001[Music] It's I just got to film it with my pen to turn it on and fill it. I'm turning your mic. Okay. [Music] Please. [Music] I now call to order the May 6th, 2025 school board meeting of the Stanley Commino School District Board of Directors. Uh, present in person with Director Shriber, King Murray, and Evans. Director Foster is joining us remotely and our student rep, Luke, is here and Elizabeth is excused today due to a scheduling conflict. So, uh, today we're offering two opportunities for the public to speak. Comment specific to the consent agenda will be allowed prior to the vote on those items. Citizens who have submitted a request to speak during the public comment section of the agenda will be called upon to make their comments at that time which is near the
002end of the meeting. We are pleased to have with us today our Stanwood High School and Director Foster is here in person make it um directed by Mr. Ronnie from the high school music department. And I'll ask everyone to stand for the pledge of allegiance and then remain standing for our national hymn. [Music] I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, Say can you see by the dawn early light so proudly we twing who stripes and bright stars through the terrorless for the road We were so gallently streaming the [Applause] rocky g was still there. The sangle man of the [Music] free. Woo! [Music] Thank you all and thank you for help.
003It's always great to see our kids up here. All right, you have the agenda before you for the May 6, 2025 regular school board meeting. I would like to strike from the superintendent report item number two there, the Stanwood Elementary School report. Uh, principal Mer can't speak right now, so she's excused today. We'll catch up on that later. Um, is there a motion to approve the agenda for the May 6, 2025 regular school board meeting uh as amended? So move director King Lou second by Director Foster. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed say no. That passes unanimously. The board has had the opportunity to review the April 15, 2025 regular board meeting minutes. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve the minutes for the
004April 15, 2025 regular board meeting? Moved by Director King. Second. Seconded by Director Murray. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. That passes unanimously. The board has had the opportunity to review the April 17th, 2025 special board meeting board retreat minutes. Are there any changes or corrections to those minutes? Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the April 17th, 2025 special board meeting board retreat? So moved by director, seconded by directors. Thank you. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. That passes unanimously. It is the superintendent report. Thank you. We'll begin uh today with a presentation of donations by student representative to the school board, Luke Hoffman. [Music] $1,535.70 from the Stanford High School band booster club to cover the band field trip transportation costs.
005Are these ones? Yes. The ones on the consent agenda are all big ones. We want to read all. Thank you. $200 from the from Goodren Wei in support of the Stanwood Middle School band. $346.60 60 cents from the Commino Island Friends of the Library to cover the transportation cost for the Elder Bay Elementary field trips to the library. $1,535.70 from the Stanler High School band booster club to cover the band field transportation costs. $500 in proceeds from the jump rope for heart fundraiser from the American Heart Association in support of the uh of elementary school. $813.60 for the utili booster club to purchase art supplies for elementary school. Thank you, Luke. Appreciate it. And we appreciate the donors that, as you can see, a wide variety of donations that come across to our district in
006support of our student activities. So, thank you for that. Next item on the agenda is our school report from Principal Mike Washington, Stanwood High School. Good afternoon. Thank you. First off, I want to say thank you to you, Mr. Ryan, the interim superintendent, for allowing me to be here. Same to you, president of the board, and also all of the directors of the board. Thank you for allowing me to be here as when I get an opportunity to speak about Stanland High School, I get extremely happy and proud because I work with some of the best professionals that they are and get a chance to work with the students that you saw. So, I'm super super happy with that. Which one? There you go. Okay. So, basically with our the achievement there at Stanwood High
007School, pretty much our our job is to provide high quality instruction to all students, no matter who they are, and make sure that we're providing them with data. So this year during our AAP we had several AAP goals but I do want to highlight a few that we are definitely focusing on. So we started the year with using standards making sure that all of our instruction is based off of our standards. We also support and utilize staff professional developments where staff are able to share their strategies including when we do instructional learning walks. We also did a a good job of credit recovery. We'll talk about a little bit of that a little bit later with some of our students and things that we that are very inclusive here are our athletics and activities and
