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so in the tech world that's you know it's all there um getting up there pretty old total cost of the project would be about seven hundred thousand dollars we'd receive a significant uh significant funds from e-rate that would help us complete this project so we've asked for 395 000.

so it's been about five years since we've had a music equipment article on the capital Improvement plan um what um I mean a lot of our equipment um is in need of of replacement um we get a lot of use out of it as you would imagine here um we have been able to replace some targeted equipment with the operating budget through the years but we want to be able to make sure that we can sustain our programs long term they do an awesome job at repairing um and maintaining the equipment so it's for no fault of that it's just use and age of the equipment so that's sixty five thousand dollars would really like to see that um you know moved forward too hopefully the town meeting at some point so those are the items that we really felt were important to add to the list this year and attempt to accomplish and you know I know we can we can talk about it more at the next meeting but you know I'd appreciate your consideration it will be a little different that the town process this year I this is a little late for us to do this but they're not anywhere in their process either so I'm not sure what that's going to entail I don't to my knowledge they haven't begun that so they're just talking about the budget tonight at that meeting so right so so you know we'll go and we'll Advocate with the capital Improvement planning committee for whatever you folks decide to approve so um we're ready to ready to do that any other questions I just have one more thought I I know these uh requests you know are in uh considered through you know thoughtfully in each building and District as a whole um I just have one thought relative to the bathroom renovation at Quinn you mentioned that a space had been found and located in uh um in the nurse's office and I I just I kind of cringe when I hear that because um because and I I would uh you know 25 years ago students who had Medical Technology feeding tubes they were fed because it was a medical device in the nurse's office we all know that's inappropriate that student deserves to eat with their peers similarly I would hate for a child or or a staff or a Community member who might not have access if the nurse's office locked during some kind of parent night um to and and many students who you know I'm generally speaking I I think it's more likely that a student that's that is in a medical needing an ADA Compliant might have some medical complex needs some health health you know immunity issues and it just wonder if there would be a second space Maybe in the hallway that might be available for consideration so not to expose a student to extra germs if they don't have to just use the bathroom I don't know that's just my two cents on that we did give some thought to this and and the space that we identified working with Mr granfield it is in the nurse's office currently it's only accessed from the nurse's office right now um it is a resting space and a bathroom the resting space component of that would have to go away because we need the space in order to make um you know to make the accessible bathroom it is on the corridor um wall so it is possible and we've we had some discussion about whether we would be able to make the primary access to that space through the um through the corridor there um there's some structural stuff we're gonna figure out about that um as to whether or not we can actually pull that off but it is right there on that Corridor so the main Corridor when you come in the door you take a right yeah it's down there great right past the nurse's office essentially so thank you anybody else okay so this is coming back to us uh at our next meeting to have some more discussion on adjustments and discussions so thank you for all of that everyone okay uh update on related Services sure thank you so we did Supply as well Miss Townsend going to be here tonight she's in school and that but she did draft this document for you all I know Mr Olive had asked last time about an update on what's going on with the related services so I think the important sheet that lists of all of everyone the two years kind of just gives a snapshot of how sometimes the positions change as well within the different departments sometimes we might have like one year was a number of slpas but then we switched to full slps Etc so you can take a peek get that um I think the important one of the important documents is the one that shows how the Departments have increased in numbers since 2014 basically and normally Beth and Laurie Jones would meet with these groups obviously all the time and I haven't met with them a number of times myself throughout the years just when they have needs increasing Etc et cetera and then we try to make adjustments we either as you know we went trying to add slpas at one time to give that extra support Etc so for example the speech language department is up to you know eight full slps but plus one slpa for this year which was a model that actually the SLP Department recommended to us last year when we met with them so we did as you know we wanted to give you what's been happening most recently for example the PT we've had one full-time PT um and again keeping track of the needs that are happening the case loads in the service hours that are required we did find the need we had to add up a 0.2 which we've posted for which may be difficult to get but that's one of the things that's a contract so very often we post for these very difficult to fill positions can't get people and then have to contract out um fortunately we're usually able to find someone but it's been very very difficult sometimes um we we provided the specialized programs number of students as you know like the pals pass K5 we have five programs over there and then the high school and middle school um I don't know if there's anything else basically that you wanted to know but you can see I think that the district makes very good attempt to try to increase the department as much as possible whether it is through a contracted service to add those additional support or to put in place uh someone full time of note of course you heard the bcba speak tonight that's a relatively new phenomena as you know we went from zero and we've got six rbts rbts in the district now and um they're they're all work under the bcba who supervises them so I don't know if there's anything more specific as I said Miss Townsend couldn't be here tonight but if you had more questions you can and I don't know the answer it can certainly pass that on foreign sorry yeah I had the opportunity that's all right Chris I had the opportunity to speak with Miss Townsend and I appreciate her getting this uh out to us I especially appreciate the FTE equivalents um from 2014 to uh 2023.

now one thing and the security side some things that we are trying to incorporate into this our dual Factor authentication so we can have more secure access to our Network and detection response so that's also included in this network infrastructure article we have a vehicle request so you don't know much about this yet I don't think unless you've heard rumors but we are in our budget proposal you'll learn that we are prepared to move forward a proposal for an 18 to 22 program here at the high school for students with special needs we I in an ideal setting we would have a vehicle to be able to transport students to volunteer opportunities work sites other activities in the community and this would hopefully uh get funding and we could we could utilize that that's fifty eight thousand dollars technology Hardware or Hardware request uh two hundred thousand dollars this is our traditional Town doesn't ask us any questions about this and gives it to us hopefully um 200 000 basically continuing to uh to support Hardware replacement throughout the district bathroom renovations several schools require work in the bathrooms one major project that we need to complete is to provide an ADA accessible bathroom at the Quinn school it would be in the nurse's office we've identified a location right now we can do it but we need the funding to be able to complete that all right we fire system upgrade so this has been on the plan for a while and I kept like moving it inching it down every year because there was a lot to manage and it is going to be a lot um so we've been working with the fire departments to um discussing what we should be doing and with the buildings with our fire systems they definitely need to be replaced this would probably only do one building um it might do some planning for the next building but basically it would be planning and then construction we've asked for 250 000 and we have to do this we can't do this all at once in all our buildings so you'll see in the plan that there are additional requests down the road in the next uh the following four years what would be your first priority we are going to work with the consultant to be sure that we can accomplish we have several buildings that we that we need to address so we want to make sure one of them is not this one already uh it's it's on the list it's on the list unfortunately remember that you know this building was built with you know it's was low bid it was you know there are a lot of things in this building that are going to need to be replaced and it is 21 years old so keep hearing that yeah yeah yeah unless we had if I can't but this if you remember we had to spend a lot of money with legal fees because of all the other that's right went on too and that came out of the bond for the school yeah came out of our pool I heard that we were supposed to get swimming pool yep yep um another item that I know that uh you know we've discussed before is the high school track reconstruction so the track out there isn't in great shape it's been deteriorating we get broken pieces that we've been trying to fix but it's not going to stop and we do need to take a look at that and attempt to um replace it for the providers with a long-term solution so we did receive an estimate and we so we've requested 540 thousand dollars to to accomplish that energy efficient lighting so we have quite a few projects that we have on our radar that could save us some money there's not a lot of unfortunately not a lot of utility rebates for lighting anymore those have kind of gone away for the most part but we would take advantage of whatever we can find working also with the town with green communities money if we can although most of that is going to be directed towards heating and HVAC related repairs so we've asked for a hundred and twenty thousand dollars to continue to work on projects like that Stadium Renovations so um we bid out the stadium I think I I think I presented that to the committee or at least gave information at one point earlier this year it was um you know six and a half million dollar price tag and we have about a million and a half so I included it in as as a five million dollar estimate for your consideration I didn't want it to go without thinking about it um it should be done the bathrooms have not gotten any less embarrassing um they're you know it's it's it's in rough shape still needs to be done great Mr chair that so I've had a conversation with Mr Crowley as well as we had a meeting uh with the turf field committee with um I think it was Dave and Stan from the select board who's on the turf field committee and Sean um and I'm not sure if there if there's anyone else there but essentially I guess from my perspective and from the perspective of the turf field committee you know what are I'd love to hear and I'm sure Mr colliewood to the thoughts of this committee as to you know what are we going to do because as we remember the the second round of town meeting fund and had came had come in they they voted to approve it I think that second round was two something three something three something and then the cost estimates for the new um maintenance not maintenance but storage facility came in higher than higher than what we thought so that leaves us right now in our that article that leaves us with how much about a million and a half so right now on file we have about a million and a half left to spend on The Stadium from town meeting unfortunately the last bit came in at six million dollars um all we have to show for the stadium right now is we have a beautiful turf field great lighting um and we we have a nice we're going to have a nice storage facility to put everything in but what that leaves us with are stands that certainly need to be repaired bathrooms that are um not adequate in the least as well as ADA Compliant we have a Press Box a ticket booth we have the whole front if you remember years ago it's been years ago now that the whole front was part of that design of redoing the brick wall putting nice fencing up a new entrance ticket booth there and essentially the bulk of this money is for these stands to renovate the concrete they determine the engine is determined that the concrete was sound or the engineers determined that the end the concrete was sound but certainly needed to be resurfaced and and renovated so we have a great feel while we have a great field you know I don't know I I don't have an answer when we're getting bids for six million dollars and we're concerned about us are going away and funds and I I don't know I I don't I don't have an answer so I'd love to hear yeah from anyone that wants to or maybe revisit this next week Shannon so I mean I guess my question is you know I get it's you know the concrete and it's nice and all that but do we need all that right can you go with just a I'm going to use maybe air quotes around simple because nothing simple or inexpensive in Public Instruction but um is there a way to scale back the design um to create perfectly usable stands like the stands in my high school were just metal that's it there's no concrete just metal and uh you know a box up at the top and that's it um you know maybe we do you know something a little bit more you know we do need bathrooms Ada bathrooms but um can we scale back the design to get us to a more manageable place because I do feel like six million dollars is a lot right um is there a way I mean we do need to improve that but I don't wonder if there's a more economical sort of design that might help us cut that down some Jim I can just say so we we did have the designer take a look at aluminum stands the part of it's it becomes quite complex in that when we take down the existing structures we then have a responsibility to be fully compliant with all regulations that requires a significant structure to house bathrooms that we would be putting inside the stands you know under if if we if we renovate we have to make an effort to become to become as compliant as possible certainly we'd have a full Ada access but we wouldn't have the number of fixtures or the size bathrooms that will be required with this separate building that we'll have to build when we put aluminum stands the the neighboring community not neighboring but another community in Southeastern Mass put aluminum stands home and away with bit with support buildings um and it was five million dollars so I I don't think that that is going to be the answer to our problem it's a million and a half dollars it is it is it might be something that we could consider but um it's yeah it's not necessarily going to get us there all set Shannon at the moment Kathleen what I would love to see for us and I was on the disability commission and part of you know approving some funding to help with those side stands but what I would love to see at a minimum short bathrooms and I appreciate Mr Kylie our family have you know have any time I've reached out and and I know the community is frustrated as well but um you have done what you can do to make sure that um yes embarrassing yes in need of a lot of work but what I would love to see us do is be a little bit more thoughtful and even if it's just shifting over our accessible seating to be part of the larger Community there's nothing more ah to come in and say there's there are there's our stands and there are friends with our community members in wheelchairs and over there in the corner blocked by the pole and with no access to true you know my family's not complaining really I'm here complaining but um yeah I understand and I know and I know the history of it but I would love at a minimum for at least us to be a little bit more thoughtful around you know Equity being more Equitable and just inclusive and one Dartmouth uh with the seating for for games two cents we certainly are in the new design for sure and and that's where we want to be I know that you know we bid this out at the worst possible time yeah but we needed to know so and we have the design done and we had waited long enough um so we bit it out and you know I don't know what the future holds in terms of construction prices whether there's any chance that it would be less in the future that's not normal in construction but this is not a normal situation so it's possible very well you know and again I'll just uh just from like talking with a friend of mine whose father also you know is had some difficulty navigating I think the uneven pavement was is there a challenge and so like you even thought like more than some of the other things so I don't know if there's like again this I guess picks back to Shannon's point to like are there some temporary fixes that we can do for those immediate and dramatic and decathlings like whether it's moving the stands you know and and dealing with those like I don't know if they're like heave points I mean I am like the last person to be talking about building construction but you know it does you know it seems like there's tripping hazards which you know and again I know with someone who has elderly parents one little fall is you know devastating so so again those I think and you know not to say like slapping a coat of paint on the bathrooms is going to make them better but it'll make them a little bit better for like until you know for um you know a year or so again it's not the best it doesn't deal with the Ada but I wonder if there's a way that we can again at least smooth out some of those like rougher patches so it's it's safer for folks who are you know elderly and walking or you know who have uh you know disabilities or you know just uh be more accommodating Chris so I'm just talking off the cuff here with the money that we have is it possible or feasible you know to chunk this out a little bit more and is it possible to work on the inside of the stands without touching the the actual stands exteriorly the the bleachers the aluminum bleachers that sit on top of the concrete is it possible to go in there at least God the bathrooms got the bathrooms make them ADA Compliant you know and then whether or not we can do something with a concession stand as a starting point but at least the is it possible to go in there and at least work on the bathrooms without me without messing around the exterior I'm just so though that's true the concrete repairs um that need to be made need to be made on the interior and exterior of the stance you're asking if it's possible it might be um just the interior we would have to leave it without like we can't cover up the inside of the stands in order to do the repairs that are ultimately going to have to be done to maintain those stance so whether you could leave everything exposed and still have new bathroom fixtures I don't know just thinking outside I could grow out there to the designers and ask you know what that would entail for sure Kathleen um so if we were to carve out uh you know if we were to just focus in on like a pathway a More Level pathway around um just going to the Middle School graduation and having to utilize the bathroom on our visitor's side could we do something now that we've got that space the storage space could we do something with that that room that is a bath that has a bathroom and and and make that our Universal ADA Compliant multi-gender you know just bathroom one person in or family bathroom type thing um in the mean is that is is has that been thought about there will be two bathrooms in that structure that will be fully ADA Compliant in the new design back to the so so the stands need to be repaired I I will ask but I'm pretty sure that they're going to say repair The Stance before you renovate the bathrooms it makes sense construction wise something drops down yeah I mean they need to basically the plan to do construction was to rip out everything inside of those structures so nothing left and then do all the repairs and then begin to rebuild and that's the way it makes the most sense construction wise but it's also a lot of money and we don't have it so I'll ask I'll ask about it Shannon so I'm in favor of asking town the capital planning committee and town meeting I mean we know we have to do it right and here we're like well could we includes this could we includes that can we spend a bunch of money without really fixing it let's ask first I mean we know we need to do it let's ask it's not it's not something that's frivolous we need it and it's not just the school department I say no then we'll have to think about you know them we'll have to think about other things but let's ask first um and and maybe we could see you know are there ways that we can cut some costs it it would be a big difference right we've got 5 million here we already have 1.5 asking for 3.5 versus 5. that's a big difference um so if there are ways that we can cut that ask I think we should ask there's not I mean we need to ask no yeah um and then let's just see figure out what to do afterwards if they say no go ahead I have one more item on my list yeah no I should have moved that one to the end okay I didn't uh I didn't mean to uh diss music here but uh the the music equipment article um The Proposal is for 65 000.

um I I guess in regards to the case loads I would just be curious as to I know um the bcba spoke about her case loads um we see the caseloads here but what are what are considered and maybe you could answer this for me or Dr Gifford um what are considered average or standard case loads for these service providers are are they is it over what is the recommended caseload or are we this average I guess that would be my only question I would have to ask that I honestly don't know the answer what I will say though is um don't forget that caseloads might be a very various times that the kids are being serviced so some students might have everyday ABA for example one might have one day or two so so that really plays into that idea too yeah not necessarily real I don't uh sort of like I jotted down some some notes when when the folks were speaking and I'm in and it's I mean it's tied to this but and you probably won't have an answer right now or and I'm just thinking to myself like I'm just wondering because historically Dartmouth I believe like other other districts as well like weren't necessarily um providing on a regular basis like ABI Services right um I think we ABA like and there was like questions around the I mean it's data driven it's I I you know my son is benefits greatly from the services in in its and but we previously I don't feel like we used some of the some of the um ABA like sort of Behavioral supports um previous to that and I would love to to hear and again it's it's it's related in a way but I would love to hear and although it's a bad time because I'm sure like covid and the increase of student needs and that sort of thing just what we're seeing I say covid but you know families not you know having access to comprehensive early intervention since you know during and since the pandemic all of those contributing factors to student needs I'm sure you just wonder though um the benefit that we're seeing in terms of students and then I think of like RTI and the students you know I wonder if I'm just curious I would love to hear it was recommended some tying up the RTI you know the the um the entry and the the discharge of and I just wonder how the the BCA supports and the rbts and and supporting student needs and how that all plays into how long a student is or which what percentage of those students are are put into special education more directly um because I'm also thinking of those parents that just don't understand that their child is delayed or presenting a certain way because of the lack of socialization during the last three years of covid and you know they don't realize that there they just haven't because I I recognize that families young families aren't necessarily reaching out to the degree that they would have previously in my professional life because they just aren't necessarily aware that their child is delayed or has has special education needs or I don't want to say issues but just just needs related to how they function I I would just be curious um now that we have the bcba and again it's not I'm just sorry yeah and as you know we have the child fine but the right yeah and right fed early intervention certainly students may not have been even there because of covet right or parents that don't recognize and so the school's like putting in the RTI interventions to see these things out and perhaps the family hasn't said hey I I'm noticing this at home you know like I would have but yeah but we do have I think our good um you know our assessment system that we have set up which will be starting to get information out about Pre-K and kindergarten that is really really good and I think we do are able to detect and help parents understand what's going on with their their kids through that so um that's certainly Our Hope but I you know I'm grateful to get the the data yeah it's important to know um I think it provides some clarity sometimes through some of the noise that the white noise and what actually is happening in the Departments so again if you have anything else you can certainly forward and touch base with Beth and find out more and I'll set Shannon thank you sound like Marilyn Monroe or something I know all right okay okay next pupils support service administrator and pending vacancy doc yeah we just we wanted to um knowledge the fact that this position aside from mine is also a very difficult position to fail possibly even more difficult we do know a number of districts are already out on the hunt I spoke to a colleague who had a search going on had an interview process and actually they're going back out again because the pool is small so we're just trying to support you on getting this posted because we never know what might happen again trying to get out ahead of it so I I wanted to ask Mr news to put it on the um we are ready to post we have a job description I don't know if we sent the job description forward but it's basically like we've done before for this position and if you would like us to we would post it and then you can all determine how you will go about the process once you know the app stop coming in but we were just trying to encourage that posting to get going yeah sure definitely um I yeah I I would love to see us move forward with this I do think it's important that that we have a thorough to your point um I see that in my world and and I also see some really frustrating things happening in other communities and and this is a very important position so I would love to see us get going on um and do like a full search and uh I've already indicated my interest but again it doesn't have you know I I feel I'd add value to the committee but also another fan a parent um you know back up my mind I had you in the back of my mind believe me so yeah I would love to see us move forward with I don't know if it's looking through the pat you know what's already kind of ready to go or um but this is I'm nervous about this one yeah nervous about both right all um but I would look forward to us kind of moving full force with a full search Chris yeah I'm 100 agreement that let's get this posted sooner rather than later um I'm okay with the with the makeup with the committee and my only recommendation would be I would like to see uh another teacher we have one two three four four administrators um it would be nice to see another whether it's special at a regular Ed I'd like to see another for what it's worth that's only um my opinion but I like to see another teacher as part of that and yeah no let's get this posted and you know I'm I'm sure that we potentially have some in-house candidates as well as um you know open it up to everyone in the field and let's see what we get and um you know at least this way you know we get to hear feedback from all the different stakeholders Chris just to uh to yours this has 11 members right now and you know no I get it odd number nope nope nope you know you you talk about adding one maybe if we added in I don't know we had two only so we have an odd number I don't know that type of Deal or some other massage just some other way to to you know another teacher and someone else that type of deal again keeping an odd number God forbid type of deal so that's that's just my thought as as you said that that's just my opinion I don't know like I mean I'm good either way Kathleen I just though too wanted to say like we've got the two school committee members my term ends so I don't know if we're up against what we were with the superintendent um in terms of my participation on it um and the timeline would it we want to have somebody probably run almost run parallel I'm pretty parallel pretty much going to run parallel so we'll be good okay attack Dr Jenkins so yeah I was I was just gonna say well maybe if we wanted to make it odd we could move down to one school Committee Member in part because we're running two searches at the same time and it's a lot but then if Kathleen's gonna be one of the two I do think we should have someone else just to ensure continuity so scratch that thought yeah that's so if you'd like we could get it posted we can uh do you go ahead I'm good do you want us to put out kind of the field to the TPS and say anyone that's interested and be on the committee to let us know and then you'll next meeting you can kind of discuss the committee more yep all right so then by that point hopefully we'll have some candidates coming in yeah can we also for for both of both the superintendent and the um the uh this position be sure to put that on social media um because not everyone watches these meetings and so really know about it you can also post it on the website yeah and I don't know if we want to do an email or you know a Mr galashaw can do his great Barry White voice I don't know um but just something to get the word out because um I think it's important to cast a broad net very good okay I know we've got a lot tonight yeah that's all well we knew that coming in uh use of school choice funds right so I won't yeah it's yeah it's it I had I have conversations with Mr perrotti where is Mr perrotti have him come on out he um I think I sent you the document so you've read through it we would like we're very much in support of this as you can see on his back of the he's been already looking at companies to give him the best deal ever where these cameras that he's looking for very professional cameras would be about 20 to 30 000 set up each he's feeling with a company that he's when we have to go to bed I already asked Mr Kylie buck anyway we would like to request that the school committee approve our use of up to twenty five thousand dollars to we thought at first we were just going to be purchasing one we may end up getting the whole kit and caboodle um foreign given the amount of work that this program has done for the district the town and all the work he's secured donor wise and Grant wise we felt that this would be a good use of some of the school choice funds so we were asking for that approval we thought up to 25 000 we could we could do that for him I'll make a motion to approve and then very we have moved on by uh Dr Jenkins the second uh by Miss White to approve up to twenty five thousand dollars of school choice funds for Mr perrotti to purchase what he needs for his media program any questions comments Chris I'll just say I uh you know I think it's going to a great cause and I have no reservations at all that it will be put this equipment will be put to good use yeah I'll also say I'm just very impressed with everything that our you know our media students and our teachers do they give our students real life skills and experience that is invaluable and so I think this is a you know a great investment yeah I I I will add that uh yeah to see the the passion um and and the leadership of Mr perotti and how he inspires his students and just so enthusiastically uh and doing so much and and all the projects I love watching all the Productions he's great yeah and I'll just also you know just to go and tag onto that that he really is like encouraging this sense of belonging that we're talking about in so many ways and and I think critically like doing these um this Outreach not just within the school Community but like into the community itself I mean he's you know I mean the amount of projects he's doing but you know including like the Dartmouth history project and you know reaching out into the community so it's just yeah so it's really uh you you know it's you know as we talk about again sense of belonging sense of belonging Community engagement like he's a linchpin for that so yeah yeah worth great investment yeah I mean if and if you look I mean also um what the students are doing with actual sporting events I mean they've been they've been doing the play-by-play and the color for sporting events type of deal uh Ben who we normally see here type of deal uh the Silver Lake game Tournament game type of deal in the net and he was up in a booth and with Jimmy Thompson and uh Paul Santos and he Ben was doing the play-by-play Jimmy was helping him along but Ben was doing a play-by-play and just had an a great time with a type of deal so it's awesome what us what these students are doing I mean and if you go in the back here you go downstairs and you see what they have for equipment it's you know you kind of think about when you watch The Today Show or an NFL game or something of that nature and they kind of very quickly show you the production room yeah it's a mini production room but we've got what they've got yeah it keeps getting better you know Kathleen I I was watching the dedication of the court from Mr Gaspar and I just was uh it was it was great Ben was correcting Paul Santos you know if he said somebody was six seven he said actually whatever it was it was funny he was he had his facts and he had he was ready and prepared for um that play-by-play it was great to see him so um uh you know confident enough to right to make the corrections on the spot to make sure that the what was being shared was was actually you know he's good on the Fly he really is so that's like all right so we have the motion and a second all in favor all right I suppose motion carries unanimously I don't know I don't know if I hear a whip [Laughter] I'm not seeing any fireworks coming out I'm a little disappointed I didn't hear the clapping okay uh next item the proposed school year 23 24 school calendar we all got a copy of that yep that's good oh like a person say always I appreciate the fact that we have the second off again I thought having January 2nd is always it really is nice to have I mean even if it isn't you know technically the national holiday because parents you know sometimes or kids recover parents get back if they're traveling so I think that's nice oh you can travel New Year's Day so um I just have a question about the the Wednesday before Thanksgiving um and just sort of looking at this and we have a half day but you know that that does make it pretty difficult for people who have to travel to go to their families and I don't wonder you know talking to my sister her District uses that the morning of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving as a parent-teacher conference morning so parents who have to go out of town can schedule their parent-teacher conference on the sixth like maybe we instead of doing the 13th we could do the 22nd and the sixth so they can do theirs not around Thanksgiving but people who have to who are in town can just do theirs in that morning it would give us the advantage of having a morning slot and an afternoon slot for parent-teacher conferences which might work better for some parent schedules I mean maybe some parents are unavailable in the afternoon but might be available in the morning I'm just sort of wondering whether we might consider that you know I have a family that's far away and when my kids were in school even a half day it basically meant that we couldn't travel for Thanksgiving sure um so I don't wonder whether we might play around with that half day and the Parent-Teacher conferences to give parents the option right if the you know to not we wouldn't be in school that day but maybe teachers would do a half day professional development or parent-teacher conferences I don't know just a thought yeah correct me if I'm wrong you've got to pick the half day up you're going to pick up the day yeah somewhere down the line so now you just yeah so but what I'm suggesting is we take the 6th or the 13th and make that not a half day we only do one half day in December it doesn't make it yes it does it would wash Mr Nunes if we did if we did the 22nd and the 16th as parent conference and professional development days and we did the 13th as a full day we would have the same number of school days we don't have to pick anything up yeah okay because we're not in school I'm not sure I'm again I'm going I'm going time on learning yeah as long as we have the half day the half day it's a full day okay really means full day no I I got to I got the half I got the half day counts as a full day don't get me wrong I've got that but if we're not having students in the building on the 22nd which is the day before Thanksgiving is it going to count as a school day it's almost like no it won't no it wouldn't count if you're not going to have students in the building right so what I'm then saying we have to make up a half day we still need to pick up a half day so now you're making you're gonna make for discussion purposes everybody would have to go to June 14th June 13th would be a full day June 14th would be a half day am I correct I think you're I think you're correct mom but I'm going to throw another Cog in the wheel here because my recommendation I'd like to see I see more and more school districts in the area considering it or doing it is that we eliminate School completely on the day before Thanksgiving on the 22nd and it's a day off for both staff and students first for travel um that that's my and yes we extend the school year um but but I think that it there's nothing let's face it yeah I mean there's nothing going on that day oh I mean and I got that we have the Howard Smith breakfast and then we have the you know the route you know and things of that nature and I got that but I don't know that's just that's just my thought I got you all right so that's another consideration but I also I I my understanding of Shannon's idea was that then in December instead of those two weeks where we have the sixth and the 13th as a half day yeah we eliminate one of them it's a half day counts as a full day the half day counts as a full day it counts as a full day that's where I was headed that's where I was headed before okay took me a minute that's all right I think like once in a while so I know it wasn't that long ago but uh Thanksgiving we get out like earlier too the kids get out a little earlier than they normally would on a half day that's another thing so you wouldn't want to keep our staff extra long and you know if we do the half day for our parent-teacher parents I would you know that would be my only yeah I mean not there I mean the students around here no school that's fine yeah we can do no school that day that's fine so if you go ahead Chris I got a lot to say tonight um in addition I I do think there's some Merit in what Dr Jenkins is saying because when we have I know that putting parent-teacher conferences smack dab in the middle of December also is a lot for both the parents trying to find time schedule time to come in and meet with the teachers as well as for the teachers so you know I I don't know if it's something that we we have continue I know this is just the first read of it um but I do understand and agree that maybe we should look at some other way of doing that but I am solid on making the 22nd a no school day I I just want the idea that we have our parent-teacher conferences on two Wednesdays and there's two Wednesday afternoons if you're a parent that has a commitment on Wednesday afternoons having two consecutive Wednesday afternoons does you no good in terms of being able to make a parent-teacher conference and so I don't know whether we want to think about do we do a Monday and a Wednesday do we do a Tuesday and Wednesday do we do a morning and an afternoon I don't know we need to try to figure out ways to meet our parents where they are and that having two similar days like I know if I was teaching a classes on Wednesday afternoon I can't go in either Wednesday afternoon it doesn't matter right um so I don't wonder whether we want to try to think about how to do that a little bit differently so that we can make it more accessible to our parents yep okay okay so Dr Gifford you'll and did you want to mention we we suggested that Friday and yeah if if you look for Friday before Labor Day September 1st that's a day there's no school that day we did that a number of years ago and that worked out well for people so anyway all right so will is that a happy dance it actually came from you Renee that's what I understand very good all right so we'll redraft um with the November 22nd possibly off yep and looking at what uh talk to Jenkins mentioned about switching some of those days and bring back um another draft yeah that's fine and then okay it goes there you'd have to correct me if I'm wrong uh because these also become like professional developments oh yeah we'll figure it all out you'll have to figure that all out with uh Katie Katie and Ross okay thank you all right all right Town Charter this note that I a note that I have in our pack it says the Town Administrator has sent notice that town departments must appoint a reappoint members from their respective departments slash committees to the Charter committee and that are not two current members are Ms Waite and Miss Brooks so are you interested in hanging in there yeah that's fine I mean I'm not running again so but um you know I'm happy to stay in as the appointee like I mean I certainly and we'll be finishing you know up our you know hopefully at a town meeting so yeah presentation and then you know of course Heidi I don't know if then you know she's our designee but of course she's on select board so I don't know if that means that we need to you know find a different and of course she's chairing it so we don't you know you know so I don't know if like so if we have to sift because she's got that position now or can you reach out to Mrs Brooks is she still in okay yeah I'm sure I was talking earlier in the weekend I'm sure she is yeah we'll we'll all yeah that's fine do you have to make a motion for sure yeah well yeah why don't we I make a motion that we reappoint um let's wait and miss pending um they're agreeable you know decision to participate but having done a deep dive and watched all of your videos I did I'm admitting it there was a lot of discussion around you know sometimes if some folks hadn't attended each year it's like Reinventing the wheel and repeating them so that consistency and moving forward makes the most sense yeah that's the key is what I'm thinking of too and I understand you know what she said but that's the you know and especially yeah they're saying that you're towards the end so yeah no we are together I mean it's longer than it should have been as it is just with coven and everything else and we have lost a few folks on the committee um for various reasons so we're you know we're we're a little short staffed on our committee if you will so hopefully this will help us add a few folks that just to kind of pull through the end yep all right so we have a motion by uh Mr Oliver to uh appoint to to reappoint Ms to Mary Waite and uh Heidi Brooks pending her you know her saying so BB would be fine to the uh townshire Review Committee all in favor say aye aye aye opposed motion Gary's unanimously thanks to both of them oh my God yeah I have watched some of the meetings but boy you know you change this word here what's it do down the line yeah yeah I can imagine how those words are are good cases for hour-long discussion oh yeah no doubt about it all right superintendent's update very very quick at Katie paveo already mentioned we got a speaking of half days this week so our strands will continue everything she talked about um I don't know if you were going to talk about we had the wonderful gas spot Court ceremony so that's that um you can mention anything else it was just a full house it was wonderful it was just wonderful um speaking of Mr perrotti last time he presented he said he had gotten a ten thousand dollar Grant award for the computer science program well through Jonas shoes he's now had that doubled so I don't know there's no stopping him and then the last thing I just wanted to say was Potter finally was able to have a Golden Ticket um child pulled the golden chicks they got a five thousand dollar award from the Feinstein oh good so he was so happy about that so every week I'd read his updates we didn't win again so that's it that's all I have fantastic all right yeah the only thing I have two good things that I have is number one on sports teams are doing fantastic I had the privilege of being here Saturday for uh the dedication of the basketball court for Steve Gasper and such uh very well deserved uh very done very Tastefully and very quickly so that type of deal you know got to watch that girls basketball team win and then the boys state for the boys game and that that was that was an exciting game and uh you know the as Dr Gifford said it was standing room only it was an excellent excellent game so and Steve was Steve was Steve I've know like I said I've known Steve since 1966 and Steve was Steve very very humble and you know how about some you know somebody else in that type of deal so that was good so that's all I have anybody else have anything Shannon so you know we heard a lot in public comment today and um sometimes I feel like it's a little bit like I know it's public comment is coming to us but by the time we get to sort of respond to some of that um our audience is thin quite a bit I appreciate Miss Mira as it has really held out here and and hopefully she'd pass this along but um I don't wonder One whether we might want to have a little opportunity to talk um after public comment about some of this because I think what's been missing in these conversations is I don't think you'll find five stronger supporters of public higher education and our staff in this community there is not a person at this table who doesn't believe that our I mean there's none of us that believe our teachers are overpaid we're spending too much on schools we hear these things we're a little bit between a rock and a hard place and and what I was thinking about when I heard that is I got my tax bill the other day and I don't live in a fancy house or anything you know I live in an average house and my tax bill was about forty four hundred dollars so I did a little research right and the average tax bill in Massachusetts is about seventy four hundred dollars right and Longmeadow which has the highest tax bill my house the house is worth less than mine would pay nine thousand six hundred dollars and in this article that I found they talked about Saugus was had a similar home value to mine and they pay 6.1 and that was a low paying community and the Boston region and so I appreciate every single thing that people come and say to us in public comment I think we hear it we feel it we understand we're trying but the problem is right I I thought about that forty four hundred dollars I had two kids in school you know a couple of years ago which meant I was paying twenty two hundred dollars a year to educate my child that's ridiculous right I mean the lowest paid private school around here is many multiples of that so I don't wonder whether I mean maybe people are watching on TV and they hear this and they see this but I don't wonder whether we might set aside a little bit of time on the agenda next time I don't want to get a back and forth but I do think it's important for uh the people who work in that District to hear and understand that the five of us are committed to them we support them we believe in them and we're trying I mean we really are but the problem is not that we're five stingy people who don't appreciate teachers but that you can't get blood from a stone and we just are I know you've said it you've done the calculations too Mr Nunes there's we our tax rate is very very low right and I know we had heard some figures about you know spending on Administration versus spending on teachers teachers just teachers right as about Mr Mr Kylie would probably know this more than I did but my quick math was about 45 of our budget administration's about three percent right like we in edu in the education business whether it's K-12 or higher education the education business is a people business and you need money to pay people and we don't have it right now um and so I I think it may be important for us to be able to affirm our commitment to our teachers and to let them know that we hear them because it's a lot of coming at us and you know um I don't want to get into an exchange but I would like to for people to hear some affirmation of our commitment to them because by like you know eight o'clock it's all cleared out definitely I also I think adding um that and and like again not like you said not a back and forth well also Aid in sort of telling that story more town wide I mean it's out there but I do think that it I don't know it might it might create a a better sense of the people making the decisions and working together in a way that is not violating any bargaining type scenarios but but we'll tell that story the story that we're together we're not we're not together right we're unified we believe in our schools and yeah I think you're very right about that yes no and I and I was I've been thinking that same thing you know because I feel like you know it's easy to say like well the school Community is just sitting on money and they just don't want to give it out like which is how and again I think to your point we're very pro-teacher all of us and Pro Staff and it's and I think there's a big PR and the way it's layered in our meetings is that we're not able like you said we're not able to convey that as well and so I think that prps that the town has to hear that they need to commit and you know what that means and I that's the piece that's lost and I know it's and it's hard because that you know we're walking by the teachers and there many of them are you know they're children's like beloved you know friends really I mean there are you know we appreciate them and we're seeing their signs and maybe if they're being caught you know for a moment on you know a newspaper but there are not real like the people who need to hear it and to feel it and understand the consequences they aren't getting that message it's it's all it feels internal and it's and it's it's you know it's it's a disservice to everyone involved in this process so because again like I think it's easy to say like well the school committee just doesn't want to give them you know there's plenty of money and and again I think we've been pretty transparent about the budget but we know the budget is a very complex you know Beast which will you know one of the reasons we're coming in tomorrow but I think we have to explain that like yeah we're getting so much more than than we're paying for and we've been so lucky to slide on like with the staff that have committed to this District but you know we've lost a lot so we have Chris I'll get you Kevin no and just to Echo what some of my colleagues have said we you know just on um we were invited and we actually engaged um on um December 19th uh an executive session with the select board we had conversations with them around some of the topics that have been brought to us we we certainly all care I there's no doubt about that and I wish there was more my teacher membership here um but we certainly all care we understand the concerns around health insurance and we understand uh there's a lot of valid points it gets brought to the table um I'm aware of that and I think we're all sensitive sensitive to that um and we're we're we're trying but at the end of the day you you know our tax rate is a price is a problem it's a detriment while in some some people will say we we're living large and we have a great tax rate and that's why we came to Dartmouth it is a detriment to some extent and to a large extent we got we got hung out back in the 80s when two and a half came in we had just revalued and everything and 59-21 D came in and that took care of that so uh we've got that yeah I I'm good I'm good with that I mean again as you've all said and I wholeheartedly agree I'm not getting into it you know they will speak right and then we'll speak if we want to but there will be no follow-up there will be no dialogue there will be no and I don't mean it in a disrespectful way bantering back and forth oh yeah they're going to speak and then we're going to spend and we're going to move on okay I think that's fine that's fine okay all right that being said our next meeting is scheduled for January 23rd 2023 here enjoy Martin Luther King at the chair will entertain a motion to adjourn into executive session for an update on collective bargaining and not return to open session roll call I'm sorry so moved moved by Dr Jenkins second by Miss Amaral on the motion mini discussion chair hearing done roll call vote please John Nunes yes Mary Waite here yes Shannon Jenkins Chris Oliver yes go Pats thank you and have a good evening thank you foreign

