00130 like to call this meeting to order and verify compliance with open meetings laws. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. All right. Moving on to attendance. Um, everyone is here except for Cassie. She had notified me that she will not be at the meeting this evening. So, uh, she did that ahead of time. We can move on to the pledge of allegiance to the flag. You can please stand [Music] al to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, we move on to 2 A. Are there any public comments? No. Okay, moving on to three, consent agenda. Uh a personnel recommendation. Anybody want to remove an item? Okay, seeing none, do
002I have a motion to approve 3A? So move. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Hearing none. 3A passes. Moving on for reports and presentations. A 8th grade Washington DC trip report. [Music] Welcome everybody. I'll start from over here. Tonight we're pleased to have both students and staff uh here to share their experiences from our recent Washington DC trip. The students will pres be presenting a brief overview of the trip and the algo learning opportunities that they gained and they had a lot of fun too. Um and I'm going to do this before they get started because I don't think uh they would ever take credit, but I'd like to extend my sincere gratitude to both Amy Keap and Sarah Sandal for their dedication and countless effort to plan this trip. they haven't been DCC before and
003so they really guided us on our trip and then M Jackson as well as some of our parents. So I really want to thank them all for the four days that they spent the students at DCC. So this trip [Music] first 1920 [Music] 2020 2019 20 and um I was there. I was there. Thanks. Thanks Quinn. Um we had a great time. um they learned a lot. I mean, I think more than anything, we had a lot of meaningful insights, insight and memories that they that the kids had to take back with them. So, um with that, I'm going to turn it over to them. And I think Sarah, are you saying something to start? I'm not doing. Okay, let's do that. It doesn't matter. I'm Sarah Sandal. Um I teach healthcare uh foundations and
004pens. This is my my trip to DCC. Um awesome after not being there for six years. The kids from history great going to DC trip and um it was absolutely incredible. Had a lot of great I think they just they just became so they did a very job. I'd love to go back and [Music] great and I really first trip. Um and from all of all of us we just want to say thank you so much for the opportunity to take our great Washington DC. It was not experience watching floor [Music] special after trip student trip participants and then parents of kids that attend it. so we could get some feedback on the planning and the communication um and the trip itself. And so we asked the kids to share one word that they said
005would best um show what they thought the trip what meant to them. So if you look up on the word poem or word art, whatever you call it, the bigger the word is, the more often it was said, but those are exactly the kids sentiments and the feelings and what the trip meant to them. So that was kind of a nice keepsake for them to be able to share their thoughts on on the trip. The kids are going to each share. We had a 4-day trip. So each student is going to share one a little bit about our itinerary for each day and then what we saw and then their thoughts on the trip. Zanthia, you are at the forefront. I'm Zantha and for the first day we went and covered Gettysburg. We went to
006Gettysburg Cycllorama and film, the National National Military Park, and the battlefield tour. I think it was a great way to start off the trip. It started with really important points and went over a lot of very important historical events. Hi, my name's Liv and on the second day we started off by going to the Pentagon Memorial and we were actually there at 9:37 when the running water under the benches stops for 1 minute because that's the time when the first plane hit the Pentagon. And then we went to two of the Smithsonian Institution museums. We went to the Natural History and the American History Museums. Then we went to the Capitol building and we got a tour of it. And then we ended off by going to the JFK Center for the Performing Arts and
007we went on the rooftop and we took photos and just hung out um before we went back to the hotel for the night. Hi, I'm Ryder and on this day uh we started off by going to Mount Vernon uh to see George Washington's house. And we went to a lot of memorials and the Holocaust Museum and some of the um some of the memorial memorials that we went to were um the MLK Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. Hi, I'm Ashton and on day four we went to the Arlington National Cemetery for the Arlington wreath playing ceremony. We went to the Marine Corps Square memorial evilima in the fort theater and at the fort theater like a state ranger talked about it and like the story and also we were at the Arlington ceremony. It was
008really hot and yeah if you slide this is sorry go ahead. All right. One of the things I learned during this trip was how bad the Holocaust really was for both those who didn't survive and those who did have to live through it. One thing I learned was that George Washington didn't live at the White House and he lived at Mount Vernon. One thing I learned and that was really interesting that uh George Washington liked everything to be symmetrical but his house wasn't. One thing I learned was George Washington's wife stated that the bus at the George Washington Museum is the closest to how he actually looked in real [Music] life. My favorite memory from the trip was getting to see all the memorials and how much respect people have for them and how well
009they treated them. My favorite memory was getting to see all of the exhibits in the Smithsonian museums. Um, my favorite memory was just being in Washington DC with my friends. My favorite memory was visiting the Lincoln Memorial because there are a lot of people I talked to and made friends with and it was a great view of the Washington Monument. So, on top of the educational value for the kids, um the social piece was great as well. And a lot of the kids on their survey commented on how they were surprised everyone got along so well and that they found a lot of value in connecting with kids that they normally wouldn't connect with um every day if it wasn't for the trip. So, the next slide um is the video that Ashley and put
010together for us. I know you have already seen it. We left it on there so you guys can watch it again if you'd like on your own. We don't want to take the time to show it now, but we wanted to let you know it's on the last slide if you'd like to see. Ashton, did did you see the Washington money, right? Yeah, it did. Yeah, it's pretty cool. And is it Zanthia? Yeah. So, talk about talk about how people respected the memorials. I mean, you you said that and they're very respectful of the memorial and and the property around it. Yeah. Yeah. you noticed that? Yeah. Thank you. I just wanted to say it sounded like a wonderful trip and that you guys really represented Whitel and were so respectful and I just really
011appreciate that. Um, I I also went to trip [Music] [Laughter] 1920 for that. But I had I took one of my favorite memories. So So glad glad you guys did a lot. I think I think that's me so much so powerful there and so I'm very happy for you that you had a wonderful experience. Thanks for share share it with us. Um my my sister Lindsy so I bet and what's your favorite Mario for me? Probably the Mario. Um just because I guess I guess we got we got these like cards where there was like a person who was like where they were like cross again from 911. No, no. [Music] Interesting. Interesting. I think I think fair memorial. I just think it's Washington and so you saw the line and then you saw saw
012the other behind it. And it is really pretty and it is. My favorite lot of beer there. I don't think I had a favorite one. One of the memorials. I have a lot of family. So, it was nice to see them respected. What time start day at? Early. Hotel DC55. Yeah, we usually usually get to our destination like hour after that. And how long did the day when you're on your things? like you guys count steps. Yeah. So, was it was it neat to see you teach a different setting school? Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Weren't you? Oh, yeah. Yeah. kind of made learning more reality where things happen and there you help you. Yeah. First time third time once in high school in college third time. So but that was cool. I used to live
013there. So I go there there often it's just beautiful. So, so just powerful and interesting and so neat that you guys were all able to go and um thank you teachers for making this happen, making this possible and volunteering your time too to go uh spend that time with the students. Yes. Thank you to everyone who put this together, everybody who attended and all the information you provided us. It really helps us when we make decisions for trips like this in the future because the more you're able to learn, the more you're able to do that just enhances your learning and I'm really excited to hear these things when when you guys present them to us. So, thank you again. [Applause] All right, moving on with reports and presentations 4B 2025 ACT and preACT spring.
