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It would also look at how much space we have in each of our schools and how we program those spaces to meet the needs of students. So, uh right now let's take HC Storm, right? So, we have a capacity like right now in place, right, of what how many students there are like we can house. So, this company would just look at H Storm again and kind of say, "Okay, like there's a huge storage closet and we could use this for whatever." Um, and then maybe make this for like another classroom or something. Is that what that this is kind of doing? Yeah, that's an excellent question that I did not go into detail on. So, thank you for asking. There are two types of capacity. One, there is a building capacity that essentially, you know, the fire marshall would put on the wall and say, "How many people you could fit in a classroom?" Uh, and then there's the effective capacity from a programmatic standpoint is we're operating a kindergarten classroom, for example, and a kindergarten classroom has certain size space needs, but it also has certain functional needs, especially when it comes to toileting and the accessibility of water fountains and the like.
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Then they'll come back for a third training at the end of the winter window in January. And the intent of that one now is to learn how to cross analyze beginning of the year data in the fall to middle of the year data in the winter in hopes that they can translate that then to the end of the school year. And now we're looking at long range cross analy cross analyzing analysis. Thank you. I was like we're shutting down. Shutting down. Last part is what does I ready replace? In conjunction with all of this, our technology committee was also evaluating all of the different platforms. So, a lot of moving parts here, a lot of different committees then coming together all at once. In addition, we had to make sure that these all the platforms were in alignment with previously adopted materials. So, Andy, thank you for reminding me.
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So um he said really it's board choice where they go. Um, so it's it truly is up to the board, but there definitely is an avenue either way very similar to making sure that those exhibits are updated regularly. So, just to clarify, if if we get in one of our press updates, that would also update the exhibit without needing to open up the administrative uh procedure manual. If we were to adopt that pu h specific policy, it would automatically update in the administrative procedure manual or we'd have to vote on that as well. Once the procedure manual project is done, that is what would happen. Okay. But the exhibits themselves would be updated by the administrators. The board wouldn't have to update those automatically automatically. So if we we pass the we pass the policy and that policy contains a new Z exhibit or an updated exhibit that happens that would be simultaneous right to the uh to the policy.
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So, we don't have that now. We have that for all the policies, which is great. And as we're preparing issue 117, I hope the board will see, we're bringing that in June, how much easier it's going to be to update our policies. It's it's we uh we've already been looking at um Dr. White and uh Mrs. Dorfer and I, and it's amazing. It's so much easier. We could do that on the procedural side and update all of our procedures. If the board chose to move the exhibits over, we could then also update the exhibits with the procedures because it would all be in the procedure manual. So, I know that's a long kind of long-winded answer, but there is a path to be able to do that as well. So, the procedural manual though is not it's not not public facing. It is not public facing.
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What I don't want is some organizations doing this and some organizations not. I think we need holistic collective standard again either we have the policy we take or we take the policy out or we have the policy that have some insurance that everybody have follow a standard this way with the word in my opinion council should and sh is so subjective and if we say you know what let's do away with the policy I'm fine with that But if we keep it, I think that word should be changed so everybody can follow the same course of action. Do we need to put it on the agenda for next regular meeting? I mean, we could talk I mean, we can hash it out at a committee at a whole then vote on it. Obviously, we can't take action tonight. It's not an action item, right? Yeah.
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Definitely had some nice days, some beautiful days, but a lot of cold days, drizzly days, windy days. That's what you get in May. See if a can do something here. 12. There's my math. Coach was asking for the score. A tough time over there managing the team, keeping score, getting everything to happen. Looks like Gray Follow will be the first at bat here for for Ashlin facing a new pitcher. There we go. First pitch on first strike. Foul tip backwards into the basketball courts. Nobody gets hit. And two down in the dirt. One ball, two strikes. That's in there for a strike. It's one out for Ashlin. The bat is Nathaniel Cardardoso do a little damage here. Bottom of the sixth inning. Nice cut for a strike. And there for another strike. 0 and two. Third strike. Great pitch in there by uh by Shaw.
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We're going to continue to expand it next year. Um we have some kids who were reading on a kindergarten level and then are now reading on a second grade level which may not seem like a huge thing but it is really really huge. Um and um our special education services, those were being delivered during the win block, what I need block. That was really hard for kids um on IEPs because they weren't getting the time with the academic teachers that they needed and wanted because they were getting the services done. So we're moving that into this new block that the teacher team has rebranded to extension block. We're very excited about this name. Um but so it's inclusive of all these services that are going to be given during this time and it's about 40ish% of the kids who will be receiving these services and then the other block there the semester based content courses they're data driven.
