2 10 22 Regular Board Meeting

001with liberty against subscribe the school board will continue to close session tonight to consider the employment commercial compensation of performance evaluation data of any public employee which the governmental body has jurisdiction or exercises and responsibility under wisconsin statute 19.85 for n1 currency for compensation and the values evaluations support staff and certified staff and the superintendent evaluation we have three presentations tonight and we will start with mr baker from hilliard i'll have mr lee introduce him yeah mark baker and phil martin are with hilliard failure supplies uh us was cleaning supplies and equipment and they're going to work with our custodial staff on how to most efficiently clean our new facility and new flooring and system so um they have a complete program and they'll tell you about it excellent well thanks for having us this

002is bill i'm going to have bill go through the actual nuts and bolts of the program very quickly we normally take two hours later you don't want to do that but and then if you have any questions i'll field all those because i've been doing all the work on the program itself so they'll take it away and then we'll go there but if you have any questions just stop us and we'll sounds good we'll just do like a 30 000 foot view of what our actual program is because like mark said it just to rip through the program to tell you all the nuts and bolts of it and what we really do getting down and dirty with all the detail it does take me 45 minutes just of talking so i'll just rip through

003here so stop me if you have any questions but basically what we've implemented here and what we've already started at the school is our cleaning cost analysis we call it cap it's a cleaning cost analysis program which is a virtual database of of your building so we come in and and measure your buildings and um so like for example this room we would say is you know 880 square feet of carpet it's got 12 tables and 14 chairs and we put it all into this uh into this program that we're talking about so that we can get you the most efficient cleaning possible for for your buildings for what you have for people and what you have for tools equipment right and and i guess one of my uh i guess favorite parts about the

004program is it takes opinion completely out of any cleaning conversation that you have in the district but when we're done this is not my opinion mark's opinion kyle's opinion or the custodian's opinion it's analytics and data and faps okay based on national international standards right so it's a virtual database um it reflects your square footage uh your floor types and your fixtures throughout the entire uh campus uh your cleaning tasks cleaning frequencies uh your current tools and your employees and that with your employees that includes their hours days that they work their breaks other responsibilities which people don't think about custodians have a lot of other responsibilities besides just cleaning so we include all that and we can include their pto as well the nuts and bolts of this whole thing is with the custodial

005staff we're talking about labor here labor is your major spend right and we need to to pin down that labor and and get it as accurate as we can we need to get the most irregular check for your people to work we need that check that's being written to be fulfilled right and and oftentimes uh they're allocation of their work isn't correct so we need to um to hone in on that and help you out with your labor so it's not necessarily about what your spend is on on product but but labor i'll get into uh we talked about a little bit about everybody has an opinion the school board that you know everybody here has an opinion and and that's great but we need this thing to be factual there's so many pieces of

006the puzzle that um most people don't think about so uh square footage uh floor types fixtures cleaning tasks cleaning frequencies how often what do you want done and how often do you want it done in the school and what what what are you doing now versus what really needs to be done what's the benchmark that most schools are using are you cleaning on weekends products you know with cleaning products we need to you know we manufacture cleaning products but we don't want to sell you 100 things you should be able to really pare that down to just a handful of products right so we work on that it's a huge part of what we do standardize their procedures so every everybody's doing things the same way with the same product there's a lot more to

007it non-cleaning labor allocation and labor utilization is something that i focus in on right mark works on big time once this once this program is built so again uh we're using your people uh correctly right and maximizing their their time as best uh possible i'll give you some examples of that here in just a minute i'm gonna fly through this but six steps to building it is we get your map we measure it like we talked about remove your architecture and everything we have in the building through our cleaning plan and for the sake of argument for the short amount of time that we have here tonight you just kind of have to trust me that the plan is extremely accurate we use issa global clean times so that when we build a route for

008your custodian and we say at the end of the day this is all done and here's your new this is how you're going to work it is absolutely accurate to the point where mark can come in hand me the book tell me to clean that custodian's area hit a stop watch and i can get it done within the time frame that we allow and i can do it five days a week i can do it five days a week for 20 years without running wind sprints it's fair to the people okay compared to the customers we then load your current equipment task and time per room it comes up so when this is all done any one of you can look into the computer and tap into any room in the in the district and

009say in room takes uh 17.2 minutes to clean here's what makes up that 17.2 minutes exactly straightening the chairs cleaning the desktops moving the trash doing all the little things that need to be done so you can justify what actually makes that up not just oh it takes about 20 minutes i'm going to take 17.2 minutes and here's why okay and this is based on the task and you tell us that you want done correct in this room i want that these glasses clean every day that all comes into play right right so um and that's that's where there's there's a little bit of play you know there's certain uh school districts that want to exceed kind of the benchmark um there are others that are so far behind that we need to do everything

010we can do to get them up to up to speed and from what i understand from your numbers here this is kind of where you're at a little bit behind here so yeah i think we got a lot of room for improvement let me just let me just say when we did our baseline here okay we took your current equipment the current things you wanted done we put it all in the program and you were about 200 percent over what you currently have for staffing so if you had 10 people you actually need 20 to get it done so we brought in you know we brought in pieces of equipment that would make the job go quicker we brought a lot of in yesterday we still have more coming um and we trained on it

011and it's going to help so now we've gone from 200 down to 150 which is a huge improvement that if i tell you to do 150 percent of work 100 that you're capable of in a day you can't do it done you can't sustain well you work faster you can't do that right we have we're overloading the custodians we're giving them 150 when they're capable of doing 100 to 105. we generally try to keep it keep it about 105 because there's always a room that doesn't need to be cleaned something like that there's always a shortcut something doesn't happen so we don't just say 90 is that we say 100 to 105 percent and that's really cool yeah we're like 105 as our goal because that's 22 minutes overbooked per person right right 150 that's

012not doable that's 12 hours a day right that's when the number one thing we run into is i don't have enough time to clean my area are they right when they say that it's an opinion who knows right you don't know until you put numbers to it that's what we've done so hopefully with getting additional improvements we're going to come into with tasking and everything else we can bring that sort of into focus right it is super important that you understand this this is so accurate that it's defendable and port and we've done it multiple times over like if a custody got hurt we sued the school and said i'm overworked and there's no way they're asking me to do way too much and we have actually gone to court and have won on multiple

013occasions john dalman himself who signed the program is the one that has done it um multiple times that's how accurate it really is okay so we have your staff wages breaks um and then we come up with a cleaning plan i'm gonna fly through this but for every area classrooms it'll have everything in your your building there is a difficulty factor i'm going to make a quick note on the difficulty factor um i call it a reality knob we can adjust things um based on uh you know unique situations in your building right in chisholm minnesota the water is so hard if we say it takes three minutes to clean and sanitize that water fountain they'll say you're a liar and they're right because it's it's harder to do there right so we have a

014ability to do that if you have a custodian that's 82 years old but he's a great guy and he's been here for 47 years and you're not getting hurt because he's slow we can adjust for that too okay so and and make it happen here understanding non-clean time so that's that's built into other responsibilities we talked about that a little bit setting up for athletics i don't know if your customers here have to remove a little bit of snow so we factor all that in as well we we always think that the custodians come in the building and they just go clean and the truth is on a night where there's no gains they'll clean about eighty percent of the time but on the night when there's game that throws everything up there's a lot

015of what we call non-cleaning tasks so we have to account for that right so really what we're trying to do is uh is to to right fit your your building we talked about this a little bit that you know 100 105 is what we shoot for um right now uh you guys have gone from over 200 to 150 so we're still uh there's progress but but we got we got a long ways to go so there's things you don't like the way they look around here there's a very valid reason very good right so our goal is uh again to get it to get it right fit um and i'm gonna skip ahead here just a bit here because of the time um you guys just have the one building though right so yeah okay

016so it works yeah and it works great in in schools that have one building it also works we did it for minneapolis public schools with 86 buildings so for penn state this is how most people most schools uh go ahead and allocate their labor is they get a fire evac map of the building say this is where a building looks like and you get the yellow zone and you get the pink zone and you get the red zone and it looks pretty darn fair good luck have at her and you find out that the yellow zone is the best custodian that you have working here because it's the cleanest and he does all the favors for the teachers right and he's the greatest guy in the world but the paint zone you know you get

017the the complaints and it's the person that's always whining and behind and never whatever and you know there may be a reason for that that's what we'll find out and we'll build zones based on their available minutes and break time and non-clean minutes that we already talked about we build all that in because this is what we're talking about this labor allocation that uh on on this particular school which i can't remember if this was river falls this is why it's a new building in mid-state yeah so um uh their blue zone they thought was uh perfect but they were overbooked by 71 minutes you can't make that up 71 minutes so uh you know there's some that are high some of your hole at the bottom the whole thing is their labor allocation way

018off costing them a fortune so and that actually is pretty good most of our customers we find that have allocated their labor on their own with the highlighter hit about 80 to 85 labor allocation okay this one was 89 which is really good when we are done when we are done we will clean all this up we have the ability to switch yellow to blue to whatever zone to make this thing as accurate as possible we will get you to 98 labor allocation it's not going to be perfect but it's going to be darn close okay so that's that and that's our that's our goal we'll get there and and and we can justify it all so it's not like one person's getting it okay um and honestly when when this is done typically what

019happens is when we first start custodians are a little apprehensive people are a little bit nervous so you're changing my job you're changing i've been here 22 years and you're telling me what to do and it's not us telling you what to do we work with you we work with with you we work with your staff to to get this thing as accurate as possible but we need them to be on board and that's mark's job he's the best we have in our company at working with the people because he's clean buildings he's worked in buildings he understands buildings and understands what it takes to to to keep them happy as well we seriously find out uh when at the end of this that our customers are the custodians are happier at the end of