014Dana always has to follow the hard shows. Do you have a video? Do you guys have like a cool like memory page or anything that you're going to share? We could I don't know if anybody would improv. What was your favorite thing about the esports? This is actually great. I'll be in Washington DC next week with my children. So, it's nice to see what's good for kids. Okay. Um but before that, we have our spring and secure results to share with you all. Um my typical disclaimer before we start, this is all unverified, unconfirmed, fresh from ACT data. Um this is not any this is not full academic year students. This is just all of our students who were tested DPI before they do their public data release in the fall. They do conduct some
015additional data cleaning. Um so this is allowed to be shared with you all in aggregate. Um but it may look different from what DPI releases to the public in the fall. So just be aware that all of those disclaimers in place. We're allowed to share what we can share today. Um just a brief overview of the assessments um which I do annually. We have our pre-CT secure for grades 9 and 10. English, reading, math and science are the subject areas. They do not do writing in ninth and tth grade. Um this is a college readiness assessment. So it's looking to see how predicting how a student will perform on the ACT in 11th grade and their potential readiness for college level assessments and work. Um and the ELA score has a benchmark that's set by
016DPI. There is no pre-ACCT ELA benchmark. On the other hand, ACT includes all of those subjects plus writing. That's why it's the ACT with writing. Um, and that will come into play in just a couple minutes. This assesses our students readiness for college level coursework. And there are both ACT benchmarks and DPI benchmarks in ELA um for that combines the English reading and writing scores. So, we'll see both how our students performed in comparison with the ACT benchmarks and with the DPI benchmarks. Um we had one change this year from previous years. Previously our students have done the preac um 89 for our ninth graders and the preac for our 10th graders in the fall on paper. This year it was done on the computer. Um then our students in spring took both the ACT
017and preACT on the computer. Again, this is all raw data from all students. It's going to look different from the data that gets reported out on the state report card. Um FAY is full academic year. only students who attended in this district and school for the full academic year gear will be included on the report card. Um we're also working with different scales. So our nth graders that take the pret9 in the fall have a max score of 30. Um our nth and tth graders in the spring with the preac secure have a can max out at 35 and then our 11th graders in ACT can max out at 36. Um so while we're comparing tests with similar names, we're still comparing tests with slightly different scales. When we look at our results for ninth
018grade, um we can see overall that some of our scores are up a little bit from how our students performed in fall on the pret9. Um most excitedly when we look at that percentage of students meeting the DPI benchmark, we had 72% of our 9th graders meeting or exceeding the DPI benchmark for math this spring and 53% of our students in ELA. Um our English scores have historically been pretty strong. and that kind of carries those ELA scores. Um, but we also saw some nice improvement in our reading scores over what students did in the fall from an average of 17.7 to an average of 18.1, which is exceeding that spring preac benchmark. Um, we talked about this last year, but DPI did set a new preacct benchmark for ELA and math for 9th and
01910th grade and new ACT benchmarks for 11th grade last year. Um so we're looking at our percentage of meeting DPI benchmark with that new benchmark in mind. Um that is different from the ACT benchmark and the preac benchmark. When we go to 10th grade um we can see that our composite score was 17.9 up from a score of 17.6 in the fall. Um, we had 56.7% of our 10th graders meeting or exceeding the DPI benchmark in math. And our average math score went up by almost a full point from the fall. We had 48.2% of our students who were meeting or exceeding the ELA benchmark set by DPI. Um, and again, our English scores were a little bit higher comparatively than our reading scores. We also saw a nice um 0.5 increase in our science
020score from fall to spring. So, what's nice is sometimes we like to compare uh how our students are doing as a cohort. And so, uh in the fall, I shared with you guys uh some of our ninth and tth graders, current 9th and tth graders cohort data. And we we dug up uh some of their past DPI um benchmarks uh for proficiency. Uh as Dan shared, the the current 9th graders having uh 72% of them meeting math benchmarks is phenomenal. Um you can see kind of over the course of the years from fifth grade on as they've taken forward. Uh now preac uh we can see some nice increase in their proficiencies for ELA and math in both 9th and 10th grade. Um so it's really exciting to see see the on ongoing growth that
021we've got with our students and uh see some actionable results from the work that is happening both at the middle school as well as the high school to support increased achievement. All right, moving on to our ACT results for 11th grade. Um, this year we had a composite ACT score average of 20.6, um, which is higher than what we had last year. Charlie will talk about that in just a moment. Um, we also had about 49% of our students meeting the DPI benchmark in math. Um, a little over 50% of our students meeting or exceeding the DPI benchmark in science. and 65 and a half% of our students meeting or exceeding the DPI benchmark in ELA. Um, a significant amount of that was due to our writing score, which I'll show you in more detail
022in just a moment. Um, but these scores were looking pretty good, especially when we compared to last year and the previous five years. So, Charlie will show that next. So, again, to look at the ACT over time, uh, so this is not cohorts, but this is, uh, over the last, uh, five school years. uh you can see some nice increases in areas uh over those past five years in terms of uh composite score as well as those individual scores for ELA, English, reading, math and science. Um you can see for some of the the scores this year was our our highest. Uh I am very proud of our reading score of being at a 21 uh for this group uh which is a lot higher. We were kind of plateaued there for a little while
023for the last couple years. So it's really nice to see that that increase in reading. Uh and as Dana shared about the ELA average, we'll talk about the writing as that affected the the ELA average going up quite significantly as well. So uh annually we have got ourselves uh goals for uh increases. So based upon the ACT, we had a a goal set for um our ACT ELA composite from last year this year uh as well as our math composite from last year this year. Uh we're pleased that we we met our goal um of.7 points on the ELA uh going from 19.3 up to 20.9. So that's an increase of 1.6 points which is quite significant. Uh math we we didn't quite meet our goal. Uh we were very pleased with the growth that