so it's been about five years since we've had a music equipment article on the capital Improvement plan um what um I mean a lot of our equipment um is in need of of replacement um we get a lot of use out of it as you would imagine here um we have been able to replace some targeted equipment with the operating budget through the years but we want to be able to make sure that we can sustain our programs long term they do an awesome job at repairing um and maintaining the equipment so it's for no fault of that it's just use and age of the equipment so that's sixty five thousand dollars would really like to see that um you know moved forward too hopefully the town meeting at some point so those are the items that we really felt were important to add to the list this year and attempt to accomplish and you know I know we can we can talk about it more at the next meeting but you know I'd appreciate your consideration it will be a little different that the town process this year I this is a little late for us to do this but they're not anywhere in their process either so I'm not sure what that's going to entail I don't to my knowledge they haven't begun that so they're just talking about the budget tonight at that meeting so right so so you know we'll go and we'll Advocate with the capital Improvement planning committee for whatever you folks decide to approve so um we're ready to ready to do that any other questions I just have one more thought I I know these uh requests you know are in uh considered through you know thoughtfully in each building and District as a whole um I just have one thought relative to the bathroom renovation at Quinn you mentioned that a space had been found and located in uh um in the nurse's office and I I just I kind of cringe when I hear that because um because and I I would uh you know 25 years ago students who had Medical Technology feeding tubes they were fed because it was a medical device in the nurse's office we all know that's inappropriate that student deserves to eat with their peers similarly I would hate for a child or or a staff or a Community member who might not have access if the nurse's office locked during some kind of parent night um to and and many students who you know I'm generally speaking I I think it's more likely that a student that's that is in a medical needing an ADA Compliant might have some medical complex needs some health health you know immunity issues and it just wonder if there would be a second space Maybe in the hallway that might be available for consideration so not to expose a student to extra germs if they don't have to just use the bathroom I don't know that's just my two cents on that we did give some thought to this and and the space that we identified working with Mr granfield it is in the nurse's office currently it's only accessed from the nurse's office right now um it is a resting space and a bathroom the resting space component of that would have to go away because we need the space in order to make um you know to make the accessible bathroom it is on the corridor um wall so it is possible and we've we had some discussion about whether we would be able to make the primary access to that space through the um through the corridor there um there's some structural stuff we're gonna figure out about that um as to whether or not we can actually pull that off but it is right there on that Corridor so the main Corridor when you come in the door you take a right yeah it's down there great right past the nurse's office essentially so thank you anybody else okay so this is coming back to us uh at our next meeting to have some more discussion on adjustments and discussions so thank you for all of that everyone okay uh update on related Services sure thank you so we did Supply as well Miss Townsend going to be here tonight she's in school and that but she did draft this document for you all I know Mr Olive had asked last time about an update on what's going on with the related services so I think the important sheet that lists of all of everyone the two years kind of just gives a snapshot of how sometimes the positions change as well within the different departments sometimes we might have like one year was a number of slpas but then we switched to full slps Etc so you can take a peek get that um I think the important one of the important documents is the one that shows how the Departments have increased in numbers since 2014 basically and normally Beth and Laurie Jones would meet with these groups obviously all the time and I haven't met with them a number of times myself throughout the years just when they have needs increasing Etc et cetera and then we try to make adjustments we either as you know we went trying to add slpas at one time to give that extra support Etc so for example the speech language department is up to you know eight full slps but plus one slpa for this year which was a model that actually the SLP Department recommended to us last year when we met with them so we did as you know we wanted to give you what's been happening most recently for example the PT we've had one full-time PT um and again keeping track of the needs that are happening the case loads in the service hours that are required we did find the need we had to add up a 0.2 which we've posted for which may be difficult to get but that's one of the things that's a contract so very often we post for these very difficult to fill positions can't get people and then have to contract out um fortunately we're usually able to find someone but it's been very very difficult sometimes um we we provided the specialized programs number of students as you know like the pals pass K5 we have five programs over there and then the high school and middle school um I don't know if there's anything else basically that you wanted to know but you can see I think that the district makes very good attempt to try to increase the department as much as possible whether it is through a contracted service to add those additional support or to put in place uh someone full time of note of course you heard the bcba speak tonight that's a relatively new phenomena as you know we went from zero and we've got six rbts rbts in the district now and um they're they're all work under the bcba who supervises them so I don't know if there's anything more specific as I said Miss Townsend couldn't be here tonight but if you had more questions you can and I don't know the answer it can certainly pass that on foreign sorry yeah I had the opportunity that's all right Chris I had the opportunity to speak with Miss Townsend and I appreciate her getting this uh out to us I especially appreciate the FTE equivalents um from 2014 to uh 2023.

uh maybe we begin with instructions for interpretation for our Spanish-speaking audience thank you so much can you hear me Los participants foreign thank you so much um I'd like to call the January 10th 2023 meeting of the Adams County school district 14 Board of Education to order please join me as we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence this evening I would like to have a moment of silence in the name of Ernie Clark he was a gentleman that donated many bikes over the years to our district and he recently passed thank you 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 on our agenda is 2.4 roll call of Ramona can you conductable please Mr Amador Ms Estrada Ms Lovato Here Ms Molina Miss Molina is excused Ms Zubia thank you next on the agenda is approval of the agenda uh may I have a motion to approve the agenda Ramona roll call please Mr Amador Ms Estrada Ms Lovato aye mizupiah thank you uh next on the agenda is celebrations and recognitions my favorite part of the meeting um Dr lodia may I turn it over to you for this part um but I'm president members of the board members of the community um I would actually like to start with a proclamation I would like to recognize you as a board this is the month for um that in which we celebrate Boards of education and we have a special Proclamation for you I am recovering from covid um well actually I have been recovering for two weeks um and I am my voice is not helping so I'm going to ask Jeff to uh to read a proclamation on my behalf and I just want to say um thank you for your hard work for your commitment to our students um this is a position that you volunteer you do not get a dime for the hours and hours that you put for our community and our students and I just want to say before he starts reading the proclamation how honored I am to be working for for you as a board and um and how much you inspire me every day to come here and do my very best so I uh your your commitment your attitude your passion makes me want to not fail you ever and um and this is just a small token of our appreciation not only from us but also from our community our students and our staff so thank you very much Madam president Madam superintendent trustees members of the audience it's my honor to read the proclamation for Dr Lauria whereas School Board recognition month is celebrated annually during the month of January to honor those individuals who diligently serve the schools and students in their community whereas school board members voluntarily tackle the job of governing school districts doing so in a manner that embodies what it means to be an incredible advocate for our diverse students whereas the community and Trust school board members with a Guardianship and wisex expenditure of scarce tax resources and they are responsible for maintaining and preserving the buildings grounds and other areas of the school district that the citizens have put in their trust whereas school board members come from different backgrounds with the common goal of helping students grow learn and enjoy their educational experiences whereas board members not only participate in monthly meetings but also devote their time and energy to attending seminars conferences and regular training sessions to better serve their Community with the latest trends in education whereas the board members elected to the school board positions deserve recognition and thanks for their countless hours of volunteer service to the public education and the students therefore be it resolved that from superintendent Dr Lauria declares her appreciation to members of the Adams 14 School board and to Proclaim January 2023 the school board recognition month thank you [Applause] Jeff and I have a little plaque for them so I'm going to pass around so an appreciation I'm watching I've always told my children if you have a choice but now when this woman foreign come next okay oh next time okay um Dr Lauria thank you so much for this recognition and thank you to our students I don't know if you guys can see but we have handmade cards and um notes and goodies and yes thank you this was so so very nice um I would personally like to thank each of our board members for their time dedication and oversight I think I speak for all of us when I say that we want to do the very very best for our students and staff we remain steadfast in our commitment to ensure Adam's 14 students have access to the skills and opportunities that prepare them for a successful post-secondary path of their choosing I saw a quote the other day life is a long lesson in humility I think we've shouldered countless attacks to our character knowledge and experience throughout our time serving on this board I commend each of you for your strength integrity and character I thank you for your commitment and your friendship do you have any other comments questions no okay I'm not even gonna look at you because you're making me emotional um may I have a motion to Proclaim January 2023 as school board recognition month thank you Ramona roll call please Mr Amador aye Ms Estrada aye Ms Lovato aye Missouri thank you um next or you said we don't have any further recognitions we're going to double up next month okay thank you um next up is audience comments um Ramona did we have any okay oh demon trouble came in my Legion oh okay okay yeah welcome to the podium and go ahead thank you thank you um good evening Madam president Dr lareya and fellow board members happy board appreciation month to start out my name is Anne Hart and I am one of the instructional coaches at Adams City Middle School tonight I'm here to talk about the professional development day that teachers and staff engaged in last Tuesday and highlight some of the things that we have seen both in classrooms and in this school to highlight the learning that teachers engaged in the morning session of the PD for teachers focused on monitoring in the classroom and creating Pathways during instruction to ensure that our teachers are actively up looking and assessing both how students are doing and what they are doing in the classrooms so far in classes we have been able to see teachers begin to develop their monitoring tools for example a seventh grade teacher is using a plus checked and minus key to quickly identify students who are understanding those who might need a little bit more help and those who are not understanding the content yet one of our science teachers is pulling the icann statement and the ican levels from the curriculum and using it to identify the level his students are currently performing at and forming intentional small groups from that data that they are pulling we have also seen more teachers up and around in their classrooms taking a more intentional active approach to monitoring what their students are truly understanding in that afternoon session at Adams City Middle School we focused on backwards planning and intentional questioning during lessons we LED teachers through thinking about pulling out High leverage activities and questions that will help students become proficient on exit tickets and unit assessments so far as a coach I have seen teachers become more thoughtful in their planning working to plan backwards from the assessment or that exit ticket and picking questions and activities that truly help students Master their content I want to conclude with some thoughts from a couple of our teachers personally our sixth grade math teacher states that the professional development helped me be more intentional in my planning I've been able to really look into the curriculum to pull out problems that get kids to practice and collaborate as a result I've already seen Improvement in my students scores on the exit tickets in that active monitoring has also made me better at adjusting my teachings in the moment rather than after my students have left my classroom a seventh grade teacher stated that he appreciated the monitoring PD because no matter the content we teach the grade we teach or the level of experience we have every teacher could walk out of PD with a couple strategies that we could immediately Implement to help our students so to conclude I want to thank you for continuing to support the learning of our Adams 14 staff as it is critical to our Student Success thank you so much for that great update um do you board members do you have any comments or questions I know it's kind of odd because it's public comment but um okay I think it was very helpful to hear the update um I've I think it would be great if we hear a more formal um update on the learnings um because from what I've heard from teachers this last round was very different than previous and then I think it speaks towards our partnership with tntp and just the impact that the changes that you were implementing are making oh we have one more okay thank you um Kristen Gilmore Kearney Middle School teacher hi welcome hi hi um good evening board members glad to be here and Dr earlier good good evening um I'm Kristen Gilmore I'm a proud teacher at Kearney Middle School I've been there for 11 years um yeah love to make it a career here our full career in Kearney um I also want to mention that in regards to professional development I have also served as a physical education department lead for about nine maybe 10 years and within since the pandemic um basically for the past two years this has been the first time where the content leaders for for physical education music art the specials and electives I would say for these two years it's been the first time where we actually feel like we're a part of the planning within the district because I could say that prior to the pandemic um the the specials and electives were kind of off to the side sadly and so it's nice that we're now collaborating collaboratively part of the discussion and the planning as a whole and something I do want to say is we as specials teachers I've I've heard from others um not just physical education but art music tech it is really nice to get with our content peers on these professional development days because if you think about it Elementary School specials teachers they don't have another content partner within their school they are the only art teacher the only music teacher PE teacher within their school so the only time they ever get to talk to their content peers is on a professional development day so it's been really beneficial to actually get together and talk about our content not just about best practices but how is it how do we take what Dr Lauria and the district is pushing down on us we then figure out how does it authentically fit into all of our our contents so I just want to I hope moving forward that the district and our our management organization continues to see value in electives and content electives and specials having that time together that's all I wanted to say to represent the specials and electives teachers thank you thank you so much [Applause] go right ahead uh Christy Douglas thank you so much yes thank you Maria and honorable board members my name is Christy Douglas and I serve Commerce City as a council person and uh I am here tonight in my own behalf and I wasn't going to speak tonight but because the board is being recognized I myself really recognize the phenomenal work that you have done and just how hard you have fought for the students in this community to recognize how valuable they are and to to to give them hope and purpose and and uh that needs to be recognized I also wanted to recognize board member Molina's absence she was asked to speak at as a panelist for a group of scientists that have come in from worldwide and to have her be asked to do that that's the only reason that she's missing tonight but she's doing the good work on the environmental level for this community and for her to have been asked to do that needs to be recognized so I wanted everybody to know why she was gone tonight but again thank you for all the hard work that you have done and your commitment and dedication to this community is um is very special and we appreciate it thank you thank you so much it's it's very um validating and and I think this is the best board we've ever had so thank you um next on the agenda is superintendent luria's updates um Dr Lydia just um like that one working yes it's working uh Madam president members of the board community members I have a few updates um today first of all I want to share that um we are very excited when I say we is not only me as a superintendent but also our cabinet our teachers our Educators um we have been analyzing data student data and now we have the beginning of the school year data student assessment data and middle of the school year student assessment data and we are seeing phenomenal growth in every grade level or most great levels we do have in kindergarten I mean in mathematics we have seen growth in the star from kindergarten through 12 in every grade level as a district and in language arts we saw growth in every great level except first grade we didn't see the growth we wanted to see 9th and 12th grade so we have been digging deep into deeper into the data meeting with principals on Monday we had principals coming here we spent about three hours looking at the data and we are creating alongside with the 90-day plans a very specific 12-week plans on how we're going to be addressing data how we're going to be monitoring the students just like it was mentioned you know from our speakers the monitoring and the expectation that we're going to be monitoring student is is is in each one of our roles right not only me as a superintendent but my my team tntp administrators and teachers our Focus us Educators is really looking at how students are responding to instruction and not so much on you know what the teacher may be saying or not this is this is about how the students respond and I just want to say how proud I am of our teachers and of our principals they have really um you know they they have committed to to that vision and um it's the evidence is showing that we are moving the needle by no means this is uh something that we feel satisfied of where we are we have a long way to go but the results from beginning to middle of the year are extremely extremely promising as an example this for kindergarten the acadians we had a huge growth in every single School Central Elementary in particular because I know that is one that is near to our heart and we're watching extremely closely um we had a growth from the fall proficiency level in acadians of our students of 40 14 percent three and a half months later in December we saw a growth in proficiency to 73 percent so we went from 14 to 73 percent and that is the result of hard work of our teachers of our administrators of a great huge collaboration between tntp and our team this is one group working for the students this for kindergarten ideal in Spanish 51 percent are at or above proficiency and just to mention again Central Elementary because I know you know we're paying close attention everybody's paying close attention to Central the ATL proficiency was eight percent in this um at the beginning of the school year and uh by December three and a half months later it was 40 percent um so incredible growth disregardly star literacy in Spanish 68 of our students um demonstrated a growth at or above typical so we are growing our students we are moving the needle and again it's all because of the hard work of our teachers um this year and you've heard from a teacher today and I am excited to um you know actually use her comment when she said that teachers are being part of planning uh one of the things that we experienced this this year in the in by the middle of the year was the the the smallest turnover of teachers that we have had in many years and that in my opinion is a result of acknowledging that our teachers are the Professionals in that we want to hear from them we are putting the expectations out very clearly and then we say how can we make it happen and what do you need and then quite frankly I move out of the way so we have areas of growth and our data we have clear instructional steps that we are taking um in in continue moving forward one of them was meeting with the principles and then to ensure that we continue monitoring closely to students so very excited about that data and um and another thing that I wanted to give you an update on well I don't know if there's any questions about that actually I I would just like to commend our our teachers um that's tremendous growth um I think my question would be um are we going to have a formal update on the big middle of the Earth assessment data okay great yes ma'am um any other okay um and then another update I wanted to provide to you is just you will recall in November and December I share with you the need to bring an emergency agenda item at some point to you um Adam City Middle School we started the school year with a a large number of vacancies teacher vacancies um and we working with labor and with the teachers there were doubling up of classrooms teachers were giving up their planning time incredible commitment from the staff in there to ensure that the students were having a certified teacher but that resulted also in large number of students sometimes in in the classrooms and as you will recall we started looking into Elevate K-12 which is a company that provides virtual learning or virtual instruction by highly qualified certified instructors that may not be here in Colorado but these are you know teachers in the United States that are highly qualified and certified and we have started in this um second semester with opportunities for students to go back to smaller classrooms a commitment that we had with the teachers in icr coach from acms you know not in one of the commitments was we we're not going to have large numbers of students the entire year we knew was something to ensure that our students were getting that instruction but we also know that that we could not sustain you know or expect teachers to sustain their level of energy in high high lesson delivery you know for for too long in under those conditions um so we have started with instructors we have coaches in every classroom that have been trained on how to facilitate and support the virtual instructor I have myself been there several times of starting classrooms the team is uh there on on a daily basis ensuring that it's going and it's happening and and one of the things that I want to say is um you know it or one of the challenges it is change for our students and and something that stuns me quite quite Frank because it's it's it has been a a difficult year for our students and that is what we do not want to have so we are already working hard in planning for next year to ensure that um this this or any other school will start the school year with the amount of vacancies that we that that we experienced this year so that is going well and I'm looking at the instructor also shaking our head we have I tell them give me uh you know daily updates of uh of how it's going so um you know I I want to acknowledge once again all the teachers and all the staff at Adam City Middle School and of course the students and for the resiliency and and the parents supporting because uh it's it's been it's not been an Easter Road for sure um in the last one about PD um or let me back off a little bit um any questions of course I do I feel like I'm always the one asking I'm sorry um I I um commend the staff and the teachers because I can't imagine the lift that this has been um I think one of my questions is have we looked into or offered any incentive pay um during this time and then my other question is have we looked at some type of um reward system for those students since this is such a different year um maybe if that's something that the board could support or especially like the board liaison Mr Amador um I just I know this has been out of the ordinary for everybody um so that that would be my only questions so I could answer that I know that they have a reward program for the kids that they're giving um like Adam City bucks um when they get to like affirmations at lunch that they do for the students um I know that they did we did do incentives for the teachers that were we bought all their time back for when they were working that to do the incentives for them they do have stuff for the kids the incentives for them I'm getting points to be able to do things they have a school dance next for this Friday uh this Friday I think from like 4 30 to something and all the kids it's free to go but it's for all the kids that if they haven't got any like in trouble or stuff like that I believe they all get to go um so they are incentivizing those kids and the classrooms um are smaller and they're more focused on the learning level of the kids in the classroom are all the same so you don't have those big gaps so most of the kids are on the same learning level of all the other kids in the classroom I know that from having the students there and then talking to some of the staff as well so yes and Not only was purchase time if they were giving up their planning time but also stipend for taking the added number of students um yeah I just wanted to get clarification on um how communication has gone to parents if there has been um concerns around that on how that's been handled um just overall yes um thank you for the question from Madam president um director strata members of the board there has been communication one of the things that I requested from the staff is to ensure that there is um there are different ways in which we can communicate with us with uh parents so uh several emails I um at some point I share that with um with the board if several emails where it was communicated uh feedback that we received and then I passed on to the staff is when there's a lot of information we need to chunk you know the information so so it's it's we cannot expect parents to sit down and read long emails right or or flyers or stuff like that so we receive that feedback um and I it was passed to to the staffs to the staff there was also there were also sessions with the students and the teachers had talking points and uh there were explanations in discussions with the students about you know the changes in in why so um so there were some concerns that were brought up by uh parents and I directly connected with those parents because I know this is as I said something that that is close to my heart it's it's um something that that we want to see in you know we're putting those structures in place that we do not you know go through something like this again but uh um yes and and also communication has been uh um or is scheduled to be sent on a weekly basis or at least the first few weeks to to give updates on how things are going I know I'm gonna look at the stuff to see if it has been sent yes sir thank you thank you any other questions or comments okay thank you Dr Lydia you had another yes the last one uh professional development um so Miss Sheila Burke if uh he's gonna come up here to share uh my apologies to share a little bit of the um data points of the professional developments um one of the things that I do want to um to share is last time when we had professional development we always survey teachers at the end right to give us their feedback in what we heard loud and clear is that they wanted more differentiation so we work on that piece um and there was differentiation we also heard from principles that they would like to have also some time with the teacher so um the morning was as a whole group including differentiation and then they were released to the schools to do their own their own work as well because all schools were different so miss Park thank you president Lovato distinguished members of the board superintendent Maria viewing audience thank you for your time tonight we have a district professional development day each quarter which is aligned to our academic Excellence playbook in that we have a scope and sequence across the district that we put together to be able to help align our work across through that there are specific areas that we focus on on February 3rd um excuse me January 3rd we focused on aggressively monitoring students which goes along around our Focus around professional learning communities or plcs so in that we're looking at as we're providing instruction around high quality tier one how are students responding to that how am I as an educator building in checks for understanding and how am I circulating the room to be able to check for individual student progress so I know how to respond to students whether they may have misconceptions whether they may have an opportunity to further their learning because they're understanding the concepts that are being taught which is where the differentiation for our students comes in in that we're aggressively monitoring for ambassadors which is one of the strategies that we're leveraging here in the district that you've often heard superintendent Lauria speaks to So within that we tied all of those pieces together and so from now until February when we come back for our next District PD day this is the area that we're going to look at specifically that ties into the professional learning communities and builds upon the high quality tier one lesson internalization that we've already been training our staff on in there at the end of each of our sessions we provide a survey to all of our session participants that includes both of our certified staff our classified staff and any of our one-off physicians whether it's electives RCT instructors Etc and in there we look at those data and the survey results to be able to help inform our upcoming professional development sessions which again is aligned with in our scope and sequence one of the comments that we had is that they felt like the time was useful some of the comments that we heard was that they could take the information within the sessions and implement it the very next day so they appreciated that there was time for staff to be able to plan in their sessions time for them to work with their principal and their school-based team and take the information that they were learning and apply it the very next day one of the areas that we still are continuing to work on that we often hear is differentiating for the vast Learners that we have in each of the session groups and so that's something as we move into February 13th District PD day that will continue to work on and then tailoring our needs to be able to meet our paraprofessional classified staff specifically both our instructional parents and our special education pairs are the two areas that we're working on we did have um 675 responses from our last survey which is a good sampling size and so we look through every one of those comments to be able to see what are we doing well that we want to replicate for the next and upcoming sessions and what are areas and opportunities that we want to grow in and get better that our staff said that just didn't resonate with them thank you any questions thank you so much for the update um I I think I heard you mention that they were differentiating between the staff and and asking um or seeking their input for the planning of the PD is that extend to I know we had heard from our um Liaisons our parent Liaisons are um administrative staff I think that was something we heard and then we um understood that it was happening so I was just wondering if that was yes great thank you so much for the update and lastly just to close this section we have a short video for you hi hello hello we are a student from Adams 14. we have a special message for you we want to say and thank you for always looking out for us thank you for all of your hard work for leading our school gracias thanks for always looking out for us thank you school board members thank you thank you school board members [Applause] [Music] thank you [Applause] thank you for everything to me too oh my goodness how do we continue on after that thank you so much um thank you Dr Lydia for the information yeah thank you to our students and our staff and our amazing team um you guys motivate us every day um next on our agenda are consent items good Lord we have 6.1 Personnel action 6.2 approval for overnight field trip to Western Colorado University 6.3 approval to purchase services from homies unidos for Adams City Middle School second semester 6.4 intent to apply for a grant application for the read act elat hitp the acronym is spelled out on board docs 6.5 intent to apply for Grant application for Jed High School Colorado Court 6.6 and 10 to apply for a grant application for school Security disbursement 6.7 approval to purchase services from rlh engineering for asbestos Consulting may I have a motion to approve the consent items a motion to approve thank you we'll just make deal with this one I was just going to say so hitp is high impact tutoring program so just wanted to make sure because I have a thing about using acronyms I could have a whole conversation using those and I won't during these meetings because I know that um other people might not understand what we're trying to say so thank you thank you um I think I would just like to point out and especially thank staff for seeking all of these grants I know that was one of our our board goals is to increase the access to the many resources that are out there so thank you for doing that um my second comment will be around homies you need us I've always followed them in awe and I'm so thankful that we get to bring that to our Middle School we'd love to see that expanded as soon as possible because I think they do a lot of great things and I'm also especially thankful for the high impact tutoring program um because I think that's that's going to make a huge difference um and without any further discussion Ramona can you conduct roll call please Mr almador aye Ms Estrada aye Ms Lovato aye Ms Zubia aye president might make a comment oh of course um you just approved um the appointment of um our new chief of Human Resources so I would like to ask him to step up um uh Nathan um Dr Bolton uh received his bachelor's degree from Minnesota State University in 1991.

