Verona Area School District Board of Education Meeting March 3, 2025 Part 2

001framework and basis of of all of our work even and all all of our community um if you would please also I think there's a right now the political climate has changed in a different way as well and so many of our students who come from uh Refugee and immigrant backgrounds uh are concerned about and police from a perspective of ice and working with ice and you we do have uh I don't know in this District but I know in other districts some students not even coming to school because they're so afraid that they may be picked up at school or you know they may go home and their parents aren't home so can you talk to me a little bit or to all of us about on what that would look like yeah absolutely

002thank you for the question U I can tell you in 32 years in law enforcement I've never asked for nor have I seen a green card um that's just something that has not happened in our environment and I have to say um I mean law enforcement is different wherever you go and experiences are different wherever you go um I believe that we live in a really um robust and good area um as far as the character um in the midwest you know they always say you know if you're from the Midwest you can get a job anywhere and that that transfers over into law enforcement as well I think we have very well trained um good-hearted good intended police officers um and so that's why I don't think we see much um negativity in our

003area um but to get to your point um we I have personal views and I should be careful not what I share with my personal views but it did be favorable um I have family um I have friends I am um very concerned for them in this current political clim um having said that the brona police department certainly is not going to participate or engage in any kind of whatever word you want to use Roundup or um apprehension effort um for wanted for wanted individuals just based on their status um now there would be a difference if they're wanted for criminal activity when I say criminal activity where they're actually committing crimes against people or or property um not just because the government says it's a crime but if they're actually doing crime in our

004area they will they will get arrested that we'll treat them like we treat anybody else but if ice comes to town um we will not participate in anything that they're involved with and it it's interesting a little bit to me because you know a few years back this happened where um ice was going to different communities um and I just learned recently that it there was concern that ice was setting up at our food pantry and people were afraid to go to the food pantry because they were afraid of getting arrested and Court I had never heard of that when that was happening that was not I should I should say I don't think that happen to begin with um I think that was false a false narrative and nothing that was shared with the

005police department that ice was even in town and certainly not at a food pantry but it is an example how the fear and it kind of gets legs um and I I like I said before I I know folks who are not here legally they they own a home they have three jobs during that time they were afraid to go to work they wouldn't go to work because they didn't want to get arrested and deported I very sympathetic to that and so you have my word that you we're not going to be part of any operations um but at the end of the day we are still law enforcement so again if it's a criminal uh investigation we would be involved with that thank you you're welcome I have a question uh you said that

006if the SRO in the schools sees something where someone's being harded they have to intervene but that the goal isn't to issue a citation for those minor instances if I heard you right I'm wondering if you could speak a little bit more to what you mean by minor because something that worries me a little bit with ambiguous terms is that your understanding of minor might not be the same as my understanding of minor sure and we might find ourselves in a situation where we're seeing some enforcement in areas that maybe we wouldn't expect to but to you that might be something that that isn't Min sure yeah very very subjective um so you for me minor is you know pushing and shoving and and even perhaps the exchange of you know blows you know punches

007um but as long as you know nobody's hurt and it's separated and what's important is that the students or the students families or administrators don't have a complaint we can let the school do what you've been doing for the last three plus years um and just handle that situation um what would not be minor is if we actually have an injury um or um major damage property or again a formal complaint where they want us to investigate um but yeah we're willing to let the you know the the typical I guess ruckuses if you will you know that that security to you know do their thing intervene separate um and I keep hearing you know compliments on security um and how the relationships that they have built with students yeah um and and so I

008that is a to me that's a very important component to this um is that we we both have a presence um and then we would have that measured approach um and I believe somewhere in the documentation here I think we used the word triage um that the school officials administrators would tree AC an incident and a decision would be made at what point should we involve the school resource officer I appreciate that thank you welcome so I think I'm the only board member who was around back in the 2019 19 2020 era and I've had a couple parents ask me you know so what do I see as being different um since that time and um to the credit of everybody sitting here I see a huge difference in how uh the communication has gone

009between school and um the office of the police office it's just been um the word team has been used relationship building there's just been such a different uh shift in the relationship and also the shift in putting students first as a United like get the training build the relationships so when um I hear those things um from you today I've been hearing them for the last you know year or two with through our Administration this has been a a partnership that has been developed um trusting and the communication that's been you know occurring has been very reassuring to me as we move to a new um you know a new era which we would like to think nothing bad could happen to Verona and we've had some scares um some tragedies U far too close

010and um I would love to think that no school would need an SRO um but we are in this world and the attitude that you are bringing to this potential contract is one that I find very um reassuring the way that you've answer the questions of board members um really feels students are in a the relationships with students is a priority for the betterment and the you know safety of everyone so I just I very much appreciate that I'm coming from 2019 to now oh thank you this is um I I remember 2019 all too well so this is uh this is refreshing I say this is really I think a really a great opportunity for the for the benefit of our students in community so thank you thank you for being here today because

011I think the communication that we've been hearing about I know our community will also um be excited hear the same I have a question that kind of Builds on that a little bit you talked about the importance of kind of building relationships in community but we're talking about an agreement that starts next school year if we decide to move forward with this is your hiring timeline such that someone who we know would be in that role next year could start to build those relationships early is that something that's being discussed as we alluded to a little bit ago we have three officers that are interested at this point I will post it to see um if all three are still interested if that's grown if that's shrunk um but the the general idea is um

012we have several months of this school um you know year left um and we would love to give each one of those officers an opportunity to spend a couple of weeks at possible uh in the school um during those three months so um a March April May perhaps um so we're there um so depending on you know how tonight goes um we will look at our our scheduling scheduling can be a challenge for us um like I said we've been a little slower to to fill our open spots but that's purposeful um and then an officer that's out for an extended period of time doesn't help as well but we will certainly look at the uh our calendars or schedules um and get those officers in here so and again that's going to be a

013two-way street one the off off will get exposure to the school to make sure it's something that they really want and the two your staff will experience that offer because at some point we will have a process um that will involve both the police department and the administration and one of those three will be selected so um you they will have some um experience with that officer going into it that that's the plan that's the idea great I don't have a question I just have a comment it makes me really happy to be a part of things that I consider like exemplary for our students for like how School leadership District leadership how the board participates in something that I you know would say this is an example and um and one of the things

014that I really like about the potential for this partnership is you know it's not so much that the political climate has changed in in world at least it seems like it's heating up and this you know discourse of either this or that pick a side and then scream about it is getting worse and worse um and that really gets in the way of being able to do this sort of work you know a lot of ways it's taken this long just to get the quiet that you need to build the relationships to solve the problems you know and that's what I hear in this partnership is that there's been you know enough space to kind of hear concerns on both sides about what needs to happen to make this sort of a partnership successful um

015and that's so I love hearing you talk about the culture that you have the culture that we have here in the district um and and you know for us it's a struggle to not let the political noise of the time impact our culture so that we can make these sorts of Partnerships and be reasonable about things to solve problems and I think that is the sort of example that we should be giving our kids that there's all this noise and it seems like lately people have been more and more proud of their noise making abilities and less then there's there's less ability for the institution building that needs to happen to make our kids safe or to you know make our Economics work or whatever it is so I really appreciate the way that this

