the time to appreciate all the work that you did and as you were um trusty Town said you have me in tears over there because I F the same sentiments I was over there with tears as well but I say the following we have no time and and that's the same thing that we say here we got
to focus and providing our children with the very best and the curriculum initiatives and things that we're employing the supports we're providing with the teachers it's wor it's getting us it's going to get us there and we just get a little bit of more time but we're getting there okay the next piece here uh with this slide and this is not
the ma shifting in math math we did better than we did in Reading um and so a lot of it it's a tool that we have and and it's working and so these are the fall NWA I'll go a little faster this one because you have a better understanding of this a these are the
fall 2024 NWA math benchmarks for 2425 School NWA mythe assessment for the students similar to reading the average NWA math achievements was a little was lower than the published 2020 2020 norms
uh math achievement across the level the gray K Winter math achievement was close but slightly more fiveo RIT scores below than than it was but through the Elementary grades winter maath achievement is slightly below as the
compared to the the Norms of the 2020 Norms okay but the scores for grades 9 to 11 as starting to slowly uh to show achievement closer to but still below the National North for grades 11 the uh
a score of 224.210 of 2 33.4 N so and this when we're looking at the um data and we're looking at it from this perspective these sets and again is 22 23 23 24 24
25 the first three rols are kindergarten the second Rolos are all first grade the third row is all second grade across the time okay these set bars are winter math achievement at the grade levels uh for the past three years uh the three-year
trend for and for winter NW math achievement is largely similar to the results in Reading except that in addition to grades 10 and 11 there appears to be significant improvements in math achievement at grade seven and nine as well at the middle and high
school levels our achievement is improving more quickly in math than in Reading Okay so on this other page if we realign the winter NWA math achievement data from the previous slides into
student cohort we see increases for every grade level except in grade six uh for the class of 3031 a transitional year where we already talked about that the data indicate that when it comes to math achievement we're moving in the
right direction okay on this page what we see is the orange bar again represents the fall toall math growth percentile so that the math growth that occurs during the 23 24 school year and
was retained over the summer that's also why there's no orange bars in kindergarten and the blue bar represents the pho winner math uh growth percentile within this current year with the newly adopted reveal math curriculum for the elementary our hope is that to improve
Elementary NWA math growth and achieve as you can see except for grade 12 which should be ignored because the the group that's small okay the fall to winter NWA math growth percentile was higher than the 40th percentile at all grade levels
while grade six had lower fall to winter growth math it was still higher than the 40th percentile you might ask why is math growth if meth growth is the effective it's in the effective range across the grade level why why has the growth not
trans translated into increased achievement at least with respect to the NWA National Norm the answer is that it is that question is that growth needs to be higher than 50 percentile to seek gains to and Beyond moving forward and
Beyond the National Achievement Norm uh uh it's encouraging to see that great um the Great 8 through 11 all had fall to winter math growth above the 50th percentile so what I'm saying to you we
can get above the 50th percentile that's why we know that the curriculum reveal math and these curriculum are going to get us there and our teachers working is going to get us there but it's a new area we're in a new era that we haven't
been there before do do do you understand and that is climbing into deeper achievement and that's where we're headed and where we're going and we're seeing it in the oper grades um the other aspect is I'm going to plug in here and I know that some
people look at me a little crazy but I'll say we have seen that the use of kigle and other AI tools is positively contributing to the math growth in our grade 11 nine and 11 we're seeing that our teachers are using kigo in the high
school and that's a pilot and we're track tracking that data and our students are doing extremely well with these tools so I want us to make sure that because if we an AI school there's nothing but positive things that are going to come for our children I just
want us to be very clear uh and I think because the student are owning it when you go to kigo the kids are owning that process is not somebody owning it for them um and so here in this particular here are the trends for fall to winter
NWA math growth by grade level for the three most recent years which has been consistent higher than the 40th percentile for the past two years and with the exception of grade one and two for the past three years so we're
trending again in the right direction on this particular slide breaking down the three-year fall to winter NWA math Pro Trends by cohort you can see where given groups of students had relatively higher or lower growth as noted before the
class of 2031 currently grade six and on here even current grade level s students class 2030 had a little lower fall to winter math growth here during the remainder of this year the middle school will be paying close attention to
increasing the math growth in for winter and spring especially for grade six and seven what I said will say to you we have half a year still go and we're do you follow me we if we sit here and do nothing we don't get anything but if we jump and we know what we're doing we're
jumping in there so I just think that that to me we don't we have a team of people that are just working hard and so I know that we're going to end the year strong okay and the other thing is on the positive side here the fall of
winter math growth for students in grade 10 and 11 classes of 2027 and 26 show much improvement over the pre past previous two years with both well exceeding the 50th percentile and a bom so I think that that's important and
when we look at here I don't know if you noticed but before we were in the yellow now this is reading for Math and and what we're seeing here is this shows a graphic where our high school students are with resp with respect to the fall winter and WF growth in both reading and
math which overall spans the middle of the national Norm ranges for growth for math the whole range for the high school grades is about the 50th percentile which is what we need to improve our achievement with respect to the National
North we are trending in the right direction so there's nothing perfect here and I I I'll tell you I'm I'm trying to put out here a very our evidence of where we are you understand but I think it's taking pul uh the
pulse but having a plan we have a clear strong plan we're going to continue to move forward so so I'm I'm very positive of where we're headed and what what what we're doing so I'm stopping now the rest of the stuff have the subgroups all the
data triangulated but I I I'm beyond my eight minute so I want to let you know that that data is there I'm not trying to hide anything you have it take a look any questions you have provide it to Dr chak Ro I will find answers for you on any of this please note that this is
what drives our school Improvement the state requires us to to put this this is long nothing here is hiding I want to thank trusty um Goodrich because the cohort data I set with Clark and then the cohort pieces that you're seeing are
new for this year but that moving forward you have that cohort data so that you can see our children's data over time okay what questions might you have yes go ahead trusty good Rich you I want toled that trans are I appreciate
that I also really appreciate the voice that went into choices and Trust Inspire leadership that that reflect and I appreciate your Comm to think of course building capacity in our stat the last
thing we want to do is keep turning from one to the next time for take hope and their um I also thank you for the cohort data I really appreciate that my next my next ask is some point I would love to figure out how we can
visualize some of the variability around I I know that those growth bars are not truly mathematically mean but we know there's variability around that so you can get 50% with everyone clustered at 50% or you can get with 80%
it would be great if we could find some way to get a handle on that variability to help us um with our examination over Le uh but I really appreciate the extra work that went into the data presentation here and I look forward to following up on some of this which are
strategic and educational performance thank you very much and thank you you know one of the things that turquoise we were turquoise and I were having that conversation today because turo had a great idea and she said well we're looking at all of this but why did we separated uh the data by tier one tier
two tier three then you're going to see the growth in between so that and so that is one that I right away of course went to C jpt and laid it out and I send it to Clark but but this is too late to put it in here but we're working on it and the next time that I come we're GNA
be showing you that okay okay because I we we talked about that today isn't isn't it America other board question thank you trusty grid yes trusty S Kennedy um you also talked about transitions um with
the curriculum and I just wanted to confirm the year that that transition took place just so I have that that that this year the first year we spend um we've been in different curricul through our journey but we've been very solid but then the money that came from the