okay an 18t channel number nine and online at 18 or eight to gov dot org backslash CTN Joe if you could please read the land acknowledgment that would be appreciated um I acknowledge that the land of the city of Ann Arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the Ocean Ave and Wayne dot peoples I further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the United States on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples The Taking of this land was formalized by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807 knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can Empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing Injustice for all individuals thank you very much next uh on the agenda is um well first of all well actually on the agenda is a roll call and then we do the agenda um roll call um I have received in advance um notices from um Carlene Colin Garcia and from commissioner Kerber that both are unable to attend tonight otherwise it looks like we have a pretty good attendance so Joe if you would take the roll call that would be great yep a reminder if you can state where you are calling in from uh when you are saying present um commissioner maycomer um present and calling in from my home in Ann Arbor commissioner Levin here in Ann Arbor chair mursky present calling from my home here in Ann Arbor advice to your calendars he is absent uh commissioner or council member Briggs yeah here in Ann Arbor uh council member redina here in Ann Arbor commissioner McCoy Aaron in Ann Arbor Mr Kerber is absent uh commissioner overpeck happy New Year calling in from Ann Arbor commissioner Smith here from Ann Arbor commissioner Conan here and I'm calling in from Park Ridge Illinois uh commissioner zitelman here in Ann Arbor commissioner McKenna you're calling in from Ann Arbor commissioner harp president calling in from Ann Arbor and commissioner Berkowitz here from my home in Ann Arbor back to you chair uh we have a quorum correct yes we do yeah very good so thanks very much and I would like to Echo commissioner overpeck's New Year's greetings hopefully everyone had a good holiday season and spent quality time with family and friends or maybe just got away from it all so uh in any case welcome back and glad to see you all tonight uh we haven't uh published agenda um hopefully everybody's had a chance to look at it uh can I get a motion from someone um to approve the agenda as written um and then a second and then we'll open up for possible changes uh moved by commissioner Macomber seconded by anyone commissioner McCoy um any discussion or proposed changes so seeing none all those in favor please say I and or raise your hand I passes unanimously thank you so um next is approval of the minutes um there were minutes of the meeting I think it was officially a work session but I still think it's worthwhile that we then approve those um so that that's uh duly noted uh as with the agenda is there a motion to approve the minutes also from commissioner Macomber a second second from council member redina any revisions or comments necessary seeing none all those who a favor approval of the minutes please raise your hand and say I I all opposed that was approved that was uh unanimous so we don't have any other votes so the minutes are approved um the next is uh public input um and I will read my spiel um this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes if you are watching on CTN please call 888-788-0099 or 877-853-5247 and enter meeting ID 956-8718 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and the video feed City staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star nine on your phone you will hear an automated message that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly and finally please start by stating your name and address all right we have a couple um you'll have three minutes talk and I'll give you a 30 second warning uh or 30 seconds out caller ending in zero one zero color ending and oh no okay you're good hello good evening uh this is Wayne at the yard a former member and chair of the energy commission for many years and a long time uh green architect uh who's been doing uh solar stuff for 45 years I want to First congratulate the city and the Senate its citizens for approving the climate millage having been pushing for more funding since well before we wrote the 2012 climate action plan it's great to see more adequate funding for this uh our most existential problem I totally endorse the proposed reduction a resolution on transparency which although always important becomes more so with the new Village funds and the ever increasing urgency of climate disruption especially with rapid growth often comes chaos that allows money to not be spent well transparent currency involves communication with the community I do not think that there is currently enough if you look at the city's web site many pages have information that is several several years old and out of state I'm also a bit concerned that the pros allotment of the first year funding spends too much on items that do little to reduce our emissions time is running out funding should go where it's going to re create the largest reductions enthusiastically endorse the proposed ban on the use of natural gas new construction as Ken Garber has shown any new hookups commit us to building commit buildings to Decades of increased emissions natural gas is a health hazard and the city should immediately Institute at least a temporary ban a new new natural gas installations until the items that cause the postponement of the ordinance be are flushed out I hate to say negative things about climate work at the city because it's probably the best in the state of and high up in the country however we are in a crisis and things have to move fast after reading the January OSI newsletter I find that it appears that little Improvement has literal little movement has happened on heard the energy home energy rating disclosure the green rental housing and uh the web portion of the energy concierge concierge program um when I was a member on the commission and for some time afterwards we had subcommittee 32nd Street projects um so um we need to move faster um I some of these appear to be stuck in in legal and I would uh suggest that Council needs to ask legal to move more quickly on these items um it's you're not we're not moving fast enough uh we need to do more thank you thank you um caller ending in one three four thank you Mr Lang and chair mursky it's Ken Garber 28 hammerhill Court um yeah I'm looking forward to tonight's discussions of the climate millage budget the transparency and accountability resolution and gas and new construction um a few comments on each uh like Mr Apple Yard I'm excited about the possibilities raised by the climate millage funding um however the slides show a large sum that could go to vppas or virtual power purchase agreements we should invest in new Renewables as soon as we can I'm very wary of vppas with these deals there is no physical transfer of electrons from generator to buyer rather the buyer in this case the city and its residents guarantees a price to the generator over a period of time in exchange for renewable energy certificates or wrecks so vpbas our electricity Futures swaps a kind of financial derivatives and almost all of them are done by for-profit companies I can only find one Municipal municipality that's executed one Arlington County Virginia um besides the complexity and Financial Risk with vppas we still pay for dirty DTE electricity and support its fossil fuel generation better to use those funds to finance local generation and Energy Efficiency reducing demand for DTE power um with the DTE landfill solar deal apparently dead at least for now let's instead gradually build it out under City ownership taking advantage of the Ira's 30 direct payment to cities um we can put in limited transmission to City facilities starting with a line to the wastewater treatment plant which uses almost 13 million kilowatt hours a year I think this is at least worth discussing um regarding the performance transparency resolution this is badly needed I just looked at the city's performance measures web page ask Mr Apple Yard just mentioned the most recent data for public services are from 2019.

oh that um lives or without all these particular one you know we have now some um actually made us a retreat and discuss what the needs are and what we want to establish the goals of the district and then the 80 Mastery and the 90 will become at this Regional identification [Music] starting to make changes and the leadership level through level and advanced level to try to promote results so it is trying to wait to roll this out so we want to begin working on anywhere and explanations yes [Music] foreign [Music] I guess that's what I'm trying I'm trying to say the 301 goals are specifically because you have to be made [Music] defines because if it is then I don't I don't want to see this way you kind of get left those energy show and grow because we're focusing on love opportunities is that the um the statue allowance of governing board to see that criteria and we will see the criteria of once again doing number three but nevertheless is um right now based on the scores that they have and I need his school to begin moving to the students forward and as they move forward um I can commit and guarantee that we'll move money to Liberty to ensure the work of all our students we can achieve over our team a little set so [Music] I feel like yeah I get it you know I was former student myself when we were ahead all you had to do was directly overall I think you're so far I feel like that's something else [Music] kind of achieving it's not just saying so that's where my that's something okay [Music] um I was just going to ask if um this um chart you have here at other schools uh going by that too yes um right now um back in December the principles uh assistant we met and we have we started the direction that we went ahead in the next few years and this is what we will be rolling out and we'll be rolling out if you hear more about this as well but this is this is what we could say president and that's all in the direction of anything yeah I like this because you thought the kids were here we want to go here you know and daily you know [Music] thank you goals and that's it and um [Music] sorry um everything several times I'll be more than happy to be here and if you don't mind uh on the plan posted I will direct you to page number five for the primary um first of all uh I want us to remember that in the primary election McDonald's and depending on the reason I was the way the points will be allocated it's going to be based on the professional as for the ELA goal um 90 to 100 of this show growth um they're going to be the teacher then are going to be taking the in depending on the growth is going to be the lesson um it is not only effectively if we hit um similarly when you go down for a preschool once again what I'm going to see is how they're located that we can go is and also demonstrate it based on the percentage of students the more students uh showing growth which is definitely 200 and the teachers will be operating 40 points for that particular goal regarding Kinder in third classroom teachers once again for ELA as you can see the the points the maximum board is going to be based on the maximum percentage growth um this is more um the general hair classroom and for the specialist on Intervention um the specializing diversity of teachers based on the the logs completed and submitted by the Specialists and internationalists that will also be getting the most points um based on the instruction that they provide and the standards and the educational to ensure that students are participating in engaging in the classrooms and it will be demonstrated also they attended based on their attendance and opportunity to participate in adolescence that's how they're going to get adults foreign [Music] and the last one is keeping parents informed all the growth what I like about these particular goal is not only that they're going to be meeting with the parents and also uh communicating with the growth for the students but they're also going to be documenting that deserve those conversations in our student integration program in our in in the program that we have for our students to collect all the information so that's part of the goal and at this point I'm going to start to see if I can answer any questions regarding their two white goals or individual classroom goals as well as the specialist and information come on I like unless the Titanic sorry I like that there's a school wide percentage films that the school-wide should say for instance of the Year legal goal that 90 to 100 percent was full will show growth in the reading fluency score so I like that [Music] um but how much has been a percentage [Music] so um those are so many things that stand up for me but I like that their expectations of the whole story is good but then again there's no personage on how much food taking his medicine that would that would be also Clarity if we go back to the other presentation page two um if you don't mind uh Mr Bates can you show once again uh slide number two from Mr polish presentation yeah as you can see not not only do we have um every single level but some of the clarity that you're going to be able to see that depending on what the students are now what we can establish what is the minimal expectation you're going to want to see moving forward um but that's going to be also called uh more the theory number three I'm sorry that I continued well go back to the retreat but I believe that there is going to bring a lot of clergy and as to what is expected what is expected and as in the next couple of years maybe you know where the students are and where do we want to get and if we don't mind these events we've been over to the 301 document and any other questions before we move on into our ID let's go okay I also I also wanted this uh point out that the um whereas that the primary campus teachers will have their uh who will enter the PRP content logs so let's not just there's actually going to be the communication then on those you know there's expectations and that communicating with your parents thank you I'm connecting with the famous it is going to be an important fact of the next few years in communicating the student from our side effect and we did not support and I say it is important to note we're still working with um with a secondary campus and the vote will be provided at another a little time that way we can talk about the one of those set for the I must look at school all right um the at this point I would like to bring everybody to be to the page um page 12.

so we have revisions to from February 14th to February 16th and we have October 10th to October 12th are there any other other conflicts if not should we vote on this calendar I have a motion by check second by Diana all in favor okay I was just thinking now it's up to Mary to make sure we get we we're there thank you again Mary all right next item on the agenda is the consent agenda are there any items after looking over the consent agenda that members of the board might want to take out and vote on separately consent agenda just for information is about payroll vouchers about personnel resignations hirings District I mean travel outside the district anything anybody would like to so we have a motion to accept the voucher items 2.3 I mean 2.0 basically 2.1 through 2.65 yeah you have a motion by Margaret hold on just a second we're still in discussion did you want to take out Personnel I didn't know if anybody yeah we don't have any all right okay okay so we have a motion for a Margaret a second by Chuck all in favor okay item 3.0 um this item 3.1 is a recommendation to approve the sex education curriculum the superintendent requests that the governing board approve the sex education curriculum program choosing the best way grades 6 through 12 beginning school year 23-24.

I moved to Improvement is from December 5th 22. oh second any discussion okay okay yes Mrs Allen yes Mr ostrich yes any anybody on the line so with that is we didn't get any requests for calling public so we will move on to item eight which is the superintendent's uh recognition and then right after that we move into the cult of the month so okay good evening members of the governing board and welcome Mrs Amadeus to your first board meeting welcome thank you thank you I don't have too much to report me that we are going to have a curriculum update where we're going to be sharing more specific information on curriculum and most of the time I covered that during my presentation but um happy New Year everyone happy New Year 2023 our third graders released Balloons with their 2023 goals which was pretty exciting do we have any third graders in the audience that release their balloons and their goals pretty being hot also just a reminder I always um talk about choosing your word of the year to set a goal and something that you'd like to work on so you can go on to Pinterest and figure out and talk to your Stu to your children about what their goal is for the year and where is that they're choosing and my word is elevate so last year it was intentional and it's kind of nice to have that Mantra in your mind as you're working towards accomplishing things and staying focused so this year it's Elevate because I plan to elevate our game here at school in my personal life in my professional life and to make sure that we are staying focused and that we're all up in our game especially since we did receive that a letter grade I think we say we have it now we need to work on maintaining it right so we're all going to elevate together again our vision and mission statement everything that we do um supports our mission statement and we've talked about having a contest to see if anybody can memorize our mission statement or our vision statement do we have any students in the room who know our vision statement you guys want to read it all together let's look at our vision statement together ready one two three building for the future learning cooperating and caring for all so when you're in your classrooms that's our vision that's what teachers are working towards and what you should all be working towards as well along with our mission mission statement to provide a community environment in which all individuals are challenged to achieve excellence in academics character and life skills yeah okay climate surveys we really need parents and teachers and more students to do our climate surveys there's a link on the website and I believe teachers have also put them on their um their Google what is it called on their on their Google classrooms um in December we had 52 parent surveys and we sent out another robocall and now we have 64 student surveys we're at 302 they stayed the same staff surveys were at 28 now there's 35.

thank you Dr McCord I actually I'm just going to call for a motion and then we can discuss it still moved thank you Mrs Humphries it's been moved as their second oh second thank you Mrs page it's been moved and seconded that we review and approve the rules of order as shared tonight are there any is there any discussion was there anything that anybody would like to talk about or bring up these are all by Statute basically so I'm not sure how much we could we'll change on him I think there was some that we could amend if we wanted probably a man yeah right I think you have to have a some sort of Rules of Order right in order to operate and I think you can um dictate some of those things all right seeing no further discussion then I will call for a vote all those in favor of approving the rules of order has been presented tonight please vote by saying aye aye and any opposed with me thank you all that will take us to 3.03 board appointments to various committees Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members I will list the Committees that are currently board approved committees and um and then the individuals that sit on those committees um first one is policy committee that is a committee of the whole so all five board members reside on that enrollment management committee that is a committee of the whole as well then number three legislative representative and an alternative representative for that number four is town of Gilbert liaison number five city of Mesa liaison number six Gilbert Education Foundation liaison seven Insurance trust representative and eight audit committee representative in the past um and you guys helped me out if I mess this up because everybody has changed sometimes so legislative representative this year was that was myself yourself and then the alternate was at Dr Santa Cruz yes okay town of Gilbert liaison was Dr Santa Cruz I believe city of Mesa was Jill Humphries yes Gilbert Education Foundation this year was Lori wood Insurance trust representative uh Sheila eugetti and audit committee was Mr Bill Parker so and there you have it uh Dr McCord could you just for clarification give a little bit of a description of each yes so uh policy committee meeting obviously is a committee that reviews policy we uh utilize that committee uh to its fullest potential when it comes to all of our policies usually they preview a policy and then they look at it for a second read efforts come to the board for the first read and then they send it back for a second read enrollment management committee this is a committee that exists we haven't utilized it in a few years but they look at things such as enrollment at each of our schools as well as boundaries and make recommendations to the governing board if there's any changes that need to happen there legislative representative this representative updates the governing board and attends any meetings related to that area for legislative information that impacts K-12 education or in particular Gilbert Public Schools town of Gilbert liaison is the person that as well as city of Mace liaison they relay information that comes back or it's a two-way communication basically what's going on in the school district with those officials from town or city of Gilbert and Mesa Gilbert Education Foundation that is the foundation that helps out in a lot of different ways to our students and staff for Gilbert public schools and that liaison sits on that board and again helps with the communication back and forth Insurance trust representative this person sits on our insurance trust board and they help bring recommendations back to the governing board as relates to Insurance trust or plan document changes as well as insurance rates for our employees and then the audit committee that is basically an oversight committee made up of individuals from our business department Ms Bonnie Betts is myself and what they do is they essentially go through a lot of the information that is presented here in the evenings as it relates to our finances for Gilbert Public Schools there are two um community members yes thank you Dr McCord so board members this is just we can go through and just what we've done in the past is just maybe see what committee you would like to be on and see if we can work amongst each other to decide what the assignment is this year so is there any anybody who has a strong feeling of what they would like to serve on and where they would like to be I'd be interested in serving on the legislative rip uh the legislative committee was okay that's fine you just need to be sure to attend the law conference um well the delegate assembly is the Saturday after the law conference that's not the only thing that no no but uh because we could change that as well that's what that's the way that you've done it which is is also the um annual conference that's our vote for the executive team of asba so those are two important things that um you do that has been done in the past we can adjust it if needed to so well I I would hope we would want to have our voice on those votes that to me that's important okay so I mean there's other things you can't do yeah so Chad would like to be on Mr Thompson would like to be on the legislative committee is there anybody else who like served on the legislative as a legislative representative sorry it's just the legislative I was hoping to throw my hat in the ring on that one too oh I was helping also to um because I think that's really an important one okay so I am interested in that okay well let's let's move from that and just see if there's anything else that people would like to do is there anybody who is hoping to be the town of Gilbert liaison I'm I'm interested in the Gilbert Education Foundation and the town or the town of Gilbert both of those second ones that I've done in the past but have not done recently okay thank you any others for town of Gilbert Gilbert or Mesa over okay audit sounds so exciting okay excellent put you down for those well I I don't also don't mind the audit committee yeah I don't know okay uh in Gilbert Education Foundation you said you'd be willing to yeah and I'm I would be willing to do any of those as well too so um Insurance trust is there anybody I would like to continue especially with the changes that we we approved in December okay with the new committee the additional committee okay that I'm going to be on excellent is there anybody else okay and then the audit committee is there maybe we should change the name of that hook people in a little bit it's the popcorn and ice cream committee wants to take the audit committee I'd be happy to do that are you ready okay okay so would you be willing Miss Humphries to yield the legislative to Mr Thompson or Mrs page that's fine I just would um like to be an alternative in case someone doesn't get to the law the delegate assembly or the um annual conference because I think our vote there is very important would that be satisfactory to you guys okay um so Mr Thompson or Mrs page was there would you either of you be willing to serve on a different one rather than the legislative representative absolutely same okay well we'll definitely put down Miss hemphries as the alternate then if that's okay with everybody okay we'll come back to that um town of Gilbert I had Mrs page or Miss Humphries um and then city of Mesa Mrs page Miss Humphries you did that I did that this past year so we would prefer a change okay um let's see and then the audit committee um Mr Thompson you're not interested in that huh okay one question already expressed yourself one question is how often does the audit committee meet quarterly quarterly quarterly unless there's something that requires us to meet Mrs wood I can be a team player I just don't feel that I would be the best choice for audit right no I appreciate it and learn yeah and get up to speed on that that's good I guess we also we want that and we also want something that you're interested in so um I won't be offended okay let's have let me just suggest this and then let's discuss how about that what if we have um what if we have Mrs page as the legislative representative Miss Humphries as the alternate what if we have um town of Gilbert let's see if we have Mrs Humphries that's fine or actually Mr Thompson how about would you be willing to be the liaison with the town of Gilbert and then let's we're going to discuss this this is just I'm just throwing this out here okay um and then city of Mesa um maybe I'll do the city of Mesa since I haven't written one down for myself yet and then Gilbert Education Foundation Miss Humphries would you I would be happy to do that okay I have a meeting on Thursday that's great okay he's so doing school connect now and I've been working for that for a long time okay perfect um Insurance trusts miss you jetty and then audit committee representative I'd be happy to do that or Mrs page or Miss Humphrey said she would too so miss Humphries what do we have we have you on Gilbert education I'm on the Gilbert Education Foundation Center just the alternative alternate for the legislative okay Mrs wood may I ask a question Mrs bentz yes yes that's Scott bence sorry um Mrs Betts questions you miss bets good morning it's all right she called you Miss Benson you didn't catch it and I apologize for that pardon me I just have a question for you if it doesn't sound like the audit committee is the most popular one I know I'm so disappointed and no one wants to hurt your feelings my question to you is with with the restructuring of what we're doing with the insurance trust would it be a conflict for me to volunteer for the audit committee so the um the plan would be to totally remove the employee benefit trust oversight of the investments from the audit committee now and make it a true audit committee so under those circumstances I do not believe it would be a conflict I I'm willing to do that as much as I don't like numbers they usually meet immediately or an hour after a policy meeting not every policy meeting but if no one else wants to do it I'll be glad to do it okay but if this is what I'm more than happy to take on two roles I mean I'll do the audit committee Bonnie's so amazing that I mean yeah yeah I'm I'm happy to take on two roles okay if nobody else wants to do the audit okay um okay so at this point right now I have Mrs page as legislative representative alternate Miss Humphries I have town of Gilbert Mr Thompson I have city of Mesa Mrs wood Gilbert Education Foundation Miss Humphries Insurance trust miss you jetty and the audit committee I have that could be Mrs page or Mr Jetty or Miss Humphries what would you if you're Amy I'm happy to do it I think it would be exciting actually so if you don't really aren't that enthusiastic or I think I would enjoy it it's up to you your pick yay or nay you in yeah I'll let you decide Miss Humphries there you go I'll take it it's only four times a year okay okay so let's see if this is is this okay with everybody Mr Thompson what's your thoughts the only the only change I would suggest is since uh miss Page has expressed a willingness to be a team player and to be on multiple committee or any one of these committees yeah that she uh serve on the as the town of Gilbert liaison and I am the legislative rep okay Mrs page how do you feel about that I really want to be the legislative rep but um I know the two new board members we're duking it out here we're just discussing no I know yeah um Mrs wood where where do we go from here I think either way it doesn't pre preclude you from doing things as you know what that's fine I'll do the town in Gilbert and um for this year you could think of it okay yep absolutely okay thank you thank you so now I have Mr Thompson as a legislative representative I have town of Gilbert Mrs page and typically there's a the town has on the Town Council will have a liaison that they designate as well so you're not required to go to those meetings or anything either typically you meet with the Town Council the person who is the liaison with that you start there and then just see how you can communicate okay so I've got Mrs page I I would like to say that I think all of these committees are important and you know the the relationships that we have with the town of Gilbert and the City of Mesa are are particularly important um obviously the audit committee is uh legislative yep yeah we appreciate everyone serving and doing what they can that's great so let me just say one more time and then we'll take a motion and then we'll vote on this so I have legislative or legislative rep Mr Thompson the alternate Mrs Humphries I have the town of Gilbert Mrs page I have the city of Mesa Mrs wood Gilbert Education Foundation Mrs Humphries the insurance trust MSU Jetty and the audit committee representative Miss hubris is that what everybody else saw I thought okay if that is okay so this is a one-year assignment as as of now it's a one-year assignment and again you can act as an individual board member and we can talk to each other about it and usually we report back to each other on all of it as well so um if if this is okay with everyone I would ask for a motion I move that we accept the committee members as presented by Mrs wood thank you Mr Jetty is our second second thank you Mrs page it's been moved and seconded that we accept the appointments to the committees as we discussed and resolved all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with me thank you all we appreciate your your willingness to serve and and then you're working together to figure that out we will now adjourn our special organizational meeting and I will call to order the brief board business meeting and I will ask again Miss Wilson for a real call Mr Chad Thompson here Miss Rhonda page here Michigan here Miss Laurie wood here miss Jill Humphries here Madam president all board members are present you have a quora great I'm glad we're all still here that is good good work good work yes excellent all right that will take us to our brief board business meeting and board members just so you know typically like we said that's our the first meeting of the month we have a work study typically not a special board business meeting but we'll have a work study where the staff will present in-depth things that we've asked them to to bring to us and then after that we usually have this a brief board business meeting consisting typically of just a consent agenda to keep business moving along so this is typical of our first board business meeting a first meeting of the month so um so I will ask for an approval of the consent agenda item 6.01 I will ask for a motion I move that we approve the consent agenda items as presented thank you Miss C Jetty it's been moved is our second second thank you Miss Humphreys it's been moved oh yes sorry to interrupt yes is there a change at all to any of those work calendars before we move forward Mr McIntosh good evening yes there is one change the dean of students work calendar and the Thai calendar we moved the workday in the fall break and the spring break there was one day each of those um two we call it or breaks that we moved to starting their work calendar from July 12th to July 10th I believe so they start two days earlier in exchange for giving those groups of employees the full two weeks off instead of having to work one day that's the change so that has been changed from what was posted on the original agenda so I moved to to um prove it with the change that that Mr McIntosh just told us about the word calendars okay thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved is there second second thank you Miss Humphries so with that denoted change it's been moved and seconded that we approved the consent agenda items all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye and any that oppose with nay thank you that will now take us to the adjournment of our brief board business meeting all those in favor of us a journey I don't mean to prolong the meaning but thank you would you mind um Dr McCord just explaining how something gets on the consent agenda as opposed to being a separate motion generally things that are on consent agenda are uh business items that um our everyday type business items hiring resignations those types of things um action items generally are there for if there's discussion that needs to be had on or if a board member would like to have a discussion on it sometimes we'll put things on consent that someone says Hey we'd rather pull that off and have a discussion about that and that happens sometimes um for the action items there might be a presentation related to that um things of that nature usually bigger items may be more important at the time for board members to discuss if need be our goal is to inform you as much as possible so there always isn't a lot of discussion but before board meeting but that's what those items are there for thank you I think that's important and I also think it's important that we let our board members know like Dr McCourt said so you look through you can look through the consent agenda ahead of time if you have questions you can call anybody any Dr McCord or any of the assistant superintendents that you need to and then if you would like to discuss something on that then it's as we make a motion like 6.01 the approval of consent agenda items you would say I would like to move that we approve the consent agenda items except number 6.04 I would remove that and then we will approve the consent vote on it and then we will take 6.04 and then we could discuss it since it's been noted on our agenda we can discuss it just it's typical and the consent that we don't spend a lot of time discussing so hopefully we maybe should have explained that before we did that I didn't think about it till the end so thank you Mrs wood but if you ever have any thoughts or questions especially as we're just starting you know working through this process we welcome it thank you yeah okay so if there's no further discussion that will take us to the adjournment of the brief board business meeting okay all right um is there a motion that we adjourn my moves that we adjourn thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved as their second thank you Mr Thompson it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn I will call for the vote all those in favor of a journeying are brief board business meeting tonight please vote by saying aye aye and any opposed with name thank you all for being here we appreciate it thank you

