001Call the November 3rd meeting the Sten area school district board to order. Mr. Could you call the role? >> Mr. Tim Buban is excused. Miss Mia Croyo >> here. >> Mr. Jim Moser >> here. [clears throat] >> Miss Dong Garcia is excused. Mr. Zach Masa >> here. Miss Lisa Pew here. >> Miss Allison Sorg here. >> Dr. Sharon Milin Bartlett here. >> Student Rep. Michaela Becker is excused. And President Joe Patterson is excused. >> Item 2 A, public comment. Do we have any public comment? >> No public comment this evening. >> Item 2B, legislative update. >> All right. So, Halloween was a little bit of a spooky day. Uh we had some bills signed into law on the 31st. Uh Tony Ivers signed into law AB2 which is now known as the 2025 Wisconsin Act
00242 which is the cell phone act. It generally restricts cell phones and personal device usage during instructional time and it by requiring school boards to adopt policies. There are a number of exceptions to the restrictions, including for perceived emergencies, health care, or an IEP or 504 plan, or if a teacher deems it necessary for educational purposes. Our district already has a policy on this. Um, and if anyone is interested, it's uh the personal communication devices policy PO5136, which we [clears throat] last looked at and revised in January of 2023. And also on the 31st, um the governor vetoed AB5, which generally would have required school boards to make the curriculum, textbooks, and instructional materials available for inspection within two weeks for any district resident requesting to view those materials. Um the governor called the bill
003an unfunded mandate that duplicates many existing federal requirements. um in his veto message. Um WASBY is still asking for advocacy and calls to legislators regarding AB and SB 170. That uh legislation would allow retired staff to return to work without having to give up their pensions. that's still being held up in legislative committees despite strong bipartisan support. The bill would provide flexibility during severe staffing challenges, doesn't cost the state anything, and protects the state requirement fund. Um, in order for this to become law, there's action is needed in both chambers. Moasby urges board members and the public to contact your state legislators in both the Assembly and Senate and ask them to support the passage of this bill. DPI um issued notice on the impact of the shutdown on school lunch. So the DPI currently
004has funding available to pay October meals claimed for reimbursement in November. We anticipate receiving additional federal funds as they're released by the US Department of Agriculture. The DPI has been notified that SNAP payments may be delayed in November if the federal shutdown continues, as we know they will. Um, however, students who qualified for free meals based on food share participation will continue to be eligible for those free meals. Federal employees that are affected by furlows may submit a free and reduced meal application based on their current household income, which may temporarily be zero. Um, and one last thing, the DPI is um scheduled to release the school district report cards on November 11th. The public release of the final school and district report cards is scheduled for that Tuesday. public versions will include redactions to
005protect student privacy. Any questions about any of those? >> Yeah, let me just ask and maybe maybe we've touched on this before, but who's so I learned a while back that you know there's these rooms that legislators meet in, but somewhere there's a small room where there's maybe only a few. Who Who is who's in that small room that's holding up the retirey one? Do we know? That's a good question. Um, I think that there are we we did talk about this before and I'm trying to remember that there I think there's just concerns that there could be double dipping on the part of educators in terms of access to retirement income and but I don't know if it's leadership and I didn't include in the text that I sent to Mia on this that
006um in one chamber it's actually passed through the committee the committee and hasn't been called to the floor and the other one's still stuck in the committee. So, it's probably a lot of backroom disagreement that we don't necessarily know. >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's there's somebody. >> Right. [laughter] Right. Right. Right. >> Um >> Yeah. >> Who's in that in the proper room at the right wait, >> but we don't know necessarily who. Okay. All right. >> That's why they say call everybody questions. All right, moving on to item 2C, workg groupoup reports. The governance [clears throat] uh workg group met on October 22nd. I'll just provide a brief overview and then either Zach or Allison can weigh in. We were our item on our agenda was discussing the district administrator's performance goals and
007measures for the coming year. We discussed continuing to advance progress on our four existing goals uh including academic achievement progress across literacy and math also increase belonging measures and then also there there's a community engagement and public relations goal. We talked about um enhancing the academic goals expectations. We would continue looking at those interim measures that we've been talking about and including on our agenda, but we're hoping to include some more evidence related to, you know, kind of changes in staff culture that we heard about when we had um our recent roundts with the buildings the building um teams and and also kind of more spotlighting of student successes and talking in more detail about progress and areas where we're continuing to work. specifically um just to kind of dive in a little bit deeper
008on where we're at with those academic measures. In terms of the belonging measure, we were hoping to um have the culture and climate work group to kind of dive into some more objective measures in tracking around attendance, behavior, potentially grades and extracurricular curricular involvement. And then again, just continuing to mark progress on community engagement. So that's kind of the overview of what we talked about. I don't know if Allison and Zach have any more. You did a good job summarizing that. >> Vote on that at some point or >> so where it is right now is I'm I made some draft um revisions based on that feedback um to back to the governance work group. Once we're there, then we'll have a close session where we'll bring it to the to the full board um