020the day because the people that are overworked and at the end of the day they're still going to be a little overworked they're okay with it because you all understand it and you know where they're at and it's not them just whining about it right it's a legitimate here's where i'm at there's no opinions here this is exactly where i'm at and why they all get a manual when it's done the manual is great i don't know if you utilize subs here or not but each zone of the building will have a color associated with it so the yellow zone will get a manual and it'll be the book for the ozone so if the yellow person is sick or broke a leg or something and you brought a sub in the sub gets the

021book the book tells them here's your area here's the room you start in here's the order you do it here's the ppe that you need to use while you're in there this is the product you use this is the order you do it in boom boom boom right down the line so there's there's no guesswork there right another piece of this that's uh super cool i don't know if most years are using this or not but we do have a quality control piece with it as well qc program so you're building lead or the bills and grounds director or whoever that you set up and go to cms.hitler.com download the app and you can randomly check certain areas of the building right to find out if the job's getting done or not in in that

022person's area you're not picking on one person areas of the building and then we look for we look for we're having this problem in this part of the building we're having it here it and so it helps us with our training so we come in we say okay we're having difficulty with this let's train on this and let's move forward are there issues other than product or equipment you know or is it just more training that we need so it helps us constantly improve right and that becomes the real differentiator i think with us then most people out there because you can say you know we're just we seems like it seems like we're missing the mark on gang restrooms we're just we're missing the mark on the or maybe it's uh uh pie dusting

023whatever it might be that we're just we're failing these every time and these these results are just not good that leads to basically a review with them and it's a point of figure that mark them and say hey hilliard uh we need your help right or you taught us this and we're failing how do we do so we come in and work with your night people or your may people or all your people whatever it is to to hone in and train them specifically on where you're having issues there's a entire catalog of training that's available from us it's all free that your custodians and managers have access to mark we'll get into that when we're ready right now we've got a long ways to go on building the program but once we're done it's

024an ongoing thing it's fantastic uh this was in 2017. i haven't updated it but like chippewa valley technical college went on with us and we built programs how important are you teaching the class on cleaning science routine carpool care and mark teaches all that stuff himself and he's the best in the business so your people will get training like they've never seen before um new construction remodel projects we can handle all that over the blueprints if there's any updating that needs to be done and basically you know it says you know we've been doing it 20 years this program is uh it's it's it's it's deep it's it's very deep i think the most important piece for everybody to know here is that it's going to give you granular detail on what's really going on

025in your buildings not just generically speaking but in this room right this is what it takes to clean and how long it's going to take and what if we make this change right that's where mark comes into a lot of what-if scenarios and we've already been doing those and mark has been working with kyle and someone have scenarios on different equipment or or people right so and so what i want to say is because we know we're behind ball there's three options you have to fix it we can add labor we can add mechanization because that that cuts time or we can change tasking okay so we have a lot more work to do but it's going to come down where if we can't make a choice we're going to come to the board and

026we're going to go look these are your three options and you choose and then we'll work and we'll build a program around it so if we get to that point i'm hoping that in the next by summer that will have a little better handle on it it's just it's kind of an extreme case here because we have so much building and you have 170 is that 175 000 square feet okay um in a normal school district you'd be dealing with seven to eight stone and you have three knife dystonia you have 3.25 okay so they look a little tired be nice to them buy them a pop just be nice to them because they're really really working hard and they're doing the best they can but right now there's just not enough to go around

027so we have a lot of changes to make and that's those are the next steps any questions we throw a lot of stuff that generally it's a lot of material really needed two hours what is the schedule uh forward uh moving forward three before right now um we're bringing equipment dip like every other part of our economy we're seeing back your batteries okay as it comes in we bring it in we train your your custodians how to use it not just how to use the machine but how to use it within your building okay um you've made some interesting choices in flooring here okay you have flooring that doesn't take floor finish which is great so if this trip and wax right but it's really hard to push a dust mop on it's multi-dimensional so

028that when you push a dust mop on it the floor gets dirtier every time you do it so what have we done we brought in machines that sweep and pick up the dirt they're coming when the batteries come right but that'll be our next step because we have to make adjustments so your question is we bring in our equipment we train we train how to use it throughout the facility i need to look at tasking and that's me sitting down at a desk probably for three or four days and kind of going through things and then um sitting down with kyle sitting down with dan sitting down stone and say look where are your real hot spots what are we doing what can we do differently to make this work better it's really hard to

029hire labor i know that's the hardest part you are so far behind the eight ball i'm really thinking that that's going to be something you're going to have to look at it's it's i just don't think you have a choice well yeah i know so we knew that when we built in the building that's why you guys are here and we're just trying to guide those decisions the best we can right we'll also help in this interim so like cleaning the toilets yeah it's probably a higher priority than wiping the dust off those windows now we get our staff okay so you'll help those decisions so that the current staff we have can do a great job in certain areas other areas in a building you can have dust sit on that shelf for longer

030and it won't get wrecked if you have more mud ground into the door where the elementary kids come out in a rainy day that carpet is going to have to be replaced exactly because you've got to help priorities so there's a so there's a there's a there's a awesome there's a cleaning level there are different cleaning levels for hospitals for schools or we can throw it into a five-day clean meaning we can set it up so you clean every single thing in your building five days a week that's perfection right that's not going to happen that's 300 percent so to answer your question what what we need to do is we need your input your your support what is your it's not our goal it's what is your goal we're going to help you get

031there the most efficiently i'm going to say something that's probably going to be really popular but when we clean the school building who is our customer throw it up who's your customer student no staff the kids are here to get educated and the staff work here correct if the parents come into a game tonight and all the dirt all the windows are dirty when they walk in and the floors are dirty and the bathrooms smell and you say we need money for a new facility they're gonna go your facility is dirty you're not taking care of it okay when i build a curry thinning program i look at entryways hallways bathrooms in the gymnasium and then we go from there now that sounds a little backwards okay but i want my kids in the school

032to use a clean restroom that's critical i don't want it to smell if it smells it's not clean okay it's not that someone just used it if it smells it's not clean so we look at entries we look at hallways we look at bathrooms and we look at gymnasiums if there's game going on tonight i want those bathrooms clean before the game not after because i want the public to come in and go they know what they're doing they're professionals they know how to clean a building do you see what i'm saying so we take what little labor we have and put it where we have to put it to make things look as good as possible right now we're way off the mark but we're gonna get there we are gonna pick them but

033with all that said you know we'll make all the suggestions in the world it's your school your school's your school and we're going to prioritize things the way you want them to prioritize we will make suggestions but listen we do this in schools all over the united states we have a ton of them here in wisconsin uh i mentioned earlier you know minneapolis folks but everybody has their own uh issue right what the hot button is what is the hot button that's what we'll work around exactly but we want this to we want the public to come into this building because this is this is a place where kids come to get educated this is also a community center it wasn't 20 years ago i've been doing this for 28 years with hillary when i

034started they were schools kids came in their parents would come in for me now this community said these places are open seven days a week okay and we want the public to think we're professional we know we're doing it we're keeping safe and clean facilities which is what we need to do so and three of the machines we brought in yesterday are actually mechanized restroom cleaning machines no touch cleaning if you have to clean the bathroom it's best not to touch right because that's not a lot of fun but we can we clean everything from here down walls dividers everything gets done again so do you lease any of that equipment we can lease yes that's that's an option it's an option or buying the lease program is has an interest rate and it's a

035dollar buyout so you have a rider scrubber you make the payments and you pay a dollar it's yours at the end it's not like you turn it back in you get a new one okay i'm just thinking about maintenance a lot of a lot of schools have gone minneapolis st paul has done a lot they've gone to a lot of leasing programs at the end they just take it out and bring it in new and there's very little maintenance and that's that's a big deal it's a big deal another area with the equipment that a lot of schools miss out on and i don't know if you do or not so i'm not saying but a lot of our schools don't really know anything about or never heard of preventative maintenance with their equipment that

036they have purchased you know is your equipment that you've purchased being taken care of properly yeah let us train you on that not only training it that's free you know the training piece but then having a tech come out once a year to go through everything and clean it up and take care of it it lengthens the the life of say an auto scrubber by usually about three years three to four years you know and when they're if your brickwork yeah they're several thousand dollars if you're taking care of them in the last three or four years it's worth paying for low preventative maintenance so those are things that we work on too we're over the time that you go any other questions there's a lot so all right um we're so glad you came

037here i know kyle spoke real highly of you i i know that you were hesitant to come all the way up to um he's been asking me we were friends when he was in bed tonight i'm the person that complains about the corners in the bathroom and i'm looking at our gym that's three years old now and i see the dust on top of the heating ventilators and the basketball standards i think we need to have a scissor list in here sorry clean this up because that's what everybody sees yeah oh yeah it's with the feet i i had a a meeting just like this a few years ago with i don't know if you know bill youngst superintendent over at uh at colfax schools and bill has over the years become a very good

038friend of mine he's a great customer but i really respect him a lot we did the same program there he's pretty funny guy military driven you know good things perfect and um we got all done with the programming and he said i'm going to do two things if you think you're so good at what you do martin let's see what you do he put an eminem behind his door and he's like if that thing's there in the morning on fire i told him to pay attention you know and the second thing he did was he took an invisible uh marker that we sell and i trained and told black lightning he's a black light marker and he went around all the doorknobs and he marked every doorknob in the school every single one and it's

039a one building district like you have here and he marked every single one you can't see it until you hit it with a black light then there's america and he left a note for his head custodian or his building's grounds director chad he said i want you to make sure that the team focuses on disinfecting all the doorknobs now i've heard that's an issue i want them all disinfectable no problem and they left a note that yep got it all done and he walked around that next day with the black leg and there was like 92 doors that hadn't been touched you know i think it led to a little bit more a little bit more training right and so but those are things that we kind of laugh and joke about but in all