that has never happened not even be close yeah you know we get all that data together and one question to you Keith you said something about the gym pouring the gym floor that we're getting whether that's conducive than pouring concrete right right and if not we it's going to take six months to cure it's a response right so did we expect the poor concrete during this time of the year anyway I mean yeah yeah I mean you don't want to bank on it but for the past three years I think they've been pouring you know into January what they've been putting like calcium in there and yeah they certainly do and then they put down blankets you know to keep the heat in okay so we were going to go forward with it anyway right regardless on how the weather was though the one thing that would stop you was you know frosting the ground and we're having our you know we have Secor our our testing company make sure that the ground is right to put the concrete in before they do it and right now they've given the green flag okay and you're not waiting on any Edison equipment no Transformers no actually yeah with that we're not there yet [Music] so Mr Brown there are specific guidelines seekers in the bid documents for cold weather concrete pour yeah so those are in their specifically like Keith had said that it's in Europe with blankets down or something like that those are all in there again and so is the testing of the frost line and so all of that is in the bid documents and covered because we were planning on okay all righty so the chiller says you alluded to already that's not going to be a problem but we're looking to have those chillers whatever we need right in a timely manner somewhat well we hope so are we looking still to use our temporary Chiller rooms separate area won't come out until the chillers are in so correct okay great I'm good thank you can the only question I have is there any way in February when we come to the committee of the whole can you give us a list of what is left on the 2013 sure what's left when you think you have approximate dates of when we're going to satisfy that list yep and then when will the 2023 State Life Safety list uh I honestly don't know that I'll talk to the architect and I'll get an answer for you by the community home meeting in February because I'm assuming with all five uh buildings we're working on we should satisfy most of that yeah I think most students going to be satisfied you know I mean I'm sorry what was the question Bill Winston I want to just want to make sure I want a list of what we have left on 2013 so we can get that clean and then for Life For Life Safety yeah and then what's the time frame on the 2023 list is because after five buildings are done we should be really close and then you're gonna only have uh technically money Elementary the high school the junior high yeah but those are minimum those are some real minimums there's always something that they'll find because codes are changing all the time so and that's how what Lifesaver is all about it's about meeting certain codes of codes have changed and everything and does they'll find some things but they have a slave from the 2013 one by the end of this song and the only wild card is do do they know that we are uh decommissioning the old MEC when we're done so they know because we have life safety issues about 600 000 there right so so what will happen on that if the building is not decommissioned at that point when they do the survey they're going to have to do the live survey on it and so then when you once you've decommission it you don't have but again you know they they've got to do it on there if it's still considered a commission building correct and I understand that but I want to make sure that when we get through the list that should be the only building left that has yes it should be outstanding issues I definitely and when you say decommission we cannot we can save this conversation yeah I understand yeah I definitely don't want to put six hundred thousand dollars into that nor do I and we yeah I use it especially since we got other um I guess my question is maybe I've missed this but have is there any update on the metal detectors um Mr Tobias has been reviewing it he is looking at some alternatives to the metal detectors he's going to be presenting that I think in our district safety team meeting I think coming up in February um so nothing uh really substantive at this point they're looking at some Alternatives instead of the metal detectors from his cursory overview is visiting other buildings other buildings had issues with those and so we were looking at perhaps some other options I think we need to revisit that real quick just the fact that it all it was very newsworthy yes things like that and I received a few calls on that same topic sorry I think we owe it to ourselves to kind of reel it back in because I know we've lost our person that was experiating that project for the most part okay yes and like I said uh Mr Tobias it has been going out and working at all angles to to deter can you give us an update next week yes we have uh I think he's been giving some updates in his FYI but I will add that to my list okay thank you I just I I have something oh excuse me go ahead okay um you may recall last year um with the sex education curriculum we had voted to opt out of that and now you guys probably saw the iasb call to action because the house is trying to pass house bill 5188 which would mandate the sex education and so school districts would not be able to opt out individuals would be able to they'd be able to opt out their students but the districts wouldn't and in Illinois a vast majority of the like a huge majority of the districts opted out so it's just baffling why our legislation sure would think that they should go ahead now and mandate it so if it concerns you um as it does me you can you know just contact your legislators who would be for us mostly in Crete and Monet the state senators Napoleon Harris Thaddeus Jones is the representative and then I think for up and universe uh University Park and Park Forest it's representative Deluca and Patrick Patrick Joyce is the senator so um it's just concerning to me I just don't know why they feel like they have to mandate that and give us more mandates take away local control I'm sorry Dr Holland Luca doesn't have but a but a very small portion of BP now oh okay I forget her name she's just gonna redistricted yeah okay well find um find the representatives there is a way to look it up online if you don't know who your representatives are and then you can contact them just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention are there any more board updates I know we had talked about given an update for our conference if we had trip y so we can do that next week okay when everybody is here okay all right all right um can you remind us in here I think I think all of us has some good things to say um all right well then I had just in my bun I just had one um this was just to get some you know direction from the board as you know our board policy allows each of our board members an allocation of about forty five hundred dollars to attend professional development and Associated expenses um I wanted to find out if so if we had a board member that had gone over that allotment do I have your permission to just take um and uh adjust that with the bigger pool of money just give them her some of my money let's see I've spent 89 of that yeah so I just want to make sure that that was fine all right that was all I wanted to know and we'll go ahead and make those adjustments thank you just put that person in front of the firing squad nope not at all so that's all I had thank you I think then you're still up okay so let's see what we have I have invited a couple people with us today um I'm invited uh see here uh Mr Derek Watson and Mr Eric green I'd like you to come up real quickly I wanted to have them share some really exciting things that are going on in the district especially with this idea of community mentoring we had started this program I think really last spring to really address um and help support our young men and I know Sandy Walters really was the spearhead in talking a lot to us about this and so we kind of started this and it has built up quite a bit of momentum and of course we have uh that is now um part of the jobs of these two gentlemen for the district they help spearhead many of the programs that we have here that are going on but we have one that's coming up um this Monday for Martin Luther King's birthday that we are putting on so I'm going to let them share this and certainly any of our male board members certainly are females as well if you are available to stop in there you're going to see a really fabulous event planned so Mr Watson would you like to share a little bit good evening everyone good evening like Dr Kerry cognally said we're really excited and a little nervous about this upcoming Monday it's the first time uh that we can say that's ever happened in this District where we have created conference where all the different communities are involved at the table is Crete Park fours Bondi and University Park and this is this is very special us so uh on that day we're gonna the conference will run from about 10 to 2 o'clock uh we're gonna provide breakfast and lunch for the kids we've opened the group from 8th grade to 12th um the young men are going to come in we're going to have some uh performances from different different members of the community that'll be doing spoken word uh we have some alumni that could be doing uh some spoken word performance that are actually uh uh Grammy nominated performers so uh from Mr Brown's uh daughter's Year from 1999 and you might want to come Mr Brown I think so right so uh there'll be three uh three uh groups uh one group we're going to talk about interaction with uh with of course law enforcement as well as uh dealing with adults you know dealing uh understand how to communicate and accept Authority we're gonna have another one that we're calling Guilty By Association and speaking with the kids about the impact of peer influence and and making sure you're choosing the right people to be around uh the last one which we're which we're very proud of is the entrepreneurial one we figured that the goal is we're going to talk about problems we need to offer Solutions so with our entrepreneur program we're going to talk about we're going to talk with the kids about how to start businesses some of the challenges of starting a business and of course answering those questions uh one of the beautiful things are we're going to have um a uh in the that's going to be open throughout the whole time is a uh uh we call it a business showcase and so what that is is giving the students the opportunity that right now we're accepting applications but giving them enough opportunity if they have a pop-up shop or if they have a business for them to Showcase what that business is so what students will be able to as well as the different communities we have uh the different park districts and also local alumni what if maybe they're offering scholarship opportunities or work opportunities or even mentoring opportunities they're going to be there as well uh to Showcase those uh so throughout the day in each panel it's going to be at least pretty much two or one not correct it'll be at least two alumni in the in each panel so basically uh so each room will have panelists but us as well we'll be going from room to room building relationships with the kids and also participate in the conversation so I'm really excited about the day uh what also is uh special about we have opened up to the schools is that uh this was an alternative to discipline so if you've uh receive consequences one of the things is that we communicate with the schools that you can't use this in little suspension or in support of suspension just so we're given a solution so for them to go they can come we'll sign off on it to show that they've attended and you know send their account prior to their consequence um this is also also a great opportunity to lead into the program that we just recently started at the high school in Middle School we've been uh building relationships uh starting off with the mentoring programs but there as well so with us inside as well as I said there are some external programs that we'll be able to Showcase uh outside mentoring programs as well um we are still accepting applications for the vendors so I would like more vendors from the community because the goal is for these young men to realize what resources are out there we want them to realize that they're our business I mean there are work opportunities as well as activities that keep them engaged so if summer programs uh summer camps all those things we definitely want them to uh to be aware of those uh resources a little bit more night good evening everyone um just to piggyback on what Mr Watson was saying another beautiful thing about this event is that we have alumni from each town that this District serves to also um they went on to become First Responders and police officers as well as entrepreneurs and they are very eager to pour into our young men so we're really looking forward to that and they're excited just as well as we are so we appreciate the opportunity what did the enrollment numbers look like right now how what kind of response did you get um as of right now we have about 50 students that are enrolled uh we do know that there are some uh that's from the digital application we do know that uh we've asked we've also given an opportunity for uh for the schools to have paper applications so as of right now we're sitting around 50.

Emrick was a recipient of eight Emmy Awards for his play by play broadcasting on Friday January 6th Doc Emrick made up for surprise visit to Southwood and presented his 2014 Emmy to the school doc felt it fitting to give the 2014 Emmy because that marked the 50th anniversary of his graduation from Southland High School the Emmy will soon be displayed at Southwest High School thank you doc Emery So really really cool and I would imagine that our new Plain Dealer editor will do a great piece I interviewed him this morning oh you already did okay all right we've talked about that sounded like to congratulate the following athletes for being named to the out County team the performance of their recent Holiday Tournament in Manchester Lea sweet Hopper and coal weiner we're gonna go Knights South would like to recognize Aaron later 2020 Southwest graduate for making a dean's list for the fall semester at IU Bloomington Aaron is the daughter Annie and Brent laner way to go Aaron and that was Metro North and this is one I believe I'll go ahead and read it but um no this is more already though so thank you all right that's all I have for those and then we'll be doing the spotlight let me just go right into the spotlight well after uh kind of a long pause of our staff Spotlight uh we paused because of covet and so we are actually then starting up this second semester so this time it's a little bit different in the past we had anyone in the school district in other words other staff members in any any community members anyone could actually nominate a staff member but we kind of changed a little bit this time and it's only parents and not necessarily staff nominating other staff members and so I'm going to go ahead and let Mrs Moore sit down because she one time she talked about that but I'll let her stay there if that's all right if you still want to do that because unfortunately the two parents that nominated her and she's selected to be the spotlight they were unable to come one said that she was unable to come at the very beginning which is understandable the other one actually got ill and so she did not want to spread any germs to any of us and so I'm just going to share that Spotlight and first of all this is from parent Jamie crite and I'll read this Mrs Moore is always outside almost every morning rain snow and shine helping parents get their children to school I've seen her sitting on the sidewalk with an upset child comforting them and just gets down to their level literally I absolutely love it she shows so much compassion for the students as a parent of two one child graduated and I never witnessed this with my first child it was a different school system but I feel it makes a huge difference to me as a parent and to my youngest child currently at Metro North Elementary I am very grateful so Mrs Moore we know that you work hard on doing all those things and so she wanted to Spotlight you on that so congratulations and we have a number two though number two um Spotlight from Great Grandma Deborah Casey she's the one that was going to be here and unfortunately got ill so was not able to come she is so sweet not Deborah Mrs Moore yeah she drives me too I don't know her very well I just talked to her on the phone but Mr Moore she is so sweet and very helpful if you have a question she always has the answer or finds out she is a very caring person and loves all the students and I will tell you too and I know it's not comfortable for Mrs Moore to hear all those things in front of people and things like that that's just the way it is that we that we do do this and we love to do that but she also wrote a whole other piece and I'm not going to read it all but she wanted to share that you know she she said I hate to have to inform you that I will not be able to be here but she just talks about all the things that you've done with their with their little uh Norse that had a hard time maybe getting registered and getting all into the program you just really really worked it out um you know she was heartbroken at first thinking it wasn't going to happen but you did a lot of different things some of the things that you do as far as the different grants and all those different things actually help out and so um she was super nice in the whole process she stayed in touch to it all I greatly appreciate everything she's done for us she went beyond and above her duties thank you and God bless so I think that's great to hear that um from from her and so one thing that we do want to say is that um First Farmers National Bank or first First Farmers and Trust Bank they actually have been our sponsor for several years now and they continue to be our sponsor so we're doing something a little bit different we've done a lot of different things the last thing we did is a blanket which was kind of nice too but msdwc is going to start a store and that store it's going to be an online store there's going to be logos of all the schools and different things like that and basically the spotlight winner in this case Mrs Moore will be able we'll get a voucher in those vouchers each time will be forty dollars to go in the store and purchase anything from there so of course it won't suck and there's no shoes it won't officially open until the middle of February but you will be getting a voucher to be able to use it and I will let you know though there is an expiration date and I think we people put that I think it's what I told him July 1 or July 31st so probably the day after you get it so anyway um let's give Mrs more round of applause here's your voucher right here so we'll get that to you later don't let me forget it yeah I believe and so any of our guests that need to leave want to leave you can leave or you can stay for the whole meeting we'll be done by 10 guaranteed yourself foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Music] it's all in favor say hi um approval of financial reports uh let's begin with coins questions on claims Chris I noticed we had the big payoffs there on your bonds two bonds yeah those will be the completely paid off so then we just have to go one bottom Remain the rest of the this calendar year foreign payroll 11 and 12 since we have two of them here we'll take motion to prove both of those together yeah there's nothing special um that payroll 11 which is the December 15th pay the big difference there is the fact that that's when we paid out our teacher appreciation Grant dollars that we received from the state so that's why you see such a larger pay amount there and then uh the last payroll of the calendar year which would have been the payroll 12 for December 29th that one is more of your standard payroll I moved to accept payroll let's look at that all in favor of approving payrolls 11 and 12.

the next Edition is a meeting with the Boylston select board yes are you referencing something on the drug yeah well yes yes thank you next is the Boston select board meeting that's on Tuesday January 17th at 6 30.

um those Camp presentations are pretty cool and we're all invited to those you want to give the board just a little background on Camp uh yeah so um really the aim of you know as a little senior certified to have you know as senior project um basically at the end we're tasked with you know tuning into or like having a lot of focus around what we want to do uh when we reach college level and Beyond so everyone kind of focuses in on either on the personal interests or possible career path or something of the source and they develop a product idea around it whether it be the way you want to help the community or is an actual intangible item you want to create um so you spend um basically the whole first semester developing your projects as well as you know doing in-class research and making an entertainment bibliography and you also have to reach out and find your inventors for the project to kind of help in like Aid your understanding around the area you're you know trying to pursue with the project um and then we have our in-class presentations soon to kind of you know develop them enough to then be presented to people on the 19th where you're going to be able to know do like a little walk around and get to see certain students for this you know a few little stops on the way and other ones are going to be like made presentations you can like sit down and listen into um but I definitely think it'll be very fun you know it's a very like wide variety like I'm personally doing an auditory poetry book and there's other people you know throwing out Trails or you know building a car or um starting clubs and whatnot so it's gonna be very cool to see like the broad like range of focuses people chose for women projects excellent that was a great over here and we'll be speaking with the curriculum committee too uh at our meeting next week to be able to talk a little bit more about what camp looks like why that's a part of of what we have within Canton and what how that's a requirement with the state but then also how we build that across our K-12 program too so great job really good okay and then just to finish up upcoming uh the prisons concert for the high school is going to be Saturday February 14th the theme is road trip it's just fun and I think it's the fourth right after correcting Saturday February 4th oh sorry uh yeah did I not say that 14th I think you said that was going to be my Valentine's Day I don't mean to cry I'm gonna have to think of something else yeah and then um the CHS Earth choral concert is going to be Wednesday March 1st um for ongoing we have that the winter sports have continued their games and needs and the CHS musical rehearsals have begun and the performances I know it says 17th 18th and 19th but it's 16 17 and 18.

I'm happy that we are back in person for this event and we get to start the of the Years season with our classified employees the selection of site and Department classified employees of the year begins in October where sites are asked to begin the selection process from their site classified employees each site and Department was asked to nominate honorees uh by mid-november and on Friday December 9th a panel of representatives from throughout the district interviewed 17 honorees to determine the 2022 2023 classified employee of the year the panel was made up of the following employees CSEA Representatives DCA president Lori Ray Elizabeth Morales and Joanne Klein an aea representative Terry montrez and AMA Representatives Adriana Garcia Medina Adrian Acosta and myself the day was filled with laughter tears and a genuine feeling that we work in a great District without standing and I'll say again absolutely outstanding classified employees today's reception yes a big one of Applause to all our classified employees today's reception and decoration was made possible by the dedicated work of our HR employees I particularly want to recognize and thank Joanne Klein and HR General office clerk who led the planning the organizing and selection process and interviews the decorations for tonight's event and venue she looked after every minute detail so that tonight is a special night for all of us especially our honored guests so thank you Joanne before we ask our principals to recognize their honorees I like to invite principal of Sierra High School Kent Stout to welcome you all to Sierra High School and highlight the school's accomplishments Mr Stout good evening Dr Beau Board of Education members cabinet and attendees um I'm Kent Stout and I'm the principal here at Sierra High School and I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you to our campus and to share a little bit about our school here Sierra Sierra is a model continuation high school with approximately 200 students students attend Sierra for credit recovery this past year we've had 25 seniors who recovered enough credit to return to either Gladstone or Azusa High School however not all of them choose to do that because they feel like they're home here and they decide to stay Sierra students attend six classes daily and participate in the same curriculum as the Comprehensive High Schools we offer ROP programs like Child Development for insects health careers and video production this year we have 19 students enrolled in our AP classes we have Mr lamprack teach us our AP government and the discussions you hear in his classroom are definitely invigorating Mr graffari our AP art teacher and his students are completing really impressive portfolios at this time we even had like students score the highest like fours and fives on the AP exams for our AP Gov in the past just wanted to throw that out there but students are also can also have the opportunity to enroll in dual dual enrollment program with Citrus College and the students feel that they could really achieve anything here at Sierra um we are all last year as a matter of fact we had over 12 000 we awarded in scholarships to our students finally we're really proud of our co-ed sports teams they participate in the San Gabriel Valley continuation Sports league and our basketball team just finished their season and defeated we have a very incredible caring staff that have been attending training on social emotional learning and this year they've added a flex period which is every Wednesday they take on a small group of students during the day to make connections with them and provide extra support we have after school programs where they can or during school where teachers are advisory for different clubs like gardening we have a gaming Club a Spanish club and even after school weight training all these activities help build our students confidence and help to create a comfortable place for them here at Sierra and finally our parent group you can't have a school without a great parent group we have the support of our community liaison with signs and they have weekly meetings on Fridays we have Lego the Los Angeles County Office of Education come in and hold mental health classes for our parents and they really have built a tight close group there it's kind of fun to see on our Fridays I'm really proud to say that for the past four years I've had the opportunity to be the Principal here at uh Sierra our school is a place where the staff really work hard and provide the best instruction for our students and students really enjoy coming to school here so with that I want to welcome you to our campus and uh Welcome to our evening thank you thank you Mr Stout I will um just want to outline the the process so we'll be calling our principals up to um and our department leaders to recognize each of our classified employees of the year after the recognition by the administrator is read you'll come over to take a picture uh with our board member and receive a nice gift from our csca uh chapter 299 partner so I really want to appreciate that for for being here and recognizing our classified employees of the year so without further Ado congratulations to all of our classified employees of the year I'd like I'd like to now turn it over to our first principle to present Dalton Elementary's principal uh Miss Laura Clark good evening Dr Beau Board of Education members cabinet and attendees I could not be more thrilled to introduce Dalton Elementary School's 2023 classified employee of the year Hilda amerius she is our wonderful and amazing night custodian Hilda began working in Azusa unified in 1997 when she volunteered at Mountain View school when her own children attended there as they moved on to Slauson and Gladstone High she became an official employee as a noon supervisor at Slawson after four years of doing that important work she began substituting as a custodian in 2007.

before we start everyone husband I highly recommended it very good for me for can we begin with instructions practical difficulties foreign okay I can hear myself now all right thank you everyone for your patience we had some technical difficulties there um Welcome to our first board meeting of 2023.

his masters from some Houston State University in a doctorate from University of Houston he began his career in Education First as a substitute teacher just like me in Minnesota before moving to Texas where he taught middle school math he served in various roles in the Aldine School District a large Urban District in the Houston metropolitan area including director of Technology director of the director and Executive Director of Human Resources before joining Islands 14 actually he joined us in um in July as the Director of Human Resources so he is in-house um so before he joined um last summer he served three years as an assistant superintendent in the Cleveland Independent School District in in Texas one of the five fastest growing schools districts in that state Nathan is an avid traveler and cook in participating annual cook-offs based in scholarships funds for students um so Nathan is going to be replacing Dr McKenna but Dr McCann's last day here will be June 30th so he will complete his time here uh we went through a process where Chiefs we looked at all the candidates two candidates came up as finalists and we narrowed it down to uh Dr Bolton so uh the next this semester will be we're going to be overlapping to ensure that everything that is being put in place in HR uh has a strong Foundation to to be sustained and continued so I just wanted you to see your face and uh he's currently supporting not only as a director of HR and will continue but also as a director or um uh the the push for communications uh Communications you will recall we had an executive director uh before and right now is under um uh Dr McKenna uh Communications well the two of them are managing it so we are putting a director position it has been posted has been posted in um November and uh he's going to be open until it's filled we want to know and ensure there's the best person for communications and that position will continue being under HR because it's just working very well that way so um thank you Dr Bolton for accepting and we uh we're excited that you will continue with us [Applause] thank you for bringing forward that um Dr McKenna we're so sad to see you go but totally understand and I appreciate that we've hired from within because I've been able to witness the amazing work um I will say again and I I know I always say it but I've seen more movement in our HR departments and since you you've both been here then since I've been on the board so thank you so much for your great work and and I'm so happy that that's going to continue moving forward and I'm still going to have to you know say the first task I gave Dr poten although he's not the HR Chief yet is to figure out a positions to ensure that Dr McKenna stays so not of the nature person anymore because we now have one but she will stay thank you thank you so much I forgot I saw how to talk um next up is 7.1 business action items we're moving on sorry approval of the 2023-24 and 20 24 25 student calendar um I believe we have a presentation on this or okay yes ma'am Dr Lauria yes uh thank you madam president members of the board I will ask uh our um HR and uh Dr McKenna are you Sheila I'm sorry you're the next one yes and Sheila to come up here and this is a revised calendar or a proposed calendar that we were bringing to you uh for the next two years uh in the past um or let me backtrack a little bit the teacher negotiated contract allows us to have 160 176 days of student contact that that means you know instructional days for our students um about a year before I came on board those uh that um the the student contact days were reduced to 171 days and uh it is my belief as a superintendent and educator and we share this belief without labor as well it is important for our students to have the maximum amount of contact days as we can possibly provide so this contract is going to be doing two things I mean contract my apologies this calendar is going to be doing two things not only ensuring that we go back to 176 days so that we can continue offering them and maximizing the time that we can provide to of instruction for students but also we'll be addressing some of the um some of that roller coaster to uh with lack of a better term of um of teacher morale that we see in in research in the nation right so you're going to hear a little bit of that research and how this um this calendar is aiming to address that to ensure that our teachers feel supported and they feel um uh you know they they can keep up that need that we that we want them to have so it's burnt thing thank you so good evening Madam president Lovato distinguished members of the board superintendent lorian Beauty audience as as Dr Lydia mentioned my name is Sheila Burke and I'm honored to serve as the chief academic officer I'm here tonight just to be able to provide an overview of the work that our calendar committee completed for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 student calendars that are on the board agenda for tonight foreign the purpose of our calendar committee was to create a student calendar as Dr alert me and Dr Lydia mentioned that meets the needs of our students and both academically and supports our school-based staff as we go through the school year right it feels like a whirlwind especially for brand new teachers and so on the slide that's displayed now this kind of helps to describe the roller coaster ride that we go through specifically for staff that are entering right into our profession and so our calendar helps to be able to help mitigate some of those with strategically placed breaks and days off that I'll speak to later in a couple upcoming slides as our calendar committee began their work on the two proposed Calendars our Collective interests were to develop a calendar that one supports our District's transformation efforts and turnaround efforts specifically by leveraging our retention and recruitment efforts that you heard Dr Lydia mention as well as increasing the number of learning days and minutes for our students we wanted to be able to maximize those with increasing those for what we previously were to making sure that we were right at the um 176 school days that's allotted in addition we wanted to ensure that our calendar was predictable meaning that we're we recognized for many students that we are their constant for us and that we are Dependable both with the relationships and the check-in with our school-based staff but also with meal services Transportation Etc and so we wanted to be able to strategically place breaks that made it predictable for students and leveraging those times so it didn't feel like we had three days on two days off again a four day week followed by a five-day week and so you'll see that reflected in our calendar around where they're placed and the last thing that we wanted to be able to ensure was that we're supporting staff with their professional learning needs so you'll notice in our our calendar so that we have uh District professional days one per quarter that then again align with our academic Excellence Playbook our calendar committee began meeting in August of 2022 and it consisted of both parents from our school communities our doc our district accountability committee members are classified and certified staff both school and District administrators and Department leads specifically from business finance operations human resources and academics uh and then lastly our calendar committee viewed a variety of data sets one of those happens to be included on the slide that's displayed now and one of those was staff absences our committee strategically placed breaks again not only to be able to bring consistency to students but also to address the Peaks and the roller coaster ride from the slide that was displayed earlier and some of those Peaks you'll see around the October time frame and so we wanted to be able to bring some relief so that we're helping to support the Recruitment and Retention efforts of our staff and some of the burnout rates that that we know happen at that time of the year uh before I turn it back over to Dr lady I just want to be able to take a moment to publicly thank all of the calendar committee members that came in after hours to be able to work on this with the two proposed calendars that are in front of you today so I want to thank them again but Madam president Lovato Dr Lydia this concludes my update around the student calendar thank you so much for that great presentation uh board members questions comments I just appreciate the overall intentionality and thought that went into the planning of it um I like that stakeholders are involved not only from you know District administrators and school administrators but parents and DAC um just an intentionality being an educator I know that October is a really hard month and so um seeing that those intentional breaks are in there everything you said I think um just really speaks to the level of um commitment intentionality organization that we are really pushing forward I appreciate that there's um is this the format that it's going to go out to parents or no Madam president Lovato board members Zubia thank you for the question no this format was done internally for us to be able to look at and remove really the human error as you remember this year we had some issues with the dates and their holidays as we had humans counting out those pieces so we've put together a formula with the help of Dr Boughton from HR to be able to put those in and so you can see in front of you the actual dates counting down so the start and end dates didn't change we wanted to be able to make sure that was consistent for our students and maximize the days that we have why we're strategically placing dates so what you have in front of you is the version that shows the actual account dates for your reference in the top Corner the top right corner you'll see the number of minutes broken down by a grade span level so Elementary which includes preschool middle school high school the number of hours allocated to those and then the number of days the state department recognizes both the number of hours minutes and the number of days and so we can meet them in both areas to the far right you'll see the number of school days that each of those grades fans have making sure that we're not exceeding the 188 contact days that we have within the master agreement with our certified staff so your contract days or each of them are in here too so thank you yeah because I when I looked at this I'm like um talk about confusing for parents as a parent if I use my parent lens I'd be like I have no clue what's going on and the other thing too that was missing here is like all the phone numbers to the schools because I know I find those very helpful especially I don't know um if that has helped over the years to really help with the attendance issue of people not calling in to excuse their kids half the time is just finding that phone number and I knew always to look on the calendar because it was there so when I saw it wasn't I'm like oh that might not help again once um once the calendars have been approved we will put them into a format that is familiar to our district community members so that it's consistent for them this is for internal planning purposes so you can see the number of days and how we accounted for all of them I I also wanted to ask I know for a while there um the PD was one of the reasons so I I used to be on the calendar committee for many years and I know um one of the reasonings for the the way it was structured because of meeting the numbers was a lot had to do with the PD and making sure that there was enough PD for teachers and as we heard tonight it's very beneficial to them so I do appreciate that this is in there um and and like I said it's it's good that you've been working with them and asking them as well I know for a while they're even on the committee it didn't it feels interesting because you have a certain amount of people because you can't have everybody um obviously you would have you know thousands of versions of the calendar if you asked every employee what they thought but uh just having that representation like director Estrada said and making sure that everybody's voice was heard is important because I know every year is different and the years passed it's been focused on PD for principal um you know directed PD and then there's been focus on PD that's just for um you know like-minded teachers like all the science teachers all this so there's every year there was something so this actually clears it up a little bit better so thank you for them and um oh if I may add one important piece here that I would like to highlight um with having a break in October in another in February addressing that roller coaster that's research that has been out there for years right this is not the roller coaster in Adams 14 it's in the nation maybe in the world um we could we have the opportunity now to add 10 instructional days to targeted students because our plan is to be able to provide camps you know fall camp winter camps and uh and have targeted students to come in in that way we're going to be adding 10 or at least eight because if we do a four week Camp during those weeks and four-day Camp we're gonna be adding instructional days to targeted students so that is only possible if we have a number of days together where everybody's off rather than one day here and one day there because there's there's no traction that way so I just want to highlight that thank you that was going to be one of my questions was um since we're having additional breaks we'll still provide food service and be for camps I guess so during school practice or activities and coverage okay absolutely um my other question as director Zubia was speaking did we maintain the same number of PD days or increase or decrease that do you know Madam president Lovato thank you for the question we've maintained the same number of PD days that we currently have within this year's calendar so there are four District PD days one per quarter we still have our principal directed time that we utilized at the school base level but we felt like right now this was sufficient to be able to help us meet and execute our goals that we're both outlaying from the board and from the district great thank you so much um any other questions comments I think I mentioned was I love the intentionality around providing certain camps for groups of students I'm hoping that it's it's a wide range of supports and services for not only like struggling students but students who might need that extra acceleration um yeah yes that is correct um when we talk about any camps we're not only talking about scaffolding or supporting students who may need that extra push but also ensuring that our our teachers are planning for those that need to be accelerated we cannot forget any of the student groups or performance groups that we have I would like to see like the Arts embedded in there somewhere that is correct opportunities for those Hands-On activities that we feel we do not have time anymore because of the number of standards that are in our curriculum um I think another quick comment I know um the district has um gone Leaps and Bounds to um improve our relationship with the City of Commerce City specifically their rec center and I know there's usually some coordination there with our breaks so if I can just ask that we continue that collaboration because they also plan a lot of their activities around the district since they serve our population did we have a different schedule for calendar or for Central sorry yes um the the difference that we had for Central was the added instruction um PD days for teachers um so we'll continue offering that additional five days uh that it's uh that was negotiated with with labor as well for added PD for um for Central Elementary yes so they that those days will be the same breaks they will have the same breaks the days will be added at the beginning of the school year so uh they will come five days before every other teacher shows up so that they can have their um their own professional development thank you Miss Burke so we have been asked to um take action um may I have a motion to approve the 2023-24 and 24 25 calendars a second thank you any further discussion uh Ramona roll call please Mr Amador aye Ms Estrada Ms Lovato aye Ms Zubia all right that passes unanimously thank you um next on the agenda is 7.2 approval of Recruitment and Retention incentive uh Dr Lydia is there anything that you're you or your staff would like to share regarding this item um yes Madam president members of the board um thank you I will have Dr mechanic come up um and even um Jason this has been a collaborative work um I should say also the item before with um the calendars for the instructional days because these are things that we want to use as a strong recruitment tool to not only attract teachers but also to retain teachers last year we had a retention assigning bonus that will retention and sign-in bonus for teachers and this year we want to ensure that our teachers are early in the school year if you um of course if it's approved [Music] uh realize that how much we recognize their hard work and how much we want for them to stay so this would be an incentive that is um for all all employees not only um certified but also classified employees um and in collaboration with our early negotiations in the past you heard this sometimes in May sometimes in July or later but now we want to start doing that early so that can not only use of a retention recruitment tool but also for you to to not get information at the last minute Madam president Madam superintendent trustees beside me on both my right and left are two colleagues that I'm very blessed to work with that are completely in the work and we started talking early about the focus on two big ticket items here to allow us to continue our momentum one is recruitment but even more important than recruitment is retention and when we listened to Lynn Wayne and Jason we really wanted to focus more on retention than recruitment so if you look at those amounts it's saying to people early on if approved we want you to stay home in Adams 14 and continue the work and changing the narrative that we're working on right now and so we got together early talked about this often and wanted to make sure that the best teachers the best staff are here in Adams 14 we want to keep them in Adams 14.