016was built both on your end and on our end um to kind of create a safe space away from that political noise where we can serve kids so that's awesome can I grab the the safety piece the part you know what thank you to the board for the questions I want to also thank the community which I'll kind of come back to that in a moment for the questions and for the leadership of both organizations for being so responsive to community questions that we're trying to reflect here at the board table but I know have been kind of out and about and I'm super grateful for those dialogues um but I know a piece that we talk about as board members as leadership are are we doing everything we can do to keep our school

017safe our students our staff can they come to school and leave school and safe are we doing everything possible I extraordinarily proud of the things we have in place in our district already and the fact that those are being echoed by you and your team of the structures that have been built and the the climate and culture that's been established under this leadership team that that's being elevated and enhanced with an added potential layer of safety through the lens of an SRO um and that piece just kind of lands you know can each of us as board members as school leaders kind of go to bed at night feeling like we are doing everything possible within our scope to keep everyone as safe as possible in our buildings and doing so with all of the

018dialogue and the collaboration that's been echoed here just enhances the importance of it and the value that I know we carry as a district and the hard work that's already embedded in what has been working really well um to keep our schools safe so I'm excited about the potential for an added layer to that with this really trusting collaborative relationship that has started with the adults and to see that continue to play out then with the students as the reason we are doing this work right the students that we serve inside of that add that comment I want to say thank you for coming here and answering these questions because I feel that you've addressed both sides of the conversation you have some individuals that are fearful of an SRO back in the school and

019you have something that are all for right for all the things that have happened right and I think at the end of the day I'm Greatful for these conversations because one thing to me at least is clear is that we're here because we really care about the safety of our children and our students in our community and that's what invites us here tonight to make decisions that are going to exact deliver exactly that so I can appreciate it and I hope that the community sees that if I could add to that um I I am aware that you know there is a uh some parents that are uncomfortable with it that have reached out to the school board and administrators to speak in opposition um I'm actually kind of surprised that nobody spoke out tonight

020um but I I was you know prepared to hear their concerns um I have previously offered that the folks that don't want the police in the school that don't trust the police um those are the folks that we want to network with and build relationships with and um we invite them to stop by our Police Department meet our staff take a tour of the police department and kind you know work through whatever those issues are and at the end of the day you don't have to like the police but at least you can understand where we're coming from and what we do and why we do it um and so that's open to anybody um that has concerns about an officer in the school and I'd be remiss I I brought Lieutenant Dart as my

021wingman is there is there anything you want to add uh I think I'd just like to add just speaking from my perspective as as being a police gou aison officer some 20 plus years ago to admit I know right we yep shared some space back then time flies yeah uh and also in regards to supervising the position after that uh I I really underestimated how critical that position is in the community essentially you have your high school and your your schools in the district those are City and to themselves you've got traffic issues there you've got food service you've got people coming and going all day long so it's a city within a city and uh when you don't have that SRO and that position to kind of bring those entities together on a consistent

022and regular basis it really kind of can have an effect over the entire Community uh and I just I underestimated the strength of that position while I was in it and meeting students outside of school whether it was on my own time or whether it was when I was back on patrol in the summertime and I still to this day am amazed I have people come up to me and say Hey you remember me I was you were my you were my PSO my SRO when I was in high school and there are some like oh my gosh yes I do remember you and and we reminiscent about that but the one thing that was a is a common theme the feedback that I've gotten is that they thank me and the one thing they

023thank me for is thank you for making me feel safe when I was in school um and I think that's a big piece of this today is is making sure that our kids feel safe our parents that feel that same feeling that they're sending their kids into a safe space in the school environment where they can they can learn and not have to worry about and other stuff Dr you want to yeah first I want to uh again thank our thank our our partners and our guests for presenting I also want to thank our board of education for just phenomenal indepth U reflective questions that really represented our community and our parents that while they may not be here physically we know I start turn the computer view I guarantee it's a pretty high view

024number today because this was going to be a very important conversation for our community here and everything that our families asked that the board please consider and ask was brought to life here through questions uh and whether they were personal conversations uh with me or they were broader um uh broader Communications to through email through myself and to the full board the commitment in all the situations would to make sure that the no matter how we got the information that all eight of us heard it together and all eight of us heard it um as as a group to be to make sure that this was the the right part right right partnership and you know we keep no secrets if we had questions from our community we we we would we asked the chief

025dresser we asked the dart you know what is your philosophy what is your stance on this so we can go back and confidently say to our families this is a response we got directly from our potential Partners in in in this work so thank you for being very transparent on in those areas and thank you for for covering all those questions on behalf of our parents that I'm sure listening inun Le to make sure that their voices were truly heard as we have committed through through our through our policy and practices thank you I mean that is a segue to public comment so just to make sure Lori that I haven't missed anything for public comment this evening and by doing so again to reiterate exactly what you said the lack of public comment here

026is not a sign of our community being apathetic or indifferent to this it's because of the constant conversations leading into this meeting the dialogues the emails I'm so grateful for our community for sharing their sentiments to the board via email to leadership conversations meetings thank you all for your proactive time with all of that because that matters to myself as a board member it's a reflection I think of the ongoing relationship that will'll lead forward is how communicative things have been prior to this um and again thankful for our community for taking the time to share their thoughts okay any final questions board before we move to our more formal piece of this then okay all right so we are moving then on to board action so there are no other further questions any more

027discussion um I'd be looking for a motion to approve the proposed school resource officer contract with VPD someone whoa a tie oh my gosh right oh okay we'll give that to Meredith then is there a second second Christopher with the second so the motion is on the table to approve the proposed contract there's a motion by mered II by Christopher all those in favor of approving the proposed school resource officer contract with BPD signify with i i i any opposed contract is approved thank you excited to stay in collaboration with all of you thank you for your time appreciate the thoughtful questions and dialog app really helpful all right um John I'm gonna turn the meeting over to you to get us back into superintendent report for a few moments EXC me all right Dr

028CL I'll turn it over to you all right my work here is done all right thank you thank you again board for a great conversation uh we'll now begin the superintendent report which is the one main item for today um and speaking of our our intentionality of communication would be our survey results from our um our families our students and our our our staff so I'm going to move myself to right right area um all of you were provided a a kind of a summary of the feedback also uh in the form of a video presentation that went to our family and our students uh there was a video summary of of the uh work that you hear today and then recently as this morning uh the Board of Education as well as all of

029our staff received the video summary of the of the staff uh survey results as well so I won't go too deep in it I just going to leave it for questions but I just wanted to do a quick summary for our uh community and doing the clicker over my head is a new challenge for me today sorry all right so overall I'll begin with the uh the staff and the staff and family one as you can see our our students really represented uh we had 3,293 students grades 3 to12 uh that participated in the survey with an exceptional rate of 75% um we like to thank our staff for really encouraging this work in the in the advisory setting uh as well as making sure that uh as many students as possible um uh participated