009for feedback and if no additional feedback, then those will be adopted as my goals for this year going going forward. So, >> any questions on governance? Moving on to item 2D, the student representative report. There is none tonight. Item 3A, Dr. Keys. >> All right. So, I have a short report um for this evening. Um, every year in the springtime, we open up our business honor role to highlight um and celebrate all the partnerships that we um have with our community and the district. And the work group um shrinks the those nominations down to a maximum of five. in this uh and then recommends to the board um these nominations. These nominations then get forwarded both um to WASB for our state convention um business honor role at the state level and then we also
010highlight um those uh recipients locally. We spent um last spring um going through a list and nominated and awarded these five um business partners who have been um longstanding u partners with the school district. Um Hartland Farm Sanctuary, Imagine Academy, Pizza Pit, Viking Day Camp, and Start. Um we could spend a lot of time on each and every one of these. We've highlighted a summary of those on our on our website so you can see uh what specifically were highlighted um in this year's nomination. Some of these have been nominated for multiple years and um per our p um our policy and protocols nominees once uh can be nominated every year. However, they won't be recognized um um in successive years just so that um we can um make sure that we are are recognizing
011all of our our worthy volunteers. So happy to um post these um these are on our website and each of the recipients have a little um static sticker decal that they can place on their um businesses to recognize um their nomination. And then we've also gone historically backwards um to past nominees to give them static stickers with the year that they were recognized starting with the first year that we did this which was I believe 20 3 um after my first year here. So 23, 24 and now 25. Thank you. Um and then last but not least, um in I know Michaela would have covered um some of these pieces, but just some upcoming events for um the community to know about. This week we have Chicago, our musical, the teen edition um at the
012high school um performing arts center um 6, seven, and 8. There's a link provided in um board docs um if you want to get to the tickets while they're still available. Um November 11th across our district, we have a variety of Veterans Day activities um which we will highlight. And then on November 13th, um we will have a um fall orchestra concert at the high school. So, couple of things between now and our next board meeting for community members and board members to participate in. Any questions? >> All right, moving on to item 4 A, the consent agenda. And can I have a motion, please? Move approval of the consent agenda as presented. >> Second. >> Uh any discussion? >> Um all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstension? Um consent agenda is
013approved. Yes. >> Um I would just ask Dr. Keer, um could we remind the public of where they can donate to students meals? I saw that on the consent agenda. It just may be a good nice reminder now that we have concerns around the shutdown of food share. Certainly they can call the the district office and um they it when they pick up they just indicate that they want to make a donation and we'll get routed to the right right individual. >> There are a couple of nice donations on the consent agenda for that purpose. So >> y >> um item 5A is the SRO update. >> All right. So as part of um our agreement with the city, we um indicated that we wanted to have in this first year quarterly updates. And so
014as fitting, we are at the end of the first quarter. This will be the first opportunity. Um we have officer Orin, those of you who have not um gotten a chance to meet officer Orin yet, um he is here. We also have Kyle Smith, our buildings and grounds supervisor and safety coordinator here as well. And um the uh I'll turn it over to Officer Orton and not continue to. So good evening. >> Thank you everybody for inviting me and hopefully having a productive and informative conversation. Um I do want to start off Oh, I got it right. I had the right button. um with a little introduction to myself. Not everybody had the opportunity to sit on my interview over the summer. Um so I want to start by saying I did not want to
015be a police officer. Um I had started my educational journey for college as an industrial and electrical engineering major at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. Um that was 2015. Um I was sitting in my dorm room that previous spring. Eric Garner had been suffocated in Baltimore. Tony Robinson had been shot and killed in Madison. Ferguson was burning. Um, Black Lives Matters uh protest had begun really um in mass across the country. Uh I got into engineering because I wanted to solve a problem. I my mom worked in a warehouse. I saw repetitive stress injuries. I wanted to help avoid that. So I want to be a problem solver. Um then I saw a problem in law enforcement uh and I wanted to make a change. Um so I had a bit of a change of
016plans. Like I said, these are the impactful events that really kind of helped push me down this path. Um had a couple self-realizations. I didn't care for calculus. [laughter] Law enforcement needed good people who wanted to problem solve. Not just for the day, but try and solve it at a deeper level. So, I changed my major and I transferred to W Platville. I became a criminal justice with a minor in business administration. Um, as part of that criminal justice major, you get to uh select a good portion of your course load. You have your obviously you have your generals and stuff that you have to are required to take, but I got to guide uh self a little bit more towards the law enforcement administration route. Um, I got to take classes uh such as
017ethnicity, race, and crime. uh gender and sexuality in law enforcement. Um statistical analysis for law enforcement, kind of understanding why arrests are made, where they're made, why police patrol the way that they do. Um which I found very helpful. Um while I was in college, I decided I wanted to be involved and be an advocate. Um I'm a 6'2 bearded white guy. Uh there's some privilege that comes along with that. um and and a responsibility to do more. Um I got into student governance as a gender and sexual sexuality advocacy senator. Um during that point in W Platville's um history, we'll say they were starting to push more towards the gender neutral bathrooms in residence halls. Uh most of them if they were a co-ed you had a women's bathroom and shower on a women's
