SASD - Regular Board Meeting

001check oh you can hear me oh good thank you check one one two can you hear me excellent test one two three that's a lot better okay hello so you're all set then in the middle here if you press it you just tap that button once that will go orange that means you're muted so if you're pressing hold it turn it off okay okay can i get one more volume check from you there you go you're good start talking hello check one two more check one two test one two nope got nothing up here yep that's okay i want to know yeah it has to be one guy right wow this is the worst thing all night we'll be getting right better that's what i heard yeah it's good you see anything on there jordan

002all right 19 doesn't work just switch for 21. [Music] it is yep testing yeah 24 is coming up test one two test one two three four take this away giving you a test jordan test one two check one two test test check check one two three four take it off of the monitors a little bit check test one two three testing check one two three four we're not touching anything right we're just gonna leave it alone you guys are gonna okay where's call the september 28th regular board meeting to order everyone would please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance where's the flag oh okay i pledged allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice

003for all we need a motion to approve the agenda the discussion questions say hi hi all right paul finds us all present item five i need a motion to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting of august 24th the special session minutes of august 31st and the closed session minutes of september 14. thank you any questions or corrections to those minutes hearing mount all those in favor say aye is community input i'll read the community input guidelines and we'll open it up for community we'll start with the folks in the room and then we'll turn it over to the folks who are online welcome to this meeting of the sheboygan area school district board of education we're pleased that you're interested in educational issues we're interested in your comments and concerns about the school

004district in order for the meeting to flow smoothly please follow the guidelines these are the guidelines to be followed by anyone wishing to address the board this evening please limit comments or suggestions three minutes or less because we do have a full agenda to follow comments and suggestions on the school district are welcome personal criticism and or derogatory remarks directed at members of the board or employees of the district will be called out of order uh i believe we have two podiums david they're saying they can't hear you okay how about house now can you hear me now can you a little more volume jordan a little more volume please i was afraid that was going to happen all right i'll try to yell louder uh if you wish to provide input and would like

005to recognize be like to be recognized please come forward to the podium there'll be a clipboard there where you can write down your name and address for the record before you get started with your comments please state and spell your name if needed and share your address for the record the board normally receives citizen input and does not respond or debate if there's a need for an answer or a response to a concern or issue the superintendent or one of our administrative staff will get back to you thank you so let's start with the folks in the room is there anyone here tonight would like to give community input come up to the to one of the podiums please and your name and adjust for the record and then you'll have three minutes hello my

006name is mary lynn donahue i live at 418 sinclair in sheboygan and again i appreciate the opportunity to to just share some thoughts i did review the mitigation plan put forward by the administration um it is the recommended action is in my view better than nothing but it it at least is a is a path forward one thing you will need really adequate thorough documentation the plan does not work unless there is adequate information that comes to the administration to allow it to make decisions regarding masking virtual schooling and so forth and i just wanted to comment very briefly um i was here for the committee of the whole meeting and what i saw i thought was pretty encouraging um one of your members uh said at some point during the deliberations you know this

007has been a pretty good meeting and i think it was a couple of pieces on that one whether it's with respect to masks or whatever the superintendent is the ceo of this organization and you are the board of directors you have every right to ask for information and for policy suggestions that is not something you need to worry about that is your job the administrator in turn as i reviewed as i was listening at the the committee of the whole meeting really pressed all of you hard to really clarify what it was that you wanted of him and that's his job and when you do those two things together the administration moves forward not only with this immensely complicated covet issue which is really one of the great challenges i think of the school district

008since the time that i have lived here and paid attention to it but to anything you have the right you have the responsibility the administrator has the right and has the responsibility and when that goes back and forth i think as as one of your members said it they will be good meetings meanwhile be of good cheer be strong be brave these are hard times they're for just a wide variety of reasons you are serving the public you are you are in the the literal hot seat and i know that no matter what our thoughts are back and forth we all thank you for your energy your intelligence and your courage because that's what it takes and and so i thank you and stay strong you just wanted to clarify too i was going to

009say this earlier but i just wanted to clarify that the item um regarding covid and the mitigation efforts is the first item on the agenda we do have a really lengthy agenda tonight i'm gathering that most of you are not going to stay for the whole meeting so we front loaded it with the item that was of the most interest to you and it is listed for information and discussion so there won't be any motions by board members and there won't be any action taken by the board tonight i just wanted to make that clear to everyone so that we're on the same page so uh anyone else in the room would care to address the board and we've got the other podium there you can use as well you can use either one please

010state your name and record the name for an address for the record good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board of education for sheboygan my name is reverend stephen welch i'm a resident of sheboygan the city of sheboygan and i'm a pastor of reformation presbyterian church in the town of will wilson i come here this evening not to address the issue of um the uh covet but to address a different issue altogether that has created a lot of concern across this nation and particularly in our schools and that is the concern of the critical race theory curriculum i understand that that's a curriculum that has been implemented in the sheboygan school district but it's being adopted in schools all across the country the issue with the critical race theory is it's created a lot of

011confusion and a lot of dissension within our culture the critical race theory or what is known as crt is being promoted across our nation as a solution to the issue of racism and has been popularized by a number of groups like black lives matter its major ideology is that racism is inherent in all of our laws institutions in every fabric of society and that it creates social economic and political inequalities between rights between whites who are often seen as the oppressors and blacks who are seen as the oppressed one particular critical race theory writer ibrahim kindy who's the author of a book entitled how to be anti-racist says that the only remedy to racial discrimination is discrimination against those who are of the oppressing race and this by and large is racism the issue in

012our culture is that we have made this whole issue of race as a thing that divides people racism by definition and historically has always been to make one race superior um to other races and that is racism we can call it whatever we want but when we promote one race above another race or one race is superior to another that's racism and i think most of us in this room and at least those that i know and i know a number of people that i've involved with who would deny racism in any form there's no one in this culture that wants to see that sort of thing promoted but when you look at the agenda of the whole critical race theory and you see it in the curriculum that's being promoted is that our culture

013is racist and everybody's racist i think that's that's not even a fair accurate thing to say because not everybody's racist not everybody is opposed to one particular race so i would encourage you as a board to look at this further and uh to think about this issue and i appreciate the time you've allowed me tonight thank you very much thank you anyone else who would care to address the board yep come on up to either one of the podiums [Music] hi my name is laura donnelly my address is 4517 pheasant lane in sheboygan i have the unique opportunity to address you tonight as a parent of four children two of whom are students in the district i have a middle schooler and i also have a kindergartner and then i also work in the school

014district so my day today in the last three weeks has been greatly impacted by covett and everything going on within our school so i just wanted to address you regarding mitigation strategies moving forward i know there are multiple schools within the district that have gone virtual or within a classroom or two um and it's frustrating and it feels like we're failing our kids um the cova levels at our school are out of control in classrooms we have more than one class that within the district that has gone virtual and i'm wondering why we're not doing more to prevent this i know for my kids last year i was fortunate i had a little one who was out at maywood so he never went virtual it was the best program we could have ever asked for

015covert or not um but i did have a sixth grader last year who went virtual and struggled greatly and i'm afraid that the same thing is is going to be happening this year um i know i'm not really interested in discussing face masks i know that's been a hot topic issue and the board has voted multiple times to not mask the kids so let's move on from that and talk testing where i work we've had symptomatic students from a classroom with known covert positives allowed to return to school without first covert testing we've had symptomatic siblings of students who are in a room known to have a covet outbreak allowed to return to class without testing we've had students who have been sent home repeatedly for multiple coping symptoms that have rendered them unable to

016learn that given day who have been returning to school day after day after day with no testing requirement whose room has now had to go virtual i can say with 100 certainty that classrooms would not be closed had there been a testing related coping mitigation strategy put in place by the school board it's frustrating to me because at this point i feel like we know better we need to do better our kids deserve better and they should be in school they should not be forced to learn virtually because of lack of testing requirements within the district thank you thank you anyone else in the room here to address the board this evening oh i'm sorry this is yeah i got yep yep i see you thank you you ready yeah okay now three minutes thank

017you my name is lorraine greene my address is 2308 north 35th street in sheboygan thank you for the opportunity to speak after the last meeting at south high school i found out and informed all of you by email of the total funds that sheboygan area school district will receive from gear and esser funds which totals in case everybody else in the room hasn't heard 21 million six hundred and six thousand forty nine dollars this is ton these are funds that are promised or already received uh but there's a catch you have to follow cdc guidelines and that was stated in the uh dpi documents that was that was sent to all of you so i know these funds are federal and state and probably come out of all of our pockets you are being influenced

018by money from us to follow guidelines that most of us are objecting to this past thursday after reading the um the beacon i found an interesting article that alerted me to the fact that there's an organization i was totally unaware of it's called the wisconsin association of school board and 100 percent of the school districts in wisconsin belong to that uh this organization openly advocates for equity which reverend welch addressed and i wholeheartedly concur with him uh masking and vaccinations it relies on funding from dues well i'd like to know who's paying those dues i can certainly guess it's probably us is coming out of our pockets so again we are paying for something and uh promoting something that we stand before you objecting to this by the way this this website is not very

019uh forthcoming you i cannot access the newsletters that you receive i cannot access a lot of information so the transparency there is is turned off i did find out there's a donovan group connected to the wisconsin association for school boards and legal advice is given again all of this money all this power uh this minute through money that is advocating for the very things that we concerned citizens and parents are totally against we also know that the nea the dpi the cdc the health department medical groups and hospitals the county board of supervisors and their various affiliations among other many others have all the same interconnections and goals i see i have only about 33 seconds left so i'm gonna have to paraphrase the end so you're going to listen to it comes down to

020the point are you going to listen to all these organizations where we're funding it through our pockets to encourage you to do things that are unhealthy unconstitutional why are you going to stand up for the kids as pt barnum said no one ever made a difference by being like everybody else thank you if anybody who doesn't get all their comments done if you've got them written out you can email us the whole thing too we'll look over them yes thanks carol just carol dusalt 2736 north 30th street sheboygan thank you uh i have taught for almost 40 years i'm retired now most of those years were in sheboygan area school district and most of those years were with working with elementary kids i think we all can agree on a few things the first one

021is we're all here because our children are our most precious treasure in society our biggest job is to keep them safe [Music] keeping them safe at school has to be the priority of this board i hope that you will take that that seriously children are really very flexible and very adaptable i've always been amazed at how they can bounce back how they can adjust and how they can adapt they're so much better that that than adults are and they will take our cues from us as adults if we ask them to wear a mask most of the time the kids will readily agree to that unless they see the adults around them fussing about it kovid won't harm all of our kids but who among us wants to take a chance that it will harm

022any of our kids please don't allow yourselves to be influenced by the loudest or harshest voices or the angriest voices think about what we need to do to keep our kids safe please institute a mask mandate i can guarantee you that the kids will adjust much better than the staff and the adults around them and please heed the warnings of the teacher who was just at this podium about testing and tracing let's just do that first job so that teachers and kids can get back to in-person schooling and stay there thank you thank you yes good evening uh john paul 5332 wild mental drive in sheboygan thank you uh so one thing i just want to remind all of the board members is that yes you are public officials you are paid by us and

023ultimately at the end of the day we decide everybody's fate if you're a public official and i just want everybody to remember that uh majority rules and that's usually the way it is in our republic and it'll hopefully stay that way uh second of all i think one thing that gets missed at some of these meetings is a lot of people say institute xyz get rid of xyz but nobody tends to give information on okay i think you have a decent policy but here's what i i'd like to see it so this is speaking for me personally the agenda that was put on for tonight to be talked about uh i think it's a decent agenda it's a good starting point however the one thing that i don't like is uh that it looks to

024me that we are discriminating against younger kids because quote unquote they can't get the vaccine and that's why the percentage that's allowed is two percent as opposed to four percent for others so for those that are on the board that haven't thought of it this way for every hundred kids that's only two people so if you got a hundred kids in an area if two people get covered you're going to a mask mandate that's a pretty small amount considering the city of milwaukee considers themselves in a very serious stage and you have to look at the percentages not the words that are used by the cdc and other health officials you can call it whatever you want but it's two kids out of a hundred that you're gonna put a mask on and for me

025that's a little low um you know unfortunately the mask thing has become political anybody that says any different is living under a rock uh in my opinion and can something be done so the board can move on sure i think this is a good starting point but for me two kids out of a hundred is that's awfully low and especially to discriminate against them for not getting the vaccine um i'm not particular of we give no credit to the people that have had coveted either if you've had kova you're discarded as someone who's never had it doesn't know what it's like your body's never built up in immunity and you're going to go out and kill all these people and these kids are going to go out and kill all these people i think that's

026irresponsible and wrong so when you're when you're talking about this tonight and you consider maybe changes to it just think two kids out of a hundred that's uh that's the number you need to be focused on not two percent thank you thank you yes my name is alison warren 4321 morning view court sheboygan a parent of a local elementary schooler science is not political science does not care about policy science will be what science will be and i say this as a scientist it doesn't change because we find it inconvenient and the virus doesn't go away because we are tired of it most of us in this room are not experts on epidemiology disease transmission or public health so i will defer to the people who unquestionably are dr anthony fauci the american academy of

027pediatrics and the centers for disease control have all said that masks are necessary in schools regardless of vaccination status a cdc study out of arizona has found that counties without school mass mandates are 3.5 times more likely to have coveted outbreaks than counties with mass mandates the sheboygan county division of public health has recommended masks and the county has mandated masks in their buildings we cannot pretend that we don't know as of last week there have been 89 cases of covet in our local schools we cannot pretend that we don't know the americans with disabilities act guarantees every child a free and public education in the least restricted environment this means that ada and idea federally mandate us to make in-person education as safe as possible for every child including diabetic kids including you know

