Okay. >> Well, we could we could put the tax implication document on 34 million and 45 million, attach it to the survey, but I think it's going to be easier if we put it right out there. You want surveys to be You don't want people to spend 30 minutes because if they do if they see they're going to have to spend 30 minutes, they'll just move on. >> Can you just build it into the question? >> I I can do we'll be able to build it into the response. >> Does that make sense? >> What's the response? >> I'm sorry. >> Like could you just build it into the question and like after 15ear bond you put the information in the >> implications >> right there. Okay. I I see what you're saying now. I got it's right there next to it. >> Yep. >> Okay.
So, this is this is a really good overview template that that I think would be good for us to use moving forward um in our handbooks into next year with how we need to use AI in the schools and teaching kids how to use AI appropriately uh because there is going to be a use for that moving forward and the use is not to do your completed work but to use it as a reference tool when allowed by teachers. So, um the next one that's on there is IKV, which goes over controversial issues. Um this this policy talks about um it not being appropriate for teachers to use moments to express their personal viewpoints in such a way that it would violate board policy or state law, state law policy on political activity. IKCA is the next one and there's two there that removes references to AIDS throughout the human sexuality education policy.
board clerk Vince. Um I also would like to mention that many of the steps there are things that we're already doing but what we're trying to do now is formalize the process um that and and and formalize the process in documenting it as well. Um but I'm looking forward um this is like you mentioned it's going to be an extra effort uh from our teachers from our leaison from our principles. Um but nevertheless it's another great step in encouraging our kids to make sure that to show that we love them and that we believe in them and and motivate them to be here in school. >> Thank you. Next we go on to number eight uh 202627 student and family handbook. >> Members of the board uh members of the community I would like to also summon Miss Marita Mason uh to come and help me with this item.
They can just roll off the bus into the building which is super cool. um far more accessible that way. So in that building would be our um cent's program which is for our most severely and profoundly disabled students which has a large life skills component. So there's a kitchen, a washerd dryer, stove. Um we also have some therapy areas, some sensory areas. We have outdoor garden space. Um, so kids can be working in the garden, learning to grow things, doing science lessons, but also for some of those sensory and calming areas for students who often feel very overwhelmed. We also have the um we have agricultural classrooms there that will have the big sinks that dirt and other things can, you know, go down and be appropriately filtered. We have the media arts program. Our space will include audio recording areas for podcasts, um video recording and production areas.
And so this was just a general question and students um gave us free response answers. And just to highlight that about a quarter of the students who were meeting with the teacher first semester found that to be valuable and that's a habit that they wanted to keep. Something else to highlight which was interesting was only 9.1% that they wanted to keep completing homework. you see the habit to try because that was the second question habits to keep habits to try that 64% said that is a learning level up strategy that they so you know to say threearters of the students are realizing that one piece of a level up strategy that they can find value in but it's really great to see that and personally in my classroom I've seen to say maybe five students turn an assignment up to 20ome students turning in that assignment um within this first month back to school.
And again, these are student grades. So it's not counting individual students, it's counting grades of C or better. So A, B, and C grades. So those are the overall first semester. All of our students were in grades of C's or better. 95% of the grades almost 96. This one is looking specifically at individual unique students. So each student only counts once. We looked at students who earned a grade of D, a grade of a D or an F. And as you can see, and again we're looking at North High School. This is the percent of students who earned a DRF grade first semester. You can see that percentage went down significantly from last year. Obviously, the lowest of the five years that are there, but we're seeing uh an increase of over 2% almost 2.25% from the previous year. And so we're definitely moving in the right direction.
I'm happy to be part of it, have the opportunity contribute to that. So really grateful and really gratified for that opportunity. Um so to go over the highlights of what happened at our last SSAC meeting that we had um four days ago. Um we were discussing the lunch and learn. Now we're getting close to the date. The date for the lunch and learn at OE will be on the February 19th which is a Thursday. And OS's will be at um on March 3rd which is a Tuesday. So those are our two lunch and learn dates. >> What time is it? just like 10:30 to 2 or whatever. >> It'll be during lunch. >> During all the lunches? >> Yeah, because these are school days. So, um from fourth period, fifth period, sixth period, and seventh period, that's four periods of lunch for students to come in, teachers to come in and improve the relationships.
