001Call the Granite City School Board meeting to order for Tuesday, March 28th, 2023. Roll call, please. Stacy, here. Vinnie, here. Kenobyl here. Curran, here. None here. Brian here. Here everybody's here. Game's all here. And how about a new layout? Huh? This is this better? I like it. Thank you. We appreciate it. We think if we have teams and such like a great we might use our professional development center now has acoustic panels and such. We may move and we have large crowds to do that. That's right. At this time, we'll have the pledge of allegiance. Please stand and remain standing for given by Pastor Byron of DC First to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
002all. While you're standing, can we have a moment of silence for the Covenant School in Nashville? for those families. Our most gracious and loving God, we come to you with grateful hearts. On behalf of those who sit in leadership here this evening, we are thankful for their willingness to give of their time and talents to serve our school district. On behalf of the students and families, we pray for your guidance as they move into the business session that mindful hearts will move forward in unity of purpose to the benefit of our schools. We ask all this in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. All right, we've got a full agenda this evening. Uh we'll start off tonight uh with public comment. Anyone here to any comment this evening? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
003No. Okay, there he is. Um with that, I'll turn it over to Miss K for some presentations. Okay. We have a lot of them and I'm going to call some people up to help me as well. Okay, we're going to start tonight. Um, I have a little more extra knowledge on this person. Um, we're recognizing a person who works incredibly hard every single day to not only do her job well for US Steel, but also to make things easier us easier for us here at Grand City School District 9. um anytime they have anything to give, she calls and what what can we do? What what can we provide? We needed um things for some of our students that we had fire damage and they needed sleeping bags and pillows and she was on it.
004The foster kids needed duffel bags, she was on it. There's never a time where I have not asked or been approached and she has not come through with US Steel to help us. She has got one of the most kindest, giving hearts of anyone that I've ever met. um she just does so much for everyone and including her job which is very intense and yet finds time to do all these things for us. So I want to give you a little background about a great initiative that US has. Uh they launched the US United by service initiative that was inspired by community service legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Their goal is to highlight amazing volunteer work that US Steel employees regularly perform and to encourage even more employees to help out. Employees that
005go above and beyond and make a significant and demonstrable contribution are honored with the service champion award. Each service champion earned their charity organization of choice is given a $5,000 donation. I do know that how many um in the whole US Steel Organization which is international received the service champion awards, Miss Samson? How many? Uh 13. 13 in the entire US Steel organization. And Miss Samson was chosen for one of these awards. So I'd like to call her up. Give her a big hand. She hates to be recognized, but I'm doing it anyway. So, she was given the opportunity to get a $5,000 um award for for receiving this service championship, and she chose our district in the literacy campaign to give to. So, she even has a giant upcycle check giant check to give
006to the district, which I think is amazing. Steel and myself are very proud of you and everything that you do for us. So, we are going to be using this. She uh used Do you want to give a little background on what you chose to uh why you're giving it to us? Um so, I do have um several good friends who are um teachers um in the school district, especially the elementary school level. um and with COVID and all of the other challenges um they were telling me about how some of these uh younger students are uh far behind um with reading and math. Um so when I was honored enough to be nominated and then receive this award, I thought what a better way to give back to the community than um to this
007which is amazing. And we are going we have two uh reading interventionist reading coaches at two of our buildings and most of that is going to be directed towards what they need to improve that literacy at those grade levels. So thank [Applause] you just amazing. I don't think I missed anything but um that's still amazing and thank you very much. I would like to call uh Mr. Wy Roberts and Jada Rockwood up at this [Applause] time a lot. That should tell you how wonderful they are. All right. Um we would like to recognize our Gasty High School band students tonight. Alexander Crawl and Jaden Love It. Alex and Jaden have both earned a spot with the 2023 Colts Drummond and Bugle Corps. At that I'm going to end and let them take over and talk
008about this a little bit more. Okay. This is pretty amazing. Would you want to come too? Okay, come on up. [Applause] So, we have Alexander Curl and Jaden Love here. They are um two of our senior trumpet players in our band program. uh they spent I don't even know how many weekends how many weekends at camps and at different rehearsals vying for positions in the um in the Colts drum and bugle corps which is based out of Debuga Iowa. Uh, drum and bugle corps is kind of like a super intense marching band that they spend easily 12 to 14 hours a day uh just perfecting a show over the course of a summer touring across the country um competing against another course. They went through I think was it three rounds of callback camps? Three
009rounds of callback camps. So this is definitely a super popular thing that everyone's vying for positions for. and Jaden received a contract to march uh baritone and Alex received a contract to march trumpet. And we're super proud of the work that they they put in. And what's also super awesome is I mean we have Sky who was at the last board meeting who's going with a different drum corp um based out of Wyoming. And we have two alumni who graduated last year. Uh Jordan Lincoln is going to be marching with these guys and Nicholas Buchcci is going to be marching with Scott. So awesome Grand City representation in this activity. Where do they march? All over the place. I mean, a little explanation for those of us that don't. We we do spring training for
010like a month and a half at like a set college and then from there we go on tour and it's just like it's all over the country. So a bunch of different states for like 85 days. So they'll be on they'll be on charter buses sleeping on floors literally every night, right? Everything's taken care of. Wow. The whole thing non-stop. I I think they get to come home once a month. Yeah. They spend the entire summer till August. August is when finals are in Indianapolis. And do they have a competition? And then they have a giant competition. That' be kind of fun to draw. It's really competition. Yeah. You tell us when that is and try and put that out there. Okay. It's the weekend before school starts. Are we currently signing two alumni that
011are going to be doing this too? And do they pay you as well? Like for like college? We we do like I mean is it most of the states or Yeah, it's more like west coast area. Yeah. Texas, West Coast, South family. Well, we are very proud to have them represent our school. He tells us to stop. Maybe you could send some pictures this summer and we can post some throughout the summer. Maybe like swimming on the gym floor, right? I think that would be nice though, right? We need to see the update of how it's going throughout the summer. You hear me? Yes. Thank you. I forgot to give Robin her flag, but I will give that to you afterwards. Um, now we have um, is Amy Canel Davis here? Do you want to
012come on up, please? First, we'll call you first. She has been an amazing addition to our Grand High School staff. She has recreated the Thespian troop. She has really um, with speech and drama, with what else? debate. I mean, I all just done an amazing job. The the amount of kids are involved. I was fortunate enough to go up and watch. What did I watch? Performance in the round, which we brought back this year, which is part of the drama series. So, that was awesome. We had our superintendent there and she might have shed a tears. It was amazing. It was in Belleville, and they do a competition. Um, but there I wasn't the only one shedding tears. People that were watching, it was so moving what the kids did. I mean, it was amazing.