028compromised kids including kids with congenital heart defects every child this is an accessibility issue and when we say but they had pre-existing conditions what we really mean is but they don't matter they do every child my grandfather had an autoimmune disorder his immune system was completely gone he ultimately died of septicemia from a common sinus infection that i almost certainly gave him i was 13 and i can tell you that i most certainly blamed myself we can talk all we want about how kids get mild coveted over 500 kids dead says that isn't always true and we don't know yet what the long-term effect will be but we can talk about it but i can promise you that if a young child recovers from covid but their parent or grandparent does not they will absolutely

029blame themselves and i wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy we owe it to our kids to keep them safe we owe it to our kids to keep their families safe and we owe it to our kids to keep their community safe that is our responsibility as adults and rights without responsibility are meaningless thank you next go ahead hello i am randy livermore at 527 north 25th street and i keep hearing about the science behind the mask sorry i keep hearing about the science behind the mask just this past summer we lifted our mask mandate and our numbers dropped so low you were more likely to die in a car accident then the vaccine was released and all suddenly our numbers are going up what's going on with the history why are we not paying

030attention to this why is it all about the science thank you thank you anyone else in the room who would care to adjust the board ruth villarreal 1406 pennsylvania avenue um i just want to point out i think many in our community already know that i have a pending lawsuit against the county for being fired last year and i'm going to present to you the same thing that i presented to my attorney and god willing each and every person that's here and listening to the live feed will have the opportunity to follow my case the virus that is being spoken about that you guys want to test our children on has never been isolated in and of itself how are we testing for this virus how are we vaccinating for this virus until this school

031board is able to present the parents with this information we are going to kindly not accept anything it does not exist then there is something going on and you guys need to ask those questions too just as i have i put my foot in the door i took out my retirement to fund my litigation and there's many parents that will be ready and prepared to do the same thing based on that one question how are we testing how are we implementing these things if it has not been isolated in and of itself thank you thank you yep go ahead my name is jessica schlafke 1116 los angeles avenue sheboygan northside i guess i have a question i want to know what percentage or what numbers you guys have that you're going to help base your

032decision on the mask or not i'm here for that reason only i'm not for the mask i don't want my kids wearing masks and the second thing that i wanted to say is that the last meeting we had it pretty much summed it up for me a gentleman stood up and said um he couldn't nobody could hear him he had a mask on and i believe the gentleman in the middle up there had said it is his choice to wear a mask that's it it's a choice we are parents and we have that choice and that is i work the entire pga 40 000 people a day no one's masked and now masking in schools it's ridiculous it's got to stop no more masks [Applause] good evening my name is maeve quinn i live at

033310 saint claire avenue thank you for this opportunity tonight the co-ed plan shared in july was based on the community covered levels that were quite low it was a decent plan for when our community was at a low yellow covered level level instead of a high level or red at the time we were all relieved and thankful that the focus and goal was to have in-person instruction five days a week students teachers and families all want in-person instruction unfortunately at the start of the school year our community had a high red positivity rate of probit and our numbers have continued to climb as someone already shared since school started we've had 89 students testing positive and we've had 17 teachers who have tested positive this updated plan tonight attempts to address the concerns of what

034the school district should do when there is a coveted spike in individual schools the overriding goal is to support the district-wide efforts to continue to safely provide in-person instruction five days a week i am thankful that this updated plan now has included more mitigation strategies that the superintendent can employ if there is a coveted spike in the school these strategies are preferred to only having the option of virtual school at the school board meeting two weeks ago it was a bit alarming for me to listen to the superintendent share that he did not feel he had the authority to require face masks if there was indeed a spike of covet cases at an individual school this was due to the variety of motions taken by the board since may it is my hope that your

035discussion tonight can provide more clarity for our superintendent so that he is fully aware that he can utilize the mitigation strategy of wearing the face mask when there is a coveted spike in a classroom with school the scientific studies strongly support the efficacy of mass wearing and during this period of high positivity rate our county and city buildings are now requiring face masks even the ryder cup required face masks in their buildings it makes sense to me that the school district should follow their example and require face masks when there's a high positivity rate in our community and or building and then finally i really applaud the addition of the free coven test at staff kiosk at each school having these free tests available for students their families and teachers will really help our schools

036to contain the spread of this deadly virus this was part of the plan shared two weeks ago but i wasn't really able to locate the strategy in tonight's plan that was attached i am hopeful they're still included in the district plan thank you thank you hello uh domas 1329 north 47th street sheboygan wisconsin kovid mania 561 days into slowing the spread this time we question everything first congratulations to administration for creating the daily cover dashboard it's very useful been looking at it every day seth uh i disagree on a comment tonight that a school board exists to ensure student safety i believe the school board exists to ensure quality education as an example do our school buses have seat belts they didn't in my day i don't think they do now administration is directed will

037make recommendations for triggers to enact mandatory masking for those unfamiliar with percentages 2 percent is 1 in 50 students 4 is 1 in twenty five figures that hardly resemble an outbreak those levels are way too low in my opinion remember the two percent remain home well the 98 percent will be required to wear mass for at least 14 days why 14 days i repeat why 14 days it is almost as if we recognize that the ragtag mix of mass types that have had zero effect why doesn't a 100 percent covet free building receive a 14 day mass free reward do we want our students happy and engaged in learning or frustrated and distracted behind a wet dirty mask why do unvaccinated children need to protect vaccinated adults in this united states of america as the

038my mask protects you and your mass protects me slogan now become my vaccine protects you and your vaccine protects me how has sweden managed to keep schools open this entire time while not mandating mass why has sweden's neighbor denmark removed all co-vet restrictions when will kovid mania finally end in the usa perhaps never we better be prepared for that a new harris poll conducted this month's raid 1457 vaccinated people and 598 unvaccinated people 58 of vaccinated people were concerned about getting a breakthrough case forty four percent of unvaccinated people were concerned about contracting covet 19. finally perhaps also in the never category when will my aurora doctors advise all their patients regarding what type of mass to wear when to merit where it and when to clean or dispose it this covered mania will only

039end when we say it ends the time is now until we meet again thank you thank you anybody else in the room yep are you gonna yep come on up he's planning on waiting a little longer eric anderson 1910 north 23rd street um before you start that can you stop it real quick um what's the plan if kids show up tomorrow we can ask questions right real quick uh what's the plan tomorrow can i ask you a question before you start the that's your public comment okay what i'm gonna he's gonna have to oh sorry okay what are you guys gonna do or what's the plan for if kids come to school with no mass tomorrow is there a plan of enforcement are you gonna be beating up kids and throwing them onto the street

040or what's the plan something is changing so law enforcement is gonna stand with the constitution right and they're not gonna be you know my brothers in law enforcement i'm a former veteran so when we talk about the constitution i lived it i was overseas i have friends that died over there fighting for this country um so no kids will face any repercussions as far as i'm understanding if they come to school tomorrow without a mask is that to be understood there's nothing that's going to change tonight for tomorrow oh you're not voting tonight correct that's what i thought i made clear earlier okay okay if i didn't i'm sorry there are no votes being taken tonight okay um well then i guess i just get to say some stuff um when people are talking about

041high positivity rate they always say that 100 out of 100 000. drop the zeros that's one in 1 000 people that's considered a high transmission rate for so for the city of sheboygan you get 50 people before they start taking away your rights 50 positive tests in sheboygan before these people think they have the right to take away your rights now the woman that came up earlier basically what i kind of paraphrased is we need to legally take away people's constitutional rights we need to basically make sure we navigate that system correctly in order to take away people's rights that's the way i heard it um how do you get hurt immunity from something that doesn't give your self immunity individual immunity how do you get to herd immunity when you don't even get immunity

042yourself um i don't want to personally attack people but i've never seen something so pitiful as a man wearing a mask because he's afraid of getting the flu it's it's it's it's so it's if i was a woman i i how why would you go after a man like that you think she's you think i said she you think he's gonna protect you from anything i you know i i mean it's just a real question i mean i talked to kids out of school last week here and i asked them how many teachers are wearing masks you know what the answer was one not one you know in this class atlus one in all of north was wearing a mask 10 to 20 of the kids you've done a good job scaring the kids but

043why aren't the teachers wearing the mask if they believe all this stuff why aren't they wearing this um this is a place of a public accommodation you're all protected you all have rights no one up here just like i can't take away your rights don't give them your rights don't don't wear a mask tomorrow no nobody send your kid to school with a mask they just said they're not going to do it and if they vote on it say you vote next week and you do vote for mass what what what's the plan then for enforcement or two weeks from now when you do vote that is a that's a question i i can't speak to something that doesn't have time right now and your time is up thank you anyone else would care to

044address the board yeah come on to make sure i'm close enough here can you hear me yeah perfect okay thank you hi i'm missy schoenenberger 1532 north lane and um i just want to say we're not here to discuss if we're going to be in person or not we're going to stay in person i mean that's where we've already decided that we're going to be in person um i want to say that i was at a volleyball game last week or the week before i also went to a north high school football game and i i kind of want to thank seth and the board i saw kids laughing kids were cheering they were smiling they were playing in the band you guys it was awesome those kids were having the time of their lives

045they're seniors in high school juniors sophomores freshmen it was wonderful i was a little upset last week when i'm sorry two weeks ago when a board member stated that she was visiting schools and she was upset that kids weren't social distancing they were going to the cafeteria to eat together and she was upset by that desks were facing each other come on really it's just disappointing these are kids that we're talking about i used to teach in the district too i taught a long time in the district and i if i were teaching now i would not be wearing a mask with my kids i'd be setting a good example we're all going to be okay these kids need to laugh and smile and have fun and not be muzzled so many people say and

046i said this four weeks ago a lot of people will say it's not a big deal for kids to wear masks oh they're resilient they can wear masks it is a big deal to them how many of you have to wear the masks for eight hours a day and can take it off just to eat for a few minutes at lunch and you're policed at school and then you have to stay after school play a sport well you don't have to but this is what these kids do it's it's what they do in high school they have activities they're in plays they're in masks eight to 14 hours a day none of you are none of you are you're at home sitting in your with your mask off at home or if you are out

047in public with your mask on it's not 8 14 hours a day please let these kids laugh and smile and have fun homecoming week this week for north and south well for north um let them have fun and be kids they're okay we're at 0.37 in our district i think that's great i think we're doing great please let them keep up having fun and smiling thank you thank you thank you hello my name is stephanie o'connell i live at 704 highland terrace i have four children two of them in the sheboygan area school district i would like masks to remain optional nobody is trying to take away anybody's right to wear a mask i truly believe that the kids will not be bullied if they do wear a mask if you wear crocs you might

048get bullied though you can tell the kids that we can address that at a different board meeting so people keep saying there are so many positive cases within the school district 89 positive cases what is the metrics for cases versus hospitalizations how are the how many of these cases are ending up in the hospital we do have a vaccine available for this virus and the fatality rate has dropped significantly and if you're going to talk about the fatality rate let's talk about kids 25 and under it's like a one in a million chance that you're going to die just over 400 children have died of covid and i'm not going to say oh because they had pre-existing conditions because yes they all matter okay but that's a very low number currently the flu is more

049dangerous to children than coronavirus and we have never done this for the flu and imagine if we had i mean we can't we can't continue living like this forever it's ridiculous and i would see this coming to a point where you know this next month they're gonna be approving the vaccine for children five to twelve are we gonna have to be attending these meetings because you're gonna try to vaccinate our children so that they can come to your school you know because the vaccine hasn't you know eased any of these issues that we're dealing with apparently can drop the case fatality rate but we're all still sitting here discussing whether or not we're going to put a stupid ineffective piece of cloth over our kids faces it's ridiculous there are no studies that show the

050efficacy of cloth mask wearing for viruses they do not work even paper and surgical masks they're not used properly so they don't work please keep choice in our schools for our children thank you thank you anyone else yep are you coming up okay hi my name is martha barr i live at 2122 south seventh street in sheboygan i want to thank you all for your hard work and as others have said the difficult task that you have in front of you tonight and not just tonight but any other times i'm sure as far as the masks go i am married to the nurse at st nix who does the mass testing and mask fitting for the employees at st nicholas hospital that is the n95 mask now the n95 mask is only 95 percent effective

051and that is a mask that is used in hospitals as is okayed you know or you know whatever um is you know what they use and is only 95 percent effective so when you look at a cloth mask as opposed to an n95 mask what are you really doing nothing nothing um i think that math should be man should be um optional anybody who feels that they are safer if that makes them feel better that they should have that choice but all of us should have a choice whether we want to wear one or not also i want to remind you that all of the statistics and all the numbers and the percentages that people bring up are not necessarily accurate um i don't think that we can have trust and belief in our government

052and what they're telling us i think that we need to use common sense and look at everything from all angles before we make a decision on something this has been be become an incredibly political polarized situation and i'm so sorry that all of you have to be put in the middle of all of this um [Music] but i hope that you come to a decision that you know everyone can you know be happy with and i have a feeling that that would be masks are optional thank you anyone else yep gotcha good afternoon i'm blake bennett can you hear me my name is blake bennett from 1205 mead avenue sheboygan uh i've been to a couple of these school board meetings and all we hear is mass mask i want to hear education my kid

053is so far behind that is it's just sickens me how am i supposed to send my child to school and he's not getting educated all we talk about is that stupid mask get over it period and if you guys are going to bring a mass mandate back in who's going to please the police seth he's known as i've called him numerous times showed him pictures showing pictures of staff not wearing their mask but it's mandated but yet my child gets in trouble my child gets bullied by the people that are on this board and the people that are in those schools bullying my child and there goes education right down the flipping tubes so keep that in mind education remember that's what you guys are here for education i have yet to hear how we're