008then we also went through our three-year accreditation accredititation piece. So, one thing to point out right here is something that we're doing at Stanwood High School. We're really becoming more as in having being able to modify assessments. So students, we help students be be better able to reach standards as well as allowing retakes as well for students to be able to retakes um retake tests so they can reach standards. At that point right now we're at like a 91.7% at that. So just to clarify, people who didn't meet the benchmark, 91% of them were given the opportunity to take it again to hit that benchmark. Well, 91% of our departments are utilizing those. Right. Thank you. Yeah. So another thing I really want to highlight here is during our first semester, we had 79% of
009our students overall students were on track for graduation. 80% of those were ninth graders. And research shows that when ninth graders are on track, they're more likely to graduate on time. So that's something that we're really focusing on with nth graders. Another thing that's a highlight was 85% of our students attended school at least 80% of the time and 92% of our students did not have a discipline referral this year. So that is very impressive with us. This right here, we really focus on instruction. We have a lot of different instructional data pieces that we look at. So earlier I mentioned about the instructional learning walks this year with including administrators as well as staff. We've completed over 260. That number has gone up now since I presented this last week. I provided this last
010week. Some of the things that we look at doing those instructional learning walks are greeting students at the door because relationships are really key in you know getting kids to school for one and two for their learning. Um we also focus on entry task, exit tickets, student talk and some of those active learning pieces is some of the pieces that we really look at and focus [Music] on. This right here is the data from those um learning walks. as you see that we really notice that there's a lot of it is student talk you know so when we go in the classroom this is some of the things that we're looking for is students learning from each other that's what the student talk piece is another thing is you you'll see staff checking for understanding
011with students it might be a thumbs up maybe a thumbs down or just some other task that they ask for feedback and then what they do is use that data to guide the instruction for the next lesson One thing that we're really really proud about at Stanwood High School right now is this is our second year working with the University of Washington on inclusionary practices. Currently over the last two years we've had 16 total code talk classrooms and you know we're looking at adding a few more for next year to make that number go up as well. it right here. It shows 108 of our 204 students in special education get an opportunity to go out into settings to get those types of instruction as well. We're really really proud that we are a demonstration
012site. We've hosted over seven school districts this year, one agency with including over 25 educators who come in and we take them through our maybe a few sections of our school day so they can see what we're doing in our um code classrooms. Our next site visit if you want to attend is May 22nd. We start those at 7:40 in the morning. We'll be happy to for you to come through and see what that looks like and you know provide you any input or feedback. um that you may want to ask about. So during each site visit that we get that we have is um the people who come they provide feedback to us and these are these are a lot I will not read them all. There are a couple that I want to
013read the focus on and it kind of talks about the outstanding staff that we have here at Stanwood High School. One of the statements states, "Thank you for the passionate teacher leaders moving forward there. There was evidence of facilitating belonging UDL strategies in classes we observed and that's one of the things that we focus on UDL is universal design for learning. So we focused on that staff was amazing and the Q&A session was super beneficial. Visit was very structured and meaningful. So those are some of the some of the feedbacks and you see others up there that we receive not me but my staff receive when they can because the staff is the one that they do the work. As I said we have fantastic staff. What we've been doing this year too we we
014call it journey to graduation where we recovered over 55 credits for students or seniors who have struggled um to keep on track with their credit. So we, you know, we've implemented some strategies and structures where students are able to recover these credits throughout the year. Administrators and counselors, we we met with all of these students involved. We created learning plans for these students and we do check-ins with the students and help them create a plan um so that they can be successful. So that's going well as well. Um Spartan time is something that we do twice a month doing advisory. During this time, students are able to go back and and and work with teachers that they may have struggled on a test or need just need some extra support. So, we do this twice
015a month during our grad time just for um student support. And you see on the bottom work on credit recovery as well. So, we have like I said earlier, we have spark athletics and also activities. I just want to combine these two together. We have over over a thousand students throughout the year participate in athletics and also club activities. And a lot many of these students are in special ed. And so this just proves the type of work that we're doing here that we are very very inclusive. We turn no one away. We create an opportunity for them um to make it work. So, one thing that was really big for Stanwood High School this year and in this this picture right here, we uh I had to do what is called a we are