024we still saw there but we had a goal set of 0.9 points. Uh we did increase by 0.2 points from last year to this year in math. So, this is what I'm really excited to talk about today because we saw such great growth in our ELA score as Charlie mentioned um over a point and a half an in average growth from one year to the next. Um they're different groups of students, but we still look comparatively and think about our curriculum and instructional practices. Um the real thing that made the difference this year for our ELA score was our students writing scores. Um, so this is a little bit of a complicated chart to read, but when we look at our English score and our reading score, our average English and reading score combined was
025has been about the same over the last four years. We had 20.2, 20.4, 20.1. Um, so we're at 20.4 this year for our average of English and reading, which is pretty good. Then you add in the writing score. Writing is scored out of 12. um and then they use a formula to convert it to the scale of 1 to 36 and average it back in with our English and reading scores. So when we look at that writing scaled column, that is the writing score that's scaled um on that 1 to 36 range. And then you look at the unscaled score over the last four years. Our average writing score this year was 7.6. Um in comparison with the previous three years, our highest writing score was a 7.0. Um, so that really contributed to that
026growth in our ELA score this year. Um, specifically when you look over the past six years at both our average and our median writing score, our average writing score was up over a point higher than last year. Um, and our median writing score went from a six last year to an eight this year. Um, I think that is really testament to how Charlie and Cindy have worked with our student learning outcomes this year. our educators and a lot of different departments had a very heavy focus on writing and I can think we can tell that that one really paid off. So uh as we shared last year we had some action steps that we put in place uh to really see how we could move the needle on on things and again we were very
027pleased with some of the results that we had with this. Um I won't go through line by line with all these but uh you've seen on the lefth hand column those action steps that we did uh and then some results that we have from those action steps specifically this year uh that we worked on and then our last slide here. So in terms of next steps um we are very pleased with the writing focus. So we do have continued focus on K12 writing next year. Uh there's some work that uh at the district level we are doing but then also um with Adam that's some work that we are going to be focusing at the high school continued on continue focusing on fluency uh what we've discovered um which kind of is a bit of
028an uh yeah we should have known this um our students are not ever timed on a test until they get to nth grade and the preac and the ACT is the first time they're on time test and so the fluency of our students um they may be having high compreh comprehension, but if they can't read the passages quickly enough with that high comprehension, um the the time tests may may succumb uh to a lower score. So, continue to focus on that fluency and extending strategies of fluency practice across multiple content areas. Um we part partly through the new strategic plan, we have some ACT success indicators uh with some action steps that we'll be working through. Um we are also continuing to expand our targeted intervention supports for both ninth and tth graders uh both
029in math and reading. Uh we are going to be having some concurrent math uh support next year similar to how we have some concurrent reading support this year. Uh and then in the fall when we do the pract practice AC sorry the practice preacct uh too many P's in there. Um we are also going to be doing a fulllength practice ACT for our juniors at that same time. uh give them that opportunity to see that um get a an initial score and then do some goal setting with our juniors uh as they then prepare for the ACT uh come March in the springtime. Last thing I also want to mention that's not on here, but the ACT has announced that they are making some changes um to the test. This is not surprising. We have
030been through a lot of assessment changes in the last couple of years. Um, we're still uncertain how that will affect the state ACT. Um, because Wisconsin contracts with ACT for our 11th grade state level assessment. Um, not all states do that. So, the changes that they make at ACT may end up impacting what is required by the state and when students are required to take it and also which students choose to rem choose to take it through the district. Um, so that's something that we're going to look more into and learn more about as they release more information. Karen hand up first earlier. Yeah, I'm okay for now. You're good for now. Okay, go ahead. I was just curious. I know that students uh can retake the ACT. How does that factor in? Is it
031like their best score is what gets all everybody? This is just our March state testing for ACT. Okay. So, if somebody retook it and did better, maybe that would that would not be here. Okay. oftentimes uh you know the journal will report school graduate ACT scores and what they do they do take the the best score for each student um ACT does provide that report out um there are also some colleges that allow students to supercore and so they can take their best math their best reading that's interesting depending on the program that they're trying to get into they're looking for a certain score in a certain area. Gotcha. Thank you. So, uh I love the uptick and everything. What do we got do to I see one of your steps is to uh with
032math to get that to where our goal is? What do you think we need to do? Yeah. So, we we've tried on on trying to have some accelerated math the last few years. And so that we've seen some nice uh growth out of. Um at the high school level for next year, um we have our math uh extension class that's now becoming more of a math intervention. Uh previously the math extension was was a little more homework help and a little more pre-teach, retach for their existing class. Uh we were working with Adam on uh adopting some sort of reading, sorry, a math fidelity based intervention for our our math students who who struggle. Um, I think those things will definitely help. Uh, we also have, uh, some, uh, math curriculum resources that we're working
033through to try to make sure that we have fidelity. Um, we've seen from the middle school some success with their their math adoption. And so, you may hear from us very soon as we talk more about math curriculum, math adoptions. Yeah, it's in ninth grade. I I'm because you always have a drop off, right? And I and I I don't see that this year, right? That's really good, right? That's thrilling. Yes. Yeah. Because we we see that drop off from middle school to high school. So, good for you guys. Keep it going. Let's hit those goals. Thank you. Um, you had mentioned about some of the testing moving from written to uh being on a computer. Is that administered through their Chromebooks or is there a specific lab for Yeah. So each each student uses