040in all seriousness we're here for cleaner safer and healthier buildings right and that's what we do and and that's what we focus on and that is not because of covet this is a book we've been doing this program for well over 20 years the guy who hired me at hillary invented the program and he's still the national director of our cap program it's getting better and better it's all online now but what it comes down to at the end of the day all this stuff's all it's all great but how does it work for sebastopol right what are you doing to help me here right and that's what we will prove to you we will get you brought up to snuff because you're behind right now you're a little bit behind we'll get you there

041just just trust in mark and when i i know mark and kyle have known each other for a lot of years nobody else here knows either one of us right and mark gets embarrassed when i say stuff like this but he's the best in the business he's the best in the business so we are lucky to have him and we all in this room are lucky to have him up here so we appreciate the opportunity we very much appreciate business and if you have any other references that are anywhere within a hundred miles up here let us know because we need to grow since we got it coming up here i gotta get it anything that i recommend for the school district is going to be things we can bring in to cut time okay

042because we can't cut time i can't get to the windows of the doors coming in i can't get the spots in the car but we're so far away from cleaning those overhead things right now it's not even funny that you're just so anything we do we talk about paper today we can cut the amount of time refilling paper dispensers drastically that doesn't seem like a big deal it's huge it means scrubbing half the hallways in the school district everything it's big you got to think big picture and anything we recommend will only be to cut time not cut quality but cut time so anyway thank you for the time i really appreciate it thank you thank you for coming safe travels home thank you thank all you um again move on to the english and

043language arts department in their presentations [Music] thank you [Music] debbie just wants to walk up one of them um probably just to organize your thoughts more than anything well first of all i would like to introduce myself i'm debbie hurst i'm your new district reading specialist uh when our department was putting this together to kind of clarify maybe the department a little more for all of you we thought it might be easier to put it on some slides to gather our thoughts so that we make sure we try to keep it short but that's not usually in our nature as ela teachers but we try to and try to keep it as simple and clear as possible so the first step i'm going to do is kind of talk a little bit about the handout

044you just received and just the guidelines by dpi for that sort of tier of support the tier 1 tier 2 tier 3 concept that we kind of um that guides us into everything we do in ela so first of all you have your tier one support which really is your regular classroom and all that they do in there and the reason that we do the universal screener which here at sevasta pool is the math testing okay is it gives us a broad view of how students are doing at that moment in time we do it three times a year when they come in from from summer around october and september and then again in winter and then one in spring and it kind of gives us that broad view as a ela department and we

045look at it and we say okay who's falling below the 50th percentile who do we need to intervene on do we need to look at more data to find out what's going on with that student and the other data that we look at is then we go to our pals assessment at the younger grades we usually do that in 4k through second grade and it does a more detailed look at those foundational skills so we then dig a little deeper and say okay does this match does their math testing match with their pals are they doing just fine are they needing more support or are they needing enrichment and so that guides us in that way as we get into the older grades we look at the forward exam because that's an important key component

046to our understanding of how a student's doing are they able to succeed on that wisconsin state forward exam and then we go even further on our third point of data and we look at our core programs that we purchase in 4k through fifth grade we have the benchmark core program and in sixth through twelfth grade we use the my perspectives and all of those have different assessments along the way that we give the students for each unit there's midpoint assessments and those are done within the classroom as the teachers are moving forward in their programs the tier two is really when we go okay this student is dipping below our goal of the 50th percentile what can we do and maybe we do a little further assessment then to see where exactly that specific area

047of need is um and if they need more sometimes that can just be done in the regular classroom in those instructional times that the teachers have so usually they set it up where they do a whole group activity for a certain amount of time and then they go to instructional levels which is differentiated instruction and they might pull students over in different little groups according to their levels and at that time if a student is dipping a little low and say it's sight words in the younger grades then they might give them a little boost in that so that's sort of where that tier two is but tier two can also be done with an interventionist in a small group whether it's push in or pull out with four to six students to help support

048that staff member or that grade level so it can be very flexible in that way tier three is where we say okay now this student did not make significant growth while we were doing those tier two activities to give them that boost we need to go a little more aggressive and do a little bit more assessment more official research based assessments and find some rigor that helps produce that significant growth so that they can catch up to their peers does that make sense so far i know i'm trying to make it as simple as possible but not too simple either because it's not it's a very complicated fluid activity that happens um so and then i did not want to forget because we have a fantastic program here for this um i know i deal

049a lot with the um the students that are dipping low but we also make sure that we look at those kids that are soaring really hot and need to go above and beyond what the classroom teacher can support and so third through 12th grade now we have a wonderful gifted program called the gate okay and the person doing it has some criteria that they follow too what they look at are those map scores because that's our universal screener and see if they have three years or more of those super high scores and level that are soaring above their peers and then they also do a cognitive abilities test to confirm that that is true that this child really does need some enrichment and then they put that in place and she did want you to

050know that with her with her program you know the level of need and opportunity every year kind of changes because it is fluid so then she meets the needs of the students on a yearly basis it could look different but she does make sure that she gives them support in that way so i think the program is fantastic it looks wonderful how does it all work and i'm down in this bottom part here how does it work well first we do our math testing um to show you know the the 50 or below okay that's our first data point the next data point we look at is either pals or forward and then the third one would be our core program and i remember when i was being taught i always thought of it as

051a really good catch phrase for me to remember three points of data makes it true you want to look at a student and say you know they're really high in this test they're really high in this test they're really high in this test you can assume that child is really high you need to give them that enrichment support or vice versa right so that's really what this whole concept of the continuum of support is and it seems to be working very well here and we even step up the bar a little bit and make sure that that 50 to 60 doesn't need something here so which is very impressive um now each of these individuals coming up are going to break down each little cluster of grade levels and what they do with the core

052programs so any questions from my part i know that was a lot really fast so i know it was important for you to know you know what we're teaching and that's what they're going to talk about a little more and why we use all that data and it really does guide our instruction it drives our our need to help whichever students need that help at that moment of time and it's meant to be very fluid we meet all the time as teams as different collaborative teams to look at that data you know like we just had our winter map source and we just did our pals at the younger grades and so we really do get back together and meet discuss look at what it looks like in the classroom a lot of teacher input

053goes into that too so it's been working very well for us all right i'm going to let should you guess that the student all the way through there yeah we are able to track the student all the way through their school career yeah all right i think four cases movers i'm not sure who's good you can just hit the [Music] um hi i'm katie humans i teach kindergarten and i get the joy of talking about i get the joy about talking about 4k k 1 and 2 tonight so um in 4k they really start by learning the alphabet what are the letters what do they look like and how to write them so they also bring in handwriting without tears which is another program we have here in addition to benchmark and it really breaks

054down how to write a letter how to make it um we talked about how letters have straight lines curved lines some are bold and they start to do that and they introduce a letter every week in 4k so that's something they really do and they do a lot of review a lot of reteach a lot of hands-on learning and a lot of visuals they also do a lot of read-alouds and focus on concepts of print and concepts of a word so in a sentence there's not just letters but letters make up words and that's one of their main focuses as well um they also in 4k do lots of observations during large group but then they also do a lot of small group learning and rotations to really get some more small group one on

055like one teacher versus four kids versus one versus twenty um and really get to know those kiddos a lot better and where their needs are at they also do formal instruction they do a lot of pals assessments in 4k and do that three times a year to progress monitor the kiddos along the way um in 4k sometimes always the skills aren't grasped at that age just because the child maybe is super young and not ready but with that re-teaching and reviewing their goal is to get a little bit of that start before they move on to what i teach is kindergarten so that'll be the next one um kindergarten and first grade are slightly similar so we kind of put them together to introduce them we do the benchmark universe and it includes reading writing

056and phonics um we do a lot of whole group instruction and always kind of start our day that way with a mini lesson a read-aloud a shared reading something like that and then we usually break out into our small group instruction where then we're able to focus on a reading strategy and um guided reading books we usually do that through stations so in kindergarten we actually rotate ifi stations we rotate every 12 minutes and we're really blessed this year that they have a teaching time with the teacher and they also get another adult instruction through the title one resource program so they're getting two adult groups which i see this year is making a huge impact on the kids and their success in first grade they have a really heavy emphasis that's based on the

057learning of the phonic sounds and rules they are given opportunities to apply the rules and sounding out words and the spelling of words they start to do a lot more spelling tests in first grade students are learning to read in preparation for them learning to read and preparation for them to reading to learn so that's kind of where that transition happens in addition to the benchmark material we have been doing um some add-ins with heggarty orton gillingham and jolly phonics which are all really a little bit more hands-on pieces that can help integrate throughout the classroom for all kids um grade two so in grade two they also do the hamburgers of tears they start the year with that really kind of review the letters make sure they know how to write the letters writing

058fluency and pencil grip formation from the start um they then you have a lot of writing and instruction that starts to begin in second grade with the emphasis on many lessons from the benchmark built in and working on improving that sentence structure and fluency they then learn they teach writers structure or they teach writers how to structure their ideas by gathering them and then putting them onto the paper so that they're a little bit more organized on the paper versus just shouting out there they also have a really high emphasis on phonics in second grade as well with the focus of syllable patterns so that they can hopefully become better readers and spellers each week they do focus on a pattern they do a focus on a pattern and ten sight words a week in

059second grade their reading block is also very similar to the rest of us they start with that mini lesson with the whole group and then break up into small group and do reading rotation centers as well in second grade they also along with the rest of us like i'm saying is we use map throughout the year three times a year to progress monitor along with other assessments from the benchmark program in addition to pals and those assessments are what drive our instruction throughout the year for all the kids so that is up to second grade on that hand you're over all right my name is joel shelsky i teach fourth grade here um and i'm the representative for three to five i did meet with mr skilla and this is thomas from third grade and