013It was from a children's book. Correct. Yes. that actually won the short film for the Oscar this year and so the story that we told was very special and um we weren't really we wanted to bring back the special element to the the department so we didn't care if we won but someone cried at the very end and they left the room and so when I went back to tell the actors someone got emotional and they said well we did our job so we knew right in that moment we had won so it was very special we had superintendent K there we were able to make somebody feel something that And they were doing other things that day. I just didn't get to see them all, I found out. Leading right in the segue into
014Miss Anna Forbes. Do you want to come on up, Anna? And I'm gonna let Miss Vanel Davis do some of this, but we want to recognize her as a school debate team captain. She qualified for the IHSA varsity state debate tournament at the Illinois State University where she qualified for the semifinals. She also right here I go wrote two of the bills used in the Congress sessions which they're going to explain which I find fascinating. One of which was chosen for the final round. She has qualified three years in a row for the national competition and will be heading to Phoenix, Arizona to compete in the National Speech and Debate Association tournament this June. [Music] just you want to add a little more to this, talk about the Congress, what that means and what she
015has to do, which is phenomenal. Wait until you hear this. So, she's a leader in everything that she does. And of course, um, and she said last year, could we bring Congress back to Granite City High School? And I was like, sure, what does that mean? So, this this year we brought back Congress and Superintendent K. She's she taught debate, so she's offered to come and do Congress with us now, which is very exciting. So Anna ended up tell them about the bills you wrote. Uh so basically congressional debate is like a type of debate where they throw like 20 students in a room and they have them debate bills that the students have written. So for your job as like a legislation writer, you have to write bills that are debatable on both sides.
016And then the tournament itself, especially at the state level, goes through all the bills that have been submitted by students and chooses which ones have been are going to be debated and each school can submit to. Uh, one for the prelim rounds, which I submitted a bill to ban facial recognition and policing. Um, and then a bill in the elimination, the final round was also chosen, which was like a bill to give money to grocery stores like to support them in underserved communities. So I just go there and we all get up and debate and it's kind of weird and complicated but it's my idea of fun on a weekend. It would be fun. So we refer to her as representative for Yes. Her name is senator eventually or maybe president. I'm I'm okay with
017any of those. Right. I want to give your your debate chart. We are super excited. Also we want to know how it goes in June as well. She was also in the play this weekend if any was fortunate enough to see that. That was amazing too. That's a different environment. Yes it was. But it was just as wonderful. So, uh, congratulations. [Applause] [Music] So, you don't know ahead of time what they're going to throw you. Like for this national thing, you have no clue. I'll get a notice like they'll release the bills like maybe a month before it and they'll be like I have I'll have to guess how far I'm making this competition. I think for the preliminary rounds there are about 20 bills and then there's more as it gets in the quarters
018and semis and finals. So then I've got to prepare for all of them and those are short term turnaround because you're already there. So how long does this go on? Is it a week or a couple days? The tournament the first two preliminary rounds are on the first two days and then after that it's a new elimination every day. You think sports was Well, thank you. We're really happy for you. Thanks so much and thank you. [Applause] Do we have our final person here tonight? No. I think we'll just postpone that. Make sure we recognize at the next um at the next board meeting. Robin's keep. Excellent news. It's just it's great starting the meeting with all that is wonderful. This is the icing. Yes, absolutely. Um so everyone this time is required to stay
019the entire board meeting. Just kidding. It sounds like Anna Forbes should be up here running the meeting. But you all are welcome at this point if you need to to toart your own stay the rest of the meeting. It's totally up to you. Thank you very much. Thanks guys. Thanks for being here. Congratulations. [Music] All right. Item number five is the approval of the minutes from the regular meeting of February, 2023. So move second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Those opposed? No. You guys have item number six, the consent agenda. Anything there you want to pull out separately? Yes, please. Obviously, we got the wonderful $5,000 gift from Steel and Miss Robin Sansson. Very happy about that. Also, the Grand City Area Community Foundation um donated $2,6502 to the performing arts program.
020The money was previously collected from a venture created by a previous board member. So, we're very happy to accept that as well. Anyone else? Any discussion or questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as some move. Second. All those in favor say I. I I those opposed. No, you guys have it. Item number seven, consideration of item. Oh, never mind that one. Item number eight, recommendations and communications for human resources. Okay. Recommended the following retirements and resignations be rescended. Uh Tracy Moore, administrative assistant admin office. Uh effective 8:30. Next one. Um we probably ought to do these separately. So that's under item 8. Move to approve. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? No. Very good. Item 8B, retirements resignations. It is recommended the following
021retirements resignations be accepted. Tracy Moore, admin assistant, admin offices, retirement effective 126. Laura Hamilton, nurse at Frohart, retirement May 25. Sharon Alers, title one teacher, Marville, retirement end of 2526. Elizabeth Ewald, teacher. Uh, pray for PreK retirement end of 2728. Laura Corsy, teacher, prayer prek, retirement end of 2728. Ann Smith, teacher, Prather PreK, retirement end of 2728. And um, Lan Garcino, teacher, Prager PreK, retirement end of 2728. Jody Jacles, eighth grade math teacher, Koolage Junior High, retirement end of 2728. Sarah Chapman Weeiser, eighth grade English teacher, Cool Junior High, retirement end of 2728. Brienne Towner, seventh grade science teacher, K Junior High School, resignation end of 2223. Terresa Phelps, Cafe, GCS High School, resignation 22823. Most second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. Those opposed, no. Very good. Item 8 C, requests for
022leaves of absence. It is recommended the following request for leaves of absences be approved. Jennifer Rhodess uh Prager effective 33023 to 6223. Keith Boyd monitor Coolage effective 32023 to 61223. Jody Blom teacher Maryville effective 427 23 to 72023. Jennifer Benoy, fifth grade teacher, effective 31623 to 6823. Deian Seville, fifth grade teacher, effective 42623 to 91923. So move second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed? No. Item 8 D, requests for extension to leaves of absence. It is recommended that the final request for extension to leaves of absence be approved. Cheryl Clark, administrative assistant offices, effective 22023 to 5:1523. So moved. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. No. Very good. Item 8, extracurricular resignations for the 223 school year. You've received detailed information about the item.
023Administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion in executive session. GCS administration is recommending the following extracurricular recommendations for the 223 school year be approved. Megan Harper, fourth quarter lunch, Judy Mitchell, fourth quarter lunch. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, no. Item 8F is extracurricular recommendations for the 223 school year and they're just listed below. So we are recommending that the following extra extracurricular recommendations for the 2223 school year be approved as listed below. Yes. So move. Second. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. No. Very good. Item 8G, extracurricular recommendations for the 2324 school year. I need to read these. Mr. School. Yes. Uh you received information about items. Administration is prepared to make recommendations for hold for discussion in second session. GCSD9
024administration is recommending the following extracurricular recommendations for the 2324 school year be approved. Megan Watkins, head football cheer coach, Gran City High School. Hannah Goer, head soccer cheer coach, J Gran City High School. Bill Peasy, assistant cross country coach, Gran City High School. Aaron Wartz, head cross country coach, Granite City High School. Melissa Kimmel, dance team coach, Ransley High School. Karine Wise, assistant football coach, high school. Kyle Thompson, assistant football coach, high school. Terry Hill, assistant football coach, high school. Kendall Lions, head football coach. Rancy High School. Max Kipper, assistant boys golf coach, high school. Jeff Ridenower, head boys golf coach high school. Chris Harrison, assistant girls golf coach high school. Ginger Harrison, head girls golf coach high school. Barry Grody, assistant boys soccer coach, high school. Donald, assistant boys soccer coach high school. Ryan
025Reeves, head girls soccer coach high school. Ryan, boys, I'm sorry, boys. Sorry. I had the girls win on my mind. They're doing really well in girls soccer, so that was in my head. Uh, Brian Ames, assistant girls tennis coach high school. Linda Ames, head girls tennis coach high school. Alexandria Miller, assistant girls volleyball coach high school. Mark Jones, assistant volleyball coach high school. and Grace Hurst, head volleyball coach high school. So move. Second. Any discussion on any of those? All those in favor say I. Those opposed, no. Very good. Item 8H, certified and classified substitutes. This is always fun. You receive information below. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold discussion in executive session. It is recommended the following applicants be board approved as substitutes for the 2223 school year. Certified Sydney Ferguson and
026Sandy McMasters. Classified Gina Boyd, Teresa Sheets, Lindsay Cartright, Lean Shaki, Charlene Evans, and Deborah Sack. Y any discussion? All those in favor say I. Those oppos? No. Very good. Item 8 I is employment for the 22 23 school year. You have received detailed information about this item. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or hope for discussion in the executive session. The GCSD9 administration and the interview committee consisting of Nikki Watkins, Kristen Devashes Kerna is recommending the employment of Benjamin Dell and Charles Slinkford as pair of professionals for the 223 school year. Approval is recommended pending the submission of required paperwork. So move second. Any discussion? Very happy. We need to do a roll call. Roll call, please. Roll call. Bryant. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Canobyl. Hi. Curran. Hi. None. I W. Hi. Item 8J
027is employment of Griggsby Intermediate School Principal. Below. You have received detailed information about this item. Administration is prepared to make recommendations are open for discussion in concession. The GCSD9 administration and director committees superintendent Stephanie K, Mr. Joe Parker, Dr. David Ke, Miss Christine Devas Kverna, and Miss Nikki Watkins is recommending the employment of Mr. Steve Matthysse as principal at Griggsby Intermediate School for the 2020 23 24 school year. He'll place on category 5 step 14 on the administrative salary schedule. Approval is recommended. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Stacy. Hi Vinnie. Hi Kenobyl. Hi Curran. Hi Nun. I Bryant. Hi. Hi. Uh item number two under J is employment of the Grant City School District 9 percussion specialist 24th Street. You received information about this item. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or
028hold for discussion in second session. GCSD9 administration the interview committee consisting of Mr. Wyatt Roberts, Jada Brockman, Charles Steve Matis is recommending the appointment of Miss Abigail Stevens as the GCSD9 percussion specialist for the school. Approval is recommended pending the submission of the required report. So second any discussion? Yeah, I just got to say thanks for jumping on this just last month. Oh yeah, and we talked about this one. I mean that's really wonderful. Roll call, please. Vinnie, I can I Curran. Hi. None. I Ryan. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Hi. Uh number three under J is the employment of Grant City High School special education guidance counselor for 2324 school year. You've received information about this item. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or for discussion in executive session. This is due to retirement. So the
029GCSD9 administration interview committee consisting of Mr. Jeff Hayes, Miss Nikki Petrillo, Mrs. De Mills, and Mr. C. Matthysse is recommending the employment of Sarah Kilpatrick as the GCHS special education guidance counselor for the 2324 school year pending the submission of all required paper. So move. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Kenogal. Hi. Currin. Hi. None. I Brian. Hi Stacy. Hi Vinnie. Hi. Hi. Very good news. And item J4 is the employment of a Grand City School District 9 painter for the 2324. So you'll receive detailed information about this. Administration is prepared to make recommendations or hold for discussion session. This summer we have a very large amount. You didn't say very large. I just added that. Uh of work for the painters. I think we have a lot. and some of them have done some amazing
030stuff at the high school lately. If you've not been there, please see we'll post some of those pictures. Greg's the interior and starting in the hall of the fall in the high school. We will have patchwork in every room due to the HBAC. Then onto the coolage lockers the following summer. In May of 2025, one of our painters will retire. I would like to hire a painter to ensure we have a replacement at that time. This will help with the transition when a retirement occurs. Dan Kovich was sent to us to the painters union last year for temporary work. He has worked well with everyone. It is recommended that we hire Mr. Kovich. Approval is recommended pending the submission of required paperwork. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Current. None. I Brian. Hi.
031Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. Hi. fun. I see no old business. Under new business, item 10A is Panorama Education Contract Proposal. Yes. Um we're going to have a presentation uh by Mr. Jesse Larson and they're here to do this quick thing. I wanted to request approval for this. It is um a multi-tered system of support data including academics, attendance, behavior, social emotional learning all at the same time. It also manages intervention plans, monitors progress, and provides early warning indicators for students in need of extra support. Um, I don't know how many of you remember the old portfolios you would have from grade to grade. They would send with you and it had all your attendance and your test scores and it would come. This is like a virtual portfolio that teachers can access with with
032literally with a click. Uh, and it uploads everything uploads to it. Skyward uploads to I Ready, STAR, Rethink, Ed, I AR, ISA, all all the things that we need for data are uploaded into this so the teachers aren't having to go all over to find the data. And trying to become a more data driven district, it's very important that they have access. It's easy to do. It isn't taking more time for them to try to do that. They'll actually be able to get to it a lot more quickly. So, and having said that, I'm going to hand it over to Mr. Larson, who's going to run a a PowerPoint on the screen. It's all yours, Jesse. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for taking the time to see our presentation and give an overview of
033panorama. Can everyone see my screen here with our logo and uh yes, we got you. Okay, perfect. Um, so thank you so much for letting us join the meeting today. I'm going to give a quick um overview of our platform and what it does from both the technical and then kind of like the higher level perspective. Feel free to drop any questions at any time for Kevin and I and we can we can get right into it. Um so without further ado, um what Panorama Student Success does is really support the whole child by bringing in your Skyward data, your assessment data, which I'm going to show you on the later screen a little bit more information on that. whatever surveys, um your behavior data that you're also pulling in, and then you can also
034use it to to monitor progress for students. Um this gives like a pretty nice visual of kind of what powers student success. So, it's not like you're double entering anything into a system like I or SAT or Skyward. We pull that data from those specific systems in order to create a student success profile and account specific for Grand City. So everything that you're seeing here here will feed into student success and can be used. So you can look at all the students that are excelling in a certain assessment but are trending downward something like behavior. So you can act on multiple different indicators in order to isolate a group of students and and give them further support. Here's a snapshot of a handful of districts that work with us in terms of this exact tool
035um within within Illinois and I believe we have over 100 district and school partners using Panorama in some capacity across the street. Um on the data and privacy side of things, we're fully FPA PP and HOPA compliant. Um all of the student data is fully encrypted. Um, they're only located within the US, all of our servers. Uh, Grant City retains all data ownership. Um, and all this is laid out in the contract that I sent over, but I wanted to kind of voice this over and open this to any questions at the end of the presentation as just a really strong point of signing with Panorama is our data compliance and our data security. In terms of support for Panorama, what you get by signing a partnership with us is a project manager, an implementation