018floor you had men's bathroom and such but there was no gender neutral space. Um we also started an annual pride flag display partnering with our veterans group. Um this was centered around our transgender day of remembrance uh kind of drawing attention to the number of trans non-binary people um who lost their lives in the previous year as a result of a hate crime. Um after a year of that role, I was asked to be the vice president of student senate uh where I had the opportunity to lobby to Congress and this would have been 2018, which is when the higher education act was up for renewal. Um I also when we went to DC to lobby, I wanted to speak on medical amnesty. Um some of you that may be a familiar term, some of
019you it may not. What it came down to was I spoke on the fact that when you call 911 for an opiate dose overdose, you should not be prosecuted for possession. Um, it's a deterrent to call 911. I wanted to see people survive. I still am very passionate about that. Uh, still think we need a a national law on that, but we're not there yet. Um, and then while I was there, I also had the pleasure of the W Platville Rotoact Club. Uh, I was going to say I know we just had our Interact uh club, which is the high school level. Um, as far as I understand it is Interact, Rottoact, and then Rotary once you are an adult and out of school. Um, we we were focusing on getting a clean water trip
020to South America. Admittedly, I have not stayed in touch with that group. The adviserss left. Everybody's graduated. Uh, colleges are kind of inherently transitional in people's lives, so it's hard to stay in contact with a a steady group there. My professional history, I graduated in the spring of 2019. Um, I did not immediately get into law enforcement. I worked as a disability claims uh adjuster for Madison National Life Insurance. Um, and then I got into law enforcement in 2020. Uh, I started as a corrections deputy with Green County Sheriff's Office, uh, Monroe, Broadhead, Noleris, if any of you are familiar with that area. Um, very rural. I I joke, but most of my jurisdiction was cattle, not people. Um, I moved to the road in 2021. I completed my academy and then road training and
021then had a really great opportunity to move up to Stoton. Um I started here June of 2022 and am in my fourth year here. Um I talk about a little bit. So since I've been here I've been uh act as our truency officer while we did not have a SRO. Um I've been active in organizing like our community pride event that happens in June. Um I I try to be active in [clears throat] our community. I also lived here for a few years. um still would if I could afford a house up here, but that's a whole another conversation. Um >> we know. >> Yeah. >> Um I was selected in July as our SRO. Um these trainings are the trainings I have attended just since July. Um we have our basic training course through
022NASRO, the National Association of School Resource Officers. I actually in front of you, I've placed the training agenda to kind of talk about what that covers. There is an additional it's called SRO advanced that it's an additional I want to say 24 hours of training which you talk a little bit more in depth about certain topics. Um I don't have the website in front of me to pull up and read kind of what they go over in that course. I've heard really great things about it. Um I completed the school district's nonviolent crisis intervention training uh the crisis prevention institute. the online section. I believe we have a in-person classroom session. Is that January? >> Yes. I think it's this winter that I plan to attend. I've also attended Safety on the Spectrum uh which
023is hosted by the Autism Society of Southern Wisconsin. >> Um I'm still looking forward to trying to do more trainings, but I also don't want to take away the SRO out of the building while school is in session. So, I'm trying to find those over the over the holiday breaks or next summer. Um then we're going to kind of get into the calls for service. So in the month of September, this is what this report was ran for was 46 calls for service. That is 911 disconnects, that is medical calls, fire alarms, um fender benders in the parking lot, vehicle unlocks, um stuff like that. So it's it's pretty all-encompassing. If it happens to have a school that dispatch center gets a hold or gets a call that goes to me. Otherwise, some of these
024are um a school administrator, something reaches out for me to come have a conversation with the student um I will make a call if if I don't have a ton of information just so I can try and document it. Um the vape THC. So the recovered from students, we in the month of September recovered five nicotine vapes. Um I know there was a question about how these were recovered. I do not search students. I don't um have that conversation at the start. Um an administrator typically will get a call from a staff member that says, "Hey, I smell a vape in the bathroom or I smell THC. Um, can administrator please come down and have a chat with the student? The administrator will do that. Um, I will come in, we will talk. Usually it's
025like, okay, officer Orin, this is what was found. Um, our plan is, and kind of the generic plan at this point for at the high school level is first offense, first time getting caught with a substance, whether it's DAC or nicotine, they are assigned AODA counseling, I believe, through is it Stanford Institute, I think is the service. >> Yes. And that's through our partnership with wellness. >> Yep. Wellness co coalition. Um and then a behavior improvement plan with the assistant principal or principal. Um basically it's just that to act as I don't think there's probably anybody in the room, maybe I'm wrong, that doesn't disagree that like drugs and weapons have no place in our schools. So it's just trying to prevent those substances being on campus. Um, as long as the student completes all
026of that, there is no citation issued, it goes away. It's just a behavior incident at school. Um, if and I and I'm myself and the administrators at the high school are all just wanting kids to not have the substance at school and and trying to not form addicted or addicted behaviors. Um, so it's not like we're I'm not here to be punitive. I the administrators follow up to make sure the plan is going. If a student does not uphold their end of the bargain, then a citation will be issued. Um, recovered on campus numbers, that is just ones that were turned over to staff that were like found on the floor. Um, that's two. Um, I feel like we get more every week that they're just found on the floor. Um, I'm still waiting to
