001[Music] meting to order this is a meeting of the win County Community School District Board of Education it is March 17 6:30 pm we are in the high school large group lecture meeting notices were sent to members of the press members of the school board and were posted on the front door andand door in the vules of District school buildings this is a meeting of the board e Cy here Hansen here recogn excuse me I'm recognizing our admin team we have Dr Larson Dr mad Dr Hughes Mr Man Mr doer Mrs D Mrs Horath Mr Katie and visitors sign in please sign in on the sign up sheet Umar of the room and now is the time for open Forum this is an opportunity to speak to um agenda items or things that you would
002like to see on a future agenda um please recall that uh your time in front of the mic is minutes um starting with Mrs Miriam Barna good evening e e e Carrie flake lson Wisconsin W count parent it recently has uh come to my attention and other Winan parents the placement of the lgbtqia plus flags have been displayed in some classrooms why has this been done the inclusivity of all of our children should be questioned perhaps win count wolves flag or Wisconsin flag may be more appropriate we are all together not isolating one group that could be felt they have more recognition than others and isolating other children who might not might agree with the same ideology we are all Americans wisconsinites and win count wolves without splitting us into groups with one being validated
003over the other thank you Laura Laura Amman um moms for Liberty in January I I did speak to the board here and asked you about the new assessment scores and how inflated they are over the 2023 school year and specifically asked the board to come back and advise how they were going to communicate to parents so that they would fully understand that that the reading is 15% higher and the math scores are 16% higher even though the curriculum and nothing else had changed so we do know that DPI and it is a DPI issue I'm not blaming the board but I don't think we should not allow parents to fully understand the gravity of what the situation is DPI reduced the cut scores which has artificially inflated the the scores for math and reading ac
004across Wisconsin and it is not a transparent things to parents and I don't want parents to think that miraculously all of a sudden their kids are out of the woods and are reading or performing math at a higher level when in fact they're not so I would ask this board to figure out a way to come back and respond to the people that are here on a on a regular basis or online and help us understand how you're going to communicate this thank you Adam erens good evening I I just had a few things to talk about and uh first to our uh president Trump's few of his executive orders uh one that he did on February 5th uh was called keeping men out of women's sports and uh section three Roman numeral 2 says
005take all appropriate action to effectively protect all female athletic opportunities and all female locker rooms and thereby provide the equal opportun guaranteed by Title 9 of the education amendments Act of 1972 so the reason I bring that up is because we all know like you know made it so only biological and you can be in your you know each sport biological female can only be biological mail cannot be in there however that's where it ends it doesn't go to protecting them in locker rooms or bathrooms so I'm just asking through win County School Board to go a little further and protect our girls in their private spaces uh obviously you had you have an Administration that would also support you on that at the presidential presidential level um also there was another one uh January
00629th came out called ending radical indoctrination in K through 12 schooling and it uh it goes as as forth said forth says the Attorney General shall coordinate with State Attorneys General and local district attorneys in their efforts to enforce the law and file appropriate actions against K through 12 12T teachers and school officials who violate the law by sexually exploiting minors unlawfully practicing medicine by offering diagnosis and treatment without the requisite license or otherwise unlawful unlawfully facilitating the social transition of a minor student now I'm going to go to policy 2240 from the winter County School District which says controversial issues in the classroom policy controversial issue is a topic on which opposing point of you have been prated prated by responsible opinion and are likely to arouse both support and opposition in the community
007the board will permit the introduction and proper educational use of controversial issues provided that the use in the instructional program is a related is related to the instructional goals of the course of study and the level of maturity of the students does not tend to an indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view encourage open- mindness as it conducted in a spirit of scholar L inquire does not cause a substantial disruption in the school environment I would say Obviously putting the flags up has violated many of those I've had people reach out to me I've had students reach out to me that have taken pictures on their own accord had nothing to do with anything I did or anyone else they saw it and took pictures I mean that's a disruption right so
008I'm asking you to follow your own policies thank you I just want to clarify no you're um Dr mashad and Dan have you noticed any disruption throughout the school with regard to these okay thank you okay thank you uh Katie carts good evening oh can you hear me Katie Cowart um I live in the village of wi count um recently I was on Facebook and I came ac across a post that said every classroom should have an American flag there was also one that said how all schools should say the Pledge of Allegiance every day I was so happy to make a comment and say that my children school does have plagues in their classrooms and how I love that we recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning just like we did when I was
