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Um for SEAL for that that peer conflict we focused on conflict resolution training for all the students. So, stop, walk, talk is a classic PBIS strategy of how you can solve small problems um interpersonally. And so, we focused on that as a whole school. And then each month we had a different behavior focus that we rotated through both what we were learning about in morning meetings um and also kind of whole school events and different things like that. We also um had our colonies structure which also was focused on some of that peer um agreement uh lack of peer conflict and students reported that they liked that very much and and enjoyed it and staff as well. This was where we had students from different grade levels would get together uh every other month in a group of about 14 to 16 kids and they would have anal topic.
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It's an annual request. Um all school districts have it. Uh very very proud of Beth and her team as they provide really really top- end services during the summer for some of our kids. >> Thank you Mr. Brimberry. Anything further before we vote? >> Just to clarify on that a little bit more, too. Usually these kids are identified and have an IEP and this is part of their IEP that we have to to >> Yeah, there's a qualifying uh plan is that um that they're evaluated based on their IEP that would allow the one of seven areas um several of the kids that it previouss might have been a reason for um growth rates in terms of literacy rates, things like that that they might qualify for. But uh there's a variety of reasons under the seven but there's three primary but uh [snorts] recruitment of academic loss or or lack of gain would be a reason among others.
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So, kindergarteners through fifth graders would all be together um for those lessons and kind of rotate through with the purpose being that wider school community and more relationships. And um we're looking forward to building on that next year with um our fifth graders that are leaving being replaced by new kindergarters, but keeping the rest of the group together to kind of deepen those relationships year on year. And then family connections. We've we had those focus areas last uh last year where each month we'd focus on a different behavior area. Um and then this year we've focused on sending home um SEO connections for families which were discussion prompts, activity ideas that corresponded with what we were focused on on school in order to allow parents to come alongside us in helping students to to grow. So, um, moving into next year, we're hoping to build on some of those successes and go a little bit deeper.
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>> It's basically extra time to allow the kids to have extra services to to get caught up or retention. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, you bet. >> Anything further? >> Okay, then let's uh vote on the motion. That motion passes six to zero. Move on to item E123, the consent agenda. Mr. Brimberry, >> board, for your consideration action item tonight. Several items on there. I know that you've had uh the ability to review, but draw attention. Uh technology job description. Mr. Clausing has um tweaked the network engineer uh job description and device services specialists to meet what he would need for the posting of those jobs. So uh that's for your review. I know you've had a chance to look at that. Um want to thank our HR department uh for the personnel report and doublechecking uh Cindy and Tanya as well. You see on number eight, college marketing communications internship.
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And this concludes, um, the update. Do you have any questions? >> Were all students involved in a colony group? >> Yes. Uh, yeah, every student. Um, and so yeah, there's a little when we get new students moving in, you know, some some shuffling and other things, but yeah, everybody was was in a colony group and every staff member, too. So that was really interesting. It was all staff on on deck and the staff was really flexible in and specials for that day and and rearranging those because we saw the value and what we were doing. >> Um, I just had one for you said you had the behavior focus um like AGS. Do you see that there was one behavior that was maybe more prevalent than the others like that you really that they had to work on? >> Yeah. Well, according to our panorama data and also my informal observations would be uh so recess conflict uh from peer-to-peer might continue to be an opportunity for students to grow both in solving uh larger problems but also in that um kind of interpersonal relationship uh pieces.
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That'll be year two with Mr. Butler uh for an intern. That's invaluable experience that was previously budgeted for. Uh recommendation for compensation administrative classified staff. Um recommendation uh as you've seen presented is 2% effective July 1. Also for our bus drivers on 50 cents in terms of uh their different levels and and I'm really glad. I also want to thank uh Mrs. Babcock who's here with us tonight. If I haven't told you uh Michelle in a while that we're excited to have you join us in July, but outstanding work. We know that every school district in the state has a very challenging budget situation uh due to a lot of different factors, but your hard work on this and presenting. If you could talk maybe a little bit with our board and community on on how you arrived at this rate. >> Well, thank you very much for those kind words.
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So, um the actual topics just varied from month to month bas um addressing some of the castle competencies um that Dr. Newark uh referenced earlier. Um but um yeah, they kind of had that format. SLT for next year is going to look at the colonies and say, do we want to just have one focus on that time throughout the year so it's more consistent for the kids? But that'd be a revision we might make. on the family connections. Did you get any input back from family members? Did you hear anything like are they doing it, not doing it? Just curious. >> Great question. We had plans for a survey that um did not happen. However, uh informally >> anecdotal is fine. >> Anecdotal everyone loved it. No. Uh >> good answer. >> 100%. Uh everyone uh no so anecdotally I heard from various families that they um were building on things and um one family I called about an incident that happened and the parent said why didn't they just stop walk talk and I said I don't know great question um so that that to me was like that connection where the parent is thinking like this is a skill that that we can utilize and um and so anecdotally yes.