027see how the new administrative rule for vapes being banned for sale in Wisconsin affects the teen behavior. I know that there are still groups out there selling them online. Um, and that's something we're going to have to address as a larger law enforcement issue. Um, citations issued were five. Um, now I know that we don't talk a ton about what the citations are just because we try to keep some privacy for the students. Um, citations vary, I will just say from things such as criminal damage um to nicotine or THC vapes. Um, they said the if they didn't complete their behavior improvement plan, it's a referral. Um once that is issued, it's a municipal citation. They have a mandatory juvenile court appearance. So that is down downtown here at the police station. Um we have
028a new municipal judge who's been fantastic to work with. Really wants to work more in a restorative capacity and a counseling capacity. It is not a he does not want to issue uh monetary fines. Nobody learns from that. Um it at that point it's strictly punitive. Um he wants to be a little more holistic and and try and get to the root cause of what is causing these children to use substances in school. Um if they so it used it used to be that if you went to court you started the AODA treatment um course I say treatment course or education. Um now that we are starting that with the first defense. I don't know. I haven't had an update with our new judge on what happens when it comes to them. Uh admittedly I
029don't get to see the judge. He's only in the office two days a month um for court. So I don't get to see him. Uh that is an excellent question. I should probably email him and Mary. Um talk about some of the other documented activities that I've got to do. So I say intros to K6, seventh, and eth. Those are the grades that I had really got to go around and meet every student or at least I will say the 96% of them. Um, the middle school was fantastic. I got to go into all the social studies classes or science classes in the seventh grade and do an introduction about what it is my role is as a SRO. Um, I always say and I and I do firmly believe this, my job is school
030safety, but it's more than that. It's accessibility to law enforcement. Um, kids are victimi victims of crimes both at school, at home, and at our community, out in our community. Um, sometimes it's nice to know that you when you come to school, you have access to a police officer, you know, rather than having to call a stranger to your house because that can be scary. And also, sometimes home isn't always safe for everyone, but school can be. That's one thing we can control. Um, I was selected for our social emotional learning groups as a mentor. one of our students sought me out and asked to do weekly check-ins. Um, I got to go to our special education transition program at our youth center. So, that is for those who are graduated and are metriculating through
031our system. um and do an introduction. And you know, sometimes this is, you know, adults who or young adults who are struggling with that transition to adult learning or adult living and are starting to have some more freedoms and maybe be out in the community and having law enforcement interactions. Um trying to one know who who those individuals are so we can better tailor our response um is a is a big piece. lunches. Um, still believe that food plays a powerful role in our day-to-day. Um, it's also a great way for kids to get a break from school. So, I regularly attend lunches. I don't know if anybody knew this. They get pizza or access to pizza every day, not just square pizza once a month. Um, so that's pretty cool. And then I have
032a few students who have made it a point to make it weekly check-ins with me. Um, so I scheduled block my day to meet with students who have said, "Officer Orin is is one of my trusted adults that I want to see, I want to talk about life with, I want to talk about school with. I want to talk about what's going on with my family, my friends." Um, and and that is of utmost importance to me. Those are some of my best conversations I have in a week. um issues. Social media continues to be the bane of the educator and law enforcement alike. Um unfortunately, some of the drama it seeps into the educational environment. Um and that's going to be a that's going to take a village to fix. That's going to be
033parents, that's going to be educators, that's going to be I wish it didn't involve law enforcement, but sometimes it causes a fight or something like that. It does. Um, I I'm hoping we can get into the or that I can get in the classrooms and do some more social media education and talk about the dangers and and the very real life implications we're seeing. Um, scooter safety. If you ever had the pleasure of driving downtown when the middle school is just getting out or coming in, uh, you'll see what I mean. We're working on getting helmets and teaching people about helmets. Those are important. Stop signs matter. Stop lights matter. Um, I think I have that conversation about 10 times a day anymore. Um, and then internet safety. I touched on it briefly earlier, but
034uh, with the, um, banning of flavored vapes being sold at stores here in Wisconsin. We've now pushed our teenagers onto the internet to foray and scrge for new sources of nicotine. Um, you know, it's no longer just the senior at the high school who's, you know, maybe back in the maybe back in our day it was cigarettes and chewing tobacco. Now it's strangers on the internet bringing vapes to McDonald's. Unfortunately, >> something we're we're working through and and I don't have the solution for that yet either, but we're working on it. Any questions? >> Well, I just want to um thank you for providing a little bit of introduction to yourself and your background and then um some of the things that you've been doing this first um couple of months for kind of a
035point of reference. And this was something that um officer Orin and I had talked about when he talks about calls for service. It's a much broader inclusive list that he he references and that is in part part of how the data collection at the department um is done. Citations is the one commonality that that dovtales between the department and the district. So when there's a citation issued, we are able to track that within our behavior systems in IC. So there is there is that that mechanism. So when you hear when you hear citation that is something unless it was a citation that was issued um off school grounds in out near one of our buildings it's going to be recorded within our system and something that we can monitor and track. So, um, wanted to