036lead, an account manager, and then you have professional learning PD opportunities that we can work with you all to determine how you want to use that. Um, so it's not like you purchase Panorama and we we let you go and and try to use the platform on your own. It's not at all like that. We work with you pretty much every step of the way and are available any day between 8 and 5 uh CST. And then over 95% of all users who have contacted our support team have paged our experience as good or great. So throughout the conversations over the past six or seven months or so since we first started talking with the district about this, these four goals have stuck out as kind of like the main four goals. and I'm going
037to walk you all through kind of how student success helps achieve these goals um through a tour of some of our screenshots here. So, it's a data management MTSS system. You can easily identify students in need of additional support and also consolidate all of your student data in one place. Um you can track and assign interventions within the system. So if you can pull up a report of all a students struggling in a subject like math, you can take them within the system and put them in a math specific intervention and carry that out. On the technical side of things using Panorama student success, you can monitor progress for a student whether that's a call home, you want to log that in or progress on a specific intervention within banner student success for groups of
038students or for an individual student. And then it also serves as an early warning system to identify students that are in need of additional support before they struggle in terms of attendance or struggle downwards towards their ability to to graduate. So in terms of a management system, individual student profile will look a lot like this. It's obviously going to be your data and pull from from the different sources that I listed previously, but you're going to be able to look at a full academic snapshot of the student, all their grades, their assessments, whatever intervention plans they are in, and also support notes um all within uh one clickable screen. So, you won't have to go to multiple places to pull up data about a student. You can go to one single place. Any person in
039the district who is given access will have the ability to pull up the student's profile and be able to collaborate and talk about a student. So that way you don't have to email back and forth or pull data from multiple sources. Any two district administrators or folks that have given access in the district will be able to pull up this and be able to view all the data about a student. In terms of an early warning system, you can pull multiple different indicators to identify a student in need of additional support. So, you can filter by demographics. So, Asian students in the eighth grade um that are at risk or critical for academics. So, you can really filter down by demographics and also indicator bars in order to to identify students that are in need
040of additional support. We also have trending filters which we're going to work with you to determine what would be trending downwards or upward in a specific indicator. So in this case here you click simply by clicking the trending downwards in attendance. Now we have a list of four out of 983 students at a specific school that have slipped in their attendance um in the past two weeks. And then I know a big part of the four bullet points that I laid out before was intervention tracking. This is what it looks like. You could create an academic intervention for a student within the platform. Write out what this intervention goal is. You can import an intervention strategy from our intervention library. Create a start date, a duration, how often, and then a time. And then assign
041that intervention either to tutor in this case or if I'm the math tutor actually going in and identifying students in need of support I would assign it to myself and then I would monitor progress within Panorama student success for that intervention and at the end of the year um assuming interventions have been entered and used you can get a full snapshot and summary of all interventions. So you can do intervention plans that are on track, up todate intervention plans you can look at that have met their goal or failed to meet their goal and you can do that throughout the year or at the end of the semester quarter um or year where you take a full look at everything all the different interventions that have been run in the district and go through and
042eliminate the ones that aren't as effective as you might think and continue to use the ones that have been successful. So, it gives visibility and gives you the ability to kind of really do an audit and a look at at all interventions um running through our tool. And then monitoring progress. Um you could do that for for students or groups of students. So, if they're in an intervention here, you could click through and update group progress or look at an individual intervention plan, see how they're trending over time, and add notes um all within the platform. So, I think that's all I have to share for I know I was asked to keep it around 10 minutes, so hopefully didn't go over that time. Um, but feel free to ask any questions if we have
043time for that. We're happy to jump in and answer any questions. I also failed to uh recognize Kevin Schneider who is also on the call. I apologize Kevin did not introduce you. No worry. Jesse is the star of the show. I'm happy to be here and answer questions if they come up. We have worked a long time with them and we love this platform. And we're not gonna vote yet because Jennifer Smith is going to do her presentation on structural technology and she's also going to add why she really wished she had had Panorama prior to the work she's been doing on gathering. So, we're gonna leave you guys. Jesse, thank you very much. Kevin, thank you very much. We appreciate the presentation. And Jen's going to come up and do another one. So, thanks
044before. Any any questions? I got a couple questions. Um just to I think I know the answer but I just wanted to ask uh have you guys ever uh had a data breach on the cloud side? No. No. And um for the client side you guys have two factor multiffactor. Uh yeah we can support two factor and single sign on uh as as needed for the client side of things. Okay. I was going to ask you and I think you did say this. You actually will load all that information on so that it's already there for the teacher. Um, yep. Yep. That's great. Brad's very integration process which you know it takes time to get all the data into the system but we have two different typical ways of uploading your data. One would be
045um getting readonly credentials where we actually sign in to the SAS or to the SAT platform and then upload the data into student success. So it's not a double entry. It's not something where you're filling out forms and forms and forms. We're going to work with your team to determine what data goes into the platform and we're going to be the ones actually putting it in there. Well, not Kevin and I, but people that are a lot smarter than us. Brad's Brad's very excited on this end, too. Very excited. I can't. He's just excitement is just everywhere right now. So, but no, it really is uh amazing. But we have anybody else questions? I I guess I just got to say just pulling up the the data for the four kids that you said were
046kind of trending down and and you know those those the worst performers I guess of that particular week or two week time frame today to gather that data to today to figure that out and and and then to get to them. I mean this is a click of a button that you all have today. I can't even imagine the amount of time that would take to find Jennifer will tell you. So we we appreciate your presentation. Thank you so much. Discussing it. I don't want Thank you all. Have a great night. Appreciate it. What are we talking about? Thank you so much. What we're going to do is have Jennifer do her technology thing and kind of include this. I don't have a question for them. It's more of a district question. Okay. And then
047we were a question. Okay. So now We're gonna we're going to go into now. We're going to have Jennifer Smith, who is our instructional technology person. Does an amazing job. She's done some incredible things with her staff. Uh under under our title grant. This is some of the stuff that they've been working on. I know a bunch of them here. So, they're all here to show you some of the amazing things they've been doing. It's pretty great. I can tell you my excitement for panorama makes up for Brad's. So, I started working with data. Oh, no. Let's start with introductions. I'm Jennifer Smith, instructional technology coach. We have Max Kiper who's the teacher at Fheart and Wilson. Nancy Smallley, who's our teacher at Mitchell and Mville. Carol Cochran who's Greg's new me five and six.
048And we have Dennis Holland and Brian Hair who are the Koolage STEM teachers. Theirs is not always technology but very much included uh myself and then Kristen who's in charge of all of us. Okay. So I started working with data because I was working with the new teachers and learning the programs and those programs are where we pull this district-wide assessment data from. We're not looking here at the state assessments. We're looking at the ones we take in class. So after co I'm showing these new teachers how to use the program, how to pull the reports, and what their data means, and realizing that the teachers are so um beat down over their students not being where they normally are. So, I pulled their data and showed them what a great difference they were making.
049So, I want to show you this to show you how exciting Panorama is. This right now is one of the reports you can pull from ISIL, which is a assessment we do in K2. So this on the left is my fall classroom and on the right is my winter classroom. Very easy to tell how much my students have grown, right? No. Well, this is the alternative report I have. Much better, right? Yeah. No, I mean I can see that I have more green, which is good, but I can't tell you how many kids really are doing better. As a teacher, if I want to see this visually, it's going to take me a long time. So, what I did, I did this for each classroom, but a teacher would do this for their own students.
