And I think that's kind of the beauty of it as well. So, um, so I just wanted to prep with that. Um, and then I'll just let them um, have their way. Make sure your button's green over here. Who's up first? Um, so this is a picture example of what we're looking for. And so as you can see, there's flowers, which Jesse's going to touch on the importance of that, but I'm going to start with the importance of including other students. So there's a path in that picture and that's something that we think is crucial to include in our plan because we want this to not just be a beautifification project. We also want it to involve other students. So we want to promote the involvement of multiple classes and all kinds of students. We don't want it to just be about science or green team kids.
[Music] Hi, I'm Jen Rosener and fun fact is I am I hate public speaking. It scares me to just don't like being the sight of the attention focused on me. So, I'll get through this. Um and um we'll just start. Um I work with about 85 students in um K to second grade daily for 30 minutes and focus on reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. I have 10 groups daily with about 6 to 12 students in each group. Okay. Um this slide, Mrs. Wolf uses this quote, who didn't learn today, and what am I going to do about it to tomorrow at the top of our weekly updates. This quote helped me decide on a few goals for this year. One problem each year is that some students in kindergarten and first grade move on without mastering the skill of letter recognition and knowledge of letter sounds.
We have to watch a little bit what's going on with food on the federal government level because if you come to the sharing place you see a lot of cans of uh fantasy names and you think what is this for food? Yeah. It comes from the federal government you know tomato and other things. You would never see them in stores those brands. But so that's something we together with our partner gleaners are watching very carefully. Well, I can commit that I'll make a bunch of Salesforce people come at some point and volunteer. You can hold me accountable for that, right? We'll we'll make sure we have some teams that come and help help out. Thank you. All right. So, Dr. Smith, so for the community to understand how important sharing places is, just a historical context. Most school corporations don't have this type of partnership.
And you want to know that the work you've done over the many years that you've been here is respected, has positive outcomes, and you want people to reflect on that and let you know that. And I think sometimes what I've seen in my experience is that when people hear, you know, about a new initiative or, you know, if things are changing that their work is no longer valued, that they're no longer valued and they take it rather personally. Um, and that's we understand that, right? That's understandable. So, the question is how do you how do you deal with that? What's the goound to make people appreciate, you know, that we know the work that you've done and how important it is? And I think it's really getting in there um getting on the ground floor and understanding what their culture is. You know, why is this important to them?
Um, thank you for taking the time to recognize us this evening. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Audrey. Questions? What question? Cast, if I don't have the shop, cook, or clean, I'm in. I'm in. Is there a flyer or is that on the parent square or do you know? Yes, information has been posted on parent square I believe with that. Oh boy. Okay. Thank you. Can help you out with that, Mr. Nes. Thank you. As always, thank you for your report and you're welcome to stick along, stick around or uh head out if you need to. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think at this point in the agenda, we're ready for uh spotlight on kids. So, uh, thank you, Mr. Oliver. So, I'm going to invite, um, Mr. Sheay up. Uh, I know that Dartmouth High School, this evening, Dartmouth High School will be spotlighting the Spectrum podcast.
Number one, objectively review the available information on release time religious instruction. Number two, physically visit with and observe local school districts with active release time religious instruction programs. And that includes in locally in our area. Both Madison and Setha have active uh release time religious instruction programs. This we believe would readily address the logistical questions that have been raised by the superintendent. You have how much more time? I have like two. And finally, number three, develop a costbenefit analysis for analysis for a release time religious program within the school district. And in closing, so considering that this is a community supported request, we firmly believe that it warrants a more collaborative and thorough investigation regarding the viability of being adopted for USD 244. We owe that much to our leaders of tomorrow who will be greatly impacted by today's board decisions. Thank you. Thank you.
So, we did have our preschool roundup. Our numbers, this is one of those things sometimes parents show, sometimes they don't, you know. So, our numbers aren't looking really good. Um, it looks like seven for AM for the three-year-olds and then probably somewhere around five. But, but that all being said, we have more on our list of perspective. So, we may have to go to a half a day program. I don't know yet. We're just kind of leaving that to set out and see what we get as as the enrollment process goes on. So, um I'm just happy to have 84 at the end of the school year. That's about where we were sitting last year. So, that's the baby.