054going to get these kids back up the park because right now we're well below that well below it i see it every day and it absolutely sickens me that you guys are doing nothing about it except bickering about the stupid mask and what you believe in we personally don't care what you believe in because it's not up to you it's up to us you guys are all elected up there by us so it's about time you listen to us and let's get the education going and stop this little bickering back and forth like a bunch of little kids in a damn sandbox i'm done with it i want to see education i want to see my kid continuing his education i'm sitting down doing his math flow i'm like geez come on bud this is

055easy no because he hasn't been taught it yet because everybody's too bickering about the stupid mass anyone else yep this can you hear me no okay hi everybody i'm tracy alley my address is 4627 western king drive in sheboygan i have two students in the district um i was just looking at the the slide number five i know guys probably don't have it in front of you um from the of the kobe presentation um kind of taking it back to what someone else brought up about the two and four percent for the younger kids i don't know if we don't go with ruth's idea which i like i think is great being presented with an isolated virus then we can solve all the problems that would be wonderful um but until then i'm thinking maybe

056to come to a compromise which would appease everybody um setting that percentage higher so we don't so everybody can be it'll be a good compromise i feel like you know like i don't know way more than four percent though i don't know 25 30 50 75 i don't know a higher percentage to look at i think would be a little more round well-rounded i guess and i would say per class not you know i think it would be better like per class keep it per class um so we can get back to our focus of cleansing and cleaning up our curriculum which needs very much attention um and i would like to kind of circle back to um the testing which is actually still under emergency use authorization which actually hasn't even been proven to

057it shouldn't even be used for what they're using it for so i just think this virus isn't going anywhere and we cannot do this forever this needs to come to a halt and we need to refocus on educating our students and keeping them smart i think that's all i need to say thank you thanks for your time thank you anybody else okay then i'm going to switch over to are there some folks online stuff those people that wish to speak online will have to raise their hand and i will unmute them so that they can speak and address the board one another if you're online just use the raise hand feature and then south will unmute you and we'll let you address the board anyone online okay don't have anyone online all right we will

058move on item seven superintendents reports yeah good evening again everyone thank you audience members for being here as well the uh obviously at this time in september we've spent a lot of time uh getting school underway and so as i report out tonight just uh you know excited to see as some mention uh in a public comment uh kids engaged in a variety of activities the clubs the after school um activities uh sports and and the like uh but also engaged in it more importantly are focused on the classroom engaged in lessons engaged in activities uh we've had an opportunity as an executive management team and our central office staff to be able to be out in our classrooms in our building supporting our teachers supporting our students and have seen wonderful things going on

059in those classrooms so very pleased with the start of the year especially for some of our students who were not in school who were not in school last year as they were elected the virtual only option for them to be in a building in in face to face in a classroom so very excited about that uh september 14th we broke ground at uh for the north and south uh construction uh house construction the ground breaking took place like i said on the 14th we are building a house of it's actually the second house now that the foundation actually was poured today um lot 78 and the stone brook crossing on the south side of sheboygan this was this will be the 24th house to be constructed uh with our house construction the sixth one being

060built under the direction of ted schermetzler the teacher so very excited about that then as you uh drive past the stonebook crossing and see the house is starting to go up and the sasd house would be very impressive look forward to the opening open house around time of graduation so very excited about that in terms of some internal um and external relationships uh you're gonna hear a little bit when we talk about our long-range plan uh really uh trying to to increase the amount of of posts on our social media and be able to get the positive messages out to celebrate one of the things that we've done over the past several years and did it again this year was to feature our school new school leaders who are new to the sasd and feature

061them across the district in multiple posts on facebook twitter instagram and linkedin the remaining the posts that were done will be done this week uh one of the posts uh recently we welcomed uh truvang as our elementary principal at jefferson uh true post achieve the highest reach of any non-coveted related post we've done with 25 000 reaches and more than 1600 comments likes and shares so just again they've been well received and a good way to get to know some of our administrators across the district so with that i'll take any other questions you might have questions okay move on to miscellaneous item a this is the update on the district's coveted mitigation and response south and t just want to make sure i'll move it up just a little bit see if that helps

062um what i have before you in in your packet i'll briefly go through the the introductory slides that's just an update again on where our current metrics are across the district so again i'll provide an update tonight on the metrics both internally and across the community just for that perspective piece talk about some additional mitigation and response measures that have been implemented and talk through where we're at in terms of those cases or absences when they're at a consistent high level within a classroom or building and then share the recommendations that you've asked as a board for the administration to come back with tonight around facial coverings and when would they shift if levels were high at an individual school versus a district-wide approach so in terms of some current uh data on slide four

063we'll really walk through the cases in sheboygan county that was in this last week the seven days when we publicized this there's 279 per 100 000 which equates to today's numbers would be 271 cases or 286 per 100 000. when we look at cases in the sheboygan area school district again there's about sixty thousand residents that live or reside in the sheboygan area school district boundary uh with that that would make it about 240 today's numbers are about 210 so slightly down that was 127 cases out of those 271. it's 127 out of 271. we're here in the sheboygan area school district boundary testing positivity rate although it was over 10 percent has now decreased to 9.4 in the last day or two slide five is one you've seen multiple times that's just the cdc's

064uh guidance slides number six and seven just kind of talk about the seven day average the first one how many new cases per uh over the seven days so new case average each day over the seven days so there's 44 is what we were averaging on 9 22 that was 38 as of this morning in terms of the boundary we were at 21.29 on 9 23 and 18.14 on as of today the 28th slide 8 again goes through just case rates this was from the 21st of september that's the latest data the county provides so i don't have any updated data that would be coming out typically on a wednesday afternoon and sometimes thursday morning to get the res the updated so these are from the 21st again as you can see in the footnote

065vaccination report again just broken down by county residents you can see the age breakdowns that are there as well slide 10 talks about vaccination vaccination rates by age group in the county again these are the data as of september 21st slide 11 talks about comparatives uh looking at a comparison excuse me between districts that are with vaccination status by district boundary that information is there at 56.6 in the sheboygan area school district boundary um uh compared to some of the other districts at 40 or as high as 65 um in some of the other districts slide 12 uh indicated where our current cases are and you can see it was 89 and 17. when we reported out uh made this available on thursday today that number is 117 staff number is 23. so we have

066seen an uptick in staff and student cases that was up from what we reported 67 additional cases in the last two weeks of students and 12 of staff members again those breakdown what we're seeing is a split really between elementary of the student side um in looking at the cumulative data 45 of those cases were at the elementary level 46 were at the high school 19 at the middle school and our 4k 3k population was seven in terms of staff elementary wise 12 staff who work in elementary buildings two at the middle school six at the high school and two at our 4k level covet dashboard is on slide 13. slide 13 again just shows a snapshot of the dashboard the link is there in the presentation it goes live to our page the cases

067that are there we have that daily running total of students again just for clarity we've got some questions and i just want to make sure everybody's clear those cases are on as active cases meaning they've incurred within if the case was positive today that information is coming from the state led system those people that have received a positive test or have received a positive home test and have worked with the county health on that so those are the the two ways that those get put into that system both of those numbers are sources is what's being used to drive the dashboard it's the cases stay active for 14 days that's the common definition that groups are using in terms of active status so that's they're on there for 14. some are saying well i know

068that maybe we had one or two new cases at our school but the numbers the same well each day that's updated there may be cases dropping off as new cases are coming on so not necessarily that you're going to see this constant again it's not a cumulative really talking about an average there is a a link you can look at in terms of cumulative numbers on that dashboard as well today which is different from what you see in your packet 29 active student cases seven active staff cases for a total of 37 total active cases i'm sorry 36. um we do have uh students at a variety of schools you can see that that are active and their percents are there one of the questions that we've also fielded which relates to the covid dashboard

069is the notion of the county health department and what they list as facility-wide investigations the county health department has listed 14 different schools of the sheboygan area school district that are on their list of what's called facility-wide investigations those investigations are are classified i should say our schools are classified as having an open investigation if there's been two or more cases reported in a school that is regardless however if it has a direct link to our school it could be a case where a parent who have tested positive and maybe the child tested positive they may not have been in school but it still gets linked to our school because they are asked what school do you attend so those cases stay on there in an open facility-wide investigation remains in effect for a minimum

070of 28 days and that there's been no new cases within those 28 days reported this is nothing new this was done last year in terms of communication with the public of where there's been cases in schools quite honestly we had every school listed at one point or the other last year because we had cases in all of our schools within a 28-day period the 14 were not surprising if you've been following the the chart uh our dashboard anytime that there's been two cases in active status that automatically would trigger that that would be placed in a facility wide investigation what that really means is the county is monitoring our numbers uh if they see some higher numbers than the two they may reach out to us they've done that a few times already this year

071to reach out and say you know what's going on are you aware of what's happening in the classroom or in the school is there any additional supports et cetera so it's it's really a a conversation the county could however as we've talked about before those targeted directives they could issue a targetive directive but i just want to clarify that facility-wide investigation piece because that is a question slide 14 then has that historical data slide 15 talks about that daily absentee reports both of the covid dashboard and the absentee reports are updated every day prior to noon with the most up-to-date the attendance would be updated from the previous day the cova cases would be those cases which we know of at that time of posting at noon and that's updated the next day at noon

072as of today our overall district absenteeism rate was 5.7 percent up slightly over the what was reported on the 22nd that would have been yesterday's 927 data we did have a few schools that were over the 10 percent that we've been monitoring two of those schools both cleveland and jackson had higher rates those were schools that we've had to transition a classroom to virtual instruction for 10 days due to high case levels or high absenteeism at those schools so we have made that both of those schools decision that does impact as well then that absentee so those are just the background again information in terms of additional mitigation response measures one of the things that you had asked is in addition what other things would we implement or have we implemented and so the listing

073there is things that we can certainly implement some we've already had to at schools others were considering or may consider again this is not an exhaustive list but it really shows you the things to do in terms of enhanced social distancing through limiting some group work limiting some labs some of those things through cohorting if we needed to looking at quarantining students increasing the length shifting activities to virtual we saw there was an issue with a with a club or an activity staff meetings those kinds of things we can also look at some reductions on on buses and other things so those are there certainly understand that people will disagree with some of these measures may disagree with with the face uh covering recommendation and ultimately what the board decides but i think you know

074as reasonable people i think we can all agree and i heard some people talk about that tonight as well you know what can we do to keep kids in school and keep that in person learning going so obviously these are things taken when we've got a concern about what's going on from absence the testing sites was was asked and brought up i mentioned that my last presentation but we're going to have 19 different testing sites that would be optional for families that would like to have their children or themselves or a family member tested our hope is to be able to open one this week we're working with that vendor called covid clinic and we hope to have the others online soon i do not have firm dates on the others but we are continuing

075to work through that process as testing availability for those that are seeking it it's hard to come by with our community based on the fact that there's limited outside of a doctor's visit there's limited locations to go to get tested for those that are seeking that so again that that's there in addition we've increased communication surrounding areas of concern trying to trying to make sure that our parents and staff are understanding that we're seeing some things occur in terms of uptick in cases or absences at a building so when we're seeing those two or more cases within a specific grade level we're sending out a communication to the families at that grade level indicating that talking about what symptoms they could be looking for recommending if they'd like to seek testing that there's a link

076to those again as i mentioned the sites are limited and our ability to offer some will certainly help that we've also sent um those same letters if there is a students instructed in a self-contained classroom if there's one or one or more cases within that 14-day period we have a variety of of classrooms to support some of our most medically fragile some of our special education students where it's a small classroom and that's why the difference between the two versus the one typically those class sizes are are 12 or fewer kids um and then if we see the absenteeism rate at a building or within a classroom staying extremely high above you know relative obviously but above the 10 when we usually hover well below that we start to see 10 or more and we

077see that climbing over a number of days we are sending a letter uh indicating that we're seeing that some of the absences we've seen have been related to stomach flu or stomach issues we're seeing that trend go through some of our schools now so we're like we've done in the past we're sending communications that we're seeing there's a bug going around we want parents to know what to look for keep your kid home if they're not but just be aware that there are we're seeing an increase of illness within a particular classroom grade level or school depending on the situation there so we've sent letters out to a variety of schools some additional ones went on today based on uh the absentee rate and the case rates at schools then starting on slide 20 really

078talks about uh what we've uh major point of why we're here tonight for this agenda item was to talk about a recommendation board uh asked on the 14th for the administration to come back and present a recommendation of when and at what point under what circumstances will be look at recommending a shift to required facial coverings for a period of time within a specific building so with that you ask for both metrics in a time frame on slide 21 and 22 looks at a variety of options that we as an administrative team work through and had to narrow it down to a recommendation um obviously you had looked at wanting a recommendation around a specific time and location of when so that really took option one the universal facial coverings for all students off the

079table requiring facing facial coverings for students staff members and looking at a 4k through six and maintaining optional higher at the higher grades option three we looked at was maintaining just our current and not coming forward with the recommendation slide 22 has three additional options number four was looking at a district-wide implementation at a predetermined level level five was looking at it when cases got of cover 19 cases for a selected period of time and that would again be for all students if the district as a whole numbers got there and number six was requiring facial coverings um when a building's active covet 19 cases got to a predetermined level for a selected period of time and looking at other factors in this case one around vaccine availability so based on that discussion based on

080that work uh settled on number six which is to look at that building-based approach so on slide 24 uh in order to come to some determination of what's that predetermined level looked at two factors one try to look at where's a percentage if you will um of kids and at what level um in terms of number of cases and then also the fact that that method had a vaccine availability um obviously try to put data in the next slides we have some data in there and try to make this more of a database decision but you know with vaccinations and differences with vaccinations with other mitigation efforts a number of students who selected a variety of of options last year and limiting some cohorting two day a week face-to-face versus two-day or three-day virtual like