state we needed to move we knew we needed to move this year Implement for the rolling out in the fall you know we don't Implement stuff in the middle of the year for us to implement something in the middle of the year we it would have been something like bble or something like that but we don't Implement anything in the middle of the
year because it's very stressful to the teacher stressful to students and we don't districts don't do a good job with that it's just a good way to kill the project okay so we make sure that we in the spring uh well the spring we brought a group of teachers together of this
last spring okay and they started working together to identify and then they were in this room they looked at seven different math programs and narrow down to four and then we went very deep we brought people from those companies to come in show us all the materials and then the the committee made a
recommendation to the school board that actually provided hey this is what we needed to do so so but just note that it is very clear that it happens before the year's up so and then we do training we have all training right away so we have
been doing a lot of training but you know one fall train training is not going to do it we have to continue and then then it always moves from whole school training to individual to and that's where the coaching come in because our teachers value that you you
it's much easier to sit next to somebody than it is in a big room full of people okay thank you thank you truste S Kennedy any other board questions or comments trusty talson yes so do we have
the data or be good to see the data I know for the last couple of years one of the issues was absentees and um I know we have two different companies that is assisting us
with that and providing um assisting with us with getting wraparound services and stuff like that or either whether was behavior management or you know those types of things it would be good to see what that data looks like compared to to the direction of where
we're going um specifically for um homes and a um but I I would like to see how we can look at that data as well and how that is actually working because we're spending a lot of money in
that as well and that would be good to see yeah it's interesting because I we could uh even go a little bit further and that is identifying students by their attendance and see how we how our scores uh so I'll sit with Clark and we'll figure this out but thank you for
the input that makes a whole lot of sense other more questions comments um I would just say that I appreciate the entire presentation and all the work that went into this um we know that the data tells us one part of
the story it's not the whole story um but what I really appreciate is how intentional I and transparent this discussion has been about where we are and where we need to be and I um especially appreciate Dr Lopez your emphasis on moving with a sense of
urgency and and not being satisfied with where we are and where we need to go is at that 50th percentile or higher um that's going to be crucial so um and thank you um trusty Goodrich for being part of that uh Benchmark Review team um
that's it's a lot of work I know uh a lot of good work um but I like that we're going in the right direction and we just have to stay the course be consistent uh so that we can continue to monitor the data and see if our interventions are supporting where we
need to be so thank you Dr Lopez thank you um and I apologize I'm having heart problem I lost my glass in my last trip and so I'm I ordered new glasses but meanwhile I've been driving home in the
dark and I just pray that I don't run into anybody but nonetheless anyway so here we go um so this this particular one is on December 13 2024 we had in this room a celebration and the celebration of
Excellence we were celebrating homes and we were celebrating Ace for their um 18mon structure Benchmark conference so as you had received this report and so what I want to highlight today um this
presentation so that the community can see it as well so I I just this way people won't see it but in this way I laid it out this is actually components because it was longer but we I shrinked it so we go fast but this is this will give you a little presentation of what
um what what consisted of this 18month structure Benchmark and the results so here's what what we saw during what we did during this we had an agenda and the agenda consisted of this pretty much explaining the vision of the district the myip journey home cheered their data
uh their data story for school Improvement and a share the data story for school Improvement and then the last part um that I included in this in this um two pieces U that you'll see when we get there okay so our partners that were
here and I was happy because for um trusty good R you happened to participate that day and so during the partnership agreement this day um trusty uh goodward was part of the uh actual celebration in here we had the Michigan
Department of Education here they came in so serious that I was getting a little nervous I was like what's going on in here but they we have balloons and all this stuff So eventually they relax after a little bit with us you want me once they got our our culture and how we
are very relatable with each other and so they eventually um what I loved is at the end of the day they didn't have to say that but they said that we had the best presentation and that we had the the best um um celebration that they
encountered in other school because other schools were treated it like as the end of the world on punishment we didn't use that approach we don't do to for now we do with people and we treat people with respect and both we know that people closer to the work have the answer to that work and so if that's the
case then this these are the people who participated from this and I thank this team because this was an amazing team that it was there so our vision and so we started with our vision okay and as you can see there's our vision of that we H have here in the district and notice you see a lot of pictures of kid
students from Ace and students from homes okay so you can see a narrative when you go a little bit we talked about demographic we talked about the blueprint system we we talked about the district Vision Etc as you can see our our work here on whole child the equity
work and and and and also the systems alignment Etc so when you see this is very much the teacher action research and the things and you see what you see in every picture here is student in action okay that's when students are learning right so when you go here these
were your District gos that we've had for for a number of years now and those are the consistent of this we have to share what we have and here they are uh and then we went into the journey the journey really highlighted that whole commitment to improving our systems
aiming to support the whole child you know this whole focus on identity belonging that and the number one determinant that uh do I see myself as the number one determinant of the success or failure of my Stu are my
Scholars that's the question that drives our school improvement work here in the district okay and so from there the approach to partnership well our approach to partnership is that we're stronger together we're pathway forward we're uh we believe that people closest
to the problem is there it is have the answers we um the blueprint core practices and the collaborative work um Etc and our partnership with uh liso is not just somebody from the M mde she's one of our close P for me she's a
thought partner that always is an accountability thought partner the Lord calls me every week and you know a lot of hours I spend over the weekend on Saturday and Sunday this woman doesn't stop and that works for me because I uh
so it just I just want you to know how committed the work is from the state as well as from the district the approach to partnership is very clear you laid it out here is instructional systems is is honoring our blueprint and the way that
we work so the road maps exit skills these are things that we have that has actually contributed to the success of both homes and a this is what the blueprint this is the Gant which is every school has this Gant
uh chart and every school has their school Improvement and this is the one pager one that it just lays out all their goals but you see the that we have three goals and this is one the ELA goal and then you have four strategies and the strategies are the high rigor High
support culture responsive and instructional leadership routine but you see on the that when looking at high rigorous ambitious teaching with formative assessment it's uh tier one tier two mtss you know uh uh those ewis and it's um the parent engagement it is
the uh principles the the instructional routine deals with inspecting what you expect okay so all those kind of things so as you move forward the district goals here are the goals here the three goals from the district from school Improvement and this work has been
embedded and this is for the 18 the first 18 18 months or Le are the work tomorrow here in this room the other principls will be presenting to each other for 30 minutes their 18 months just like homes and wise did okay so but the other schools present it to each
other tomorrow and give provide each other feedback in the space so the district's myip strategies are here uh here's how high rigor show up at homes and at a because it shows up differently
depending on the environment but you see commonality right uh what you see is pictures of students in action students with rigor learning students figure out real world problems and projects Etc
what you see here High support is these support it's from Amir Alec those programs that I was talking about that we have implemented we have boosted the the riger for these programs we we use panorama we're using Varsity Tutors Fab
tutors I got to get it out of there because they're no longer in business um but then Ace uh you see the the things that Ace that are working and working well and I you'll see a success story at Ace that that's amazing the work that's been done then here's the culture