I am chair of the Ann Arbor energy Commission uh and as chair I'm calling this meeting to order at 602 pm on Tuesday January 10th 2023. welcome everyone to the meeting this is a virtual meeting to affect social distancing to mitigate the spread of the covid-19 virus and other viruses including the common flu which are now having to deal with um we will conduct this meeting like in-person meetings Commissioners during the roll call please indicate your current location also during the meeting please remain on camera just as you would be visible during in-person meetings finally mute your microphone when not speaking public comment will be via telephone only to speak during any of the two public comment opportunities please call one of the following two toll-free numbers 877-853-5247-4888 -788-0099 and enter the meeting ID nine five six eight seven one eight seven eight seven six on your phone this information is also available on the published agenda in the public meeting notices section of the city's website and on the broadcast of this meeting on CTN Channel I believe it is is it 19 tonight Joe not 16 or is that maybe the environmental commission that had a conflict I can't remember I am unsure so I mean it still as normal I think it's still 16.

uh for police 2018 Community Services 2018. and frankly it's almost all self-promoting PR fluff instead of real analysis as taxpayers were entitled to the whole truth including when we fall short of our goals uh finally on the gas ban we don't need a transition period we just had one seven all-electric projects over two years along with about two dozen projects using gas 30 seconds anyway great yeah anyway gradual implementation makes perfect sense for other policy areas but for climate it's the wrong framing each time we approve a gas burning project we're putting CO2 into the atmosphere for 50 years where it remains for at least another 200 heating the planet so it's not like we delay for a year or two and we're good with every decision now we're screwing the next 10 Generations let's get an Ordnance done so we can move on to the really hard stuff that's time thank you any other callers that is it okay thank you callers for your comments so um next on the agenda is uh a reflection on 2022 energy commission work uh so when Joel uh and Carlene and I met we thought this was worthwhile and we'd like this to be a little bit different Focus than the work session that was held in December where we talked about comment or our our topics for 2023 and a little bit more about what went well in um what could have done better in using those lessons learned that hopefully we can capture tonight we can do a better job in um advising Council and providing a forum for discussions on energy and greenhouse gas emissions here in the city of Ann Arbor the commission is has a primary function uh the uh role of advising city council and in particular our city council Liaisons on energy and in greenhouse gas emissions related topics and so um I thought what I would do first is ask council member Briggs and council member redina to offer their Reflections on 2022 and then opened it up for the rest of the commission so either one of you if you'd be willing to go first uh that would be great all right well I'll kick it off I guess then um yeah I think um in terms of what I think was particularly helpful from kind of my role as liaison um and the council's work I think that obviously there were a number of different agenda items that got moved forward but the the times where energy commission really dug into a subject um for example and brought in some ex expert speakers um and um around the seu and municipalization um I think that was really valuable um both in terms of bringing me up to speed feeling like that we were really doing our due diligence um as a commission and putting forward a recommendation to council and then also being able to provide really strong resources to the community later on to be able to look at and dig into a subject um I thought the um the speakers that were brought in about Green Building from other areas that was really helpful so that's personally I think what when I kind of think quickly back to 2022 really pops out to me and what I would love to see uh Stewie Warren in 2023 and Beyond so in quick response to that and to also guide everyone else's comments um the discussion on the SCU and all the aspects of that actually all took place in 2021 ending with a resolution that we passed in December of 2021 but I think certainly the year flew by didn't it so um but I think the general comment and certainly the the one about buildings and our our external uh presenter on uh green construction to McDonald that was definitely something that was I think positive this year um anything else to add council member Riggs or I'll let you chime back in at an appropriate time later if you want um council member radina anything you'd like to share with us yeah I I started taking down a couple of notes with this item and [Music] um because the uh the seu conversation was in the in the municipal energy conversation was I think actually such a really good example of the commission diving in and bringing in experts from other communities and um and I think also because Council voted on that voted on the RFP Midway through this year it was still fresh on our minds this year um but I looked back a little bit and I think um I agree completely with Council breaks in in kind of the important role this body plays in educating me as a liaison and as a council member kind of the deeper dive that we get to take on some of the issues during the time in this meeting uh makes it a lot easier for me when when issues come before for Council itself and provide me with I think a better perspective to talk to some of my colleagues when they have questions as well and so I agree completely and kind of that bringing in issue area experts and doing some of the deeper dives into the issues facing the community I think that's really helpful um and I know that sometimes I think particularly for those of you who are often bringing your own levels of expertise to this body sometimes it can it can feel like these might be things that some of you already know or or you know you can chime in at times and add your own expertise as the expertise that we've brought in is speaking um but in your your role of advising Council I think that also demonstrates exactly why many of you are you know around the screen is because you do have benefici's um but you're helping to provide advice and guidance to us which I think is really helpful um I look back at just a few of the the resolutions also that that were passed this year and um I know that we we discussed Workforce housing solar installations um all electric appliances green rental housing um home energy rating disclosure and so I do think that there was some really substantial work that was happening over the last year um and so I I don't want to lose sight of that as well I think the education piece is important but this group is also moving recommendations through to council which I think are helpful as well um and and I think from that perspective you know encouraging weighing in on in areas where we can continue to advance climate-friendly policy and things like that is really helpful for my colleagues at the council table to hear as well and so I think when there are those opportunities to weigh in I think we've appreciated that um and then I would just say the one thing that I think you know this isn't necessarily uh specific to this group but uh because you are charged with you know energy and climate policy and other boards and commissions are charged with others one of the things that I find with a lot of my commissions that I serve on is trying to to also just keep in mind the bigger picture when we're doing some of this work and there are times that we want to charge forward with something but may also need to remember that you know it could have impact on housing policy or rental policy or environmental policy and and just kind of making sure that we keep that broader perspective so that we're not um there are times I think council member Briggs and I find this quite a bit in in our roles in different as different Liaisons to different groups that at times we have a lot of competing priorities in the city and sometimes it's really easy for us to move things together um in a really cohesive way and other times where there is tension and so trying to just keep in perspective that there are times that we may all feel really really passionately about something but have to acknowledge that that if we move something really quickly in One Direction it may slow something else down that's also been highlighted as a priority of the city and vice versa and so just keeping that broad perspective um and then the last thing I'll add is not necessarily a reflection of the work but just something that I continue I've noticed and I think we brought up once before and um as it's that time of year I think where we might uh have to renew our own bylaws and things like that um this is the only body where as council members uh that I serve on anyway that as a council member I do have a vote also which I just think is a an interesting I sometimes find it a bit challenging actually because because you guys are trying to provide advice to council but I'm also voting on it at this table and so it might be something to think about because it is um I it adds kind of a different perspective when when I have to vote on advising my colleagues um it's not often that I want to to shy away from being able to vote or say you should take some power away from me but there's kind of a different responsibility that I have on this body than I have on different commissions throughout the city so just something that I I reflect about thank you very much for both of those perspectives uh uh council member Regina your last point was interesting to hear I I serve as everybody knows as liaison to the environmental condition and the council Representatives have a vote there and as far as I know council member Dish as liaison to the Planning Commission also has a vote on that commission yes I do think it's pretty I think it's pretty inconsistent throughout the day yeah something that I thought I'd bring up it is the only one that I'm on three commission that I have about interesting and I think interesting for for everybody amongst us uh I'd like to open things up um Lessons Learned I'm good and bad uh how can we improve uh what are your reactions to last year and I recognize that we have a number of relatively new members so it's going to be harder for you to to comment but hopefully you followed the work of the commission a little bit and have some opinions even if they're relatively um new um based on your limited uh participation so open it up just for General comments and discussion much so seeing none I'll offer a few of my own and that might also spur some others thoughts on the matter um I I agree um with both council members about um the really positive things that have happened um I think we passed a number of resolutions uh that were I think spread a lot of conversation um certainly among this group um and also as mentioned by councilman Regina also were considered by Council and and passed the council and I think that's something that's really indicative of the kinds of things that we can do is to take on a subject as council member Briggs said discuss it in detail uh have that lead to a resolution and then hopefully have that result in in action um in that the city council level so I think that's that's really positive another thing that I found helpful um is the presentation that we had from Washington County and their climate action plan and I think we see a direct connection um between what we did in Ann Arbor and what the county is doing I think a lot of that is attributable to the work that this commission has done over the last couple of years and certainly also to the work that OSI did um it just so happens that some of the lead Consultants on the County's plan were Consultants that Missy engaged for the A200 plan and obviously that carried over and I think there's also some good Lessons Learned in that plan um one thing for me that was both a plus and maybe a minus is that we had presentations as mentioned earlier by those who called in for public comment about the herd ordinance and also the green rental housing program on proposed ordinance um on the one hand it was disappointing that those really still had yet to move forward I think on the other hand uh given the option of not having those presented to the commission and not having the opportunity to weigh in probably would have led to potentially even greater delays and bigger problems and I think the fact that they were presented relatively early on um at least certainly with green rental housing program herd had been in in process as most of you known for two and a half three years um but certainly with green rail housing program I think we raised um during the meeting and then in a subsequent separate meeting a lot of issues that were then able to be considered by staff so I think generally speaking Joe at least message for me is you know the earlier that things can be brought to the commission um and be considered with the expertise expert input of the commission the better outputs that we're going to have in in the long run and then just that also to reflect and I put these down independently before the meeting um I I'm hoping that we can see progress accelerated on uh our activities and that also accelerate activities on greenhouse gas emissions and I also see um legal as having been a historic bottleneck and if this is indeed a climate and energy is indeed a crisis for the city and for us um across you know the United States and the globe then I think we really need to think about how we can accelerate things through legal it's been an issue ever since I've been involved with the energy commission since 2016 and it might be something that we need to talk about when we talk about climate Village funding that more funding for climate goes specifically to Legal resources so those are my thoughts and I see that that uh or your own ruminations led to a couple of other ideas uh commissioner McCoy and then commissioner overpeck yeah similar to what others have said I think um I particularly appreciated the times that we've had presentations that are clearly linked to next steps um whether it be you know a draft of um a resolution to pass or clear plans for follow-up discussions um I think you know it's useful both to be able to get the information and use the space to do that but then also to feel like we're serving a purpose of like carrying that information through um and I feel like sometimes when we have presentations that it doesn't automatically lead to something like that it can feel it can get lost and hard to pick back up um and also feel like it's unsure what what the purpose of us having the presentation was so I I just wanted to emphasize that I I really have found those useful and particularly when it's clear what we can do with the information next um that yeah that was my main thing um I had another thing and I can't remember it so I'll raise my hand if I do commissioner Peck yeah I I like all the comments we've had and including those from the public at the beginning um I'd like to see us in 2023 really be more action-oriented and uh so by the end of this year we can really feel more tangible progress as a city and going carbon neutral and allocating resources as a way that really puts that number one on up first and foremost uh I don't think we should uh bury our concern for a just Solutions in doing that though so we have to be a little careful on that front and the other thing is over the holidays or since we last met I had a chance to get to know uh University of Michigan's new CFO Chief Financial Officer Jeff chattis he's the guy who's in charge of uh all our physical um processes on campus and going carbon neutral and he wants to speed up the University of Michigan's carbon neutrality um and he's really thinking big and outside the box uh and ways to do that um I mentioned it would be cool to see the university work better with the city and he's enthusiastic about that as well and if we wanted to have a session with him to hear his latest thoughts on what we're going to do what we're doing at Michigan University of and how we might collaborate you know where we would all have probably some input on you know what could this University of Michigan do better to in a collaborative Spirit to move the needle faster um I think we could talk him into it and uh just need a good enough warning I did follow up on methane leakage and that a whole uh debate is really got a lot of uncertainty uh but I would I will be on the record right already to say we got to get we got to ban natural gas I mean it's just that's the curse and it's going to be there for a long time as one of the early commenters made uh their comments focused on uh and I did follow up with Greg keolian too if we wanted to hear more uh about the nuts and bolts of the different ideas that are coming out of Michigan sort of state of the art Urban neutrality ideas mostly focused on campus but uh increasingly we're trying to focus more on how can we speed things up in society in Mission you know in Ann Arbor could be a great way to test some of these ideas um and the last thing that I still feel kind of like murky um and this might go to Embers point about let's get you know um see if we could ask for some really good presentation some research it's just I think we're still pretty um unsure about how the federal money that's in the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the even bigger pot of money in the inflation reduction act how that money might uh spark quicker change in Michigan and make sure that we are surfing those waves as well in a in a very uh thought out way well thought out way thanks thank you great great input um commissioner come Smith and then back to commission required yes thank you um so yeah I just wanted to kind of echo two points um first just wanted to Echo uh commissioner overpeck uh and commissioner McCoy's uh uh ideas on you know making um some of our discussions more actionable and so kind of building off of that if there's an opportunity similar to how we presented topics in our December working session of where you know we presented a kind of a clear objection objective excuse me for that topic and then if there's you know an opportunity to be a bit more intentional about at the conclusion of that topic discussion of next steps that lead to you know tangible actions um you know whether it be gathering more information you know to ultimately build to a resolution or a recommendation um again just to further support uh the council in making some tangible progress here uh and then my second point was uh building off of commissioner Howard um or excuse me council member renita's comments on you know uh ensuring that we're bringing in some broader context recognizing that environmental commission I understand we have a liaison position there but if there's an opportunity just to evaluate if there's other commissions of which we should have uh Stronger collaboration and connection with I think also in the December working session understanding that there's a lot of great discussion and progress being made on the transportation committee for instance and recognizing there's some strong synergies with some of the work that we're doing here um you know maybe not every meeting but think about what's that appropriate Cadence to bring in some updates to understand where there could be closer collaboration to take advantage of you know uh kind of identifying some synergistic opportunities to work together to make some stronger recommendations here great thanks thank good input and I would suggest to all of us myself included that as we hear about these kinds of uh let's say things that are happening in in other commissions or in the community at large where there may be conflicts where there may be synergies that we bring those up in topics for future agendas um and also even bring them up as commissioner uh updates or Council updates so um don't don't hesitate to use those opportunities in our in our regular reading agendas um commissioner McCoy and then commissioner 11.

for all the initialists and that's an entire School District s right now Mr Cody is the only one president I'm waiting for the other one or the other Representatives all right um goals as well Mr Quick if you don't mind that's coming to the podium and give us a summary called you three one you know I will ask us to read if you could help us um which page would you like it's time yes Mr Cody is one of our sixth grade teachers and Mr Cody will want to giving us the plastic which is [Music] the goals and give us a summary of course uh so thank you for letting me be here um numbers so thank you for giving us the opportunity to adjust of our students so um the 301 goals right now is in 26 files which will be the cohort groups and we are kind of from here students who are proficient minimally proficient for the cities 26 and 47 percent um it will be reduced by 25 each year and looking at a three-year Trend and from there it does go down to a minimal partition which is 26.9 which will sense each year for ELA for example so um we have we came to a different proton list which is um I believe which will be more friendly for teachers and staff for academic group so I do have an entire point I I was it's kind of hard for me to explain it just looking at that but if I have my own how we came with these numbers but um briefly that that is our um questions regarding through one goals or um however okay but yeah is it possible gift s and I don't see my older Representatives but I'll be rather having to speak on on all the other Dearborn goals um and once again I have made with that little one community and I'm familiar with everyone knows that'll be happy to answer any questions regarding the three or four years hello I guess the question that I would have a single um [Music] where those students [Music] um did you begin to see the economy came up with those and how and I I guess I'm thinking overall the school is fun for the upcoming years [Music] in the past we mentioned the percentage on top where it's supposed the expectation of growth for our students um [Music] but the waves down here is kind of different you think [Music] just to explain that to me I want to see how much the world is going to be accomplished um and what you call here she can explain um and I'll be happy to jump out of piggyback if you're trying to move somewhere in classroom is over talk about you know it won't show up there I'm going to email it to them I have a little presentation because I have the representative at the immediate and I really think this was hard to explain so that's visual belief that I create a PowerPoint that I'm going to share with you guys that will break this down so um [Music] um documents we've got okay yeah this is a public hearing so there's no action being taken from this Farm and then if you posted on board Knox that I could download it download it I don't somebody send it to me please is there any way you can post it on the agenda just send it to me please yeah if you send it to tech support actually I'm working on it I'm almost there refresh you can't yeah so this is uh the second slides that growth party that's where I have the hot area so this is my presentation that I can step into my um intermediate groups so this was a new goal that we were I shared with them that in math and reading each grade level students in a mental 29 file will be reduced by 25 years so what does that mean so on slide two here we have our broken part so we are going to Target students who are in minimal proficient which is in the bread so we want to focus on them to push them up into partial coefficient which just you know so we can see a change we could have Target students in non-proficient but if we move them up they're still in threat so we want to see that change so our Target my whole family right here is that we want to Target a minimum so students who scored between 26 and 49 percentile we want to reduce that group by 25 each year over three years so what is that so right here on the next page here here's an example so those students right there in the red those are the students that scored in between 26 and 49 there's one two three four five six there's eight students there's eight students in that cohort so that's our Target students our goal is we want to reduce those that group by 25 so we want two students to get out of that we want two students to get out of that so this the students are fifth grade so right now we want to get two students out of it in sixth grade we want two more to get out so every year we're reducing that cruise to get smaller by seventh grade that would be like cut lessons by less than half so that's how this goal is so hopefully that kind of improves a little bit of explanation and if we go down to like four so that was the before and after so just the one in yellow is our new our new tools on how to try to push students out of the internet intervention um really really looking into I really believe or we have to constantly monitor your students and and try to push um motivate them is to get them out of it because I I do stresses with my kids in my class I didn't show them hey I didn't show them a group that are in real cool part and tried to catch him out of it so it is a motivated especially with the colors you want blue and green and so that this is a thank you for Express sharing this is a lot easier to explain so and I did present this with Michael and this is this is um our old um I think what this message was referring machine but it's crazy we're looking at [Music] um like the last plants reported at least okay and overall increase whatever it is but it was generally a demonstration what was demonstrated so and that's where our Target is you don't know [Music] and he said that's what that's the word is if we're saying 100 of students are not going to be interested in okay we're going to achievable I guess keeping towards it doesn't give it to show us that that's what happened so that doesn't understand that because they're here okay sorry um also there's more that it will be coming during the retreat you're looking at a slide too um we should have started by that first payment what is the goal that we want to achieve over over the next three years and the focus over the next few years if you look at it it says 80 Master percent because that was good as the world the other one for all of our students um but nevertheless okay what we're looking at is right now where the knee is facing the school um based on a particular School this year basically tested end up with a pre-assessment there's a number of students in the beginning of the profession so they are spending their energy by another moving forward but nevertheless the overall uh or arching all the real world promote and ensure that we continue to put all of our emphasis is that 80 Master for 70 of the school is that across the board that is how we worked starting with the more Victory if we get the support this will become part of the Azure digital so the target you just mentioned this time the go-to is covered by the arrow it says go to an electrician attendance the minimal of 10 is 10.

and this one has been a while and I to understand that better and I didn't want to know that for the school that it is because it is an alternative accelerating program and the way they set up the expectation and the way it was explained to me depending and depending what the student produces during the fall semester the expectation is that each student is going to have to demonstrate the same and then more so which means they expect it to grow 100 of what they grew in the Box they will be expected to grow also in the spring so given that all the students are working at different rates and if the student completed 10 activities during the during the fall in one class there are the exhibition is the demographic will pay that out of 10 or four so that's 100 growth in their expectation it was really completed one entire course the expectation is that for the spring semester they will box complete another course but something else so they their expectation is 100 plus for each one other students and in the area uh that's for the white goal and which is the very first one and as you go on to the next one and then it's called their expectation is going to be the students will show 15 growth um depending on where they're at before there are they expected to grow the percentage and depending on the the percentage of students that grow to take percentage from going around that's where the boys are going to that's what the points are going to be allocated for the teachers and determine their monies that they will be receiving the rules are exactly the same for me as well as so man that the expectation is based on what is what this article will grow um 10 a minimum of 10 from their starting point um the expectation is whatever the student completes in that first and that's there was a first degree then the expectation is the same amount plus go back to me that's a little bit I really like that foreign okay [Music] thank you that's not how long this meeting um present them with their members of the board um I also want to thank their inflatability to all of the teachers um in which they have been able to go back and be a review will change multiple times and that way we can align the goals to what we're beginning and I asked one of the things uh the board members for the patient and I know we were supporting all the way back in December but it is more time is giving us also a higher level verification on the goals and we recommend to continue to work and make changes um at the high school level and since the community level that where we can bring before you via data version so we look forward to that only by the rules but also supporters who did achievement foreign [Music] a minute disappointed we have one for every school sometimes one all right and I want to take responsibility without a whole lot more yeah normally they're here to present again I understand that you've been living on a Transit but kind of children yes [Music] I guess um I really appreciate the the details for getting together during this hour every single uh basic time for families and to work on this and to go back and to look at how they could um move forward and I guess what I what I really um is the um when we have our board retreat the goal that you know is there and we're going to be seen and stuff and how this plays into that so so you know that's that's what I'm I'm really looking forward to but I do appreciate all the work that was put into this and the time um I do understand but the concepts or the conflict that it isn't really um the second secondary foreign [Music] represents thank you [Music] I don't again [Music] take it back some of the key information that will be really helpful for us foreign [Music] you can actually also see up there or at least the presenters of the teachers I guess and it is 70 or higher and based on the changes that we we have met with our high school and provided guidance last week they gave it up the best shot um but there's still areas and we have a great opportunity to be there once again it brings out to the principal provided so much more additional support um and they're they are already working and playing all the time and then you have to be very aggressive between them this week to get a change together for when the teacher said leave it back to us my name is Wednesday so we can bring in before uh the government for like country and then before so then in particular I guess just to kind of hear it from them because they're here but overall internet um or primary talked about how um are off because if you go all the way to the bottom of the document classroom data that's always 40 points and then instructions the teacher evaluation we look at the points just on this totals 100 I've offered that guidance um some things are told to our staff that they could eliminate the teacher evaluations so I know like the primary the point s even though it's heavy like the 50 points is great but there's only 40 when it's allotted for this whole Creole for the classroom data which is just we have another evaluation out including their evaluation Within the point yeah I mean so this has to be revised but that would be my only thing and then to go back to my note you stated what percentage of growth I think the the thought process behind that was this is actually our first school year back in person so right now especially like our our third grade cohort that cohort was when we called the market with kids because that's when it hit us pretty strong so those cool they are unless you know about a year and a half so we stated they I know the process for them is let's see how they're growing whether you know we could have a ticket started at 0.50 they're not what they need to be but they're showing that correct and I think that's why they didn't attach ment but if you see that we definitely can go back I think that's fair consideration because obviously because it's across the board for every student right but I understand that it's the one I think that that was a fair inclusion in the previous clients because later it'll be an expectation Iraqi is still achieve yeah and that's not to say that we're not working on that because it's funny because it's still gross it's just not enough but again with I know we don't want to talk about Focus but it's a reality where these kids are still trying to make those games I agree thank you thank you thank you thank you Mr winning numbers no we I think we have a good clarification representative and I think the direction that Mr Diaz wants to wants to provide that Clarity so that information that you see that we haven't shared because it hasn't been performingly rolled out but that's something I'm doing Friday um um but when we landed out with our 301 representative I felt like some light bulbs kind of went off and it just gave her some direction because uh previously there was lots of different things being thrown out and I think they were trying to capture all of those things and try to put it in the 301 um just because there was a lot of inaccurate information that we've been put out and we are doing music this is what we're doing and they wanted a way to kind of show that but it's going to get reworked and maybe you know the weighting of the points was a concern but like it Mr Dia said I can't go in and say you need to change these points I can kind of like hey you might want to consider this okay feature device plan so we have an ielt tomorrow with our content needs and this is going to be the focus of our conversation um so that way they can have conversations with their events and then we'll reevaluate on Friday during the PPE to kind of narrow this and have a ready to go through [Music] um no I'm just I'm very proud of my team they did it all on their own so I trusted them and they I told them they needed guidance they can talk to Mr Diaz because I couldn't um so there they pretty much I I am pretty confident that they know what they're doing no just to add that I'm pretty confident with our 301 we are a little more unique to get you guys know um but I like the fact that with Mr B is his guidance to do it that we ensured that it was 100 and a couple of our kids because many of my kids are in different levels anyway so I think it's a SmartPhone I think it's very attainable it's realistic it's timely um I guess Automotive comment I really um thank you Mr Stevens for all your um work and helping the um the sites get the get this and showing them that there is expectations there is a goal and providing that information is helping them Reach that and so um let's go to sit down I really appreciate that you're you're taking your time to make sure that you're doing what you need to do to meet the goals that um the numbers there we didn't say that I didn't see it and so you know your input and that is really really helpful for you for your site and again having confidence this is your team you know that's getting Mr Fox everything that they're doing is to your cyclists and me because it's different from all the stuff I really appreciate it and then possibly um there's you know we want to get this done we want to get it set but because there's no um objections I guess on the goals that we see that we continue to move that way and then just waiting for the additional to pay for it and then um [Music] thank you all right thank you all so much we can go ahead in the journey [Music] all those in favor of the motion Anna Marie Stevens aye Sylvie Hendrix Ella make Greasewood Kathleen Vance motion carries that we'll go ahead and move into and it's hard to order January 10 2023 scholarship organization meeting or the internal communities I was present here I Juan bondia Anne-Marie Stevens Sylvia Hendricks LMA Greasewood aye Kathleen Vance [Laughter] go ahead and continue number three is a business that are easy to cool designers Sylvie Hendrix hello make Greasewood aye Kathleen Vance motion carries number four is our elections officers from here [Music] 23-24 I am [Music] I I said denomination is there a second or a second no yes okay for board President we have a nomination of Juan bondias or any other nominations I'm gonna make is there a second to Sylvie Hendricks motion Miss Stevens all those in favor of the motion Juan gwendia Anne-Marie Stevens Sylvia Hendricks LMA Greasewood Kathleen Vance motion carries congratulations the motion and information any other nominations for board Clerk here [Music] okay thank you silly Hendricks num motion to approve the nomination Miss Advanced to Second denomination all those in favor Juan bundier Anne-Marie Stevens Sylvie Hendricks Ella Mae grieswood aye Kathleen Vance motion carries congratulations Miss Vance oh miss Stevens you're confident and I know it's been a lot of long educational role for myself as well and All of Us open at this point we'll move on to the older office and myself from Sylvia Hendricks and Catherine bass Stan right here um Miss Hendricks Mr bordena Miss Vance for a place no other no one else ran for the elections um so this is the what term is this for you two and two Andrews I have no idea um I don't know and I wanted you um do silence where or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and defend them against all enemies foreign and domestic and that I will faithfully and partially discharge the duties of the office of the governing board for the Bobby Keever Unified School District number 40 according to the best of my abilities so help me God or so do I affirm good luck on your next term I hope I'm here for the whole thing thank you okay um which back the last thing here is our board member [Applause] because um every year required by Arizona statute governing board members in the state of Arizona are required to fill out a conflict of interest interest form that um anything that can occur illegally that they are away from them like if um hypothetically if Miss greasewood's daughter was doing business with the district she would have to step away with that because she has personally related to that person doing business with the district so at any point what they're going to do now is fill out these conflict of interest forms stating that they may have somebody here doing business with the districts and they will write that annotate that on the document if not they will just State no and sign it and then they'll be good for the next year and signing up the once those are completed I can get them after the meeting and if you're ready to go yes if you have no conflict thank you [Music] and this is um who made the motion all those in favor of the motion Anna Marie Stevens Sylvie Hendricks LMA Greasewood um Kathleen Vance motion carry order yes all those present in here say aye Juan buendia Amber Stevens Sylvia Hendricks Ella Mae grieswood um Kathleen Vance [Music] please stand and join us foreign [Music] to letter b a routine business number one is cruel of the general chemical board meeting agenda do I hear motion if not um move to approve tonight's agenda preparing a chance [Music] all those in favor of the motion one point here Anna Marie Stevens aye Sylvia Hendricks Ella Mae grieswood aye Kathleen Vance motion carries December 15 2022 regular board meeting minutes foreign [Music] Anna Marie Stevens all those in favor of the motion Juan budier and Marie Stevens Sylvia Hendricks Ella Mae Greasewood um Kathleen Vance motion carries number three is our part of the audience no part of the audience our information [Music] um thank you for being here today it's a special day to celebrate All of You efforts all of your work right here is because of you and at this moment I want to have amazed at Jennifer's principle to be a little present opportunity foreign I'm going to start with our kindergarten student McKenna Jose if you could please come up with your family foreign [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] what would you like what you wanted to do the heart all right we love you more so we're going to show you the work ready look at the camera and show our heart s um our first grade student was nominated by Mrs Hernandez Braden Lopez [Applause] [Music] Raven was nominating a student of the month because he comes in ready to learn every single day many times we have mentioned how much he loves School enjoys learning Brayden has been an amazing academic definition [Music] you know what the class expectations are has turned out as a very proud of Brayden and all of his hard work when he broke up he would like to be a police officer [Applause] okay thumbs up all right we're proud of them thank you [Applause] [Music] for second grade Miss Nelson nominated Talia [Applause] her classwork and participation of expectations I think he's not so happy as a teacher to see how students Master a particular feel of her content she has grown so much academically proud to recognize Talia Ochoa of the December state of the month congratulations on all your hard work all right [Applause] for third grade mental home has nominated Crystal Lopez foreign [Applause] ER [Music] there's there's some chairs open up here if you guys want to squeeze in Raven thinks like the finances you're very creative and really gets into her projects especially those that involve construction and abilities Raven is a problem solver for example like she was in the classroom one day they were celebrating one of the treats was an ice cream cup but there was no Raven constructed spoon out of the lid of the cup about that was so resourceful for her to do way to go read it to help people feel better when they are sick Raven would like to give our support to the children thank you student I'm not sure she's here Briella Thomas students of the month for primary I will turn it over to the beginning [Applause] so I have my teachers here who are presenting their Awards to our student of the month thank you for fourth grade [Laughter] um to present to a student of the month for fourth grade uh we have Melanie Chico [Applause] 's classmates or safety she's very helpful in class without being told she follows and rules and demonstrates kindness and consideration for others to college congratulations Change the World by setting a good example to her classmates and peers and showing kindness and want to study hard so she can help her family in the future [Applause] thank you [Applause] congratulations so now Big Break thank you let's go crash greetings are very chilled on this opportunity to our still governing board ing Avenue in terms of redundant reserving ideas forever have working principles into our proud parents our fifth grade students is about me about this product what could I say just do things for this girl as I am age she already certified her various entrance she totally makes friends easily gets along with almost everyone else in the class and she's considering she listened as much as she can and talk as last our students She Knows No Boundaries in her small ways the face of space of the PBIS characteristics which I mean with which she can choosing from kindness I am proud to present the December student of the month for February [Applause] foreign [Applause] board of the map giving face or the streets of the principles and to our great working principles from the galleries I am probably to present the student of the month for the month of December our student of the month of December is a passionate student she has a good heart because our goal Sportsman is respect and she is solving your staff not only for the students for purpose but also for teachers and for all the students for the whole campus we require a little congratulations this is for showing respect without according to without imported out congratulations foreign okay all right thank you congratulations for our next award is for our specialist class in PE and Miss Murray uh nominated Elin Thomas is he here human comments too so Elon Thomas he is always helping out his classmates and helps them open doors and get throughout the camp Oh again throughout the campus he is always kind to others and makes sure they are respected and he would like to make the world a better place by being happy [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] with his home the village is Cuba and his favorite classes this year are social studies and Abby with Miss Dalton Joshua likes drawing plays video games and writing and Spike with friends after graduation he plans on going to college but is keeping an open mind about which college she wants to attack one person that Joshua advice greatly is his mom he advised her because she loves him takes care of him and supports him congratulations Joshua [Applause] what do you want thumbs up all right [Applause] all right our increasing of the month is Sean Mendoza foreign [Applause] she is a strong student and athlete she ran cross country and will be going out for softball this spring Jessica is involved in student council serving as the secretary of the ninth grade class her favorite class this year is all of the mark with Mr Venus when she is at home her office her Hobbies including being outdoors and spending time with family after graduating she plans for the University of Arizona or New York University and her current career goal is to either become a real estate agent or a flight attendant buyers who the most are her mom her grandma and her Dad she admires them because they always Inspire her and help her to keep going when times are tough congratulations [Applause] thank you all right about that all right our 10th grade student of the month is Selena he knows [Applause] the daughter of Marlo and Kenny you know she lives in cells in her home district is South District Samina is a strong suit with excellent attendance her two favorite classes this year are white out with Mr Rodriguez an audio visual with his Lopez Selena is multicounded and enjoys making music with different instruments like drugs accordion and the guitar she also likes to create visual stories using stop motion animation after graduating she plans on going to college with her with the goal of becoming a filmmaker if she could she would make the world a better place through her animation and art you're doing a wonderful job congratulations [Applause] thank you some of them [Music] this was famous [Applause] thank you this whole village itself District even is a strong student with good attendance he is an athlete running cross-country and playing basketball with a volunteer Warriors his favorite class this year is U.S history decided about college at the moment career goal is to become a Camp one person he admires greatly is his dad he looks up to his dad for the amount of hard work that his dad puts and support him in his Sports and school congratulations [Applause] thank you [Applause] one more time [Applause] [Music] [Applause] kind of quickly impact his whole village is alcoholic if your home District as well if you would chip shop basketball is a dedicated student and an athlete and play football and then spring he'll be going out his favorite class has gone off from history with Mr Edina new things about the villages and constricts that he never has graduation approaches he's decided to a team NAU or U of A real goal is to become a welfare one person that Patrick greatly admires is his mom he honors her because she works hard every day to give him and she pushes him to be his congratulations Frederick [Applause] yeah to the family in the back they would like you okay [Music] all right one more two more um [Applause] Fox front ier [Applause] [Music] do I have any videos our sisters we have an eighth grader by the name of Abriana Leon Mr Leon came to us just this year she's proven to be a very conscientious kind and just a wonderful wonderful young lady her character exceeds even what she's doing in the classroom so Adriana I certainly hope you're listening I'll repeat it again with you tomorrow but congratulations today if you probably own 8th grade students [Applause] and happens to be her older sister I've been in education for roughly 25 years I've worked with all sorts of populations from what people want to label at risk uh want to label potential dropouts and I've also worked with the kids in the AP courses this young lady Kiana I hope your list is by far the smartest most intelligent learner human being that I've met in 25 years not even throw my own kids in there so that says a lot she um has obstacles that I can't even explain to you guys and she smashes them she completed Algebra 2 first semester in a month and a half and that's what Miss Garcia you guys know Miss Garcia there are no shortcuts and then she got an A in that um she doesn't know it yet but she will be going to the U of A and she will be aeronautical engineer I'm quite sure or a doctor of some sort because Garcia and he say that she's going to be an engineer so Kiana I hope you're listening they're so so proud of you keep up the good work he said that example for your peers and your own family and all of us so thank you all very much foreign [Music] thank you so much [Applause] [Music] thank you yes okay okay I know it's beautiful I'm honest happy New Year how was your trip sure unless you're on full blasted foreign [Music] this turned out really nice foreign [Music] he's doing a pizza event with students and I had to order 30 pizzas for Friday to pick up all right you're good to go okay okay thank you so much for that little break we'll move on to number two which is is all the board members of the community we are very proud that there were four nomination of this month for getting out of the war everything every single one um Earth and and I think those are motivating in our knowledge enough staff and our members on that community at this point I would ask um the director uh Martinez Pursuit good afternoon [Music] yes uh the two uh hit the award nomination circus Senator the first one is foreign um with those points it relates to monitoring our systems making sure that we can talk especially compliances so um the congratulations to our School principles principal Louisiana [Applause] and the second nomination for him to award and goes out to Dr Petra [Applause] more flexibility and the commitment towards our ESS program here at the USD CSM Street a passion to education leadership wanting practices of evaluations and re-evaluations for the assess Campus of congratulations [Applause] foreign the difference not only to PhD but every single person in English school board members and a board president and Mr Diaz and everyone here I I am so thankful and happy that we were able to nominate Dr Rodrigo VR for nearly two years he and his team battled covid-19 and Bobby Cooper Unified School District is grateful for his leadership and his guidance in advising our team on how to create safety protocols that busd implemented implemented to safely reopen our schools during the pandemic with his team's assistance several hundred covid-19 vaccines were administered to families on the ton of the nation at our busd sponsored vaccine events that were held at our schools um we want to thank him for advocating for children's health and increasing Access to Health Care we will miss him and his friends smile His Kind Spirit we wish him continued luck in his future endeavors um treating patients with compassion is more effective than any type of medicine we are going to miss him and it is it was brought to our attention that it was Dr VR is going to be moving and numbers will be at teal and Healthcare I don't know the effective date but we wanted to make sure that we did honor him because he has helped us tremendously during this whole pandemic and even before them with helping us with childhood immunizations and just always being there first so we want to thank you yeah we will have a vacuum certificate for Dr since he wasn't able to join us tonight and we'll be hand delivering that to him okay um thank you Mr and the third nomination it is the third domination is for this retirement Enterprises okay you as the government board organization respond to present a kind of the war to the midst of a casino Enterprise for the exemplary commitment in supporting students teachers enter the owner of the community each month um [Music] organization that has gone above and beyond to ensure our Future Leaders having successful and memorable in the experience for the month of January BBC has been to like the BBC has demonstrated their support by opening their facilities facility during a USA staff back to school event we use the board Retreats and mini Brands to roll out the RCA initiatives and funds which in the RCA shirts for our students we usually appreciate their support and commitment to our common on the community and um well we have in communication with BBC Enterprises um and they were unable to join us tonight but while we'll be asking for eight of the four members who are willingness we can deliver them and I've noticed them in person they were not many teachers willing to fire from now and somebody back into sleep but with Bautista as a state for the organization and appreciates the acknowledgment and we'll make sure we deliver could also be aware [Music] definitely as honored and just as important especially mentioned but I know overall as much as we have done for all of us since you're there let's get basically it's better to do as principles I appreciate you all so much I know it's definitely an intricate part of emotional part of the opportunity that we have to foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] number three is barbecue in high school district opening more financially [Music] um [Music] board members um tonight we have our financial numbers for December 2014 we're gonna go over the um student Club balances that's very tiny but this is the sum of it all in Student Activities they had deposits totaling 12 585.95 the primary student council had deposits totally three thousand two thousand two three thousand two hundred ninety four dollars for food sales and penguin patch holiday shopping sales to be intermediate stupid had a deposit of 128.50 for snack sales the middle school student council had a deposit of 250 or sorry 2.50 and that was um to cover a shortage from the November deposit that was found the eighth grade promotion account had a deposit of 931 dollars for food sales and Christmas grams and also a donation of 4 [Music] 378.98 from Freeport public Incorporated the class of 2023 had a deposit of 313 classes 24 added to positive 1 000 36.50 class of 25 had a deposit of 650 and the class of 2600 deposited 487.50 from the miracle and Miracle Army sales the high school girls and boys basketball teams each had a deposit of 682 for concession sales at the December 3rd basketball game the ending balance on 12 31 22 was 77 691 and 56 cents for the Student Activities are refund had deposits Towing 907 dollars sorry that should say in December for the high school basketball score entry and disbursement wow was 647.66 that was for cross-country um the ending balance for auxiliary at the end of December was 9 304.38 are there any questions on Student Activity or auxiliary questions [Music] um just from what you said the donation from the foundation for 783 Bakery promotion no also donation from Freeport yes where is that of course people that's the mindset yeah it's part of the 5 309.98 so that 4 378 and 98 cents donation is added on here with the deposits of 931.