081we did last year at the high school it really makes comparisons from year to year more challenging it's more like apples and oranges it's still fruit but it makes those comparisons more difficult so i just want to throw that up front that this is a little bit more challenging to to get to a data point um there is no magic number and i think we've heard that as our discussions all last year and throughout there's not a magic number so it's really along that continuum as i said before between risk and reward so where do people feel comfortable with that number um based on upticks of situations so what i what i did and i just want to clarify slide 25 is we looked at the months of october and november from 2020 and the

082reason we looked at that data is that was the time in our district when we had the highest number of student cases throughout the year was october last year in november last year because i was looking at the number of times that we had at least a positive case i um it's really meant there was at least one active case so when you see that there's numbers there the number of occurrences it's not the number of days within that month obviously those numbers don't total up to the number of calendar days in that month what i really looked at was each individual building by level and saying in the month of october at north high school they had these dates where there was new cases so on this date in october first they had x

083number of cases that day which would then look at the past 14 days and include that october first date whatever that ratio was or percent in this case i should say percent was at that building using their building population at the time came up with a percent that ran somewhere between zero well it would have been above zero in that case because at least one active case to five plus percent and so i just kind of banded those percents so when you look at the high schools when there were active cases going on within and i took every 14 day window because that's how we're looking at that now in a 14-day window so if there's a case on the 1st of october that case and every case for the next 14 days got included

084when we got to the 15th day at first case and october 1st would drop off so that number would be adjusted so you saw this numbers would go up or down each day depending on the number of new cases that day when i looked at all of that information at the high schools you saw that during that time there were 24 different times in october and november when there were positive cases at the school where the positivity rate was below 0.99 and there were 41 times when the positivity rate of students was between one to one point nine nine percent there were ten times at the two six four one so i did that the high school level did the same thing at the elementary level and the middle schools so those numbers there are

085just the number of times during those period of time and the number of times that that a building had a positivity at least one case that would give them a positivity calculation during those during those eight weeks if you will so that helped kind of look at that two percent four percent piece when you look at vaccination availability and obviously you know there is and i i just again will say it here and and for everybody on online and in the audience the ability for a district in the state of wisconsin to require vaccinations is not within a preview of any district that is a legislative action only so a district cannot require vaccinations when we look at vaccination ability the reason we looked at that as one of the factors put in this this

086discussion was the fact that we do know that there are people who are choosing to get vaccinated who feel that there's a lower risk than because they are vaccinated right now our staff have the availability to get vaccinated children ages 12 to 21 which we have students in our district between those ages have the availability if they choose to look at vaccination if they so choose but students 11 and under and we've heard from a number of parents over the past since the summer and and ongoing who are saying i i'm waiting for that time i feel it should be additional mitigation but i'm waiting for that time and then we can reevaluate so again it's unavailable at this time you might have heard in the news about this notion of boosters and booster shots

087and obviously that that's out there educators are included for our staff with the pfizer that's the one that they're recommending a booster for for availability because we are classified as essential workers so i just thought i'd throw that in there as well but not for modern eye or johnson johnson so on page 27 then is the recommendation and looking at both factors of of look trying to come up with a with a percent number uh that threshold but also looking at that vaccine availability there's really three things here number one would be looking at the 4k to 6 grade and i'll i'll address the split at the middle school a little bit but at four to f four k to sixth grade if we would reach two percent within a building we would look at

088a fourteen calendar day so it doesn't mean 14 school days but 14 calendar days um minimum and then look at if the percentage on day 15 drops is below 2 then we're back to mask optional we chose the sixth grade sixth grade of the middle school you know the sixth seventh and eighth graders although coming and going they interact there's not that interaction between other classes sixth graders at this point are not all 12 so they don't have yet the ability to vaccination if they so choose so that was where that split came in looking at the seventh grade to 12th grade then looked at a four percent measure same thing looking at calendar days looking at when that building positivity would drop below after those 14 days again as an increased measure to try

089to reduce some of what's going on within that obviously we had exemptions last year we've maintained that same exemptions accommodations and physical mental developmental needs that are documented or are documented through the ip process or medical provider we had that going on all last year and many there were people that chose to to look at that exemption and so that exemption would would still exist that would be the end then of my presentation the last page is question so obviously i'll turn it back to you david for your feedback questions discussion etc ryan what happened i don't know if my mic is on yet it is okay um what happens on day 15 say um you say an elementary school is at three percent would that restart that 14-day clock or or is it a

090fort or would that or would be that that you still would wear a mask until that until the positive rate drops below the the two percent look to do ryan would be to implement uh 14 days we would keep that going then until that grade came down okay so so it would not so it wouldn't start all over again 14 wouldn't become 28 wouldn't become 42. questions from board members so when there are positive cases in a classroom whether it's a staff member or the student are we currently doing has there been contact tracing done by the health department are kids being quarantined or is that not currently being done and if so what would motivate that to happen the contact tracing is being done by the by the county in terms of if there's

091somebody who is um as they work through that process in that case there are kids in quarantine we do have kids in quarantine currently do you know how many we have yeah okay if i can just i've got a note here in one of my slides we have 400 and um we have 413 kids that are out on illness we have 140 that are officially in quarantine so we're not we're not quarantining very many compared to how many kids are are ill that's correct and is that different than last year is that the same that's different from what we were doing last year in terms of the rate at which uh people are being quarantined is different from last year and can you explain that difference please yeah so one of the things that we

092looked at in terms of quarantining was that the county is taking on that responsibility as they started to last year and then they shifted that to the district the other piece is with the variety of mitigation efforts that are being done or not being done we really went with the route of of talking about the notifications and understanding where they're at and if there was direct physical contact where there was prolonged contact we are but we're not quarantining an entire classroom based on a case within a classroom so when we have the two classrooms that are currently in virtual i'm just looking at the dashboard and i'm seeing cleveland for example where we had 19 kids nine of whom had copic-like symptoms and it says 24 of the school is absent but there are zero

093cases i still don't understand that yeah so at cleveland for an example the in this is where we talked about illness versus related covet currently when we moved that class to virtual only 47 of the kids in that classroom were out ill not a single student had tested positive but 47 of the kids were out ill some were seeking testing some had tested and were negative but they were half the class if you will without ill clearly and we looked at as a team other numbers of illness and the rest of the building and it was really for the most part contained to that classroom so clearly something was going on in that classroom which we felt a 10 day shift to virtual a 50 percent of the kids weren't up to learning at that

094time to the degree they normally are um and we really didn't want to put the other kids in that illness so we did a 10-day pause they're back uh this friday but so that's why no cases showed up so it it's it the absenteeism you know we had an absentee for an example at central high school we had at one point 14 of the kids were absent we had one case but we had the stomach issue going around it was kids with stomach flu symptoms that were absent so it we're in what you're seeing in your and if you've been following some of the nose rsv the stomach flu some of the other things make this a very complicated process because you know some are you know displaying those types of symptoms and not specifically

095you know or testing it's from some cases and not coming positive so it just um it makes that much more challenging that's why we're looking at both the absenteeism rates as well as the covid positive thank you can you hear me okay i um want to say that i really appreciate this recommendation i i think it's very very good i can fully get behind it i it answered my questions about i wanted to start a stop point if we were going to mask what what triggers it because i don't want to be having these conversations every six months or something and then when does it stop so that everybody knows um also for our kiddos with special needs who can't wear masks with special accommodations ieps medical whatever reasons i'm glad to see that that's

096in here as well that was another concern of mine i do want to go on record saying that i can get behind this as i will not be at the october 12th meeting i don't know if there's going to be any sort of action taken at that meeting or a recommendation but um this this i can certainly get behind and i don't want to look like i just skipped town or something because i didn't want to vote on this so um let's let that be public knowledge um so uh the other thing i just wanted to say is to the gentleman who thinks we're talking about masks all the time and not worrying about our learning gap at the end of last school year just a reminder we did our administration put together an amazing

097gap a proposal for us which started with our summer enrichment classes and into the school year and so we are focused on education as well as a math we're just doing a lot right now thank you that's all other questions you come here mark sorry it's hard to hear yourself am i being heard yeah just uh looking for some clarification on the uh why why are we increasing the quarantine length to 14 days and i guess exactly what is that reference to only uh covent positive cases as far as quarantining people yeah and mark good question those are things we could do we're doing a 10-day right now there's with the ability to once obviously we can have a broader access to testing that test out on day to return on day seven if you

098had a test on a negative test on day six or seven the 14-day quarantine period is still what's recommended by the health department and and others so that's what i'm saying in that case we could go back instead of doing a six or seven day in return or a 10 day in return we could extend it to 14 which people were referred to as the standard um that's some saying that that could be an option we could choose to implement if we felt that there was people returning and then displaying sickness after their return if we saw that occurring we could select that as one of those additional modifications but we're not saying that that's universal being implemented at this time it's just one of those additional things we could do i guess to kind

099of follow up on that i assume it's going to be this same type of answer for symptomatic students remaining at home for 10 days but you're talking that the stomach flu is going around are we just at this point once the 24 or 48 hours has passed these kids are coming back to school from if that's the symptom because obviously there's a lot of cross uh correct that these symptoms are under a whole you know not only covered but flu or cold and all this stuff and i just hate to see some kid out with a co you know a sinus infection head cold for one day or two days and have to sit home for ten days just because it's the same it's a coveted symptom correct so one of the things mark that

100we had talked about at the last meeting was right now the the the plan that we put forward and discussed last week would would would be to change it to your if you have those symptoms that would be falling to the kova that you would need to be out for 10 days or have a negative test and return with your negative test right now that would be a huge inconvenience for our families due to the fact that they're not readily available and not always free we're trying to get those 19 testing sites up and running at that time we would communicate that we would shift to that if we at that point in time but right now we're not operating that way because we don't have that availability for those that want to choose to

101return sooner than 10 days i guess kind of following up on mr berg's question if we hit that mark and you implement the masks the very next day it drops below the percentage acceptable and it goes for 13 days under that and then day 14 it spikes again for some reason we're doing another 14 days is that correct that would be correct under that scenario mark yes okay and i guess i want to have a better understanding of how we're going to implement this at the with the different percentages at the middle schools because there's a lot of staff that are there for all of the kids all are those staff like in the office and food service then going to be required because the sixth graders have to be masked the staff would fall

102under both yes and so we'd have sixth graders in the school mast but seventh and eighth graders not right be optional at that point if you turn your mic on a second it's on okay um at that point it would be again it would remain optional for those kids if they didn't fall to that level vision because you said next week that one testing would be open that we would include that in that because i i agree with mark as far as if there's a cohort but my child doesn't have the symptoms and i get tests i have them get tested then they can go back to school the next day and they won't have to wear masks and also i think a provision for our staff especially the ones that are vaccinated that if

103they're vaccinated and they don't test positive uh that they would not have to wear a mask that the mask would remain optional and i think that provision should also be included in that along with our students in the high schools that i heard a mother say that her daughter was vaccinated and you know we give them that option especially if they can show they have no positive findings they've been vaccinated that we still put that in there that they can attend school and remain optional with the mask when you're talking about the testing to return to school you're saying you can test the next day return to school you're exposed to the virus it takes like five to seven days for you to get sick so you could test the next day it's going to

104be negative and then like where would you be with that if you're symptomatic you're symptomatic and you have on day six for seven you could test the return so it would be day six or seven so you would still be oh so it wouldn't be like one person in the school test or a classroom test positive i can get tested tomorrow and then we're good if you're asymptomatic in that case if you were in there and you were concerned about the fact that there was covet cases within your classroom and you wanted to to check you can also do that preventative testing for your socials are there going to be any guidelines i just i just foresee this being excessive amounts of testing and again two factors with the guidelines yes we would have clearer

105direction on what that looks like and and two it still remains as an optional choice for families uh yes um first off i want to thank the board for asking the questions a lot of those questions are were on my sheet so i appreciate you guys for asking those questions i have it on your heart um can the county information regarding 18 year olds to 24 can that be separated to show just the 18 year olds i know it shows on page 10. it goes 18 to 24 for cases excuse me for the completion rate of um is it a way that the county can break that down to show 18 year olds versus 18 to 24 to give us a good number yeah i asked that question of the county's new epidemiologist andrew a

106few weeks back and he at that time was not able to but i certainly could follow up with them again to see if i can get that number broken down and one more question i had so to go back to the middle schoolers and the um elementary schoolers for your the masking when it gets to a certain percentage on page 27 do we have sixth grade classes in any of our elementaries i know some of the charters do yeah so at sixth grade uh except that uh lca and sla the sixth grade um is at the middle school not at the elementary level yeah so again we looked at that that data from last year as one of the guiding pieces and also looked at the that ability of um the vaccination availability is where

107we centered on the two percent four percent again there's no there's nobody out there it's telling you here's x percent to x so we looked at the data from last year and vaccine availability yeah so on that chart is what we looked at in terms of the number of times occurrences that we had um and that's when we that's when we noticed last year of when we felt there was concerns when we got at the elementary level that's when we saw additional illness and at the high school level middle school level that was that was there were more cases in those schools before we got to that degree so talking about the vaccine vaccination access or availability and the two and the four i'm looking at the numbers and they're saying that 36 of the