030in terms of our families uh we're still looking to increase that number but we do have 420 uh parents and Guardians that participated in the work and then most recently with our staff uh you'll see a 501 staff 5001 staff members which is about 49% response rate uh and again proud of of of all that feedback the mechanisms for which we're sharing feedback um and again you'll see some uh pieces of opportunity for uh two-way Communication in here which I know is a priority of our of our of our Board of Education and and administration uh as I spoke to the video uh information that went out uh we did post the results on our website we also posted it on social media uh as well which is kind of a new strategy for us

031for both Instagram and Facebook uh then from there there was a second video uh from the school leaders so there was a districtwide response and then you had your individual School responses as well so as a family or St or student you got both both those perspectives of how are we doing districtwide and how is my individual school school doing um the spaces where there was uh far more two-ways was the superintendent advisory and then ultimately the support to the bo Board of Education in terms of the staff results you saw you see similar Trends uh with the exception I just wanted to make clear for the um while the staff received a video presentation for me we wanted a more personalize a touch from our building leaders as they reviewed staff data with their

032team so those are uh uh staff-based uh staff based meetings with uh with school leaders to go over the data and understand the feedback so you can have some more that personal dialogue again as you saw the results the results that we are presenting are both for districtwide perspectives and then uh the data from from building perspectives which uh which each each school did individually all right we're going to start with our bright spots from our students as a reminder the percentages are based off on a lier scale of one through five if you had if you put a four or five which means I agree or I strongly agree that went into a a an area if on the other end of it if it was one or two that went into another area

033for for for just for disagreeing so and then we took percentages from uh from from those areas um you can see our top four here which are our our bright spots which uh very proud that you know you know that our students see learning at school that their families are treated with respect opportunities to be successful and really good shout out to our leaders that you know 81% believeing that they principles were or a good leader in our school so very proud moment there areas that we want to get better as an organization and um uh we've done a lot of deep work especially at the advisories but also doing some work with the building levels talk about what does that mean if we're saying I I don't necessarily like going to school School uh

034each day um some of the antidotal evidence that we've gotten back from our our advisories pleas is like and as much as you can get students that go deep into the conversation like it's coool you know but also it speaks to one of the things that I heard loud and clear from our Board of Education in terms of my personal uh growth as a leader is how are we making schools more Innovative how are we making uh spaces more more thought-provoking and um and not not a kind of a traditional sour so you know you kind of see their voices reflecting reflecting from our board as well as from our students so you know let's think about some more innovative ways for for school uh uh to be um again you'll see inance of students

035are nice or show respect to to each other we still want to continue to work on that day-to-day dialogue uh how are we addressing each other uh we heard examples of students talking about um U waitest type type jokes um um some gender based Bas jokes and Al often there are some spaces of I don't know that people generally know how to say nice things to each other and everybody is very transparent about that uh and and Austin spoke to sometimes some of the you know some of the things we see uh uh in television or some things that we see in social media that there isn't really a lot of modeling of I'm just going to be extraordinarily nice to the person next to me uh and so how can we think about organizationally

036about how to uh do I think about um Miss Taylor's work over at uh her years at Glacier Edge it was a really simple slogan be nice and but it was it was powerful and and I want to go with to be nice right now work can be work hard and be nice yes but be nice is what I was trying to get to with it uh but just you know how did how do you make that a priority in our setting uh we really had some good dialogue with operations team and our bus is like just feeling safe on the bus and and sometimes it wasn't just about Behavior Uh some of the the conversations we've had about uh long distance bus routes um you know how are we thinking about the a long

037ride from fishburg to to the to the high school which can be sometimes 40 45 minutes uh on on good on good weather days and so a lot of that is just being safe and in my three to a seat um and is my bus packed those those are things that we want to continue to LIF up and our lowest score and I'll just be very transparent was about students in in bathrooms and when I tell you about some conversations with students about they were they didn't they cared about the rest of the growth areas they really cared about this one I want to be very clear because I want all our our very hardworking custodians to know they were not talking about our custodians they our codian work very hard every single day and

038are doing their best they can with our with with our B so they were not having a conversation about codia performance they were talking about very similar to showing respect to one another sometimes that's also about keeping the space that you're in clean as well and how are you using that environment um because the as you you'll see in our family data our family data shows very clean buildings very but families aren't going into student bathrooms very very often either so you know just things that we need to lift up and continue to to grow with so since we're doing three different areas here I'm going to pause to see if there's any questions on specifically students then I'll go to family and then I'll go to staff from there anything from the student perspective

039um did they also I think one thing that I liked was the open-ended response themes for those were for families and for staff family and staff yeah okay y did we do it for students as well not for students not for students okay when we're looking at the data this is you know aggregate of all grades is that that's correct did you see any breakout between like elementary middle in high school um the great Chris the the areas of growth were I I felt were permeated more in the Middle School level where were those developmental Behavior Uh ages and then you see you saw some of that carry over into the high school as as well um so I just think as we think about oural work and our PBS work I think it just

040gives more power to the longer you're in the system the the need to continue to elevate those teaching that teaching thank you all right next I'll move into the family survey and similarly we'll go over bright spots uh and then bright spots areas of improvement and this is where you'll also be able to see themes of open-ended questions as well so for our bright spot and you'll see the floor in front of you uh teacher and staff administrators uh concerned for my for my child again being treated with respect their school uh the effective uh supplies and equipment for Learning and I believe my the school is is clean and and well well maintained so you'll see again as I spoke to a little bit difference of opinion on different areas but again that's a

041strong shout out to our our our overall grounds and uh codan Team for very very good work overall for our building areas for growth um I think the biggest one that we want to we that we have begun to work at D digging into is receiving feedback from my school and what was interesting is that there was there was an agree that um we give a lot of information to families with they with their question was I want to know specifically about my child and how my child is is is doing while also getting some the the other information which was a significant uh learn learning for us um you'll see that resonating and you know desire to have more positive phone calls emails or notes about my child again how's my specific child doing

042and then uh I believe the school administration makes decisions that are in the best interest of of Children and Families while 67% is is well above the threshold of of good response it would still fell in the um in the lower lower percentages as we look looked overall so we want to consider that work and then consistency with our with our rules and enforce consist we and that is a feedback that you'll see also in the themes as well all right so to your point one cl uh there were um open-ended uh areas which was a first for the rary school district where we did the open-ended comments for uh families and for and for staff uh in front of you we from again these are themes over overarching of of the all out of

043all the comments and uh dedicated and caring staff our courses and extracurricular activities you'll hear some of that resonating in our two reports later on today on overall positive culture and environment uh effective operations and Facilities I'm not doing a good job moving thanks and then again you'll see the discrepancy I just talked about while there was there's positives about General communication about schoolwide events still need an increase on my individual child's performance is was what needs to lift up areas that need to be improved uh again the consistency with student behavior and and discipline across all of our our schools making sure that it's you know their their Universal practices that they deep understanding of what constitutes a behavior and there's consistency and how disciplined is administered uh uh consistency with communication then en