responsive teaching and you see at home how that shows up and then how at Ace they're culture responsive you know as you know we have a lot of el students Ace now has like 60 or 36 to 40 ESL
students that are in that school and we're trying to realign how we're going to provide supports to that population at at that at that site but we're growing and showing and shifting Etc and I want us to think about what a wonderful thing it is that we're growing
in different you follow me but yet with them comes their own pain and it come their own learning Etc prise okay so but then I want to stop there and correlate it to what we celebrated the seat program that we celebrated today we celebrated teachers in this District that realize the challenge and went and
got ESL endorsement to really meet the needs of all students and there were 18 and now right now we have 18 more and then we have 20 in that are participating in the same program at Eastern so we have our teachers being
certified in ESL okay to support our students so here the instructional leadership this is what the principal and what they do in the magic so these are things you see commonality of eye observation the walkthroughs those are the the good quality things that takes
place as as our principal serve as instructional leaders so moving forward here are the district supports as you know that we will operate through these the instructional infrastructure is the myip work through the district and then here's the story from homes and this is
where the the ratings went from the state so from homes the homes they wrote this piece about all about hom stee Elementary School and so here they highlight their specialty who what they Pride about Etc as you can see um things
there I'm not going to read a whole lot of this because you can see it but they really do focus on academic behavior and attendance and you'll see that in the journey but here are the three go three of the homes um climate goals and they met every single one of these uh during
the when you read it during the 23 24 school year at least eight 80% of the classrooms will facilitate proactive Circle at least three times per week and that objective is happening and they met that objective during the 23 24 schools 75% of Staff will be trained in social
emotional learning practices as measured by professional development and that has happened and then during the 23 24 school year um established Baseline of students social emotional understanding is measured by par serby and that was
measured as well moving to the next one the climate and culture here are other things that they did to get those results so they've been working with teach Like A Champion and talking about the social emotional learning the climate and the climate
change working with turquoise which has been amazing with what they're doing at that school with the magnet school the Project based the EV made that now with the stam and steam all I see is acceleration coming I mean I just feel
so excited that we got that we are at this point in in in the work the principle leads through when we go there we observe all the kids say this pledge they do the pledge Legion and they are committed to this pledge I'm smart I am
kind I can do anything with my mind I am a h scholar home Scholars are strong and they go like this we are responsible respectful and safe home is where I belong and it's like you see these young people saying this with such integrity
and such pride and it's just excitement to see this you understand where a CP about a year before it was like everything was like lowy and now at the fire that's happening and people in their spaces have the clo
people closer to the problem had the answer and when you give them the support things happen so the you Road mapap they were published and that this teacher is no longer with us but our students are still working with and so they were doing EB piloting for the
University of Michigan the EB um technology already in our district before the St the states are moving in this direction so we are early adopters early trenders and these these are all out of the road maps that you that this board funded and approved and it's just
working beautifully and here are the homes math academics so for here during the 2320 school year 75% of staff are trained in implementing tier 2 tier three instruction and that was me during 23 24 50% of Staff implemented two tier
two three intentional interventions in their classroom that was meant through as observed in walkthroughs during 23 24 school years 75% of Staff will communicate child-friendly learning targets those are the targets that tell the kids hey as evident by walkthroughs
the principal walking through that was met and then during the 23 24 school year teachers teams will collaborate with uh tier one collaborations learning cycle those Collaborative Learning Cycle and they met that requirement as well and their evidence are linked also
through the documents that they submitted it's not like you put this and say I met it you got to show evidence ladies and gentlemen so students and this ones are the student outcomes so students Ela proficiency based on M that
will increase by 2% uh points from 22 to 24 and they met that one this one for math this last year students mathematic proficiency base on M step will increase by at least two percentile for 22 to 24 and they didn't need that and I'm
looking forward to this year because that's a different math program you saying so it should help us to move forward okay in the next 18 more month we'll have the 36 month Rew View and I know it's going to be rocking so during
the 23 24 school year at least 43% of students would mean exceed their growth targets is measured by the NWA summary okay and so that was meant so then here they gave example what they do and U trust the um town this school if a
school focuses on attendance is this school uh not to say that the others don't but it's on top they're looking at everything they are working like you all the schools are but this school is this is they leverage their 180 Program their
PBIS everything that they doing is just amazing so they increased the percentage of students not chronically absent from 13.5 to to 2955 so that this is impressive you say and so in essence current School attendance even the day
that we were observing they were celebrating children for their attendance and so this is real lived experience they're celebrating children acknowledging um and so these are some of the examples of the data okay and their index moved from
18.76% so they're trending in the right direction okay uh that's the so what you see here is the kids went to the what's it the I can't see this part but it's that the game I'm not a sports person but I know the Tigers thank you uh but
the kids were over there and that I know that the Zach and everybody was excited sending me pictures and whatever uh but but the reality here is do do you see something different in the school look at the kids engage in learning that's what we're seeing now in every school
that we go to you follow mean especially the magnet school so that it these commitments that you're making and the support from this team that applied for this grant it's it's it's crucial okay so instructional Focus moving forward
you see where they're headed and you see the steam career C these are things that been working and going on in the school so this is every day they do this when you walk in there the the spirit of learning Etc in that school of K4 is
just rocking it okay and so one of the things that the principal has done is he leads with this with the master schedule to really make sure that teaching is rigorous teaching is being taught and you can see evidence by the way is scheduled at Ace now I'm going to shift
to Ace because this is another success story Ace alternative education everybody thought that back in the day this was the alternative where every kid goes at the end that's not true anymore Ace is a place where every student who wants an alternative education you could
be 4.0 you could be struggling you you may just want to be in a small CL school with high school where you can have that personalization with adults and this is the best place for a lot of our students this school has done uh an amazing
turnaround this is a turnaround story so all about Ace Ace vision and vision Etc but I just even like I love this picture because of the the kids when you go there and you see the students they're very engaged in the learning and engaged in in representing Etc and Etc so when
we go here during the 23 24 school year um these were the the their mtss students support network Journey for them their school climate so they uh during that year they St Lish monthly themes for the
daily practice circles okay and so the restorative circles and they meet him with such Integrity there that was mat during 23 24 school year 50% of Staff implemented tier two tier three interventions as measured by walkthroughs mat during 23 24 school
year they established Baseline performance percentages of Step that rated the overall climate of the school as Innovative and Etc met and during the 222 school year established an attendance team which identify communic
communicates and supports an increase in student attendance is measured by Power School attenders Etc and that was also meant wherever the schools pay pay their attention gets done okay so um and and what's under underneath is all their
tools that they used to measure then on this one uh during the 2224 School 75% of teachers will review student-friendly learning Target and th you see evidence and evidence that was meant during uh academic
process during the 23 24 school year 50% of ela units taught will be assessed using Ela and of the unit assessments that was man during 23 24 and these are rigorous assessments uh 50% of um math
units taught in in in the assessment um were were Matt as well so you can see evidence of of the document there then we go here here and that is where we look at student outcomes so student reading growth based on NWA will
