You have to have a certain number of lunch periods. So yes, you can have all the classrooms in the world, but you can only fit eat feed so many kids at a time. So then kids start eating at 9:00 am when they walk in the door and they're taking their last lunch at one so that you can maximize the classrooms because you can to a certain extent and within the allowable amounts of our our collective bargaining agreement, we have a certain capacity of classrooms, you know, and that have some flexibility to them in some cases. So, and then they're looking at also not just one school. They're kind of looking at all of them across the district because it's a bit of a push and pull game as I understand. Yeah, it is a it's it's a puzzle. You got to figure out where all the pieces fit.
That bottom one star renaissance is what the diagnostic will replace but it's now all in one platform communicating to each other. At the end of next school year 2526 we will look at discontinuing then math seeds and reading eggs and then Alex for 68. So all together is 121327 is what we've been spending on these math and reading platforms where now we're able to bring it down to 92,330 cuz that 345 is only a one-time fee for professional development which we were able to use grant funds for again pending approval. The grant funding would cover the professional development. So the only thing really coming from the district would be the I Ready Diagnostic benchmark assessment and personalized learning platform. Are the numbers on the left here, are those nearly plus? Yes, ma'am. So, what we're saying though is next year will be slightly more expensive because we'd be doing I Ready plus math seats plus Alex, but after next school year it would all come I Ready, right?
And every time we get those press packets, the administrative procedures are in there just like the policies in the exhibits, but those don't get updated by the board. Those go to the administrative side. So, you'll see every press packet what's in there and which policies, exhibits, and procedures are updated. And then in the procedural manual, if something is an exhibit, it would be designated, for example, policy two uh colon 250e. And if it's a proced or an administrative procedure, it will be policy 2 col 250 AP. So you can still tell even looking at the pro procedure mano which is an exhibit and which is an AP. Questions? We can take a vote, please. Mindy Hartman. Yes. Katherine Powder, yes. Stacy Salt, yes. Julie Jetty, yes. Jason Jansig, yes. Bridget Sandlin, yes. Darling, yes. Motion is approved. Next up, we have the approval to add policy 340E exhibit checklist for the superintendent employment contract negotiation process to the policy manual.
So, those are ones that we board has not ever gotten the the memos until just recently like they've always been available if you log if you log into press ISB press because we don't get them in our emails or whatever. We don't you have to go in and I'm just saying nobody is sitting there reading policy. Right. Right. And we we definitely um Mrs. Potter had requested for the board to start receiving those and once the new one comes out you guys will get the newest one. Also um you know a lot of districts for whatever reasons are behind on their administrative procedures manuals being outdated. um we requested that from ISB but there's a wait list so we have to wait till our turn to even because even if whatever the board decides regarding the exhibits it will be the recommendation of administration at some point to go through this and update the administrative procedural manual because it has not been regularly updated along with when we get the updates we could do that so we really need to do an overhaul of that as well so wherever the board falls you know that's up to the board to decide but I do want to explain The administrative procedure manual will be something that the board could have access to if you all wanted to see it.
So everything that we fundraised 1200 bucks and if you're asking people to do that, you know, if you're saying shall then you got to make sure that and it says in our policy to have someone financially look that's a great point because it cost them cost us $1,200 to have our that done professionally because it's nonforprofit. No one wants to deal with it. It took us a year to find someone to do that. So now organizations are, you know, it's not going to be unless you're going to find somebody to do it for free or pro bono. And I'm telling you right now, even to pay somebody was absolutely terrible. And I don't know how much bake sales make. Well, how about how about this, Jamie and Bill? Do we think, again, I know there's some things need to be changed, it sounds like. Do we think this is a policy that we want?
Way to fight that pitcher off. Good job. Keeps herself alive up there. Pitch is inside. Full count. Full count on Alex Padulla. Runner at first. He rockets that ball into left field, but right at the right at the left fielder goes right under that ball. That was a well struck ball right down the line. Left fielder was just right there and gets the out. Russell not able to get any runs on the board to try to make it through the top of the seventh inning and see if they could do something in the bottom of the seventh here. only down by nine runs. We've seen people come back from that. Pa back out on the mound. Coach going in to warm him up. First catch to get the equipment on. tough for the pitchers as the temperatures uh start to drop. Try to stay loose and pitch your pitches.
