So evening board members and audience. My name is Karly Wilson. I am a senior at Combmes High School and uh this is my second year in the nursing assistant class. So my junior year I actually started my mock interview and I will say that I think it is extremely helpful with building up confidence. I can say for sure that every job opportunity afterwards really my confidence flourished and I was able to walk in and I was like I had the mindset of I'm going to get this job. I already have this job. And I can say as a senior this year it also really helped because I was able to actually get a job offer. I was one of the four that got a job offer. Congratulations. And I went and I actually went and I have the job now. I'll be starting Monday at Premier Healthcare.
We have self-contained programs, blended programs where we have typical uh uh peers from the community uh that are part of the program as models. Um arise and PFA at risk programs and then we have our transitional kindergarten program as well as a specialized full day K inclusion program which is a teacher who is duly certified general ed and special ed. Um and then we have our programs such as TLC for autism um and developmental disabilities bridge um regional programming. So we share with a number of district uh different districts that have programs similar to we have uh districts that tuition students into our specialized programs. We use programs in other districts as well. Publican uh private therapeutic day and then residential placements are the most extreme which we have very few of those and and maybe have had two or three in the 19 years I've been here.
It would have to come before us either way. Correct. Not if it not if it didn't require a change in policy, but yes, if we're going to include it as 250 E1, then yes, it would. I guess what I I guess what I would recommend is look at 22 250 and then see if it goes is the same thing for 250 E2. Well, 250 E2 is a little bit different because that was moved to the procedure manual. Um, and having a list of publicly available records is required by FOYA. And so that's why I'm bringing this back. Press footnote one um addresses this um for policy 2250 E2 immediately available district public records and web posted reports and records. Um, press footnote one addresses the need to have this exhibit in our policy manual. And having this exhibit placed in the AP manual restricts access to its contents and um, decreases our board's goal of transparency.
Any discussion? Uh, very briefly, uh, if presuming we approve this tonight, it goes to zoning next. Is that correct? Yes. And that uh that process is all spelled out in the the IGA that was uh was created and agreed to by both the village and the the board. Um we are uh on track to have uh that paperwork in uh to go through zoning I would I believe in April with ultimate approval of all of this uh in May. Uh which does keep us in line at the throughout this same process. We're going to be working on the bid package possibly go out to bid while all of this is working its way through. This final uh plan was run by I've seen transportation first, right? Like correct. I I actually uh um actually met with the transportation leadership team uh the morning of the committee of the whole and shared them uh shared this uh layout with them.
Uh keep enhancing PLC's and the MTSS and and sharpen those up. And um the MTSS again that's we're we're building that culture of uh I'm not going to wait and do nothing for four weeks and then try to get it all done in the next five weeks. Right. U prioritizing self-care and emotional awareness uh developing and retaining young teachers uh through mentorship programs um breaking down the walls at the secondary level. It's very easy at the secondary level. This is my my department. This is my subject. This is my classroom. and we're breaking those down with the PLC's with the TBRRI and the MTSS to have these conversations. Um uh and I think I need to shout out the early release piece because at the high school that was by far our biggest obstacle and um we were really able to make it work once um Dr.
That means we had five slots open and five filled. But but this doesn't track ones that are current. That's correct. These are just new seats that we added. Correct. It was just last year. That's correct. Great question. Yes. And um that's why you'll see as you get lower like 10th grade five and zero or current 10th grade we open up five spots. We we have I think three students in in school choice. We open up five more. We didn't have anybody. So um so when I'm proposing again we have about a fill rate consistently of about just under 50%. So to me a fill rate is we open up 50 seats 50% 25 seats across the district. We've had inquiries probably of about 15 students right now. Um we always set that we have to get information out to these families uh whether or not we're going to participate in school choice uh and they have until June 1st uh and then it closes.
Yeah maybe different people. I can't remember who was on it last year versus this year. Um this year the current members are different people. I was just trying to figure out if it was the same committee that we voted on under that name or not. That was where I was confused. So, thank you for the answer. Yeah, we don't have another one called uh reinvisioning anymore. Yep. Any other questions? I just have a comment. Um I had my hand up. Um so, I'm going to vote in favor of this, but I do remember what U. Member Ston was saying that um this a little difficult. That's why I I didn't even know that we had this new thing because we actually wanted to keep going and that wasn't how it came out. So, but we're going to I'm going to kind of put that behind because it's time to move forward.