increase by at least 2 percentage points from 22 to 24 and that Baseline of was meant and student mathematic growth based on nw8 will increase at least 2% points from 2224 in mathematics we did
not meet that one but we did meet um student Ela uh and math proficiency based on Sat increased by 2% so that was Maad and during the 2324 school year increased students assessment participation uh to 60% as measured that
was not M and that's why we're working on it because the reality is since the students the issue there is that the students are not bust getting to the the test date is just impossible so we're working we met today with transportation to to provide transportation and get
every kid in here test at Ace tested so we we are we have a focus on improving this one and I'll come back to you after the testing cycle because I should be a happier camper then because I even lesie was sick today jump into the meeting and
we were structuring so even when they're sick these principles are engaged with us okay the other piece is during the 23 24 school year um we increase student assessment participation by 60% as measured by my school index and that is
the graduation the graduation that that's just say graduation and guess what our graduation rate at Ace now is 72.4 that is impressive compared to where it was it was less than 30
something at one point in time so and I from here you can see that nothing is falsified do you see the 72 I can't see from this way but I'm pretty sure you can see it at the scale there so I want to indicate this because I want to talk about graduation rate in a little bit
about an article that was um published in M life and I want to make sure that I uh address that because our community needs to know that our graduation rates are up they're not down okay and I just want to make sure that when people make mistakes it's important that our
community knows that hey a mistake was making I not I don't care about correcting mli I'm more important about communicating our message to our community and this data if if and someone wants to challenge it go to my school data go to the graduation index
and you see it for yourself okay so e- whims the ace uses e whims which is the mtss for grades six to 12 um and then here are some of the glows the school has a lot of stuff going on in in there for our students and so as you can see
it's there moving forward so what were the recommendations from the state the state recommended based on they were they saw such positive stuff that they all they could do is continue to do what we're doing so they said that what moving forward we should continue uh to
build uh in culture and climate continue to uh build strong sense of belonging through restorative practice basically you notice that is what we do but they want us to do because they thought that what we were doing is exceptional here the other piece is the talent management
continues to increase the quality of instruction and the teaching by leverag and grow your own funds so we are doing that in this district and so what they're doing is continue to support that work and I just wanted to to know that they were very intentional with the positives it's supposed to that they
turn whatever the recommendations are really into positive that our strengths the other two in collaboration will continue relationship with Community Partners and leveraging supports needed to offer by washingo intermediate which we have a very solid partnership with them and the last one is in continuous
Improvement continue to practice in uh initiative reviews Etc that will allow us to continue to scale all the programs that we have um now this is what I wanted to identify so in the mli article it spoke that our
uh stem um graduation rate this last year was 66% or something to that matter of fact this is these are the actual and you could see your trend from 2016 to 2023 24
stem's um graduation rate this year was 98 .9% AC Tech was 85.2% and Ace look at the look at the achievement that Ace has done uh 72.1 I want to say at this moment in
time thank you for the Educators that are teachers and administrators they have worked so hard in these schools to create this this is for the high school as well as all those three schools right there but I also want to
congratul uh uh thank uh lesie Davis for the work that she has and the former principles from that school that have worked so hard with the staff to get us to where we are we are heading in the right direction but I also was a little bit disappointed Lena knows that I was a
little disappointed because when I we were in a trip and it bothered me so much I went to the back when I went back to the hotel I was so frustrated because I knew that there there were the story was a complete false you follow me me and I didn't understand why would
anybody not go to my school data and get the data there because any parent anybody could go there so I just want to not to be harping on anything because that people could make mistakes and I presume positive intent but moving
forward I just want everybody to know and this community to be proud of their children because our children are not broken and they're proving it here thank you what questions might you have yes trusty goodr and also we're a little further along now
and it's really exciting to you thank you trusty goodd other board questions comments thank you Dr Lopez and especially for clearing up the data that was correctly yes
appreciate that uh that takes us to public comments um and I'll read the public comment protocol and I'll invite members of the public up to address the board pursuant to Board of Education policy 0167 point3 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 3 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 and all remarks shall be made in a respectful and professional manner uh first we have Perry Stone pmest is that all am I supposed to first I thought she was GNA say Perry that's
it am I good to go you are oh okay good sorry I wasn't sure if you're gonna say anything else okay hi everybody um I'm Perry Stone Palmquist she her hers I run the student Advocacy Center of Michigan I live down that way uh lived here for almost 20
years love the school district and I'm here because I've been working hard to get more money for Ipsy schools and other schools around the state I'll say that Ipsy of course has a special place in my heart so that's really on my mind when I'm in long long long lots and lots of meetings but I came today just to
tell you about a couple opportunities coming up and hope that we can partner partner together some of you already know about them um one is our advocacy day which is part of the we're part of a coalition called the Michigan Education Justice Coalition um so I'm going to leave flyers for that so I know it's
hard sometimes for our parents and caregivers to take time off work so I think it's really great when our school board members in particular if you know folks can come with we have a hoping to get a lot a lot of folks we're specific basically um fighting for increases in
31a the opportunity index um and special education and those are the top priorities and then mental health funding those are the top three priorities that our families many here in Ipsy told us that they want to see increases in school funding in those three three buckets in particular so I
hope you'll consider coming with I'm going to leave these here and parents are welcome to come we have hopefully some students from Ipsy and Detroit and other places coming with us so I wanted you to know about that um the second thing is that um we are again part of
this Coalition that is exploring a ballot initiative um in our state um to raise taxes on those who are millionaires to raise money for public schools that will require uh us to collect a lot of signatures this summer and so those that might be interested in
learning more I hope you'll get in in touch with me I just had a meeting today about some of the polling that's going on um so that they can kind of determine next steps but as a Next Step as we try to get the community sort of ready to understand these complex topics right of
school funding um and the fact that Michigan schools are underfunded by5 billion dollar um even though our house just uh voted to cut5 billion um even though we have Federal funding that is at risk right now we're going to have a community conversation
here at Eastern um so I also have flyers for that and would love would love to invite some of you to come to that as well so that our community can really understand what a difference it makes to have fully and equitably funded schools especially um in places like Ipsy that
maybe don't have the wealth of a place like an arbor um that we can get more funding for our young people so uh I want to encourage you to come to those two things and then the last thing is just a quick plug many of you have come to our annual storytelling event um we have our youngest Storyteller this year
who comes from Ipsy schools um who really has a a devastating story just about what happened to him personally but also not only how sa helped him but how his teacher and Epsy schools helped him get the help that he needed so I'm going to leave all three of these for you thank
you thank you what was next we have Donal Johnson was the date anybody know oh could we get the date for the advocacy day
April 29th everybody got it y perfect yes yes I just have a question in the light of the current political situation uh is uh is there going to be any cutbacks if the Department of
Education is lost will that affect how do we have a um a a fallback a plan on if funds are cut here where they're going to come from or or any kind of fight back you know because I just think
we get ahead of it you know if we should and my other my other question on uh was there is there any interest in taking the black lives matter flag down uh I think that's just makes us a Target too
for those uh politicians there thank you thank you Donald Johnson uh Kalisa is that that correct kalissa kalissa kalissa Stewart so um my kids are special needs
and they go to the middle school and the teacher is taking her own personal phone and recording them I think that's unacceptable but what can we do about this because I