009in school um in fact my oldest got to say it in the office with Mr M um for the whole school to hear on the morning announcements just a few weeks ago she was so proud of herself and we were super proud of her too I also love that we open our Schoolboard meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance it brings such a sense of unity and that's the wonderful thing about our American flague it brings us all together and represents all of us not leaving anyone out other Flags may cause division what I don't understand is why we feel that it is appropriate to have a flag and school that represents the sexual orientation of minor children no matter what that orientation is this flag only represent some not all causing a divide that does
010not need to be there at the end of the day no other flag belongs in our classrooms other than the American flague we are all Americans and that flague already represents all all of us thank you Mark Bailey you know I never thought I'd get have to get involved in politics it's a dirty business but I remember when I attended Schoolboard meetings and when a Connie back in 78 and 79 a lot of the members here put Mr Allen Colonel ice and the rest of the those who served on the school board back then to shame this school has decided by a majority the scho who cut my mic I don't think yeah we can hear you this school board must reopen itself to good teachers a parents and the members of this community in
011order to educate right now as a national Trend and this school is following it te indoctrination not education seems to be the priority you I until this ruling against Title 9 and this uh gender identity nonsense I had respect for the school board in fact I had the privilege to go to be classmates with a couple of these members I used to respect them I can no longer do that student safety above feral pennies then you have crossed the line does the school one even consider how much it would cost in they amount to defend and pay out in sexual abuse cases rather than giving in for a few pair of pennies it'll be a lot more than that and I'll be behind the whole way and you cannot hide under the school this is
012excuse well we thought it could happen but we never thought it could happen here you're not going to stand behind that thank you all right that is the end of the open Forum we will move into Open Session um for consent agenda I would make a motion to pull out the minutes from March 3 and vote on those separately I move to approve consent agenda items subb through sub I second motion by vage second by Keller to approve consent agenda B through I uh any questions coms roll call please stellner I ver Keller hi Amman hi cundy I Hansen hi and a motion for the minutes I'll make the motion second motion by quindy second by verit to approve March 3rd regular school board meeting minutes roll call please ver I Keller Amman I cundy
013I tner Hansen obain all right and moving on we have the high school sale team that is going to present to us hi thank you for thank you for having us that felt good okay um thank you for having us um we are excited to share kind of what um our growth and what our progress has been um so just to kind of direct your attention to our Mantra which um honestly it took a little bit to cond our vision just into a few words um but this has ultimately been our Mantra since starting in 2023 with the sale Academy program and all of us know and recognize how many amazing things our school district has going on when it comes to graduation rates and um our two to four year students are prepared for
014life and um later education U with fewer remedial classes necessary ACT scores are good APC scores are good um but we also recognize that if our students are going to grow um we need to also so um our you can kind of see the acronym up there of what sales stands for um it was kind of a an introduction to us from the Assa program when it comes to a tiered level of professional development and the big thing I would kind of point out about the sale is this the shared leadership when it comes to promoting growth so um Suz will tell us a little more about that so um we're really exited to come and talk to you about sale today because there seems to be this misconception that the sale is like a
015prescribed um curriculum or program and it's really not that at all um really what it is is an opportunity for us to learn and grow and then help the other staff in the building learning grow and then therefore help the students grow um and if you can see on the screen or um board if you want to see on your handout we are one of 69 teams participating in sale this year and of 440 individuals since June of 2023 we've been able to go six times for professional learning and we are just starting our sixth cycle so each time we go for professional learning um we work on a cycle a plan do study act cycle um we work on it we get feedback from the other teachers um take that feedback back to our
016next professional learning and grow and build on that right so our areas of focus um we started this journey like they said in June of 2023 um when we began with the meetings we looked at data specifically we were looking at the state report card and we came back to the student growth we know that our students achieve at high levels but we knew that we could improve in the area of growth and so when we were talking about that and we were brainstorming okay how do we tackle and help support our students in the area of growth we realized we also needed to grow within our own development um and so that's why you see we have not just student growth how do we support our students but how do we also support our
017staff in their learning to help support our students so we looked at areas and we looked at six different areas which were going on within some were already going within the district the first one would be the curriculum work which was um being supported by the coaches like myself and our director of learning uh the educator Effectiveness was um an aspect that our administrators were actually working on and the rapid cycle feedback but there were other areas that we were already doing well and we wanted to continue down that path and that was Focus time um we District uses Focus time in a various ways but we wanted to make sure that it was being used efficiently to make sure that kids were getting the tier two support that they needed um and so we