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Um it is always difficult when when you have to you come up with a number, a percentage um because you want to give back to your staff and retain them and make them, you know, you want to, but you also have to be very cautious of the funding and plan out into the ahead um many years to make sure that we're not cutting ourselves too short. Um so with that, we came up with the solution of the 2%. Um it is still like under the inflation rate right now. I know that. Um but we also have to be very careful not to um set ourselves up for in the future. >> And as um I would commend not only uh your work but our board's work as many districts uh around the state if you pay attention to the news were in reduction of force mode.
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>> Any other questions? >> Thank you guys. Thank you. [applause] >> Are we doing this? >> It's a clicker. >> Yeah. >> All right. Special thank you because you just uh allowed me to escape a finance class right now. >> That was uh there was a screens of spreadsheets when I left just a second ago. So, I appreciate that. >> Did you swap in Tony? because he might help you out. Great. [laughter] >> Nonetheless, good evening. >> Ace. Tonyy's your guy. >> Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. I'll do that on test taking day. Um I'm Jeff Mf as you know uh from Grace Quain School. And this is Lauren Peterson. She's an SLT member and fourth grade teacher at Grace McQuain as well. And uh we're excited to share with you about the student outcomes of 2025 and 2026 at Grace McQuain. Here are our school improvement goals this year.
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Uh Huntington due to um a lot of different positive uh stewardship of the money has not been in that mode. And we're very pleased that although the the raise is you may be modest um that everyone still has a job here, everyone's still employed and we're able to give some money. And I will tell Michelle worked very very hard uh to project out and we're thrilled to have her and her expertise joining us. So thank you. Uh a few other items um that [snorts] you see on the consent agenda. Um central office and office staff temporary increase. If you remember, uh, you had an increase, uh, at our recommendation, um, when I became, uh, the interim. Uh, that stopped according to board document, uh, uh, as the day I was put in as superintendent. But what we needed to do was then, uh, when does the help arrive, if you will, for for my old position.
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We are very proud of our ELA growth this year. We set the bar for 58% of students growing on NWA MAP in reading and uh by the end the result was 70% uh of our students growing in ELA. Uh later in the presentation, Laura and I will share a little bit about what we attribute that growth. As far as our sense of belonging goal, uh we looking we were looking to go from 72% to 76% of students favorably in the sense of belonging measure. Uh we recently learned from Panorama experts that this was quite an ambitious goal. Uh 1 to 2% was uh uh more appropriate. Um but I didn't know that till about a month ago. So uh but nonetheless, we shot for it. Um we dipped a little bit in the winter and then we worked our way back up. uh but we still um did not meet that ambitious goal that I was speaking about.
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And that help arrives June 1st with Mr. Hansen. So, uh, what we're for state board purposes, we're asking for is for, uh, Mrs. Gray um M or Dr. Diggots um Tanya and Jay for us to have a finality on they will be paid from the day I took superintendent uh for Jay Tanya and Dr. Digotss until May 30th at their previously approved rate and that's for our purposes to make sure that they're compensated for the extra duties. I will note that Cindy Gray has been doing um an awful lot of work in the world of HR and an awful lot of weekends and evenings and you will see hers has 14 days in the month of June. If you remember uh Bri will be joining us for about eight days up to 10 eight days in June. So uh that closes out that area of being understaffed and everyone will be accounted for.
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Uh but through professional development and research uh we keep learning about the sense of belonging and through conversations with students we keep gathering information about how we can best support them. Um clearly our area of greatest need continues to be studentto student respect. That is our lowest score when you look at the four questions. Um, and our SLT has already brainstormed researchbased ideas that we look forward to applying uh during next school year to attack that area of growth. >> Okay, so as Jeff mentioned, we set out this year focusing on ELA and SEAL. So starting with ELA, we had monthly PLC data meetings with our teams that really just helped us focus on looking at the data to try to make instructional strategies work in the classroom. With the professional learning sessions, those really helped in the fall as we were doing the data meetings.