So, I can say that this is super helpful and super important when it comes to students because everybody needs to know how to write a cover letter and a resume. And learning when you are a junior or a senior is detrimental because even with those seniors going out into the real world, it's really hard and really um complicated to learn those skills on your own. So, having CTE teachers and English teachers really teach us those skills is absolutely important. So nice. Congratulations. Okay. Hi. Um, my name is Nicole Zarate. I am a sophomore at Combmes High School. I'm a first year nursing student and also a second year student for sports med. Um, I wrote everything down on my phone so I didn't feel oblivious. But I wanted to talk about my preparation first. Just like this. I wrote down and practiced in my room what I was going to say.
It's pretty uncommon. So now moving Mrs. Jetty had asked how are we going to monitor what some of this in the last part of this presentation is the next step. So just like we set up with the strategic plan we're going to identify key performance indicators. Now again since we can look at groups of students receiving same services within grade levels multiple data points we will truly be able to have a clear understanding of what the shifts that we make and what is the impact it has on student achievement. That's our ultimate goal. Are we increasing um and having an impact on um ensuring that our students needs are met, but also that they're showing the growth and they're showing improvement. So things like our new benchmark assessment, our foundational reading assessments, classroom work samples, anecdotal notes, branching mind allows us to bring all of that together and then we can look at those students and then to start to also evaluate programs.
Um, but this list would need to be updated to remove specific instances that do not pertain to our district. And to tell you the truth, I can't stand I can't stand this is the number one policy I can't stand. It's annoying. I'm sure Dr. Thomas, I'm almost sure that this is the worst, right? Cuz it's a very long list of what is and is not available and it's changing and it goes with the law and it has to it has to get updated all the time. But unfortunately it's saying when I'm reading the legal footnotes um that this has exhibit has two purposes to identify the data and documents that must be posted on a district's website if the district has a website and two to fulfill the requirement of the freedom of information act for the district's foy officer to designate the public records that are immediately available to the public.
I have a question. Do we need 55 staff spaces? I mean, personally, I'd rather see more storage space in the building that our district is utilizing storage space there instead of taking up classroom space in our schools. That seems like a lot of parking spaces for a transportation center. So, I think the the thought behind that is u that uh the the training room over there uh is going to be um available not necessarily just for transportation staff. on days that they're not holding meetings or trainings. Um it would be an ideal spot to possibly host other trainings uh that we can't accommodate at our our our building. So there may be more visitors over there. Uh they may be hosting uh uh trainings uh from other parts of our our region right now when we have uh drivers that need to take training courses.
Brown and we and we pushed for that that early release. Once that happened, that really benefited us. Um, focusing on instructional instruction and maximizing instructional time. Um, so again, we do all of these things. If we do all these things well, the diploma will take care of itself. Um, so the focus doesn't have to be graduation. We tell our teachers graduation rate needs to be very back here in the back of your mind, but it's not the foreign most. If we do all of these other things, well, that's going to take care of itself. So, we took a little longer than we were supposed to, but Thank you. Very, Mr. Lawhead. Thank you. And your staff. [Applause] Are teachers still here from the high school? Are they they Okay. Just want to compliment them on that program. I think that's very important that they go in and study each other's classes and uh some of the best ideas I ever had in my life were somebody else's.
Um, and it's it's not it's lottery based. If we have uh more than the seats that we open up um and otherwise uh if you apply and there's no lottery, you automatically get in. Doesn't mean you have to come. I'm just saying there are seats available. Um so you'll notice it's a it's a a market difference than I've done in the past. I'm proposing uh 75 total seats across the district. um knowing again uh bill rate is going to be a lot lower than that. Um and adding spots even to class to to grade levels that have higher numbers than we have in the past. And you may say why? Um, again, we've had maybe one or two inquiries across some of these grades, and some of them are are educators who work in the district as well. And we don't we don't give preference to them, just so folks are understand that.
But, um I'm glad Mayor because you know we all voted together on the assignments of this committee including the one with your name on it. So, yeah. I'm gonna vote in favor of this. I just I'm just was validating what member Stone was saying. That's all. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And just to just to say that um I as a chair I'm pretty proud of um how I encourage every member to have a chance to speak. How open I am when members email me and ask to have items on the agenda. I've put items on the agenda which I did not like um and that I did not think were a great use of our time as a committee. Um so if anybody, you know, if you're on the redistricting and reorganizing ad hoc committee and you think there's a need to meet, you want to be put on the full committee agenda so that we can give you a charge, by all means email me.