Um so teams line up on the two opposite lines and then they use the um the foam balls that throw against the large ball and kind of push it over the other side's line which is great but third graders don't understand physics and when they hit the ball it ricochets into them and inevitably I'm standing there watching video of kids getting hit in the face by their own ball and It's not cool, but it's one of the funniest things you've ever seen in your life. Um, oh, kids love it. Um, obviously we we are part of, and I know I'm forgetting some here. We have Americanore seniors on campus volunteering. We're part of the Yavapai Library Network. The American Legion is on our campus. The Elks are on our campus. Um, all of our local police departments are on our campus. And in fact, in three weeks at our our MAP Force Day at the end of the year, we have a DPS helicopter landing on our field.
Um, the only thing the only slide I didn't really understand was slide six on the pair on the shortened one with the policies revision thematic change policies this pertains to listed is I I'm assuming that's something that Adriana put in there and um I don't know if her thought process was to just put them all on one slide rather than having them broken down like they were last year, which is fine, too. So, I think that is what we talked about last time was that it was the people weren't focused on hearing about each committee or each policy and that we could make some sort of more general list of the policies that we reviewed without going into each one. I think she's calling sematic change. Can we call her just because it looks like she did some editing to it? Yeah, I think she I mean she and you said that you were talking to her.
So, if you are feeling inspired, I encourage you to come visit anytime to any of your district librarians um or district libraries. We will answer your questions, give you a tour, and we always welcome your support, and you are welcome to check out our Amazon wish lists as well. But overall, I just want to thank you for your time and thank you for this opportunity. Thank you. Thank you, Kristen. me to go ahead and get going on the accomplishments. Yeah. Okay. Um I'm gonna start with uh Mr. Cornwell can come on up. We're going to um the board, you know, that we started bowling this year, first time, and Mr. Cornwell is going to share some exciting news with our bowling team from 2025. Good evening board. Um, so in our first year of having a bowling team, I am happy to announce that we had four members uh make it down to state.
Um and then lastly, you know, engaging those students, talking about what what school means to them and and where do they feel, you know, safe in the school and what spaces do they gravitate towards and how would they like to see uh their their schools uh develop over time. So those three primary uh pro steps in the process in the middle there, vision, program, and options. Vision really is about establishing what your values are, what your priorities are. Program is really got to do with the issues of capacity, how you deliver education and the condition of your existing facilities. Options is where we'll develop multiple ways of addressing those programmatic needs. And then going through that decision-making process is really about vetting what's the best one, what best meets your values and your program. This process we've worked with very successfully over the years. Most recent referendums that have passed include the the Glen View School District 34 $119 million referendum that is in its final phase of construction now.
Thanks. Can you go back one more? So what we'll need the indicator is to determine what is the best path between scenario A and scenario B is when 2026 net assess value is released on August 1st on around August 1, we'll be able to determine exactly where our estimated tax rate will come in. So if the board wants to do additional studying before you come back and issue bonds, we can either have flexibility as president Herszog asked on scenario B or the second scenario to come back in 2026. This one we could structure a way that give you additional time to work through the conversations with the community that if you didn't want to wait until 2027, you could pursue it with a quicker repayment like this. So that that quicker repayment basically limit the amount of debt to keep it level that we would be able to take the next year and spread it across.
So we've envisioned several paths or sitting areas. And then later on you'll see some pictures that Max created with some benches and sitting areas. And we think that that's crucial to promote awareness of what we're doing. Yeah, that's a good picture example. Um, and it'll give kids a place to sit outside and enjoy the weather and learn. And it's not just, you know, science classes that can go out there, math classes, art classes, whatever. It's just a pretty place outside that all students can go and enjoy. Yeah, that's the benches that we were talking about. But yeah, This picture we have in this picture we have what some native grass would look like. And the importance of this is if you could imagine you're building a house and in the living room you put nothing up except drywall, no paint, and then you just cover it with family pictures.