108middle school kids are vaccinated and 43 of the high school kids so less than half in both cases have actually been vaccinated are we gonna bring back the vaccine clinics to give those kids a better chance of having another opportunity to be easily vaccinated if they so choose not during school after school at school after school we had vaccination clinics are we going to do that again at this point we would be looking to to partner again with one of the medical providers if it was going to be a the announcement for the younger students um obviously those who fall in that same range could take advantage of those as well so they could go they could go to that as well okay thank you again we would have to work with a provider that

109would do that questions comments whatever you want sure i'm just trying to get an idea you know we're going to discuss this further as far as our positions on it or wait for another meeting board wants to discuss this more or wait until if there's actually a proposal as far as because i mean i i think the numbers the suggest i appreciate the work and i appreciate the difficulty in pinpointing what that bar is at the two and the four percent but i think that is extremely low as pointed out before two out of 100 kids could each come from the same family and had nothing to do with getting that from school or at school or transmitting at school and now the school is impacted by these two kids that got it because they

110went on vacation and so i guess one of the things that i looked at is the sheboygan county health department in assessing uh transmission they don't assess it as being moderate until 10 and so i kind of would i think the bar should be closer to that in alliance in align with what they say is a transmission rate that we then need to kick in additional implementation of mitigation strategies and i guess that's kind of where i would suggest people start to con contemplate if we're going to do an implementation and taking something like that into consideration you know just kind of digest that a little bit and consider that but i think the bar needs to be a little bit higher than two and four percent but i do have a little bit of

111a concern about two different percentages at a middle school i i understand the vaccination thing but i think that it's gonna i just don't know that it makes a lot of sense to implement two different mitigation strategies in the same building like that they just it doesn't make a lot of sense that way but i understand where you're coming from kyle go ahead well at the at the last meeting one of the things that came up and i think it's a really valid point is that there's a a fairly good number of people on the board and i think we can discuss that tonight who feel that we kind of got off base when we as a board started dealing with this rather than having it be on the plate of the administration and the

112emt so and there were comments made including by you mark that you were comfortable having the administration make those decisions moving forward so can we i mean to me if i as i look forward to how we're going to eventually try to deal with this i see two things one is setting it very simply we want seth and the emt to be making these decisions because they can pivot they can move quickly we are a very restricted body as far as how we can move what we can do putting out agendas giving notice having to have special meanings none of that works well in in this kind of situation and i think we're finding that out so how did the rest of you feel about that would you be comfortable with doing it in like

113two parts which is one we let the administrator we agree that the administration should be making these moves and then the other is we agree with the plan we think it's it's a good solid plan and we encourage them to move forward with it or do you not like that idea i mean what are you thinking i think the bottom line is if we're trying to get this administration direction and the ability to make those moves that's what this whole recommendation is about and so it'd be nice to get you know consensus here of whether or not we agree with these set marks and i guess that was my input was i think they're a little bit low i mean you look at the transmission rates and everything and it's amazing you know and i

114understand the concerns and there's been some spikes but at the same time we've had school open for a month and it doesn't seem to have made some crazy spike that everybody was worried about just like back at uh christmas and thanksgiving of last year also that those times didn't create a major additional spike there might be more cases but it's not this huge spike that everybody was anticipating and so i think that we've got time to be able to formulate a plan that we can get consensus on so that they can have that ability to make those decisions on a moment's notice as opposed to having board input on every ever everything similar to what they've done to transitioning this week with jackson and cleveland i don't think anybody on this board has taken issue

115with the administration's ability to to make those types of decisions but i think it's best if we give them direction on what we agree with so that we're not calling them out on the table saying what the heck are you doing here you know and i and i think that we're getting very close to that point to be able to have that and move on so one i echo marsha's comments that i believe this is reasoned it's thought out there's data behind it and i support the administration's recommendation there's a couple things i just want to address one it it the data is in front of us it's false to say that there's no increased activity the seven-day case average has doubled right whether you consider that a spike or not it's not flat the

116next part as well is it's easy to pick numbers and say well 2 out of 100 there's actual data and mathematics behind it communicable diseases are measured by are not values an r naught value is the mathematical formula for the average number of persons someone who is infected with a disease can expect to infect the low end the common influenza or cold has an r knot value of one to one and a half or two so you can expect that if i have the influenza on average i will infect one to two people covid when it started had a three to four measles the most infectious disease in human history measured has a r knot value of 12 to 18. the delta variant which has hit us and is spreading right now has an r

117naught value of six to nine has six to nine so if we take a low number there and assume that two positive out of a hundred it's basic math the low number six to nine right they're going to in fact 12. that 12 then becomes just under uh i'm here i'm doing math stuff i had 72 right so now we have 72 in a spread there just based on simple mathematics and geometric progression this is math this is not politics it's numbers we're in confined space it's a communicable disease the reason why we start when it's small is because an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure if we don't prevent early on that's where issue runs in and i understand that there are folks in the audience who like to make snide

118comments but we listen to you it's our time to speak as a board and if you'd like to speak please go out into the hall while we have a discussion we respected you i would ask that you respect us i thank you seth and the team for what you've done and i appreciate that you look back at the data because here's the thing when you look at the numbers right in front of us november when it was the worst period in our county 141 seven-day case average not once in that period most of the time we were virtual right not once or not once excuse me on average we only had four days where we crossed the two percent threshold for elementary schools or five excuse me and we only had one day where we

119crossed the five percent threshold at the high school and four at the four percent mark so the likelihood right now for folks in the room who are concerned about this mitigation measure being in place is honestly fairly low that that again this is not your time to speak you do not have before you are not a member of this board the public comment is over to my fellow board members we have a very reasoned measured data-driven plan and i appreciate that thank you to the emt i yield i wanted to point out to i appreciate the daily attendance and i but i think some people look at that and when it gets to 10 get a little bit bent out of shape and i guess i'm going to throw out there the you know the

120whole idea later on tonight we're going to hear about some updates in the career readiness data and our criteria for that is 90 attendance for those high school graduates which that in itself that's our that's our bar that gets us at 10 absentee rate as being acceptable for career endedness so you look at some of the high schools and some of those absentee rates you got to take it with a grain of salt it's not every kid that's sick or that has covered so don't rely too much on some of those numbers when they actually are a little bit higher especially at the high school level so i just want to keep that in mind too when we're considering some of these data points that we're looking at uh one clarification that is the attendance

121data that you're seeing in that chart that's in your packet that's just the tenants based on kids who are out ill that doesn't count other forms of of attendance uh whether you know parent may have called them in for a funeral or a college visit or workplace or kids who just didn't show up to school so that's just those who are coded as being ill or under quarantine yep so is i i asked a question that i don't think we really got to an answer moving forward what is our plan because i really think we need to at least have a plan moving forward or we're just stagnating here are we moving forward thinking that we are going to turn this over to the administration yes or no how many of you are comfortable with

122that i'm come so here is my thought and i guess i want board reaction to this my thought was that in two weeks it committed the whole that these recommendations would be posted for possible action because then that would allow the board to vote on them but it would also allow board members to tweak those numbers if they wanted to so for example if someone wanted to take the two and the four and increase them you know make a motion proposing that they'd be well whatever you could change anything right seth pointed out how they got to the numbers but you know there's there's no handbook there's no guidebook for this so if a board member wanted to make a motion at a future meeting not tonight that the percentages would be whatever 10 the

123minimum would be a different number of calendar days whatever you could tweak any part of this so i think now it's come down to this kind of bargaining amongst board members right which has to happen in the open which is where it belongs it starts tonight probably continues in two weeks but then my my hope is at that meeting we closed the door on this and we have a plan in place and we go back to the board room at virginia avenue to have our meetings and we do our you know we spent we're starting to see that tonight and this agenda tonight is loaded after this item with our regular stuff because we can't postpone those things anymore as we know we got to get back to business i i would think we would

124i would personally recommend that we go with with what the emt has come up with with this because in the same sense that some members of the board think that this number should be higher there are other people on the board who think that we are under tested in this community and so when we look at our current numbers those numbers don't really reflect how much potential coverage is you know what the situation really is because people are not necessarily testing their children so i think we could go with the recommendation done by the the people downtown who run the numbers and have looked at a lot of things because we're never going to make everybody feel comfortable with any given number and then we're back in the situation of back and forth and back

125and forth i think that you i think they put a lot of thought in this i don't necessarily agree with all of them but i personally think and i know that i'm pretty far on one side of this equation i i don't necessarily think that having the number be doubled for high school is necessarily appropriate when we have less than half of the kids vaccinated i could say that you know so at a certain point i think we need to just trust that they did the very best they could and move forward and see what happens that's my recommendation anyone else comments questions now we're going to move on okay so moving on okay miscellaneous item b this is the quarterly review of our long-range plan so this be set jake mark and andrea uh

126as we move forward that's correct david and andrea is online so she'll be uh speaking to us online this evening um just a couple things before we begin the the report of the district goals number one is just uh you know we've been as david alluded to out of the sink of some of our normal month-to-month activities so in september we come forward always to to give you an update of where we're at in december we come for that update in december the same thing march again and then in june report out in the whole year so we've got that um september december march june um just to note this item is listed for possible action as we get to goal 2 objective 4 you're going to see um some changes that we're recommending around

127the administrative services building and the warner uh aspire sale program that uh to bring those spaces in so we're recommending a modification to the long-range plan um we historically don't do that during the year but because that's a big uh part of our operation right now really feel that we want to make sure that those objectives are captured or activities excuse me are captured so we will ask for approval of those as we go through and mark is prepared to talk about that and give some updates where we're at so i want to highlight that uh before i turn over to jake and he'll be the first one to to talk tonight and go through goal one i really want to thank our emt members and other administrators who work through and overseeing the goal

128work and also want to thank nicole and sarah from the communications aspect and i'll talk through their rep under goal uh two of objective five so with that i'll turn over to jake uh for goal one objective one and and subsequent objectives yeah good evening i um i guess i want to start too by just thanking the entire sni team for all the work that they've done so far in this plan and to support our schools um coming back this year it really has been fun to see all the kids in the classroom and uh the focus on the learning so the first objective really two things i want to share out is one we talked in our june planning about those uh restorative practice training so if you remember back then our principals went

129through training with um she was a former police officer from detroit uh in in the restorative practices and that training continues so really we have right just kind of our traditional rules and um policies within our buildings our pbis and then restorative practices for kind of high-end behavior needs so that works continues and then the second piece is uh edition from june and i think it was mark that mentioned um kind of the relationship that we have with dhhs so um really there's a three-prong approach there with judge tory also playing a role in that so the three groups sat down to begin those discussions and and really the focus there is to make sure that we are not duplicating services so that across those three entities uh there's kind of continuum of interventions that

130we use with students mainly around the area of truancy as we work kids through that process so that's the work to highlight related to objective one objective two i'm just going to hit on a couple things here obviously there's there's a lot there but um the online piece at warner we have about 120 kids um online at the elementary level and that that kind of changes every day is as more people opt for that but that's about where those numbers are right now again they're remaining coded at their home schools uh but being educated through warner and and warner's access to wisconsin e-school network so that's been a pretty seamless transition and a nice job by the the warner staff and jason duff overseeing that program um activity two is it's just kind of a

131neat thing we want to share with you chromebooks two three hundred bucks a pop obviously not a very powerful machine um but what we're able to do with these servers and with these licenses is essentially a kid can be in a cad class sitting on a desktop computer with thousands of dollars worth the software and they can go home and access that computer through those servers so kids have access to all that high parts software on their chromebook at home we started out thinking we need a couple hundred licenses and it's being accessed like wildfire so we're continuing to add server space and licenses to that so that's been a great success for us um full planco serve is a training through cs7 that we do with it's all staff but it's to really help

132our special ed students that can that training has happened at our middle schools and um kelly can tell you all about the the el standards and dpi changing those but long story short there's a lot of pd that's going to happen with our el staff to get where um the state requires us to be for that 2023 2024 assessment and and full implementation so they're working hard on that and then the biggest thing that we continue to push is our dual college credit options at at our high schools and really working with lakeland um trying to get our teachers certified so that they can teach those cap classes and kids take in those classes we look back at some reports we're talking 380 enrollments in college classes at north high in 2019-20 just a lot

133of kids getting a lot of college credits hlc changing those standards and we want to continue to help our teachers get those credentials 18 credits in a content area that they have to get i think every single math teacher at north i did it or is doing it it's a ton of work so we're really appreciative of our teachers that are doing that good for our staff good for our students uh really kind of a neat neat thing for for our district and something that sets us apart objective three is mental health jason leaderman is uh probably the the the guru for the county and and even getting to be at the state level um where he works with all these different organizations to make sure we're doing what's what's best for our kids we

134just spent some time out at the new rogers building last week friday thursday friday great facility we're excited for them to come on board as well and lakeshore community health continues to to allow us to add therapists for our in-house mental health obviously we have rogers now if if we need to layer on top of that um and then we continue to look at kind of screeners and how we want to bring kids back in after a mental health health crisis exists so lots of good work going on there and then that final goal is is probably the one that is most important to me overall and that's our kind of continuous improvement plan for the accountability within our schools and you're going to see in our next presentation some early data you'll get to

135see the college and career readiness data for last year which is always great to look at and the high schools will be coming uh in front of you yet this year working on the elementary and middle school report cards with wayne to get all that information to pull from from skyward um and we just continue to to work through those processes any questions for sni thank you all right then for goal 2 objective one mark will handle the first few and then turn over to andrea and then i'll pick up at the end okay thank you so just a couple updates on uh objective one of goal two around health benefits um the benefits committee met uh this month and uh decided that starting in february of this next february that we'll start to hold