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 I'd like to thank everybody for being here today we have a full group representing the school board here today I appreciate everybody coming out to support us Dr Wright we're going to turn the time these first three items on the agenda over to you for these recognitions thank you sir we'll start with a recognition of the BR student of the month and we'll do an order from the Elementary School Mr Grace if you'd like to introduce your student of the month good evening so our student of the month I have our two teachers if y'all want to come up here to introduce your student of the month our student of the month for the elementary school is David horn come on in baby [Applause] is a really hard-working kid and he's very kind and sweet and he's one that every teacher wants to have in his class in their class and I have them for Math and he's always positive and happy and I kind of almost told him that he was gonna we're gonna see him later and he said oh not yet he's okay and always helpful with everybody Mr Webb I failed to mention that our plaques were supposed to be done yesterday and then the machine broke so we'll get that black to the young man and the rest of the recipients of all the awards later this week absolutely so David David is very deserving of this award he's probably one of the most polite kids in the building he's always happy he's always smiling he's always willing to help with whatever you need and he never talks it's amazing he'll sit there and he'll he won't talk and as soon as you start talking to him it's a full-on conversation which is which is great so very deserving congratulations Dave [Music] [Applause] we call him chip I'm so excited thank you for the Junior High Mr hubmeyer Evelyn Cortez is our student of the month of the junior high this month and she is uh she's part of the student council uh but she is she also is very quiet and she um in fact one of her teachers says she is the sweetest and most unassuming young lady she keeps her head down and works hard she's kind to others she shows great attention to detailing her assignments and another teacher said she is so kind thoughtful and respectful she works hard seeks to help wherever she can she is a great example to every Blue Ridge Junior High student just a super young lady so another very deserving student this month I wish she was here to hear all the great praise about her because she's she's just an incredible kid thank you thank you foreign High School you are our student of the month is also not here he's actually in homework with the varsity basketball team so Napa Diaz the high school student of the month and he was recognized nominated by his teachers he was recognized to have somebody who is always kind and has a heart cares for all kids all students and he's wherever he is he's he's going to be helping somebody and he was also nominated recently as the rotary student of the month as well so napadi is a great great student to have on campus and he's a great basketball player too so if you want to see some good basketball come out and watch the games he's had several times so far so one of our one of our better players out there so nepadilla thank you Mr Webb [Applause] I watched the ball game and he dunked the ball twice in one game this is exciting to have somebody that can just one step dunk I loved it we have we have two BR star recipients uh this month the first one is Justin Bernardino and we'll have his supervisor come up and talk a little bit about Justin before she does that I just want to say that Justin does an outstanding job of keeping all these vehicles running he's the first one to pitch in and help and I appreciate your help Justin foreign he comes in the morning and gets everything turns on for us he watches after our drivers and their needs he makes sure that everyone is there for me so I don't have to get up way early when it snows he comes in starts all the buses to ensure that they all start he volunteers to help anyone he drive when he drives when I need him he is always there he makes sure that all the trip buses are looked over and safe for our drivers he brings fun and laughter when he when we needed the most he always is that he is he always is available to take a call and answer all our questions most of all he loves his family and he talks about them often Justin is truly the best mechanic that Blue Ridge has ever had well in the 19 years I've been here he also loves serving others to those who are in need and he's just a fantastic employee thank you [Applause] [Music] I bet it's a challenge to keep those buses running when it's zero or started I should say yeah congratulations that's awesome our next BR star recipient for the month of January is Mr Mark vest [Applause] ions so Mr bastis he's within our social studies department at the high school he teaches AP Gov or AP History and he does governing economics and he does dual enrollment with that as well as AP with the government and so our kids are getting a great experience by taking his classes and also coming away with college credits too so we're super grateful having mark on staff and in addition to what he does in the classroom he's also the sponsor for National Honor Society and he helps the kids with their it it really is a kid Mad program but they do depend on Mr best and what he does to help guide them but it's it's great having somebody who's willing to help out volunteer he's also at all of the dances extracurricular activities anytime there's a need for a chaperone Mr vest is there and that's true dedicated Asian when you're there all day with kids at the high school and then you come to the events and you don't leave until midnight so it's it's like an on time with Mark so we're truly he really is a be our star and we're grateful for what he does too for Blue Ridge [Applause] thank you Mark appreciate everything you do we should also add that Mr and Mrs vest have a high school student that is a semi-finalist for the road the Merit scholar so exceptional parenting is what we think he'll come on now teachers of the month that's right thank you Dave for the elementary school Mamie Jackson teacher of the month [Applause] so it's hard to find a few just a few things to say about Miami she is one of the uh our third grade teachers which as most of you know is one of the hardest jobs in elementary school is to teach third grade she's our third grade team lead she she does a phenomenal job keeping her team on track her classroom kids are up and learning and moving around it's full of Engagement she's everywhere she needs to be she's always helpful and she's a massive asset to our campus we wouldn't be where we're at in third grade without Mimi being there for our kids so uh congratulations [Applause] I think Miss Hoffmeyer did Miss Cortez is she now here okay let's recognize Miss Cortez come on up honey let's let's talk about all that good things now that you're here absolutely so I would love to introduce everybody to Evelyn Cortez she is our Junior High student of the month and so while you're here I just want to tell I'm going to we I'm going to tell everybody one more time all the great things about you okay so Evelyn is the sweetest and most unassuming young lady she keeps her head down and works hard she's kind to others she shows great attention to detail in her assignments she is so kind thoughtful and respectful she works hard and seeks to help wherever she can she is just a great example to every Junior High student and a super young lady so she was nominated by a couple different teachers so again congratulations to Evelyn [Applause] thank you our other teacher of the month is Dr Teresa dick I didn't see Teresa here so they're they're actually working on their next project is the footless production so the drama's already in the next phase of what we're doing here at the school and it's one of the reasons that we're recognizing Dr D is because she's so involved with in so many different aspects at the school so we're grateful for what she does with the orchestra class the choir classes the different groups that she works with there and then also our drama production those of you that were able to come and see chip and and Bell and the last production that they did was amazing and we were waiting for great things with this next production so we're super grateful for Dr D and all the talent that she brings the patience and the long long hours that she dedicates to Blue Ridge so she's well deserving as staff of the month foreign think she's special because she's a Buffalo Bills fan of avid Buffalo Bills fan you don't want to cross her on that okay the next item on the agenda is item 1.1 and this is to organize the board with the president vice president and a secretary um this is open for discussion open for a nomination or whatever you know I been doing this for the last couple years you nominate Dave is there not going to be any discussion is there no other nominations no that's okay we can get over tonight so we have a nomination by Diana and as second by Chuck all in favor looks like we're here yeah I think that's it they don't want me they just don't want to do it themselves okay I I am I'm I'm going to nominate Chuck walaldo for vice president any discussion on that he said don't leave it though I have a second from Jennifer all in favor all right then we have a secretary we need to uh nominate a secretary who would well we've we've always acted as Mary never mind she's she's a paid employee she's going to stay when we're gone so yeah we appreciate Mary Mary keeps things running and uh keeps me online and going in the right direction I appreciate her and everything she does and in her willingness you know I drive by here eight o'clock nine o'clock at night and her car is still here or I'll come in on set I'll drive by on Saturday or Sunday evening and her car is here and I'm thinking Mary you gotta get a life you can't work here all the time or you look at the time of Texas and you know yeah right and she yeah that's right 5 30 in the morning thanks all right next item on the agenda then would be um item 1.2 resolution authorizing the approval and execution of funding proposals grants special projects vouchers warrant salaries and other expenses be signed between board members Dr Wright or yes sir Kimberly would you like to this is a an annual request that the administration makes the timing of the business doesn't flow in in alignment with the calendar and there are times where we have to approve business then go back and have the board approve it and so this is the same thing we've been doing for years it's an annual requirement so we'd ask that you would enable us to continue to conduct business between board meetings essentially are there any questions or comments on that I move we accept item with 1.1 as presented a second 1.2 I'm sorry item 1.2 I have a second from Margaret all in favor that would be unanimous okay item 1.3 yes this is uh conflicts of interest Dr Wright yes if anyone that has a potential conflict of interest can just submit it in writing to Mary that's all that's required if you're not sure go ahead and note it and send it to Mary so that's that's all that's needed a paper inside yep Mary will send you a form complete the form just list any and all and any potential conflicts and then as you know and have done in the past if an issue arises in any of those areas you don't participate you recuse yourself and we're good so Mary we'll get those to you before the next board meeting right we'll say this week thank you Mary okay there's nothing to vote on that we just need to make sure we take care of that I had one point for you a directive to of annual investment reinvestment in all monies within the school district service funds uh who would like to explain that for everyone why don't you handle that there you go for his office they're essentially our bank and then the treasurer's office invests their money um as they invest all the county money and this is just a redo that it's an annual thing just say that they're that they're gonna um have our money yes and without that authorization we can't invest it so we need the authorization for Kimberly and I to be able to invest money that so can accrue interest so it's just a authorization for you specifically in Kimberly specifically yes sir okay okay we have a second Move Motion by Diana second by Margaret all in favor also unanimous okay 1.5 governing board delegation of purchasing Authority this would be an IGA this is a another annual requirement in order for us to move and do business according to board policy we're able to a certain limit purchase items for school use and so as required is by this code the board has to prove that every year and designate specifically for this purpose only Kimberly and myself uh would be able to to make those purchases what we seek annual board authorization do you have anything to add Kimberly to that no it's just an annual requirement January business so any questions or comments about that not can we have a motion for item 1.5 as as indicated in the agenda have a motion from Chuck I'll second that all in favor that also is unanimous okay item 1.6 establishing meeting dates for the next uh 12 months after looking these dates over are there any conflicts that we might need to move just the only one I had Mr President is uh October 10th the last last day of the fall break and so we would respectfully request the meeting be moved to October 17th what's up we need to do it before we're having some conversation from the junior senator from Wyoming she reminded me the AFR has to be done by the 15th by the 15th of October this would um we didn't move this up a week or we could do it even like the 11th 12th um Wednesday or Thursday of that week when we return okay we could do the administration do that if it's acceptable to the board October 12th thank you Kimberly good catch and that way we don't have to change it in September because I think we had to move it three times last year because of me [Music] the regular basis no ma'am we could do the management were open during the first week of October if it works for the board in this month we could do that if it helps you Margaret the closest to the 15th the better it doesn't work for Kimberly that's a nice way of saying it thank you okay do you want us to have the media on the paper no we can um we will keep that on the 12th I just noticed that the February meeting is scheduled on Valentine's Day I don't know if that's I was doing that to save me from having to take them away from dinner chick now our cat's out of the bag so February we need to move that what date should we move that too we could do it the Thursday if you'd like the 16th I mean look at that is that the same day no the town meetings are the first and the third right or they're the second floor anyone else have a conflict so what what day should we move February meeting to the 16th got a Thursday the 16th pull your mind down I can I can't even hear and I'm 16th 16th because we care about Dr Wright taking his wife out to dinner for the Valentine's Day just wait she'll have a concert or something you'll have to go too I'm okay I'm okay with that February 16th 15th 16.

Dr Wright do you want to explain that yes sir after listening to the public feedback and taking into account the administration's perspective the choosing the best way is the abstinence approach and we felt this better fit perhaps for our community and again this is an opt-in if parents don't want their children taking any of it they don't have to they have to opt in meaning they must have permission prior and those that do not want to opt in will have next fall when this is initiated they'll have an alternative activity so that's the uh that's the request of the of the administration is to choose that program and will you seek board approval just my own question for information this was a program supported by Navajo County no sir that was a comprehensive one that's one comprehensive and we did not want a comprehensive program the administration felt that the the choosing the best way was sort of a middle ground and it was based more in abstinence and a slight I guess that was slightly favorable in the eyes of the public and all things considered that's our recommendation any questions or comments board all right so we have a motion to accept item 3.1 a motion from Chuck second from Diana all in favor at B unanimous okay item 3.2 recommendation to approve the IGA intergovernmental agreement [Music] from transit for transition from school to work this is with the the Department of Economic Security yes sir this is led by Mr Schimmel we've had this in place for several years and we're finding very good we have good results with it um this is Greg chimore this is Greg schimel yep he runs a program help getting kids transfer our transition from high school to work it's within our exceptional needs student population and we've had pretty good success with it and so it's our hope that we can continue on with board approval for this program can you go over the funding for this oops sorry can you review the funding yes um there's a um Grant through transition to work from Department of Economic Security that's part of what this agreement is about um and they fund that program does this part of Mr schimmel's salary come from that yes okay any other questions we have a motion then to accept item 3.2 a motion from Diana second for Margaret all in favor that against unanimous okay item 3.3 we have a superintendent's report Dr righty yes sir ready to talk to us for the next two hours yes sir there are good things that are happening a couple of cod Hot Topics or all the water breaks that you have water breaks so a couple of as a matter of announcement and just just to remind the community we have had a lot a significant number of trees taken out throughout the property at the as part of the forests the fire department's attempt to reduce forest fires and so part of that program is a fire chief will come in with their crew and these are the folks that are expert in how to reduce the spread of fire in the in the event that they it occurs they also will remove trees that have Beetle bark beetles and so all of that has been done it wasn't just something we decided to do for Aesthetics it was to preserve the forest and to keep it healthy and to follow the fire department's Direction on how to how to keep us safe so that that's one the next is we had a main water line we've had two leaks in 30 days the second one was most recently at the high school here and that was repaired and restored fairly quickly we had a sprinkler on a riser that is part of the fire suppression system at the elementary school that had a significant leak so we had to send our elementary kids home early today thankful with the help of thankfully the help of Transportation Administration we got the word out we got the kids home safely we're working on getting that fixer has it been repaired already Roger it's done and ready to go okay you have this very quick and so the we're working to get both of those items well both of those have been fixed I will say the focus here at the high school we can anticipate because of the infrastructure is 55 60 years old brez was more of a surprise because that's only a 15 year old facility we don't anticipate any more of those but when they come our rationale as this is we we must do what the fire department asks us to do in terms of safety and we always try to give parents as much lead time as is possible and so we understand the need to have those youngsters supervised and I come in the administration and also Roger and his team and working so fast and to get that corrected are there any questions on the two leaks especially that we had or any concern to that it was that it was in the it manifests itself I think in the playground area but Mr Grace has the location of the Riser and can talk about that it was a subsurface leak it started leaking underneath the ground and started pushing water out into the playground and what it was it was the line that runs into the Riser room that feeds our fire suppression system and so we had to cut the water to the fire suppression system in order to dig it up and find the leak so as soon as we got everybody off campus we were able to cut a water to it they dug it up found the leak and were able to start the repair on it and it turned out to be corroded bolts that were holding down uh a flange so those have been replaced and we're good to go I have a question about uh funding for take care of the repairs can we ask the state for reimbursements in this in that regard and for the regard of the the uh well our our infrastructure for plumbing is probably the old galvanized pipe that's going to be splitting for the next until it's all replaced is there any way we can Lobby them to get Monies to do that we have part we have a large project the last time we had it bid was is a dated bit of probably four years was 2.3 so we probably have an excess of four or five million dollars of problems that we have with the river that comes in front of the high school when it floods during the monsoon there's a lot Mr Walters informed me of all the wiring and the hodgepodge of stuff that is underneath that parking lot in this case is there for the fire Riser is there a building emergency Grant basis do we get any support with that or is that just a straight m o repair Roger okay and if we had damage we do have insurance as far as an infrastructure thing we'd have to have a bond or some other funds in order to redo that type of instructure I don't I don't think the state would do that however I will say this I will add this caveat with the new governor governor Hobbs there has been talk of significantly increasing the grants received to maintain our facilities recognizing we're receiving a fraction of what's needed we have approximately 000 square feet and we have about eight hundred thousand dollars to do that to maintain all of that plus by buses books computers all of those things it's it's a it's about a tenth of what we need but hopefully we're going to see some of that restored back the capital renewal the capital lawsuit that was initiated by Glendale which Blue Ridge was a part of in terms of witnessing on behalf of the percentage is that the one you have to testify if it goes to court that was when I scheduled testify was canceled and so the governor stepped in and said we have a new attorney general a new governor because of new Administration the court agreed to cancel that trial and so now the the state's back with uh is going to negotiate with the plaintiffs essentially all of the districts are going to be will benefit from that Glendale led the charge on that so A Long Way of explaining I think we're going to see some of that Capital funding come back and I do believe the new governor will keep the uh State Facility boards feed on the fire to get things to get things done and also the legislature to fund it because it doesn't matter how hard you push the sfb if the funds are inadequate to make the changes you know it's meaningless so I think a combination of those two over the next year and a half I think we'll see some relief generally we were fortunate to have had our school buses purchased in 2017 and the downside was the 17 that we purchased are all in the same year we will need some new buses and frankly we'll have to look at is 2023 at some time something that the board would be wanting to and open to looking at and override and 23 of some amount and some percentage we'll need to look at it I guess my early advice would be let's see what the new Administration does try to understand our resources first and then take it from there the uh along any other questions on facilities before I move on to another topic the discipline and we've had some issues at the high school the last 60 days we've been working on and they'll be assembly this Friday addressing bullying and attention when there are fights that breaking out kids are videoing it and the students need to understand everybody around that fight contributing to it will be held accountable and we're working hard to also Implement those programs that are already in place to enforce what's in place to make sure that we have a safe environment for all students we continue to crack down on vaping and marijuana we've had three expulsions this month because of it and we'll continue to Monitor and manage that closely and we we don't have a tolerance for that and we'll continue to take the appropriate action when encountered when students are just using the vaping that's an ongoing issue with every school our Administration is working hard to try to manage that and we're certainly not looking the other way any questions on those issues the VR Hall of achievement and we're going to launch very shortly it may have already launched in social media I haven't looked at I need to talk to Paul I'll get him on the counter this week but Our intention is to look back until 1963 forward and start recognizing be our graduates that have made exceptional contributions to their Community the state and the country we have a lot of them to be our family his wide and Broad I went to Switzerland around somebody that's a blue Hertz graduate so it's kind of cool I've got went to Hawaii and ran into the guy eggy was the kid's name and kid to me he's probably 35 running the boat he graduated from here so our our reach is is wide and we have a lot of incredible stories to tell we're going to try to do a better job at doing that in the upcoming year we'll start with a certain number and we'll continue on every year we also are going to have a recognition for the substitutes and volunteers we're going to have a lunch in the spring to recognize them and bring him in and thank them for the hard work that they're doing volunteers and substitute keep us keep everything rolling and we want to make sure that they feel valued and that we understand their contributions are important I don't have any anything else to share with the board unless there are any questions I can answer in these areas okay just just to thank you I know you're running 28 000 miles an hour some days and appreciate that and I'll let you do appreciate everybody in what you do the entire staff here and administration it's uh we wouldn't function without you and you're the top of the line appreciate everything that you do it's great okay next thing is item 3.4 a call to the public we'd invite individuals that would like to address the board to do that right now we'd ask you to limit your comments to about three minutes we'd like you to come to the pulpit state your name and given your address to Mrs Ford and uh just note that you can't see see that to anybody else but I appreciate hearing from you let you just adopted one thing it can I get an idea of how many kids are in your District how many students are in the district about 1750.