034their Chromebook. Um the our IT department is able to lock them down into like a kiosk mode. So that's the only thing they can access at the time. Um but the the change was particularly in the fall. Um previously they had done it still paper pencil filling the bubbles. Uh and this was the first year in the fall they offered the preac uh electronic. It's been electronic for our spring test for quite some time. Why ACT does certain things, I'm not sure. They're they're a corporation that likes to make difficult decisions sometimes for us, but um this this year in the fall, we we had electronic and so we were able to get the the scores back pretty quickly then, too. Sounds good. Thank you. Go ahead. Um, I'm just kind of wondering about it
035looks like English the benchmarks are lower like set lower in general. So that's I would assume that just means it's a harder test maybe. But um also I'm just like looking at the growth for the ELA, it doesn't seem to be even within the cohorts as high as maybe the math and it even looks like we they drop back down over time a little bit in LA in both the 9th and 10th grade cohorts. I'm just wondering about if you have any thoughts on that or if it just with changes in curriculum. So one of the things that Charlie mentioned before that we've been looking at really closely this spring is students reading fluency. Um we've done fluency assessments with both eighth grade and nth grade this year and are using that as an additional
036data point for our nth grade English teachers next year. Um they do go from that untimed test and now that timed test. And we are noticing especially in the fall of ACT we get a report that has students answer choices. So you can see did they get to the end of the test? Did they run out of time and have to quit? Did they get bored halfway through and put BC BC BC? Um, so we're using all of the data that we have available to try and kind of figure that out, but right now we're really working on the fluency angle, trying to both improve fluency rates and then provide more opportunities for practice. Yeah. And I know fluences fluency has become the major focus. So that makes sense. And I'd love to see that
037that data on how finishing versus not finishing and how that changes over time too because that might be an indicator of some fluency. If I could pull that without having to go through 177 individual reports, I would happily do that. Never mind. And I I am really proud of our 10th grade group um with with the great the growth and the sustained uh aspects of that. Um you look back at their sixth grade, seventh grade years, you know, they they've shown some nice growth. And I think at the high school level, Quinn mentioned this, you know, we see some drop off at the nth grade level as we gain new students or as different things change, uh priorities of the test change. And so I'm I'm very pleased with our 10th grade group as we
038move into uh next year. The the prognosis for them for ACT looks looks nice. And then the spring 2023 cohort, was that just like a anomaly? Cuz they like seem to be like higher in a lot of the areas, do you think? Cuz we over time the years it seems like we're on a pretty steady trajectory, but then that like breaks our curve. Does that make sense? When you're looking at I like to think that last year was a bit of an anomaly. Um because we would like to see that sustained high score that we saw in spring 2023. Um and then again this year. Not that our last year students didn't do their absolute best and do an excellent job in terms of their growth over time. These are one day numbers. Yep. And
039you know, from my perspective, one of the things that I'm most proud of uh with the the high school and the group is, and I think I alluded to this in a board update a long time ago, is and Dana shared about the writing, that was one thing that they focused on this year, and it's it's just so rewarding to see for them like, listen, we we we took the time, we spent the time, we focused on this, and it it paid off. uh which is really a helpful thing where they just said, you know what, we're going to kind of we're going to keep doing things good like we've always have, but we're going to really focus on writing and it it really paid off. So, I think for future goal set and that
040writing is like across the board at all the grade levels, right? Yeah. Correct. Very cool. Yeah. At the very beginning of the year, there was a focus with um our non-English teachers on writing in particular. And so that was very cool to to see the results knowing that FIA teachers were practicing writing art and specials, right? I hear about that. Very cool. There's no other questions. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. All right. The spring 2025 student engagement survey results with Dana and Jackie. [Music] and let Dana have all the fun. Okay, so um we have been bringing our survey results to you regularly. We decided this time to try and switch it up a little bit to try and switch it up a little bit because it it's a lot of the
041same information um over and over. So um as we kind of look at it, the survey didn't change at all, so our focus is still the same. Um and it's still based on student perception and all of our questions break up into those three CA categories of our values of advancement, belonging, and courage. Um grades 3 through 12 still eligible to participate and obviously we still see you know some fluctuation based on the age of students in terms of completion of the survey. We had 388 students who left comments which is an amazing number and an amazing number of comments for Dana to go through it's always fun. Yes. So as we shift to the next slide um I think one of the things that um is nice as we look at the information over
042time is that you kind of get to see what those patterns are. And so Dana's done a really great job of not only bringing that to you, but also bringing it bringing it to the building so that the buildings can look at that and individually see how that's impacting and then make action plans based on that. So you can see um in our top three um for spring of 2025, if I hear about a threat to school or student safety, I would report it to someone. My teacher expects me to do my best at all time. I if I hear something dangerous at my school, I know who to talk to about it. So, those are all really really positive things to see in our top three, especially as we look at that um area
043of courage um and safety. in the bottom three. Um, students at this school treat all staff with respect. Students at this school treat all other students with respect. And students at this school solve problems with other students by talking to them. So when you look thematically at the three of those, like there's a lot of commonalities um between those and and lots of action steps have been put into place to try and make sure that um students have a good idea of how to pro solve problems and work with one another and that all of the adults in the building are using a common language and approach to be able to do that. So that's how we're we're trying to to work on those. Um when we look at our values and how those values