018implemented the use of AD efficiency to ensure that students were getting those needs met the bottom three kind of go together um we implemented the idea of collaboration time teachers were already collaborating within their districts or sorry within their departments um but collabor collaboration time allowed the teachers to collaborate cross curricular and during that uh with feedback from the staff we created protocol for student data meetings as well as student support teams um and even the protocol from those student support teams are being utilized to um create forms within Edge climber that will also be used across the district so here are a few of our accomplishments to this point uh we're growing Collective efficacy among staff utilize n efficiency to help make the intervention times more focused and efficient we've developed this collaboration time
019leading to faster response time to intervene with uh and support students in a collaborative manner um and that is both behavioral and academic and we streamline procedures for uh a data in student meetings feel we've also been able to to clarify and make more concise common language so when we're discussing certain things such as formative assessment we all know we're speaking of the same thing and here is some staff feedback affirming those points so these are several comments we we collected from staff feedback to highlight a few we are student focused and solution oriented seeing different approaches AFF formative assessments and learning new areas ideas and support and talking about the students together gives a more complete picture of what the child needs to be successful as you read these notice themes of collaborative and
020shared learning along with a focus on student centered Improvement so this brings us back to our original areas of focus that was being student growth and our growth and these have been our laser Focus from the start of the 20th through 24 school year and we will continue to reflect upon and refine these practices going forward thank you time for questions okay when you determine the goal or what you're going to work I am I'm understanding that you have different goals throughout the year correct correct um do you get input from the other teachers what they want input from them as to what they would like to see you I guess work on is what I'm going to say yes so we have an overall theory of action and that's really tying to this idea
021of of growth among students so as mentioned those 100 Day plans as we Implement them we base the next one off of the feedback we're getting off from staff and then yeah within each one we're definitely utilizing that data to to help us refine and and and make our revisions thank you I've had concerns about um particularly our high school um drops in in scores uh act report card um and then what Mrs zman brought up this whole number DPI pulled um with for lack of a better word dumbing down the standards how are you addressing that through sale and are you seeing are you how are you measuring it and I know that can take more than 6 months to a year but how are you addressing that when you look at the numbers
022I think the first thing to identify is looking the percentile of achievement we're still up that above the 89th percentile in achievement um and those other aspects I think that definitely is tied into part of the climate and culture um looking at the importance of act so right now our focus with this is going through what are best practice practices the idea of collaboration understanding where the students at and that growth model um and then some of these other aspects uh having discussions upon what what are those other elements those tangible things that we can try to to look at and proove for those of them here as well as those listening on can you just give us an indication and I've got a follow-up question to this what grade levels that you're really focusing
023on this is uh all levels i' say when you think about our uh student teams and even if I think about our Focus if we look this Friday this Friday our P our professional development a big focus is going to be on that transition from eighth grade in high school so a big Focus this Friday is going to be looking at what are those elements that we can put in place to help students with that transition are there things we need to um build upon at the middle school level and at the Freshman level and that those students end up being a big focus when we think about our student meetings uh but as far as within practice within our data I would say it's it's at all levels and you answered my followup question
024because that was exactly what it was going to be is transitioning from 8th grade into high school thank you could you just give us a little better timeline of um so you say like a 100 day plan or 100 day goal is kind of what we've heard with 180 days in the school year my mind's like so one a year and could you just clarify that please well so essentially three per year full year got correct so this would be our second full school year in it and we're our sixth 100 day okay got it thank you anyone else thank you so much for your time and explanation all right thank you um cell phone data uh please thank uh Mrs bus for the uh new format um any questions regarding that I just have
025a just a comment I and I agree more so with you Donna that we do need to revisit that policy at some point um the numbers aren't getting any better looks like it's getting a little more robust at the middle school now so um but I say we keep monitoring and approach later I have it down for July to review okay okay good we'll have a full year of data then okay and policies okay um we have the policies uh that are in your packet and the policy committee as you've been hearing we have been meeting at our 5:30 time period prior till each board meeting and then we bring them to the following board meeting for approval tonight policy 5113 open enrollment programs interdistrict the policy is revised to incorporate verbiage regarding requirements to
