So, we should be in good shape with that seventh and eighth grade extra points there. That kind of takes you to the high school. Any questions? Thank you. On to high school. And as you know, at high school, the time is to the end is in sight. Graduation is upon us. So um for the ninth and tth graders it is really looking at making sure that by the time they in each uh grade that they are on track. Um one thing that they say is the 222 method. Um so a nth grader when they come in they have to have at least two credits in math, two credits in English and then two credits in a combination of science, social story studies or foreign language. So having those students on track will already get them on their base level of of their points that they'll earn.
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Like, how do we think of, oh, that policy we need to change this time around for this reason? So, I would say that the there's a couple of different things. One, you know, I don't know, Carol, how long ago it was, probably like six years ago or so, seven years ago. Um, you know, it was our experience that the policy manual was pretty outdated and we, um, brought Cave in and they were tremendously useful. They have a policy review service where they went through the entire manual uh against state law. What do you need? And we just did a lot of weeding for a number of years on just those. Other times it it'll be where um I'm I'll access the policy and go this is out of date. It doesn't make sense. Um, and then in this case, I knew that well, we're changing buildings.
Uh our own Justin Anderson from the front office went into the community and came back with like a whole bunch of stuff from Andes and Duncan and Starbucks. And I'm not sure how he did it, but it was highly effective. Um, and the kids were really excited. It was it was really interesting to see students rush into the dean's office because that's not a place where they're they're accustomed to having like, you know, the the best experience. They usually leave feeling better than they do walking in, but this was, you know, all positive the whole way through. Uh, so there was there was a lot of things to celebrate there as we were working with Infinite Campus and then, you know, getting everyone to buy in in this effort. So you've heard some of the things that that have happened and and we're talking about kind of that progress throughout the year.
That sounds awesome. More like pasta, chili, shrimp, different kind of wraps. And this is a email I received. It is from the Department of Education. requires public schools to have student representation for many decisions and she um primary schools got excited for this because we are currently not meeting this. Okay. And then we just want to talk about why we chose this. Um I just think it's really important for students to do the day for better performance. And I know a lot of kids who don't have a lot of food at their house so they can like solely on school food. And me personally, I do sports and academics. Like I go throughout the school day and I get dizzy a lot cuz I have low iron and I don't eat a lot of the school meals. So for me, I really don't eat the school meals a lot and especially going into C4 next year.
But they can also earn additional uh points with uh for students who typically are going to be freshman, sophomores, maybe a few juniors who take biology, they will take the iLearn bio um exam and then based off that they can get the extra points for for being at proficiency or above proficiency for for the ILR bio. Um same for our seniors. If you jump up, they will take iLearn um government. Um it will be a test just like biology the in the first semester and in the second semester and again extra points that will be credited to them um if they're at or above efficiency. Um for our freshman through seniors attendance of course will be a primary uh focus for them to continue. But then also for 9th and 10th grade it will be um their accomplishments on PSAT whether they have met at benchmark or if they are are above.
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Um, and I searched for Darcy and um, you know, Barnum or Dorton in the process just to search through the policy manual to see if there was anything in there that that hit. Um, and sorry, well, we need to change those at least. Um, we know that those are they're changing now. Um, I don't want to sign up this summer, but one of the things that, you know, we could or should be doing is probably to budget for a policy review on like a five-year cycle through CAPE. Um, something or at least through somebody to review that against the law and against um, you know, just practicality. Now, um just for I don't know everybody on this call, uh every day AI is getting better and better. >> Um all of our policies only exist in that like illanized database that's not super friendly for a download.
So we're going to look at our our data by quarter. So what we did again each quarter um we met at one of our exec council meetings we would sit down and we would look at the data and we would say okay what now? So in addition to the weekly cabinet reviews and then the every four-week reviews we also at exec counsel would go through the through the data. So this is uh focusing on tardies, right? So if you look at the first quarter, after the first quarter, we had 11,03 tardies. If you were to project that all the way through, we'd have 44,000 and a little bit, right? At the end of the year, you can see it slowed down, right? You can see that in in the beginning there were distinct students. So what that means is that there were 2572 students that had those 11,03 tardies.
I know a lot of the kids would rather go spend 20 bucks every single day than eat the school. feel like that's >> I think it's it's also important really really proud of all of them. Um but proud of this project like they came up with this like on their own, right? And I think about we contract with a food service company that provides those menus and those things and um you know we we pay to be able to have that contract and and I think it is an opportunity for us to come to a table um with kids to be able to to think about how and what we're serving um whether it's high school, middle school, across the whole district, whatever. Um I I think about I now have heard it three times that you've got to go to school that offers a sushi bar or whatever.
Um, for our juniors and seniors, it kind of takes it a step further. It'll be more work-based learning, um, advanced, uh, you know, career and technology classes. Um, different components that will allow them to take everything that they've learned at the elementary level, at the middle school level, and at the high school level, and now start utilizing it and practicing it on a daily basis outside of school. And again, the focus for the high school is not only just to get them ready for graduation, but what is their endgame after graduation? Is it college? Is it um trades? Is it military? So, that's where when you get to your senior year, you will their freshman or current freshman will be having a new type of diploma where they'll either get the diploma, the honors um seal, the enrollment seal, or the um >> and the last one is totally Thank you.