036wanted to make sure that board members have that clarity between calls of service as a vocabulary term and citations as a vocabulary term. >> So, with that, I'll >> and I I will say to clarify that a little bit more, calls for service for me, like I said, could be a child coming and reporting something that happened outside of school, but I'm the their trusted adult they came talk to. I I pulled a call for it so we can document it and investigate it further outside of school, but it's still a call that I handled. >> Other questions? M. >> So, first of all, I want to say thank you for coming and sharing the information. And if you watched any of the deliberations, you know, I probably wasn't the biggest fan of the idea
037of having an SRO, but I think um from everything I've heard, you are a perfect match. So, if we have to have the position, I'm glad it's someone like you in that position. Um, so a couple questions. One, I I 100% understand you not giving us any breakdowns of those numbers. We've got one month's worth of data, but is that something that's being tracked so that like at the end of the year when we have, you know, hundreds of calls for service, you could give us the demographic breakdown of the students that were involved in those calls for service. >> So, I was going to say it is tracked somewhere. Um, I don't ne I'm not the keeper of those numbers that we have a CAD system and a ticket writing software. >> Okay. Um,
038I was going to say and it'll depend on what is this closed based up. I'm hoping we don't get to our what is it 20 citations or something. I'm really I don't want to write that many tickets in a school year. Um, my goal would be zero, >> right? >> That's our our zero is always our goal. Um, but yeah, there's there's a way we can go through and track that data. >> Okay. Okay. Um I was going to say it'll just we'll have to discuss how how that's released and under what what format because some of its data kept by the police department, some of it's data kept by the school district, >> right? And it may have to be in a closed session or something if that's you know >> so part of
039the reason why we want to make sure that uh we're clear around the in terms of what are we tracking in district versus out of district is precisely for you for your question Mia. um that if we start to see some trends um we can address them early on. And part of um the um Officer Orin being a at all of our district safety means, but all the building safety means is that d that is data that they can look at on a meeting by meeting basis and start to say like are we seeing seeing some trends? part of that you'll see elevated in terms of like some of the the issues that officer or see in the in the start of school. It's um certainly vapes that we're seeing in the community and in
040the schools, scooters, internet safety and all all the things. So definitely wanting to elevate and one of the things we talk about at the district level with each of our first responders are just trends. Trends that we're seeing in the district and trends that we're seeing on the community from from both perspectives so that way we can try to stay close to it. That's our best course of action is being proximate to the issues and being able to try to address them even before the numbers start to say we have a problem because often times we start to hear through the narrative um from our students from our staff from our family members and through the community and that's on both ends first responders and district together. So my preference would be, and this is
041probably not on you and more for Dan, but my preference would be that we sooner rather than later decide on some metrics that we're going to look at and make sure that we're collecting data in a way that we can easily have access to them. And I think one of the other things we talked about during the um discussions about the position was just being clear on like what problem are we trying to solve with an SRO and how what metrics can we look at to say like yes this did what we were hoping it would do or hey it's not really having an impact on whatever we were hoping it would have an impact on and maybe we need to tweak things a little bit and I don't feel like we ever fully got
042there um in that conversation in terms of being very precise and clear about what um outcome are we hoping to have from having the SRO and then how can we have data that shows us to what degree are we having that outcome >> do we need to update that policy to reflect some of what the board is looking for related to reporting. Is that an appropriate place to put that? >> You know, let me take a look at that and and send a followup to to the board. >> Uh yes, that would be climate and culture for the for the policy it itself. Um, let me reread the post because it's been a been a minute. >> I think it doesn't mention the actual metrics. I think it's pretty generic. >> Yeah, that's okay. All
043right. Uh, any any other question? Oh, did you want to >> I just I wanted to say thank you. I I also would like clarity. Um, right now it's I you know I get to I'm very fortunate. I get to spend my day around kids. That's fantastic. There is just unbridled enthusiasm at the elementary school. then say I get a little less cool in middle school. [laughter] Most adults do. And then I get to kind of it swings around as they get towards senior year of high school. They want to know more. They come up and talk to me. Um and I love that kind of organic interaction, but there's also if there's something we want to accomplish, I want to help further that goal. >> I appreciate that. And I mean anecdotally, we've heard
044great things, right? But I think we can't only rely on that. >> I was going to say our data should reflect our stories. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. that's responsible to the taxpayers too that we want to know. >> Absolutely. >> Sharon, did you have a question? >> I have several and I'm also cognizant of your time. Um, and it's great that you're here and I think I can speak for everybody that we would welcome your presence as often as you can be here because this is great and I know that I've talked with a lot of people in the community who are really curious. They hear good things. They'd really like to hear more directly from you. So, you know, more is is better. A number of the questions I think are pretty basic.