050I went through each classroom. Let's say we have 20 kindergartens, 21st, 22nd. So that means I printed 60 reports for fall, 60 for winter. I went through each one, counted up the number of students in the class, counted how many kids have the little asterk right there or right there because the asterk means they met the standard they were supposed to, figured the percents of them, and then put it in a format we could look at. So each class on the left A through T is a classroom fall scores and percentage to midyear and from that you can see in the chart that we went from blue in the fall to red at midyear you can see a huge amount of growth there right I mean we have classrooms that went from 50% to 100%.
051If I had this at a click of a button as a teacher, I can see how much my kids have grown. I can also see how I compare to the other classrooms. And maybe I need to learn from someone or maybe I need to share it with my neighbor. If I'm the principal, I can look at that and go, "Hey, teacher T, what's going on?" or hey teacher T, why don't you pick K, D, or G and go see what they're doing that's different than what you're doing. So, Panorama gives us this for a school, a classroom, the district, and a student all at the click of a button where I spent 120 reports of counting kids in a classroom, right? So ISIL doesn't provide any aggregate reports only individual classrooms like the one you
052showed us. There were like large groups but there was no visual display of any of it. This one is the letter sounds for first grade for fall and midyear. And you can see again just the huge amount of growth and sharing that with the teachers just made a big difference in morale. I mean yes your kids are still behind but look what you've done. Here's another example of star early literacy. If I do star reading or star math, this is the report I get as a teacher, except it's about 10 pages long. So the first three lines up there is one student. I have their three scores and the change in their growth. But if you look at it, it's really easy to see, right, how much growth there was. No. So this is what
053I did with it. This is all of our first grades in star early literacy. This was a half a school year, so fall to midyear. And so half a year, we would expect 0.5 of growth. All of the ones that are green in this chart had 0.5 or more. The ones that are bright green had a full year of growth or more in the first half of the school year. So huge growth and great for teachers to see our star math in first grade looks very much similar. We had three classes that had over a year of growth in the first uh semester. So the data usage it has to be easily accessible. I mean, I spent weeks making these, but for a teacher to make this for their own classroom. You don't have time.
054And you might need it because a parent can get it. And hey, this parent's here. Let me show them where their kids at. Okay, here's your kid on this report. And here's on this report. It if you can show that for a kid in reading, math, behavior, attendance, it's a lot more powerful to the parent. Um, it needs to be fluid and current. I made these. they're great. They change tomorrow, right? So, that would be very helpful. Um, they also use it to arrange students in small groups for interventions or just for instruction. And we really, really need to use it to drive instruction. Now, on to the fun stuff. Okay, so Creators Lab, hold on one second. Just to honor the boring stuff, you did a great job explaining that and presenting that. Thank
055you. I don't want the dogs and the bots to overshadow. I know. And I also want to say how proud I am of our teachers. When you see that growth on there, the thing is it took a long time and it's already behind. It's what she's saying, right? But that was amazing, D. And I know how much work it was, but to show our teachers that absolutely I mean it was worth it. So I went into one classroom and I'm like, "Hey, look at this." I mean, this teacher was really having a rough year. Hey, look. your kids did this. I'm like, I haven't had even had time to print that. Okay. So, the next time I go in and I go, oh my gosh, look, we took another update and look how much further
056my kids went. So, having it at your fingertips is much very helpful. Before we get into the fun stuff, can I be boring for just like Yeah. Sure. How are we currently tracking tiered interventions in our district? If offers us, what do we do now or what do we not have? So I can give you a little bit of information as a classroom teacher and then yeah I should have direct you okay as a classroom teacher you know I'm going through my class and deciding what we need to do talking with the title teachers and anyone else who's working with these students um but then in order to track it all I have to take my I ready scores my star scores my this scores my attendance and all their grades that I had to
057get from all these different places and I have to go put it in Embrace. And once I put it in Embrace, then somebody else can look at it, but then nobody else can look at it until I print it out and share it with them. And as a classroom teacher, it takes forever. Like I'm looking at a kid who really needs help in reading and I have to spend an hour on this paperwork when I'd really rather be helping the kid. So the answer to that intervention, I think it will speed up and make it more relevant intervention specific to to certain students or groups of students. That that is what that's the the key is to make it more accessible for them to be able to use and not be so cons. So Panorama
058is just a for lack of better terms an app that brings all the other apps together. So I was telling do the kids use it at all? No. No. It's like a data warehouse. It brings all the parts, puts them in a place where I can use them. Yeah. She said that. Um so so the kids aren't they don't use it at all. It's just for Okay. Just helps us understand. Jennifer real does the does this program I mean not yours but if we talk about yours How did you break it up between uh phonetic phonetic skills, language skills, those kinds of things where you break up the pieces of how the reading is taking off if we use reading as an example, right? It was it was separate columns. So one slide was um
059letter sounds, one was alphabet recognition, but each one of those was separate calculations for a graph where in panorama pulls it all and I've got boom boom boom boom all together. So will this pull from easy as well? I don't remember all the specifics. I think he said easy. The only thing we have is some of the embrace information. It's a private localized group that does have everything else source and he said there were a few things that weren't like in a seamless transition but we could make it just pull certain things. So, so currently with Embrace, are we using all those components of Embrace like NTSS all of it or what do we use? Embrace for the IEP platform, MPSS4. So, all like all those four them all. So, is the idea with Panorama
060to replace some of those ors? I think that 504 IP right now it doesn't merge with that because it's more of a data but it can say it has um Skyward so it'll be able to show you they have what is so you'll have that you just won't be able to write so we pretty much replace the MTSS of embrace with this and then it would speak to Embrace for the other pieces I don't know that it would speak to embrace well we we have well we'll have to translate and they are looking right now their tech people are looking at how because it's a localized I say so we have to have a collection now just panorama replace that MTSS part that's okay got any more boring questions I will tell you too that