I have a fear generally of public speaking and speaking to individuals I am not generally comfortable with. But using my social skills and my confidence was key. I want to first say thank you to Miss Frying at Homes for preparing us nursing students with resources on how to make a resume because I just like many students never made one before. and I thank her for the corrections she made on my draft, reminding me to add all the achievements that helped me get that job offer. Now, for my experience, my interviewee was Luciano Romero. He is a director at Kasa Grand's Banner Health Hospital. He was very bubbly, which made the experience much more calming and enjoying. It's a personal struggle for me to maintain eye contact, but the atmosphere was very comfortable, which made me able to maintain that eye contact the whole time and was one of the things that he brought up after the interview that he told me that I did amazing on and I would be great with the kids at the hospital.
The last portion that I will get to um is just there was observations done of our classrooms and of our teaching. I know this may be hard to see, but don't worry. I'm going to go over briefly each one of these areas. And so what we did is if you see that red bar when I go to this next slide, and that's hard to see, I apologize. But one of the areas that we um were coming up short in most often in the observations were higher order thinking. And so we already began to think about what are some action steps we've already started, but what are some things that we know we need to do? And so we've done that for higher order thinking. Focus instruction came in yellow. Assessment strategies is an area and then also feedback. So when we come to the board with our logic model and explain what and go into specifically what our next steps are, you will be able to see and I'll revisit these areas of focus priority and those will um inform what our action steps are as well as our shortterm, intermediate, and long-term goals.
Um again, this should be posted. And here it is. Press has one. And that fills the requirement, the requirement to have it posted. And if we can put it in press and then just update and it'll update a little bit easier maybe for both of these um 250 E1 and 22 250 E2 these it similar um press recommended that these go into procedures. So again doesn't matter it to me whether it's in or out but the press recommendation was for it to go to procedures. Um, and on these we would just need clarification. Like if 2 250 E1 is to be added, I assume we would then add it with the actual form that we use and 22 250E2. If that's added back in, we would go through and remove the things like driver's ed and things that don't apply to the district. Well, those things should already be removed, I suppose, if it was just moved over to the AP manual.
Uh if it's a course they can take um sitting at one desk in their current transportation office, they do so. Uh but uh it would be uh it had been expressed by our tra trans transportation staff if they had the ability to be able to offer these training courses at their facility, but also bring in other people from other districts to also take those transportation courses uh at the the site as well. Uh so yes, the 55 spot seems um seems a bit much, but keep in mind too, we also have uh if we're fully staffed with transportation, we have uh 30 staff over there. Uh so we definitely would need the ability to have extra space. Okay. Um, and then another question upon looking at this layout um to the south there's we're hooking up to the AC the existing Aldi access at that's right by their building and closing off the access at the bottom that's in that paved road that's being demolished.
So, that's it was that's a good program. Thank you guys very much. Okay. Okay, now we'll move on to our consent agenda. 25101 is approval of agenda of the April 9, 2025 regular meeting. 25102, approval of minutes of the March 10, 2025 work session executive session in March 12th, 2025 regular board meeting. 25103, approval of payments and claims. 25104, approval of financial report. 25105 approval of construction payment which is Colt mechanical pay app number 2261- 12542 high school HVAC upgrades for 18,525. 25106 is approval of the personnel report. 25107 is approval of the donations and grants which include to the district the community foundation donated $420 to the food for students fund. A community foundation donated $800 to the prek program endowment for Madison Consolidated High School. Alorn, Sage, Schwarz, and McGrath donated $250 for after prom. Royer Corporation donated $10,000 to the athletic department to be used to support the MCHS joining the Mids Conference.
Um, but, you know, I I do believe if we've got educators who are in our community, we I'd like to offer an opportunity, just no guarantee, but it's it's a it's at least an opportunity if we allow for seats to be open. That's all. Um and you know again there may be three three grade levels that that was what I was because because typically if we typically I've done about 240 I would have done it but there there would be zero there. Yeah there would be uh I don't you know I don't anticipate but again we've had movement our numbers fluctuate continue to fluctuate like they fluctuate all the time. Listen, it it's it's it's one year I've I haven't done this large of a ask before. Honestly, I I look at our choice revenue. I look at, you know, it's it's opportunity. I also look at is it really costing us anything to have students in those seats?