045You could probably answer in an email if that feels like an appropriate outlet for everybody, but there were a couple that I got that were a little more thoughtful and I think they lend themsel to more of a discussion. >> Um, so things like what's been our biggest success so far, would you say, as you know, having had this position created and you on board? Um, and going along with that, what do you need from us, the board, but also the community to keep doing more of this good work? >> It's really hard to measure success in seven weeks. realistically. Um, you know, I have what I call personal victories where, you know, a student comes in and makes a report and talks to me about something and then, you know, a week later, you
046know, they come up and they're like, "Hey, thank you for taking that time to listen." Or maybe they write me a note. Um, those are those are personal victories for me. I don't know what our greatest success is going to be. Success has a lot of different factors and a lot of different looks for depending upon who you are. um for it's just support is what I'm looking for from the board. Um know that I'm not here to, you know, single anybody out. Know that I'm not here to discipline children. That's that's not my goal. Um I'm an advocate. Um and that is my that is my biggest role for these kids. Um like I said, we are all dealing with the world. Um, and we're trying to do it with grace and I'm trying
047to help kids get through it just as well as you guys are. Um, so just know that be supportive. And then parents, I was going to say I just openness. It's not, it doesn't always have to be scary if I call home. Um, I would like to start doing some like really good like behavior calls like, hey, I saw little Timmy help, you know, a woman across the street love to do stuff like that. I carry with me where are they? Scoop for scoops. So I carry Scoopies tokens >> because if a child comes up to me and helps me identify a safety problem in our school or tells me that somebody is doing something that makes them feel unsafe. Um because that could be a really conversation too talking to an officer about something
048that somebody did to make you feel unsafe. I try to reward that behavior and and say, "Hey, listen. It doesn't have to be scary to talk to me. I'm just another adult. person in the building is here to help. Um, I think that's just keeping that narrative of officer warrant is genuinely here to help because I am that's what I want to do. before. >> Can I just jump? >> Um Sharon, if you don't mind, if you want to send me the questions, I can have um pal, officer, or and myself go through that and then we can send the send the answers to the full board. >> Other questions before we go back to me and Jim? >> Um knowing that it's still evolving, thanks for coming. Um, I had asked originally and I'm
049not surprised I'd sent a message to Dan about time and the idea of, you know, how trying to settle some schedule knowing that it would be evolving and and I think as Dan alluded to, yeah, you might be planning to be a KAZA, but [laughter] so I'm wondering if if you have any you how you feel about that so far. >> Um, second, I'll I'll do two questions first and then and then one a little longer. Um the second one is around sort of interactions with support staff, counselors, mental health folks and to what extent you've been able to do that. I would assume especially as some of these incidents occur. Sounds like there's a team effort at trying to resolve some of that and get the kid on the right track. So either either
050comment on either of those and then I have one more thing I could wait or finish. >> Yeah. So let's talk about my time spent at schools. Uh best lead plans rarely survive first contact with reality. Um, you know, I think just by the nature of that as we get older, um, raise your hands if you knew that 12 years old is pretty much like the youngest you could receive a citation in Wisconsin, right? I say that's not everybody does. So, I like to put that in a frame of reference. So, sometimes it's not I should say it's not always appropriate to have officer or in on a conversation. There are times where I say, "Nope, I'm that is a parent issue or that is a school administrator issue. I that is not appropriate for
051me to be there." We've had that conversation. That conversation happens less frequently now. We've educated, right? We talked people how this role is meant to be utilized. Um, that being said, we are having issues like the vapes and stuff that require a little further counseling or maybe it's mental health because law enforcement is responsible for responding to um, mental health calls in the state of Wisconsin for possible emergency detentions um, or voluntary mental health commitment, stuff like that. Um, which is the most frequently what I'm being utilized in. It's just kind of that talk through the process of I feel this way, so how can I get help? Um, with that being said, I would say I probably spend 40% of my time at the high school, 40% at the middle school, and 20% divied
052among the elementary schools. And like I said, that's recess, that's lunch. And I also going to say there are less organic opportunities in the elementary schools because they are supervised down the hallway. They are in classes. I don't want to interrupt because once you, you know, if I pull my car up out front, kids see it. They're like, "Oh, Officer Warren's here. there goes the neighborhood. You know, it's they're they're off track. Um whereas the high school and middle school, I can go and I can be there at passing time and kind of have fun organic interactions and just say hi and check in. >> Um and then talk about peer services team. I sit on >> I try to get to our peer services meetings at the middle school, high school, and our elementary
053schools. Um I have a great working relationship with our social workers in the district. Um, we have done home visits together. Um, like I said, some some students check in with me and I try to relay that information to the appropriate counselor to make sure we are all hearing the same information and knowing where that student's at in terms of like kind of having their needs met, you know, psychosocially so that, you know, we have our maso hierarchy of needs, all their physical needs are met. Let's talk about the mental aspects of it. Um I we try to communicate um I would say no less than three or four times a day am I talking to a counselor um just kind of like hey I talked to the student what do you know or they're