foreign [Music] call please Mrs amarillas here Mrs Ellen here Mr mcgibbon Mr Osterville yeah okay with that we need to elect um we're governing Court officers [Music] we'll start with the president we nominate Steve osterley Mr President um okay real cool this is Mrs Ellen yes Mr mcgibbon yes and next week Andy clerk um is next my mom my name is it's okay people this is do you expect yes Mrs amarillas yes Mrs Allen yes Mr mcgiven yes Mr yes thank you Miss Ellen congratulations yes yeah right between us two hands and bells don't be playing with my Gap perfect so with that we're going to break into a study session just to give you guys a little background as to really why um Roxanna and I were at the asba conference back in December and we went to a couple really good session breakout sessions and it was really is well this book kind of sums it up this is one of the ones they recommended wasn't it um building great school board and superintendent teams so a lot of it is we're going to do start more lack of a better word leadership training but that's really isn't how to lead it's really is okay what is the school board really about right what is our function because I know when I came in I didn't have a clue you know and it's still you know people think we have different roles that well you know I'll just take care of that I'm a board member or I'm you know that's not really how it works um but I think some people will do that and a lot of it will talk also we'll talk Maybe not today but you know how to be a cohesive team and have you know a cohesive vote a message from the quote board instead of me or you know I'll pick on myself so um that's kind of the reason of it we got really psyched up it was really it was actually pretty cool oh it's one of those moments where we're thinking why don't we think of that because we had been talking all year in terms of wanting to have individual board meetings with individual board members um as the president's superintended just to say what you know what what's going well what would you like to see more of or less of or how are you feeling what are your big rocks and we just never were able to schedule those so I think this is a good way for us to start um we did order the books and of course they were supposed to be in before Christmas break and they didn't all come in they came in in separate orders so we received two and we're waiting for the others to come in um they're supposed to be in by the end of next week but nayani did send you an email that has the introduction in the first chapter um for you to kind of read and look at uh and and I like this because it was talking about a systemic approach to balancing roles abilities because a lot of times as board members you know what is our role what do we do with situations come up um in terms of what superintendents and and what boards can actually do so I'm excited about this and what we'll do is we'll do a little book study so for our study session in February so what we need to do today is kind of look at I wanted for Miss amarillas for her to look at the board goals that we've established they're new because we didn't establish them until the summer but to get back on track in February we're supposed to identify board goals that go to the board agenda in March and then that drives my superintendent goals so since they're fairly new I don't anticipate that they're going to change that much but with Mrs Amadeus coming on board and then with a new board member we have time to tweak our goals and have the discussions on what we want to do as a team so what I did um give and I'll give everybody a few minutes to review these are our three governing board goals that we established in the summer that our board approved you'll see on the back we have the Continental smart goals and these were the goals that were developed by the school based on governing board goals okay so I'll give you a chance to read those and then you have the Continental way roadmap to Excellence and this is the more detailed version that we shared with staff on how we meet our goals another game okay so we'll just take maybe five ten minutes for you to look at the to read the documents over and then we'll have a conversation because we do um want to hear from each of you board members as to what you see um they also talked about desired goals like what what is it that use that your what is your desire for Continental Nutri now and May at the end of the school interview that we're starting a new school year okay so we'll give you maybe um 10 minutes amazing kids but thank you and it's a copyright incredibly your job is to keep me in my decisions she needed to go back to our office and members of the audience this is a study session so you can ask questions and give input as well okay so anybody that's here can chime in this is foreign students both for instance its um system is primarily this is the staff that's the staff going to get requests so you'll see mainly like on the teaching practices on the roadmap to success on what we're expecting teachers to do in the classroom and then you get to weekly teacher expectations um four where it says have students track and reflect on their own learning growth that's where the data binders come into play that we initiated with this year did announce that since it is a study session you're welcome to give feedback or contribute or if you have any thoughts to share them as well and what you're reviewing is what's in our Google Docs that we've shared in the morning so while you're finishing how I read just something that I got from this book 10 questions every school board membership ask right and it it talks about um like in places like China Singapore it's a central government Authority that controls everything including education where in the United States it's decentralized um and it says simply stated the local locally elected School Board is a uniquely American institution whose roots are found in the early citizen sphere of powerful central control in a very real sense the local school board is an expression of the federalism concept on which this nation's government was built up to have my classes sorry the concept suggests that governing power is best leveraged in the hands of people we're a member of the community as community members they are held accountable to those they represent and you need to be positioned to understand the wants and needs of the local populace um so being elected and working for free still we have a lot of responsibility you know mainly to you know at the end of the day the kids here at the school that's when I boil it down that's pretty much sums it up you know it's you know we'll all disagree how we get to that but we can come into um you know so with that if you go to I want to start with this no no we can but you're not going to do well are we okay with you've had enough time to review the jobs okay yep so we're not going to do all 10 of these so I think we'll look at a couple and I'm able to throw them from time to time or once we dig into our assignment Mr Rico is going to get us so the purpose of a school board right we kind of talked about most countries don't govern education the way we do um so we need to understand you know why it was put there in the first place because you know like if we lived in Texas you've got to take a semester or two of Texas history and I remember that we I don't know yes okay but there are some states that don't happen yeah um so it's you know kind of I guess it's uh I didn't really realize that that it's such a unique position that we have across the country in our role um even at you know our petite school if you will so let's just start with you we'll just you got 30 seconds what's the purpose of the school board just a high level well obviously the board members are have the authority to hire a buyer the superintendent and that's primarily you know the who the boy can hire or fire is fully your superintendent I feel that it is also to ensure that we are budgeting appropriately spending money that board members are aware during board meetings we work hard to be transparent so that board members who are elected officials when you're out in the community and you hear people make a lot of assumptions that you have the knowledge and the background to say no I know for a fact that this is why we do what we do right you know we hold true to our mission and our vision statement and everything that we do um is in support of our mission statement and our vision statement and I think really just being able to listen and to bring back the feedback again referring parties to the superintendent or to the principal to to go through those channels one other thing is when I look at do you prioritize leadership development I think we're all lifelong Learners I think leadership training is critical to my role to the principal's role to the director's role even to the board role so that we can make sure that we are being true effective leaders and that we do acquire the skills the patience the knowledge to truly lead our students and our staff and our community in the right direction I think we'll just go down the line so yeah it really is is to just kind of focus on what our vision is right building for the future learning cooperating caring for all it's outside that scope then it's outside our job um you know you mentioned hiring and firing you know thank you drew for your history of doing doing that and let's hope we don't have to do that for a very long time did not have that on my resume I'd be okay with that um but as you guys know we did spend a lot of time on on well our roadmap and the our goals which then trickle down into the superintendent's roles and then it's the superintendent's job really is to do that implementation by using the dianas of the world Etc who you know like but um but you know and when we're out on the street you know you I'm just speaking from my experience you know I don't get caught on a lot saying well let's go there what education are you doing you guys aren't teaching that critical race to everything are you every once in a while the the biggest thing is just refer to Roxanna at the end of the day because you never know when they're going to call a press even here um so that's that's the last thing for one of somebody inappropriate to misinterpret what you might have said um Ruth just you know we don't have many parents that come up to us and say well you know why does Johnny have so much homework or why does this go on over there that's I guess in the past they did not anymore yeah yeah right right but um so we'll just kind of do that and then we'll walk through the continent away and are just to review our goals what is your desire for between now and me when you just think about one big rock or one desire that you have really is to keep improving in the academics and of course the character because a lot of these kids this is all they have three kids um I can go backwards a little bit um the big rock and I have it noted in here I think what just kind of can Encompass everything it was something Mr Lathan said for I heard him say several years ago that really stuck with me was we're just trying to produce good citizens and that means they know how to communicate with each other they know how to ask questions they know how to learn they know how to contribute to society um it stuck with me and it's something I've kind of Taken on as a parent I'm not raising my kids I'm raising citizens of this world they're going to have to survive out there they're going to have to contribute um so I I think that's the biggest rock that I can think of um I think good academic rigor falls under that um and just creating curious people so they do always learn for the rest of their life um fundamentally but I believe the purpose of the school board is is that to um you know the fundamentals of American government every pretty much every level of government um is built with checks and balances we're here to provide checks and balance to you um we're here to represent um people without high-level degrees in education kind of bring in a Layman's perspective at least that's what I tell myself to justify myself being here um and um a way that our our community can have some control and effect on what our kids are doing but most of their Waking Life good thank you and it's interesting and I was at a meeting this morning at the U of A and they had a gal from Virginia talking about social emotional learning and you know a whole conversation about what is social emotional learning and why do we use it form and talking about in the workforce in the real world you know what's lacking our people's ability to collaborate to cooperate to listen to each other to take somebody's idea and respect it and grow on that and that's truly um you know a lot of it talked about people who go and adopt social emotional learning curriculum well yes you can focus solely on that and that the academic piece go by the wayside but it has to be a balance and they're talking about how do you systemically keep teaching academic standards yet when you do project-based learning when you are motivating kids to work together and do Hands-On projects you are teaching all those skills cooperation listening taking turns being respectful so it's not something new you know we talked about when we did the Seven Pillars of character or building good character and there was a huge movement on character building 20 years ago and you had people saying well I don't want you to teach my kids character skills because we're going to do it at home on our own but we're building and modeling when you talk about that we're modeling professionalism we're modeling the exact skills that we want our kids to acquire we want them to be able to listen to collaborate to cooperate to respect each other's opinions to be able to respectfully agree to disagree when needed to um but to to have open minds right to be able to solve problems so I'm glad that you mentioned that piece of that academic rigor because it's all intertwined and it's something it's not something separate good thanks well I think the purpose of the school board I think logistically we talk about that was our superintendent and making sure that you're steering the ship in the correct direction that's it but I I want to focus a little bit on what you just said about the ringer because I think that's one of the reasons I wanted to be part of it is too many times in public education it seems to be in my personal opinion that there's there's not a lot of rigor and and it's extremely difficult in a public school because you've got different levels rigor for one student is completely different for you know something's tough for this student maybe a piece of cake for that one so it's incredibly difficult I get that but that's that's what make this makes this country great is that to push everybody I'd rather I'd rather push kids to to to do higher and better and have them maybe not reach that but at least they're stretching to reach that because I think in my opinion there's too much of just sort of being satisfied with them the status quo in in overall in public education um I think that's where the board can come in we can take strengths and that each one of us have from our different backgrounds whatever they may be whether whether it could be something with the grounds or the buses or the or hiring and firing or finances or whatever it may be we each kind of contribute a piece of the pie and that's what makes a board that should make us reward successful because you're each contributing something if you're all contributing the same thing then you're just going to sit there and fight all the time I mean if you all have the same strengths if we're all Financial Geniuses or whatever so I think that's what makes it more successful in my mind is that you have to you have to know what piece of that pie that you can help with and yeah and you're right it's not you don't have that's not your assignment you don't have to do just that but that kind of can be your focus and maybe that's where you can contribute the most because there's certainly things that I can't contribute in I should learn about it um but maybe these guys can you know that right where I can't they can't so that's why I think the benefit of report is and I've I've experienced education in other countries and yeah it's definitely different here um but I think we're very blessed as a society to have sort of input from a board rather than having some top-down approach where yeah it just fits for everybody and just make it work um I've been a part of that in other countries and it's it's not to me it seems completely counterproductive the media just sort of you kind of put people where you think they're going to fit and hope for the best and I think um you're right Mr attention in terms of when we talk about trusting each other I mean I'm thinking about physical when I came okay maybe we're identified as a school the school adequate progress in reading and math and the changes we had to make to get to where we are now out of school Improvement status with special education I couldn't have done it if you wouldn't have trusted me in terms of who we hired how we changed the model of how Pericles were working as students they were being pulled out they were in a classroom working at their own level and we needed to get our special ed kids integrated into the classrooms we needed to work with our teachers to give them the skills to better accommodate them and work with them and push them or we wouldn't be sitting here saying we're out of school improvement with our special needs students because they did not progress and it took time right but we have to trust the process too because we know some of these changes were painful and Mr Nathan remembers conversations that we had and with teachers and with psychologists and with Council counselors and even kids trying to build them up to say you're going to be okay in this classroom because we're going to take care of you and we're going to give you the help that you need to be able to understand content you can differentiate the way it's taught you can get the same content at a different reading level for kids to still receive the state standards that they need and as you know it was it's it's a tremendous success to achievement a rating but keeping it is even perfect so if you don't have rigor you're not going to keep it very long so you have to you have to sort of continually approve even if it's just that much you have to continually try to improve on what you've you did the day before or the semester before and that typed into again the motivation that we're talking about also and with um a lot of the kids today in my training was talking about how do we motivate kids because we do have kids but once they get to the top they kind of feel like they can slack off right and not give it their all right you don't understand what it means to do well like we're telling the kids now you have to do well on this Benchmark and show what you know because we will intervene so we don't want to intervene at the inappropriate level right if you're just um so it's pulling all that data together to say we know that either this was just a fluke in the test because we know this is your ability and this is what you need or truly let's identify what you need to give but we have to work at keeping kids motivated to want to do better so that they don't have that status quo you know I'm okay where I'm at mine is ditto to Whitney Center and you know academic rigor for me is is very important and also the um say the orderly learning environment the um I like that PBIS is being implemented here and um and I think that our purpose is to support you Roxanna and continuing um to um help our students succeed academically and that we continue with the a rating because it is harder to to maintain and um and you know and I think that our our role is also to be the voice of the students the parents teachers in the community well I think back with Andrew said too we have including Roxanna we all come from different places different backgrounds different job sets different everything which I think is really going to help us succeed and I do have to say that I like some of the stuff that Mr Layton has been doing here who maintain a safe and orderly environment yes and we're doing more than what other school districts are doing in the um in our regular board meeting we are going to be sharing a little bit more on um our climate surveys but we will do a thorough a more thorough conversation in February once we get a little bit more responses but I'll speak to that with the statement or the environment of how kids and staff are feeling it because it is definitely apparent that kids feel safe parents feel that their kids are safe and you know we take that very serious very students anything from the audience any thoughts excited with the roadmap and how things are going and the support that we've had the beliefs in it from our teachers and our staff our parents and from our students because they're slowly starting to hear all of the things that we're working towards with the goals that we're working towards we're very proud of them and you'll get a chance to see them a little bit some of the work that they're doing as well we've also talked about how covid you know really gave parents uh it was eye-opening for parents and grandparents that were having to support their children in regular coursework um because it is hard and the standards are difficult and it's you know teachers are trained for a reason to teach these typical Concepts because kid and parents you know we're we're not taught to teach our kids at that level and even teachers struggled to teach their kids I think even Mrs Cuevas that she was going through two different grade levels with her daughters and try being the principal but also being responsible for their learning online and um that gave her a good true perspective and ability to to understand our parents that had questions and were struggling and to also give teachers ideas on how to mainstream it and keep it simple right so that everybody could be successful and not be completely stressed out because we had parents who came in meltdowns and grandparents and we just reassured them it's okay you know I never came in I was too busy melting down it's not but you know you're not gonna ruin your child you know you're spending quality time understanding what they're doing and just stay the course with us and it's going to be going to be okay back to the aid rating when we were in parent advisory you were giving us the stats on what the percentage was that you had discussed with the teachers and I talked to a couple of the teachers I'm just out about the stuff they felt confident with the the goals you set for them to send for the students so I I'd like to hear that as teachers were like yeah we can do this that they had the confidence in your team that you you're going to help them make their goals so I mean that was comforting as a parent seeing what they were yeah they screenshot they could make that goal right you made it a goal that was in their mind something that they did reach right because when we State ten percent of the kids when you break it down and look at your classroom data you know two kids three kids and you know where they are academically can you help those to help those children not that you're going to ignore everybody else right these are so being very strategic and helping teachers understand their data and breaking it down and then you did a good job with that I mean from the couple that I had talked to that they I felt they felt confident that they understood what they needed to do to help get that 10 increase good yes that's good to know good to hear we like to hear the good things too yeah it's like the second bullet on goal number one right ensuring resources are available you know is to help all of everybody get those resources um you know like we don't know how to use them but we're not educated and trained to do that but um you know our you know like at my company you know we have certain people do certain things because that's what they're trained and that's what they're good at right so you know let's enable you know you to be the superintendent and help you enable the enemy the principle and then you know it rolls down from that and in terms of you know we didn't used to have a monitor you know so we had we hired Mr Curtis three years ago and um so that's another thing with the board on ensuring we have the resources they get here um it's important and it's we're grateful that when we say we need something for this reason and the rationale that you respect what we're saying and know that we do you know we are fiscally responsible and we do need this we're in a unique situation also with our playground monitors because I've never heard of a district or a school where playground monitors are willing to come in and just monitor the playground for two hours a day like we and and we have people who are willing to do that for us ourselves and teachers had to do that yeah teachers were having to do it or you had to have full-time Bearer Pros that were being pulled out and it's just I think it's it's so nice that you get fresh you know they come in they're excited they're willing to work two three hours a day um and and it's it's a nice model but it's something we have we're in a unique situation where we are still able to do things like this to meet the needs of the kids and the teachers yeah because teachers their planning time and like a lunch break yes In Peace So with this book building great School Board superintendent teams so when they come in we'll just read the first two chapters we'll have a study session in February so that we can look at our board goals and say do we want to tweak them do we want to change them um you know what do we want to do and then we can talk about the first two chapters in the book okay and it's it's a pretty easy read with bullets and so we're we're excited and I love book studies sure I'm sorry this is somebody else but you get to log into a book today [Music] yes yes we could even have book club outside off campus sometime maybe when we celebrate that we finish the book and our audience here our directors could see whether we're actually implementing what we're learning as we go along right so in a couple of minutes um some students are going to come in and show us their um so we'll take a break if you want to take a break into the restroom and our students will come in and get ready to show you their data finders and then they can start the regular meeting at so in the next couple weeks we'll get you guys to come in one by one since we don't want to have a violate the open meeting law it's just to come into the three of us for an hour or so yes are some of the students here already two two okay oh yeah that's an advantage of Atlanta right yeah probably to remember opportunity [Music] okay [Music] thank you so yeah under your skin foreign so those that are here for culture of the month please register over here at the table if you haven't already so with that we're we're in a study session so out of that we are going into agenda item number five approval of religion I'll move different the agenda's written [Music] Mrs Allen yes Mr Astrid yes and with that we'll go to six to approve the minutes from the last meeting on December 5th 2022.