016a credited school, right? So, every every six years we have to go through an accreditation process, but every third year we have to go through a mid check to see how that process is going. This is the picture that I started with with that accreditation process and it states our staff pulls our students to the finish line. Like I said earlier, our staff does not stop, right? They are some of the best staff members that I've worked with. So, I really wanted to display this to to show what type of staff we have here at Stanwood High School. These right here are some of the highlights from our accreditation. I won't read them all. However, a couple things that really stood out was strong commitment to student support. I mean, you can come in at
0176:30 in the morning. You see staff is there and ready to support kids, although they don't start until 710. You can see staff there over the weekends making sure that they're prepared for Monday morning for students. Um um also we do a lot of monthly progress monitoring doing our department meetings. Um and also we do a weekly what we call a radar meeting where we meet with counselors, psychologists, the SRO, security admin outreach para and other people to um identify students who are struggling and create opportunities to help them. Now, and I also want to say that we have done a really good job this year. I'll say I have done a better job this year of really focusing on and identifying and communicating expectations. We do this on Mondays and Fridays of each week
018with the students so they can have clear clear expectations that they know and my favorite one of my favorites is I um I do what is called fisk on Friday in the kids building for that. Um, so that's basically all what we have right all that I have right now, but there are a lot of great things that are that is going on at Stanley High School and um, yeah, thank you. Questions you mentioned the modified assessments. Could you describe the difference between them between those and regular assessments? So with the modified assessment, it could be like one one assessment assessment could be at a 10th grade level written at a 10th grade level, but it may be rewritten at a eighth grade level so that the student can better understand what what is being
019asked of them. And also you mentioned retakes of the assessment tests. Are those the same test repeated or different tests or the same style? Most of the most of them are, but it depends on the department. you know some of the departments some of the teachers may re rewrite a test so to make sure that the student has not memorized what was on that particular test right but yeah can you clarify uh the data for me so it's um under the instructional strategies observed I just want to make sure that I'm understanding okay those numbers correctly so uh it says you have 229 responses is that like that's how many times you observe that and you put it into like a database or is that saying that they're only doing that thing three and a
020half% of the time? Um, let me pull that back up real quick. But realistically, um, when we go into a classroom and we look for those particular strategies, we select that one. And it could be it could be five times that we've seen it. It could be six times that we've seen it. Right. So, I want to make sure that I answer your question correctly. Let me go back to it real quick. I know it's really far back, but I didn't want to interrupt you while you were doing it. Oh, right. Sorry. Go ahead. So, so like I just want to understand I I I want to make sure that I understand how like what this data is. So, so let me I'll say this right here. We'll say student talk. So if you look
021at that there was 144 check um um student talk once we out of the 20 whatever um visits that we made to a classroom that particular section was clicked 144 times saying that this is what we've seen. So you're looking for all of these things and every time and we're saying that 3 and a half% of the time we see this 62% of the time we see this. Correct? And if you notice like greeting students at the door, we we do that a lot. However, it may not dis be displayed up here because when we go into a classroom, the classes already start, so we're not able to see that. Okay. I like I said, I just wanted to make sure that I understood what that data was telling me. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay.
022D I have the same question. Uh but know as I walk through the classrooms with principal Washington, um we don't often, you know, it feels like we're at the beginning more than the end. then that would that would stand the reason why the exit ticket's only marked a couple of times, right? So, it's it's kind of that random observation that is logged, but um definitely appreciate the the data gathering that's happening on Perfect. Thank you. I I appreciate all the hard work you're doing and I appreciate you being here and your enthusiasm and um lastly your focus on the academic progress because I think that's that's why I ran for office is to help you improve that and I see that happening and for that I'm grateful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Principal Washington.