044have changed over time, we look at all of the questions within that group and the percentage of students who strongly agree or agree. Um while we've noticed that there was a little bit of a decline from our spring 24 to spring 25 responses across the different values, um this is anything like around 1% is a small handful of students. Um, so when we're looking and thinking about statistical significance and was this due to the group of students who took the test or I'm sorry, took the survey. Um, switching gears here or the students who did or didn't take as compared to the previous year, those fluctuations of a half to about 1% would be considered pretty typical. However, when we look specifically at our change over the last two years in those values of belonging
045and courage, um especially in that value of courage, that's really excellent to see that shows some sustained growth with our students. Um those questions within that value, specifically around safety and conflict resolution. Um and one of the big things that we'll look at for our new strategic plan is safety. Um and that component of students feeling safe at school. Um, interestingly, when we look at those two things that we just talked about with safety within the value of courage and then those three bottom questions in the area of student respect that Jackie just talked about, um, we notice that those two are the two values that had any kind of growth from last spring. Um, again, it's within that kind of 1% range where we're wondering if it was because of the change in students
046taking the survey. Um but when we look at the change over the last two years, we have seen a really nice increase in that theme of student respect. Those are the questions about um students respect each other, students respect staff and staff respect students. Um so even though we know we have some areas to grow in there still, we did see um over the past two years that increase of 5% in that theme. Um finally, the fun part was the comment analysis. I do again read every single comment more than once. Um so any students out there writing comments, feel free to say hi Dr. Ryan. I like to read it. Um we I code them as some students who wrote no and a no, I have nothing to say. Um positive comments, neutral, and
047negative. Um we had 388 students who left comments this spring, which is a little more than a quarter of our survey completers. Our most common negative themes are very similar to negative themes that we've seen over the last couple of years. Number one is students. Students don't get along or the students are mean to me. Um, number two is teachers. I don't like the teachers at this school. Sometimes it's so and so was unkind to me in math class or I don't like the work that they give. Um, and then the last one is I don't like the academics at this school. What you'll see on the next slide is that can be a range of this work is too hard to this work is not hard enough. Um, so it really is when you
048ask for student perceptions, you're going to get a wide range of experiences. However, when we look at our most common positive themes, um I like this school specifically was our number one positive theme. Students are happy to be at the school where they're at. Um the next one, I like the teachers at this school. Um again, we can see the dichotomy and the variety of perceptions um where I don't like teachers was our second most common negative theme and I do like the teachers as our second most common positive theme. Um and then finally, we have a lot of students just who said I like school in general, like I like learning. Um, so you can kind of notice also as you go down those most common negative and most common positive themes. Um, those
049percentages in parenthesis are the percentage of negative comments and the percentage of positive comments. So our most common themes are being contributed by about half of students who are writing comments within those themes. Our next slide um gives you a little bit of sampling of what some of those comments look like and some of them are really wonderful to read. Um thanks to all my amazing teacher and the noon hour supervisors. You are some of the best people that I have ever met and you guys made this school so so much fun and I will be sad to leave. I think third grade should be allowed to have chips and cookies for snacks and teachers should plan more field trips. So, I mean, probably common things that you hear from your children at home as
050they're um as they're talking about school. So, really um our next steps as as we start to look at that strategic plan, we're going to use the student engagement survey to continue to do some measurement um so that we we know how we're doing. Um and then we'll create action steps around that as the buildings get into to working on how they're going to help um cascade from the strategic plan. questions. So uh the comments I you know that the last one right you know talks talk but then you know takes accountability into into their own hands which I was very very impressed with that that you know I got a part in this too we all do right and then and then uh this other one the school is the perfect school for me
051since I traveled. So obviously this person is from outside the United States and came here to a different culture and um and liked it. Right. And then the last one is, do we have it in the budget to bring Playboy Cardi in whoever that may be? That's Mr. Diaquist's job. That's middle school high school. Talk to John about that. I don't know. Music. I don't even know what that is. You better look them up. I read clearly we're all [Music] Thank you. One one thing about the comments too that I want to point out is this year I had a lot more comments that I read like those top those first three on the right where they were both positive and negative and that was really challenging to code because we have a lot of
052students talking about I like school I like being at the school I like my friends and there's kids who are unkind to me and kids are doing things that I don't like. Um, so I think that's a was an interesting thing that I noted this year more so than previous years on the survey is that before it would have done been just straight negative. Um, I don't like the kids. The kids are doing things I don't like. But this year it was a nice mix where kids were saying, I really like being here and I can like being here and have things that I want to fix, too. They're using those writing skills and they're writing you complex. Love it. I'll just So, how do you code that then? Do you have like I split