044ement is making sure that all buildings have the same level of response time uh a a theme that we we've heard and acknowledge and and are have done a lot of Shifting and work on this Advance our Advanced learning program um we also want to make sure that while it was it's called Advanced learning in our in our feedback it is part of our our broader um multi-tier systems of support in PSS as we think about that what that work uh looks like um we've begun some work with uh uh with with committees bringing parents together to think about how do we enhance uh uh Advanced learning and we have the training Amy coming all with the date we're bringing in the consult for advanced learning we meeting tomorrow with shingle who our correct uh

045to begin based off that feedback and then our parent group with continue to uh be able to help us think about how we're enhancing the supports for for our Advanced learning program um I do want just want to put in the space and just it's clear we we are not looking at Advanced learning as some type of pull out model uh it's we're thinking about it as as a Continuum of inclusionary practices where we have multiple uh multiple supports within the classroom setting and not making them isolated spaces that's not that's not the philos brary School District um also things that could be included like just clear understanding uh about grading homework and retake policies there seems there's a a lot of um we got a lot of information back about not being clear uh

046sometimes there's a class to class differences that that could be coming up so we are working to be very transparent about what's working and if there needs to Pivot around our grading homework and retake policies making sure that everyone has the the information and supports to do that work and then finally um uh and we've heard this uh from our our board as well and and it's great that we we're seeing the board raises uh questions as well as our community at the same time lunch resources and and nutritional nutritional concerns again just Quality quality of offerings here in terms of food nutrition when it comes to recess they weren asking for Less recess like how are we incorporating more movement into our into our day I'm assuming my car didn't just H didn't hit

047the yes all right questions there before I move the staff I had a question is there a breakout of I think Marth you asked this I was curious too is there a breakout of Middle School K to five not as much with the not not as much in the family one okay um um should we interpret this as this is the broad feeling across all schools I would say I would say grading grading and questions about retake policies permeated more in the secondary than they did at the elementary recess in high [Laughter] school thank you absolutely all right for second time we move us pretty fast here for a sta experience the areas that uh we're very proud to celebrate for our staff were um and we went with our our top six in each

048of the categories uh believe my work positively impacts those res serve so people are feeling value in their work which I you love to hear again the work environment is clean and well maintained shout out to our our custodian and uh build building staff there uh clear understanding of the mission and goals of my organization I think that's a clear shout out to our Board of that uh that every knows and understands the mission and of our of of our organization and we're grounded in like like mindset um a I think I couldn't feel more of a sense of Pride than uh the one that says I I feel a sense of Pride when I tell people where I work that's you know that's huge for me that when you walk out of the doors

049that you're you say with pride whether you're wearing emblem you're throwing up the V or saying you're a wildcat that I tell people Pride where where I work and very very very proud to have that type of representation and U selfishly I want that to be 100% like most of them and then I work in an organization where employees regularly share and exchange ideas ideas um and you think about the power of our professional learning communities the power that our community has given us in the form of our l our money to be able to have the collaborative spaces uh you can see the benefits paying off paying off there uh areas for growth uh and really they evolved around our our resources or allocation are making sure that they are allocated for uh the

050maxim effectes across the organization uh as you see as you heard in the video we have some really I think sound strategies about how to ensure that those systems um the opportunity to right input on decisions uh again resources in my immediate work environment just some wonderings about how my voice is heard in that work uh feeling supporting and imbalancing my my work responsibilities uh came to life and you'll see that in some of the burnout data we'll see on the next slide um an organization culture that supports open and honest communication while it was still above the threshold I like to see a much higher number in feeling open about uh Comm about communication I think the way that we're presenting the data today hopefully uh as well as people seeing that we're taking

051the surve results very seriously providing direct feedback and pro providing actions will be an indicator of that come come to life and uh in the scene of progress to create a culture of success for employees across the organization um again that's an area of growth while it is above a normal threshold for positivity we we we want to see much higher numbers there and if to our themes um again as you think about the inverted our our inverted uh P pyramid model uh and our desire for our staff to see themelves highly invested they they see they do see uh a strong leadership and a vision on the binary School District I spoke to before uh changes in professional development I tell you as a as a quarter Century person in this work to get

052people to say that they like the PD is a is is a really a shout out to uh our our our multiple teams that do do this work uh but really again the power of our our focus on collaboration uh is coming to life efforts to improve work work race culture while we are not a perfect organization we really appreciate to hear that there's a scene that we are really working to try to improve the culture of the Bron School District our student centered the focus if we walked away from this survey and did not see this I would have been and you know hurt and thinking I might not be doing the right job but because we try to be a student centered organization a shout out to our technology team for the resources

053and improvements and then flexibility and adaptability among the uh decision makers I think that speaks to our our theme of their's we should always have flexibility within those parameters here are the parameters and here's where we can be flexible and communicating that out all right areas where we can uh continue to get better uh again communication and and transparency just more the more we can say how how are we making decisions what is our why and and getting the information out there that'll be uh crucial workload and staff burnout uh while there while it has been improvements is still on our back burner of not excuse me on the front burner of of how we're thinking about not burning our staff you'll of hear me hear us asking how will this decision impact you know

054staff workload and making sure that we continue to have those conversations um I continue to to think about uh what these are areas that have improved over the years uh but we there still needs to be some work in terms of like retention and hiring uh as you saw in the other data Behavior Support for students new one for us and just something for us to consider and it was kind of an aha we have a lot of Platforms in the in the brary school district power school talent canvas Skyward and that's not even all of our Google Google systems as well and and right like I was just going talking to somebody about the data like you know we can uh we can host satellites in space but we can't have one universal system

055for for for for education and until one of us one of us builds that so um don't start building all right so with that I want to you know take your to our our action steps if you don't mind let you just browse those and then I'm going to stop and ask for questions or thoughts so y more of a comment and Dr Hawkins and Adam probably remember this um it was probably a last year I know the years are running together now remember the belonging group that uh that when we got together there were there was us there were teachers in there and do you remember what they said and it stood out to me at the Ser was one of the uh one of the statistics the 76% I think uh where where

056it said something to the effect of collaboration remember how they said they wish that they had more opportunities to collabor and hearing that from our teachers I think that's very powerful and it's it's showed in the statistic that you uh that you showed here so um just saying that to say um I don't know how we do it or how how it's done but they definitely our our Educators definitely want more opportunities to collaborate because uh what I was hearing in that group was there's a way one educator would do something and they would be like oh my God I would love to be able to do that or transfer that to to a topic or subject that I'm working on and I had no idea that you were you were teaching it that way

057and that's very Innovative corre and so um just echoing the voices of our Educators and their their willingness and wanting to uh collaborate even more thank you I know this is a the first year with this new survey is the intention to kind of ask the same questions going forward okay this will be this will be our starting point all right good because it'll be helpful to have that comparative data and then along those lines I to go back to the beginning okay um I'm curious how this can parallel you know summative assessment and formative assessment you know where especially if I'm hearing I'm kind of looking at the staff survey in particular about feeling like there's some space where there feels like there's a lack of Voice or decision making where can there be