023Um, I wanted to you mentioned your outstanding staff. I agree with you and concur with that as we saw with the young people in the jazz band choir here today and also I was aware John Hildbrand, one of your teachers there. We celebrated when he was nominated for the National STEM Teacher Award, but now I understand he is one of five finalists here at Washington State. Yes. And uh I think that's just tremendous that you have a great staff up there and good leadership there and uh I wish it well in the national awards. Yeah, that's that's very impressive. Yeah. I have one question as well. Um so you were talking about the data around the uh credit recovery. Yes. Do you know how many students are having to use that? Um probably about 45
024to 50 students. Yeah. Back to John Miller and I saw he was the only math teacher in the five. Yeah. Yeah. He does a lot of good things in his classroom for sure. Very math is important. What's that? Math is important. It is. Yeah, I just want to highlight um a couple of your slides were on our uh goal two of our strategic plan which is around uh engagement uh with athletics activities and the community. So, thank you for gathering that data um in support of our strategic plan as well. Thank you, Principal Washington, for continuing to lead. Just one other thing about that radar you mentioned the radar thing. It's 7:30 in the morning. It's radar meeting. What was that quick? So basically what we do is we identify students who are struggling right
025and you know the counselors and we come in and we discuss those students and then we figure out next step for those students whether that's um creating a safety plan or working on some type of interventions or meeting with the families and try to maybe see what other classes may be appropriate for that student. You know just get to know the student and meet them at their level to help them. Would I be welcome and would it be comfortable for me to come and learn? Then I will defer that question to the superintendent. No, you know those I'll say that it's fine with me, but I'll defer that question to the superintendent. I mean, it's just because I'm a student process is what I'd like to learn about. From my standpoint, you're more than welcome
026to come at any time, right? And I'll be happy to share with you. I'm very transparent with what we do and I'll be happy to share with you. We certainly don't want to violate any rules, but we'll coordinate especially when um it's appropriate with student student data and sounds really interesting. Yeah. So helpful. Thank you, Principal Washington. Once again, I appreciate how you continue to lead with an emphasis on cultures, academic achievement, and student engagement. Thank you very much. And thank you to RSRO back for your participation in those meetings. Uh next up on the superintendence report is Ruth Floyd with the March financial report. [Music] Good afternoon. Um uh today is the finite preview of the financial report for March. And there are just a couple of things to highlight uh this month. Um
027it's very consistent with prior um um our annual average FTE in March uh enrollment was 4,663 which was 59 over budget and 27 above last year. Uh we expect that to decrease over the next several months as is typical um as we go into spring in uh before summer. Uh the manager's report is as expected 7.6% remaining after those expenses and incumbences are taken out. And uh you can see our 3 years of um of fund balance here. We're at 6.7 million or I'm sorry 5.7 million. Uh that's about 6.5% of total revenues. Uh March is one of our lower months. Um but we do expect fund balance to come up as in prior years in uh April and May and then it'll uh decrease again uh after those. Um it goes up in the
028spring due to the tax collections coming in for spring. Uh this is our object summary very consistent with what we've already discussed related to general fund and our uh budget status reports for all funds. again um it down but again general fund 5.7 [Music] million and then uh capital projects 5.5 million and debt service fund tax collections uh ASB fund very little change there from last month transportation vehicle fund. Again, just a little bit of tax collections and um and then our budget capacity report. We uh had a few budget uh budget increases or budget transfers, but that's it. There we go. And then food service program report. Uh you can see that it it um we're actually seeing evidence of those lower than budgeted breakfast numbers in state revenues and food costs. And uh
029however also notice that our revenues are above this time last year. It may not look uh like much just because of the supply chain assistance that came in last year of 150,000, but we are exceeding last year's revenues and that's partly due to the uh elementary schools that are free for all students. And you can also see in the um that the participation overall is up compared to the prior year. Uh particularly at those elementary schools that offer free meals. That's all I have to highlight today. I'm happy to answer any specific questions. I have a question on changes to FTE and in my my public college it normally impacted the whole year impacted the following school year's revenue. Uh but there was one year where it was a triple impact impacted the current year