053it up into two. Yeah, that makes sense. Is there any um I'm not trying to call out any schools here, but when they say about like kids being unkind or anything like that, has there been a theme over the however many times that we've done this as to like, okay, you get to middle school and then that kind of ramps up or it's a bell curve. So, starting in third grade, you know, the comments are generally teachers are nice, kids are nice. as you get into that, you know, adolescent stage, they tend to feel a little more self-conscious, be a little more challenged by their peers, and then as they get into junior and senior year, it kind of tends to go back down again. And I think that just follows what we know about
054child development and children's feelings and adolescence. Sounds good. Thank you. There are no other questions. Uh, thank you very much. Thank you. Moving on. 4 D CISA 1 meeting update. Alicia. All right. So on May 20th, it was the annual convention of CISA 1 in PWA. Um we the director shared highlights from the year and celebrating 60 years of the CISA. So it was kind of cool to see um like they showed the way that the maps used to be done before or just talked about some of the history. And so that was just neat um me being somebody new to this to learn a little bit about the history. Um and then uh we elected uh the board of control members. This year there were three vacancies. One was in group B, two were
055at large. Um one of the atlarge was filled by a member of our group. We're in um union school groups. Am I saying that right? Yes. Okay. I'm looking at you because you're the CE expert. Um and our group is group D. And so um uh so one of those people was elected as uh one of the atlarge positions. So uh they've set the date for the annual convention next year and um I think that's all that I have. There's it. It's neat. This is my first time obviously going and I didn't really know what all CISA offered. So just I grabbed like a bunch of things from it. So if anybody wants to look at anything, I'd be happy to share it with anybody. So it's interesting to go and learn about. Sounds good.
056Thank you. Uh move on to 4E superintendence report. All right. Well, I mean we're we're coming right down to the end of the year. Um and as I think everybody that was here knows, we celebrated graduation yesterday. So congratulations to all of our graduates um and their families. uh who are out there and then you know our whole district team uh you know all the it's it's important to to realize that graduation doesn't doesn't just start in 12th grade it starts in kindergarten and um our whole team has been you know with some of these students the whole time. Um that being said uh we we've got lots of end of the year events uh starting with the high school we did have the graduation walk the traditional graduation walk where our graduates walk through
057all of our schools. Uh it's a really neat event to be able to share, hey, this is where you're going with our elementary and middle school kids and then also for our graduates to come back and see the schools. I I was standing at Hail's Corners and they were doing the the carnival and some of the kids are like, "Oh my gosh, it's a carnival day." Uh which is a really neat thing that they can remember some of those awesome experiences. Uh the high school also had their event uh event which was on on Friday afternoon where they celebrated all the scholarships. We we had more scholarships awarded this year than we we ever have uh scholarships and then different awards uh that students had received. So that was a really neat experience to be
058at. The high school also had their WOW student recognitions last week where they they started that this year where they're recognizing uh teacher teachers are recognizing kids for just the way they they lead or or handle themselves within the class. And we also had our spring art show last week uh in our library which is just a wonderful I mean some of those kids could I literally sell their artwork because it was it's it's that it was really awesome to see. Um, we had the track and field walk of champions last week and we had the state track meet uh this past weekend. We we didn't have I don't have all the results yet, but uh we had I think we had 13 go girls uh participate in the event. So, uh it was it
059was really neat to see them all walking through the halls. Uh we're closing out the baseball or we've got we're closing out the softball season at the state uh championships on Friday. So, Friday at 4:30 is the first game and then if they win that, they'll play on Saturday. And then our baseball team actually plays tomorrow in the sectional uh championship. They play at 1:00 in Waterford, I believe. Yeah, Waterford. So, that'll be great. Uh kind of rounding up the rest, giving you an update on all the other end of the year activities. the middle school. Um they have their promotion ceremony tomorrow night uh celebrating our eighth graders moving on to high school. They also had the ribbon cutting for the um the outdoor learning space that the PTO sponsored. Uh I know Jesse
060was there, Sarah was there. Uh don't know that anybody else made it, but uh it was a really neat event. Uh it's a great space, so if you're ever behind the school, check it out. Um they also had their uh solar the solar cooking lab which I believe was the sixth graders. Yes. Yeah. Sixth graders who designed a way to cook something without an oven or a stove. Uh, and actually they had to they had to postpone the event like two or three times because of cold weather or or rain, but they had it last week and they were cooking hot dogs and brownies and whatever else. Uh, just out in the in the field out there. No food poisoning. Uh, not to my knowledge. Not to my knowledge. Uh, and then seventh grade had
061their their annual mud run where they promoted teamwork and collaboration. So, it was kind of neat to walk over there and see all the muddy people. Um, and I tried not to get too muddy. Um, Mr. D was a great um, MC for that event. So, it was it was pretty fun. They actually ended up there some high school kids over there, too. Uh, and our seventh graders beat them in tugof-war, which was good. Uh, Edertton had their dare graduation. They had their petting zoo uh, from their as one of their color run fundraiser incentives. And then they had their field day. Another nice nice day for most of their field day. Uh the fifth graders got a little bit didn't get to participate in all because it got a little bit rainy at the
062end. But but I think they have like a they have a like a picnic this week. So they're going to do a bunch of those activities. They're bringing the val or the games back so that they can finish out all the activities. Everybody got to balance in the game. Yep. And then uh Hills Corners um they had their end of the year carnival like I mentioned. um in their so they've got all kinds of cool carnival games in their gym. Um they they had their knowledge staff versus student dodgeball game. Uh which I got to tell you playing a dodgeball as adults is a little a little more challenging than it was when we were a kid. Uh but some some games the staff won, some game the students won. And then there was a