058kind of more ongoing tinier checkpoints um for staff in particular I appreciate some of the buildings have added kind of little surveys for families and things that are a little bit more kind of in the moment capturing nuggets at a time um I'm certainly curious about that from a staff perspective because with some of this it always feels a bit like we talk about with um you know the forward exam can we really use that data to really you know change instruction can we use the staff data in particular to really change things that may be you know sentiments from a number of months ago what ways there are to get a little bit more in the moment with some of that yeah so I can I can speak to someone I'll probably ask Amy

059who's a little closer to the schools and um as as well as working with the principles every but we we did have some schools that began to I would say pilot the more quarterly staff family student check-in check-in model and saw some success there now I think saw enough evidence for that to be expanded I think if you not I know if we were doing this on a building breakdown the areas where those practices were already in place had elevated scores compared to some of the places that have not have not put the prcts in place so that was clear evidence that's the model of more frequent checkin because what happened what I'm feeling when I took this in December may not be feeling when I'm in March or in October so those those more

060frequent checkpoints seem to be a proven um proven method based off our overall data yeah that's great just check if they hit hit all that yeah I think from a school standpoint we don't want this data to be a surprise right we don't want them to get the data once a year and then be surprised we want them to have multiple checkpoints and so some through like collaborate problem solving processes with staff ET asking some of these questions more regularly to get feedback and be really responsive to that but the goal is as we now have the set of questions different leaders are already thinking about how do I not administer the entire survey but just lean in some specific areas of focus aligned to um you know their areas of growth that they've all

061communicated through their videos to their specific scho commun as well and all those little ways of getting the staff to take the survey you know I think like the turnout is something also that I'll just voice and encourage families and staff do the surveys this data matters we reflect on it as board members and as Leaders um to try to get more folks to submit their responses especially if there's concern that I'm not being heard this is one way to really ask that of our folks to please share their thoughts one question in regard to kind of setting our Equity framework um was um how do we break out if there are opportunities within the anything that's um brought up to concerns or work that we need to think about so you know whether it's

062families um that you know we want to mitigate dist impacts right and so um was there anything that kind of came up for you in this report that kind of stood out and and what are the what's the process for identifying using kind of back yeah so it was much simpler to do that on the building based building based data and then being able to work with our leaders if you saw disproportionate outcomes at based off any demographic makeup at that Lev relative then the full full District trying trying to uh ask specific questions and but also spoke to the power of just principles knowing their yeah you know knowing their fam we're also um very very cautious of balancing you know the pros and cons because if you get too much identifying information then

063people don't take the survey and so we were very had to be very thoughtful about about that that that that as well so uh I think you'll see that more on the type of intermittent surveys that you saw buildings doing where District y we weren't asking for as much identifiable information just because people have a lack of I say it's just a little nervousness if you there's the more identifying features you put in the the more the numbers go down in terms of participation okay sorry go ahead super quick um Chris and I serve on a committee and I want to be sure to Echo the voices of our our all of our Educators there is a a want to have a a space where our Educators can bring their authentic C to and be

064able to to talk and interact with one another outside of the educational space outside of the Works Space to be able to to connect and so I I I I didn't see that here or maybe I I missed it somehow but there there is that that want to be able to feel that sense of inclusivity and belonging where staff or our educators are feeling like that space isn't even available that it's it's a work space for collaboration but a need to bring your authentic selves to be able to to be to just be question or Stat statement statement that opportunity there you go so this is like kind of in the same as a question that's not actually question so I love that our staff our you know teachers or principles you know are all

065lifted up by our students and our our parents um it's fantastic um when I see the places for growth from parents I can only imagine as a teacher hearing okay I need to be receiving sending out more individual feedback about each student which is a certainly something that a parent would want um as a staff member then you would can see where there's concerns about burnout correct and balancing work responsibilities how do you kind of square those pegs to make sure that we're not taking this data translating it into more work for our you know classroom teachers yeah yeah there was we the best feedback we got from there was from our our family advisor because we we asked that same question and and for our our family adviser did a phenomenal job of stating

066before like we don't want extra workload for it we know our staff are doing it but it was really specifically about um gradi grading where they talked about the quality and and some of the examples like I yeah that grade is fine but what is the piece of information that would help me understand how how my student is in the classroom what how what is what do my student like in that classroom and and we so we began to think about you know without increasing a narrative for every like what type of like drop downs can we begin to think about that gives more the pleasure to have in class I think we've all probably most I I I wasn't trying to make that obvious I'm sure we' all had a pleasure to having class

067um on our but just one be more you know what what what can we provide as options to help understand just more specific detail but also us thinking there's enough technology for us to think about you know how do we generate a a response that broader or gives more meaning to what what that is like leadership contri in math or something that uh gives you more person personal detail and again again I don't as a former Educators doing a quality one on every single child takes a long long time I respect that as well no that's really helpful I think that's to hear what was kind of requested more in depth um and it isn't something that necessarily FS more heavily on Str to support that sorry no no go ahead I would just add

068I think there's there's that does well in class and and a certain point and then you develop a really deep relationship if things aren't going well right so it's that that point of time between doing well to not doing well that we want to avoid so um so it's it's what's the safety net before we get to the we need intervention now now got a team and now you're gonna get in data information yeah so there's that that that Nuance there that's I think just something to to figure out the balance yeah so uh to speak to um Mar this point um when I was looking through this one of the things that struck me in a couple of different areas it seemed like a kind of classic like we don't have the right tools

069maybe we have to invent the right tools nobody has them sort of situation like when we're looking at the communication we're doing all this communication using all these platforms and people aren't still asking for a different type of communication so and we're worried about like not burning people out and that sort of thing like maybe we don't have the right tools so there the tools the right tools don't exist you know same thing you know when we're talking about some of the other stuff you know I think for me the way I looked at it was like do we have the right tools you know so that we can get so that we can more efficiently do the things that are being highlighted in some of the concerns here um in ways that actually make

070the lives of our staff easier um and honestly some of those tools don't exist like they just aren't there yet so any other questions or opportunities from the board members right now thank you for all the time um in terms of not only presentation for us but how everything went out to the community as well I think that was super important having videos hearing voice with all of it just really appreciate how information was shared and a time set getting feedback so we'll move back into board action we have a couple of results policies to review that we had on the agenda for last week so thank you to the academic leadership team for being responsive to our shifting and meeting agendas as well welcome we're here for yeah we decided it was very intentional

071March's youth art month so it just makes sense that we're here to share about Creative and Performing Arts results policies in the month of March as we celebrate um youth art so as we kick off these two results policies just want to acknowledge many discussions that we've had about some of our results policies specifically those that have indicators that heavily rely on enrollment data we know that by and large our enrollment is pretty stable and steady and so we would not be able to increase enrollment in every single area I think we have en m in our world language results policies creative Performing Arts elective health and PE as well as our CTE areas um so as we approach sharing our results tonight you definitely have the monitoring reports um but I think tonight's monitoring