I appreciate all you do. Thank you for, you know, always coming and talking to us. I think this is a big part of our students and a lot of students struggle with this and so getting in there for the short intervention, I think, makes a big difference. So, I appreciate you and everybody that works with that. Thank you. Thank you. question. >> Uh Christa, approximately what percentage of our student body in a given school would be in a behavior academy? So our goal is that this is a tier 2 intervention. Our goal is that most of our students are responding to that whole class instruction that they get in the morning meetings or through the once a week instruction here at middle school. Um, tier 2 is really kind of that like maybe 10% might be eligible, but 10% is a broad number. It doesn't necessarily have to be a behavior academy.
This is just basically a way to control for traffic. It's not necessarily to keep anybody out. Uh it's just to know who's in. And that this is all part of the the [snorts] safety path that we're taking to, you know, make things better. >> It's very easy. It's very simple. >> Any other questions from the board? Okay. All in favor of ADF safe visitor the visitor management system as present and say I >> opposed. Motion carries. >> All right. 8G. I'd like to do a motion to discuss the CECC prek tuition. Um, $250 expenses such as salary supplies on this. This is a increase $100 per week to $50 and that would start in the fall. >> Okay. All in favor of AG uh 8 uh excuse me 8G the CECC prek tuition uh modification say I motion carries. Uh 8H let's get a motion to discuss recess and lunch supervisor job description.
They're extraordinary girls and ball players. So, it was exciting to see and I'm looking forward to high school basketball the next four years. >> Thank you, ladies. Great job. Alison's I hear she's selling Girl Scout cookies. >> Yes. If anyone's eating Girl Scout cookies, I am selling those. They're delicious. $6 a box. Um but we um cafeteria everything's going good. We finished the month off actually um still making a profit even though we had was out for a week with the snow. Luckily, we were able to cancel all of our orders and that did not very badly. Um, you notice our nice little trailer in the back of our freezer down, but they are working on getting it fixed. But, uh, we were able to save all the food in the freezer, so that was good because the first company I was trying to get was not seeing a sense of urgency, but then I found a company and they got us one the next day.
so that they can communicate with their teachers when we have incidents like this. So I think it all worked well together. Hopefully uh the weatherman will be more uh uh conducive to you know having school. So but I think Darly I think you made the sometimes tough decisions. I think they were good decisions and I I thank um our staff for our parking lots and our I mean you know our sidewalks. People don't understand that out there when you're [clears throat] clearing the roadway, the snow's got to go somewhere. >> And when you pile it over on the sidewalk, where are the kids going to walk, you know? So, um there's just a lot of things to consider and I just think it went really well and thanks to our staff and the city and county staffs for for working through that. So, thank you.
Um K to 6 in the morning did their Alice training and so I believe all buildings are trained in Alice now. Mrs. Hess is saying yes. Um and I heard that was I was not involved in that but I heard it was really good and really emotional. Um so K to 6 also in the afternoon. So what we did was we met at Landis all K to6 staff. Um and we focused on some priority standards and language arts. And I know you say oh well we do that all the time. Well as a district we don't get to do that all the time. So, um, each grade level picked a couple of priority standards in language arts and we looked at the data on that and decided, okay, this data isn't the best that it could be. So, how do we move forward? Um, what does it look like over the year?
We um ended up buying a lot of books to go in our school library to go with these units. So, if a kid was really excited about farms in kindergarten or fairy tales or wanted to learn more about insects, they could go to the library once a week and have access to even more texts. And that's that's taken off a bit, too. But there's just a lot of enthusiasm. Um, they're just learning so much and they think it's the coolest thing that, you know, one month they're they might be working in science, but then the next month they're focused on history, they're writing poetry. It's wonderful. It's it's really been energizing and um very positive. It's a lot it's a lot of work. The kids are learning a lot, but they're doing really well with it also. >> Terrific. >> Could I mean I just want to thank you for doing the superintendence update under teaching and learning from me.