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[Applause] I have an award here for outstanding excellence in art. Jason Jaden Herbert. [Applause] I have an award here for excellence in social studies. Brody [Applause] Smith. I have an award here for outstanding excellence in citizenship. Vivana Argones. [Applause] I saved the last one because this has something to do with my life, too. I did everything I could in math, calculus, everything all the way accounting. When I got out of college, I go, I don't think I'll ever use that. I did 20 some years in law enforcement and new chief came in and said, "We need somebody to do financial investigations." Anybody know anybody that has that experience? Guess what? I got stuck with it. So, you never know when it's going to happen. I have an award here for outstanding excellence in math. Landon Hanan. [Applause] Thank you. [Applause] Thank [Applause] [Music] you. Next is the Golden Horseshoe Student Achievement Award presented by Mrs.
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I think it pays for one of the teachers. Um I just I'm not sure how to fund it adequately to that level. Um, it just depends on the program and how we support the program in our district. I know that we have a gifted program and I give you every one of those that $1,000 goes towards it. Every penny of it, you know, and more and more. From what I understand, I thought I heard this and I can't pinpoint where, but we're the district is making more of an effort to identify our gifted students earlier, aren't they? Like cuz I think like we started testing all second graders. Oh, it's a free test. So, so that's a free test given by the state that they test all the second graders. We we actually do the testing but they provide the test to us. But okay, if we identify more, we'll get more but I mean it's only 30 cents a student and I may have exact it's actually more than 30 cents a student.
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And I also think it was unfair for this decision to be made so close to the end of the school year because I was going to be TAing for Mr. Clones's and taking the class next year. So now my entire schedule got changed and now I don't have classes I would like to have. And now my senior year and my senior experience in high school is going to be partially messed up because of that. And I think that's unfair. I also think it's not fair to be cutting it because our motto at Highland and Gilbert is diversity. to have different religions, different race, um different political views. And in Mr. Clone's class, I've seen that. And throughout my three years of high school, I've not seen that anywhere else besides in that classroom. In that class, you don't have to worry about being cool, um dressing cool, acting cool.
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And so this study would look at that functional programmatic capacity and say all right uh this is how many students that you can fit in a school which is a much smaller number than the effective building capacity but it depends on how you use that space and these are the options that you have. If you use it this way you can fit this many. If you use it that way you can fit this many. Does that make sense? Okay. But that's what they're going to be looking at the programmatic capacity and not necessarily the building capacity. Any other questions? No, I mean this is I've been involved in a few of these processes before and so like that that I've heard the term also functional capacity so that the building is functional. So like an example of the how programs you could do it is and you can imagine the challenge cafeteria is only a certain size can hold only certain number of kids.
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I'm going to give credit where credit's due. I Ready integrates very nicely into branching minds as well. So all this information will feed overnight into branching minds. So teachers have that at their fingertips when they pull up information on students and branching minds as well. Um but what does I Ready replace I Ready and teachers were informed of this plan yesterday at the end no Friday at the end of the day. Not yesterday was Sunday. Friday at the end of the day they were informed of this uh discontinuation plan. So EXL for grades 35 will be discontinued at the end of the school year. Moby Max for 68 will be discontinued. I station will be discontinued in K5 duel and then Star Renaissance discontinued. Total spent in that category was 83,853. No. So the first three that are listed there are basically what the personalized learning platform is going to replace.
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So we wouldn't have to wait to open up the AP manual again. We could it would just happen automatically. Perfect. And for now while we don't have that updated new procedural manual as because we're already getting press packets for the new uh issue 117 and 118 have just come out. So we would go ahead and update those as they're coming out even before we are updating the entire procedural manual just to make sure that those are that we're keeping pace with those. Great. Thank you for clarifying. And the board and um in there we can review last um week I sent press 118. If you take a look in there, it outlines what is a AP administrative procedure, what's an exhibit, and what's policy. So, you'll see kind of what the updates would look like. That would happen wherever the exhibits land, wherever they if they land in policy, if or if they go to the um administrative procedure manual.