072reports were really nice visual representation here of the challenge of using enrollment data um as these indicators right if we see Creative and Performing Arts there is on the left the yellow indicates a decrease in enrollment we have elective health PE on the right and that that green marks an increase in enrollment and so we see the tradeoff when one area goes up typically another area goes down and we recognize that that's not necessarily indicative of the quality of the programming but more reflective of student interest because we also have oe1 which is our instructional program um operational expectation that dictates how we schedule students and we schedule students based on their interest right and so these numbers are reflective of student interest in these areas and not necessarily solely about the quality of what

073that program looks like so as we approached our results policies tonight we wanted to think more broadly about how do we tell the story and how do we think about other indicators of what's happening in Creative and Performing Arts and then in elective health and and PE as well and so one of those data points builds off of the climate survey data that You' just heard from from Dr clity and pulls out a few different questions on the left there you see our family climate survey data um we had the question about my child school offers quality co-curricular activities for students um we anticipate says co-curricular at the at the secondary level we're really thinking about elective areas and so we have over 80% of our families agreeing or strongly agreeing about the quality of

074of their electives um and then my child school offers even up co-curricular activities for students and there we're at nearly 70% of agree or strongly agreeing you can see those ratings are also on the higher end so our family's feeling as though the elective offerings are of quality and and there's enough to meet student need on the right side you see the student climate survey data it says I enjoy specials as we call them in elementary but at the secondary level electives you have over 76% of our students indicating they agree or strongly agree um more telling for me actually is the opposite side where only 3% of our students disagree or strongly disagree um about enjoying specials for electives there's a lot to tease apart in the middle and mixed feelings for students in

075sixth through 12th grade and what might be leading to that but I think this data is really compelling in terms of students finding joy and finding their interest reflected in the elective areas that um that we have so as we go further into 22.3 around Creative and Performing Arts we know that Creative and Performing Arts is encompassing this results policy specifically of 612 music and art um and so we did ask we couldn't there's certainly a lot of quality work that's happening and we have very dedicated Educators at the middle school and high school level in both our music and art departments to provide a little bit of a sampling tonight we did ask for high school art department just to share share some of the highlights of the work that they're doing to understand

076what is the student experience behind some of the the numbers and what are the leadership moves that they are making as a team to make sure that the classes and the opportunities that students have access to are reflective of their interests um and in a wide variety of options and so thank you to the high school art Department that that put these together for us they also made sure that we kept the very colorful background was their request and didn't come to our standard orange and black slides so thank you to the art department for bringing a little color um this evening so the first highlight that that the team named was really the wheel throwing class this was a new course offering in the 23 24 school year last year and something that we

077have continued I'm grateful for the facilities that we have that are able to offer classes like this wheel throwing class also noting that within our art Department we're really leveraging technology so we have a foundations of digital media and design class where students are using their um devices to create digital drawing and right now they're working on self-portraits and their own chosen Styles we also think about the team's thinking about how do we make sure that culture lives through ART and so here's some examples from our Ceramics one students who are working to make a tradition using a traditional Japanese method of carving to make some cups and then embracing this aesthetic called AB savy which really is about embracing imperfections and impermanence so this idea of helping culture really bring come through in in

078our art spaces we also highlighted drawing one to an advanced drawing so we know that we have a really we have a large course guide and we pride ourselves on providing many different opportunities for students but that sometimes means though is that we only have a few students who want to take a really advanced class maybe not enough students actually run that class and So within the artart department and this also happens Within the Music Department sometimes they'll be able to stack classes together so this is an example these are students that some are in drawing one some are in drawing two and some are in AP art and they're all meeting in the same classroom at the same time with the teachers supporting them at their different level and ability to then work together

079and and collaborate so this really speaks to the dedication of our Educators to make opportunities like this possible for our students and for them to grow their specific interest area again this is Art but music is doing something similar to make those opportunities um accessible and then finally photography this just highlights some of the collaboration across departments so our art Department borrowed the scooters from the fiad department and students got to practice um using Strutter speed to capture some photos that that you see here so allowing to just to see what that looks like in action so when it comes to our um results policy and our monitoring report for art we do know right in terms of the actual data that we see there we do see a decline and that's why you see

080the um the certification around reasonable progress not yet achieved because for the indicators that are there with enrollment we do see a decrease and we do think there's a larger story to tell we're proud of the work that our our music and art staff are doing to provide access to these opportunities for students see that some of the climate survey data just some of the day-to-day what's happening for our students in in those different areas what questions do you have about Creative and Performing Arts CH how could I purchase some of the potery all great no on a serious note um I'm sure students love taking these home and parents love receiving them but have you thought about like an art Market to kind of promote the idea of um Civic engagement in our art

081that we produce just a thought that's a great question more work not at all but just to promote it as well to our community that might be interesting Y and there was when we were going to present this last week there was a in Spotlight in arts that was featured here at at the high school just over the weekend um as a way to Showcase that but I know that we do the the team does a lot with the art gallery downstairs will be an art show that we'll highlight prior to a board meting likely later this spring I'm to highlight that Student Art but in terms of fundraising that's a great that's a great piece of feedback that I can take back to the team I saw I just I I saw Nate's eyes

082piercing at me from way over there startor you start think about making money up sorry right back in the bu we just need to think about yeah West letest had a fine arts week certainly something we can we can learn more about thank you for the suggest I had a question I was wondering is any of the data skewed by or impacted by students who like their their schedules are too backed and they can't squeeze in so they love the extrac options but they can't fit them into their schedule for some reason is there does that impact this data at all I think it's hard to say I'm surprised I feel like I hear everyone say I love all the offerings I can't wait to take this and that and that my sixth graders is

083already looking fors in future years so it's just surprising I wonder if there's an impact there I I think there's a bigger correlation in overall graduation requirement than than there is for pack schedule I we still have a quite a few students that leave because they're they've taken enough courses to graduate and again we I've say this before like we have very very talented staff and very very excited classes and if I can go home and I'm a teenager sometimes I'm still choosing as a teenager to go home and think about that and how we can continue to support on the transitions for students around with the fifth to sixth grade transition we just had many of our middle school music staff go down to the Elementary fifth grade demonstrate instruments get students excited about

084that and the realities of what does that look like when I get to high school I'm one of the many different offerings that we have here as well as um what I'm trying to be prepared for post secondary I think are are real questions and areas we can continue to lean in with students around our course offerings and and get that data around what's difficult for them in scheduling and how the graduation requirements been other questions think I me just kind of parallel and reiterate to kind of how you introduced all of this as we revisit then coming to a a board vote about this um about this ongoing dialogue we've had as for leadership around how we monitor some of these more um not core academic results policies and feeling a little bit of