063staff staff got pies in their face including Mrs. Comus. Um, she got a blinded face amongst other staff. So, so that was a really great thing. She got an assistant principal too, didn't she? What? You got an assistant principal for a day, too. Oh, that's right. You met him? Yeah, I met the assistant principal for the day. Yeah. Yeah, he did. He did some good work. Yeah. Um, just I usually give a referendum update. We We are at We finished kind of that second phase of the planning. Uh we're going to be really excited on July 14th to share the color pictures with the board and the community as well as you know the the next phase iteration of where we're at budget-wise. So uh we'll be doing that in the July 14th meeting. The
064plan the planning and the scope is pretty much done now. Now CG Schmidt is working just on the final numbers on you know where we're at with that and that'll be done very soon. And then if you drive by in 43, the turf was actually removed. Just saw it going on the semi just to take it away. Yep. They um they removed it. They started cutting it yesterday. It's really neat to watch them how they roll it. Uh I can show I'll put a video in the update this week how they rolled it up. But yeah, they rolled it all up and then their goal is to get it all out today. So it's it's it's all gone. And um the the new turf will get delivered on Monday and then it should be all
065installed by the 4th of July. So uh we'll be having a a ribbon cutting uh ceremony and and some of those kinds of things as well uh to celebrate that. And then the track will get resurfaced um a little bit later in July, but everything will be done by the time the football season uh is kicked off. Um just a reminder to the board and any community members listening that this was part of the capital improvement um plan project. This isn't part of the referendum. The turf is not part of uh the the recent referendum. This is uh something we we're doing is part of that capital improvement plan. And then you know finally um school will conclude on Wednesday. So, um we'll come Thursday and there'll be a lot less people in the parking
066lot and uh but we'll certainly miss our students but wish everybody a great summer and um can't wait to see everybody in the fall. So, that's what I have for the board. Thank you. Sounds good. Moving on. Five discussion with future action a policy 5411 third grade promotion and retention first read. Do you want me to talk or you Yeah, if you want to talk and I can I can add to it if you want. Okay. Um, act 20 says we have to have a policy um and it has to go in place by or it has to be in effect by September 1st, 2027. Um, Niola wrote this policy and then they gave us some options for customization within the policy that our district looked through and um, some of them were eliminated just
067due to redundancy. Um it's a pretty straightforward policy that matches the law almost almost verbatim in some instances. Um but it also allows for a lot of flexibility to meet the needs of our students and it gives student or parent choice as well. So um everybody will have to decide for a student going from third to fourth grade if they're going to be retained or if they're going to be promoted. And it sets forth the guidelines for that. Um, if you if you get a chance to read through it, that's makes it easier. Um, they really need to if they're on a personal reading plan, it's uh the forward results are what release them from it by law. Um, but then there's some exceptions if you have repeated grades before or if they've shown that
068they've been doing interventions or if you have an IEP or you're an English language learner. Um so there's definitely um room to meet the needs of students without just retaining. Um and again this is a mandated policy. We um it is the state legislature decided that they wanted to make sure that there was a retention policy so that we're not just pushing students forward without being able to read. And this is all based on reading specifically. It is not pertaining to other subject matters. Um, I think there's a little bit of language in there about if they are doing well in other areas, but again, there's just there's a little bit of room in there to make some decisions with staffing and parents. And parents can always choose to opt out of retaining. So, even
069if the district were to say, "We think you should retain." If the parents say, "Nope, we don't want to retain," they will always have that that's in this policy. Yeah. Just my kind of my two cents and throwing a few things out. The the act 20 actually stipulated that by July 1st, 2025, we have to have this policy on the books. Uh actually, we don't have to have we don't have to implement it then until September 1st, 2027. So, essentially, the policy would go into place with our kindergarteners, current kindergarteners, uh so when they're in third grade. And I think that was intentionally done uh so that they had the benefit of science-based reading instruction for x amount of years. Uh we've talked a lot about the personal reading plans uh with you know with
070with this group. Those are very intentional with these kinds of policies in in mind because it's a communication. It's not only us having to determine what we're going to do, uh, but it's really us being able to communicate to parents of like this is where this is where we're at. So, at some point if we would have to have that conversation that that helps us. I did speak to our Neola rep um actually this afternoon and there's, you know, this having this policy on the books will make us compliant. um the he already mentioned that there's going to be an update in the next uh nola updates on this policy. So there's a lot of questions still remaining around this whole act 20 thing especially as it pertains to assessment and so I think there's
071going to be a lot of questions answered over the course of the next several years. uh from a programming standpoint, it's it's going to be up to us then um the administration uh in the schools to figure out, okay, like if we would have to retain someone or we would make a decision to retain someone, how would that look? Uh what would that what would that mean? Um and that's we have a few years to do that. Um because you certainly can't put somebody back into third grade that they just went through and didn't do very well. And so it's how do we how do we make that different? So, uh, there's also some things about we're also going to be looking at, um, ramping up our summer school offerings over the course of the
072next several years to to really be offering more reading support to our kids, especially our ones that are remain on, you know, their first line. So, this is the benefits as well, which was part of that whole thing, like if you're going to retain, what are the benefits? If it's not going to help, we shouldn't be doing it, right? And so this is again first read. Uh I'm please any questions that you have email me. I'm happy to answer. I'll I'll do my best to answer them. It's it's a little tricky sometimes with the DPI asking them questions because I think there's a still a fair amount of uncertainty that they're not sure about with some of this stuff too. Well, and I think we can all realize that within two years DPI and the