pull my kids up out the school and their education is most needed I don't know so normally we don't answer questions at the four table sorry no it's okay I know you're looking at us and we're looking at you and we're
waiting for you to say more uh we follow up with with all of our uh participants who who address US during public comment time we don't address public comment participants yet but thank you for the
question and last we have Jeremy Haley hello thank you for having me Jeremy Haley Ipsy Township I know you guys talk about diversity and all that but one thing I'd like to hear you talk about is diversity of thought as well cuz that matters
probably more because you know how can you get along with somebody if you can't stand to hear what they have to say at least you should be able to hear people out and be able to discuss where things are it makes
the earth a better place on that note I was going to ask you about the new test results that came out I've been hearing that across the country that only two states only really passed them the national test one only passed in reading
and one only passed in math and I was looking into that and it said uh for Michigan what only 37% passed in math I think or reading one of the numbers and when you hear numbers like
that I say 37% pass but what about the 63% that didn't that's when I see those numbers that's what I look at is that 63% of those kids in Michigan and hearing after
what Dr Lopez says you know percents and what it's kind of looking for the numbers which you guys were at this I'm glad to see the Improvement that you guys are making and other stuff with the kids and was a week ago I was hearing a
news report on the radio from a computer engineering doctor that's been working with the iani schools uh coming up with like a reading program used on computers and stuff and one thing he said to me really
stuck out is that the Gen Alpha and gen beta kids they expect and they want tablets that stood out for me because what parent or adult would give a kid
what they want and I expect and I expect that kid when that kid gets older be a good contributing member of society if they always get what they expect you know what I mean and the way he described the program was
really a lot of flashy things to get them into it but that can also play into us how the brain functions and is wired into the kids and changing the function how the kid thinks because he''s always got these flashing things you watch any
of these kid shows they're tailored to that they're marked towards psychological manipulation of the kids keep them watching example was that was elate in 2017 2017 when parents put on YouTube and they let just let it play
and it dwarfed in some stuff that they didn't want to but if you can just keep that in mind thank you thank you Jeremy me Haley any more public comment cards that
have come in or is that all of them thank you thank you next that takes us to the consent agenda is there a motion at this time Rusty Fields move that at the Board of Education approve the one number one
February 24th 2025 special board Workshop meeting minutes number two Personnel matters as per the presented listed date March 177 2025 new hires resignations and
others thank you a motion has been made by trusty Fields is there support for this motion truste suton Kennedy support thank you supported by truste Sutton Kennedy all those in favor those
oppos that motion carries next that takes us to um item nine which is a discussion um which is our first reading of the Neola policy updates and at this time I'll turn it over to uh trusty goodr who is the chair of our policy
committee the major highlights are I'm sorry I don't have that policy in the um attach so just thank you uh trusty goodr this is our first read of the policy that
second read um of this policy 8510 um will come back before the board on April 14 that was good preparation yes indeed any comments about the policies during
this first read okay that takes us to item 10 on the agenda under student affairs which is the approval of the ipsan Community Schools 2025 2026 K through2 course catalog is there a motion at this
time Madame president vice president Lee moved that the Board of Education adopt the ycs 2025 26k through2 course catalog thank you a motion has been made by vice president Lee is there a support for this
motion trusty Fields I support thank you supported by trusty Fields all those in favor I I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to the acceptance of the eate category one fiber maintenance is there a motion at this time truste towns in move that the
Board of Education approve as presented the choice of fiber link as the recommended vendor for the work of fiber maintenance for iolan Community Schools thank you a motion has been made by trusty Townson is there support for this motion trusty espie support thank you
supported by trust truste espie all those in favor I I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to the acceptance of the E rate category one core switches is there a motion at this time truste towns and moov at Board of
Education award as presented the selection of the Centennial Technologies for procuring course which is for Ian Community Schools thank you a motion has been made by trusty Townson is there support for this motion trusty Fields I support thank you supported by trusty
Fields all those in favor I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to the acceptance of the M do resolution is there a motion at this time trusty fields mve at the Board of Education award as presented to the
selection of the Centennial Technologies for procuring core switches for ultic Community Schools is it we just that's the same there oh this one is an acceptance of M oh they look like they're duplicate
but different title yeah yes do we not have I thought that sounded duplicate when I read that it's in there I don't see that the language is I don't have
it okay so the motion itself is written it's a duplication from the previous motion that we just moved the attachment however for the resolution for the acceptance of the M do resolution um is in the board packet um
so we all had access to that so the motion is just Incorrect and it needs to be read in relation to the performance resolution for M do which is at the bottom of that motion so we need to strike this motion
and we need to read a new motion to reflect the M do resolution does everybody see it at the bottom the rationale for the resolution is that the project will require I have yeah okay and then the attachment
below would someone be willing to read a new motion would that be would that be me I mean am I reading the new one at the bottom that's the one that we said the rationale that's the motion yeah the resolution would essentially be to move that performance resolution
yes it's the performance resolution for M okay I'm just I'm just trying to find it that's I'm just trying to understand performance resolution for Public School District yep
item okay that's the correct one vice president Lee okay that looks like this okay trusty I move uh that the Board of Education support the performance resolution for
mdat oh I'm completely confused now where are we again I know that so we at we are still at we're at item action item number 11 and the motion that was
read by trusty ESP is the correct motion that should be here I understand but where do we finding that on here I mean I'm just trying to follow you is it the one that says the rationale down here right above that's so she just said move that and she read the about that one okay I just
want to be clear I just want to follow you the resolution was just created and readed at right right now yes okay okay so the motion was uh a motion was
made by trusty ESP as their support for this motion a second trusty Fields supported by trustee Fields all those in favor I those oppos that motion carries next we have
the acceptance of the roof replacement for Ford Ace and shadford field house is there a motion at this time trusty towns and move that the Board of Education approved as presented the choice for kjp roofing for roof replacement for Ford and shaer billhouse for
$440,000 and Superior roof and for roof replacement for Ace for $276,300 thank you a motion has been made by truste Townson is there support for this motion thank you supported by trusty
goodr any discussion questions on this item seeing none a motion was made by trusty to supported by trusty goodd wait I'm sorry I don't have I don't have those in it's page
12 um it's page 11 and 12 of the agenda items voice I have is yeah yeah Julie emailed it to us but is this here
no oh okay all right I'm lost all right nope okay yeah it was just a lot of pages but we was sent and this is the okay what you have to
yes 100 pages is a lot okay so to recap a motion was made by trusty Townson supported by trusty Goodridge all those in favor I those opposed that motion carries next is the acceptance of the
three-year roofing repair tnm contract is there a motion at this time trusty F we was all trying to party on this one right okay trusty uh trusty Fields moved that the Board of Education approve as
presented the choice of kjp roofing and the three-year roofing repair tnm contract for $2,825 thank you a motion has been made by trusty Fields is there support for this motion truste suton Kennedy support thank you supported by trusty Sutton
Kennedy all those in favor I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to F which is the acceptance of the electric sign bid Awards is there a motion at this time truste espie I move
that the Board of Education approve as presented the choice of AF Smith Electric for Ford moles Perry and the previous ycms electric signs for 2,545 Harper electric for Ace esterbrook
ychs and y's electric signs for $755 25 and Michigan electrical systems for Ericson electric sign for $9,500 thank you a motion has been made by trusty ESP as their support for this
motion trusty Townson support thank you supported by trusty Townsen all those in favor I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to the acceptance of the estherbrook warer bid award is there