061with with the with tier one because you're talking about tier interventions and Donna White who's coming up. That's that's the whole intention. She loves also she likes she likes the way she can get to data. Um it'll help us I think just identify if we can clean up our tier one and get that more consistent. I look at that as a way to scale down referrals as well. I like the holistic profile between social emotional attendance. How does who inputs all this stuff? So right now like [Music] between their their person at panorama and Brad here that that would help. Well I I guess what I'm asking is teachers don't have to like input all this stuff. So my students take start saying that seems like it'd be a lot of work. They take the
062I Ready assessment online. So I ready will magically put it into panorama for lack of a better term right now by star test they take online they use an API somebody correct me if I'm wrong pull a lot of this I start saying it's a combin okay it's what is it application programming interface that essentially makes it easy for them to get into those databases and pull back what they need and explain it how I believe that's how he explained it kind of which is also good for the future if we add other things down the road right as long as they have an API then it should be able to integrate the local so the we said it helps with the social emotional what do we mean there's some character Explain explain that to
063me. So just like you can drill down that's why I was going to ask what type of data are we talking about to get to the social emotional uh if for instance in Skyward a teacher enters there's a discipline that there is with a family member, something happened in their family, those notes will be upward as well, which is really nice because you can go back after you had this, you'll be able to see what happened in the students to be able to better prepare, better deal with them issues they may have. And then we do have some social. It's just a nice way to have you miss something. Okay, let's have fun now. Show us toys. All right, here's the fun stuff. You're okay. Okay. So, in our creators lab, we have keyboarding instruction
064at third grade and reinforcement up through sixth grade. We teach Google skills, Google Docs, Google Sheets, all of those things. Digital citizenship, which which is mostly online safety. Um, coding for the little ones, it's as much sometimes as just sequencing events to block coding and HTML and CSS. in eighth grade. They also have STEM, robots, and writing. And our goal in the writing instruction is to scaffold writing to support the writers at all different levels. Here's just an idea of what our edgityping, this is what the third third graders use for their instruction. And I know Max and Nancy had some great ideas last year and had contests on a bulletin board of which classes had the most words per minute. digital citizenship. It's a K12 curriculum that we use online. We don't use it
065online. It's online and we use it in person. Um it addresses privacy and security, digital footprint and identity, cyber bullying, digital drama, hate speech, and basically being a nice person even though you're online. So, the writing instruction we use, we're using a four square four square writing and it's an organizer that teaches them how to just structure their paragraph. But we start with as simple as five sentences and then we increase it to add some more details and then as they move on get up to five paragraphs. And the the great part about doing writing in this way, first of all, they're motivated because it was robots. But also, there's two teachers in the room. So, two teachers helping 24 kids writing. You have to help 12 kids. It's a whole lot easier. If this
066one needs to learn commas in a series today, but that one still needs capital I, you can get around to 12 kids to help with that. Here's some examples of student work from third and fourth graders last year. probably can't really read them from there, but I'm sure you get the idea. Okay, so first and second graders are getting instructional technology fourth quarter. We did third and fourth grade the first three quarters. Now we've moved to the primary um code and go robot sorry code and go robot mice are these. And we have a special little show for you later in those. Um, the blue bats. Do you guys have the blue bats? Sorry. They're gonna show them to you as we go through. The blue bats up there in the corner. And these are
067what the first and second graders are working with. This was, if you remember, this was the class that was in your book that we got at Christmas time. And this is some of the writing that the first graders have done. We didn't start off with the um computer and the writing with them. With them, we're doing paper, pencil, and picture because they get pretty frustrated if they can't put a picture with the writing. And here's some more pictures. These are um last spring. Third and fourth grades use the dash and dot which is this little guy here. The kos up in the corner, cublets which we have to show you. And the spheros. They're a little ball and it rolls around like crazy, right? Here's some pictures of them. The high school robotics team came
068last spring to Froheart and gave a demonstration of what you can do with that as you get older. Fifth and sixth grade, we used the Q robots, Lego Boost, Spheros again, and the Cubits. And if you look up in the corner, you get to see Dash and Dot throwing the launcher, the balls, launching them, which is great to go get them afterwards. They need to make a ball picker uper. Yeah. Okay. And so with coding, the fifth and sixth grade kids get on code.org. And this is something that one of the fifth graders made. Every time that the background changes and [Music] Okay. And then we have seventh grade STEM. They aren't using so much technology, but they are working on criteria and constraints. So, one of them that one of their um projects you'll
069see next is they had to cage a turkey. So, they have little pictures of turkeys. The criteria they have to meet is they can't have any spaces big enough for the turkey to get out. And the constraint is they can only use toothpicks and rums. So this one is when they made roller coasters. Here's when they made spaghetti towers. Here are the turkey cages. And they made Lego cars that were powered by balloons. This class also made those um bottle cars that were out in the hallway on display. Eighth grade STEM uses um does computer science principles on code.org. They also made their own web pages which you'll see next and HTML and CSS. They use the spheros also and the drone which Max is going to share with us. You going to make it
070make it work. That's a fun one. What are we doing? Where? All right. That was the last time you saw Jeff. Is it going to shave his beard? So, he's programmed it on the computer already. So, it's going to do the program. [Music] Come [Music] here. Right. [Music] So, I don't know about you, but if I was at Coolage and got to pick my elective, I know where I would be. Yeah. These are some of the web pages that the eighth graders have recently made. This one is about track events. And if you notice, I mean, there's ways to make web pages where it's real easy and you drop pictures. That's not what they did. Thank you. Theirs is all the code over on the left that changes the background and everything. Another one. This
071is another project they just completed where they've made an interactive map and a spreadsheet. So, they took a place they wanted to go. This one's Panama City. They picked the top 10 places they'd like to visit and they've programmed it so that this one's a picture. It won't work, but when they click on it, it pulls up a picture over there in Google and you can walk around the thing and see it and all that stuff. Really cool. So the program has completely evolved. We started out as the tech help hotline. So we still do that beginning of the school year anytime we go remote for parents, students, grandparents, anybody who calls. Um last year when we took our adaptive pause, we had 150 phone calls the very first day. Right? The tech help apps.