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Is that correct? >> Yeah. >> Okay. This this is this is one of those um state laws all public record. All those policies are all public record. >> Sure. >> Uh I'm going to toy around with it. See what happens. Uh >> yeah, >> just more more for fun than anything. But um yeah, I think >> I mean I I don't know what the right way to phrase this is, right? Like I know we can't just like pop AI into the classrooms tomorrow. Um but as a district we can start learning when it's valuable, when it's appropriate, when it doesn't go against the law. And this looks like a pretty solid use case. Um professionally, I had some national requirements from the FDA change overnight literally last week. I'm like, what do our excuse me, what do our uh policies have to uh what do we have to do to change our policies?
So across our district 2500 just a little bit more were tardy at one point or another. They had at least one tardy. So when you look at that average per distinct student it's 4.28 tardies per each of those students. Again if that trend were to continue we would be at a much higher than where we ended up. So through the tardy party, whatever you want to call it, right, the the brigade, those conversations, um lots of work by a lot of people having individual conversations with students. Remember, part of our goal was for to improve our attendance and support our students that were struggling. That's a lot where the alpha team really was beneficial and they met the the students needs there. So we were talking about this data today that that last right through the the last day of school. uh to put it in perspective and Phil had a great point while we were talking about the data.
And maybe it's not a sushi bar, but our our kids are worth it, too. And it just always brings me back, you know, to when when we had that slogan in everywhere. Our kind of kids are are worth it. Like doesn't matter what zip code you're in um or where you go, it is going to be a funding, right? It's going to cost increase funding in some way to be able to to do what what they're proposing that we do, but they're worth it. us to come to a table and try to figure it out. >> So, and that's what I'm super proud about. You're right. Absolutely does matter. in your process to do this. >> Well, I'm a little disappointed because I remember having this discussion five years ago and what you're describing is what they pitched to us, right? And then I remember I do remember the breakfast when I taught at the junior high, but it.
service. thank you service um seal. And so um for a baseline, they will get just a simple point, but then they'll be able to move forward and get additional points if they get those honor seals um to allow them to kind of show them that they are ready to to leave school and move forward. So that is high school in a in a nutshell.
Congratulations. You're good. You don't have to I've embarrassed you enough by calling you back out. I apologize. So, back to High Point. They've decided to award four students a $10,000 scholarship for each of their four years at the university. So, they choose to leverage the non-binding early acceptance that accompanies the award. For anybody that's been down to High Point University, it is a gorgeous campus. Uh we'll do two winners at a time. The first two winners are Gregory Alvin and Margaret >> Arara. That's my >> Our next two recipients of the High Point University Junior Scholar Program appointment are Colin Gardner and Lauren Honor. WOW. For over 160 years, Worcester Polytechnic Institute has shaped the next generation of STEM leaders, and they proudly continue this tradition with their WPI Innovation Award. This award includes a $25,000 annual scholarship to a high school junior who demonstrates outstanding potential in STEM fields.
And just go like look at that updated law, look at our pro processes and procedures, and you know, boom, here's 90% of that solution. So, I'm going to toy around with that, Jeff, and uh I'll copy. >> Great. I mean, I I agree with you in that Yeah, I agree with you in that um you know, certainly um there's an opportunity to look at the efficiency of it. Look at the uh um the review. I I'd be really curious at what what it spits out. Um I think you're not suggesting that we just adopt whatever it says. We evaluate. I just want to be clear for people because I know you and I know like, you know, it still takes expert level. You could look at that FDA, you know, print out and have the knowledge to go, "Yeah, okay, this is legit." Or, "No, it's not." And it, yeah, >> you know, it's still at that phase where it's incredibly valuable, but you still need an expert to double check the work.
Um that's 10.38 tardies per each of those just under 3,700 students. That's about one time a month, right? A little bit more than one time a month that a student would be tardy to their to their classes. What that equates to when you look at how many periods we have in there is a 99.1% on time rate. So when you look at the number 38,000, I might be like, man, that's a big number. We have a lot of kids and there's a lot of opportunities throughout each day, right, when we look at our our tardy numbers. So to put it in perspective and and what that looks like. Um >> Travis, I just also want to point out that we have to call out there that we called out this morning >> is that's of the students that had one or more tardies. There's a big chunk of students there that >> right were 100% on time for an entire school year, right?
I just worry that like it did feel like it started out here and then you know the slides. I know that you know there nutritional requirements they have to meet and then they've got to meet them within a budget and that's a really tough thing to do. So I understand the pros and cons of that. Could you talk to other students like you mentioned you know avocados or other things? I can hear the push back on that is well we give avocados but then we throw them away every day because nobody wants to eat them. So that may be what you guys like, but would that kind of thing be popular with your classmates? >> I think it would because I've talked to a lot of people about like what kind of breakfast it would be and they were like these are good ideas because they're not something you would normally see in our school especially like and it was something new.