a motion at this time truste go ahead sorry trusty Sutton Kennedy moved that the Board of Education approve as presented the choice of thermomechanical for the estb boiler replacement for $158,000 thank you a motion has been made by
trustee Sutton Kennedy is there a support for this motion support vice president Lee thank you supported by vice president Lee all those in favor I those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to the acceptance of the first maker space proposal is there a
motion at this time truste towns in move that the Board of Education approve has presented the choice of the first maker space for the magnet make maker spaces for 787 , 24027 thank you a motion has been made by trusty towns and is there a support
for this motion trusty ESP support thank you supported by trusty ESP all those in favor those oppose that motion carries next that takes us to the acceptance of the subrecipient contract for the provision of Head Start Services is there a motion at this
time truste Sutton Kennedy moved that the Board of Education accept as presented the subrecipient contract for the provision of Head Start services in the amount of 2, 176,177
thank you a motion has been made by trustee Sutton Kennedy is there a support for this motion truste FS I support thank you supported by truste Fields all those in favor I those oppos that motion carries next that takes us
to the approval of sanova learning LLC invoice is there a motion at this time trusty espb I move that the Board of Education approved the sanova learning LLC invoice for compens compensatory tutoring for February to August
2025 for $ 32,2 thank you a motion has been made by trusty ESP is there support for this motion vice president Lee thank you support thank you supported by vice president Lee all those in favor I those
oppose that motion carries next that takes us to the acceptance of the Panorama education and voice is there a motion at this time vice president Lee mooved that the Board of Education approve Panorama education and enforce for
$166,300 acceptance of a donation uh from Jasmine's voice is there a motion at this time truste Su Kennedy moved that the Board of Education accepts a donation from Jasmine's voice for $2,000 for mats at Perry Early Learning
Center a mo thank you a motion has been made by trusty Sutton Kennedy is there a support for this motion that's what vice president Lee thank you supported by vice president Lee all those in favor I those oppos that motion carries thank you
Jasmine voice for your generous donation and that takes us to item 12 on the agenda which our is our second public comment portion for this evening we do not have any thank you uh Miss Haynes we do not have any public comment cards that have come in so that takes us
to our uh next item which is our discussion are there any Board of Education subcommittee reports um yes I have a submitt report from um finance and Facilities
operations um we this week was it this week or last week last week had the um revealing of the HP digital promise um space at ipsc Community High School um I
want to congratulate uh the school as well as um facilities for turning that space around very quickly looks beautiful um kind of jealous I might will have to come in here and work a couple of days like that but it was a
very beautiful space um the students seem very pleased with it and I just look forward to them doing uh some great things in there also um highlight a couple of things uh with Finance uh we
are beginning to lay out the plans with the debt PA 3 3 21 am I saying that right and so that is the uh 19,360 th000 plus dollars that we will lay out what we will be doing with those
funds um and we're excited about that um there's a new transportation software is that correct um and so that that will be rolling out and then see Switching gears uh we had a meeting last week with
the IFS Community Foundation M and talked about ways how we can um uh improve engagement and assist with PTO um support funds for the different schools and how that process can be
Equitable so that is still working out there is a scholarship the the scholarship applications are currently open and um those deadlines will be coming up soon so students can follow up with the counselors and um and it is
also online and on their social media for IPs Community Schools um moving to the uh wasb um I want to thank uh the board support I was reelected as the president
of the washing Area School Board School boards and so um we are looking to work together to come up with a town hall on how we can properly how we along all of the school boards the
districts as well as the community can properly advocate for all of the different um changes that have been presented with the Department education and similar to what we did um with the process for our debt so we want to be
very intentional about what we're asking for um because we get all of these news outlets reporting all these different things it can be confusing so we want to be very specific and concise with what the ask is and also equip community members as well as our legislators on
how to properly advocate for what we say we want um as a community um couple of dates you need to be aware of for the um WB there will be the um annual ISD
meeting that talks about the special education funds that'll be coming down and how those will be divid up that will be April 24th that will be on Zoom okay so it will be good and you can ask questions board members can ask specific questions about that budget um and then
that will come back to us to vote all of the districts will have to vote on that um the next legislative copy will be May 19th and then the board of directors meetings will be June 12th and then the annual ISD by anual elections because we
are the WD board is elected by the districts um you will whoever our representative is that one representative need to show up to vote based upon what we want and I believe uh one of the candidates came to a board
meeting they did last month I believe so um I'm sure people will be making their uh rounds the legislative RI breakfast um trusty towns in were those all of your updates or did you have more oh I'll say the rest or comments more comments yeah
okay I just had a quick question say that again it's May 19th um is that hybrid or is it in person it's it's h it's in person but I can request that it's they can send you a okay thank you um if that's the wish of the body I make
that April 24th meeting will be virtually available yes that's only vir that's only virtual only virtual and then the board of uh the June 12th meeting that is usually in person in person thank you y
okay of course it should come to the whole board but I will double check yep yeah yeah it should come yeah I haven't either yeah I believe it's available to all of us yeah that I
think the last one was January was it Janu yeah whatever that Daye was January 24th it was was it February it was January yeah you all just okay so we'll look into that and then check your
emails and hopefully we'll get that as a reminder that it's coming up and you'll check on hybrid for us thank you so much um any other subcommittee reports yes justy Fields yes um the
communication team met on the 13th of March um I apologize I picked up the wrong binder had my notes in I mean my book so trying to do some stuff from the top of my head so um they were talking about they have Spotlight some for student athletes they're still working
on that and I know there were a couple um questions they had presented to the athletic director and they waiting for feedback so I know he had been out six so I'm not sure I haven't talked with him since then um also I wanted to comment that that they've been really good about I recently I think might have
been yesterday a couple days ago we got the summary from Lambert so they tell us what they've been reporting on and what the what type of things they have been sending out or what kind of communications we've been getting um we've had a lot lately um so that's exciting because that means we're doing some things right when we have something
to communicate to the community about so um they've been really good about that um getting those things out um we're still doing the is it something Tu what is it called thanks Tuesday video together Tuesday we're still waiting for those if um individuals have requests if
they haven't submitted those we're still got time before school's out to to get those in if you haven't already done that all right um and um so let me see what else I had on my notes so whatever I miss I think you might see it in your
summary we've all should have gotten one of those in the last couple days that they send out every month and I do apologize I didn't bring the right one for my own personal notes but but a lot of that information should be in that summary that we discussed when we had our meeting on the 13th okay that's all
they have thank you trusty bills any other subcommittee reports vice president Le on preschool and I forgot my notes at home so I'm off the top of my head also and this is reporting for
February um there were only five of us at the meeting okay it was one parent so we did not have a quum um and also she was thinking about being
secretary okay and of course we could not vote her in also um as of February there was five kids on the wait list um but I'm quite sure that is
filled by now because it goes so fast they have uh so many turnovers turnovers so um also the budget um we are waiting for the ISD to
sign the budget I don't know if they have signed it yet oh okay oh they did okay so now we will know how much is available
yay and um that was all really um except for you know they told us about what they did in February of course um food gatherers came and they also had their
Valentine Pary and they have um body awareness okay you know teaching the kids of good touch and bad touch and that was about it it was a
quick meeting because there was also a meeting at 7 o'l I can't remember where that meeting was okay but I was too sick to attend that meeting so yeah I'm sorry so yes and that was all that went on at