060this is air from fifth grade so we all took part in the conversation and what we included on the slide um you'll hear a lot of the same things that katie mentioned in terms of what we use for instruction i kind of broke it into two parts how do you teach language arts and then we get down to the bottom and talk more about the data part of it components for teaching language arts include word worker spelling whole group reading which is where we introduce and review comprehension and vocabulary skills small group reading where we look to support more specific skill needs and then review some of those comprehension skills that we've been working on vocabulary and build fluency and then um we need to address word-of-time skills as you get older the kids have

061a little bit less need for that portion of language arts instruction so it looks a little bit different and then there's a writing component usually in grades three through five there's one or two large group reading lessons each day okay katie had stated usually we start with that large group lesson then we break into then i i do a word lesson hard work lesson and then small group reading lessons um and then a writing lesson at the end but everybody kind of organizes their days differently based on when you have specials when you have lunch and those type of things it's it's not always uniform across the boards you kind of organize it the way that's going to be most effective for you students engage in large group work small group work and also work

062independently and then here's some pieces too that that i know they use in the undergrade stew readers theater um which is kind of like uh just the way it sounds it's a book that the kids use and they practice different parts it's like putting on a plate but without the thoughts so they they'll practice that for a week and it really just the intention there is to build that fluency that expression in your reading and then the neat part is a lot of times teachers will coordinate with other classrooms and the kids go into those classrooms and present to other classrooms and i know that i know my kids in fourth grade enjoy hearing younger kids read because it kind of brings them back because they remember those stories from when they're younger too and

063then it gives them a chance to complement those students when they come in and do their reading in front of them um we use google on different different capacities at each grade level but you know we use gmail slides docs classroom and then just google website for communication between students and teachers and also students to students when we peer edit some of our writing that's how we share our writing typically and then as well as to complete assignments we use the classroom for that each reading unit has a student book and i passed some of those out for you guys just to take a look at if you're interested in i think one of the neatest things in this current series that we have is each unit in reading is typically about three weeks long

064and there's six stories uh usually five stories and the last one with poetry a poem which is kind of nice it's a good way to get poetry into the into the reading um but there's opportunities for the kids to annotate to take notes um highlights they mark them up you know as much as we talk about in the classroom um and i feel like it makes it that learning a little bit more real to them as opposed to just reading in the book and not having a chance to highlight things circle things take notes on there's a writing book as well that you guys can see and we use that very similar um for annotating uh and then for the writing piece too it's nice to use as a mentor text so when you talk

065about fan fiction to be able to point out what fan fiction looks like to kids and how it's used by different authors so that they can have some ideas when they do their own writing and then that's something that can personalize more the reading series does a nice job building background with multiple genres um support reading units and then also in the word workbooks the word workbooks that you guys have those are those are what we would use more for spelling for word works so there's you know there's word lists in there that we practice with and there's also passages in there that we can work with too so i guess it's one of the things i like there's a lot of opportunities to read not just from one book but from multiple different sources

066reading center is promoted daily through self-time several additional resources are used to support language skills these are just some of them teachers use greenpop scholastics news read works kids a to z those are all scholastic news is a paper copy usually but you can it's digital as well brain top junior read works kids those all provide digital reading opportunities which it's it's good to have a little bit of both for kids to get used to having to read something digitally but also having paper copies that they can read and hold onto how to use data to drive instruction um math data as as katie talked about and debbie talked about is used to break down those comprehension skills so if we have students that need more work in literacy elements or an informational text we

067can look closely at that moby max is used by um i know third grade uses that fifth grade uses that i gotta i gotta try it how it is uh moviemax is used to model your reading levels otherwise you use something called a font symbol kit or a teacher's language we just call fnbs so that's what we use to find out and make sure that kids are progressing meeting level wise throughout the school year and then the end of the unit assessments are used there's also weekly assessments that can be used in benchmark just to make sure that the skills that you are teaching in the unit students are recognizing and applying those same skills you know at the end of the unit let's see and then the last one there's a beginning of the

068year mid-year and end of the year comprehension assessment which i really like that goes with benchmark that's what i use to drive a lot of my id time at the end of the day so i know what kids need a little bit of extra support and comprehension strengths and that's what i have so how long have you ran this benchmark company i think it said uh since 2019 i think it's our first year and then i think bridget is going to talk about that more at the end i actually believe i looked in the notes and the staff when they decided to go with it in 2019 you had it before that and they liked it so much they went with the new version in 2019. so they've been using it for a while so

069there were some nice updates yeah one more name that's probably the reason i would like that series so i'm heather spence i teach english 10 um ap at the junior level ap at the senior level and cap oral communications i'm sarah moroski i teach 9th grade english 11th grade english 6th 7th 8th grade convention high school intervention dyslexia intervention and anything else that you want to throw and i'm john shire teach middle school language and uh so we consider ourselves more than reading teachers we teach all facets of the language whether it's written speaking everything that the standards cover speaking and listening we adopted my perspectives for 6th through 12th grade and if we use we use that through the ninth grade and some of it into the 10th grade the 11th and 12th grade

070have and the 11th grade uses my perspectives in two of the courses but there are articulated courses with nwtc that have their own curriculum and the ap curriculum has its own written curriculum that's been approved by the ap board as well as the cap so there is some differentiation between my perspectives and how we differentiate our program um we offer other sources too we use um scholastic school magazine new zealand member moby max and as well as the college board materials that they give us we focus on language speaking and listening both in the content and reading selections and in isolation we cover all the genres that are required in the standards we teach writing by modeling and through all parts of the writing process whether it's pre-writing drafting revising and editing and as a

071staff we've gone through and tracked not just the english department but all the departments where we're doing what writing and we have analyzed that and seen where we have overlapped and i felt like we've done some good work on that over the years language and speaking are taught our language and listening are taught in mini lessons and they're in conjunction with our literature units for students who need extra support we use their intervention periods to fill the gaps for students that are most more ready we use enrichments and they have we have our gifted and talented program we use the battle of the books we attend plays we have field trips we have advanced placement in college courses we have newspaper and yearbook we have found that kids come from elementary loving to read and

072we want to foster that i know over the years i have tried to give students more choice and i'm finding that they like more choice the older that they get and so we've been doing quite a bit of reading i know i've got several kids in sophomore english who are on their 11th free reading novel for the year which is pretty outstanding i think that's one of the best things that our elementary you know when they come to us they love to read and we want to continue to foster that our content teachers also have reading strategies and i think as a high school for many years we worked at how can we get every content area to be reading teachers in their area what reading strategies can we do it's been quite a few

073years since we've revisited that probably about 12 but that's an area where i think we can really benefit talk about who's doing research who's teaching what strategies for non-fiction and fiction and i think that's something that is a school we could revisit in our faculty meetings reading strategies across the curriculum how do we use data to drive instruction well dawn down in junior high they use the map and then they go to the forward and then in ninth grade we go from the map and the forward into the aspire now when you talk about a universal screener there's a little bit of a gap there because at the high school level there really isn't a universal screener we're being tested on the act but that doesn't always align with the standards and so you have

074some gray area there you know our textbook offers beginning middle and end of the year tests and the ap board offers many opportunities for tests and you know we have rubrics that show us how to grade their writing and they have you know so i mean do we have a high school university screener we've always talked that we should make one because we make a million dollars you know because there's not really one out there and so we've bridged the gap between that act test and as a department and across the curriculum we have over the years developed an act program where the english department practices the four types of questions that are on the act right now we're doing it twice a month giving kids strategies on how to do that and over the

075years we've seen tremendous growth on that test does it get tedious for the kids it does but afterwards they're very thankful because typically they don't have to worry about that when we started that it's a timed test and you and i all know that when we put a timer on somebody reading it changes the outcome so our philosophy on that was we want to give them opportunities to be timed and so we do that and that has helped our helped us in all ways i mean reading finding answers based on the five types of questions they ask is important to practice and we also want the kids to find out what their strengths and weaknesses are when we look at that so we have really great data on that um what else did we say

076here sam off test do you have any questions for me i know you've seen this we have a gift in town to we've said that already you know i've said everything on there do you have any questions for us heather you mentioned reading across the curriculum and maybe revisiting that might there be a need for teachers in other areas to have some updated training well i think so i think it's good to have training in both reading and writing right because a lot of times content areas teachers get uncomfortable grading kids writing we do it all the time so we're comfortable right over the years i think three or four times in my career the english department has led initiatives where we have everybody's brought in a writing assignment and we talk about how you

077grade those things and we've done the same thing with reading over the years where we bring in things from social studies or science and we talk about different approaches for teaching kids strategies how to break that reading down we haven't done that in probably 12 years bill biel what's his name doug beal doug beal we did that that was 12 years ago probably but we did that as a county um you know we met at southern door and the whole county was there you know we brought in kelly gallagher for writing we've done things like that and those are part of those initiatives but should you revisit that of course we get new staff members all the time and so it's important to be on the cycle with that so everybody's on the same page

078and everybody understands what how much time it takes to grade writing you know thank you sure any other questions yeah am about reading brian but is forensic skills involved at all in your english program well yes i teach you know english 10 i teach a speech unit where they have to deliver a four-minute speech we do poetry readings i don't do all the forensics categories but i try to tailor assignments like if kids have a choice on a board they can choose i try to make different forensics categories of my choice whether it's poetry or storytelling or you know what i mean i'd give kids that choice so but they have to do presentation in my class much to their and i work with my enrichment middle school students with forensic skills the different categories

079so yeah i think that's really important [Music] anything else thank you sure thanks for having us i just have one small thing to add as a relative newcomer this is only my second year here and having been at lots of different schools and different kinds of schools in the state and having been a former administrator who used to evaluate those schools and specifically their literacy programs and having had to build a rti program from scratch as an administrator the reason i took this job is because you guys have one of the best systems i've ever seen i would have benefited so much from having scaffolding like we do for act tests i was thrown in a room and handed a pencil um and i was an honor student uh and who couldn't take tests so