030the next year of camp. How does it work here? Are you talking about uh our enrollment FTE dec those those numbers? It's a typical pattern in most school districts where you start off with uh actually September starts lower and then it goes up in October and then it may up go start increasing a little bit but then in the spring it definitely decreases and this is at most schools but it doesn't really um it doesn't necessarily inform what will happen the next year. So you can't it it we do what's called um a roll up and then there may be a factor in which um certain grade levels will increase even though we had a lower enrollment in the spring. It doesn't necessarily translate to a lower enrollment in the in the following fall. So
031in general it impacts the next school year's funding. Is that how it would be? No. No. So we um we get our enroll our funding is based on the current year enrollment but it changes every month because it's based on the annual average enrollment for the current year change funding on a monthly basis then after January so de uh September through December the first four months of the year it's based on what we budgeted enrollment to be which informs the the uh funding for those four months and then starting in January they true up the actual enrollment ment because then they have five months of enrollment in which to take an average and they they restate our funding based on that fivemon average and then every month after January they restate the the funding again
032based on the new average 6 months 7 months in this case it's seven months of uh enrollment average so that goes to show that as enrollment decreases in the spring our funding will start to decrease a little it, but I factored that in with my projections. Questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you, Ruth. We always appreciate your clear and consistent communication around the district's finan financial health. Have a great team. The last item on the superintendent's agenda is uh a proclamation for this week in which we celebrate our teachers. Uh it's teacher appreciation week this week and actually today is teacher appreciation uh day and so to recognize the incredible work of our educators who stu serve our students each uh day. We are going to read a proclamation here in just a moment. Um,
033and would like to make that uh known and to acknowledge the hard work and dedication and heart our teachers bring to the classroom each and every day. So with that, whereas the success of our children and communities is significantly influenced by the exemplary teachers throughout the Stanway Commino School District. And whereas the knowledge, support, and skills our teachers provide students will positively impact generation for years to come. And whereas Stanway Community School District teachers challenge students to achieve academic success and teachers lay a foundation for success in developing students creative thinking, collaboration, and communication skills. And whereas Tammy Commino School District teachers dedicate themselves to ensuring their students academic, social, and emotional well-being. And whereas the Stanwood Commino School District teachers encourage students to achieve their goals while recognizing every student has unique strengths and
034needs. Now therefore be it resolved that the board of directors and interim superintendent of the Stamino School District number 401 do hereby recognize May 5th through May 9th as teacher appreciation week and invite students, staff, families, and the Stamino School District to join in this special observance. Thank you very much. And uh to receive this proclamation is uh the San Commino Educational Association President Na Goldstein and Vice President Rita Bren. Oh, I'm sorry, Rita. I I even wrote it down. Rita Peterson. Sorry. After 20 years of of working with Brea and I do not. Well, thank you all for your leadership. Thank you, Rita Peterson. Thank you. You want a picture? I got Thank you very much. [Music] That'll be the end of the superintendent report. Thank you. Any question on our consent agenda before
035we move to that if you want to u address and I'm sure others probably had the question too on our threat assessment there. Sure. We have a an agreement that we renew each year with the uh Northwest ESD to provide uh threat assessments uh when they're needed um for students in the district. The threat assessment protocol is um a manualized protocol uh through Salem Kaiser. It's a Salem Kaiser protocol and is standard through many districts in Washington state. Um if we need to implement a threat assessment for a student um the level one threat assessment is carried out by our team here on on campus generally consists of the principal counselor uh deputy mccur um and other relevant adults including parents and student um if there's a need to escalate the uh the assessment to