054coming to me they're like hey this is something that's impacting their life at home is it something you're aware of is something you can help with that is that is a big portion of the job >> going back around I'm Alison >> oh go ahead Thank you for for this. Um, one of I I'm not really on social media that much, but I know we were talking about social media being an issue and one thing that um I really liked you did at the beginning of the school year was talking about just online safety with kids. I know I will look at parents, you know, this is Timmy and Timmy's in third grade with Miss Smith and thinking, "Oh my gosh." And I liked that you presented sort of um what what to do, what
055was safe to share. And so I don't know if there's like other social media that you're using because I'm really not on there very much. if you've had any feedback from that because that seemed really important to me for >> I've been making plans to get in with our LMC specialists to talk to some of the younger grades thinking you know fourth and fifth is typically when we start seeing kids getting cell phones now >> um and utilizing Snapchat Tik Tok and kind of start having that conversation then um >> I've already been in the health classes talking at the high school level uh and like I said just in general kids will come up and talk to me about Tik Tok trends and stuff like that cuz I'm I'm 29. I'm just a shade
056over 11 years older than some of our seniors. I'm I'm young enough to kind of get it, but I'm still kind of out of it. >> Seven. >> Yeah, exactly. Six. I'm six, seven years old. I don't know. But uh yeah, it's it's a it's a trend that we're seeing and and truthfully I mean there are more apps and websites than I could ever hope to keep up with. >> Uh we have I have some investigative tools that um the SRO school was really great on on sharing with us that kind of help understanding and stuff. You know, kind of the the adult dictionary for some of the >> stuff. Um, but yeah, we have some more plans and I'd like to try and use some more of our department social media to kind of
057do some more informative stuff. But as the school district or as the school year has went on, I am one person covering five buildings and sometimes social media falls to the lower >> level of priority. You know, >> it seems that that informative type of post can be more proactive um and just seem helpful. There be a lot of parents that are on there that, you know, aren't on the stuff that their kids are on, but see what you post. And >> well, and maybe that's something we could talk about for future for conferences or something. Our little sidebar with Officer Orin. >> Yeah. >> Um something we can talk about. I'm open to however we can help parents too. I'm really I'm a resource to parents, staff, and students. So, >> thank you. Start
058your own Tik Tok channel. [laughter] >> I don't We'll see. going around for a second. Mia, >> um, so you mentioned that you previously were the truency officer. Is that Are you no longer the Is there a different truency officer? >> Truy officer. I was the officer who handled truency on patrol. Um, so school had a referral. It came, it got to my mailbox. I handled it. I'm still doing that. >> Okay. >> Um, I just said it was a truency officer versus a school resource officer. >> Yeah. >> So that's under your perview. >> Yep. It's under my purview as well. Okay. >> Just clarifying. Yep. It's a fair question. >> Sharon, Sharon, go back. I did have an additional one. Um, in some of the photos that I've seen of you online, you're
059wearing a tire similar to what you're you're wearing right now. And I think I have an answer to my question, but I would sort of like to hear straight from you. like how do you do your best to build rapport to someone who might perceive the typical look as being authoritarian, being intimidating? What are like some of the tips and tricks that you've come to use? >> Um, so for the younger kids, I compare it to these are my school supplies. This is my backpack. I carry a lot of the same school supplies a lot of kids carry. I carry a pen pen and notebook, right? I carry my my daily planner, my pocket calendar. I say it's a lot of the same stuff that you guys carry in a backpack. Um, but there's also
060different parts of my job because my job is school safety. I carry the implements of my job to help keep our schools safe. Um, not everything on here is weapon. I have a camera. It's always recording. Wave and say hi. [laughter] Gonna say helps keep me honest and helps me remember I'm not infallible. I can make mistakes. >> Um, I talk about kind of some of the fun stuff. Some of the odd stuff I carry. I carry a door wedge. I carry rescue shears in case I have to do first aid. I carry a tool that firefighters carry. I borrow that one. They do have a good idea every once in a while. Firefighters. Um, what else? I carry a cell phone just like mom or dad maybe carries. And I break it down into
061terms they can understand. Um, but also a lot of kids through Fortnite, through through media, whether it's TV or social or otherwise, has a has a pretty good idea of what it is that I carry and what it is that I do. And I mean, really requires very little explanation anymore. And I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. Um, so we get to have a little bit um higher level conversation at a younger age than I would have anticipated admittedly. Um, and maybe more than we give kids credit for. Um, I also I talk kind of like this all the time. I'm should feel like you're talking to a to a relative or a friend. Um, I don't talk down. I talk to um I'm an adult, but I don't have