080just know that you know if you've never if you've never really dove deep into other schools i have and had to evaluate them and had to you know help them make really hard decisions and one of the reasons i chose to come here is because i knew i would learn something so i mean not to like i can say this because i'm brand new and i can't take credit for anything you guys have something really extraordinary here and it's only getting them well i get the last slide that deals with the textbook cycle for the english language arts um i'm richard bowers i am the district library media specialist so i work with 4k through 12th grade students and the students who take online and distance learning classes six years ago is when we started

081our contract in 2019 with our current textbook and the last year's school year covered for the contract will be the 2024-2025 school year and the district contract for our current core programs which we talked about earlier will end july 31st 2025 that's our english language arts presentation and uh if you have any questions for any of our members here we'd love to answer them um and i don't i don't ask that you have give us a big summary on this but i'm really curious as english teachers the impact of copen do you have can you give us a pulse on what what happened to your kids and what you might be seeing in the area of reading well and learning you know when i think of what it did to me you know i had

082to uh i guess with when i looked at that reading i i've seen in this just this last year i guess i have had more kids bring me books and say you'll like this they i mean i think and i'm teaching that sophomore class right now i'm just going to be real honest that is the one of the very very finest classes that i've ever taught in my career and those kids love to read and i literally i'm on my sixth book from kids they bring me a book and say here read this so i think kids are you know we say that kobe it was difficult and it was but i think there's a lot of kids who are reading and and did more reading because of coding and i think families were conscientious

083about those things and and you know i've always been i think semastrol's got a great community and i think the kids were home with their families and of course i'm teaching that 10th 11th and 12th grade and i have nothing but great things to say about them but you know i think kids are reading the kids that i'm seeing are reading a lot from the top of the class to the bottom of the class you know i've had kids that are struggling readers they're on their third and fourth free reading book of the year and so so i have to give a plug to our community that i think we're all so glad to be back together and and you can talk about things and write about things and share your writing so that's good

084it was difficult and i mean i hated not being with the kids and i think there was many there were many of them that felt that way so well just to kind of add to that like heather gets to to teach all the really high flyers she's teaching ap and you know the kids in the in the end and you know i i get the joyful challenge truly of the puzzles of not only the kids who okay we're still figuring them out and covet gaps and everything else but we the highest percentage of transfers into our district come in middle school and high school where there's puzzles and we're like okay we have half your data you don't know where you came from you know are you eating breakfast like all of these various and

085century things and the biggest i guess the biggest hurdle that i've noticed truly in all humans not just our students is stamina getting them used to what it was what it was like to have the rigor that we have here and not being able to throw them right back into it but i think we are there like i feel well i don't think we're quite there i mean i don't i'm not giving i'm not giving the homework that i did three years ago kids i think the stamina is a big part and kids are needing balance more right now than ever before and we require you know like me i'm always figuring out ways to do it better and be more challenging but so is the basketball team you know they add nine games to

086their schedule and so does the volleyball team and you know as a parent you know my kids were ultra involved but as a parent you step back and say you want them to be balanced you know you want them to to have dinner with their family at night and so i want to try to strike that balance about i want to i want to work smarter and not harder and i think i'm getting old enough to do that now i'm getting better to the point where i don't have to have they don't have to have as much homework because i can get them to know what they need to know while they're with me so you know i i think we have to strike about and i think covert brought that out of us we're

087looking at how do we make our kids healthy and you know ourselves and ourselves you know what does health look like mental health and physical health and the only thing i wanted to add is that we've noticed in the younger grades that the pandemic did affect a key part of letter formation because that was very challenging to do with packets or on the computer so but the grades above where you'd normally teach that have really stepped it up and we figured out a way to like incorporate that in there so if you missed it in kindergarten you're getting it in first grade and so that sort of i think um component is key right now in those younger grades with those foundational skills like everything in 4k that was given before it might not have

088all happened so that means that we're adding on and that's why the extra support because we know early intervention is huge is in katie's room and megan's room and because we want to make sure that we give that support because we know they might have not got it as well as they would have before that does that make sense but it's going very well with being half time last year for most of the year we found that when they came to kindergarten yeah there was some missing links there because they were you know they tried to put in so much but especially being 4k you can only send home so many packets for littles to do when a lot of that really has to be in person learning so they did their best they could

089but there were some missing links and i feel like we're really we are i don't want to say closing those gaps but we are we're working on it we're working on closing those gaps i feel like we're making really good strides yeah and we actually we do feel blessed in the english language arts area that just like you were saying you can read a book at home so there were those missing gaps of like the formalities and those foundational skills but parents could read books to their little kids or you know so we found that that part is that love of reading this year my kids love we're working on the reading stamina part but they love to listen to me read they love it they love to listen to books and talk about books

090and characters so that's something that they are we see that they love to share all right good night and i i have to say that our english and math departments during coven that's what we focused on and so you know i got to use all these resources and i can remember sarah france saying to me you really don't make them write this much all the time do you because you know i had all these people helping me respond to kids so did they write as much and read as much yeah i think i think we really worked them pretty hard and i had a bunch of people helping me grade so that was really nice and i would just say like in that the 345 area i think um like heather has said there's there's

091families that did a lot of reading but then there's families that did not do as much and the kids didn't get as much reading because they weren't here so i for me as a fourth grade teacher i feel like there's more kids this year that need a little bit more support like through our title program than i usually have not that they're to a point where they need more than that but they need more there's more kids in that area that are in that 20th to 50th percentile for map let's say that just need more support for reading because they didn't get as much last year and it was at the fault of no one it's just there wasn't enough time i know um a lot of teachers consolidated or broke down their units in

092reading and writing so that we tried to focus on like the big rocks um last year when we were not full time so that was a that was a good effort but i i do feel like this year there were more gaps um more students that need to be assisted this year than i've seen in the past thank you very much thank you all for your thoughtful comments but i just want to say this room is just full of passion i really really applaud you and respect the work that you do it comes out in your presentation because you all defeated the job good we hope we look like we like it well those were two big presentations so we'll see for the sake of time [Music] all right um for starters i think a

093lot of us have kind of an image of what discipline at school is partly based on what our own experience was or wasn't i'm sure a number of you never made it to the office for any reason so you wouldn't necessarily have had this experience other things too when you go to grad school for getting your license they spend some time teaching you how to discipline i would equate that to learning behind the wheel from a book certainly when you get out on the road there's a lot more that you learn and experience doing it firsthand for myself i've been doing this for about 20 years and you know as i said before it seems real straightforward but as you do it a number of years you start picking up little things along the way

094i'll just walk through kind of what a general practice would be starting off with incidents you know it's anywhere from i just threw some up here but food being thrown maybe a student being disrespectful maybe as serious as fighting then it goes to the level of involvement it might be something that gets handled in a classroom i know especially at the elementary level the teachers have the students all day they handle a lot of that discipline in their classrooms because they know the students and they know how to address what they're looking for but sometimes that increases it gets brought to the principal's attention we take a look at the situation and determine whether or not it needs to include other people throughout our liaison officer out there for example depending on how serious it

095is the next step would then be fact gathering if it gets to the office it's not enough just to take you know what the referral says it's really important especially so that the student themselves has a voice you need to do your due diligence to make sure that all parties are being heard you're getting all the information so you can truly make a good consequence for what the action was that the student did let's see there's a range of consequences we describe them as progressive discipline starting off with maybe a verbal consequence of warning working your way up there's lunch and recess detentions it might result in a bus suspension if it's something that happened on the bus after school detentions in school suspensions out of school suspensions not had one since i've been here

096expulsion certainly would be something that would be on there and i've also included some restorative practices depending on what it is that happened it might necessitate having students get together so that they can try and patch things up one of the things is you want the progressive discipline to get to a point where students behavior changes you don't jump right to a suspension you know you see can you do something smaller along the way if a student keeps coming back to the office side you're going to increase some of those consequences for me personally one of the things that i've talked to students about a lot is choices choices have consequences and if you want good consequences then you can make good choices they can make bad choices you could have bad consequences but all

097that being said my overall philosophy i know adam would take the same way that we need to consequence the actions and not the kid the kids should not feel that they are being treated poorly that it's the choice that they make that needs to be corrected that they're good in ultimately but uh they happen to make a bad choice so let's work on correct people's choices so that they can continue your kid that they are some additional steps we make sure we contact parents if it's something really serious threat on a bus for example um then we might do a threat assessment and get uh we use an officer involved there's a number of different people on that committee to see is this something that needs to rise to another level or is it something

098that we just need to make notes of and keep them for anything in the future yeah absolutely run assessments that we have done over the past couple of years we've learned a lot we've learned a lot what we need to how we need to question where we take that information and who needs to get that information as soon as possible so the past couple years have really shown us through that team that we get any information that folks can give us you know it is our responsibility to make sure that that information goes to the right person immediately sometimes we can't make the determination about what a threat would mean but if we get it into the hands of people who can that's what we need to do here at sebastopol so we've been more

099aware of that and been more forthcoming with information that we get from students from teachers from all people in the community that we have a liaison officer here for a reason so they if they have the information then they can take it to the next level to make sure that nothing goes unnoticed or untouched so we really really um kind of tighten the reins on that one i would say in the past couple years here and then other things that we take into consideration is the student special education student there are students who by their very nature they make impulsive choices you know is it fair for that student to be treated exactly the same as other students do we consequence them absolutely but it necessitates having meetings afterwards so we can sit down and