that made it all right perfect uh thank you vice president Lee you're welcome um any other subcommittee reports yes I'm G defer to uh trusty Sun Kennedy she's also going to talk about the training that we had just had from the WB perfect thank you thank you
because my next question was going to be should I talk about that here or in board comments it's fine it's talk here okay so um WB held the annual professional learning session on March 13th um and so the topic for that
evening was dyslexia so they had two speakers there uh Shannon Cohen um Conan the president of the international dyslexia Association um and the director of tan bright Minds as well as um the an Arbor
Board member and literacy Advocate Susan uh Schmidt and so at that session they talked about um essential structural supports and school systems for students with dyslexia um and so we heard a lot of stories um and information about tier
one and tier two supports um and the importance of our Educators being um knowledgeable about how to support students um with dyslexia um the information um included
uh systems structures as well that support students with dyslexia um and they also talked about how we as a board can support um support our districts and having a strong um
literacy uh development for our students and our Scholars uh as well as the requirements of the new law Public Act 146 and 147 of that was passed in 2024 um so the new dyslexia law that will be
I guess required to um be following by the 27 28 school year um and so that was an overview of what they talked about and so I have my notes Here which I still need to type up for all of you but some key things and key takeaways that I
did want to make sure to share here tonight um is that we were given a January by January 1 the MD will provide a list of approved curricula under the new law um there was a note that that list might come out sooner um and then I already mentioned
the August uh school year implementation requirement um there was also a recommendation that we use MD expertise and take advantage of resources there um for training and support and preparing for the new law to um take place and
then also uh uh Grant application will come out in May or June of um 2026 and so wait it was 2026 right what
are we in now it was this year 2025 I'm sorry um and that was one of the the the most important notes that I really wanted to make sure that we all knew that that Grant application was coming out um in May or June so they recommended that we already be working on what curricula we might want to
submit to this grant if we are interested um in uh receiving any of those Grant funds that will be available to purchase new curricula um that you already start planning now so that way you have that application ready when it opens um so you can get it in early when
that application opens um around June um and it was really interesting interesting that in that presentation a lot of what they talked about was structured literacy um being the direction that you know a curricula that's really being
supported um and that's something that we're already doing and we were just talking thank you thank you trusty Sutton Kennedy because I really wanted to go to that meeting but I was so sick I couldn't even
ATT but please send it notes out I want to know what's going on yes we appreciate the update I was just gonna or add to that that uh we had that opportunity for uh our state Senator Jeff Irwin to also
join us on that evening um just to highlight uh his support of that bill and how it came about um and his sharing of his story and the way this came forward was really um moving and
particularly as they talked about this understanding of um essentially being able to recognize the difference between site word or like seeing the word the context and phonics versus is um pulling
Concepts from the langu or from from Reading um and how there has been some mismatch between what is being like asked in the uh nwaa testing versus what um actually indicates reading levels and
so there's now going to be more effort to realign that so that those things that can be tested within the yearly testing um I have a question since those are record since you guys are doing Zoom calls on the are they
recorded this was in person the meeting I'm sorry oh so there was a full day of professional development for educators um around dyslexia that day and then there was a additional session offered to school
board members from across the the county uh that evening yeah was that unfortunately had to exit because I had my child School play so I'm excited to see the notes okay thank you are you referring to the legislative breakfast
is that what you were specifically asking about prob well that and that since we really that both because I guess sometimes I me they're recordered but some of us can't make it because we be working or whatever so if they were recorded there always nice to be able to go back and get them whether they're on Zoom or YouTube cuz a lot of places do
that that's a good suggest so that's what I was asking um I will inquire okay see and let you know okay oh okay okay thank you all right we're sliding into into into comments so we may as well just
keep it going any board comments uh trusty espie I just want to say I was able to attend the uh ribbon cutting for the um HP Spotlight AI uh lab um media center and it was an
incredible event there was um amazing support from digital promise uh who has been working with our Educators um and our Scholars I was able to talk to um a couple of our Scholars um in the space and was particularly impressed by their
Innovation and their Drive uh particularly with one student what we recognize is they were naming they wanted to see a comic about the they were looking for an image from the Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl um performance
and when she couldn't find one on the internet she created it herself um and so I am just incredibly excited and inspired by these students who when they don't see what they want to see what they don't see what they need in the world they make it
themselves and it was really beautiful to to have those conversations and I know this AI lab is going to lead to a lot of more a lot more opportunities in that way thank you other board comments uh
trusty Townsen um I will be attending the wdct education for tomorrow which will be at WCC so I'm excited to see um uh what's to come in
CTE um for this area I did attend the HP digital promise um presentation is very nice um we have some very very smart intelligent children young people
Scholars they made me feel IL equipped to sit in this seat but I was really impressed and it was so good to see so many female uh uh young ladies in the in the actual um uh field of doing all of the a stuff so
it was just really nice um it was young one young gentleman he was just he blew me away and they were all 10th and 11th graders most wow so that just tells you what's to come uh down the pipeline for ycs um also just a reminder again uh
April 19th is the Easter egg hunt at per school from 10 a.m to 12 noon what's the date again trust Saturday April 19th 19th okay thank you and so so I'm excited that we have pulled in uh emu stem
education um which is what we Dr Zachary Austin and we whatever that you know she owned a lot of boys and so they do a lot and so I'm hope I had a meeting today with another major partner um that I'm hoping to uh
solidify for the Easter egg hunt today so I'm trying to focus on stem for us okay um so this will just further push our strategic plan of what they see at ycs so we're excited about that and um
just be on the lookout for your emails updates how you can possibly volunteer those things as well so we're excited thank you yes trusty G and then fields
thank you trusty Fields I too I'm a ditto I was there as well so on that day it was a beautiful day it was so nice to see so many many um Partners like people coming out and um joying and celebrating that day with us and I too talked to a couple of the
students um I love the Krick CL Mar one but the gentleman who had the one for um being people being able to reach out to me if they have injuries when they get hurt in any athletic thing that was really the bomb like it's something that could be patented I I'm just serious the
way he had it all set up I said man you you might want to patent this and have this as you go because it's it was a good thing and he was using and he and he just loved it he said he never thought he would even do anything like that you know just to hear him talk about just looking into that so he he was excited for that and he's a student athlete um
and um and also what was the other oh and I I know we talked about this already but the play I went to that play opening I me and S Kennedy we were both there and as trusty Townson was saying it was so emotional because it was just an exciting thing to see these babies
like up there it was just beautiful cuz we haven't had that you know in ycs in a long time being able to see that kind of performance and seeing the talent that we offer so like we are doing many things if we if it was based on us reading what M live says about us we
wouldn't be anything like really you know what I'm saying so you really have to come here and really see what it is that we're actually doing I mean if you use that they would just nobody would come but if you see the talent that we have you know you look at what we doing over here with the AI you know with the
students and what they're developing and what they're producing at ninth and 10th grade like she said imagine what they're going to be doing in a couple years you know what I'm saying then we have this Talent of these babies over here you can tell by the way that they're performing some of them have never ever performed I talked that my Mr Davis about that
they've never done anything like what they're doing the young man with the lon see what his mom was like because I talked to her after and she was like we couldn't believe in when he said he wanted to do it and he was just so like like he's was born to do it you know what Ian you can see you don't see nervousness in him he was just so