136those informational sessions for our staff on a optional what an optional high deductible health plan would look like for people so we're continuing with that the benefits committee also agreed to survey staff if there's any interest on a voluntary group legal service that members could sign up for and then the third activity was the rfp process for our in-health clinic that we share with the county and the city an rfp was sent out we've received the results of that we've met with the county in the city and just this last week we had agreed to stay with interra health for one year to remain with them for the next year that'd be 2022 for the in health clinics um even with uh with staying with that clinic there's um still the contract was a savings

137for us from this uh current contract so we're happy with that objective two um district um has met with the county and the city to discuss uh options and potential vendors to to have a second lateral connection to our fiber ring out to the whisk net uh network which runs along i-43 again that lateral is just for redundancy so right now if if the lateral that's uh connected to our our ring gets cut uh that would affect our service so we're looking for a redundant uh connection so we're working with with the city and county and working on how to move forward uh to meet that goal and then we've also been in uh conversations with skyward uh to talk about uh the ability for that they would host our data through their services and

138again that's just uh an effort to uh lessen our risk of of uh being hacked having data stolen or hacked into from the district so uh we'll continue to look at those options and start to get costing and and make some recommendations upon that objective three uh providing quality nutrition for students so meredith had applied for and she did receive a waiver from dpi that would allow for begged breakfast and lunches to be distributed from a school or picked up from a school so we wanted to do that just in case there is a school closure or classroom closures where parents would still like to continue to pick up the meal for their child so again that waiver was accepted by the state and were prepared to do that if needed one thing to mention

139is that we are now seeing a lot of supply issues around food service so food items supply items are increasingly becoming harder to get i know meredith has made several runs to local grocery stores just to be able to complete meals in a day and again this is uh like the bus driver shortage this is now a national crisis too that food service departments around the country are seeing so i just want to make you aware of that in case you hear anything out in the community you're aware that this is a problem and uh it's a it's a supply chain problem that they're dealing with objective four um so under objective four i'll go through uh the the existing ones and then circle back to the change we would like to make activity one

140around athletic field upgrades uh bleacher pads and bleachers have been installed at field of dreams there's two new batting cages that have been installed out there and then the other item that was done uh was the north high football field that was top dressed overseeded they decreased some of the slopes that were found at the sidelines that led to some drainage areas there so that was a successful and um so now that the football season is going and we'll take a look when that's over and just see how the field uh you know got through that and what type of condition and if there's more uh over seeding or top dressing that needs to be done after the season the good news then is that football season will now be in the fall remember last

141year it was in the spring and then had to get ready for fall we'll have a whole year to prepare that field this time around the committee for farnsworth and urban middle schools the citizens advisory committee met in august they toured urban middle school and then this month they met and toured farnsworth middle school and uh they'll they're continuing to meet uh once a month and then the uh west side maintenance shed the new shed that's been built at urban middle school the foundation is poor the walls are starting to go up the salt shed is uh completed again with some of the supply chain issues it's going a little slower than than what we normally would see but they still do expect to be completed by the end of december the next step there

142is they're going to be pouring the concrete floor in in this shed at horace mann middle school oh when i say urban urban i didn't want to alarm the people at urban there yeah i want to make sure there's no maintenance shed building going up on their very limited space at urban um and number four was us was that the long-term facilities committee was going to make a recommendation on the long-term plan for the central administration building as you all know since that time an opportunity had came up and the board had approved a purchase of the former wilson mutual building to become administrative services uh building and then to do some remodeling in the current central building to allow the sale special education program to move into there they currently lease space in garten

143apartments and it would also allow warner middle and high school to move into that building they currently lease space on the riverfront so we would be out of the the lease business for those schools and i think that's been a long-term goal for both of those programs and schools so with that happening we're recommending that we create activity a new activity for an activity 5. activity 4 is moving to the new administrative services building so we look at outcome measures the first one there is the new building purchase completed that we have done we closed on the property on august 18th we're in the process of building modifications and preparations uh to complete the office fixtures configure them to the needs of the departments that are moving in there that's currently happening now and then

144we're also running a fiber optic connection to our ring uh right now that there's a connection from the ring to jackson school that's the nearest connection and we've extended that to the new administrative services building uh the conduit's been put in the fiber has been pulled that we're just waiting now to uh wait on some panels that have been ordered so that they can make the connection and then our it department is working within the building to set up uh networks and wireless access points so that um internet connectivity has to be in there before we can start to move people our hope is that we can start moving people in november activity 5 would be moving the warner middle and high school and the sale program into the new remodeled spaces in the central

145uh services building so right now we have met with brave they have met with uh warner schools they have met with our special ed department to go over their needs for those spaces and bray is currently working on draft plans that they will come back with and share those and and we'll continue to tweak those to a point where uh we think they're ready uh to be bid out so were there any questions on the the two new activities especially or any other questions all right then i'll thank you andrea just provide an update uh uh where she's at with the attracting and retaining staff thank you i'm sorry that i'm not with you tonight um but i appreciate the ability to um meet with you virtually so our first goal as far as conducting

146a teacher and administrator salary study we just are in the beginning stages of that and will be it's not a good idea to send out surveys at the beginning of the year to other districts so we plan on sending that out in october for both of those employee groups um we'll be working on our employee recognition out i'll be working with nicole sandali as far as we don't have our internal workplace that we were using so we'll look at other alternatives of ways that we can recognize each other within the workplace and give each other kudos internally and the education career pathways group will be meeting in october and continuing to work on on filling our pipeline we've done a great job as far as our special education teachers and using the right program and

147building our own uh pipeline there but certainly we'd like to increase our um bypac teachers and the rest of our staff so we'll continue to work on that and then we'll be looking at leadership development opportunities for our staff as the year goes along andrea i appreciate your updates i know you've got a lot of activities coming up fast and furious now in this next quarter yes um objective six then uh i'm providing the update for um our communications team nicole sindale and sarah byron um under activity one the external brand uh you heard me talk a little bit about uh really increasing amount of social media posts and gaining traction there we have been hashtagging those uh really around two different ways the sasd difference and celebrate sdsd uh really trying to highlight again

148all the the celebration aspect of what we do as a district but under the difference to really trying to specifically target and highlight areas where we are different from other districts or our competitors if you will so those are encouraged uh continuing um andrea mentioned the new internal communications platform we had a discontinued workplace that we were using due to cost and so we're working through right now some additional options internally we will be trying to bring something online in the next few months to really again focus on our internal staff um as you go so um then the other thing i want to highlight is under bullet point three uh under the third bullet point excuse me evidence is that we're gearing up to launch the first monthly newsletter that will go to all

149of our families and specifically highlighting things that have occurred during the month of in this case september so some welcome back messaging highlighting a few key areas really what we learned from a brand strategy research and report back was that parents knew a lot about what was happening at their individual students or child's school but knew less about the overall district and so we're really trying to work on how do we get pieces out there for all parents so they understand the the breadth of what we do and understand if they're in elementary what are some things potentially the child is going to be exposed to at the middle school or high school if they're a middle schooler and just getting a sense of the district as a whole as opposed to just their slice

150at the schools that their children attend so we're excited about that so we'll make sure that you get a opportunity to look at that digital newsletter that's coming as well so with that um happy to take any questions um at all or feedback that you have and then i would ask for a for a motion to approve the the changes under that goal um to objective core before we do that any questions or comments about the report seeing none uh oh god [Music] hearing down all those in favor say aye aye me opposed ocean cured thank you all for keeping that moving forward and appreciate the report miscellaneous c is the 2021 academic and social emotional learning update this would be jake kelly eric and jim split mike's here if we can um we're kind

151of intermixed here so this isn't the best format uh but we'll certainly make it work so really the intention of tonight's survey is just to update you where we are on that kind of kova gaps planning presentation that we did back in may of last year and what we didn't want to do is just wait until every piece of data was in to to present this and kind of leave you in the lurch with with knowing where we currently are so this isn't perfect we'll be back to update you again when um we have more data in but this is what we can share with you right now and i think it's it's beneficial for people to see so um as we look to slide two just the agenda of implementation at the elementary middle

152and high school and then how we're using our coveted funds within within sni really planning goals the biggest thing here being that we continue to stress we're bringing kids in from from all different places right whether they were uh online for the whole year some kindergartners who never did 4k et cetera so we can't teach down uh to the students that weren't in that position right so our teachers are having a probably a difficult time is is fair to say a challenging time to make sure that they're hitting the broad range of skills that kids are coming in at based upon um what their engagement has looked like over the last year so um that piece is there and then the data piece i i always struggle i hope you guys feel that we're transparent

153with you and that we don't try to put lipstick on a pig or anything like that so these are not excuses or anything like this but this data is really hard to look at right now we're testing earlier in the year than we've ever tested before because we wanted that information right away for our teachers but as a result you're not comparing apples to apples when you talk about fall testing because normally we'd have a couple more weeks of instruction before we test and anything when we're talking about national norms or state comparisons uh districts that were mostly virtual or all virtual last year are not getting included in that and those are your large urban districts right so at the state level milwaukee's not accounted for in a lot of these at the national

154level uh los angeles unified school district is a big one right so you're just running into a lot of different issues there but we're going to try to paint the best picture that we can for you so if we skip down to uh slide six i'm going to let kelly talk a little bit about the elementary assessment okay so thank you everybody um circling back to the plan we presented in march to support our students as they return to the classroom this fall and we really do feel that sense of urgency so as jake said we moved that window for all of our assessments in fall up a little bit so we could get as much information about our students as possible so on slide six you'll see that we have teachers using the many

155tools that we have available at elementary school fonteson panel is one you've heard of before it is essentially an assessment where we are sitting down one-on-one with students to learn about their reading proficiency and what skills we need to support in a small guided reading type of setting and we'll have data on that after the window closes october 8th we also have two tools to look at social emotional learning panorama is a tool that we used last school year you might remember we have that available to our schools grades three through five as an option in fall but required in spring for schools who wish to get more information about their students recall that that's a student survey that they the students themselves take and then we take that information and look at that new

156to us this fall is our best universal screener that's a new tool like i said to us classroom teachers are using that to identify internalizing and externalizing behaviors for all students and then getting recommendations of supports for those students that essentially rise to the top for that need um just just recall that all of that kind of testing takes some time to do because it is individualized so we do use our other tools such as star so on page seven as jake said we as myself as the dac for our district the assessment coordinator i keep hearing from all the different groups that i am a part of that we should use caution with this data because of that participation variation and because of that instructional model variation but this data is used in schools

157to identify students who qualify for basically another layer of support through our ti-tiered levels of support so we tested with star the first two weeks of school earlier than we usually do and we're able to identify students quickly that would qualify for that type of intervention can you hear me all right okay the second piece that's on there is alexia data if you remember in march we came to with one of our plans for accelerating learning was to use a software program called lexia we some of our schools used it last year and this data is really only representing three of the comparison schools who used it all year but last year at the beginning of the year 23 percent of our students took a placement test and were put into at or above grade

158level this year those same three schools had about 17 so another example of one we started testing a little earlier last year we started a little bit later with those placement tests as things got going and two some of our virtual students didn't use lexia and those students who chose to be all virtual last year are now in the classroom so a little difference in data the big piece last year i think that shows on there is by the end of the year 57 of those students at those three schools were in or at or above grade level material that they were working with um so that'll be something we'll really analyze and look at this year is how students progress throughout the year on on slide eight i'll give you a little bit more

159background on lexi on some of the implementations that we're doing at elementary really our goals kind of go back to what jake said are we want to be able to have students have access to grade level material get individualized support and then finally have some small group targeted instructions so those implementations reflect that lexia we purchased a four-year license so we have a district-wide license to be able to support student work in lexia elementary uses a program called core5 where they work on five core literacy skills and that really is a blended model where it's involved with 15 to 20 minutes of individualized student work on the computer that adapts to how the students are performing and then flags a lesson where the students may need more one-on-one support from that teacher or it also

160shows like a a wider lesson that the teacher could do in a small group or the whole group if they needed to really solidify that skill and reinforce the skill the nice piece with lexia is they have district and building support for each of our buildings so we'll meet on a regular basis i think we started off in august in september all of our buildings had implementation support with representatives from lexia to get started to look at some fidelity measures and then we'll be meeting again october november where they'll start looking at some of the usage data and some of the units that students are gaining kelly mentioned a lot about fontes panel we'll be using that data to target those guided reading groups to know where students instructional reading levels are at but then

161also really looking at what are some of the levels we can support with we call them reading mini lessons which would be that grade level access for students and then finally we purchase also we in march one of the things we came to you was looking for some leveled reading materials for our schools for their book room so students as jake mentioned might be reading it at an instructional level at various levels teachers can pull a group of students and have six books with a structured lesson that they can sit down and really target some of the students um skills to help them move forward in their reading levels so really those are some of the big things we we're trying to implement to target some of the gaps we may see in reading all

162right thank you i'm really excited to share a couple things that we've got going forward with math this year and really resources and opportunities we have available for both our students and our teachers so it was prior to last year we went through the adoption process and decided to move forward with bridges uh math curriculum uh 4k through 5. last year we decided that might not be the best year to introduce a new math curriculum district-wide and kind of put it on hold for a year with the exception of some volunteer classrooms so we had 10 schools within our district that had a grade level within their school kind of pilot bridges going forward uh and that was a blessing in disguise for us really because it put us in a much better spot uh

163to support our teachers and really have a successful implementation this year i want to share a few things about it and then a success story with you so i think the part that really to me is most exciting is it's truly a comprehensive curriculum that really i think is accessible to to all students and really offers supports within the curriculum rather than having to pull resources from different places to meet the variety of needs we have within our classroom so there's really three components within bridges i'll give you a real quick 10 second snapshot the first one is number corners which really has taken our our calendar time in the morning and turned it into a math routine uh with some preview and review so again a nice opportunity to one kind of catch students