072This was last school year because we had the full year statistics for you. The tech help email, we had over 8,000 last school year. So, we still provide training and support for teachers and during testing, I AR and science testing at the high school. We provide training for the substitutes, online curriculum instruction, and data analysis support for all the teachers. We distribute new Chromebooks to first, fifth, and ninth graders. And we collect the Chromebooks from graduating seniors. So, a lot of things going on. Any questions? [Applause] Thanks. They're very innovative. I know that the coolers use some teachers older than I here are doing a amazing job. I went in and they were like totally engaged and every time I go to Griggsby there's robots running around the porch and Carol there's just a lot
073of neat things going on our classroom the kids are really enjoying and it's just put them in. So Jennifer would really appreciate that. So now after all that we're going to one thing I want to say too because Miss K leaned over just a second ago. So other school districts now I understand are actually at this model and copying what we're doing the inhouse tech support system and how the people within our group we don't focus a lot on all the good stuff that goes on and other people see in us but we're doing a lot of things that are leading the way I'm really proud of everyone thanks for being here so um now I'm just gonna read the thing about panorama we want to try to approve that you do have you have
074a copy of the order to do That approval is recommended. I've read most of it. Again, so any any other questions on why don't we take a motion and a second first and then any discussion second. Now any discussion on panorama looking at the contract it is a yearto-year contract. I mean if it turns out to be perfect we can turn out to be not the thing it's supposed to be we can always get on and then that's also training that's what training they do inerson training a virtual and they're doing one for us just because I asked for one in in the end of May for principles so they have some idea what's coming up at the beginning of the year because the principles need to know how to do these things do they
075the training do they do that on like professional development days? The beginning of the year we'll have credit training those three days we have at the beginning teachers um plus it will um be in effect July one most of the data will be uploaded by then so I'll let teachers know that if they want to get on just so that they can do that as well which I think will be really helpful. What I loved when I talked to them too um after you do yeartoear it keeps that data. So I talked about the ongoing portfolio that's another thing I really like is something the student had some kind of traumatic situation or something and you're wondering what happened during that period. Why are their scores lowered there? They had attendance issue. That's where I
076talked about the social emotional. I think it's really important to get that picture of the child so it's easier to understand what they're going through. So their training won't really take place until the beginning next year. So it's very very very user friendly. So then the teacher who presently has new students they will they will need the information for their new student. How does that transfer? Anything that the student will be uploaded into the students information is uploaded and then once their teacher classrooms they can access it through their classroom. Those students they can make groups within their classroom. They can look at individual students. Did that answer your question? Yes. Can I still data file school to school or no? I think so. I don't know that answer. I would think so. Right. In
077which case would it like sync with that? That would be awesome. Then you don't have to get a new student. You're only going to have what something like that would be really good. That would save a lot of time. Oh my gosh. And a lot of times we don't have data right away either. So that might be more accessible data early when we have a student transfer because mobility is an issue. I don't know that when students move in and out sometimes just one move they say best practice says it could be three months of lost instructional time. We have students that move out three and four times in a year and so they're just not they're just not making growth. So if you're looking at an individual student and you can see that you're
078like okay well I can't that's more of an outlier on my class. I can't expect that same growth from that student as I am from ones that have been there the whole time. That's another thing I really like when you can follow a student and have some idea. I think the teachers it'll help them see in real time the progress they're making with students. I think that's there's a potential is there where student you can share pieces of it with students like share the screen have like self-reflection on it. Did we I might have missed this because I was reading through these. So, we're voting on a contract. What? It's an annual contract. What's the cost? It's right here. 49410 with the uh professional development as well. Okay. It's in person, too. In one virtual,
079but two in person. So, they're coming here, which I really like. It should be. We already Yes. Any other discussion? None. I Brian. I Stacy. I Vinnie. Hi Kenoval. Hi Karen. Hi Bai. Hi. Item 10B. Donna White Consulting. Okay. We had a presentation from Donna last time when she was here. We were very fortunate she's pulled this together. Um just so you know that you were all sent the proposal. It includes um regular on-site and virtual uh connection directly with administration and teachers approximately 38 a year. It includes all travel expenses, lodging, food. She does regular reports to the superintendent and then I to the board provides solid and consistent approach um to our to tier one students and literacy K4. I just think it's so important right now to find out what the needs
080are and get what what we have that are over overlapping programs. Um we have um access to all of her work the district teachers or admin. I gave you guys a copy of one of the books if you have that. She has multiple multiple items on there available as well. So it is on there. I guess we need a motion. I just don't approve. I know you've already checked this, but I would like to hear Zach say is the price tag good or good in our budget. I always ask when you talk about investing and spending tax dollars on education, this is going to have a very high impact. And so this is money well spent. Yes, I try. and I'm not easily won over by consultants and I like her. She well she's proven
081herself. Yeah, she'll be good and modeling. I everything that she has put in her u her description of her work. I just found it so involved personally others we've had in the past. I did some homework on her too and just like around other districts and things and everyone that knew her and many did had very good things to say about that. Excellent. My question is actually about one of the things you just said. Yes. Um you talked about travel expenses stuff like that that's included in the money. We're not like I sorry say we're not like on top of that. Okay. I was just making sure I I was just clarify data driven. She also wants to go through and some of the things we have that are overlapping. We kind of inconsistency in
082some of our programs. We're looking at saving upwards of 75 $80,000 just in getting rid of certain programs we may not need, which also helps to pay for her. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Brian, hi. Stacy, hi. Vinnie, hi. Canal. I none. I item 10 C. Potential special special education needs for 23 24 year. Currently, we believe there is a need for approximately six additional special education teachers for the 23 24 school year. We are currently monitoring the identification of students requiring IEPs as well as students that are moving into the district with IEPs and our current students who are exiting the district at or the special education program. So, those are things we're looking at all the time. We requesting authorization to post three of those teaching positions immediately. We will continue to
083monitor our needs based on the above information and update the board in April as to determine if the additional three will be needed. Uh the numbers indicated a need are elementary to special education teachers and one secondary special education teacher. Approval is recommended. So we're we're asking for approval of new that is correct. How many do we have right now? I'm sorry I couldn't hear you. I'll probably this mostly over to our director of special education. The special education teachers that we have going through all of my notes that I have here. Um at the elementary level we have 21 at secondary we have 39. Um I did not count the prek u teachers in that count because well there are 10 there but um the prek is not factoring into these needs currently. We're
084strictly looking at K through 12. So how many do we have in prek or do you know 10 10 21 at elementary and 39 in secondary? Yes. Secondary means Griggsby College and high school 5 through 12. I usually think secondary. I know. That's I was like how you It's because the 612 usually got and the 10 and prek um some of them are not strictly specialized. They're dual certified and Mr. Suri room in the budget for three new positions. We'll make it work. Can you talk to us a little bit more about how you're monitoring the identification of students and why we need like and then my followup question will be why you think like what's what's the data showing you that indicates that we need this. So what we're looking at data wise currently
085is um we're looking at our projected numbers for the follow for next school year. The projected numbers are students who are currently in our program and the ones who have been identified as needing IEPs either through the referral process. Uh mostly through the referral process, moveins are strictly counted um as part of being in the district already. Um so our referral process that we put in place um does provide us with data to be able to look at these students a little more closely. Um however we are still seeing a significant need even with some of the um stop gaps that we uh tried to put into place to try to slow the process down. Um can you talk to us about the referral process and the stop gaps that you just mentioned? So with
086the referral process this year um we actually um requested that we have a total of 24 weeks of data collection. 12 weeks at tier 2 and 12 weeks at tier three. Um we have asked for um to make sure that we have um data collection that includes weekly data collection um for a minimum of 12 data points at tier three interventions that need to be researchbased interventions that are related to their identified deficit area. Um interventions that need to be changed if the student isn't showing progress so that we're not contining to screen intervention. We've asked for a minimum of two interventions to be provided at tier three before a referral is made. Um we've also asked for in order to try to address the lack of exposure issue that we may have encountered, we've