062to I don't have to talk down like I don't think you know what you're what I'm talking about. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Jim. >> Yeah. It's kind of a comment, but something I've been interested in, will always be interested in. And like a lot of things we do, I think it's interesting to think of this as sort of a this goes back to our overall goal of engagement to start with that this is really a position to try and improve engagement. And I think of it in tears like a lot of the things we think about sort of on a primary level. A lot of kids are going to be perfectly comfortable. They're not an issue. The behavior is great. um you there's sort of a primary relationship then there's another second tier
063of kids right who you know may be experiencing some issues but are basically approachable and you can sort of readily resolve that I'm more concerned not more more concerned but I think concerned about going to the tier third third tier those kids who would not normally become engaged who would they they don't feel connected they see themselves on the outside of the school they may or may not be experiencing much parental monitoring or tracking. Um, and they're kind of floating through. They're in and out. They're probably missing classes here and there. And they're not necessar they're going to be a kind of a hard group to reach sometimes >> and in terms of improvement and engagement, I'm wondering how we go. I just wanted you to think about and and and be looking at strategies
064along and this is going to be a question ultimately for administrators as well. How are we reaching that third tier of kids? Yeah. who uh aren't going to come up to you, who aren't necessarily going to respond to the things that are the tier one and two kids respond to. And so I'll be kind of interested in continuing to kind of track that and see what your how that's evolving over the course of the school year in partnerships with the mental health folks, with the principles, and see where that goes. I will tell you my my planet my plan for right now is be consistent. Be there when I say I'm going to be and have have conversations. Uh you know there are going to be kids that I come across that are confrontational based
065off prior contact with law enforcement, societal pressure, parental influence, whatever it may be. Um I think back to a conversation I had not too long ago at our high school with the kid who, you know, I was just walking down the hallway and he said F12. Okay. I go and I kind of just ask him. I go, "Is there any particular reason you want to say that to me?" I go, "I'm not a huge fan of most cops either. I got into law enforcement because I wanted to change how they're trained and how they act." Um, and he stopped. Goes to be honest, that wasn't the response I thought you were going to give me. So, don't be afraid to break expectations either. >> I have a question. Um, I'm wondering if you've been involved
066in any incidents of seclusion and restraint since you've started and then also maybe what you've learned at the autism society training related to seclusion restraint. >> Yeah. Um, so as far as the seclusion and restraint goes and how it's documented, um, I am not if it's a if it is a behavior issue that is not a law enforcement issue. I've encouraged them to like I'll happily try and be in the area in case there is a risk of alopment or if there is some sort of like weapons component. Um that is kind of what I am training equipped for. Um but generally speaking uh I don't get involved in a a documented seclusion or restraint at this point. Um and I'd like to keep it that way. And was there anything in the autism society
067training that really struck you or that you learned? >> Um, I have been around so many of the autism trainings um over my career and through college um and and dealing with relatives who have autism that there was not anything earthshatteringly new for me. Um, if anything, it's more of a surprise that in 2025 we still have to train cops on this. Um this should I mean it is part of the academy now at the 720 hour academy which is our 4 and a half months that we are required to attend. Um but we are still doing yearly updates on it. Um I said it's something I've been around for a very long time that isn't particularly earthshattering for me. >> Question. No, I look forward to um if board members have follow-up questions, please
068feel free to email them to me and I'll be happy to get them to officer Orin and or Kyle and then be able to provide the responses back to the full board. Um we have we have our calendar. I can't remember when the next next time, but it'll be at shortly after the semester. um that officer will come back for another update so we can follow up on that. In the meantime, we will we'll I know we'll we'll have some more groups and we'll be able to provide additional updates at that time. So, thank you officer Orin for being >> Thank you much. Thanks for having me. >> Yeah. >> Y we are on to item six, the meeting closed in terms of recap of action items from our legislative update. We are asked to
069call our legislators about um allowing retired educators to return and support us with any severe um educator shortages. That's AB96 and SB 170. As a reminder, our representatives are representative Randy Udell and Senator LC. Um in terms of some upcoming events, I see in the public content here under Dr. accusers report. You can go right to the link to tickets for Chicago Teen. Uh, right. Did I say that right? Chicago Teen Edition. Um, we should look forward to Veterans Day events on November 11th. There's a fall orchestra concert on November 13th. Uh, people can call the district to make school meal donations. And Dr. is going to be going to look back and review our so SRO policy and consider where we might um add additional data kind of considerations for u reporting. >> Yep.
070And um Sharon will be emailing me questions and then I'll get the answers back out to the board members. >> Anything else for item 6B, future meetings. The next regular board meeting is on November 17th at 6:30 p.m. and uh December 1st at 6:30 p.m. We have a culture and climate workg group on November 11th at 5:00 pm and an outreach work group virtually at on November 20th at 5:00 p.m. Any other meetings or work groups that we miss? >> I ask for a motion for adjournment. So, >> so move >> moved by Croy, >> second by Mass Meyers. All in favor? >> I posted abstensions. >> Motion carries. Meeting is journ.