164up on some things they may have missed but also kind of give them some support for future learnings the problems and investigations are really the core on level grade instruction to ensure all of our students are having access to on level uh curriculum and i really think the the engagement within that part has been phenomenal just seeing kids in the classroom um the discussions that are going on and really just their interactiveness with math from visual models to some of the games i'll talk about in a second and not just so repeat of what maybe traditional math may have looked like and then the last component of it is the workplace environment so after our problems and investigation there's a workplace component that really takes a number of games so really students would have access

165to six different games to participate in that related to that core instruction and this is a great opportunity for our teachers to have time to differentiate so within those six games teachers can have various skills that they're working on particularly some might be related to a skill that a student needs to get caught up on others might be specifically for a skill that someone needs to accelerate within but again we're able to do that within the course of our curriculum and our our instruction rather than having to pull in a lot of different directions and pull outside resources in the the one piece i really wanted to share that probably excites me the most about where we're going from an elementary math curriculum i referenced at the beginning that we had 10 schools that had

166a pilot grade level last year that piloted bridges we went through our star growth data last year of those 10 schools and i looked for the highest grade level of growth seven of those tens was the grade level strand that piloted bridges last year so that makes me excited about the opportunity to have that access to all of our students going forward and i'm excited where our math is headed in that direction i think the one last piece i had in there you may remember over the last few years we've been going through the process of training our staff in avmr advantage math recovery uh currently our k-1 teachers are trained and we'll be continuing to move forward with that going forward but really that component is another piece where teachers can work more individually

167with students uh they can include that within that workplace setting and really it's a it's a way of training our teachers to really get a better grasp on where students are at so a quick example on that is if we're trying to help a student say three plus four right some students might go one two three and then keep going four five six seven some might start at three and then go four five six seven some might know three plus four is seven and our ability as teachers to more correctly identify where students are in their learning helps us determine next steps in terms of our instructional needs and again i think that's a tool that will continue to be used going forward so just looking at basically slide 10 here a summary of what

168we have seen we have been out visiting our schools talking with teachers talking with principals what we see right now as you can imagine bringing students especially our lower grades kindergarten first grade students back into the building we are working really hard with building a sense of routine and building up stamina for those students who have not had that same opportunity just a reminder last school year we had 30 percent of our elementary age learners choosing a virtual option i believe a current number is about 120 of our total elementary population so many students returning back to the building some for the first time and also recall that our kindergartners may not have had a 4k experience as some families chose to keep their students home what i sense when i'm in those buildings is

169an overall excitement just to be back in school by our students by our families by our teachers of course our teachers are adapting very well but adapting nonetheless to a transition back to a normal size classroom and of course our specialist teachers are very happy to return to their role as a music teacher art teacher or phyad teacher okay we are going to right on on slide 12 similar to elementary our social emotional learning data from panorama our our sixth to eighth graders will take that assessment or have taken it by september 24th that data isn't posted live yet by panoramas so they're still working through that but we'll be looking at that when that comes through it was it was optional but our middle schools chose to do it on slide 13. kelly are

170you going to do the star sure absolutely um so again looking at slide 13 looking at that data we do see some concerning trends interestingly however this is representative across our nation renaissance is seeing this throughout the data that our sixth graders are a bit further behind than those earlier grades and our seventh and eighth graders are the furthest behind um pre pandemic expectations so again um we're going to dig into why that might be but in the meantime we're using this data to intervene with the students that um that are in that uh 25th percentile or below and let me just jump in real quick on the um on that reading and star math so 40th percentile didn't necessarily change right so that 40th percentile is the same it was pre-covered the the math

171scared me um when i first saw it we the the forward exam is embargoed we can't give you those scores yet we're not seeing the triangulation of data there we're certainly everyone saw drops um but we didn't see our drops being as out of whack with with math and reading so it's just going to take a little time i think for these assessments to to get honed in you're not mike kyle i can't hear you am i on guys thank you um across cohort data we're seeing not just in the sheboygan school district you're saying that that eighth grade group and that sixth grade group are lower generationally right now yeah exactly across the board yeah imagination right yeah did we notice that in years prior in the in the data assessment on this group

172or does it seem to be as a result or around this period of time i'm just curious i mean obviously correlation is not causation and there's a lot to be sliced here i'm just curious if this was considered a low group when they were first or second grade yeah i mean you can right it's not apples to apples from grade level right so um that's a piece of it it's it's not the answer to it um so we didn't we didn't want to kill you with data but it's a it's a really good question that that group was a little lower than the the pre-sierra the the groups that um preceded them but that that piece is where it is i i think the hard the really hard piece that we're having here is we're

173we're seeing drops at the state level we're trying to determine if we're dropping more than what's happened at the state level and the state comes back and says well our data really doesn't include all kids right because so many didn't test so we're going to talk about forward data but 30 20 of our kids didn't even test right uh the star data we had kids doing it at home which we knew posed validity and reliability issues but it was data that our teachers needed at that moment to help kids so we weren't worried about what it was going to look like a year from now and we were given a report to you guys so that's that piece of it if the math scores are low a year from now then we're talking issues and

174a major intervention that's going to have to take place so we're going to get a feel for that this year that makes sense thank you on the bottom of slide 13 is the lexia data now the lexia data looks a little different because the middle school version is called power up instead of core five and power up focuses on word study grammar and comprehension as you can see but last year we're pretty similar to where we were last year at the start when students took placement exams um i think the value here is that our teachers can really target certain skills that students are having and we can really drill down so you can see uh word study grammar and comprehension are all pretty much similar to where we were last year so we can

175really start to use that more individually now with students um and that that kind of leads us into slide 14 the implementation that middle school brought to you in march one of their big areas of focus was altering that schedule to really find that targeted time so all three all three schools have altered their schedule and built in an intervention time in the middle of the day where anywhere between 30 to 60 minutes students can have focused time for lexia or for the math program alex where they can have specific opportunities to be individualized so again it's a similar program in that lexia is in that it's uh 15 to 20 minutes about per day depending on where students are at in the gaps they need to find but then lessons flag and teachers can

176help in those small groups deliver those lessons or teams can look and see we have this a gap or a need to solidify some things around informational reading so we can really pull that in in our science our social studies our ela classes i'd also did the schedule changes um last year at the middle school right so that wind time used to be 30 minutes and essentially the kids would get the intervention in the subject area where they were lowest right so if and reading kind of took precedence this year they have the 60 minutes to 2 30 minute bucks so kids can get reading and math every single day so uh that opportunity is is there for them as well which i think is nice coming off of the covet issues and then that

177that other piece is the alex that's on there is that that's the math program where um there's specific areas where students work on the their math components that are personalized at their level and then they they move forward from there that wind time also provides time for our el and special education teachers to work with their students in a smaller group setting one-to-one so again another opportunity there and then there's professional development around both of those programs some of our ela teachers really focused on ela and math focused on lexia for ela and math for alex but now we have our science teachers also doing alex our social studies teachers also doing lexia so we expanded some of that professional development and then as you saw in the board goals our schools are also focusing

178on that cesa 7 professional development with co-plan and cool serve so that we have maybe an el teacher or a special education teacher teaming with a classroom teacher to to plan and serve their students in their classroom at the same level i'm on the next slide slide 15 just really kind of a summary of of the story of middle school first month of how we started we i think a lot of students and teachers have noticed that some of the unstructured and transition times are different because we didn't have that last year students were cohorted we maybe didn't have those transition times um they re really the beginning of the year again just like at an elementary level we emphasized some of those daily routines um i was at farnsworth on the first day of

179school and was helping some sixth graders as normally as on day one of school how to open their lockers and find their lockers but then i went up the third floor and talked saw seventh grade students also being helped because they weren't they didn't have lockers last year so again that's that transition time of uh you know really kind of coming back to it's always a transition to go to middle school but for seventh graders many of them it was a transition as well but also the the schools have gone back to focusing on building that climate and culture so trying to bring back some spirit days some incentive pieces really trying to build that community piece which which maybe wasn't there when with we were in different settings and then again really focusing on

180those individual learning gaps so our teachers in the classroom have some data where they know and especially neil and math where students need extra support we can provide that in the intervention time in the middle of the day but we can also still get that grade level access to grade level curriculum all right eric's going to go on with the high school all right so on slide 17 uh it's a bit repetitive from what jim and kelly have said but our our high schools last i looked it was north south and warner have all completed the panorama panorama survey already so that data will be to us sooner rather than later and we'll share with you when we have it if you flip to page 18 i'm really going to focus on our college and

181career readiness indicators as we've shared many times with you at the high school level we really focus on that broad educational experience from academic programming to personalized and career specific experiences and i think our college and career readiness indicators are a good marker on on how we're doing on these pieces we shared the data with you in the spring but really a lot of the data for a senior class is completed by the end of their senior year with with some classes they may be finishing up etc so really we just wanted to update you on the data on where things are at and where we ended up so on page 18 we're looking at career readiness data just as a reminder the definition that we're using in terms of being career ready is meeting

182at least two of these indicators again i'm not going to read through every single piece with you but the attendance piece seems to be right on track for where things have been community service is something we're finally moving forward with this year the tracking piece of that has been the challenge uh workplace learning our senior class last year in 2021 had had opportunities for that i think to be honest i think part of last year offered some more opportunities and maybe have been in the past for kids to have some of those workplace experiences the actual industry credentials dropped just because those connections with the schools weren't weren't as clean our pathway courses and our extracurriculars our numbers stayed pretty consistent there the one thing i will point out is this is a measurement of

183four years so right so if you're looking at extracurricular participation overall you see the 2021 class is higher than 2020 and 2019 that doesn't necessarily mean we had an increase last year in co-curricular participation but over the course of those four years our students are getting involved and to be honest with you i think as we talk about a final summary at the end are excited to re-engage in many of those opportunities again the next two pages you'll find are kind of the exact same thing when we start looking at college readiness indicators there's really one main difference between the two slides and that is uh the the population that we're pulling data from so on page 19 what we're looking at for college readiness indicators are students that indicated they were on a a

184two or four year uh path uh post high school uh you'll notice in pretty much every single category we have a significant dip in the year 2020. the reason for that is our our data for that year is incomplete from the standpoint of we're relying on students to indicate their path post high school much of that indication happens in the spring of the year and when things got shut down in the spring of that year the vast majority of our attention was pertaining to how do we help students successfully navigate that environment that we're in so we had over i think was over 350 students that didn't indicate whether or not they were choosing career whether they were choosing service whether they were choosing a two or four year so our data set isn't the

185same for that year so i'll kind of refer to that on the next slide so i would really i guess on page 19 i encourage you to compare 2021 uh to 2019 as much as possible again as you can see there i think the the numbers are are fairly consistent again these are our indicators of of four years of high school and that whole high school experience kyle question indicators that um like based on past kind of clearing house data we probably had more kids going to four-year school than were probably you know was the right path for them and it was kind of showing out as well in terms of the retention and how many were actually completing that um and it was pretty interesting based on the numbers it was almost spot on

186in terms of predictor are we still seeing similar trends of numbers of students that are choosing that path or is this perhaps helping them see different options that might better suit them in transitory learning or getting to immediately into the workforce in a different career path that might you know better suit kind of where they're where they're at i know that was a large conversation right was for a long time everything was only four year that's an exceptional option but we've got a lot of different opportunities for kids and hopefully this counseling process opens up that opportunities for them and helps them make that decision yeah so i don't i don't think we've seen a drastic change in the number of kids stating that they want to go to two or four year college i

187think what's really shifted is the conversation that we have with those kids right so they put down that's what they want the conversation with them is look this is what the data tells us you need to be able to do to be successful in college these are the areas that you're lacking what can we do to support you and help you in that area we really encourage our counselors to have that conversation and not a conversation of well you know college might not be for you yeah so that's the the piece there i think kids are are looking at things um a little differently but again i think the really hard part with the data that you're talking about is going to be the kids that decided yeah i'm not going to pay for college

188tuition to learn from home virtually last year so right then the college enrollment numbers go down and we i know of a number of kids personally that did that right or kids that yeah i'm going to go to ltc and take my gen eds or uw sheboygan and take my gen eds and then transfer so the data's going to be a little wonky there um but the good news is here is our data across all these metrics is pretty much up so we're feeling pretty good about that up and kind of compare slides 19 and 20. so the difference on 19 and 20 and i'm not intending to lead off the act piece because we'll come back to here um so page 20 includes all students so now when we're comparing 2019 2020 2021 you

189have a comparison data set to look at i think when you come back to you know some of the college level pieces there when you compare pages 19 and 20 obviously some of the dual credit or advanced algebra courses and act scores are a little bit lower when we're comparing all students um but again i think that that's kind of fits what what we're talking about is is a student that's not going um to that college path some of those things aren't as important as a as a work experience might be for them so i think again trying to really try to compare what's important to students and to help them be successful on the path that they're on but i think the overall summary of those three pages is really that uh our it

190class was right on par with with what we had seen in in previous years so then the last piece i guess just in terms of a qualitative summary again i think you heard a couple of parents share this with you tonight but i think just from from my experiences being in high school over the last few weeks just the the amount of of kids being excited to be able to be back and interacting with each other has has been exciting i think one of the funny things is just that unstructured time the first couple days of of getting back to to lunch prior to prior to last year we had open campuses and kids moving back to that setting weren't really exactly sure what what to do in that in those first couple days um

191i think the the whole idea of co-curriculars and building culture you heard homecoming being referenced there was a north south volleyball game this week that both of our athletic directors said it was probably the best atmosphere they've seen at a sporting event in a long long time so those kind of things i think are exciting for our students exciting for our schools and really that return to normalcy on the academic side of things uh i think the one piece that our high schools both of them are really working hard and i should say both all of them are working hard on is really to make sure that any of our students that did fall behind from a credit standpoint have opportunities to get caught up sooner rather than later so that we put them on