This situation bothered me and it led me to looking to some more approaches I could do in my classroom this year. Okay, so my goal is all my students will know all 26 basic letter sounds by May 22nd, 2025, which aligns with the district's goal of 100% of students K to2 reading on level by third grade. the approaches that I use currently in my classroom. Um I do the OG letter cards and review a blending board and um which is a second dip of what they're already doing in their classroom just for another um exposure to that. Um I do some Heggerty Phoenix phenom hold on phmic awareness drills and skills like rhyming and segmenting. Um and then UFI is something new to me this year that I've um introduced a little bit here and there with some more games and activities. Um the approaches that I added this year, one was um Zoo Phonics.
We're very blessed as a community to have sharing places uh an unbelievable organization uh housed here in our building. And I want to give a little bit of historical context. Mr. Schemacher alluded to it. Roger Smith. He was in a very small area on the south side of the building. I don't think people understand the context of how much this program has grown. and with the partnership of the school corporation, we've been able to probably triple his space and give him more space, which has served our community. So, going back to Miss Dunn's question, excuse me, Miss um Lawrence's question about, you know, who do they serve? I summize that looking at the zip codes, the majority of people are Lawrence Township patrons and we share zip codes. He's got a few westside zip codes that we share with other places. These are people in our community and so we're very blessed to have you, Mr.
Um, what part do they play in that? What do they think about the potential new initiatives? What can we do to make them feel comfortable? What does a roll out look like for a new initiative? Have we planned it properly? Have we considered a timeline for it? Does it make sense for our staff? What are the steps we need to do in between the here's a great idea, Jessie's asking us to do this, so let's get over here and do it. What happens in between and how long is that going to take? And I think in order to make it respectful, in order to have it roll out properly, we really need to involve all the constituents in it and have task force. So that would be including our teachers in that, some of our administrators, inviting parents and students in that to really have the conversations, piloting some things so that they have a voice.
Um, this is a division of the student newspaper. I do have to say that I did have an opportunity uh, last year, not not this year yet, but that might just have gotten me in trouble because I'm probably going to get invited now. No, it was really fun uh to sit with our students and I can say that there's a really committed group of our students who have done some really great work this year and they're going to tell you uh some of the highlights of who they've had an opportunity to interview. Thank you. I have um Michael and Andrew here. Um our host Anukica is in a tennis match right now. She's hoping to make it back and there's a few others on tennis and sports. So, we're kind of The thing about our students is they're super involved. The thing about our students is they're super involved.
Moving on. Communications. So, we have elementary school report. I don't think they have any additions at this time. Are there any questions for me? Anyone have any question? Oh, how's the book? We just finished today. So, the Julian question more question middle school math. I don't have anything to add other questions. question. The only thing I add is um with Sage Bell for nationals for her POI this past weekend. So we have FA forensics FCCLA right now all qualified for and then Kids all for nationals. So, it's it's good to be a wild cat right now. Where is the kid win? Phoenix. I said they're not able to drive this year, so we're more expensive, but getting all the arrangements, Airbnb and all that kind of stuff. So, and they're taking two teams. So, the another team found out. So, they're taking the different grade levels, right?
Do you have any questions? Thank you very much. Thank you. Welcome to the high school where you kind of know what's going to happen. Um, my report's pretty short. Uh, last week was a really rough week. I know we've done more than this, but um I Yeah, I just couldn't come up with a whole lot more. Um, we had prom a couple weeks ago. Everything went really well. We host that down at the um community building. Um, besides it being really cold and windy, it was it was a good night for him. Um, no problems with atrocom. They used a couple buses and went up to Salina. Um, so everything report the kids had a good time. They were tired, but um, they enjoyed their time up there. Um, I had been talking to you earlier this year about that CT health pathway. Um, we were able to get that approved.
um and they're they're super excited about that as well. The Lions are part of our everyday um endeavors and reading and millionword readers. Um Kathma is um is always gracious in everything that they provide and especially on our um Dr. Suss week and Yavapai College who is so prominent at the um at the high school level um provides services and opportunities and in fact for our gardening club um they're helping us out a for next year but b for this year as well and going to be providing all of our plants and seeds. It's going to be awesome. Please um but again character is what we do. Um we have six pillars that we focus on. These are almost cliche at this point, but trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, citizenship, these are literally going to be painted on our pillars um at the school after we get our school painted some point school facilities board.