036what we call level two that brings in uh this team from Northwest ESD um that Um it helps to organize community partners which might include um child protective services um DCYF um and other agencies that can that can assist in providing students and families the resources they need to uh reduce the threat um that the student may have or be exhibiting. So this is a renewal of that contract for the 2526 school year. Thank you for doing everything you can say all of you. All right. Thank you Mr. Romanell. We'll now move on to the consent agenda. Anyone in attendance may speak to the items contained in the consent agenda and only those items contained in the consent agenda at this time. This is not the portion of the meeting for open public comment on
037items outside of the consent agenda. Open public comment is coming up soon. Are there any court directors who wish to pull any item from the consent agenda for discussion? Okay. Are there any people in attendance who wish to speak to any of these consent agenda items? No one online. All right. Is there a motion to approve consent agenda items 1 through 12? Moved by Director Evans. Second. Second by Director King. All those in favor of consent agenda items 1 through 12 say I. I. Any oppose? Say no. That passes unanimously. We have no hold business to discuss today. Uh do we have any public comment? No public comment. All right. New business topic scheduled for school board discussion. Um we have nothing there. Student Representative Reports. On the week of April 21st to the 25th,
038uh the Lincoln Hill ASD group organized a spirit week for students to participate in dressing up for themed days. Some popular days were color splash, promoting students to dress in certain colors depending on their answers to questions posed in the comments of the school and Adam Sandler day. The last day, Friday, was the night of the Lincoln Hill Spring Social, an event running from 6:30 to 8:00 that invites all Lincoln students to get together and dance or enjoy the backyard barbecue food provided by the Lincoln Hill Booster Club. The week later on Wednesday the 30th, all Lincoln seniors parttook at a meeting discussing the upcoming ceremony for the Lincoln graduation on June 10th, marking the end of the year for seniors, explaining the procedures, and having students nominate themselves or others for responsibilities of leading
039the flag salute or being a keynote speaker. Additionally, seniors will have the opportunities to visit their elementary school during the wings to root roots to wings ceremony on June 6th and are invited to attend a field trip on the 13th to the museum of popular culture in Seattle. Transport and food will be provided by the Booster Club. Students are working hard to get their get their work finished up in this final push. Seniors already have their high school and beyond plan turned in and SBA testing is beginning on Monday of the next week. We look forward to seeing them succeed. Thank you. Thank you, Luke. All right. We'll now move on to items brought on by board directors, but last time we said everything that you were going to say, so I said I would
040let you go first today. Thank you. Um, good report, Luke. I I uh get excited when you start to talk about the things you mentioned because it means that we're getting close to graduation. So, thanks for thanks for highlighting that for um you know, both school both high schools. Appreciate it. Um I will go ahead and take the liberty to thank uh Eric Ronnie and his and his uh students in the choir for coming today. I just um really um believe that it helps us to keep students at the center of what we're here for and um having having the choir do that um I think displayed that today. The last thing I want to talk about is that uh we received notice late last week that uh our elementary schools have received some awards
041and we're proud to share that Cedar Home Elementary, Elder Bay Elementary, Port Susan Middle School, Twin City Elementary have been recognized uh by the Washington State recognition program for the 23 24 school year. And I'm going to add Stanwood Elementary to that list who actually received that um that recognition back in in November. And these honors place our schools among the top 16% across Washington and highlight exceptional student growth and success such as boosting academic growth, closing opportunity gaps and achieving high performance across several metrics. And those metrics that we want to talk about are Pursome Elementary, Elgate Elementary, and Port Middle School. They were recognized for growth based on significant academic progress uh by students in one or more racial or ethnic groups. and Twin City Elementary as well as Stanwood Elementary earned recognition