so we are really encouraging everyone to please fill out your surveys we use the feedback for planning and preparation and making Necessary changes for school Improvement so we really want to hear from our parents our staff and our students so far as I'm looking at some of the highlights 39 of our students and 34 of our parents feel that they're receiving above average education here at mental 41 and 47 said average so um that's that's good when you look at above average and average but again we're going to elevate and we really want parents and kids to feel that they're receiving quality rigorous education here at our school so next month in February we'll have more specific feedback to The Climate surveys we're going to leave them open up until the end of the month okay and again it's official our Continental letter grade of an a our appeal was granted we had an amazing assembly um we had our very own little band there that was awesome our cheerleaders you see our students there that are holding um candy canes that said I'm a proud proud Cult of an a school and thank you to the Madera church for supplying us with over 700 candy canes 800 Canada Ms nayali worked hard to put the little tags on them so thank you to parents who came and students you deserve a great big round of applause for doing that hard work to get us to our aim on the show or was it the Continental Health we had this little mischievous L for hanging out around campus um before Christmas break and um of course since we are working at being respectful and responsible and duct taped to the wall in the cafeteria along with the Grinch and The Helpers that helped Mrs Rico make sure that the elf was under control and ready to come back with the good attitude for the new year projects that were completed during winter break you'll see there our Continental peace reading Garden which is funded by our Via Verde rotary we are also going to be using wet elephant grant money that we receive to get our library going of books on being a good friend friendship books being kind we also had a matching ground through rotary so they're going to be putting pots there we're getting a peace pole that will be put out there and we will be doing um a ceremony at the February I haven't set the date yet but we'll make sure to let you know when we can come celebrate our Peace Garden that's outside of Middle School okay in the area there um and speaking of that there's a lot of weeds in that area and we're trying to coordinate a clean up day to get parents and students and staff members rotary members um the Madera church members are going to come help us clean up that whole area some of you might remember a couple years ago when we worked on the rain Garden project but it's a lot of work for just one person so we're looking at January 22nd to have that cleanup day so that we can make sure that that area is nice and cleaned prior to our dedication of the Peace we also had the preschool um concrete was laid in that area so it was funded by the preschool child care student Child Care stabilization Grant so we're also going to be getting more shade in the preschool plot as well congratulations to Mr Lathan Mr Nathan was born in as an official Arizona ranger on January 3rd so it was there were some of us Cults there to support him so congratulations foreign he has notified us that he is no longer going to be um a member of our board but we'd like to thank him for his service and contribution to Continental we wish him well his resignation date was official last Friday so I did speak to Mr Dustin Williams who is the state um in the county superintendent so what they will do is they will post the board vacancy for 30 days and it will probably post Thursday or Friday and anyone that's interested May apply through Pima County Public Schools interviews will be conducted by the Pima County Superintendent and staff and the appointment will be made by our March Germany board meeting at the latest okay so thank you and have a great evening and if anybody would like specific items to go on a board agenda please let me know board members as well any specific items that you've seen on our board report that you'd like clarification with from my report can you become an agenda item so that we can elaborate and have time for questions great thank you thank you and with that we've got our introduction of the cult of the month foreign [Music] Will Smith thank you so after we read what their teachers wrote for them they're going to walk that way towards mrso and if parents if you want to join them that way so you can let them know what their shirt size is and then we're also going to be delivering the shirts to our students if you've had other children who are called to come on our shirts in so we'll be delivering it to them because they asked all right so we have Everett Smith who go ahead and say your name my name is every where so Mrs Lipson from our preschool and parents feel free to come up and take pictures when your children come up here don't be shy Miss Whitson writes Everett is always looking for ways to help his teachers and his classmates he's kind to others and lets others play with him he's responsible for his things and make sure to bring them to school each day congratulations foreign and my teacher is Miss Rodriguez because in the first grade writes Adrian is behind because he's helpful and encouraging to others and excited to learn every day he's safe with all his class supplies and school materials and Equipment Adrian is responsible because he completes all of his work on time and comes to school prepared every day it is fantastic to have such a wonderful student in our class thank you Adrian and keep up the terrific work Mrs Virginia foreign and her teacher writes Olivia has been working very hard she not only cares about her learning goals but she also cares about her classmates she helps friends to write and read and she makes a difference in her friend's life I'm very proud to have Olivia in my collection congratulations [Music] we have some really great public speakers okay Leila you are such a star student I absolutely love seeing your smile every day and you walk into class with such a positive attitude thank you for always working hard on all of your work you show your classmates how to be safe in the classroom and how to show kindness no matter what thank you so much for being you Layla Miss Jeanette is very proud of you congratulations thank you and my teacher is [Music] right Mrs Flowers right Lydia ran for class president during our voting and elections unit for third grade social studies and had a slogan Dean is the queen over the last month Lydia has been the queen I'm so proud of the motivation and drive this beautiful young lady has shown Lydia has set academic and personal goals and she's reached just about every one of them she doesn't need any reminders to stay on the task completes all in-class assignments and her work is thoughtful she's a friend to many and can have meaningful and polite conversations with anyone but what I love best about Lydia is how considerate she is of others and how she can turn a bad or tough situation into something funny or more light-hearted she has a hilarious sense of humor and her one-liners that will have you crying and laughing at the same time please give a warm and Loud Applause for this small yet strong girl because she's earned it this month but the marathon continues Mrs Flowers [Music] okay so this house right Andrea is every teacher's dream student she's always on the class she welcomes challenges that come her way and she's always ready to help Andrea's future will be brilliant congratulations [Music] all right Mrs Negron writes and this is when Voya was also in her place right now says Julia is such a sweet girl she helps her peers when she can comes to school prepared and is always ready to learn and take on the challenge you're doing great Julia keep working hard congratulations thank you congratulations class [Music] es right Jaylene could be the recipient of this award every month I admire her tenacity perseverance and calmness when something needs more explaining she's not afraid to ask for help if I need to add someone to her work group she welcomes them with open arms she lights up the classroom with her beautiful smile and we talk about how she always has the best hairstyles she leans maturity and respect is noticed by all teachers on campus and her peers view her as a role model because she's always caught doing the right thing I feel like the luckiest teacher to have Jaylene in my class and I can't wait to see and hear all about her accomplishments in life keep up the great work Jaylene I'm super proud of you congratulations good job I am Liam and I am in Miss Jones class so Miss Jones writes and he was actually nominated by Mrs Layton from the library because our specialist teachers also nominated as well Liam is also willing to help his classmate always willing to help his classmates in the library he's very kind to everyone and always shows respects to his classmates and teachers thank you so much Liam for being such a kind-hearted kiddo congratulations foreign this is Chris Wright Madeline is a great student showing her effort in all her assignments always being kind with her classmates and being safe in all of her actions congratulations so Mrs belletti who's our Music Teacher nominated him and she writes this student goes above and beyond to help his peers in band class Logan consistently follows directions and is looking for ways to excel in band congratulations hi my name is my name is Alan Adams I'm a good parent that was so cute so he the Middle School nominations are even I mean all of the nominations are so important Middle School teachers get together out of all of the students in middle school and they'll nominate a few students out of all of the sixth seventh and eighth graders so this is from our Middle School teachers Adeline is always ready and responsible she's early for class and prepared at all times she helps others and has a pleasant disposition with staff and students Adeline is a joy to have in class and is definitely worthy of this special recognition congratulations from the Middle School teachers foreign and this is from all my Middle School teachers thank you so also Sabrina was nominated by the middle school teachers Sabrina is always cheerful and greet everyone with a kind word during class be helpful to others students Sabrina is very conscientious in doing her schoolwork she's helpful in class and helps the teacher straighten up the class and materials it is a pleasure to have Sabrina in class congratulations to the middle school teacher if we're able to have our Cult of the month students come up here so we can take a quick picture from them [Music] I'm very proud of you quotes of the months students to prepare for a picture I would also like to mention that it is governing board appreciation month so if you can help me also give our governing board a great big round of applause foreign our board members on our website every week so um Mr mcgibbons it's your most seasoned board member we will feature you first okay so stay tuned so you can read about Mr maybe I've been first on our website next week keep going okay one two three minutes you take a minute break so well everybody memories um all right with that we will move on to our Student Services report brought to you by the 101 Stephen Lane thank you [Music] secretary welcome governing board uh Miss Rico asked me for to give a report over first semester and also in there to kind of cover the things that I do prepared a six hour presentation for you so I hope thank you enjoy it right okay six minutes we can do that um some of the goals that we had at the beginning of the year a lot of this presentation some of the board members have seen before Miss Rico asked me to kind of go over some of the um Ruth for you specifically since you join us halfway through the school year our goal is to have students who are ready to learn students who are respectful to adults and each other students who are happy to be at school teachers who are excited to be teaching the curriculum and teachers who spend minimal time on behavioral issues next slide what is PBIS PBIS is positive behavior interventions and support um PBIS is really designed to be proactive rather than reactive so instead of focusing on the bad behavior or the discipline issues rewarding the positive behavior which entices everyone to behave that way within our school rules PBS teaches routines and procedures to reduce the possibility of student misbehavior Continental School has three school rules that we really focus on so every single interaction that I have with students through the classroom we really focus on being kind safe and responsible as well as Mr Square boss throughout the day but also all of our teachers and all of our staff no matter what setting that you are within the school we really focus on all of the rules so if I'm in the classroom their roles are designed around being kind safe and responsible so everything in their classroom falls back to those three school rules if I'm in a school-wide assembly be kind safe and responsible falls back to those same school rules so whatever the rules are for that setting always fall back to the three game bees and so teaching expected behaviors you're okay cover that um it really goes back to I do we do you do setting that example we do that at the beginning of the school year so we actually in the first three days of school have assemblies in each one of the settings that I kind of talked about so walking on the sidewalks walking in the hallways what does that look like um what does it look like in the classroom what does it look like in a school at assembly we also go to the playgrounds in the cafeteria and we have the kids travel around and we have one of our great staff members located in each area and they cover the be kind safe and responsible for each one of those settings and so if that just helps with being consistent school-wide so that's why PBIS isn't just designed for one classroom it's a school-wide theory that works great all across the board next slide please acknowledgments all staff should demonstrate more positive interactions and negative interactions so this is you know seeing the good in people what they're doing and recognizing that the recommended ratio is a five to one in favor of positive interactions positive interactions include praise for students exhibiting um expected behaviors credits for academic success catching students doing the right thing instead of catching them doing not the right thing which sometimes is easier to do it's actually harder for most of our staff and it does take training time and practice to focus on the positive behavior and so we really focus on that in our staff trainings as well as just throughout the school year in our formal practice um and then of course we have regular school-wide celebration of positive behavior as you do you just watched this exhibit today with our quote of the month here at Continental School we have what's called coldbox it's a monetary system where if a student's caught being good any of our staff members have the ability to give them a quote book in which later on at the end of the month they have the opportunity to exchange that for a prize Paul passes from the Middle School we were having a issue about four years ago just before covid with students wanting to constantly go to the bathroom go to the bathroom and so we came up with this incentive to keep them in the classroom and so for the month each of our middle schoolers at the first of the month receives a card there's 14 little horses down there the card itself is the 15th punch and so we encourage them to use no to be out of the class no more than 15 times in a month during a class to go to the bathroom so what we were seeing is there was certain kids that would go every single period would ask the teacher to go to the bathroom because they don't know that they just went to the bathroom 10 minutes ago in the previous class and so what this did is really limited down on that and then with middle schoolers we realize that the little toys of trinkets weren't incentivizing them at all and so we've gotten gift cards to like McDonald's and we've gotten talkies and those sorts of things which have really taken off the last couple of years and I saw kiddo today when we were passing out the new cards that had like six of these cards saved up from last year and they're saving for bigger prizes because they can and they had all their punches for all of those in there which means they have missed zero time academic time going to the bathroom and they're doing it in the five minute transition that they have from class to class and that's exactly what it was designed to do so it's great to see that um talked a little bit about that because I've only been given six minutes we're gonna move on past that one okay cool Buck rewards we talked about that as well we've actually it says up there on the fourth Friday we've changed that to the fourth Wednesday because it works a little bit better for our parent volunteers that come in and that's our early release day and we find that when we give elementary kids Trinkets and toys that make noise sending them back to class for their teacher for the rest of the day a full school day doesn't load well so we send it home on early release Wednesdays through their parents okay um discipline correction system uh we will we will respond to problem behavior only in ways that maintain the safety well-being and dignity of the child a primary focus of responses for problem behavior um is the instruction of the expected Behavior so if there's something negative we teach the positive and so that's all of our staff does that um Miss paws our school counselor I'm going to talk about her a lot throughout my presentation today in Little Bits but kids that are really having a hard time and you know the repeated Behavior her and I will work together and and work with those students to teach the expected Behavior because a lot of times that's what's missing is they just don't know how to behave or they're focused more on getting the negative attention than the positive attention once you help them realize how awesome positive attention is they'll seek that more often um this is something that we hand out at the beginning of the school year um to all of our staff it's the disappointed procedural flow chart it just kind of helps our staff know what should be managed in the classroom or on the playground versus what should be sent to the office and it helps with that mandatory reporting stuff that we have to there's some things that we have to report to law enforcement there's some stuff we have to report to the Department of Education and so this procedural flow chart helps greatly with that um consequences typical consequences are a loss of part of recess for elementary students much attention for middle school students natural consequences should be used as much as possible such as cleaning up messes written apology making up this class time and reteaching expected behaviors we use what's called check-in checkout here often times when we have students that are really struggling with those repeated behaviors that I talked about earlier this is where Mrs Falls myself Mrs kravos and sometimes some of our other staff will help and will put a child where they'll have receive a piece of paper but it really depends on the kiddo because some don't want to carry a paper so because we have Chromebooks we've made an online version that they can have that and their teacher at the end of each period or the end of each subject if they're in elementary school has the ability to give them real data right there about how they did and it encourages the student reminds them um but in the beginning of the morning they'll meet with the person that's put over the checking checkout system and receive a pep talk you've got this you can do this yeah I know you can you're going to have a great day and it's all positive it's really focused on it's not you know yesterday you had x amount of marks and you can't do this because the reverse of that is you can totally do this focus on this if you get frustrated ask your teacher for a little break those types of things to encourage the child and then at the end of the day they'll meet with that same adult and they'll ask how did you do how did today go and that's intended to only usually we see it's beneficial in about six weeks is we'll see that change in that student and most times we can wean them off of that program of something new that we started a couple years ago I think now miss Rico I think about two years ago I was right in the middle of coven um where I went to a conference and learned a lot about restorative practices and we were really really interested in that because the typical was called the traditional consequences such as in-school suspension out of school suspension it's not really beneficial because a lot of kids now would rather be at home because Mom and Dad are both working and so they can be at home and play video games and watch TV and kids would ask me hey can you just suspend me um and so that's not what we want to do and so we've looked at some alternative ways to make a difference in their life of positive change so they can be contributing members of society and so the purpose of restorative practice is to help the students recognize the impact of their actions have had on others and instill the desire to change for the better restorative practices are designed to have a minimal impact on the students educational outcomes so that's really something that we really focus on a lot of those things that we have in our tool belt are restorative conferences this is where often if I have two students with conflict we'll bring them in together I'll talk to them except really find their stories and I help them find that common ground and get them to talk about it and almost almost without fail 99 of the time the students at the end recognize the other person's feelings and apologies flow freely and their shaking hands are even sometimes hugging and walking out holding hands going back to class and so that's the objective of a restorative conference restorative PowerPoints is something that we also use this works really well with our older students where let's say if I plagiarize I would do a PowerPoint presentation on the effects my actions have been and plagiarizing plagiarism and what that can do for me long term in the negative effect or positive effect however that works um whatever the assignment was or whatever the offense was off and so we do that a lot with our specifically our middle schoolers but we do have done this down to fourth grade I mean we found that that really really with some of our middle schoolers has changed their lives whether doing that research sitting down with myself Mr Curtis Mrs cuevos um and if the occasion permits uh Ryan England or SRO sometimes if it's on that boundary of the legal issues he'll sit down and help the kids look up state laws and stuff and and so they can see the long-term effects of their actions that it could have on their lives so super super beneficial altered school day we found that if you suspend a kid very rarely do they come back with their work completed we find that when you do in-school suspension their work only gets completed if one of our staff gives them full attention all day long which isn't always manageable and able to do to sit there with them obviously they're supervised so there's a difference between supervising and sitting next to them doing work all day so we've on the alternate school day works like this the student would check into the front office meet with me or Mrs Cuevas in the morning we'd have a conversation kind of have talk you can do this the teachers know that they'll be coming to the class we'll escort them to the class and then instead of transitioning with the other students they'll leave five minutes prior to the Bell they'll go to their next class so they're not transitioning with their peers and so they're not missing out on the classroom instruction at all and their work is being completed like it always would be and then during the recess time lunch time and the enrichment classes they're up here working with Deputy England Mr Curtis myself and they're doing one of the restorative PowerPoints for whatever they did for that but for those actions I mean so we've kind of combined those two and we find that that's way way better and way way more beneficial than in-school suspension or after school suspension checked and checked out I talked about already um and then Behavior contracts are all of you familiar with what a behavior contract I know we've talked about that before in the Years probably have written many in your life as well um one-on-one small group meetings with the counselor so that again this is one with Miss Paws where she will do a lot of that stuff for us so she'll meet with the students one-on-one I will also do that depending on the situation as well so I've got a group of kiddos that I'm currently working on with an anti-bullying campaign lessons and so you know those are just different things that we'll do in small groups or one-on-one you can be next slide one of the big things that I've supported that's in our reflection room we have on the wall is that ABCDs of fixing a problem a student needs to admit that they've done something wrong be sorry crack the problem and then the fourth one D don't do it again and so that's something that doesn't just work with kids but us as adults too right so it's one of those things a life lesson for them and it's super beneficial and easy for them to understand first semester disciplinary reports we're going to talk about numbers a little bit here the Continental staff is using Synergy to report in fractions that's our our database that the school uses for our grading systems for just about everything we do here is ran through Synergy our odrs is office discipline referrals um and then we have minor referrals so remember that flow chart that I talked about earlier if it was in the teacher handled column that would be in your minor and then if it comes over here to the odr that would be an office discipline referrals um so we have 71 total infractions are reported for K8 um I want to just put my little caveat here 781 seems low but remember that's incidences there could have been six kids involved in one incident right so that's just to be clear on that because I want to say total with students were up to like 168 but there's only actually 71 incidences but more than one child can be involved um 51 minors um 20 majors and then we have eight students that receive 12 days of in school suspension okay two students received five days of out of school and that's combined that's not two students receive five there's five days total issue but we leave it very big so that we can't identify who's who in the numbers um six students received 14 altered school days and you'll see this as a switch right before we did restorative practices we didn't have that option so this option right here with altered school day would have been landed up in here somewhere but because we have this ability if it's kind of in that gray area we have the ability to keep them in class and learning but still have consequences for their actions um and then 48 restorative practices presentations this is huge um and I'll be honest it's way bigger than I ever imagined and it's because we had a little bit of a computer hacking situation um happened right before um Christmas break we were able to identify the students that violated their technology use agreement and so we talked about what that looks like when you hack a firewall or anything like that to get around security systems and why they're there for their safety and so we had Mr Ferguson left the room and I want to say um 28 students did a PowerPoint presentation on that and then presented that to each other so they presented to their peers as well as staff okay so that gives an approximately 90 of our students are being kind safe and responsible so I know these numbers don't always look great but when you look at that we have 700 students um it just shy of 700 students on our campus we're doing very very well overall uh Miss Rico asked me also to talk about disciplinary repeated concerns things that we're really worried about here as Administration is its parent right because a lot of us even in the administration we have kiddos here on campus and things that are reoccurring that we're always talking to our staff and our students about um obviously if you saw from the numbers the first one would be minor classroom disruptions right they just get in the way of their learning so talking to your friend while the teacher is presenting those types of things foul language is a big thing all throughout our society today and it's a challenge constantly especially in our Middle School not as much in elementary school it exists a little bit there but it's it's a big problem in middle school and on our school buses we took action once again in first semester and we didn't like what we were seeing and hearing even on our we'd watch the video cameras and we would hear language that was not suitable to be spoken around five-year-olds that are also right in the same class and so we took our eighth graders that generally have the privilege we explained an assembly that it's a right to ride in the back of the bus and they lost that privilege for a quarter and were moved to the middle section and we're told that if their language improved they'd get a move back and they did get a move back at the beginning of this semester because we did see an improvement on their language and so we've we're doing things like that constantly just trying to protect the innocence of our little ones and keep the foul language out of our schools um racial slurs goes right with that we treat those the same um minor acts of aggression violation of Technology use agreement is one of those ones like I said we had that big incident um with lots and then harassment and continued bullying as well so those are kind of um this Rico asked me what would be those main things that I battle every day and that would be my my list the other thing that I as a director of student services along with Mrs Abel who's in the room with us today that we cover the Ells the English language Learners we have attended two conferences so far this year the first one is the hell meeting in September this resulted in some changes happen with Ells and so quite drastic changes seem to be always happening it's really hard it's always a moving Target when it comes to our ell students as far as what the expectation and the requirements from the state are so we adjusted students schedules to accommodating state requirements which required Mrs Eva moving some things around to make this schedule work for Mrs Abel so thank you so much for your patience and your dedication to the students and we know from last year that was a huge deal because it helped us get the a that we have from all the hard work and the time that you put in with those kiddos so thank you for your continued support and work in that area um then recently just in December we attended the OLS conference um that was at Star Pass um and so I miss Abel always has to drag me there because I get stuck in all the administrative ones where they just talk Jada in numbers for the entire State and she gets to go learn how to have fun and do really awesome cool activities with their students but we went and did that and that was a three-day conference here in Tucson that we invented uh School Safety and Security um as you all know this is like my bread butter I love school safety I think if a kid can't feel safe and comfortable in school then they can't learn to the best of their ability and so we have to continue to create an environment that is both safe and friendly and that's challenging to do sometimes drive people like oh fast we can lock down fences and guard towers and kids won't feel comfortable in that and so it's finding that balance where we keep them safe but they don't notice all the things that we have around them to keep them safe so some of the things that we've been working on this year is a threat assessment team we have created that team I know at the beginning of the board we just presented that I did to you um so we do have that team and we're really glad to now have a school psychologist that is a part of that team because that's a huge component that we were missing that we didn't have so once again thank you school board for approving that position that we were able to add that person to our team as well as all of your other duties and assignments as far as threat assessment adoption we've been looking into lots of different things we were kind of set on an Ohio method which was really good and then Pima County heard what we were doing and they're actually looking for a Pima County adoption so we've kind of Pumped the brakes a little bit Mr Fergus and I are part of a task force created by the sheriff for Pima County and we are meeting again this month to continue to look they were looking at the mosaic model which is based out of California which is kind of a commercialized model but it has some good data sharing and just last week we received an email that that is now tabled again because the Pima County Sheriff's Department is going to be working with Dustin Williams to specifically look at creating one that is a shared database within Pima County similar questions would be on that threat assessment um Mr Ferguson can you remind me what the name of the college that they're still in that the one that they're looking at Pima County right now Virginia's Tech the Virginia Tech model so there's several different models out there they're all very similar in questions and just to remind you what that threat assessment it's the look at what is the threat as far as a student to a school safety of a school and also to themselves and so this is how we reduce things like suicide this is how we reduce cutting this is how we reduce school shooting stabbings those sorts of things throughout education and so that's something that law enforcement and educators are starting to work together finally over all these years to try to create so if you want to learn more about that you're in the audience feel free to make an appointment we can talk all day long about that kind of stuff so um we also continue to Target Harmony by training and doing drills for the staff and students such as bus evacuations fire drills and lockdown drills and so we we're super proud of our transportation director just completed our first semester worth of drills right before we went on break for our bus evacuation all right now to the fun stuff first quarter Sports we had volleyball 39 athletes per second flag football we had 32 athletes which is almost double of what we had last year for football so we're really excited to see that growth in our football program cross country had 18 Athletes with a total of 89 athletes participating in the first quarter next slide um our accomplishments flag football received the sportsmanship award and the third place trophy um I know I presented this before before but you would have thought they won the Super Bowl uh because it's been a long drought if you will as far as our football team goes um where in the past five years they have only won three games total so to go from only winning three games in five years to winning six games and making it into tournament and then going and vegan some teams that they thought were unbeatable was quite the accomplishment for those boys and they were going crazy trying to throw water on us coaches and it was a really really good time so and then um to be able to not only show that that Improvement but be nominated by all the other teams and coaches as being the Sportsmans of that season that's pretty impressive to to show that um competitive Spirit but yeah be recognized for meetings and then cross country Mrs cooler was our head coach there and you're just to her and her athletes also received the sportsmanship award second quarter Sports we had boys basketball with 29 athletes girls soccer with 26 athletes cheerleaders with a record high ever at Continental School of 35 athletes and what was awesome about that is they all stayed so sometimes we'll see a big influx and then after a week or two of realizing that sports are hard and challenging a lot of them dwindle they were able to keep those numbers up that entire quarter which was fantastic and they were able to participate in some trades and as you saw some of our assemblies it was really great to have that um back here you know after a couple years ago and not feeling that Continental Spirit to have that so and then we ended up with a total of 90 athletes per second second quarter accomplishments girls soccer plays fourth in the tournament so they didn't make it to tournament Unfortunately they went against some really tough teams with Emily Gray uh Sarita and Anza Trail um but we were able to present there and at least challenge the other teams that we went against um boys basketball also received a sportsmanship award so we're super proud of them for their account and that she's over there hitting enter over and over again um that means we hit the end of my presentation I just want to again thank you all for your time um I didn't go quite six hours but a little over six minutes so um I appreciate it and I just I feel very very privileged to be able to work here with the staff that we work with our admin team our teachers um my word for the year is plus and it's not necessarily a plus but I know that what we've put in place we um Mr mcgiven you talked about um the rigor and I honestly feel like we're just starting to hit our stride into the rigor category and our plans and our roadmap take as far past that we're just getting on the road and I know that with the work that our superintendent or principal have done and all of our Specialists that we're just getting started as far as that goes um I'm not worried at all I can say this confidently I'm not worried at all about keeping our age because we barely got it and we all know in our hearts and in our minds okay we're better than that and we're just going to keep going um uphill so that's why my word for the year is Plus for the month that we need to recognize that we failed to get her up here so she is coming okay so sorry if you'd love me to deviate from our agenda [Music] thank you okay all right Preschool teachers write Bernadette is always doing what she should be doing and helps remind her classmates as well congratulations Bernadette foreign agenda and uh just somewhere else this is kind of where there's a oh a dozen or so different little minor items that we have proven pretty much all at once so then we can do discussion after we have two options foreign discussion Mrs no yes you asked him I had questions yes Mrs Allen yes as well new business section number a curriculum update [Music] who made our new board member Mrs Amadeus up to speed and our meteor check on curriculum we wanted to provide a curriculum update so our admin team everybody has a part so they will all come up to the front please so that you can be ready to present your heart thank you can go by yourself or is your team going to be teams no int presented by administrative team and curriculum support team they are yeah all right so we're gonna go over we'll start with Ela in our new curriculum for English language arts Benchmark Advance year one rollout currently grades K through fifth are are instructing with Benchmark events curriculum this curriculum is composed to reading comprehension fluency and what's super exciting writing standards we're very excited about that in the past Ela program we didn't come with the component component of writing which would start the foundations of writing from kindergarten all the way through and we're excited because it has this in this curriculum so we thank you for approving that for us social studies and science components are also intertwined within the curriculum they're not to replace the standards but they support the standards that are being taught that we need by this date teachers have had two in-person curriculum trainings with a great response our trainer her name is Ashley and she is amazing and we hope that we are able to bring her back soon she really answered a lot of questions for us and clarifying A lot of stuff especially once the Year got started and the teachers were diving into the new curriculum students are also responding well to the curriculum and are able to articulate their learning as you're starting to see if you ever have the opportunity to come and do Cult of the cold time walks we'd love to have you here because you can start seeing especially the writing components a lot of them will be talking about writing and how they're showing evidence the rigor is there and it's building and it's exciting to see and they're excited to talk about it so the magazines that come with the curriculum have been amazing because the students are also learning their note-taking their highlighting skills not that they're highlighting the whole page what key Concepts and ideas and our sixth to 8th graders are using collections that is their curriculum through helping us and hardcore and we also had a training as well an online training at the start of the school year so that was a good training I got to be part of that and learn even more about our Middle School curriculum with our ELA teachers and for dual language we have through our same curriculum Benchmark Advance we have Benchmark Valley London it is so for dual language our teachers have met to discuss how they'll intertwined Benchmark Adelante curriculum materials such as the reading magazines there's award cards and storybooks this curriculum is going to um it's the actual curriculum that's all in Spanish so we're working to modify and adjust and utilize all of the it comes with big books the cards for the alphabet so we're going to be utilizing a lot intertwining we're going to be continuing collaborative meetings so we can discuss a continued rollout of this as well and I think that's where to work it out with this virtual language dyslexia screenings so our the State of Arizona has mandated that we have dyslexia screeners but it's a little different than what we would what many of us thought to start we were picturing as teachers and staff and parents as we're starting to meet with some of our parents we thought that the dyslexia screener would be something when you hear it that the students might be reading it might maybe put different colors that's what I was visualizing on the screen because it was going to actually tell us if there was characteristics of Dyslexia maybe reading letters of backwards or certain things with the colorations of the letters on the screens or on the pages that's not what dyslexia screeners necessarily mean in the state of Arizona if it's found out through referrals and through testing later on that a child has a learning disability that is what dyslexia what they're referring to also as dyslexia so if a student were to end up getting an individualized education plan it would be something that is tied to any type of reading disability that they're having and it falls under the term dyslexia not what many of us might think right away when we hear the word dyslexia so this screening screener in the beginning when the state was talking about it many of us thought that it was going to actually screen and flag and tell us so we could let parents know that they might have to see go out and see further um evaluations outside and such what this screener does is it testing the child and what their reading ability is and it just tells us that they're at Benchmark for reading so then we continue to Monitor and look at data so amplify is the program that our district is utilizing they gave us a few programs that were state approved that we did have to choose amplify if any of you are familiar with dimples throughout the years in our education world it was that company and it's part of Amplified so teachers screen the whole class each each um now each quarter with each Benchmark and students who are flagged as below Benchmark for the reading comprehension portion of it are then taken by the teachers and one-on-one and they're individually tested so from Benchmark testing to Benchmark testing we see are those students once interventions are employed are those students showing growth if they're not showing growth that's red flags for us and data that we continue to collect so we can monitor and keep letting our parents know keep them apprised of what's going on and coming up with further plans and maybe further referrals for testing this is for grades kindergarten first second and third so we're already doing really great data work and monitoring our students now with maps testing which we'll talk about a little later but before we put into test kit kindergarteners and now we're starting able to see K12 with our Benchmark tests ahead of time we can catch red flags so we're not ending up with students who are falling between the cracks and the older grades and this is this is a component that's helping us with that so putting those interventions into place and then being able to um turn stuff over to our mtss team which is our multi-tiered system supports team so we can discuss with our teachers tier two and two or three interventions and again parents will be kept in the loop the whole time and then we have to update Ade three times a year with how many students are at Benchmark and what the growth has been [Music] so I'll turn it over to Mrs polay our math book tonight um we have used to revealed Mafia documented two years ago through our second year um overall all the teachers like it students like it some of them teachers some they don't um it has a lot of components that are put together the whole learning for for the students reveal that help the students become thinkers which is one of the parts that I like about this program um the students applied the habit of my problem solving and they also communicate effectively about math there's a lot of talking in the classrooms about math so um there's two components that I want to show later on the next slide that the students they just have a conversation if there's no wrong or right answer in both the teachers and the students like that part of the program 100 of the students are using the online when they teach the lessons and um heated for second grade students while interviewing math occasionally they're too little to be on online all the time they do the Readiness Diagnostics um at the beginning of the unit and they also use the math games the online games to practice whatever they learn um the day of the week or depending on how the teacher decides to do it third grade through eighth grade they um have increased the usage of the online program more than last year is getting a lot better with some work in progress um fourth through eighth grade are online only we don't have our puppy books so they have to log in they do log in in the classroom some of the tissues give online homework some of the teachers print out the homework it's again it's not it's a work in progress but I were getting there we are continuing training the teachers and the students on how to use the online program especially on assessments that's the hardest part for the teachers today and for the students too it's it's it's we're trying to make ends with transition because it's kind of far without the book just make copies when they need to and they work with a card copy along with a computer to answer the questions and the computer um breaks everything for the teachers um has also um activities to do before during and after each of the lessons it also has different assessment approaches the teachers don't use all the assessments they use whatever they think it's appropriate for the lesson we have the radius diagnostic most of the teachers are I'm going to say 100 of distribution housing tissues to know if the students are ready for that unit for the listeners if the students have some gaps that's when they can touch enjoy the richest sessions so this diagnostic helps them a lot in a lot of all the students use it um the middle school they don't have that Readiness diagnostic per se they have a different tool that they use so they cannot um visualize if the students are ready for the unit um um they also have um the exit tickets that's very popular among the teachers and the students this one also houses teachers uh see if the student understood the lesson of the day way before the unit lesson so they can Target close Concepts from Green Beach that way the students are ready for the end of the unit okay there are a lot more components than these on trivial math but these are the favorite of the tissues in the students um the one that I was talking about before they'll be curious and the number of routines those are the routines that the students have conversations among themselves and with the teachers about 6 7 minutes um activity of both the teachers and the students like those two activities exploring development is the actual lesson review map offers two ways to give the list and one is Hands-On and the other one is using the computer so sometimes when I if you walk in in the teacher's classroom and you don't see the tissue using the computers because most likely she's given the lesson using manipulative or just a direct a lesson not so much online the online version it's um hands on in a way because the students yeah um the students are interactive the students can go and play with the smart boards so some teachers rather do that it also depends on the lessons some lessons are not appropriate to do that because it's just harder it's better to use a manipulative so that's that's a good about rebuilding math at Yahoo's both options to teach it um the math replay is the favorite from from both the teachers and the students those are videos that um for every single lesson and that's middle school again it's a little bit different they do have videos but it's not called math replay there are videos that the teachers can show the students um after the lesson the students can see them on their computers at home they forgot how to utilize them they have access to that at home too um world map sections are math games Hands-On math games I I work with those I print them on how to call um Baker nominate them and then put it together here to the t-shirts I am on United 11 I think there's most of the grades have up to 12 or 13 units so I'm almost done with those and I just started kindergarten so that's that should be my my goal for this year to finish the whole the whole um um games um in the online games how the the separate of the students they love playing with the math games on the build map take another look in extension thinking are the differentiated components of reveal map check out a look has videos has a lot of extra worksheets and teachers use those for the reteach section um every day um the hours 30 minutes right 30 minutes period and the extended thinking is for the um um enrichment sessions I usually I meet with third fourth fifth grade students and I'm in the charts to start meeting with first and second break once a week and I work with those group of students using those and extended thinking activities foreign so for science and social studies our curriculum commission we decided to hold off on submitting an RFP which is request for proposals from science curriculum companies until next year we have a preferred time to review existing resources and further develop the possibility of cost kits I don't know if any of you are familiar with science plus kids both for elementary school they are kids that we would be working with TUSD because they have a program of cost kits that we rent they can deliver and they are based off of our state standards they come supply for each teacher in bins some of them are have life like animals but like crayfish snails meal worms but it's from kinder all the way through fifth grade so we're looking into that I started talking to the TUSD Science Center in regards to that there's many schools that you use it so we're looking into that some more and um K5 teachers are also exploring how to fit science not just into their daily schedules as many of them already do but to do it even more because we have lots of time that are set for math and reading that we have to meet Beyond textbooks is currently being used to teach science and social studies and they're also looking at the scope and sequence map calendar for those standards that they're teaching Newsela also has leveled passages that they're able to use for science and social studies content for our students as well and we may consider middle school science adoption first next school year foreign reading teacher um in September we had 23 students second graders um that were that had a red score of 150.3 um that I was seeing um I averaged them up and we had 31 great third graders that averaged 169.3 and these uh students received Title One Services written scores are um uh we can look at them and very quickly see whether or not they're at uh grade level and at 150 um to a 160 usually is where we want our kindergartners to be at the end of the year and so we did that these kids I needed some uh some big intervention um in um so I was working with them in a program called the Wilson Reading system and it's very structured and um systematic and so by the end of third grade at the end of October I decided to reassess my third graders and they just felt like they were sufficiently had progressed and we had and they had raised their scores up to 174.8 which um uh and so many of them were already at grade level so I then exited quite a few of them and um I ended up with um I think let's see 24 third graders at that time um after that um and I didn't feel like the second readers were ready for that assessment at the end of October so I kind of waited another month until I felt like they really had a good handle on things and um and so when I retested them the 23 second graders had a 168.9 so they had gone up um as an average I would have put ways up um so I I then we did all my groups again and so during the month of December um I I was seeing 15 second graders and they were averaging about 61.6 as I said my 24th third graders were 172.3 that was their new average as a group um and so um I I was I have been waiting to assess them um and so our next Benchmark is in a couple is next week I guess and so I'll be reassessing what their scores are and making determinations whether or not they're going to be retained with to see me or um if they're gonna go back into the uh regular classroom and and just receive um support where I'm just going to be pushing him um so let's see the upgrades will take the district writing test um in January like I said and um and their scores will be used to determine their eligibility um the Wilson Reading system is a program that that is being used we it is a part of the foundations program it's is the same umbrella and so the foundations is what we did with a K2 or K3 a couple years ago I taught um in a kindergarten for several years and then I went up to first grade when I was a first grade teacher so when I did the Wilson Reading system it was um uh targeted for those kids that needed intervention by the same parent program and it was a really easy slide for me to go in and I was so taken with it that I came in that weekend after I was trained and I spent the whole weekend making packets and making a program that would fit with it and so I have never seen so many kids that are extremely low readers that have actually made progress with any system better than this program so I'm really really pleased with it um so this semester I'm going to continue the support to support the KA teachers through coaching techniques and strategies within the classroom as well as uh looking at those extremely low students um and uh that's kind of where I'm at right now so thank you okay teacher of the Middle School um Avid has had a lot of things going on this first semester we had uh some classes create Avid add-ins in which they Incorporated their Avid skills of correct collaboration to show what is needed to make the community successful and if any of you are familiar with the AVID program a lot is teaching the kids to um have self-advocacy and to be able to work with each other which is super important as they go on into their academic careers other classes um they did uh they researched U.S college and universities of their choice they gathered the information they did the research and then they put it all together in an ugly College sweater um they were adorable they were adorable I the kids were all on task it was nice they were on their devices and they were actually doing the research so it was nice and I had the kids nobody could pick the same College within that classroom and there's five sections of that um and it was nice to see them explore outside of Arizona and then finally we had another class um that we were working on reading strategies um we started to read a series of short stories called The Run and it was about to it was about zombies so they were totally into it um it gave me a chance to work on vocabulary with those students as well as predicting main idea um during the second semester we will stay the course and focus on our weaker components and tutorials will be implemented during the class time to give students um extra help that they may need without having to stay after school if for some reason they cannot stay more in the in-depth research of colleges and universities will be completed hopefully we will end the semester with a campus visit to one of our state universities foreign [Music] so right now special education support currently have a 91 preschool to eighth grade special education students as of January 9th this doesn't include students who are newly enrolled or are within that initial evaluation process by February 2023 is projected to be closer to 96 special education students three full-time teachers is what we currently have one full-time speech pathologist and board contract tracks for related services for otpt and asdb which is our Arizona school reports 11 programmatic assistance is what we currently have here on our campus and there will be one opening as of January 13th special education support team has worked diligently to incorporate the following data to support the determination of present levels of academic achievement and functional performance for all special education students NWA assessments Baseline data for fall progress monitoring for winter and spring the special education director has pulled the NWA data for special education students to mirror the individual grade level data digs that we have to support service coordinators with determining further supports for the student that they are serving and towards their individualized education plan goals I itself also being utilized as a baseline assessment in progress monitoring through analytics from there we are also utilizing curriculum-based measures reveal math and the special education materials through rivoma teacher observations and classroom more examples um I'm Lena Zabo and I am the ell teacher and so far this year um it's been exciting um to get to know my students and it's been exciting to work with Mr Lincoln a little more closely because there had been a lot of changes with the ell program there are still more to come but we take them in small strides to try to get the appropriate adjustments that we need to make as they're coming up and as we're able to also make sure that we roll them out um the program is committed to providing our English language Learners with high quality education for Success that includes high expectations for our El student achievement the district is currently implementing one of its research-based structured immersion SCI models which for us it is the pull out model so we were given a selection of different models that could be applied to the school and based on our school population and our conversations with our administrators it was determined that the pull out SCI model was the best model for us which means that we collaborate both with the teachers in the classroom as well as me going to the kids and pulling them out of their classroom and working with me so it's going into both sets of classrooms um Continental also provides instruction by highly qualified teachers using appropriate instructional materials and teaching strategies in the students individual Home Room our collaborative environment provides the ability to create the English language lessons that enhance the students English proficiency and skills needed um to access the grade level content so what we like about this model is that it gives us the opportunity to be able to work with teachers to collaborate come up with the activities come up with the lessons that are going to benefit the students and then I take what it is in conversations that we have with the teachers I take that back and then I try to accommodate that and also work on implementing materials that also complement their learning ability for example with Mrs romanelli and title we have students that we work with that are actually crossed that crossover and we work together to be able to address some of the learning maybe um the the learning gaps that might be there that we both team up we collaborate once again come up with lessons and Target the students with their reading with their writing so we focus in and hone in on that particular section also um with the little ones for example with Mrs tesso she is a classroom teacher where as I said before we push in so I'm with Mrs Tessa every day of the week I have small groups that I work with in her classroom we have about six kids and so I work individually with them and then I also pull them from their classroom and they come to work with me twice a day and so when I'm talking about pulling the students there are very specific and designated times that we do that so that I don't interrupt too much of the um the homeroom activities that they're working on whether it's the reading and or the math so we try to coordinate opportunities where we work with them in the classroom and if it's during reading and math I'm in the classroom with them but if it's not then they're pulled out and they work with me so um with the program there are different levels that the students achieve one of the big ones for us is once a student has um reached based on the sellout the level of proficiency the student is then exited from the program but that doesn't mean that the students are forgotten because then for two years in a row we have to monitor the students learning so what that means is that I still monitor the students I still work with the students and mainly the home of teachers to make sure that they're still gaining and they're still learning and they're still able to access the curriculum should there be a concern then we go back to the drawing board and we re-evaluate where the students are at what might be the deficit and then we go from there there are approximately 28 active students in our program right now um they range from grades K all the way through right this is the first year that I don't have um sixth graders but in kindergarten there are six um students and the uh if they're at basic and intermediate and so the proficiency levels for Rosella are either pre-emergent emergent basic or intermediate and the reason they say that they they flip back and forth because there could be a student that's a compilation of two but in Kinder like I said there are six students with basic and intermediate proficiency levels first grade two students at pre-emergent one student at basic six at intermediate second grade two students at basic three at intermediate third we have two at basic four we have one at pre-emergent fifth two students that basic uh seventh grade two at intermediate eighth grade one student at intermediate and when we're working with the teachers and looking at lessons or activities to be able to help the students I have to look at all of the grade levels and I have to look at each individual student and be able to come up with lessons activities that complement their learning ability to make sure that they're able to rise to the next level and make gains so the collaboration that I do with the teachers is highly important and that's one of the reasons that once again we chose the model that we have because it allows us to have more communication it's wonderful when the teachers are open to being able to work with me and check back in with me and communicate back and forth what it is that the students need because in the end this is for the kids it's not for me it is for the kids to make sure that they get what they need to get um in addition I have seven students that are currently being monitored so that just goes back to what I was saying um before that if they happen to get proficient status then I go back and I monitor those students and then once they graduate from the second year there's a whole new set that comes in um the emo curriculum is enhanced by centilla Spotlight wonders epic rape works but also with Mrs romanelli we also use um Wilson um the reassessment window for us is coming up which means at our end of the year testing is mid-year not at the end of the year as we would expect some of the other um test the state tests to happen so right here it says that a reassessment window actually is going to begin today what that means is there are certain classes and tests that I have to take to be able to qualify to give the students the tests that they need so that for me and my team will start on the 10th the 30th is the window where the azella testing starts and it goes all the way through the 17th but given the fact that we have holidays we have break we have to be very creative with our schedule to make sure that I get in and test all of the students that I have to test so overall if we look at the 28 students plus the seventh it gives us a number about 35 students that have something to do with the ell program but 28 active students that I see so in a nutshell that's E11 thank you thank you and so um if you're this is my own site let's make it is our um assessment database in our warehouses what what we what what we use it for is to kind of organize our data that's collected from State Testing from nwe a-testing um and now from the the testing that that we're developing through a an application remote conservative um that we can access it through pre-link as a test taker um that data will also be um kind of collected here but um using using linkage and that's that's really what this slide is about but like it's using Lincoln's test uh design tools we've created test banks for all great levels with the except ion eighth grade um uh the test Banks include tests that Target specific mass standards that are aligned with Beyond textbooks calendar um that's these are the standards for for the entire year um and the the individuals who've made these tests are standing up here so um we we only have two more grade levels to go and then we'll have um we'll have an assessment for every math standard for every grade level that's um standardized within our school district teachers will be able to use those tests to identify which students would Master the targeted standards at the end of each unit teachers will be able to use this information to help with the re-teach and enrichment process so if you think of the the data that's collected and stored within link it um the the Arizona state test is the um it is is the yearly assessment right the nwea think of those as uh they're done portable you have you have your um Baseline um but they're quarterly assessments so what what do you do in between how do you differentiate and how do you you build a group your students so that you can Target those students who really need um really need to be re-taught um and this uh this Tool uh within Lincoln's test taking design features is how we'll talk about it that's it and for NWA Maps assessment those are reportedly benchmarks the areas tested are reading and Mathematics those are grades k through eight then language usage is the conventions of writing but they're tested on that's week second through eight and this Benchmark we've added on to science so we'll get to start seeing where students are active science which will also be a big help for us moving forward with curriculum that we're also going to be looking for and that'll be third through eighth graders who are tested so we're excited to see what the data will the outcomes and data will look like once they're done with testing these next two weeks the growth data outcomes are studied and analyzed by our teachers and all of us here on our leadership team in data dick meetings we are still building our data room which we've started and in fact tomorrow we're going to be working with our Kinder first and second grade teachers to go over some data with them as well they're helping build the data room walls interventions and academic monitoring as well as the mtss referrals are made based on the outcomes that we see from our benchmarks when our testing window is January 16th through the 27th and then student reports of testing outcomes are placed into the student's data binders which you have to see in our um e-binder that our middle schoolers have they have been working with showing them how to access that so what we're going to be working on in the coming weeks is how all of our students have a little app on the bottom of their screen so parents this has been how you know we'll put that in our next weekly to home to our newsletter to our parents monthly newsletter is they click on it and it's a Lincoln app and it opens up all of their data for you to see where they're at and our students are excited to share with us when we do our walks what their goals are and how they're trying to beat them just real quick on IXL just wanted to share um how much learning is happening so you can see the report there where the skills on the right hand side where students have mastered and are proficient in and are practicing we do have we did find out from the report that 80 percent of IXL is happening at home and 82 percent is happening at school and so when I excel first came out a couple years ago we definitely and during covet we're really pushing IXL and it's showing that 77 of teacher engagement I excel we really have to work at maximizing the program because it is a diagnostic where it'll Place students at their level so that students are closing the achievement Gap at home while they're working on IXL and in school as well so we don't want IXL to replace what teachers are doing at school I know a lot of teachers are assigning homework work and additional practice but I know a lot of our students say oh we don't like it but you can practice all content reading math science social studies kids are in dual language have access to the Spanish I excel as well I know what our students what's also really pretty cool that we love is that when they take it links to the NWA Benchmark testing so wherever our students are falling with their benchmarks it ends up being their profile or dashboard is unique to the needs and the areas that that they need to work on and um reteaching Rich we talked a little bit about that or Elementary the focus is mathematics that occurs daily except for Wednesdays and that's them looking at the math standards and the Concerta formative assessments so that Mr Ferguson was talking about they are able to utilize those weeklies to see are they getting the standard that's being taught and rather than just moving on and not knowing so that's what the read teach and enriches and for Middle School it occurs the first and third Wednesday of the month and that's in all subject areas right now the teachers are working with their students having interventions in each subject area of the class gifted education elementary students are instructed by Mrs romanelli and are currently working on Steam academics and projects middle school students are instructed on Thursdays by myself during sixth period they're currently working on building a future city that revolves around climate change and they're really excited because we've started to work on a kind of action to bring back our Greenhouse cold time as we've discussed it occurs monthly and that's where they present their student growth and work that they're excited about to their peers to their teachers and site leadership foreign [Music] have to have laser focus that Mr Nathan is part of this curriculum team as well but since he already presented I figured I would spare him a slide and talking time but I mean these folks are truly dedicated to closing the achievement Gap and also have to elevate and up their game and I know sometimes they think I have crazy ideas but we all push each other to be better and so thank you all foreign conflict of interest disclosure which is due back to the county so the children out appropriately okay I duly noted District Financial reports all right so the district went afterwards about 95 Pages if you'd like we can go over it please please yes please tune in yeah I appreciate it um within the district Financial award um one of the things I kind of wanted to tap on is 1526 which is our tax credit accounts um we do have some extracurricular activities that have not had any activity within the last couple of years so those have been shown to miss Rico Ms Rico will be taking those from our site Council which is which is our parent art advisory committee and within that the parent advisory committee will help determine how those funds are going to be split up do they need to go evenly throughout the rest of the clubs do they go to the designated tax credit account so there will be some movement um your your Finance report is pretty high level you're not going to see that other than that I will open up to any questions y'all may have um how's your tax credit account making payments supposed to uh for these years um right now there's about 250 000 sitting in a minute tax credit account um that is not including the 60 tax credits I've received uh since we've gone on break um like times I came in during the break I put in roughly 40 tax credits and since we've come back on Monday and put in another 25.