100say with this particular student are we doing everything we need to for that student we have enough supports in place yeah and that's one of the main reasons why i'm up here now i don't wear the same hat and discipline as mr hiltz and mr bear i'm up here as a people services director because i'm the advocate for those kids who do have who are special education students that is my role but what i really appreciate is that working with the principals is always communication it's always collaboration you know if something happens with one of our students with special ed i do know and i'm at the table and i'm listening and i'm trying to understand based on their disability and based on the actions and based on the consequence is an appropriate consequence so

101we're at the table really figuring that out together along with the people services staff so the teachers the associates are also there as well so i do wear that different hats one of the things that we do within special education though we you know and oftentimes you know it's the confidentiality of the student so a lot of those consequences are what happens in an iep meeting and stays in the iep team but some of the things that we do is we change programming for students we also change the level of support that they might need throughout the day we communicate and collaborate with our outside providers not all the time do people know that that stuff is happening but behind the scenes and within those meetings those really important conversations are having so like what

102mr hilt said we want to change the behavior over time we also have something that's called a behavior intervention plan so that's a specific plan for a student who has a disability that has got more behaviors that where there has to be progressive steps on how staff approach the student and how they react so we really try and lay out those plans so there's some consistency and continuity built in so all people who are working with the students really get a sense on top of that situation that's safely for not only the student but the staff that is working with them as well so a lot of that does happen in multiple iep meetings this year has been pretty extraordinary we've had a lot of situations and students and all of that but we're taking

103care of those things the best that we can um you know to change their patterns of behavior and give them the support that they need to be successful in school something else too i'm just going to touch on this briefly that we have a program that's called educator handbook and it's an online program where teachers can enter referrals administrators can enter referrals for student behavior so it gives us a permanent record of those things it's really nice because a teacher will enter something it gets to administrators we address the situation and whatever consequences we enter that and then the message goes back to the teachers so they know how it was handled and the fact that it was handled it also gives us additional data so we can see are a lot of behaviors happening

104as you'd expect hallways playground are probably going to be our highest areas classrooms isn't happening a certain time of day certain subjects are there things that are affecting a particular student um and seeing if there are some things that set that student up so we can try to adjust some of that um talks about like seeing arrangements those kinds of things as well are in there um it breaks down the number of actions that were done how many detentions have been issued how many suspensions so on so you can take a look back at that then it also gives kind of a breakdown of the different braid locks and that's a program we're using uh in the school now yes yep currently using and it's it's really nice to have uh i did not have

105the other districts that i was in there were spots to enter some of that but it was not uh where you could pull that data out and make some adjustments you know again if you're seeing some stuff happening on the playground maybe more supervision it's happening in the hallways maybe teachers in the walls watching things yes um because i think this is a very complicated uh challenge uh today and probably always have something and i appreciate what you're saying because i have a couple comments to waste some time because this is very important to is this to a few teachers says classroom and me management is each one does it different and i think parents need to be involved they'll come back to the parent activity what you're seeing and then the admin administrative team

106so i'm just curious is do we have like the staff so recently i don't know how many years ago we're really working hard with inclusion we've been doing this for a while and the the the challenge of every uh consequence is different i definitely get that my three kids each have pre-consequences also i mean so i get that just with three so i can only imagine how complicated it is but i the trending the question i would always come back to that you said which was wonderful is is it changing student behavior you know that's the challenge is are we all are we getting that feedback and are we finding that or based on this documented process over years is there um that's is there an area that could be improved are we seeing that

107um and so i don't need maybe an answer on that but those are the challenges in the school that i'm curious about and because i will say this i agree with a great community by the way but i also think some parents are very busy on multiple jobs and all that kind of stuff my mom stayed home a lot of people can't do that now you know so that's what i'm wondering and that's why i wanted to know the consequences because if the school uh hard-working staff isn't getting the support and the admin team and parents you know what is our recourse and and you know that's that's the challenge i want to make sure i understand in a school because you know my concern is and i think each uh affect every teacher i've

108talked with for my kids because i i'm the one who goes to class parent-teacher conferences so thanks for putting up with me but um first since my yup my 21 year old was in school i've been doing this and everyone handles a difference my concern on all of this is class disruption right and at what point is the class disruption at a point that as a school we need to do something about it because we're hurting education of everyone in that room and right so kids said there's disruption in every class and that's by and it's a fine line so i don't expect an answer but that's the challenge is are we putting enough focus on that with with this awesome dynamic community we have enter covic challenges and you know like some of the

109gaps grew between kids some of them did great that was great to hear and others maybe felt far behind so that's the challenge of this and i appreciate the structure and it sounds good there and i just want to make sure that with inclusion and different consequences across the board it's complex so does the staff who are dealing with that to do classroom management who i don't know if you get training and inclusion i don't even know how that is and not only that as other kids my kids having a bad week you know you know first of all i want to hear about it but you know so are we getting that support so it's more just the offer of you know having kids and and respecting how hard you guys work is you

110know if there's anything we can do for training and classroom training from the board all we can do is add deeper resources and stuff you know but i think it matters and the question i would ask for all of your staff to give yourself feedback to yourself when the disruptions in class are not are becoming an impact on our education that should be elevated and you guys should know you have support for resources on that because you know not only the state of wisconsin we all need to improve our education the numbers when i went through school way better so sebastian was awesome by the way but our national averages are not what i want to compare to so that's why i think it's very important because when you have disruption you're not learning and

111you know each class is different you know i have an eighth grader whatever that means but you know every class is different right so i just it's very important to me i talk a lot about it i appreciate you talking about it but i also want to make sure you guys are challenging yourself because like you all have said that and i love to hear that continuous process improvement in the word i use but it's what you're saying and i think this is an area that's challenging as parents get more and more stressed and overworked i want to make sure the school is supported and the kids have a shot so anyways i'm rambling a little bit thank you for the brief but you know i i think that's the concern is is i just

112well i've gotten more confidence here but my readings to the kids and stuff like that i i believe there's room for improvement and you know i don't have data to back that up and hopefully i'm 100 wrong so that's what i would channel which is you know how we're doing i would say you know no discipline process i've been anywhere is 100 perfect and continue to try and quite honestly i would rather under discipline knowing that i'm going to have another chance working at that student than over discipline and lose that student because now they're angry about the consequence they're not looking at the choice that they made but i think we do have some progressive stuff if there's something that happens in the classroom i know that the teachers do their very best to

113handle it in the room certain teachers have different tolerance levels for what they have but i think the consistent part is when it gets to a level that they're uncomfortable with they're writing a referral it's getting to the office we address it and any referral that comes through a parent is contacted and involved as a part of that process so we want to make sure that that message is also being made at home where do the counseling and mental health services and maybe social services with families come into the whole process i think um if we start seeing repeat offenders they're doing some similar things to get them involved if it's something serious enough depending on the nature of what it is that's happening we make sure they're gonna get our counselors involved some of

114that too will come through the conversations we have with parents and the parents will admit that there's difficulties going on at home that need to be addressed and they they actually ask can my child see the school counselor on a regular basis if it really gets serious enough [Music] i think the teaching staff here and administrators are very very comfortable reaching out to the council saying this is what's going on but then the counselors are receptive to that the one thing that i will say for more training the more complex the needs that we see in kids the more you know the more complex you know training that's what we need we are seeing more we are seeing more so right now we're kind of catching up to the more complicated needs because we haven't

115had that training so our eyes haven't been completely wide open to it we're just we're dealing with it we're working with it every day so it's nice to hear that the support is here i knew that it always was but i do think it's something that we have to look at as a district too does everything it's like your scores in your reports does everybody i don't fully understand those scores and i'm trying to understand that more you always brief us yeah i'm paying attention to that setting that every teacher every associate feels comfortable dealing with complicated complicated behaviors and then that's our responsibility to look at that and to hear and to listen and and to see what we can do better so i appreciate that because there are more complicated needs for sure

116thanks for watching any other questions i'll take it it would be more interesting if i had been a little troubled but it wasn't fine okay um we didn't have anyone sign up on the guests come in she decided anyone wanted me to speak to speak to anything if not to the consent agenda is there any item that the anyone wishes to have from the consent agenda if none of the consent agenda is approved but i consent with the donation of your from gerald and mary hines for one thousand dollars to the music department thank you very much to them we'll move to the administrator's reports then and begin with mr hill thank you uh just uh hit a few highlights the first one we had parent teacher conferences last night um kudos to all those

117if you were here again tonight so but i thought they went well we also had in-service in the morning one of the things that the elementary staff did we introduced a computer program called freckle it takes students it gives them a pre-test and then assigns them kind of a level and then we'll sign assignments so that students can continue practicing on ela and math that's one of the things we're hoping to use down the road to try and close some of those gaps that's outside of regular school day tomorrow happens to be the 100th day of in-person school learning i know some of the lower levels are planning on doing some creative things with kids getting dressed up as if they're 100 years old and that kind of stuff so that should be fun and

118then we also sent out the military care package that we were talking about doing as an elementary school so it was a nice sized package and cards for from all the kids so thank you any questions i i didn't see something online that i think the teachers should do you can enter your picture and then have it make you look like you're 100 years old your kids would all love that my wife had my daughter do that some years ago it actually scared her i like the way she looked the only addition that i have and i think it lends nicely to the discussion on discipline that we had but looking ahead for summer professional development for the people services department we're looking at a program called interoception and what that is it is helping

119kids learn how to independently self-regulate their emotions when the ela staff talked about balance and stamina you know every student is dealing with that this despite you know ability you know that things that are challenging and things that are that are just fine but one of the things that we've seen in people services for the kids that we particularly work with is that ability to be able to self regulate to have a calm mind to be able to know what you need to be able to advocate for what you need so we're really looking into looking at some summer professional development and then we can bring that into the school year however i don't know if that's something that more teachers might be interested in hearing um you know as well so really kind of