085the tug of as board members where is the work with us in terms of what do we want to see for data to help you all you know be able to inform the indicators that are created is you know where does the onus fall on us within the policy work and so this is kind of that foreshadow of in two weeks having this Workshop time um so just to put that back out there we discussed this board you know just as a reminder coming into this results that this this is kind of living in that space of ongoing work and reflection so you know working with the monitoring report as written taking all of the insights that we're hearing about kind of some of the reasons why the data looks the way it does knowing

086that this is something we're all kind of working on on our Port as board members and then trying to give you all more parameters to kind of understand what data would make sense um from our perspective so I look forward to more ongoing conversation and I appreciate the chance to just see some of the living breathing experiences of our students and the leadership moves that always I think really elevates this experience as a board member it isn't really all about this report it's the holistic kind of opportunity that we get into having insights into the great work our staff is doing and what our students experience here than much I think tying back to the conversation just about some of the survey data and staff wanting voice in that I think that our music and

087art departments would be eager to help us think through what are some of those indicators what this look like um to measure our progress on the quality of our programing they're really very dedicated are there any um further questions from the board then about we we'll stay within this um Performing Arts monitoring report and kind of wrap that up with our board vote but any further uh questions that would be relevant for the team okay so the board we have received and discussed uh the superintendent modering report for results policy r. 2.2.3 I'll now accept a motion to approve the report as presented so we can begin any further discussion around reasonable progress is there a motion so thank you Corby is there a second second than youan Carlos um so we have a motion

088in a second uh any further discussion about the um approval as the report in terms of sorry going back to the top um there's a question mark in our document but reasonable progress not yet achieved is what we're being presented with as as a board tonight so this is where I struggle it seems so illogical I me we have such a high number of our students participating in these um electives to say that reasonable progress we can't have 100% of students doing Joe I know you love these percentages but I mean at some point like what is is that even results and so that's again I think that falls back to the board but I just I mean how when you see all of the um the opportunities that are available for our students um

089and that their joy that and creativity and how do we how do we judge that so I feel I love getting the information I love hearing what's happening I love seeing that we actually have so many you know students participating the fact that maybe a percentage has dropped from last year in you know some areas I don't know that that's relevant to me or indicative of of anything I mean I if we see trends that would be where I would hope that there would be a push in to find out what's happening or if we're seeing that I don't know I mean I I agree with the the indicators are what the problem yeah yeah and I think we all kind of had a suspicion at the time we approved these indicators that this was

090going to happen but we were like let's let it play out and see what happens and what happened was just what we thought um my personal view is though our whole structure here is we these reports are presented and we're assessing compliance with the approved indicators and until we approve new indicators these are the ones we have I think we should approve or not approve the report based on what those indicators are and we can give that report as much weight or lack of weight as we want to given the you know inadequacy of the indicators I personally feel that I want to approve it exactly how it was presented to us but I'm not going to give the reasonable progress not yet achieved very much weight at all in my assessment because I like

091the story you were just told that's far more useful to me the actual yeah to me this is the most pure example of I'm not so hung up on the indicators as it is it's just the policy isn't clear enough so I think part of our results discussion in the next couple weeks is to look at this as like we have created a mess a bit here I mean again if you read the the stuff that the board has to take ownership over that's like you know we want students to achieve it individually and appropriately challenging levels and acquire academic competencies and the following disciplines and then it's like you know Creative and Performing Arts there's zero guidance in there like you know it's like me walking into a restaurant being like I would like

092a food you know it's just not and then being ticked off about the food that I got you there's just no guidance whatsoever here there's no yeah I would like the food that I'm thinking about it and I'll take this question mark as a food do we have I we have to take action based on what we've been it yeah and and we kind of agreed that that was going to be the plan knowing all the underneath and I appreciate J how you kind of said and how we then layer that within the greater context at which point you know this becomes a part of that narrative and it's a good set up for the workshop yeah really the timing yeah I would pay for any of our creative or Performing Arts staff to see

093not yet compliant and have not have the context of what the board feels uh that the work is excellent so our indicators could use some work as opposed to their PR results yeah and that's the piece right the where does the policy need work from the our board perspective where does the board need to give work or better guidance on what data would make sense to help you all inform better indicators right again of just kind of where the the different ownerships lie in terms of where the work is I want to clarify because we own the result policy yes Administration owns the indicators yes so I feel like for our Workshop person John it's like okay let's why don't we take a step back to ask what are we trying to determine here yeah

094and maybe you just go from scratch we're not going to do it from scratch I think we'll start with some guidance yeah because we don't have you know four hours let's do it our worker B we'll have someu I got you been thinking about this food for a while I'm hungry and Amy I appreciate how you said even getting the insights from the folks that teach within this scope of what makes sense for us to be looking at in terms of data and a measure success within this area I think that would be really insightful yeah so I guess what that said board we do have a motion and a second to approve as presented any further discussion before we take that vote okay I forget who the motion and second were so we'll just

095there was Corby was the motion second was Carlos okay all those in favor of approving um results monitoring report Creative and Performing Arts as presented signify with i i any opposed okay right I within the yeah I would said with all of the as Amy I'll turn it back to you then or moving into our 2.2.4 perfect um so similar approach here the the data that we shared around the climate survey at the beginning really was all elective areas not just Creative and Performing Arts um but also holds true for our health and physical education monitoring works as well and so here we wanted to highlight some of the leadership moves within that department and the one that we we pulled out tonight was that at the high school we just have a new offering

096this year in 2425 and we are offering health in Spanish so last year you'll remember we had um a twe family advisor a work group of families who came together as we roll up the twe Continuum for our students and we spent some time in the evenings getting some input from them about the student experience and what classes they would like to see as we buil out as we built out that Twee progression and one of them was offering health in Spanish it's a graduation requirement so it's a class that many students all students will need to take in one way or another and so um building this class aligned with offering opportunities for students who Ru in twe as well as other multilingual Learners to be able to access that content so it is

097running this semester for the very first time and it looks to um perhaps be growing in the future so a really important leadership move that the team made in terms of taking that feedback from families and from students um pulling a course together finding a teacher with the right certification and then launching it this year to build momentum for future years but excited that we could be responsive to that feedback within our our fire department here at the high school and add health in Spanish you know to our to our course guide moving forward so you'll see some pictures of the students in the current class as well as as the course summary and description of course you also have the monitoring report for this that does show that um for the vast majority of

098students we are seeing increases in participation in elective health and PE so important to note that this health class is actually the required health class um the rest of the data is really speaking to students who are taking PE and health classes above and beyond the graduation requirements that do exist in health and PE again Creative and Performing Arts there are no specific graduation requirements other than a number of elective credits within health and PE there are and these numbers speak to students who are going above and beyond that specifically of indicator one and then I will hand it over to Teresa for indicator to to talk about what this looks like at the elementary level thank um so the elementary you know a couple of years ago we um did finally meet the pr