087asked for 80% um student attendance as well as 80% attendance for their interventions. Um, we are doing progress monitoring and looking at data from STAR, ISIL, I Ready, and EasyCBM. We've also asked that the student data be reviewed at the building level prior to a referral being made to the special education department. Another changed this year, too. I'm sorry. That was all been changed. The referral process has been changed. Um the other thing that we put into place was with our um when we're doing our psychological testing as part of the evaluation process, our threshold had always been about the 10th percentile. We've lowered that to the fifth percentile. This might be a question not specifically to special ed, but district like we talk about tier two and tier three. How are we demarcating like
088what is a tier two and what is a tier three and who's in charge of handling that and tracking it? Good question. Well, the the testing I mean we have basic testing and we decide if they scored a certain percentage then they're deciding initially for special ed referrals there's some IQ data right self-replacement at tier three well beyond tier three. So really what's happening is the teachers are doing their um small groupoup instruction in class. They're identifying the deficit areas. They're implementing the tier 2 interventions. Uh we do have a database online of interventions that they can utilize. Um so we do have another one broken out even further as to um the interventions that are researchbased that are looking at specific deficit areas broken out by grade level. So tier 2 is happening in
089the class. Is tier three also happening in the class or are we considering those other like a mix of pullouts and in classes? It depends on the on the school because the different elementary buildings um do it a little different in each building. So sometimes tier two is in the classroom, sometimes it's um title title intervenes and those interventions at that level as well and that's why the tier one is so important. I'd like to get more consistent across the I mean education in general needs a tier one makeover. Exactly. And so that's that's why came in and that's why I really like that. Do you have any Sorry, I have like a thousand questions. Um, do you have any data regarding I mean we're almost a school year and I mean not a full
090school year so I know you don't have a ton of it but the success of these stop gap measures like what impact have we said seen this year. I don't know that I have that data to give you currently and that's something that I can look at and I can email the board with that if you'd like. Um I didn't bring that look at that data specific. However, we do see I have seen a trend in this year in an increase in our referrals. Increase in referrals. Are they if anyone has other questions and wants me to shout some more? I I think we do have a lot of items on the agenda. I think maybe a presentation, Miss Watkins, maybe in the future if you would on this. I think that'd be very good
091for us. Absolutely. She has some data ready for that, too. So, well, and if you'd like to, I mean, I can put together this, give you guys a quick um send you something quick to look at, and if you'd like, you can come in anytime, too, and we can sit down and say, you know, I'd like to know more about this. Absolutely. You could put in your presentation. Absolutely. Everybody can hear it. We have a proposal uh in the packet for um basically creating three new special education teacher positions. I'll entertain a motion. Can we table till we have a presentation more information? I was going to say I mean the table the next we just have I worry about getting control. Okay. Well, I mean you had a vote to table something. So if
092you guys don't agree No, that's all I'm saying. Is that your motion to I motion on a second? Any discussion on the motion? I just worry about the current situation as these students have come in and have to be delayed on the motion. Well, the services won't be delayed because this is for next school year. I know like I mean getting teachers getting quality teachers. Yes, I understand. But also I have the data we need to make a decision like that. We have a motion to table this till next meeting and a second on the floor. Let's vote on that motion if there's anything. Yeah, that's Stacy. I Vinnie I Canel I Curran hi. None I Bryant. Hi that that item has been tabled till next meeting. Uh item 10D, approval of final site contract.
093Our current uh website provider, School Point, was uh bought out by Final Site. Therefore, our current website will be defunct on July 1st, 2023. You're in the process of building a new website with them for a launch date of July 2023. Chris, do you have anything to add? Yeah, this will also include our app. So that the app will stay the same, but it'll just be housed under a new provider. Our website will be brand new. Um, obviously since we've launched the app, I I try to push more families towards the app because it's much more user friendly. You know, for example, like our our food menus that Mr. Mcolus submits and I up upload those. I I I encourage our families to go right to the app because it's less less clicks. Kind of
094like we pushed out the First View uh bus app uh today. again hopefully that our families are um downloading. So I would really encourage the bus app just as a point right now. Yeah, it's just so helpful if people would download that. So Mr. Wilms, the the price will not change. It stays the same. We're just it just uh school point is under final sites um excuse me, school points going away on July 1st. So we're one of the last few school districts that are still using them. Um but obviously we just launched a new website about 18 months ago. So is the app kind of the big I guess and this is some of my own ignorance. What's the difference between a school content management system like this and any other content management system
095like a WordPress, Drupal, Jubla, any of those? What do they offer to a Is there something they offer extra for a school? beyond. So obviously everything in the app is pulling from our website, right? So if you go the lunch breakfast menus on our website that that button that you click on the app is pulling it directly from our website. Now obviously we have years and years of archived board meetings and thousands of files that will just be pushed over because they have they already have access to all those. That's one of the reasons we whenever we launched that new website 18 months ago is that we stayed with school point and I'm like final site looks amazing and I and I hope we can build something that's very similar but I wanted to stay
096with within them so we could so our files would be very easy to transfer. From what I've seen file site seems to be like one of the top. Yeah. Yeah. So the price will not change. We're just uh we're just asking to approve to to move to final site. Everything the same price is the same. Yeah, nothing's changing to approve. Thank you. Second roll call, please. Vinnie, hi. Canal. Hi, Curran. Hi. None. I Bryant I Stacy I think I don't think you need to read all this. I think and I think several of these anyway are fairly standard here. So item 10E, server room equipment replacement. Just authorization is requested to replace Cisco and blade services and and contract with secure data technologies for setup and install. Brad, this just just real quick. Yeah. Yeah.
097So, um there's basically there's some equipment in our server room. This is being replaced with the newer version of that equipment. Um it takes the use of Cisco certified engineers to put it in. So, that's why we use Secure Data. we used them on the previous hardware. So, um the part of this project was done last year um when we did the storage and now this year we're doing the server side. So, um and so the previous hardware lasted about eight years. The current hardware we're anticipating we'll use will last another eight years. Cost of the project is $159,86110. So move. Second. Motion. Second. Any additional discussion? I have a point of question for Tom. I've been in other board meetings where these kind of items are like all on the consent agenda. Is there
098a way we can lump them together or No. No. Okay. I was just trying to move stuff along. Okay. Yeah, they're not. I guess you're right. I know. Curran. Hi. None. I Bryant. Hi, Stacy. Hi, Vinnie. Hi. Hi. Another routine one, item 10F, copier contract renewal. I don't even think you need to read it. Just placing a copier. Um, go $10,46. Approval is recommended. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Curran. Hi. None. I Bryant. Hi. Stacy. Hi. Vinnie. Hi. Canal. I I item 10G gaggle contract renewal. I can't believe it's going to your order. I do want to read a little bit. I would just like to hold this. Oh, okay. Okay. Motion table executive session. Second to session. Executive session. Okay. We may discuss that after uh none. I Bryant. Hi. Stacy
099I Vinnie are you for for executive session like because it's like student safety and security I just want to be clear so everybody knows I'm trying to throw something no we'll have to talk about it when we come sure I don't think item 10H approval of Barracuda Towers easement agreement and assignment of tower related ground lease just we talked about this at the I think December meeting. This is the cell tower at the varsity baseball field. It's a 520 foot easement purchase price. We're getting $280,000 out of it. A great great thing. And we do get using the lights for the third base. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Bryant. I. Stacy. I. Vinnie. Hi. Hi. Karen. Hi. None. I one side. All right. Well, well done, Dr. Skoolie. And item Thank you. 10 I
100gifted education program. This is just to wave the $50 fee for students so that all students have access to the idea lab, the gifted program. I know Nancy does a great job with that. I just think it's really important. We heard that maybe some students were able to afford that and that was just unacceptable. So, um, we just want to make sure that in policy it says are $50 charge. So, we would like to move second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Stacy, hi. Vinnie, hi. Canal. Hi. Karn. Hi. None. I Brian. Hi. Hi. And item 11, reports and other communications. We have freedom of information act request. I don't think we need a disciplinary discipline issues. And I will uh that's it on the agenda. I will entertain a motion to go into executive session
101under exceptions noted under five LCS 120-2 of the meetings which are student disciplinary matters to C9 and student safety to C8 that would include the gagle second. All those in favor say I. I have it. Time is 7:32. Thank you all for being here. Appreciate them.