confident in what he was doing you know and that was just a beautiful thing cuz those are our students you know they're going they're representing us you know what I'm saying and and who knows what their might their next step is going to be keeping up that you know what I'm saying so I really am excited to see like I said what their next production
is going to be because just that by itself is like oh my God you would think they've been doing it for years and they just started this school year you know and that was beautiful so yeah thank you yes trusty said get it great so that means that they're just
starting out you know in middle school and so we have a few more years uh of that to look forward to you know seeing them grow into that um and um yes it was truly amazing um and even watching it tonight I was so impressed like if that
was me uh you know even now I've spoken to y'all about how nervous I am talking in public I I I wouldn't be able to do that I don't have the confidence you know to to be able to do that and so it's so impressive to see them you know just at the drop of a hat change into
you know that role and be able to present um you know in front of people that's such a great skill to have um and uh they will be doing the play again one more time this Friday for the elementary school so um I learned this today in the
principal coffee chat um at Ford and so um since my daughter goes to that school I'm looking forward to getting that field trip slip I will be signing up to chaperon and hopefully get to see it one more time um before they shut it down
for the season so I'm looking forward to that this week you know what time other for comments um I guess I would just only add one small comment on to what has already been said um is that um it was really
nice to also see well let me back up one our theme this year was unleash the Brilliance right and so the Brilliance in our kids is all always been there it it always is there and it's just so I
appreciate trusty feels that you you you lifting up and saying come check us out right you know you got a whole lot to say in print come see what we doing in ycs um because our children our scholars in our schools are doing amazing things
and our teachers are doing amazing things and the more we see it the more we talk about it the more we lift it it will permeate so that's on us we got to spread the word and keep speaking life over our district and talking about doesn't mean we don't have challenges
cuz we do but you show me a district who don't have challenges right um so I backed up and so what I wanted to add on to the comment was um which I may have already forgotten um oh goodness oh the
news story I don't know if anyone had a chance to see it was sent out to us but the AI lab like for it to be on National new right like that's a big deal like for us to be highlighted I was looking at that lab and I was I said I just got
to go over there and I don't know what I'mma do but I'mma F I'mma fig yes I'mma figure it out like I'm yeah when I get there I'm GNA figure it out but I was just like blown away like the only like this is cutting Ed like
we're doing The Cutting Edge work right here in ycs so I just had to say that cuz I just just get real excited about things um I think I had some other updates that I wanted to share but um they have left me I apologize so I'm G
to pass it to you Dr Zach Ro thank you Madame President and I just W to um again just say that none of the work could happen without your support because our teachers all the Educators feel supported to take risk and to move
forward because they know that they're not doing it alone so thank you for your support um especially uh I know many of you have been called for different March's reading month events so thank you for that um it's women's history month and yes you've been involved in
going I know Dr Hawkins I know that one of probably her comments she was there at the play at uh estherbrook and they did an amazing job just featuring um the Montgomery Bus Boycott just to think about women in history yes
and so um appreciate you your support in attending all the events if the play was amazing and they're going to have an amazing opportunity to they presented already to all the fifth graders in the district and now um for the Early
Learning Center okay and embracing our differences I understand you didn't get the link to it came blank so I try to figure out again because when Mr Young sent it to me at first it was blank and then got it okay the talent at embracing our differences I literally was blown
away so thank you to the the staff members and the scholars I just I'm like we have to start taping all these events because Lambert I was floored by the performances all across the district so I thank our staff um and our Scholars
for that I mean you saw today firsthand with robotics team 66 um winning um being at first place and they get you it's funny you got Dan shun is like I'm not sure how they're going to do it then
they come out and we know that they are ready um to go to that state championship um to tie I don't know if you caught that they tied with the world's highest score that's how they went from struggling to getting that
first place because they tied not the state the world's highest score and that's how they got to that first place then Chef Gardner I know she was so excited the assistant Chef um they were not only at the fact that they want won they were featured on channel 7 n last
week I mean they cooked on television for the NASA hunch um ni did their dish they made their dish again they're not it's sometimes when we say it but when they go out and compete and they see when we're competing across other places
how they do again the HP a Innovation station thank you for are coming and um our Scholars are already doing the work in the lab as you all saw and then our staff they're embracing it they're getting professional learning it's not like we just got this lab but the lab um
comes with profession ongoing professional learning and they'll be doing a white paper about that so again won't be us talking about it but what does HP uh Intel and Microsoft see as a result with our Scholars work um they've
been doing the fasta and scholarship work I know you guys have asked about it and that's really been lifted up this past week I the Navy been brought in WCC to support with that um they're already as you saw the with the curriculum
they're already starting with um Miss qua Brown she's already launched the uh informationals about the new Dr Drone Aviation program that we're starting um and the CT and music departments have worked together as you heard some
challeng with the bridging over so they're offering a summer program for 710 students to be to learn about the CTE offerings what what is the expectation because if we start at middle school then they'll know here's here's what you got to get on acup pleure here's what you need to do so
that you can come into the high school ready to participate in these offerings so she started that will uh happen this summer um and they're also having as you talked about AI they're having a the high school is is having an AI
conference for families Thursday April 24th from 5:30 to 7 and the staff and students are going to be teaching the tools that they use because people get caught up in chat gbt and we're like no like that's that's not we're talking about drones and Aviation and we're
talking about how they're using it with the CME Prime and where they can build roller roller coasters and have jobs that start off at 200 $300,000 a year and that's what they want to share with the world so I'm just excited about
where the district is going we know that this is a challenging time and so um thank you for the advocacy from WB trusty Townsen um we got to have that town hall the union isn't President isn't here but she has sent me an email
this morning and asked for support because on Wednesday March 19th the communities across across the state with the Michigan Education Association will walk into our schools together in a Walkin to protect Stu our students and
families so across the state people are asked to wear red and support to show elected leaders that we are united in support for the programs and protections of our communities um and what they need to thrive so uh Miss Tillerson along
with the other mea members are um asking for support even from the board because they want to make sure that people do understand what the possible impacts are on our students and family um from some of our most marginalized populations as
well as what happens if there's a dismantling of the US Department of Education from Head Start to idea to our magnet grants um and even more when you talk about even our national food uh lunches and so um we're just uh going to
support our uh Scholars and then those of you who are able to come tomorrow uh that's we're going to continue this work around CTE at um over at washingon Community College we're uh we're going to have our student I'm lifting up Dylan
who was here a few board me me meetings ago he's going to be uh speaking um as one of the three students there's somebody from an arbor as well as Whitmore Lake about the importance I'll be speaking um on the uh superintendent
uh three panel as well well because we need to make sure people are understanding of what the new CTE is about that experiential learning piece not just what was happening because we still have welders we still have auto mechanic folks we still have people who
really can earn a a liable wage as well as their other opportunities that go along with our partner Toyota and what they need in those vehicles that they are building in Seline so um if you can come out tomorrow will be at washingon
Community College um throughout the day and so I'm appreciative of the fact that our Scholars will have a voice in that are you speaking at um a AI um oh I'm the the keenom speaker for
um for she knows at Eastern Michigan University for the dean um the dean's Edy talks that he has um and so I'll be there next you know speaker yes yes you will I will all right
excellent all right anything else from the board superintendent I believe that is everything