We're going to continue that work next year and go more in depth. Um the the passion and excitement within that team, especially the CTE teachers, is amazing. Um and they're using the strategies in their in their career areas and seeing seeing progress. So, that's really great. Um and then last piece here. So with all that being said, so that's that's where we're at right now. What are we looking at going forward? So we really wanted to make sure that because we do have lots of things going on that we have a single focus that will bring everything together. Um because as you know, if you're doing a little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little bit of something else, um you're not going to really see that progress. So um did a lot of work in looking at, okay, we want to make sure it's grounded in data.
The person is well respected. Jacob is well respected by teachers, staff, and classmates, and is a role model to others. The hard work, effort, and dedication demonstrated in all areas of school make Jacob deserving of this extremely special award. And it's with great pleasure that we present you with the Golden Horseshoe Award. And he will have a Golden Horseshoe Student Achievement Award with his name and date on it that we'll get to you at the end of the day. Okay. Or tomorrow. Thank you. [Applause] The next The next award is a principal's award presented by Mrs. Diana Quas. [Music] Okay, I hadn't got emotional, but I've been watching you guys this whole time and I'm starting to get have a lot of good memories with a lot of you in here. So, the principal's award is an award that celebrates students with growth, resilience, and character that they've shown along the way.
Prior to that, it was a combination of student activities funds from around the district and a little bit of funds from the curriculum instruction and assessment department's um M discretionary budget. Does that fall into like enrichment programs like afterchool enrichment programs? That's how we categorized it at that time. Yes. And is there a possibility that the program like that will be brought back next year? As Jay likes to say, there's always a possibility. It would just be a question of what we would be willing to to to let go of in order to free up other dollars to pay for those costs. Okay. Yeah. Or or as was mentioned earlier, if we could find I mean, there are grants out there that will support things like that. So, one of the thing one of we've restructured our grants department, and one of the reasons we've done that is to be able to be more effective at going out for competitive grants.
And now that class is getting cut right after we did that. And I've also seen that class literally save students lives. When we were giving our farewell speeches, I heard multiple students talk about how they were depressed, anxious, and even had suicide on their mind. But because that class, they continued to push through because they knew they had real friends in there and they knew that they could be themselves in there. I fortunately have friends outside of that class, but other students in there do not have friends outside of that class. So, not only are you cutting off their class, you're cutting off all of their friends because the way they'd hang out with their friends would be by going to the football events, filming the football events, which yet again I state multiple times, we never got any credit for attention for filming the football games, um, filming Mr.
And so, what you're saying is their crystal ball is just a little bit better than yours on the uh projections. Yeah, they do this for a living. So, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I I don't do this for a living. We've pressed Tony in the past about what he thinks projections might be like, and he's like, "My crystal ball is not very good at that sort of thing." And it's very hard to guess based on a house how many people are going to come as a student but there are other people with better metrics I guess. So really really quick when they do this will they give us like is it just a year out or how many years out would this be? Like if they you know they we do this and they say okay well we're projecting 2027 to be this 2028 this 2029 this.
Correct. Okay. Yes. And I correct. Yes. Can I say one thing, Mr. River? Um, one of the things that when we were I I was on the committee for the assessment pieces, one of the things that I kept saying to the group, they I probably got on their their nerves. The personalized pathway I recommends that a student is not on there longer than 30 minutes a week. So, this is not something that a kid should be sitting in front of an iPad or in front of a screen clicking away every day. It is not to replace. They should be on there long enough to get practice, get instruction and to then also it's almost working like a progress monitoring. So, so the I Ready assessment suite along with um the path can continuously assess where the student is giving another data point to see okay the student may have been in the fall on the benchmark here but you it will basically do a growth trajectory for each individual student.
May I have a motion to approve to add policy 340E exhibit checklist for the superintendent employment contract negotiation process to the policy manual as presented? So moved. Second. Any discussion? This um would be moved to the administrative procedure manual. Correct. No, you're haven't put in policy by that motion. This says policy. So, I guess I guess just to clarify, we had one conversation and the board had det had decided to put these on the action prior to look um getting the full answer regarding um how the procedures and how the exhibits would operate. So, because that was the board's decision to put it on the board agenda, we didn't want to not put it on there since that was in the minutes. So, yes, essentially, if the board votes yes and um passes this, it would be in the policy manual temporarily and then it would move with the administrative over to the administrative procedures like all the rest or the board could vote no and they would move still to the administrative.