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Is it boardfacing? Like I will go into how many people on the board sign into press? I in there once, right? And that's an issue if you can only find the exhibit or whatever in press. I guess I have to go into press to see if we can see AP cuz I know that we have different login and different things that we can see. We're learning this as we're going through and trying to figure out what the heck is going on. Um, and what this all means is that you can see different things in press than we can see and and vice versa. Um, but you can see procedures because we can see AP we can double check but when you get those policy uh packets that they do four times a year the procedures show up on the worksheet but as at the board meeting we don't bring those procedures to the board meeting because those those aren't uh in board policy those are procedure manuals.
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But I'm just saying is that something we want to do? We're not taking action. I'm just looking at as for consensus to move forward to further talk about that. I think we would need to define what the a professional accounting is. That may be burdensome to some of these to get a professional like forensics accountant in there or just to look over it. So not everything's free, right? So for like a PTO, so as much as they're fundraising, then we're going to have to have them put out a couple hundred bucks a year to get an accounting. So what I think we need to figure out is what we're looking for like bank statements. Are we looking for a complete accounting like dime by dime? So that's a great point because at Showquire, we just had ours had to have ours done and it cost 1,200 bucks.
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Back to the top of the order for Ashlin. Ryan Halaka and trying to make something happen here. Nice hard hit ball right down the third baseline. Oh, we thought about turning around. Left field did a great job getting to that ball, getting it in, limiting it out to a base hit. Nice, nice, sharply hit ball right down the third baseline. That's going to bring Alex Padull up to bout. He's got a runner on first. Oh, kind of a foul, you know, kind of a tip ball that landed fair but then rolled right out right down the first base line. Padulla had some wheels. He didn't know what's going to happen with it. He He blazed down the first base. Great job on that. That's in there for strike quickly behind in the count here. Good eye ball. That ball's low. Two and two. Jul hits a foul.
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So right now kids go every quarter and kids who aren't receiving those services they quarter in math quarter in English quarter in science quarter in social studies. We're changing that. Semesterdriven courses and we're going to place them based on what their needs are. So kids who needed more accelerated um experience will be in that. Um and then other kids who need those literacy supports will be in there. So um so there's that piece. You talked about the literacy initiatives. These are all moving forward um at a at a pretty good clip. Um and wanted to just highlight the schoolwide literacy team. feel like we're finally g gaining some traction here in terms of literacy and I think big piece of it is making sure that the team driving the work is representative of the whole student body um you can't just do literacy work in English class um it's literacy is everywhere um in everything that we do so the team is a mix of CTE teachers academic teachers specialists counselors and administrators um worked this year to develop a a schoolwide literacy vision um done learning walks, analyzed student data, um done a lot of learning together, and um started to put tools together um to to share with staff.
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Roxanna [Applause] Rico. Okay, you're doing an awesome job. Boys and girls, do you want to just stand up real quick and sit right back down? Just stretch. Adults, you can too. Quick up and down if you need to. Yes. Shake it out. Okay, good. Thank you. We're almost done. You're doing amazing. We never expect them to sit this long and I know it's hard for the adults as well. I would like to invite for the Golden Horseshoe Student Achievement Award, Jacob Douly. Please stand up. [Applause] When considering a candidate for this award, the teachers look for a well-rounded individual who does well academically, is a model student with behavior, and who is involved in activities in school. We look at their character and this particular individual excels in kindness, humility, responsibility, goodness, and positive energy making them a wonderful presence in and out of the classroom.
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It's like I don't know how many gifted students we have. something not in that. It's not in the room. I would have to look that number up, but our total My other question is I think that's overstating how much we get per student. Actually, not not joking. I think 30 cents is too much. Uh my other question is where does the funding come from for programs like Battle of the Books that was cancelled this year because I was told because of funding. I can speak to that. Miss Smith, good evening. Um, we had used uh several different buckets of money to pay for that in the past. Most recently, it was funded with our ESSER dollars, which were the pandemic relief grant funds that we had access to. So, the last three, four years of Battle of the Books, that's how how that was funded.
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You get to go in there and be yourself. And that's what Gilbert Public Schools promotes. And I do not see that in high school besides in that class. And now that is being taken away. I have seen that class do magnificent things as well. Um like chords for a cause. As most of you know, we we ran cords for the cause to raise money for Jude Flores because in my opinion, Highland High School and lots of other Gilbert or and Gilbert public schools as a whole did not do not do anything for that unlike the Highland Broadcasting class. And we didn't even get recognized for that over the school announcements. Only the bands in courts for a cause got a shadow. Not our class. And we didn't even care about that because we're not doing it for the intention. We're just doing it because it's a good thing.
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