192a path to graduate with their class as we we progress on here we're talking virtual instruction and very briefly here as we said about 120 [Music] kids participating in the online elementary and then werner's numbers up 10 15 20 depending um on the date but they're they're relatively small numbers i think 75 at the middle school about 130 at the high school and our third friday report will will be out soon and that will give you a little bit um more information there i think you know we're in the same predicament that that we have been um we've seen some families last year that that wanted out because we were taking maybe too many precautions and this year we've seen some families dip out because they didn't feel the precautions were enough but overall i

193think our enrollment is is pretty stable and will be around 9 600. last piece is the budget implement implications and we shared this with you last year as well so we have our lexi subscription we retain current staffing levels to help with class sizes as kids transition back kidstop has been a challenge to staff but it's a great opportunity and and you can see a ton of interest from our families and a you know obviously a way for our elementary students to gain additional educational opportunities after school tutoring program is being set up at the middle school and really there they struggle i think to get kids to stay after school so they're trying to also incorporate it into lunch and times when kids are at school to help with any remediation there kelly and

194i continue to work with different companies as far as possibly bringing in act workshops one thing we know right is you're gonna benefit from from those workshops or from uh that study but it's expensive um so some families can afford it some can't we're trying to remove those barriers for our kids and and have all kids get access to that with this coveted funding um and then we had our smaller class sizes during summer school which was a success as far as enrollment numbers go uh bridges looks good by all intended purposes eric and his team made a great uh purchase there when they went through that adoption process and um that's supported with these funds and then our guided reading materials really focused on hitting our kids at their at their readiness levels have

195been a nice addition to our elementary schools as well when would um would we get our next report out on this give a timeline in mind hopefully um end of october would make the most sense so basically in a month yep just waiting for um right some extra data to come in and state hasn't said when they're going to take the embargo off the forward data so that's that's always a piece as well all right thank you this is great good information to have and look forward to yeah i can see this being kind of a regular agenda moving forward so we can kind of keep tabs on to the degree that you think you've got new information to report out right and so i think one of the things we really want to get

196back to and and jake and his team have done a great job putting that together and working but as you recall we've had presentations always throughout the year from our high school song about current college readiness elementary schools talking about their goals and what they're focused in on we'll have that additional um district data and from the those factors that you saw are those critical areas you saw tonight as well as our internal report card data some of the state stuff so as they look as a team to be able to bring that back it really helps you stay on top of where we're at and it helps us be able to share all the wonderful opportunities we have and also where those challenges and struggles are in areas that we need to continue to

197focus in on to ensure all our students our career in college running thank you i think we'll do d and e together since they're second readings gonna get a motion for the adoption of d which is second reading of new board of ed policy 7544 use of social media and e which is second reading of revised board event policy 9130 public requests suggestions or complaints any questions on the second readings all those in favor say aye opposed ocean carry deeps um can you help me one meeting so i i marcia's always shepherded this process and i spoke to her and she is going to respectfully not shepherd the process anymore which i am thankful we're all thankful to her for all the work she's put into it um but she's gonna let it go so

198i if someone wants to be kind of the new champion that dates process let me know i guess offline otherwise i will keep my name next to it and i can take notes as part of their job did we formally say that well when i was vice president that's how come i kept it okay we'll talk okay we'll talk anyway i think what we need to do tonight is we need to adopt the document that was in our packet correct right line the four goals for the coming school year and then set in motion essentially the process that hopefully now we're all you know some of the new board members are still getting into because you've only done this once but the rest of us should be fairly familiar with so really dave if i

199can interject the two the two things you really want to do tonight is one is the four goals that i have there for for my personal goals that you would adopt or approve tonight or ask questions about um and then two um is to be ready to um at the october meeting to be ready to provide uh feedback and you facilitate a conversation closed regarding that formative uh performance report so we would do that so we would do that in a month you do that in typically we've done that the first meeting of the month as opposed to the second but that's up for debate abc yeah where it fits best on the agenda okay four and five right last two pages right those last two pages um those what are there six performance standards

200that's correct yes yep board members you would um write down comments specific evidence regarding those six performance standards and then what we would do is we would discuss those as a group any questions regarding the four goals that were submitted that were in our packet with the role the district administrator in achieving the goal has that always been there or was that a new feature sure um that was added by dave's just really to try to solidify is this really something i'm personally doing all the work for this is something where i have a direct responsibility this is something i'm helping to facilitate or is that really you know am i the guide on the side sort of but you know ultimately i'll rest that at the end of the day with myself but where

201where's my role within this goal because there's many things that occur across the district obviously that i need to help facilitate i need to help guide or i'm directly doing so that that was new i like it it really helps you understand a little bit more about where my role is in that as opposed to what the role isn't right say again yes correct and i like that as well yes a quick question seth i mean i appreciate and uh support all of these and i think it makes sense your continuity and most of your job is a long-term strategic role um one just quick question on the development refinement leadership succession plan if i remember correctly we did have a closed session where we talked through succession planning is there is there a change

202to that or is that a different indicator of success or i'm just just curious if that is tied to what that was or is this addressing a different piece yeah one of the reasons i want to keep this this would be a goal that i had last year and we added it on as a result of the board and really asking for more uh clear levels of communication around succession planning what does that mean not only for the my role but for other roles within the district so i i wanted to maintain putting you know having this on here as a way for us to continue to refine that as we see people seeking out other opportunities what does that look like how do we help develop we're going to have some uh potential retirements

203in the next couple years are there internal people that we want to provide additional opportunities for or are we looking at this point in time that might be an external role but how do we maintain this this notion especially around our our leadership of our close to 70 administrators across the district how do we ensure that we've got continuity and that we're providing people the opportunities to grow and develop so i i would envision that same thing kyle in addition to the reporting out on specific opportunities for leadership growth but for us to also have some conversations about succession planning what does that look like thank you questions not i'd entertain a motion to adopt this document as presented questions hearing none of those they were saying all right the opposed motion carried so again

204um board members um we'll get back to you on the timeline um again normally we would do that report out in two weeks but we'll we'll see how that where that can be the whole um agenda lands and whether or not we want to do that night night or do we want to do it in a month okay reports of committees uh curriculum and instruction kyle uh item number one is for information seclusion and restraint report no crazy outliers here in trends and numbers it's pretty standard year-over-year for newer board members that is our annual report out on times when a student is secluded or physically restrained and a lot of times we're seeing that more with students that have certain disabilities involved or behavioral disorders but pretty standard there the number two is the

205graduation requirements this is required by state statute these are not any different than pre-covered and actually we're kind of returning back to there were some adjustments as a result of what it impacted that that march of 2020. so i would move approval of item two graduation requirements questions hearing down all those in favor say aye aye opposed for security thank you item b human resources committee mark i would uh move approval of item number one appointments an item number two leave of absence that were listed in the committee minutes any opposed motion under available one we'll have him be introduced with the board at the october 12th meeting or shouldn't have him come and be able to give an introduction of himself and so you can just meet william okay facilities recreation and theater committee

206ryan approval of item number one the fund balance request with five year calper capital schedule um what this is is there's only one item that's being uh requested as a capital expenditure um using using their fund balance this year and what it is it is a a field liner which john tells me it is fancy is all get out but it will save time and paint um apparently so it's it's so whatever you were lighting the fields at north urban or field dreams or whatever um it it saves a significant amount of time um apparently it's all gps run and everything else so it's got bells and whistles but in the long run it it's it's needed is it'll it because if anything it'll save time for the workers who have to run it questions

207all those in favor say aye all right you post motion carrying anything else ryan no i'm good finance and budget committee marcia thank you um items one two and three are um we're in the audit right now so it's uh we don't have any information until the audit is completed item number four we're going to address an item number nine and i have three first readings that i'll read individually i'd like to move approval of first reading a revised board of education policy 7230 gifts grants and requests questions all those in favor say aye aye me opposed russian reading of revised board of education policy 7550 joint use of facilities um interlibrary loans any questions all those in favor say aye aye the opposed motion carried item number seven and move approval of first reading

208a revised board of education policy 8405 environmental health and safety program questions all those in favor say aye aye me opposed thank you and then i'd like to move approval of gifts in excess of twenty five hundred dollars by the urban family in the amount of four thousand dollars for james madison school and acuity for the sheboygan and the amount of ten thousand dollars for the sheboygan theater company questions those in favor say aye aye the opposed motion carried and then i would like to move approval of item number nine budget revisions and transfers of appropriations um this was not cited correctly at our committee meeting so we need to take action this evening on that line item any questions all those in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carry and that's it thank

209you marshall kyle anything for coming in the hall nope special board committees and assignments uh legislative i don't know ryan if you were there or seth got it go ahead all right thank you mr president um i was a little bit late to the meeting because i had to download i think my eighth different uh streaming meeting meeting app so i missed the first part of the meeting most of it was actually talked about um is a discussion that was generated by um by mr brook inc over at um over at usberg you know just and it was a talk it was talking about how do we you know with everything that's been going on with you know with the public and being very you know very involved in covid and crt you know how

210can we reduce the temperature um and like with many things that are you know that that's been going on in in our society the we didn't come up with an answer we're not going to anytime soon but but that was a a significant part of the of the discussion from when i was able to participate so we talked about towards the beginning we're just updates from districts around there you know what they're seeing the welcoming back of students opening school et cetera a couple of things to point out the legislature was meeting today number of bills that are being put forward uh would be interesting to see where the senate that was in the assembly today senate was trying to vote on some as well many of those bills talk about uh you know implementing

211mandates at the state level that will have a direct impact on us whether that's curriculum transparency and posting of of resources whether that's what we can and can't do around the work of race equity etc handwriting cursive bill fiscal transparency bill uh there was a uh and one of them for the life oh reading assessment bill and civics education bill all around what are what schools should do or what schools shouldn't do all applied to the public schools and charters but not applied to our voucher program schools so that was a point that i brought up to our legislators as well is you know we've got more than three million dollars of sheboygan area school boundary dollars if you will going to private schools who are involved in the parent choice program and none of

212these bills impact them even the fiscal transparency bill does not impact them and so i've got some concerns just all the taxpayer dollars and we heard some people talk tonight about taxpayer dollars and yet very little has ever talked about our voucher schools and more than three million dollars that are being used and nobody knows a lot about it was there anything that they were actually proposing that they believe would actually be not vetoed by the governor that there's actually changes being proposed that could actually be implemented because i mean i i don't anticipate any of that would even if approved through the house and the assembly or through the assembly and through the senate that it's going to be approved by the governor so i mean it's going to be just a yeah i

213don't know at that point where where it ended up but that really goes back to ryan's point when the question was asked you know tell us more information about the bills where do they stand locally and how do they support them or not and it was really a conversation around well this is what our fellow legislators are doing if we support it we've probably signed on but they have been receiving unanimous votes usually along party lines either with side so it was one of those discussions about how do we get to the real the meat of it and there were questions raised about local controls i.e the school board setting those parameters about different curriculums that we want to see as opposed to the legislator saying this is what you should do as a school

214board so some of that at times does does make for interesting conversations about who should control those those decisions discussed was what happens after the code money runs out as we're all aware um joint finance and then was signed by the governor um didn't give us a raise you know did not did not um you know they basically said well you have this coven money that you can use for you know for your per student expenses um we're not going to do we're not going to increase your um you know your per student your per capita um expenditures or your either whether it's a limit or the the amount that you're or the amount that the state is giving through a um and this and that was a concern that was brought up by pretty

215much every single district you know conservative areas not so conservative areas it's the what is your plan now that you've done this you know as you know as the legislature where where are you going with this good summary of the meeting right anything else on legislative for questions okay uh citizens facility advisory committee mark you referenced it a little bit yeah so um the minutes were included in your packet we met last monday at farnsworth middle school so uh principal todd de bruyne and uh representative from bray and uh joe vollmer and dave albright from facilities led the group on a tour of the building we just looked at some of the uh challenges with the size of the rooms there and those facilities that related to classrooms and then joe and dave focused on

216some of the more of the infrastructure difficulties they have in that aging building and then we discussed we went outside and kind of showed what parts of that building in the suggested draft by bray would stay so that newer newer section that includes the gym would remain and then a new school would be built to the south of the gym and then when that was completed they would uh take down the the old part that is basically all the classroom space us north of the gym so so the group had a nice tour they kind of understood the plan that that brave brought forward and again we'll just continue to meet uh we're still deciding on the location of our next meeting so thank you mark questions remark okay and then finally public education foundation

217um i wasn't able to be there i arrived this uh extremely late myself so the minutes are there for your um reading enjoyment and just remember all in for education is that first friday and the pine hills new location and if you want to buy raffle tickets um buy them from myself first though maybe the grand raffle prize is an autographed jersey by giannis from the box which i think could be a pretty cool clear bucks person that would be a nice that's the grand prize that's the grand prize there's a bunch of other a bunch of other courses communications uh are listed that we have been receiving lately future meeting dates uh committees on the 12th and uh regular board on the 26th at our regular times we'll see where we land in terms

218of location for the communities on the 12th it'll be in one of the buildings to accommodate a bigger group we'll just have to see where we do it so just be on the lookout for a different location than the then downtown yeah just to shout out to our electronics guys to really work and get everything set up and yeah thank you guys yes um it takes a lot and hopefully you know based on feedback and and we don't do this enough to get it in rhythm but you can tell i thought tonight much better tonight the sound here perfect process yeah yep yep i need a motion to adjourn all those in favor opposed we're adjourned thanks everyone you