042for growth in ear uh English learner progress celebrating outstanding gains made by multilingual uh students. So this this is a reflection of the hard work from our staff um and the families uh to make these games and I I just think it's uh important to uh highlight that as as our students make games. There'll be banners that go up in in each of the schools and um we'll have those up later this spring. So, thank you. Thank you. Talking about our outstanding staff again, uh I had the pleasure of going to Stanford Middle School to recognize the certificated employee of the month and the classified employee of the month last meeting. Director King. Well, I went to another of the presentations by superintendent, interim superintendent Ryan at a another location on Kame Island and good
043again. Uh also, um academic advisory committee is doing well, going to be accomplished a lot. Uh and uh well there's something coming up that uh is starting this Thursday and that's a book study review sort of of a book called the anxious generation about the extremely severe impact of smart codes smartphones on kids and the subtitle is u something about causing an epidemic of mental illness including anxiety and depression. That's important. So, we're going to be doing this. We have a bunch of books and and I think that's going to be a very we come up with a really good policy and procedure to help with this. Uh and uh in fact, I was just talking with a close friend of mine in Los Angeles who's Los Angeles school district. They already have a really
044really really strong policy there for the whole Los Angeles district. So we look forward to our making pro really good progress on that significant issue. Thank you Director Director Foster. Thank you. I did my microphone's not working. I'll speak up. I did go to the budget committee and that was enlightening and learn where our funds are going and how they're distributed. I intend on continuing to to go to those. My intention is also to go to the next academic excellence committee um and be a part of that and um because I want my goal and my dream is that Stan would become the place where everybody else wants to go to school because this is a place where we learn and have fun and we overachieve any others expectations. So, I'm looking forward to a
045great and productive year and appreciate everybody being here. Thank you. Thank you, Director Foster. Director, um I also got to join Director Shriber uh in I'm getting to present the awards at Stanford Middle School for classified and certificated staff. Um, and I got to join uh director um Stephen King at the um community state of the school uh presentation as well as spending some time with director poster at our um uh budget committee meeting. So um yes, it's been a busy couple of weeks. I'm looking forward to the book study. Um, unfortunately I'm not able to make the first couple, but um I'm listen I'm looking forward to hearing um how our community engages in this conversation um because it is something that's very important um for the health of our students um I'm looking
046forward to uh wrapping the year up here soon. So, and all the fun events and and festivities. So, thank you very much for joining us. Um, yeah, it's the end of the year, right? It's when all of the things come together and it feels like there's 72 things every day to to pick from to go to the plant sale, I think, was a big success. We've got a ton of students that are getting ready to go to state and a bunch of variety of of things between FFA and track and TSA and and all of the things. Um, want to say to congratulations if anybody looked at uh our our um personnel report, a lot of resignations for some of our really great staff um that uh have been promoted outside of our district. Um,
047I think it says something about our our structures and our programs here that so many of our staff are are being promoted outside of the district and some really great opportunities. It's a little sad that they're leaving because we really like having them here. Um, on that note, we've got a lot of uh transition and staffing changes coming our way uh next year. So, bear with us, be patient, continue to support your schools and your staff the best you can cuz change is hard. And when you have that much change all at once, um it's it's a little bit overwhelming. So, I appreciate everybody who is is still here. Congratulations to everybody who got those promotions. And um grace and patience is what I ask for from our our community. Thank you, Director Evans. Hey,
048Luke, if you have any last comments, I'll give you the last word today. I got nothing. Well, thank you. We appreciate you being here. All right. The board will now move into an executive session to review the performance of a district employee until 2:45 and then we will convene at that time. And a reminder uh the finalist for principal cities is coming up uh open to the public to the staff and students those that would like to attend that um forgetting something but it's for our AI session. AI stud session. Yes. Following uh our executive session at 3 o'clock, we will have a special meeting here to talk about artificial intelligence. All right. And with that, we are in executive session. [Music] Hello. All right. [Music] That concludes the executive session portion of today's meeting
049we will adjourn and then we will have our study session here at 3:00 on AI. So we are hereby ajourned