099requirements so all elementary students have three 30 minute PE sessions a week um We Were Heroes for that um in my 18 years as principal at least once a day I would get when can we have more gem class when can we have more PE um it's really a joy for children so um that has been wonderful to see and for all of the schedule that have aligned in that way um what I'm really proud of is our um PE department they have um their own PLC they do role alike um just like our other departments do and I've attended some of those there's some really great leadership in that and they're really talking about the standards and um more importantly how they're bringing those to life for students so it goes Way Beyond just

100the physical part of that and the movement um it really gets to the um cooperation that they're learning in therea the safety for their own bodies and for others around um just a celebration of the individual growth that they have and the work that they do to help children see that um and again just the joy um that there is in those spaces so a lot of great things that are happening um definitely an area that I visit in each of our schools and um see a lot of progress and a lot of growth for all individuals that every grade level no matter what they're doing at that point another good example of Standards coming from so those are um our indicators for 2.2.4 for health and but open to any questions more of a

101comment sure you know the minute because you two both of you know how I think by now when I saw the satisfies his graduation requirement my mind automatically went to DPI I said so the hell part of it satisfies the graduation requir but there is nothing regarding a language requirement DPI like it I just heard chalk boards when I saw that like oh my God that should be a require but that's a DPI issue rela I would just say that um I don't know um I'm sure we we looked into it as a as a district but looking at technology platforms I know that uh their plugins and some some technology platforms like teams that if you pay a additional fee you can translate anything and close gaps thing in real time but again you

102know we have to think about um um teachers being able to continue on with won outside of just the teams platform and if there's anything in uh that you have to write or participate in might be some challenges there but um something to think about love comment I guess something that we're thinking about at where I work how this accessible in any language based on not on uh the number of students but really any student is able to access based on what their needs are versus what we determine based on the number I think the growing interest in this class that one section this year and growing interest in the future really speaks to the demand for that and the need for us to be able to provide that information and make it accessible in

103many languages so Corby I will say while um world language is not a graduation requirement um with DPI nor have we chosen for it to be a graduation requirement here in the BR Area School District that class does satisfy um some of the twe requirements for students who are moving through that progression so having that course standage counts towards the number of courses that they take um to make sure that they're meeting that twe designation thank you does offer that does feel better do do you think the you alluded to this before the graduation requirements for those Health um classes is that the reason that the health and PE is kind of winning the tug-of war with the Creative and Performing Arts or do you think it's so no we actually P this data is

104only reflective of students who who have already met the graduation requirements and are taking above and beyond that so it is um it is met that and and are going to be out that similarly at middle school there are PE classes that are required and then there's Lifetime Fitness which is an elective that students op into and we've seen growing demand for that as well any other questions from the board for the team no because we just wor stuff right a little rinse and repeat is of some of the other sentiments perhaps yeah um all right well we have we are we've received and discussed a bit already then for results policy r224 I'll accept a motion to approve the report that's presented and we'll just take on any further discussion around reasonable progress is

105there a motion to approve thank you Christopher is there a second second second John um any further discussion by the board then in terms of uh the report being presented to us as achieving reasonable progress see previous comments right a bit in terms of the interplay between these for sure all right with then uh no other further discussion all those in favor of approving results policy monitoring report r. 2.2.4 is achieving reasonable progress signify with i i any opposed okay results have been approved thank you for your time moving on to I was wondering about that moving on to um any board updates regarding communication specifically oeh or any general board updates yes Corby next Wednesday and next Friday it's on our calendar it's on our calendar so make sure you RSVP in terms of

106you know Lori for the calendar advice the TAC African-American history bow where Veronica is defend its title I like saying that to mmsd by way so you're watching you're watching so next Wednesday um I think we're going to get started at 5 I think um the uh sectional and then the uh Regional is Friday 4:30 it says on 4:30 calendar okay that means we start five 430 noted yes should be a great time it always is the students are absolutely amazing I like wow and when you see the size of the book that they had to learn from wow thanks for that reminder yes and thanks for your leadership and Par participation not a problem all right I love it any other announcements or updates from board members okay moving on to superintendent consent agenda

107before we just sort of blindly say yep I looked at it there were some interesting little nuggets in that superintend consent agenda this time Dr Clarity yeah so this is a you know I think some people call it bitter sweet but when you think about the joy and celebrating our our amazing staff you know and then when the time comes for them to take their journey into retirement uh we want to celebrate their significant accomplishment uh in serving thousands and thousands of students over the course course of their careers and so uh it's a it's a it's bter in terms of we miss every staff member when they when they take a step away it's also a celebration to know that they are you know their legacy is solid and cemented uh in the in

108the lives of so many that they've impacted and uh they get to just do whatever they want you know whether it's golfing fishing or maybe come back and teaching a class or two for us when when we need them but we want we want to wish everyone the best but this year uh we we are going to celebrate 11 retirees uh in the big number here that I just want us to wrap our minds is we have 280 years of service uh in education that we are are going going to be celebr say 280 and you know that is a over you know that times they say the average classroom is 25 that's that's a lot of Scholars and uh we want to just say thank you well obviously you know we do the bigger

109celebration in May uh but timing wise uh we want to make sure we put them in the so we can appropriately move them forward after uh with the board's consent to be able to finalize the paperwork and then we'll do a big celebration May so this is kind of a big vote it is a big vote to let 280 some years I know I know yeah and the impact to fellow colleagues I me I think I say this every time when we address um our retirees but the names on that list the impact that they've had on fellow colleagues on beginning Educators that that then exponentially just leads to the number of students lives that have impacted through these folks so yeah it's amazing okay so with all of that being said if there are

110no additional questions um we can approve the superintendent consent agenda as presented there's a lot of gratitude to these names yeah yeah looking at a lot of these names there um these have been household names in our particular house and I mean Mr mesman still comes up on a regular basis in our house um in all only the most positive way so he's had a incredible impact on so many students and fortunately mine was included and probably he's said a huge Ina act on a lot of parents too I'm excited I do have to say my anecdotal evidence is pretty strong that people really do start to look younger after they retire it's incredible to run into former retired colleagues it's amazing so just putting that out there excited for all of them to start

111the the time War backwards all right yeah and you're in that like that time Caple a lot of folks right teaching the same age kids for all those years like it's just a really funny kind of way the education works like that we get older the kids do not uh moving on then to the board's consent agenda take a peek if you have not already are there any questions do vote there's no vote okay that's when we sure I know it's in consent it's in consent I it feels like it kind of is vote worthy but it's subed as presented yeah right right um any questions on the board content agenda okay hearing none board consent agenda is approved I'm looking ah heading into future board meeting dates um and spring election of course coming

112up so our next board meeting in two weeks will be predominantly Workshop so just again we'll have some materials prepared so we can have a really productive results dialogue conversation um and then we'll have two Mondays before then the next meeting just looking at the calendar again at first and third in spring break so just watching your calendar so you don't show up on a Monday night when there is no board meeting again it's so amazing that that happen um any questions about our future agenda dates all right meeting dates then I would accept a motion to adjourn so move John is there second mon Carlos you won't even let me say the word y'all so excited now all was in favor of AD joury tonight's meeting signify with iOS thank you all said that

113should say that