073legislature might change their minds on about 20 things that are in this. So we'll have to wait and see too with that part. But this will at least be in our policy book. um I don't know our files. Yeah. And it'll start thinking through and there aren't any questions or if you come up with any as Brady said, let them know. Uh moving on 5B, additional 2025 2026 employee handbook changes slashupdates with John Good evening. Um, so we were here last month with some of the uh some addition or some changes to the handbook. Um, I'm not sure if you're aware, but um, when Kristen Taylor was here, she gifted me the HR department. So, I'm quickly learning um, more and more about HR. We have a new person coming in who knows much more
074than I do. Um, we're learning on some things we should and shouldn't be doing. we have and haven't been doing. Um we do have a new uh HR person that's has quite a few years of experience and um when when she first started she kind of started going through the handbook and said there's some things in here that I'd really like to do. Again, we want to do a much better job um of preemptively looking at pos potential issues instead of putting out fires. Um and while that's not always possible, we are trying to do the best we can. And so we came up with some or recommended some more uh additions that help do that. Um and so that's what these really are is these additional changes um that that we have. Um the
075reason for the push is obviously this the new handbook officially takes effect on July one. So we wanted to get these additional ones in. So I'm happy to answer any questions about them. Again, big part of this is we have quite a bit FMLA leave um as she's come in and started doing that. So, some of this quite a bit of this has to do with FMLA, but some other things that we just wanted to make sure we have in John. Are there any like significant changes or is it mainly just cleaning things? Yeah, really about again preemptive things about making sure we're providing more clarity um with with FMLA leave, with um jury duty, again, with um expense reimbursements, things like that. just really making sure that we're trying to eliminate the the questions
076because the information is in here. Um, and making sure that we're following and and employees know policies and procedures and laws when it comes to that. So again, I would say FMLA is probably the biggest, but and as you can see the biggest chunk of that. So if there's no questions for John, if you come up with any, just send them over to him. U voting on this in the next meeting. Thank you, John. All right, moving on to six action item A, 2025 2026, professional, technical, and administrator salary increases. Do I have a motion to approve 6A as presented? So moved. I'll second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? Opposed? Seeing none, 6A passes. Uh, moving on. Seven, announcements. Do we have any announcements? Go ahead, Karen. Yeah. So, I just wanted to
077let you know that, um, Hail's Corners Lions Club is planning the Hails Corners Night Out to bring you back for 2025. So, it's going to be on August 5th, 2025 in Hails Corner Park. So, you're it's just sort of a free community event. There'll be sponsors and companies and fun things for the kids. And so, um, there are still opportunities for people to become a vendor, a sponsor, um, to perform or volunteer there. And so it's through the uh Hills Corners Lions Club which um Rachel and I and some of the staff here are all members of um along that same lines with summer coming up if you're looking for stuff to do with your kids. Um the Hails Corners Library, Greenfield Library, and Greenfield Park and Wreck all have a really great lineup of
078activities for kids. Um, I think Hales Corners has special like performers, a lot of um, magicians this year across the board at libraries for some reason. Last year was like animals. This year is magicians. Um, but check them out on their websites because there's some really cool offerings. I think there's al I think they're doing like one day where it's the people come in to do programs and then there's also a day of family games. So, it's just some really good ways to be engaged in their reading programs. I think I'll kick off next week and I think they have some fun kickoff events and you can get free books and earn prizes and earn passes to places. So, just really a great way to encourage literacy throughout the summer and they're really great community
079partners. Uh I just wanted to mention that the um high school music department went on a trip to New Orleans and uh I got to be one of the chap so I can say that it was really awesome. Um, and there was a lot of really positive feedback from from students and everybody who participated. So, I just wanted to bring that trip up too. It was really a great experience and it was all it was for anybody in music. So, choir, orchestra, and band. Sounds good. Uh, moving on to eight. Does anyone have anything for meeting debrief? I was just going to say for the I don't know if it fell or debrief or announcements, but I just wanted I went to the Advent event and I was so impressed with how well-rounded our students
080are. Um I know we talk about the data and it's sometimes like we drill down in there and give it a hard time, but our students the amount of extracurriculars. We have a music honor society and an art honor society and some of those scholarships were just incredible to hear about. And then also all of the students from 9th to 12th were really well behaved. It was a very long and if you're not receiving an award boring assembly. Sorry Charlie, but you know listening to everybody just get named. It's kind of boring. Um and they were really really well behaved and um the volume level was really good for kids. And so I just can and I see them out in the community at the Y and doing all these different jobs and things and
081I just I am continually impressed by how well-rounded our students are. So no matter how much we talk about our data, which is really important and important for us, I just really am proud of the students that we're making into our community members. I just wanted to um echo what Brady said about the the uh graduation ceremony yesterday. It was really lovely. Um, it was really nice and compact. Got families in and out, but everybody was celebrated. Um, the speeches were really lovely. The music was so nice. The choir did an amazing job. I thought, um, it was just really nice all the way around. And so, I just wanted to shout out all the graduates and all the staff that put that together pre-plan. It just was really nice for families and for everybody
082and it was super inclusive. There was some really hard work put into having to make sure all of our students could be there if they wanted to be. And it was really I almost cried for some of those moments. Very special. Yeah, it's really nice. All right, there's nothing else for meeting debrief. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Not seeing none. All in favor? I oppose. See none much uh meeting. Thank you everyone. [Music]