026view a special education students IEP to determine both space and service avail ability adoption of this is recommended and because this involves handling open enrollment applications strongly recommended to improve a District's ability to successfully defend a decision to deny open enrollment policy 5113 open enrollment program 8-3 any questions 8-4 you see the new language that's in the green color 8-5 8-5 has we go through these policies each time as I've indicated with our committee we like to make sure we point out under number c a decisional criteria for non-resident applications number two whether an applicant for a pre kinderart four-year-old kindergarten early childhood or schooled operated dayare program resides in a district which offers the program for which application is made and under number three whether the non-resident student is currently under an order of
027expulsion for any reasons or has been expelled for any school district within the current school year or the twoyear preceding school years but the period of expulsion has ended or is pending any disciplinary proceeding based on any of the following activities any further question and of course you are realizing each time I think it was probably two or three meetings ago where we had approved our regular aded and our special aded space in the accordingly to the grade levels and buildings 8-6 as well in the very last pair paragraph where it states open enrollment of a student is a virtual Charter School may also be terminated if on three occasions during accounting any days excused by a student's parents up to a maximum excuse me of 10 school days per year and after each occurrence
028the virtual charter school notified the students parents after the third incident the virtual charter school program shall notify the board of non-resident students failure to participate in program the board May terminate the students open enrollment 8-7 any questions next policy policy 5512 use of tobacco and nicotin by students this is a revision the policy revisions are offered in consultation with representatives from the American Lung Association to provide options for incorporating Smoky smoking cation programs into the student intervention process as opposed to strictly punitive measures also added as a more descriptive policy position to promote respect for Native American ceremonial tobacco usage policy 5512 8-9 if you go 3/4s almost all the way to the end of the policy where it starts out to response to policy violations the new language that's indicated there in all
029of the areas here on 89 with the new language where there could potentially be a check mark we are not recommending any check marks within those prospective areas any further question on 8-9 8-10 as well on the very top of the policy where it states policy specific definitions the term anytime means during normal school and non-school hours 24 hours a day 7 days a week 34s of the way down a policy you'll see some new language as well that particular new language potentially we could put a check mark there we have recommended to not check that particular area any further questions on that page policy 6231 budget implementation this as well as a revision this policy is revised to clarify language regarding fund balance expenditures consistent with current practices policy 6231 budget implementation as you
030go through the policy any questions uh I did Mark okay um so the first paragraph we go with the district administrator HEI um consult with the Director of Business Services it says may consult with the Director of Business Services I'm just wondering shouldn't we have uh checks and balance there especially if it's a decision to buy something or spend some amount of money that's out of the uh expertise of the administrator um if you read that further uh Dean it indicates when major purchases are considered and shall keep the board informed as to problems or concerns as the budget is being implemented I do agree with your your concern I believe correct me Peggy if I'm wrong we do have a policy that has a certain dollar level that if it goes in beyond that
031they have to come back to the board for approval yeah it wasn't at 5 or 10,000 it's 20,000 20 it's 20,000 I believe oh okay okay I would just add Dean just for clarification those are decisions once the budget has been adopted so in some regards there already are some parameters put in place because the administrator would have to be working within the budget um so I think that's where you got your safeguards okay you okay with that Dean yep any further questions policy 6235 fund balance this is a revision as well this policy is updated to include additional rationale and options for a District's management and fund balance business manager recommends neither option one or number two as we're going through this policy on 813 you can see where there's a quite a bit
032of new language um 3/4s of the way down is actually where the new language starts for this policy any questions on 83 uh Mark is this where you like to keep 20% that's on the next page and I'll further explain that okay oh okay if you don't mind nope on 8:14 this is where Dean's question is as we go through the new language where it states optional number one the fund balance shall not fall below a certain percentage of the preceding years's fund 10 expenditures Andor option two the Target Fund balance range for maintaining the district's Financial stability is a certain percentage of the preceding Year's fund 10 expenditures if many of you remember back um years ago and I'm not going to pick on universities or so but there was some questions as far