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So I wanted to make sure you uh we draw attention to that. I also thank that group. Um Jay and I laugh and Cindy and Tanny and I laugh and our team, but uh we've almost forgot what normal was. I think Deb said that to us once. Um and uh it's been an awful lot of work, but I'm very very proud of our team. I'm proud of our team on what we've got done and uh thank them for their work. A few other things. If you see requests for donations, if I believe uh pull that up here just so I make sure. uh $9,341.33 to a variety of our school districts. Again, we're extremely blessed. Um I know Michelle would know and I know Jay would know from being a different districts, but it's not always like that in Huntington. Every single board meeting, we have an amazing amount of donations that come to our schools and our kids.
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Once we got taught more what those ICP components were, then we could have more ideas in those data meetings of what to do moving forward for instructional strategies. And then our ORCY work, it didn't only support students this year, but it also laid the groundwork for strong engagement strategies for next year as we implement CCOA. So, we're super excited about that. Um, but one successful addition that was not originally included was our video reflections. You'll see that next to the ORS piece. Twice this year, all of our staff recorded a lesson and then we used a rubric to reflect on student engagement in ORC. Then we met together as teams PLC's during staff meetings to reflect on common instructional practices and student discourse data to improve on that. And then for SEAL, Jeff met monthly with student focus groups. And this was really awesome where they could share their insight on sense of belonging and they said some things that maybe we wouldn't normally hear.
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And so we are blessed to uh have those tonight. So I would ask board for your uh consideration. Action items 1 through 13 on consent agenda. Thank you, Mr. Primberry. I entertain a motion reference the consent agenda. >> Motion to approve the consent agenda as present. >> Thank you, Mr. Melture. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Wall. Any comments or questions before we vote? >> Moving [snorts] back to I remember which one it was. Recommendations for compensation administration classified staff. Just as a reminder, we had a two-year contract for teachers. So, that is why they're not involved in this particular one. And when we approved that, we said we would evaluate it. And so, this is that evaluation from that approval and and doing that. I just want to make sure that everyone was familiar and why we're doing this now and and and we didn't do it back when we did the teacher contract.
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So just having that um small focus group really helped with going along with our theme of superheroes. We had six new superheroes that were invented by students that highlighted the great qualities of portrait of a graduate. And then as a staff, we continued to collaborate on how we can use these skills within engagement strategies. So some examples were behavior boosts. Um but just tying that all together in a culture throughout the whole school year. And then lastly, another addition to our SIP work was a partnership with G Marie Cro to try out a new data protocol framework called data wise. So it kind of goes into ory back in the LA but I was lucky enough to be a part of this process as the fourth grade team was chosen and this elevated our data meetings by helping us use an assetbased approach to analyze authentic student data build on student strengths and identify areas for growth and we're super excited to incorporate some aspects of this work into our next year data meetings for PLC's.
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I just >> That is absolutely correct. >> Thank you. >> And I wanted to just also appreciate the fact that you did review that and you were able to get them something because I know at the time we approved that contract and the initial raise, we weren't sure that we were going to be able to do this. So, getting them 2% is is to me a great a win. So, >> yes, I was nervous about it myself, so I did some analysis on it. Um, and with our attrition with um several that relieved that stress for me, so I felt like we were going to be okay with that. >> Thank you. >> I will tell you, Mr. Wall, we had a lot of discussions on this and I appreciate the fact that we were able to get to 2%. Um, and and I will tell you that um I know she is uh working two corporations right now, but I appreciate her dedication on this one.
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Yeah, as a final reflection, uh we were quite pleased with the outcome of the year. Uh and we learned a lot. Um PLC data meetings proved to be successful and kept us talking about formative assessments and taking informed action on the data. Uh and we love the integration towards the end of the year with the data wise framework and uh we're looking to integrate all of that into our work for data meetings next year. Uh the learning we engaged in this year resulted in strong growth in ELA which we were very proud of. Uh and we're going to carry that work into next year. Everything seems to dovetail very well into that CQLA rollout. Uh including working when we worked with first and second grade teams this year uh who uh field tested uh the CQLA, we discovered that the data sets that are built through uh the teacher observations and the checklist that they're using throughout the their lessons uh fit perfectly into the PLC data meeting framework.
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I know she was working very hard to get us to that point. >> Any further comments? Would anyone like before we vote, would anyone like to pull any of the items from the consent agenda and vote on it separately? I am going to need to pull item E7 from the agenda the personnel report and vote on that separately. So I'll entertain a motion to remove that. Do I need to do that? >> We would just need a motion after that to vote on that one specifically. >> I will entertain a motion reference voting. >> No, we've already got a first and second to do >> but do we do 113 though? >> Yeah, but you you can pull it during that and that's fine. Then we'll vote on what that minus the one that was pulled. And then we'll come back and then take care of item seven separately.
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