120thinking about that but i know you know talking with the staff they're really really excited to bring that into their practice to be able to help kids with that skill it's one that we see lacking and it's one that we know that we can grow in um so that's the i'll have more information about that as as we plan it during the summer but the staff has said yeah summer's the best time to do that because the in-services especially coming back to school for a new school year are entirely to jam-packed with preparation so that's that's how to implement that what's your strategy yeah so and that's another effects on this it is yeah so i brought in kind of a couple of these just to show you that what's your strategy that was in

121addition to so if you walk around the the school from you know the 4k all the way up into the high school they do have these posted everywhere and then again that's the universal message of you have a there's something going on you have a problem well let's talk about that how do what do you think you should do and then we are all coaches to help them understand that they are in control of some of this and they can help themselves so we're helping to build those skills with just this simple might phrase just a weakness if it's a pronunciation issue or something like that there's lots of ways to exploit it exactly and what the the you know the entire staff here is taking on is that coaching mentality of like you know

122let's talk about that the other thing that's nice is we've asked we'll follow up with that student if they did use that strategy ask them how it went and congratulate them for for using it too so it promotes that um because i'm sure actually a lot of great teachers have been doing that for generations i've had a lot of great that affected me just bringing into more training certainly that's that's good i think that's great yeah something as simple as this but then yet something that could be more complicated of that interception you know as well so um i think we're on the right path but we still have room to you know improve and and take in more suggestions and continue to learn thank you you're welcome we have um the written reports from

123mr bear and the athletic director give them talents did anybody have questions they have on any of those or comments respond to the superintendent's report i am on the door county dei diversity equity and inclusion committee and we've decided to go with nwtc mohammed bay as a consultant the cost is forty thousand dollars the county has allocated twelve thousand dollars towards it so now the county is in the process of looking for grants and outside sources to make the difference between twelve thousand and forty thousand dollars for the work the consultant will do officer hill spec has updated our safety flip charts and we distributed those to the new ones to staff yesterday and then mr hiltz worked with getting some information from other districts on [Music] not open enrollment but our students that move

124into district and proof of residency we have some people that don't tell the truth in the community and they'll be very honest about their address and so mr hills has taken information from other districts compiled it we've passed it on to mary grubbing to finalize it so that people when they come here to register as students are for sure residents when they say they're residents so we have some that maybe don't tell so they're lying to come to school that's they want awesome come here so they are fudging the the information yes so we're trying to tighten that up because it causes some issues not money it's not legal it's not appropriate and it's not fair to the other districts it's not hurting anybody so you've got in a lot of cases it's a way

125around open enrollment for example we have a class that's called they will find a relative who lives here and they will say that that's where they're now residing um [Music] kudos to us that they want to come here but it's not playing i sent you all i don't know if you read it i sent you all that update on the internet and the county the county has hired a coordinator but they're not they don't have money they're not going to put any money into it so it's really going to be up to the municipalities i don't know where sebastian pulls and i don't think they started their process yet how to make harbor that in our district has jack support has so they're working to get service to everyone in their house which is like

126a three year process and some money but the towns are putting money into it the telescope does have a committee and they had a meeting a couple fridays ago i got a call about 10 o'clock in the morning saying hey the meetings at 2 o'clock and i was like all right the book the two so i told them let me know when the next week is so i can attend and help but it was a little late notice each town municipality has been allocated i mean they have funds available limited through the uh through broadband and federal funding isn't it then we see something like some something but most of it is most of it is going to have to come most of it the guy from billy's harvard's expert on it will come through

127grants like 60 percent of it for each tunnel they have to write the grants and be on top of that but they can that money's out there so the towns need to get started so they get their grants in and get the money so it seems like our towns in our district are working on that is that providing the infrastructure for this or actually providing it as a town provided service to all of us it's the infrastructure for service people so we don't have the dead spots like we have right you just it's like a three-year process and 1.5 million dollars so these basketballs probably twice or three times that um the other thing i wanted to do was we all are if you watch the news in the morning we hear about school districts

128not so much in wisconsin but other places where um the parents and community are coming to meetings as they should to talk about things it's mostly coped and critical race theory but those meetings are getting really out of hand and you have people resigning from school boards and officers hauling people away and i just wanted to thank this community the parents the guardians [Music] for supporting the decisions that the people in the school are having to make over the last couple of years to just keep kids in school or being educated everybody's not agreed some you know something masking is great no masking you in school should not school but and everybody should experience their opinion but it's all been um respectful and reasonable and supportive and it's allowed this school to keep going for

129the kids to keep learning so thanks to the community for that um the property building and security committee meeting january 28th that was we mostly talked uh phase two right that was the one right only thing i was going to say i thought it was a good meeting we're talking about phase two of the track um that product that progress continues i think they're uh they're working with the developer to get all the fine-tuned details that i didn't paint oh i don't have all the details but they're deciding on the building color and all that kind of stuff but i'm not a color guy so um i thought it was a good meeting and it seems like we're making progress my big push to schedule let's keep moving that's what i like to do but

130that's all i really have i think we're making good progress on it i think more importantly the colors and whatnot was when we flipped the bathrooms athletic trainer and officials room from north to south and that was a huge yeah that was a great observation whoever hit that was a great observation well this goes back to the sea fat what i love well kyle brought another group of people in you know the trainer was in and that's what trade flipped that now i would that was a great idea i think i think brooke paint came over one of the suggestions about when parents bring their children or something you know we had the bathrooms way on the other side you know things like yeah well flip the buildings to the bathroom be more accessible yeah

131you know just things like that yeah people look great and you certainly brought three students in there going to be studying i have three seniors i the communications committee met monday they're finalizing the major newspaper will be a good one again um finalize some recommendations on award and trophy display just organizing cases and having things in appropriate places and displayed for appropriate amounts of time and i think that's about you know we talked about website updates and facebook updates and our next meeting will consist of talking about the spring newspaper and a little pre-planning maybe for the 100th anniversary of this school in 1924. so that's all i have for communications move to the budget i didn't report i have it for january january is one of the three months where we have more revenue

132than expenses because the taxes start rolling in the other ones are usually february and august so we're doing all right the fund balance it jumped up to 4.9 million dollars we also had the 1.2 million dollar cash from fund 10 transfer to edm that's american deposit management which then pays off our bonds and notes for the year for the building project so it's 1.2 million dollars there a little bit of spec paid adding come in and food service claims for fifty four thousand dollars this month remember everyone's getting free lunch this year band practiced as well so that's good payments that came in this month any questions on the budget none um did you want to give a field project facilities facilities and buildings yeah capital building first we had a lot of trades in

133here yesterday we're still working with the sensors and the thermostats throughout the building to get the 1965 partner to communicate with the new addition it's a work in progress your room might be hot it might be cold it's really a balancing act and they've been here three days this week to work on that we also had a [Music] sewage problem underneath mr juice room that our tunnel is there's a pit and they don't know where the water is coming into and from it shouldn't be coming from any place according to the drawings we have the 1965 drawings are the poorest ones we have in 1924 and 46 sections those drawings were better than the 1965 part so they don't want to cap it off until they find out where it's coming from and it's not

134coming the gentleman who's down on the bench on yesterday thinks it's coming in the outlet one rather than the inlet one so they gotta research that um garage doors this garage door here on the end still has three panels that are on you can see how that white compared to brown and the library door on the outside atrium is reversed because it only it like locks you in not out so it's got a lot of people out so it's gotta get flipped around and they're still working on that greenhouse problem because the roof the material the roof the state now says only 60 of the material is currently we can flip it to metal or glass another 40 because if someone was stuck in there in a fire the plastic would melt and fall down

135on people so there's some changes coming there so that's the building i don't think seriously now they're arguing with the state right now but it looks like the state's going to win i mean i don't pay i know [Music] next time i have an oac meeting which is you know two weeks from shortly not monday but the following monday we need to have the 21st eleven o'clock we'll just come on in for the meeting i mean we have a new builder designer engineer come in as united greenhouse is our contractor for the greenhouse and they've been in contact with the state yeah so are you coming to 11th at 11 o'clock on the 21st and yeah it's a real juicy 21st 21st 11 o'clock because first off we have the screen for the shading for

136the light for light and our local said it had to be non-flammable material the greenhouse company said we've always put these in we've never had non-flammable and they've our local inspectors said because it's a school you have to have non-flammable shading so it went back to the state and then the state said wait a minute you're connected to a school you've got to have a different rooftop on there so it's been four months of this argument global inspectors cause problems i mean i interpret things a lot differently we see from state to state so this is common with private women's the plans have gone the mistake once and were fine and the second time they went over and talked about the shading then they looked at the roof again and said well wait a minute

137here it's because it's directly connected to the classroom so yeah that's up so they need a fire break would they need a fire break then to make that i probably i don't know that's a good question for you because your question is before we put metal roof in it is there another action that could be invested in to be close it's a greenhouse what bray and minor in a greenhouse keep saying it's greenhouse and i don't know the devil i could yeah every forty percent right when all those wires are terminated that we saw last night dumb question does the air handler in the high school gym have anything to do with all the airflow in the building and i'm just curious on that relationship handler hasn't worked for two years now and i don't

138know if it would or not i know that the doors to this building when you push them open they they suck air out they shouldn't have that pressure pressurized actually neutral pressure called neutral pressure it should be neutral right and it's not at this point so i don't know if it's the heating or if that's part of the tube they should have that figured out you would just make another comfortable deer antler and i just wanted to make sure they're looking at that too um the subcontractor has a different person on our face now and that's not been popular well it's pot it's popular bray and myron it's not so popular process because there's a lot of overrides in the system when you override the system you're not fixing the system you're just bypassing it