It is not public facing, but right now it is grossly outdated where we don't use it. We typically go to policy and then go from there. I would a thousand% support the update of the AP manual. Absolutely. A thousand because I know how you guys turn to that and having that updated constantly that's probably more, right? And I feel like as long as we have access to these exhibits in that AP login that that's kind of solving the problem for us as well. Okay. I don't know about that. But I mean not all not all of these but some but I have taken away here why I feel like I do understand a little bit better as we're trying to sort through this. And believe me I don't know if anyone's more sick of talking about this than probably me. like I'm just done. Um, but I do see how Dr.
And if so, Jamie, this is going to be your first policy assignment with our superintendent to go and kind of revise it, tweak it or whatever, then bring it back to the board if any board members have any input on it, get it to you and superintendent to look at that policy, bring it back to the committee as a whole. We can discuss it. I think there's an easy way to just be like boom bank statements and that would then cover it up like just give us ask them for your w whatever or something like that. You could do I guess a simple way to look at it is but we we okay as a consensus to keep the policy but just you know yeah I think the especially if somebody's misusing our logo that's problematic or using it nefariously. I get concerned when we're then burdening the people doing good works with this extra cost that will then take away from the kids.
Looks like we're ready to top this seventh inning underway. Another nine out for Hopkins. That's another name I don't have. High hit ball in the infield. Called for by the called for by the shortstop Colton Gorman. Great job screaming out that he had that ball. Make sure that, you know, Pettit didn't come back and try to get it to and have him crash. So, exactly what you're supposed to do. Good job. Got the first out. We got Nelson up for Hawinson. He's off. Oh, just outside of the reach of um Ben McKay on third base. That gets way out into left field. That's going to be a double. Comes in sharply hit line drive and reached over. It was maybe, you know, eight inches beyond his glove to get to it. We got one out, runner on second. Number 21 about bat here for [Music] Hawkington.
We want to make sure because there's lots of things that could work, but what's our highest leverage strategy and also what's going to be most relevant schoolwide. Um, and what has come back time and time again from all these different data points. Um, it was very clear to us that this needed to be the focus was the question is who's doing the heavy lifting? Um, is it the teachers or is it the students? Now, the teachers are working really hard and they're doing a lot of heavy lifting. um we want to transfer that to the students. So like Ryan brought up earlier about the student centered learning. Um we want to create learning experiences where kids do have that opportunity to take greater ownership of their learning, be more active participants. Um be able to un to answer why. Why are you doing what you're doing?
And I would like to call up the first student who will be receiving this award, which is Amelio Bion. So stay right here. Amelio approaches every task with a thoughtful heart and focused mind. He is someone you can count on to do the right thing even when no one is watching. Alio, your steady leadership and respect for others are deeply appreciated by your teachers and your peers. The next award is Vivana Aragon. [Applause] Viviana, thank you for bringing kindness and determination in everything you do. It's been a pleasure also watching you throughout the years grow in jazz band. I see that passion and dedication you've had and it's been beautiful. She leads not with volume but with values, hard work, integrity and compassion. Viviana, you are a quiet force of nature and your drive to succeed while lifting others along the way inspires not only your peers but inspires us all.
One of the reasons, as Miss Shapiro said, often very large districts tend to tap into those grants more is because when you're 50 or 100 schools, you have the budget capacity to have a team of a dozen people who that's what they do, right? But in a district of our size where we're only 4,500 kids, you know, our whole team consists of, you know, 2 point something people. So, uh, but we've been able to make some adjustments with that team to improve its capacity in the hopes of being able to chase more of those grants because we recognize what's been choking a lot of these programs out is they were funded by the federal dollars that keep dwindling. And given the current federal landscape, the concern is that that will continue to be a problem that will just get worse and worse. So, we need to find some other alternate funding sources to be able to support those programs that are desired within the district.
Ye's apology note for the weapon being brought on campus and for Jude Flores. Neither neither of those cases we get any shout outs for or any recognition for. And I think that is unfair, but we never minded because we never did it for the recognition. And so, like I said before, that class saved students lives. I will not name any students, but I've heard them talk about how they have considered suicide, but they showed up to school the next day because they knew they could feel safe in that class, specifically from Mr. Clonz. So, I think these kids might go home now that this class isn't there, and suicide might happen because this class is being cut. And I think that might be on the hands of Gilbert Public. Our next speaker is Nathan Zimmerman. I am also here today representing the Highland Broadcasting and Film Production class and I would like to reiterate that this class helps people find their passion.