I still get those emails from time to time. It's not as much, but uh I do get them. So, you know, we could add 10 buses back in, but that's, you know, $80,000 a bus. It's quite quite an expense. So, right now, you know, I think we're in a good spot. Um, if Kelly, who our transportation person is, you know, may only need five or six buses by the time she's done >> programming the routes. And, you know, technology certainly helps. We're getting more efficient because of technology, planning the routes out, but um, you know, there's always a possibility you could need more. >> Um, And the other uh factor also is that our special needs students require very specialized buses and that's also very expensive. Some of them are almost one-on-one, some of them are, you know, four, five to a bus. Um the smaller buses are actually more expensive than the large buses, believe it or not.
On looking at this based on what I can tell the questions on Nolan's that are not on the other one are questions A and beyond. Well, and part of it you as a board talked to us in in the last time when we met last Monday in terms of we don't want to try to push a new building >> in terms of having that discussion right now. What we want to do is get the information out on a renovation because that's what the people seem to want.
Um any language regarding the public notice and availability of human sexuality and age curriculum goals and objectives um will be items that kind of fall under this policy and adds to that as well. IKD uh talks about religion in school, but it also talks about some other items that we need to make sure that we're having communication with parents on. If you flip to the next page, this policy um is a notice that policies now need to provide parents or persons acting as parents that they shall be notified in advance and given the opportunity to opt their children out of any activity addressing topics that are known or to be reasonably contrary to the religious beliefs of the parents or the people acting as parents or the students themselves. So, um, we already have some of those policies in our handbook, but that's a a good reference to have as well.
Um these are some of the changes that um we are bringing to your attention. um for the u usually during the summer you get a chance u to review all the handbooks and also to approve any it changes or any alignment with new policy. This one does have a sense of urgency as a result of our data review some of the um intentions of having an accelerated school and the the group that we want to serve. Um we also want to make some changes um so we can maximize the services and intentions. So that's cool. And Miss Mason um and I worked on on on this document for some preliminary changes to bring to your attention. Some of them they will need um your your your support so that we can begin informing some families and parents. We want to start our online um enrollment process um on the second week on the 16th of February that week and we need to with with your support we want to um begin these changes.
And we really think that by utilizing the space this way, we'll be able to draw students to our programming. The art classes are in a building that has been condemned and we'll be relocating art to where some of our current egg classrooms are. little bit um center campus but already is set up for the water concrete floors for the mess that ceramics and things makes and have outdoor pad areas already for the kils that have to remain outside. So for new standards um we have um those are pretty much the main things we're working on. we have once we have the next set of renderings and we'll bring those to share with the board so you can see what it's will look like kind of from the outside and um get an idea of what that floor plan will look like but after um working with special education working with the architect the engineers and high school admin staff we feel pretty good about the space we also have a classroom in there for our extended resource students so and a meeting space which we don't have anywhere at CVHS for um like IEP meetings with parents and things like that.
So that's just one piece of course of the level up. Then we're getting more into that evolution to the planning and reflecting. So here's what's next and here's some more things that we're learning together as a team and things that we want to roll out. We have summitive tracking sheets in the science department to help students monitor their outcomes, but linking those behaviors to their outcomes in this one place is something we're trying. So this is a current student um just ranking their preparedness on a liy like scale one to four from least to most prepared. They were at about one and a half two feeling prepared for their summitive and ultimately just trying to hone in on behaviors that led to those outcomes like not doing maybe enough certain work in a bucket and maybe doing the more checks for understanding as their reflection.
Similarly, South High School. Again, this is looking at grades. So, not unique students. This is overall all the grades that came in first semester. You can see that we also have the current year as the highest of all of the seven years that are pictured with 93.71% and up just about 2.6% from last year. And again, these are grades of C or higher. So, we want the number to be higher. That's that's a positive direction. Similar [clears throat] to when we looked at north, this slide here is showing unique students. So, each student only counts once. Um, these are students who earned um percent of students with a D or an F grade. So, we want the number to be lower. We want more students getting A through C's and obviously D or F grades. And you can see it went down significantly from last year and down almost uh 6% 5.64%.