139right it's the process so is this person fixing the overrides because yeah we're leaving all the rides in our system right no no they're they're changing it back right yeah any other thing i should type the gas in the science labs those were not um installed correctly so we had some uh the gas was on a timer but it was leaking out until the timer went off so we did not use the gas for 10 days maybe while they came back and fixed it and the subcontractor sent to higher up at least absolutely this is shocking work so that was good to fix it for nothing but nothing happened in the meantime if it wasn't so it's a bad situation but it's a good one so when you think the building project's done it's not

140uh field project update the other plans we have that's pretty much where we're at and we'll be pulled on the line the 21st they should bray should have the drawings done by the end of the month and give it to my room to be able to formulate it's going out to bed i have requested for myron and gray that the bids rather than going to myron office like they did for the building project they come here i've had a couple of local vendors some contracts that are interested in putting in bids and they feel better if the bid process comes to the school rather than going to myron's office and we're comfortable that parade has requested that myron is going to be on a subpart of the project that they had their bids in an

141hour or two ahead of time up before the deadline at least and i went to bid day last time and they come flying in at the end email facts packages i'm nice it's totally fine you know it was not fun i thought it was funny no i thought it was scary because the budget sat there to jump up and then they'd go under 200 000 cut problems and back foot that was not fun like it turned out good was a good ride for us but it was kind of like i was having a roller coaster stop but they want the other other people wanted to be more transparent and have the bids come here so that's what i told brandywine in my room were you was you're able to have a discussion about our current

142long need because of the covenant cause logistics thing is there any um mitigation steps that maybe they would consider or recommend i mean like like like if things take a long time let's get that stuff ordered right away because yeah then the environment won't do that because of the big process but for like a steel roof on it compared to a regular shingle that would be like an alternate bid option and then we can weigh that out at that point but well there's two issues one is a different off cost the one is you know lead timeline you can order stuff no right one right but they have to do this yeah just like mark victor from hilliard saying we got the machines we just don't have lithium batteries that go in so we can't

143deliver them to you and it's it's different products that aren't available or raw materials so thank you okay there's nothing else or questions on that that you'd like for the legislative report right um a number of things to add to my written report i just want to remind everyone to participate if all possible in the wasb survey of membership you should have received a couple of emails about that it really is a very simple process to do online doesn't take very long and wasb is serving all district administrators all school board members in the state as well as csa administrators so watch your email for that also the new board member meeting for school board members for our region will be on tuesday april 19 at the cesa office and we know that we will

144have at least one new board member so that will be important and of course anyone else who would like to attend are certainly welcome to do so and you will get to see the new exciting meeting facilities that cesa has the virtual meeting facilities and the great technology that is available if you uh prepare to join them last night we had our sisa board of directors meeting and we had a lengthy presentation on the youth apprenticeship program which our district participates in in fact 16 percent of our students are participating in the program cesa now is taking over the youth apprenticeship program along with the greater green bay chamber of commerce and the old youth apprentice program which was so successful in luxembourg casco and now has spread to other districts and not only are

145the plans for through the apprenticeship program to increase the number of students have placed in apprenticeships and they have all kinds of businesses involved wanting kids to be placed as youth apprentice but also they're going to be doing extensive career planning services with all students not just youth apprentice students so that are very exciting this is another great resource career education resource for all of our students and they have lots of grant funding and lots of business participation so it really is an excellent uh effort i'm sure kyle will be hearing about it at some of the pac meetings and also we had a presentation on strategic planning last night at csu as csus we went through the same strategic planning process that we went through here in our district but uh aaron mancheski last

146night gave us an update on where the planning process is for csa now and he had a color-coded target sheet template for tracking the action steps which really helped us as board members to see all the different action steps and where they are are they completed are they in progress have they even started yet and i'm thinking because we've not heard much lately about our strategic planning process that we could get that template from aaron and be able to use that for our strategic planning process to put new life back into that i know with cohen that kind of got set aside but there is a way to be able to track that and it's very visual as color-coded and i think that would be very helpful then today we had a ferry coalition annual

147meeting and all the board members participated in the fair aid coalition and we have a plan for the year our whole effort is to go back to state statutes 120.10 which requires the state to be providing more funding for all school districts in fact it says it is the purpose of the state aid formula set forth in this sub-chapter to cause the state to assume a greater proportion of the cost of public education and to relieve the general property of some of its tax burden and difference and it has been following this too and this is what the fair aid coalition does to make sure that we are getting our fair share of the state money and we are not right now and there are a lot of other districts that aren't also so we

148will be working with the legislative candidates this year those who are running from office to make sure they understand where we're coming from we'll be partnering with wasd with lozdov and any other group in wisconsin that is supportive of fair funding for our schools we will be doing additional research working with the policy research forum and others to develop our package prior to the next budget year increasing our coalition membership and doing an update of our ferrier coalition website and uh we did have elections today and i have been elected to another two-year term so i will continue to monitor this for our district and i believe thank you thank to move to old you i don't have anything for school board goals we will have some work on that after the meeting tonight though

149um tomorrow i'm going to call and then everybody sends the link for school board cell evaluation and i'll ask that you complete that by march first and i'll send you a reminder that'll come from school perception i'm definitely i'll pass you so if you get them like our first and they they compile it all right don't haven't gotten it yet [Music] so that'll be coming for you some cool 2021-2022 school operations we switched optional masking on monday as of yesterday we had zero known cases of coved we have some students out with test pending and we have some families refuse testing so um i know i didn't check it today did you guys check the day of the track but you know it's just happened wasn't zero yesterday so it was zero for every for

150staff and students yesterday yeah so that's a good time but there may be some we don't know market there's also testing right anything else on that no no cool okay before we take it off the agenda um then we have a new business we have a proposal for an overnight extended student trip for the band and the choir we got a lot of information on that problems from the music department so did you want to comment on that yeah i read through it i think it's a big trip and it's about time we get back going on these things of course if something happens with me now and is it march of 23 and i'll just suggest if we have to but i think we plan to go i think we've got a plan to

151go live i don't know why not does anybody have questions about the information that we received it's just a comment maybe more than a question but i just probably want to be sure that no students will be presented from going because they do fundraising and she'll work that out okay yeah she's always has some donations come in and she'll work you know okay the only thing we could do no suitable is if someone says they're not interested and the reasons financing they don't share that that's the only time that that would happen we don't know yeah because we have something require kids that don't go just because they don't go because they don't want to go and we won't know they're going to see someone who doesn't want to go and someone who thinks gee

152i can't afford that unless they spoke up so sometimes it's unemployment but if we had someone who's a hardship case we'd get them on the bus hopefully staff would be able to fare that out so that i think tommy knows their students pretty well but there's always high schoolers that have pride they're just not going to speak up and say no pants in this school district are really they're really proud it depends who they are right depend on who they are but some do they don't want any suspicion of charity coming toward them but if we know there's a hardship case we'll take care of the ones that will slide through the ones we don't know about i don't think that's about it but does the state of new york require vaccination to travel in

153the state of new york i don't know what their current status is i don't know they'll be in 2013 and that's going to limit some of the people i'm just saying this right right new york times well it's broadway and that's the talbot what they're what they're actually getting into but but i support it that's a year 23 is a long time away in copenhagen you know well i would hope that this tour company i mean i'm sure this is how he will be a type of tour company would be on top of that so then if uh there are no questions we need a motion one way or the other on that or denial move to approve the proposal for the overnight extended student trips basketball band choir presented in the second channel any

154questions or discussions hearing them all in favor say aye opposed motion carry then we have a resignation of our k-12 music teacher acacia angelo limper she got married at christmas time gentleman was in tennessee so she's her husband which most people do you can't be in love i guess we need to approve the resignation of acacia library k-12 music future second question to discussion i could just say a couple quick words she's been extremely energetic she's been a great addition to our music department but even one of the more impressive things is the character that she has you know she knows that she's not going to be here through the end of the year and she took it upon herself to put together a kind of a musical play for the young kids it's going

155to be a lot of work to put that together and she could just easily have said you know kudos to her that's called grades two through five yeah intent to retire for dantoy the new full teacher in the 23-24 school year it's two years out it's two years after this leader ends up through motion move to improve the intent to retire in 2023 2024 deborah dan coyne middle school teacher i'm sure the numbers in this room are growing by the way i'm sure mr barrett here today he has something good to say about you so we'll ask him to say it next month i just have a question jeff how many years will it be um this year that's amazing that's amazing and i'm only 36 years old all right congratulations the 2223 school calendar

156uh in each box by month you'll see an astronautia tell me student attendance days teacher attendance days there's four built-in snow days um i had this at the meet and fur meeting and then sent out to the staff i got some feedback some people like spring break some don't we do have the class field trips that go on i feel about a year it's probably 40 like spring break forty percent don't and twenty percent could go either way um probably one get done earlier i recommend we go with this one and then with the four snow days if we don't use them back them off at the end of the year like we'll do in april for this year so part of this school you'll be used one snow day a full day and then

157two late starts one was electricity and we should look at that wisely in april because i don't want to come back just for a monday or one day you know especially the high school finals and stuff so but that'll be an april decision and i guess i'll go for drive in the morning too because they say it's going to snow overnight and get some ice coming so 66. um yes it's 1 137 for grade 7 through 12. kindergarten through sixth grade is one thousand and fifty hours okay translated yeah you get to count you cannot count your first passing period of the day which can count all the other passing periods of instructional time you can't count lunch why in the first either one hitters seven passengers count by oil [Music] is [Music] motion carry

158that concludes the regular business for this evening i will look for a motion to moving to executive session second roll call note 2 all right hi hi all right all right at 9 09 pm we're back in open session at 10 52 p.m we will look for a motion on the compensation board support staff and certified staff i removed to approve a 3.2 increase in salaries for both support staff and certified staff second questions or discussion and none all in favor say aye aye post so our next meeting is march 17th so then i'll look for a motion to adjourn [Music] 10 53 p.m