033as actual dollars being held in fund balances that were greater than what an individual or a number of individuals within um that area had thought each of us here on the board potentially probably has an idea of where they'd like to see us if we're we're being you know respectful and responsible for our funds here in the district to determine in our own thoughts where we'd like to see our fund fund 10 balance and of course that's always been kind of a a pet peeve or a baby of mine to L and look at our 20 some odd million doll budget and then figure a certain percentage of that to keep in fund balance that is what that's asking there and we as a district don't specifically put in percentages there but as a guide
034I would think most of us like to keep an idea of of a percentage of our total budget in mind for our Funtown balance well in the balance the fund 10 balance is very fluid too so it's kind of hard to keep a a definite percentage um of that fund balance right thank you as as sometimes we call it like a flow through of a balance as we go through the policy um just starting the policy after your question Dean where we see fund balances will be reported in the categories established by the government Accounting Standards Board statement 54 and in consultation with District Auditors and the business manager we will put a check there the board will impose constraints on any funds placed in the committed and assigned classifications through consultation with the district's
035auditor and we will put a check mark there business manager the applicable categories for fund balances designations are as such and you can see them listed in the new language any further questions on that page we've got one other uh three qus of the way down the board discourages the maintenance of unassigned fund balances and I do not have it indicated that we put a check mark in there any further questions on 814 policy 7410 maintenance 815 any any questions there at all policy 7430 safety standards this policy has been revised to clarify what information is required to be reported to the board this particular policy um we did have a question that came up where um the question was in a second paragraph where it indicates and states the district administrator shall be responsible
036for the maintenance of standards in the facilities to prevent accidents and to minimize their consequences the district administrator shell designate an employee who shall conduct periodic audits of health and safety conditions within the facilities of the district in accordance with the federal ocean standards adopted by the state and take appropriate action on any violations discovered during such audits reports of violations and Remediation actions shall be provided to the district administrator who shall keep the board informed of significant issues the question arose within that area of course we have our director and our manager of our grounds and Facilities uh Mr Steve Katy uh Works along with Peggy not specifically all on Peggy's shoulder um together with their uh commitment and working together for safety that's kind of a dual working relationship so that uh we
037have people in place for those particular reasons any further questions on 816 policy 7440 facility security the revisions to this policy clarify law enforcement contact and remove optional language 8817 a 8 18 there's one area on on 88 I want to point out and that is the very second paragraph where it says failure to follow the requirements above when entering or remaining in school facilities may be subjected to a fine not exceeding $1,000 in circumstances tending to provoke a disturbance of the piece may be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than 90 days and again and anytime there's time periods in dollar amounts within policies I do appreciate pointing them out Mark I assume that's in it it's that like those fines are related to like a a Wisconsin law or local
038ordinance and that's what I was going to ask I would say that it's it's a it's a law and local ordinance together it could be both okay I I just want to clarify it's not the school district issuing these fines it's a it's a yeah that's what I thought it's not the school right it's not the school district right local law enforcement enforcing laws and statutes okay any other questions with any other policies that were presented otherwise the recommendation from the committee is for approval and if we could have these policies in one motion for approval that would be appreciated I move to approve policy number 5113 open enrollment program uh 5512 use of tobacco and nicotine by students 6231 budget implementation 6235 fund balance 7410 maintenance 7430 safety standards 7440 uh facility security I
039second okay motion by V second by Amman to approve those policies as presented roll call please Keller hi Amman hi Cy I stellner hi veric hi Hansen hi uh admin reports um any questions on what was presented in the packet or any additions from Administration questions from the war no and board reports um any Communications I handed out the invitation for the academic Awards each of you got your invitation to that other than that I have no communication is any letter or anything okay thank you and committee reports human resources and finance nothing for tonight we meet on April 4th Monica our business manager is just keeping us up to speed with the whole budget process okay thank you and marketing and public relations nothing at this time okay and policy we did meet tonight
040prior till this regular meeting and we will have a packet uh to bring forward for the next meeting for approval and at this time with the packet that we'll be going through on April 7th that uh will bring us up to speed as far as any revisions or new policies at this time thank you and with that I would entertain a motion to move into executive session so move second motion by Keller second by stellner to move into executive session under statute 1985 to approve executive session minutes from March 3rd and Wisconsin statute 19.85% employment matters performance and strategies for improving retention within the district the board will move into Open Session and may take action on items discussed in close session roll call please Amman Hi cundy I stellner hi veric I Keller hi
041Hansen I